Posted on July 23, 2012
Defcon Bike Ride v2 Info for July 26th, 2012
- You can bring your own pedals and they’ll throw them on.
- You will get one water bottle, a 2nd one is $2.
- The ride is 1-2% uphill the whole way out. If you get too tired or anything you can just turn around and cruise back.
- McGhies will have staff there when we return so we don’t have to wait around.
- We are cycling in the desert. Just saying. Drink plenty of water the night before and morning of. You won’t realize you are sweating liquid out.
- If you know anyone with a car that is willing to be a 2nd follow car, please let me know
- There are no jerseys — it just wasn’t in the cards this year.
- If you ordered a tshirt please bring $20 and i’ll hand them out after the ride.
- You should probably have a bike reservation by now if you aren’t bringing your own bike.
Updated on July 18, 2012
A look back at the Defcon BikeRide #1: Hack the Heat 2011 edition by @alien8
Ed: Thanks to @alien8, for writing this post for us! Great idea of what the ride may be like on June 26th, 2012 for Defcon 20!
Hack the Heat 2011.
Take Las Vegas, Defcon and a bunch of security geeks who like bikes and what do you get?
A new project to get a new sub community of the security world, that gets people on bikes. We like.
Planning by Gdead and Punkrokk started https://forum.defcon.org/showthread.php?t=12155 with a post on the Defcon Forums
“So, we’re organizing a bike ride around Las Vegas before DefCon. It will probably be early morning on Thursday. Like 6am. It’s early, but it’s also cool enough you’ll live through it.
We’re working with a local bike shop to get a group rate on nice rental bikes (not crap rec stuff.. real bikes). We’ll be leaving around 6a and finishing by 8a or so. It will be guided by someone from the bike shop. Right now the estimated cost is around $40-$50/person, but we’ll know more as we get closer to the event including specifics on the gear. [ note I originally had $80/person on here but punkrokk corrected me and told me I was smoking crack. It’s more like $40]
This should be an actual “ride”, not a victorian outing on fancy big wheeled bicycles and parasols. If you’re interested in doing this, you’ll probably want to be in reasonably good shape and maybe have done some pack riding in the past.
Also, we’re designing custom jerseys. More on that later 🙂”
How could I resist? Totally mad. 🙂
A bike shop that hires decent bikes, a 5.30am start and a 4,700ft climb 10 hours after getting off a transatlantic flight! what *fun*
I thought this was be too good to not cover on bikehugger.com so Byron got pinged and we got involved.I do post stuff from .eu – but I do ‘security stuff’ so this was a true blending of my worlds.
I also contacted http://mybikefood.com who agreed to send a few goodies with me! They sponsor me but I really really rate their products. Vegan and Vegetarian friendly.
At that time I was mostly riding Moultons so the opportunity to try any large wheeled road bike was going to be interesting.
Choices of which bike were complicated due to me not having any idea beyond ‘it might be 52, 54 or 56 depending on geometry’… so I sent my fit figures and a picture of the of the Moulton AM20 Prototype to McGhies.
A mail reply asking height/inner leg measurements was sent and.. the night before flying out. Randy the manager of McGhies found a bike to suit. a Cannondale ’56 cm’ was prescribed.
There had been many more people signing up to what was now going to be quite a group ride!
Packing : Saddle (Specialised Toupe expert, Speedplay Zero pedals, Sidi Five road shoes with Speedplay Zero cleats as adjusted by Michael Crebbins)
BA provided the transatlantic connection. Club World was simply superb. Many thanks to them.
Arriving in Vegas and dashing to hotel – prepare the bike bag for a 5am wake up. 5.30am at the front of the Rio dressed and ready.. oh my.
Posted on June 24, 2012
Review: 2012 Garrett County Gran Fondo
Well, it’s June, so that means it’s time for the Garrett County Gran Fondo. Last year I rode the metric century (aptly named the Masochistic Metric). You can read my review from that ride if you’re interested, or just press on to read this. I’ll get you caught up as we go along.
Updated on June 20, 2012
Cycle Override Bike Jersey and TShirt ordering
We will once again make tshirts and bike jersey’s available for preorder for delivery at Defcon 20. All proceeds will go to the EFF.
If you want a tshirt – they are $20 and will be COD from punkrokk at the bike ride. You must sign up for the TShirt here by July 9th here.
If you want a bike jersey – you need to email Heidi (heidi at shmoo dot com) and tell her you want one. Once we determine the quantity she will let you know how much to paypal her. We will only order you a bike jersey if you prepay. Punkrokk will distribute your jersey at or before the ride July 26th in Vegas. Also – you must email Heidi by June 20th.
The bike jersey will be very similar to last years jersey.
The tshirt will look like the one here. Plus this design by @t0sspint on the back:
