Posted on September 5, 2012
Hack The Hat 2 – Ride at DerbyCon
Fall is in the air. Days are getting shorter, leaves are starting to change colors… Must mean DerbyCon is right around the corner.
Last year, CycleOverRide organized a 4 day ride from Columbus to Louisville for the start of DerbyCon. This year, many of us are still recovering from our awesome ride from Maryland to the end of Long Island a few weeks ago. In particular, our available vacation time is still recovering 😉 So rather than arrange for a multiday ride to the con, this year we’re going to organize a ride at the con ala Hack the Heat at DefCon.
It looks like Saturday will be the best day. A lot of folks will be in training Friday morning and many will be hung over on Sunday morning. So here’s what we’re proposing… Rally in front of the hotel at 7:30am with your bike and we’ll head out for approximately 20 mile ride out and around Louisville. The sun rises at 7:36 on Saturday, so by the time we all get organized and on the road, it should be light out. We probably won’t make it back in time for the first talk on Saturday, FYI. For sure, @gdead has to make it back by 11a, as that’s when his talk is.
We’re not entirely sure of the route yet, but we’ll keep it under control with no brutal hills (does Louisville even have brutal hills?). This will be a no-drop ride, but hopefully we can keep a decent speed. In Vegas, the ride has split in to 2 groups of riders the last few years based on ability. We may end up doing that again here. We’ll see.
So bring your bike and helmet to Louisville. Don’t feel like transporting one? Looks like a few local places will rent bikes. Bike Courier Bike Shop and Wheel Fun Rentals are close to the hotel, but it’s not clear exactly what they’ll rent you. There are other LBS’s in the area that will rent as well. Google is your friend.
If you are thinking of riding with us, please hit up @cycle_override on Twitter or send us an email at [email protected] so we can gauge the size of the pack. Spread the word. The more the merrier.
BTW: The city of Louisville has a fantastic site set up to help guide local cyclists and lays out their plan for making Louisville bike friendly. Wish we’d see that from more communities.
Posted on July 29, 2012
Hack the East Itinerary
So, I’m a bit late posting this, but I’m hoping a few hackers and security types will find a way to join us. Below is the itinerary for the CycleOverride Hack the East bike ride. This ride is in preparation to go cross country to DefCon next year so we’ll have full SAG support and will be crashing at hotels along the way. You’ll note that some days are “loops”; we will start and stop in the same place. I’ve got the routes mapped out on Garmin’s website. If folks are interested, I’ll get them posted later.
There will be some subsidy for hotel rooms. I’m not sure how much at this point because it depends on how many people join up for part/all of the ride. If you’re interested in doing part or all of the ride, leave a note in the comments below or email me at gdead at shmoo dot com and I’ll work with you to get logistics worked out.
I sure hope we’re all ready for this…
8/5 Eastern side of Bay Bridge MD -> Lewes DE (68 miles)
8/6 Lewes DE -> Ocean City MD -> Lewes DE (79 miles)
8/7 Cape May NJ -> Ocean City NJ -> Cape May NJ (66 miles)
8/8 Cape May NJ -> Manahawkin NK (77 miles)
8/9 Manahawkin NJ -> Hazlet NJ (75 miles)
8/10 Brooklyn NY to Montauk NY (110 miles)
8/11 Montauk NY to Shelter Island NY to Montauk (100 miles – OPTIONAL)
8/12 head for home
TOTAL: 575 miles in 7 days 🙂
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.
