Triathlon Practical Jokes (Page 3)

Have a water station volunteer yelling 'Beer here!' like they do in ballparks as he/she is passing out cups.

Have a sign in front of an aid station - 'Water $5'

Drop a Baby Ruth candy bar in the water at a swim start, yell 'Who pooped in the water?" then pick it up and take a bite  - a la Caddy Shack

Move Bike course pointer signs to point down dead end street or (better) onto a nearby house's driveway and then into the open garage.

Walk around selling tickets to the Port-a-potty before the race

For us older folk who know what a clothes pin is and may have done this when we were kids.....clothes pin some baseball cards on the rear tire...sounds like a motor cycle....sure was cool when I was a kid!!!

I always thought it would be funny to use the clothespin and playing card thing we did as kids to make the bike sound like a motorcycle.  Got questions?  Here's the answer

Edit:  Uggghhh.. Guess I should have read the whole thread, someone beat me to it.

Untie and remove all shoelaces from all running shoes in the transition area.

To be "nice" leave them in a pile in a corner of the transition fiels just to "add an extra element to T2"

thank you! this is hilarious!!!!   

I've always thought that handing out cups filled with bottom shelf vodka (as opposed to water) at run aid stations would be a good joke. Messy, but funny.

I am so doing this

I think someone was doing that to me at Chicago this year 

This is hilarious!!

Remove any hand pumps laying about T1, then take half of the air out of their tires.

Those 2 funny screws on the RD, give them a good twist in opposite directions.

Swap all fluids in the water bottles with Kool-Aid, better yet pop a hole in each one or zip tie them to the cage.

Lock all the port-o-lets upon morning arrival AND remove all TP! Then place an out of order sign on them.

Get there bright and early an hand out complementary Hot (exlax) Chocolate or Coffee.

And for goodness sakes, never spray the rims and brake pads with White Lightning spray

Get to the announcer right before the gun goes off and let him know "A nice looking bike was just flattened accidentlly by another athlete and the owner needs to get back to T1 asap.  It was a funny sounding name for a bike..Curve' el o..  Kur velo... it had funny looking handlebars and the seat looked uncomfortable high for some reason, not how I ride my beach crusier"

Like the USAT pee in your wetsuit fine.

I always like to try to swim behind my friends and tap their feet.

Remove the clip from the helmet strap so it can't be properly fastened.

Put those annoying flyers that you find on your car on every bike in T1.

Put marbles in everyone's shoes.

Fun to think about, really, really bad ideas in practice.

I'll just go on record as feeling groovy that a thread was brought back with Nleidel, miscullen, Triman50, and Tri-Comet. Re-living 2005, one restored thread at a time. And shannon, too. 

If a newbie has the timing chip on before the swim, tell them its not waterproof and th have to leave it in the transition area until they get out of the water

Sign:

Due to enhanced security measures,  NO LIQUIDS will be allowed in the transition area.  Please place all water bottles on the table by the Bike Out.

Not race related.... but, someone told me a story about how he was a new rider with a fairly large group of guys.  They were riding on Halloween and told him everyone dressed up on the Halloween ride.

If I remember correctly, he showed up as Superman: cape, spandex and everything.  No one else was in a costume. lol   This might be a fun one to pull off in a few weeks.

Andi

Yea, funny that he looked less flashy than they did in there ad laden cycling jerseys.