Today Nova and I along with our bicycle club attended the Partridge Pedal party in the small town of Partridge Kansas (pop 250). One of the events is riding in the parade which goes the length of the town's dirt road main street.

More on the event here.

September is always a busy and stressful month as we prepare for the annual Midwest Bicycle Fest which is tomorrow. This will be the 5th year that my family has put on this event. The house is a mess with donated door prizes, t-shirts, posters, trophies etc.. The garage is a mess also with our bikes, raffle bike, bottled water, coolers, props for games and other stuff. Every year I say "never again" but after the fest I hear people tell what a great time they had and already talking about next year.

We drove for three days to get to Portland, Oregon to attend a bicycle event on Saturday where they preach about driving less. Aside from the guilt of the large carbon foot print we made to get there and them not serving our preferred beer, it was an awesome time! The TDF is a ballyhoo of bicycles and beer put on by the New Belgium brewery raising money for local bicycle organizations in the cities they are held. Not anti-car but pro-bike. This was our third Tour De Fat in just as many states.
I was surprised that there was not more people at the event with Portland being the bicycle city it is. I believe the TDF's we attended in Ft Collins and Tempe both had a larger turnout. The 6 mile parade ride through downtown Portland was great with the Portland Police blocking traffic the entire route.

Photos from the day here.

Video here...

Today my Dad, myself and a few of the bike club, attended the 2nd annual Partridge Pedal Party in the small town of Partridge, KS. My Pirate bike even won an award. My first!
More on the event here.

Today we attended our 2nd Tour De Fat. This one in Tempe Arizona. The Tour De Fat is a bicycle parade/party/revival put on by the New Belgium Brewery. This is such a fun event!

Photos from the event here.

Videos below...

I built this bike to be raffled off at the 2008 Midwest Bicycle Fest.


Built mostly from parts I already had that I knew I wouldn't use. The frame came from this bike. I painted over the satin black powder coat with flat black.
Build photos here.

This was the most amazing bike thing we've done yet. There was an estimated 4600 riders in the parade which could be a Guiness world record. What a great time!!

5 pages of photos here

Update: I've since heard that the parade did not make the world record as it was not continuous. We stopped at traffic lights.

Video ...

A montage of short clips.


Just a few of the estimated 4600 riders.

The 2nd annual Midwest Bicycle Fest is history. Was a great time! Visit www.midwestbicyclefest.com for photos and details.