Tomorrow: .83 Annual Xmas Tree Massacre AND 2010 .83 Bicycle Boys Calendar Release Party

Posted on January 6, 2010 -- Edit Post
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Zomg that’s a mouthful.

So, yes.  Tomorrow are TWO events that are so awesome they can barely be in the same room together.  FIRST OFF – it is the annual .83 Xmas Tree Massacre! At 7pm we will meet at Westlake Center and at 730 we will ride/carry/haul all the Xmas trees we can find/carry to Golden Gardens and have a completely f-ing epic bonfire on the beach and send them to their maker.

CHECK OUT MY BLOG POST FROM LAST YEAR ABOUT IT

After the massacre, we will roll – drunkenly – to the Sloop where we will have the 2010 .83 Bicycle Boys Calendar Release Party around 10~10:30! So help me god, I’m in it.  I think I’m Mr November.  I dunno.  It’s going to be great.  And by great I mean terrible.  And by terrible I mean great. Come on out. Even if you don’t have a tree to burn.  It’s going to be a dry night tomorrow night (c’mon positive thinking).  Help see 2010 and a whole new decade in with your favorite drunken bike morons over fire, booze, bikes, and… and…  I forgot where I was going with that.

All (over 21+) are invited and encouraged to come.

Tonight: More tree hunting.

Tomorrow: FIRE!

Onward.

Santacon / Santarchy 2009

Posted on December 13, 2009 -- Edit Post
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http://santarchy.com/

FULL GALLERY HERE

Every year, in cities around the world, Santarchy happens. In Seattle, this means 600+ Santas get together at the Elysian Brewery around noon, and begin what inevitably becomes one of the best (and arguably embarassing) bar crawls in Seattle.

This year was no exception.

I, like 600+ others broke out our santa outfits and proceeded to make a mess. This year though, I had a sleigh and brought my trusty steed Donner with me. We were well received. =)

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This image - and all other images watermarked as Copyright 2009 Todd Gardiner have been shamefully salvaged from my browser cache and hosted on my servers so as not to steal bandwidth. I have asked permission to use these but haven't heard back yet. These wonderful pictures were taken by Todd. Thank you in advance Todd.

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There were a lot of santas. Chase (above).

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aaaand of course our obligatory sexy/slutty santas

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Santas at Cal Anderson for the second annual Santalympics - which included such activites as elf tossing.

"I am TIRED of being considered a second rate holiday!" Cried Easter Bunny Santa. When asked he said "Yeah... it's just a temp gig to get me through April - hey do you want to buy some weed?" Good luck Easter Bunny Santa. I guess the economy has hit us all pretty hard.

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Raiding Dicks

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Reindeer Cam

Ninja Santa

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Asshole Santa - wadda prick

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Like my Santa-Head beer coozy?

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Photo by Langston. Thanks Langston. I was having a terrible time. Kid, meet candy store!

From the Santarchy invitational:

Saturday, December 12 – Santa Comes to Town!
Route map: http://tinyurl.com/yhey3bj

Noon – 1:00 p.m. – Elysian Brewing Company
1:00 – 2:30 p.m. – Comet Tavern
2:45 – 4:00 p.m. – Cal-Anderson Park Santalympics
4:00 – 5:30 p.m. – Cafe Metropolitan
5:30 – 5:45 p.m. – Denny Way Overpass Banner hanging
5:45 – 6:00 p.m. – REI Renegade X-Mas Decorating and Naughty Carol Singing
6:30 – 8:30 p.m. – Hurricane Cafe Dinner and Drinks
8:30 – 9:00 p.m. – Pass through Belltown (Buddha Bar, Shortys, Whiskey Bar, etc)
9:00 p.m. – NITELITE Tradition!!
11:30 – till Santa falls down – Neighbors (no cover)
or Rebar (no cover)

Because of the anticipated size of this event, Santa encourages Santa to be kind to bar staff and if it takes too long to get a beer, go on to the next stop or find another bar along the way! This is a Santa Rampage! Take over the City!

Print yourself a copy of the Carol Book so you can join in with the naughty carol singing!! Found here:
http://santarchy.com/other/santacon-carol-book.pdf

Ho Ho Ho!!!

What is Santacon?
For those new Santas, what you need to know is this. Santa can’t do what Santa needs to do the night of Dec. 24th without some recon work. So Santa checks out who’s been naughty in cities all over the world in the month of December… and sometimes in July. So we suit up and go on a merry adventure drinking as much as we can and spreading jolly cheer. All you need is a pair of good walking shoes, a Santa outfit and the location of where and when to show up and you’re good to go!
Basically its about the funnest thing you could possibly do with your time so don’t even think about not showing up.

The 4 F*cks of Santacon:
1. Santa does not f*ck with kids
2. Santa does not f*ck with police
3. Santa does not f*ck with security
4. Santa does not f*ck with Santa

Other conventions of Santacon:
- Follow Santa
- No Santa Left Behind! Keep track of your Santa friends.
- Don’t wash the suit! Your Disgusting Santa suit is a badge of honor.
Wear it proudly.
- Bars can be crowded. Its best to carry a backup plan.
- Follow Santa

What are the answers to these stupid questions?

Q: Who are you?
A: SANTA!
A: ELVIS!

Q: Where are you from?
A: North of here a bit…
A: The North Pole!

Q: Why are you dressed like that?
A: Red and White is the new Black and Denim
A: To spread the good word of Santa & Socialism

Q: What are you doing here?
A: Mrs. Claus kicked me out.
A: You’re not my mother!
A: Looking for some hot elf action.
A: What are YOU doing here?
A: My sleigh broke down.
A: Trying to steal change from Unicef DING DING DING!

Santa’s Little Workshop:
Santacon is a great time for Santa to try out new toys, so whether you’ve got Naughty and Nice Stickers, Spray Snow, Naughty Cristmas Carols, Stuffed Animal flasks, GIANT candy canes, A Beer hat with candy cane striped straws, New Santa outfits… Santacon is the place to try all that stuff out. Santa loves creativity. If you don’t do any of that… don’t worry you can always drink.

WHERE IS SANTA GOING?
The route has been determined!
http://tinyurl.com/yhey3bj

Ok… I’m IN… where do I get a suit?
Last minute Santas have been known to find suits at Party City. Costume shops should carry them seasonally. Santa has heard rumors Santa suits can be found at Value Village. Yucky Santas can find them at Walmart so I’m told… and Santa can also GOOGLE for santa suit and find many other options. Santa especially likes the Mrs. Claus outfits at Trashy.com

THE DREADED DEATH-MARCH
This year, Santa wants to forewarn Santa that there will be a WEE-BIT of a death-march somewhere around 6 and 6:30 p.m. SANTA – PLEASE PLAN APPROPRIATELY. You know what that means.
You don’t know what this means?
Death-March means no booze stops for a period of time. Santa, being the lush he is, can figure out how to plan appropriately. Ho Ho HO!

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SANTA WANTS TO HELP!

SANTALYMPICS!!!
Santa has some ideas for reindeer games in the park – But Santa needs props and Santa Leads to make these games happen!

- Tug o War – A rope, thick and long – You got one? Santa needs it!
- Three Legged Capture the Flag – Lots of Leg ties, flag and pole to attach flag
- Dizzy Santa Race – Bats for Santa to twirl his head around

Santa needs more ideas for the Santalympics!

DENNY WAY OVERPASS – BANNER HANGING
Santa will be marching over I-5 on Denny Way and would love to have a banner or a few hung on the overpass for all of Seattle to see! Santa, Elves, Reindeer! We need YOU!

RENEGADE X-MAS DECORATING!!!
We will be making a stop (to be disclosed with route map) to do renegade holiday decorating of trees and bushes! Bring some garland, ornaments, bells, etc. to help create a holiday wonderland!

HELPFUL SANTA SUMMARY:
- Santa needs help with Santalympics – be a Santa Lead, to suggest more games, and/or to bring props!
- Santa needs a Banner or a Few!
- Santa needs YOU!

SANTA HO!!!

Onward.

2010 Men of .83 Calendar!

Posted on December 8, 2009 -- Edit Post
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Turns out, Molly isn’t doing a bike-girl calendar this year, so Miles decided to do a bike-boy calendar sorta at the last minute.  It’s not really to raise money – more of a, this seems like it’d be a hoot.  So we all went to Henry’s on Saturday and between Henry and Sean Sweeney, we spent the day trying to do all the shots in one day.  We got close, but there are a couple more that need taking.  The event itself was hilarious.  12 boys running around in Henry’s loft in their underwear, with bikes.  I’m not saying it was gay or anything…

Photo by Sean Sweeney

Calendars are being sold for $10 if you pre-order.  Go click on the above thingy and pay your dues.  Here are a few more out-takes of the shoot.  ZOMG what a mess.

Photo by Eric Bott - aka "The Beard"

Photo by Henry Rose

Photo by Henry Rose

Photo by Eric Bott - aka "The Beard"

Photo by Eric Bott - aka "The Beard"

Photo by Eric Bott - aka "The Beard"

Photo by Eric Bott - aka "The Beard"

Photo by Eric Bott - aka "The Beard"

Photo by Eric Bott - aka "The Beard"

GO PRE-ORDER YOUR CALENDAR NOW

Onward

Upcoming events

Posted on August 20, 2009 -- Edit Post
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Northwest Film Forum’s 4th annual Seattle Bike-In is happening this Sunday, August 23rd in Cal Anderson Park on Capitol Hill. The event aims to bring together biking, transportation, art, environmental, and community advocates for a celebration of biking and environmental sustainability. This community blowout features live bands at 7 pm and the French Jacque Tati film Jour de Fete at dusk.

The day before the Bike-In, on Saturday (Aug 22) is the long awaited

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Seattle Bicycle Music Festival ride.  Taken from the link:

This Saturday, August 22, the BMF crew rolls into Seattle! Led by the Ginger Ninjas and the Pleasant Revolution Tour, BMFers will show Seattle how to pedal their way to musical bliss!

Tour Route & Lineup for Seattle:

9am Early Ride: Live On Bike Music ride to Waterfront Park starting at Delridge Playfield

10am Waterfront Park : Holly Phillips – Julia Massey – James Kennedy – Stitchcraft – Susan Harper – Bahia

2pm Afternoon cruise with Live On Bike music

3pm Denny Park : Blue 55 – Bend – Nettle Honey – Aeolian

6pm Ride to Space Needle

7-8:30pm Seattle Center Movies at the Mural : The Ginger Ninja – Cello Joe – Bear Dyken

9pm Evening ride to evening concert

9:30pm Evening concert Secret Location: Goose Vargis – The Pressure

And lastly, Sept 11 is the Seattle Bicycle Film Festival

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which is FINALLY showing the documentary Where Are You Go Now which I’ve been waiting to see for months now.  Shoulda gone last month in Portland.  Dammit.

Filmed By Bike (last weekend)

Posted on April 23, 2009 -- Edit Post
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Bah, I’m never going to get to it.

Around 40 of us made our way to Portland last weekend for the Filmed By Bike Film Festival. Most of us took the train and our bikes. A couple of us car-pooled. I don’t have time to go into it all, but it was super fun and I have a truck load of pictures.

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FRIDAY

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SATURDAY

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SUNDAY

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Good weekend gang. Weekend after next – bike camping at Ben Country!

Onward

!!!!!! WAFFLEGEDDON 2009 !!!!!!

Posted on February 5, 2009 -- Edit Post
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TONIGHT ONLY

point83 presents:

WAFFLEGEDDON 2009

Westlake Center – 7pm

We ride to Mercer Island and make more waffles then 50 drunk bike jerks can eat. Show up and tell us how horrible we are.

CAN’T. WAIT.

4th Annual FHR Race 2009

Posted on January 28, 2009 -- Edit Post
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It’s on. The 4th annual Fucking Hills Race. We at point83 pirate Cascades Chilly Hilly, do 33 miles of hills on Bainbridge Island on February 22nd, have a fat fucking chili feed at the end of it, and give away schwag from our many and excellent sponsors.

I mean, you can ride Chilly Hilly – there’s nothing stopping you. But we ride the same route at exactly the same time, and have far more fun doing it. I think it’s like $30 to do the Chilly Hilly with Cascade, includes your ferry fare, but you have to pay for the chili feed at the end, and there’s no schwag. Ours is $7, includes all you can eat chili, and comes with schwag, but you pay for your own ferry ride. And we’re not douches. Well, most of us aren’t. It’s a pretty sweet deal. Oh, and you get to thumb your nose at Cascade a little. Extra bonus!

Anyhow, here’s the thread:

http://point83.com/fhr

pics from last year:
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http://picasaweb.google.com/alysonrae/83PresentsTheFuckingHillsRace2008#
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last years thread:
http://www.point83.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5191

Ride on bitches. Leave your spandex at home.

Onward

Edit: Small point. We make a differentiation between Cascade the bike club and Cascade the advocacy engine. Between bike clubs, there is a small amount of rivalry – in that there is a minority in CBC that dislike us a great deal and we heckle them for it. But that’s it. As an engine for advocacy, CBC does some good stuff.  I’m not buying a bib because I’m not riding their ride (seriously, fuck that shit), but I will donate $30 to Cascade for their advocacy efforts.

Carry on

TONIGHT: Bicycle Girl Calendar release party!

Posted on December 12, 2008 -- Edit Post
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No cover

8pm

Conor Byrne in Ballard

Hot girls on hot bikes – our friends. COME AND GET YOUR CALENDAR ON.

Music by GOLDEN ROBOT ARMY
Purchase tickets for a raffle to win a white 2009 Redline 925!
All proceeds will go to benefit BikeWorks and their earn-a-bike program.http://www.maloravision.com/calendar/

Carry on.  See you tonight.  206.412.3055 if you want to find me.

TOMORROW: Benry’s Christmas Disaster 2008

Posted on December 12, 2008 -- Edit Post
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dirt trails, a can or reflective spray paint, 4 trophies, three handles of whiskey, all the nachos we can handle and beer, glorious glorious beer.

bring a white elephant bike gift and some fucking holiday cheer.

4:30pm, sat, dec 13th
MOON TEMPLE

http://www.point83.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6148

Portland Cup – this weekend

Posted on December 2, 2008 -- Edit Post
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Not going but thought I’d plug it. From the site:

The Finale. Where better to finish up the USGP season than in Portland, OR – home to some of the top athletes in the sport and epic epic conditions. Last year’s race was was held in near Hurricane condtitions and boasted some of the biggest fields of the whole season! Year in and year out, Portland offers up the crowds of afficianados the conditions and level of racing that people expect from the sport of ‘cross and provides a true test to the amateur and pro athlete alike. Then, when the racing is done, kick back and enjoy one of Portland’s famous and tasty microbrews and toast the end of a satisfying season!

PLEASE NOTE: there will be a $3 per car parking fee in effect on Saturday and Sunday.

http://www.usgpcyclocross.com/Races/PortlandCup/tabid/1156/Default.aspx

Should be a buncha fun if you’re in PDX this weekend.

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