Sibley Bike

d00ds I guess 2:30 at the bench is all you need to know if you do these things on a habitual basis. Bike down and show your support for a community resource for West Bank cyclers. I'll be the one on the single speed Batavus Monte Carlo going really slow and looking lost because I'm a St. Paul boy and I am not hip to the 612. Don't miss it...

I'll have more to say about the BFF, if I remember, later. The important thing for now is get yourself down to the Bell Museum at 7pm tonight to participate in the 24-hour feature film challenge! Each team films five minutes of a movie, the punchline is, you only know what happens in your five minutes of the plot. Submissions are due at 7pm tomorrow and the Frankenstein's monster of a film will be screened a week later. No word about what size groups they're looking for or whatever, but you have a whole day to wrangle up a crew. Do it.

Hey, the Scallywags updated their site. They have a bike shop (open now?), what a scrappy bunch. Good new stuff, read about the collapsible tallbike and a trip to the slums of Sao Paulo.

Bike Depot volunteers are helping kids at another Bike Safety Rodeo this morning at the Hancock Recreation Center (1610 hubbard ave, st paul). Looks like this one costs a few bucks to attend, but they have a lot of activities planned and I think it's being run by local police officers.

Tomorrow at 10:00 AM, volunteers from the Sibley Bike Depot will be helping to set up and run a Bike Safety Rodeo together with The West Side Safe Neighborhood Council. We'll be at St. Matthews at 497 Humboldt Ave. If you live on the West Side, show up with your wee ones and be prepared for cycling FUN. It sounds like there will be cone-dodging, slow-speed races and prices to be handed out, including maybe free bikes? There will also be some bikes and supplies available for sale.

Come on down and turn a wrench on some donated cycles tonight from 6-8:30 PM. Looks like we might be in for a spot of rain this evening, so pack a poncho in your saddlebag before you head out.

Messengers take notice: British 3-Speeds are the next fixed-gear bikes.

"In conclusion I can truthfully say that any cyclist specifying the 3-Speed Gear on his new mount, will wonder, after a short use of it, how he ever managed to derive any pleasure from his old single gear."
Trispede, in "Cycling," 20-4-04.

p.s. the Lake Pepin 3-Speed Tour is less than a month away. Get your knickers ready.