Bikes are meeting at Waypost Cafe at 10am tomorrow (Thursday September 24th) for a ride to Sauvie Island to enjoy the creative expression of the Flaming Lips! (and possibly another naked ride!)
UPDATE - a cadre of naked folk enjoyed swimming in the radioactive poo water of the Columbia downstream of the Willamette River, reading recent news about the Columbia River Crossing, and naked knitting. How we failed to capture images of hot naked bikers knitting is troubling but rest assured we will fail you again.
We found this image on the Chicks and Bikes blog who in turn had found it via the Hong Kong Fixed blog, who we believe stole it directly from Crank My Chain where is was originally produced.
It is some hard work tracking down all the goods. But rewarding.
Maybe it is the "all business" way the team was shown or maybe it is the way he gently placed a towel on the bench but we are convinced that this movie could be expanded into a feature length bikeporn. Definitely the extended credit sequence conveys their raw power (did you feel a little tingle when they showed "Coaches"?). Although we might have to change up the speed metal for Queensryche this movie has great potential! We're not sure how the rest of it will play out but suffice it to say we are hopeful.
Without a doubt those bikes will be used as a plot device for some sort of movie in the next 3 years. Count it!
Bike Porn has a curious history with Davis, as we were welcome with warm arms in an otherwise empty campus over winter break 2 years ago, then just last year we found out that the UBER bike friendly political climate had changed. Not only was the Bike Church kicked out on a specious argument of "safety" but our crew was encouraged to peddle the smut elsewhere!
This was after Davis was the first place in North America ranked as a Platinum city! Years before Portland even*! Whoa! Times do change and while there are lots of people still utilizing bikes as effective efficient transport the idea that a city might turn its back on the homegrown bike organizations as soon as the berg gets its award for being "bike friendly" is more than a little disquieting.
Could Portland (or any other number of currently rad bike places) be on a similar path to lameness? Lets hope not. As for the now defunct Davis Bike Church? They have a new location and name,
One of the joys of going on tour to all these fine "fucking bike friendly" places is the great events that we are able to take part in (or even better, become part of!)
Such was the case last year as part of the Westward Ho! tour in Durango, CO.
We wont be the 1st to call Durango bikers "special", and we surely won't be the last. So instead of showing bike porn 2, we showed the 1st years program. Viewers were coming out of their chairs with cheering or disgust! Never mind that that Sen. John McCain was in town that day to also catch the screening and let people know that he was still alive and had a seriously entertaining running mate.
Like the Dark Lord said, "Impressive. Most impressive." What is wrong with free beer and food and some classy fucking people? Nothing. Except sometimes it is hard to remember all the fun. The word epic gets thrown around a lot but in this case you can't really help but utilize it. For several days in a row the sauce flows, and the wheels roll and we have the times of our lives.
Thanks for the great games of bike polo, all of the stunning awards and prizes. And letting us share our "gifts" with the otherwise unsuspecting Durango audience at the future Discovery Museum... a place for learning.
Here's hoping they are having a blast at the SSWC going on this weekend September weekend in Durango AND that they have enough ogranizational energy to help put together a screening of Bike Porn 3 in early November.