Rivertown Revival and SRL Madness

Lest you be caught unawares, the Rivertown Revival will unload merriment near the Petaluma slough this weekend, Saturday, July 24th, 2010.

Free to the public!

The glorious day includes floating art work, water-bound kinetic contraption races, fine foods and beverages, plus art and costumed revelry upon the hidden peninsula right in downtown Petaluma near the grand old Petaluma River Heritage Center barn.

Music is aplenty too with these fine minstrels of Northbay musicality:

Enjoy the day outdoors with friends and see what happens when the infamous Survival Research Laboratory (SRL) unleashes its recent mechanical monstrosities for the first time since moving to Petaluma from S.F. over two years ago.

Featuring the Big Arm and the Running Machine with “special” props from 4pm to 6pm.

Survival Research Laboratory at Rivertown Revival

Tour de Fat San Francisco Photographs

THIS JUST IN!
The Krank-Boom-Clank bike mangling boys hit New Belgium Brewing’s Tour de Fat on Sat., July 19th. Photos seen at Flickr.

Word has it that the festival was a rollicking good time, replete with a rowdy Chicago-based marching known as Mucca Pazza, the vivacious and verily pink Sprockettes, plus more bands, the helmeted madness of Cyclecide’s rodeo of truly bizarre wheels, and so much ambrosial beer (and yet more delights such as the New Orleans style marching wake for the dying love of cars via a child’s Cadillac Escalade carried upon shoulders on a litter and the scads of costumed bike fanatics in attendance too)!


See everyone’s Flickr shots from the day.

Bicycle Santa Rosa Festival Pedals to Town

UPDATE: Photographs from the sunny day among the costumed folks and the tent of treasures and oddities are available at Flickr.


The Fifth Annual Bicycle Santa Rosa Fourth of July Festival and Ride

Bike Sonoma presents The Fifth Annual Bicycle Santa Rosa Fourth of July Festival and Ride on Friday, July 4, 2008 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at Juilliard Park. The Council Member Bike Ride will begin at 9:00 a.m. This event is free to all.

ITEM! The thoroughly irrepressible Krank-Boom-Clank will be causing a stir upon their manifold conveyances of pedaling whimsey for all to witness! Learn more about The Great Handcar Regatta too at our well appointed stripey tent of curious treasures and fiendish oddities!

Krank-Boom-clank group portrait upon whimsical pedal conveyances

The festival features

  • a bike decorating contest and parade for kids
  • a slow bike race
  • a flat tire changing contest
  • water balloon toss
  • a jump house
  • various art activities
  • drawings for prizes and more
  • SCBC will provide free valet bike parking
  • win a Cool Cruiser from the BikePeddler in the Bicycle Santa Rosa Bike Raffle!

Call (707) 545-0153 or email info@BikeSonoma.org for more information.