Handcar Regatta

The bully race team known as Whiskey Drunk Cycles is having a fundraiser party to benefit the hallowed cause of building a new rail-rod for the 2009 Handcar Regatta.

Sunday Funday
Sunday, March 29, 2009, 1:00 pm.
Toad in the Hole Pub — 116 5th Street, Railroad Sqr., Santa Rosa

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The lads are offering raffle prizes too, including swag from:

• New Belgium Brewing Bike
• Monkey Wrench Tattoos Certificates
• Plus more, not to mention music and general debauchery with one of our favorite crews!

Come down to support your local craftsmen, artisans, and makers alike. We’re sure you wouldn’t miss it.

Psst: Word on the thoroughfare is the latest creation in progress is code-named “Then Again Bomber” with a cheeky wink and a nod to Krank-Boom-Clank’s “Hennepin Crawler”. I do detect some friendly competition developing among the builders!

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Last year’s Whiskey Drunk Cycles rail-bound wonder, Random Tandem Pandemonium:

Photo courtesy Rick Washburn.

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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.

The goodly folks at New Belgium Brewing are continuing their “Tour de Fat” across the U.S.

This Saturday, July 19th, 2008, will find the Tour in splendid Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA.

Admission is free!

For those who are lost, New Belgium’s Tour de Fat is a celebration of bicycling first and beer and entertainment second, including an early cross-city ride, a parade of outlandish pedaled contraptions and equally eccentric costumed riders, plus music and artistic performance, and more!

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Word has it that our own Krank-Boom-Clank crew will be attending with their perplexing pedal-powered conundrums!

Wander through these other stimulating and progressive projects by New Belgium Brewing and its partners in biking and sustainability:

• Follow Your Folly
  Interesting and inspiring stories of extraordinary people and their passions
• Innovate or Die
  Partner project to create a Machine Contest to stimulate human power transportation designs
• Team Wonder Bike
  Providing biking inspiration to commuters everywhere