Bring Your Own BigWheel Races: DoubleRenegade
We showed up at the 7th Annual BYO Big Wheel Race on Lombard St, just in time to see the cops shutting down the race, but we still managed to have a blast! Since we couldn’t race big wheels, Dodger, Clara, and Herve decided to race jellybeans instead. Red won, of course, but then he got squished by a SUV. We got some silly video of the jellybean race (see below).
With the cops around and the jellybeans smashed, we decided to take the races to Vermont Street, the real crookedest street in the world. Some guy with a megaphone announced that Vermont St was too dangerous, but we still got enough people to show up to Potrero Hill to have our own Renegade BYOBW races! The Vermont Street neighbors were really cool about us taking over their quiet hill, and our event was a total success. Check out some more pics, and some videos of us rocketing down Vermont St. on Big Wheels!
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drat, i can’t believe i missed out on all the fun!! i would have loved goin down that hill in a big wheel!! oh well, hopefully i’ll have more time on the weekends after june. btw, what is this new video player you’ve got up there??
Scott Beale has videos of the “official” race on Laughing Squid. They had *hundreds* of racers.. we had five. But we still had a lot of fun!
Oh yeah, I’m using the archive.org flash video player.
now THAT’S a Sunday, friends! way to rally and bring the fun to Po’ Hill. good thing I was there to stomp around and curse.
next time let’s ride down Filbert between Hyde and Leavenworth: SF’s steepest at a cool 31.5 percent gradient.