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A weekend of Fixed Gear Fun Friday 17th- Sunday 19th April 2009 Part of the month long I Bike MCR Festival, with bike rides and stuff EVERY SINGLE DAY from Friday 27th March to Friday 24th April 2009.
Friday 17th April Hell Of the North West Alleycat and Alleykitten 6pm Registration, 7pm Ride. Meet behind the Sandbar, Grosvenor Street
Hell Of the North West Alleycat Race: A serious race around the city, reminiscent of the Hell of the North due to the route containing cobbled streets
For more easy going fun loving riders we have the Hell of the North West Alleykitten. Ride in pairs around the city on a bike treasure hunt. Ride kids bikes or shoppers.
Come in Hipsta fancy dress. The person to get most in Hipsta Bingo will win a special prize!!!
Saturday 18th April 4pm The Sugden Centre Carpark, off Oxford Road Yo Fixie! A fixed only comp with events inc. Trackstand, Skid, Elimination Race, F.I.X.E.D etc.
With outdoor bar and DJ playing tunes all afternoon...everyone welcome to participate or hang out
Later we move the DJ and the party inside the backroom of the bar til late...
Sunday 19th April Noon Platt Fields Park Bike Polo Tournament Teams from all over Europe invited Followed by prizegiving party fun
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Get on your bike to Albert road May 11th 2008! All welcome loads of cycling activities food and drink Street entertainment competition fun for everyone sunday 11th may 2008 12-5 shops open, come along and enjoy the things we have to offer in this great independent shopping road.
"tour de Albert" pay £2 enter the prize draw (£1 to charity £1 towards LOVE ALBERT ROAD FESTIVAL on september the 28th 2008) and do a lap of the road and you could win a prize including a carharrt bike donated by Bored of southsea hope to see you on the 11th of may 12-5 LORD SONIC OF SOUTHSEA
A 3 hour challenge on bikes to get the most points by cycling to different points in the city or completing certain tasks from the sheet given on the day. You get a list of tasks with an assigned number of points for each one. How many points can you get in 3 hours? BRING digital camera/camera phone, bag, pen, paper, map of Manchester... oh and a bike.
It doesn't matter how fast you are or whether you're riding a shopper or a carbon fixie...points are won with cleverness and creativity...plus theres lots of winners inc. the child with most points, most points for person in best fancy dress etc etc
EXAMPLE OF POINTS SYSTEM: 20 points: whoever can get back dressed as a pirate 10 points: visit checkpoint at All Saints park
Email to register on this event by emailing info@ibikemcr.org.uk
WANTED: storytellers, poets, mc's, dj's, musicians, bicycle jousters, bicycle tricksters, clowns, bike riders, clothes makers, costume designers, scriptwriters, acrobats, dancers, bicycle builders, welders, painters, artists, jugglers, comedians, unicyclists, set designers, people good at making cardboard boxes look like cars, Roll Up Roll Up and join the bicycle circus...bicyclecircus@riseup.net
its ok if you dont live in mcr. we are going to try to make meetings and skill shares and practises less but over whole weekends so that people from elsewhere can be involved. please get in touch if you wanna join in..
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"The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead. To love, to be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and vulgar disparity of the life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget." - Arundhati Roy
