ST. CLOUD, Minn. - There’s nothing like $4 gas to make drivers pay attention to the numbers on the pump. And more of those eagle-eyed drivers are calling Minnesota’s Department of Commerce to report suspicions that they’re not getting as much gas as they’re paying for.

-Star Tribune

I’m well aware that my food comes to me via gasoline, but that doesn’t mean I don’t relish every friggin month I don’t have a car payment, every month I don’t have an insurance payment, and every dog damn day I don’t have to worry about how much gas is in my nonexistent car.

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The race will weave its way through the University campus and a bit of South Minneapolis and end at Theater de Juene Lune for the evening’s films. You can count on this being pretty low key and open to riders of all skill levels. I’m trying to keep the distances down so don’t expect to be running all over hell and back to complete this race.

Teams of up to 5 people will assemble and try and complete the mind bending manifest. If you are by yourself come on down and we’ll help you get on a team. There is always room for one more.

If you want a little flavor of what it was like last year check out this shit-ton of photos from last year.

I’m super excited to announce that MPLS finest monkey drawing cartoonist, Roger Lootine, will be designing the spokecards for this race. He did them last year for scAVENGER! and they were awesome.

Check out more BFF Race info under the tag BFF

Update: Check out the crazy amount of prizes for the race winners. We’ve got Crumpler bags, Surly Schwag, Aveda products, PBR, Space 2 Burn t-shirts, and maybe some Twin Six gear. And of course lots and lots of beer tubes.

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The parking attendant came up to him and said, “Yeah dude, there were like 5 kids trying to steal your bike so I called the cops and they ran away.”

He called the police after a few minutes and asked for an officer to come take a statement and inquired as to any 911 calls about the attempted theft. Turns out no one called to report the theft in progress.

What does this all mean? Get two u-locks I guess.

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It looks like Bike Polo in Minneapolis is finally taking root. Connor finally took the initiative and made a few mallets.

Come on down to Logan Park and try it out. It is a ton of fun to watch. I went down a few weekends ago to watch and ended up playing for the first time. I had a blast and only ended up with a skinned ankle.

Starts at 6:30pm every Sunday and goes until its too dark to see. All you need to bring is you bike everything else required to play is provided.

PS League because it sounds good. It is just pick up games.

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Not giving up pays off, thanks to the vigilence of girlcarl’s friends. Great job guys!

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Due to circumstances beyond my control, we were down for the better part of two days. Sorry to the 4 people that tried to view the site during that time.

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A major tip of the hat to Mark, Nick, and Kevin who rode well over 300 miles over the weekend. Including 150 miles on Friday! Instead of taking the bus to Proctor they rode the entire route in one day.

A full set of photos from the weekend are available over in my photostream.

When we got back we still had to haul our gear from our drop off point at Phillip’s house. Karl decided he’d put four people’s gear on his Big Dummy for shits and giggles. Here’s a video highlighting the voluminous load.

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Photo Courtesy of Landon

Did a fast group ride last night. 8 of us left Powderhorn careening down to Hidden Falls, through Crosby Farm Park, and out and up Snelling to Como Lake. 28 miles of fun. Put me in the perfect frame of mind to ride the MS 150 this weekend.

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Photo courtesy of Michael Forester

The Bicycle Film Festival is once again coming to Minneapolis. And while the official info is not yet on the MPLS page, I can offer a semi-official docket of events. All of which are listed on the calendar page. More on the myriad of events later.

In May of 2007 a friend and I threw scAVENGER!. Over 100+ people turned out and we raised several hundred dollars for a local cyclist involved in a hit and run accident. Right around the time I was going to start planning for scAVENGER! 2 I was honored to be invited to plan the BFF Scavenger Hunt.

Tentatively this will be held on Saturday July 12th at 1pm. The race will launch from Varsity Bike Shop. Being a Film Festival event you can look forward to a scavenger hunt with a bicycle film twist. More info on the Bicycle Film Festival Scavenger hunt as soon as I dream it up. For now head on over to the calendar page and check out the events scheduled for July 9th to the 12th.

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I wonder what the Secret Service was thinking as Karl cut a path through the throng on his Big Dummy. I wonder if anyone poked around the giant saddle bags while he was inside to make sure there wasn’t anything subversive hidden in those pockets.

I guess Obama is the only candidate to specifically pander to Cyclists, so he’s got that going for him. Anyway, I wouldn’t exactly call myself a Obama supporter, and I sure as hell ain’t a McCain supporter, but I found these comments from Warren Ellis to be extremely spot-on.

Here is but an excerpt. Read the rest at his blog.

Obamania

When, on my mailing list some months ago, I expressed a preference for Barack Obama in the Democratic selection process, I received an email which read, ”Oh, I see. You’d support a black man but not a white woman.”

That kind of fucked-up paralogia seemed to infect the entire Clinton campaign, reaching its perverse crescendo when she trumpeted her support among uneducated white folks. Her press ops, as one wag pointed out, stopped just short of her being photographed taking a shit in an outhouse.

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