I’ve been very busy lately putting finishing touches and rounding up props for Bicycle Film Festival Scavenger Race. Its all going down at 1pm on July 12th. Just show up to Varsity Bike Shop in Dinkytown with a few friends and a digital camera or cell phone camera. Cost is $5 per person.

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. 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.

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.