Today we attended our bike club's 5th annual New Year's Day Pot-Luck Dinner and Ride. As always it was a great time. A lot of good food and the weather was pretty good with the temperature in the upper 40s. 25 people rode. One of the food dishes Nova made and took was a pasta salad made from the bicycle pasta I received for Christmas.

Today a few of us from our bike club rode in the Delano neighborhood of Wichita to tour a few early 1900s homes that were decorated for the holidays. A nice day for a ride. Sunny, calm and 40 degrees. Above that's me messing up an otherwise good photo.
More photos here.

Last night was our bike groups annual Halloween ride known as Hallowheelie. Always a fun time with this bunch. I was Fashionista Frank and Nova... I'm not sure. She had a sheet, devil horns and a mask.
Video I shot...


In the past I've been plain Frank & Framer Frank.

I didn't mess with pulling the Bike of Frankenstein out of storage for the occasion and instead put this together from parts out of the attic. Orange wheels and pumpkin valve caps.

Last night we attended our club's 7th annual Art Of The Bicycle Show and the World's Largest Bike Ride. It was a great show and good time.

Couple videos I made...

Show...


Ride...


Making a late night/early morning doughnut run...


More of my photos here.

Last night I participated in our groups 5th annual 20 Inch Night where you are encouraged to ride a bike with 20" wheels or smaller. This ride gives those of us who have smaller bikes in our collections an excuse to get them out and ride them. Others have built special bikes for the occasion or went on the hunt for one just for this night. Out of the 3 I have, I chose to ride the Cat In The Hat bike. The bike fits me pretty good and is fun to ride. The seat gets a little old after a while though. A couple of years ago Nova bought a bike just for the occasion but she didn't participate this year.
Photos I took can be viewed here.



Video...

Our bike club was asked to put on a display at the Smoky Hill River Festival in Salina, KS which is a 3 day music and art festival held this past weekend. I couldn't make it all 3 days as I had to work and had this event going on in town. My parents graciously agreed to haul my bikes to the festival for set up and then we went on the last day. It is a really nice event and our bike group did a great job of setting up and managing our display.

My photos from the festival here.

Video...

Yesterday along with our bike group and my entire family, we hosted a bicycle show and bicycle games for a first time event called Pedal Mania which is part of the big city's annual River Festival. The props we made for the Disgruntled Paperboy Throw functioned and held up pretty well. We also set up bicycle bowling where you roll a bicycle wheel at 2 liter bottles of pop set up like bowling pins and the Tube Toss which is like ring toss only throwing bicycle inner-tubes over traffic cones. I think everyone had a pretty good time.
Nova, our Daughter, our 3 Grand-kids and my Parents, all pitched in to help. We had 4 car/truck loads of people, bikes, game props, tent, tables, coolers etc... I don't think any of these bike events would happen if it wasn't for their support and help.

Here are videos from the day...

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Last Night was our club's Tandem Night at the Thursday Night Ride. We rode our only remaining tandem. So cool to see so many tandems out at once.

My photos and video of the evening here.