Bicycle Riders?

[Morrow7x]

^^

The ‘safety valve’ aspect of replaceable hangers makes perfect sense. But, I know for a fact we made way more money after those easily-bent things became the norm. Hanger, derailleur, spokes, labor. Rinse. Repeat…

 

[Kona9]

GoBike Buffalo is our local bike advocacy organization and they run a Cranksgiving event each year to support local food pantries for Thanksgiving. It’s an event I’ve been wanting to do for years. The rules are you are given a list of 8 downtown grocery stores from which you need to choose 4 to purchase items from the list they give you. There are also 3 checkpoints spaced around the city to keep people from just hitting the closest four stores. You can do it solo or as a team up to four people. Our team, the “Mashed Potatoes”, was just my son and I. It was fun looking over the map and having him help plan the route we would take. While it isn’t a race, there are prices for the fastest solo rider and team. There are prices for the heaviest load for solo and team and then prices for best costume. They ask you to keep your receipts from each store and the stickers you received from the checkpoints to present at the end with your haul. It was my son’s first time riding with panniers and he did great. We donated 35lbs of food and the 200+ participants as a whole, collected over 4,500lbs of food which was more than double last year. We donate to food banks and pantries each year, but this was different and fun to ride through some areas of the city we’ve never been to and spread our purchases across four downtown stores.

As for the bikes, Ryan rode one of my project bikes I built up a few years ago, basically a parts bin bike (that Kona was my first ‘real’ mountain bike back in 2000). He didn’t ride his own bike as the pannier racks I ordered from Tumbleweed still have not been delivered by USPS despite arriving to Buffalo on Tuesday. It was easier to put him on this bike than moving racks around. I haven’t been riding the cargo bike much lately, and it’s one of my favorites and built for hauling, so it was an easy choice to take it.

 

[Morrow7x]

That’s a neat-looking spot in the middle photo!

 

[Birddogs]

What a fun event @Kona9 thanks for sharing. Looks like way more fun than making food to drop off on Thanksgiving Day. That’s what our family usually does. But it’s long hours working in the kitchen.

Hopefully your tumbleweed order shows up tomorrow.