the weekend

This past weekend for us trumpeted the arrival of summer. Beautiful weather, lots of bicycles out and about, a backyard fire, and short pants/sleeves after dark. Summer, we're happy to have you!

Friday night Slim, some pals and I rolled over to the NW to participate in the Wend Magazine Ping Pong tournament that served as a fund raiser for World Bicycle Relief. The evening was also a release party for the new issue of the magazine. The Deschutes beer flowed freely, and a good time was had, though I didn't make it out of the first round. Slim made it to the Sweet 16 out of the original 64 players. We bumped into a bunch of great folks at the event and donated some goodies for the raffle. I ran into one of the editors on Saturday, and she told me the event raised a grand for WBR. Here is a shot of match play and the finals.

Saturday was the Cirqu De Cycling festival on Mississippi Street in NE Portland. There was a parade of tall bikes, naked people and cargo bikes, all as a prelude to some crit racing. It was a pretty good scene, but I'm neither a racer nor a fan of crit racing, so I started to lose interest pretty quickly. We wandered around a bit until we met up with some folks we knew on Michigan Street where we watched the end of the Pro crit. For me the high point of the day came after the racing when someone got out some sidewalk chalk and we got down to some hot four-square action. Call me a kid at heart, but it was great!

I know, so much action in the pictures, but that's how we like the weekends sometimes.