Midnight Madness Bike Ride

Lotus and I rode in the 34th Annual Midnight Madness Bike ride last Saturday. It is a 20 mile bike ride that goes from Downtown to Harbor and Shelter Islands, through Old Town and back through Downtown. It starts at midnight and ends when you get back (it took us 2 hours, but we were not going that hard).

I had trouble taking pictures becuase it was at night and everything was moving. After a while I figured out that the movie feature on on camera was my best bet for the night, but unfortuneatly I only had a small memory card with me, so I did not take much video.

Here are pics of Lotus and me at the start line.


This ride is consider a Fun ride, which means it is not timed and so it is more about having a good time, then racing. There were two actual contests, a costume contest and a "Light up the bike" contest. The winner of the costume contest got 2 tickets to anywhere Alaska Airlines flys, and the other received a new bike from REI (at least a $300 value). The lady in the picture behind me entered the costume contest, something about Star Trek...

Here is video of the costume contest. Their entry was called Don and his Hoes... They were blowing bubbles and I think they had music too.

There was another guy dressed up as Captiain Jack Sparrow, but I'm too lazy to go through the effort to post that video. Here is a pic of the Fire Man with the ladder and his co-pilot that I liked a lot though.



Here is the winner of the light up your bike contest. They had a siren, a horn, the works. I saw another bike that night that had a car stereo hooked up to it and they were pumping the jams (or whatever the kids say today).



Here is a picture at the start of the ride. There were about 200 of us at a stop light.



Here is the last video clip. It's from near the end of the ride. You can see the Star of India in the background at the end. The loud voice you hear is the harbor police passing us on the left.