scAVENGER! – The Great Northeast Meander

Entries from April 2007

Peace Coffee

April 30, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Everyone knows that coffee and bicycles go great together, so we’d like to welcome yet another wonderful sponsor that has recently come aboard, Peace Coffee. In addition to selling fair trade organic coffee they also do a majority of their deliveries by bicycle. How cool is that? Peace Coffee is always first in line to offer support to local community events, as evidenced by their long list of events they sponsor every year.

Check out their history here and keep Peace Coffee in mind the next time you are about to throw down for a pound o beans.

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The Map

April 30, 2007 · Leave a Comment

For all of you paying attention to the blog here is a special treat for you. Give or take a few blocks this will be the borders of our race.

MAP (JPG)

Categories: Info · alleycat · bicycle · bike · fixedgear · minneapolis · nordeast · northeast · photos · race · scavenger · singlespeed

Behind Bars Bicycle Shop

April 26, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Behind Bars

The good news keeps on rollin’ in. Just heard back from Chuck over at Behind Bars Bicycle Shop. We are getting a slew of cool and useful prizes from Behind Bars and we here at scAVENGER! would like to extend a big hearty thank you.

If you haven’t been to Behind Bars in Northeast, you need to ride on up and check out a very well put together bike shop.

They have all kinds of bikes. Many that aren’t sold in very many other places in the Twin Cities. And the shop space is very unlike any others around town. Its so wide open you feel tempted to do a test ride indoors.

Behind Bars can be seen from an airplane because of its bright orange exterior or at 208 13th Avenue NE in Minneapolis, MN.

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Zero Per Gallon

April 24, 2007 · Leave a Comment

ZPG hates goats

We here at scAVENGER! are pleased to welcome Zero Per Gallon to the sponsorship roster. Jonny5 who runs ZPG was lightning fast in his response to our request for sponsorship. And as Jonny5 has been assured this race is totally goat-free, he’s shipping us a bunch of stickers and patches to give away as prizes.

And if anyone sees me rocking a ZPG patch before the race don’t worry I paid for that one myself. ;)

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Categories: Info · alleycat · bicycle · bike · fixedgear · minneapolis · nordeast · northeast · race · scavenger · singlespeed · sponsor

Surly Bikes

April 23, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Surly Bikes

We here at scAVENGER! would like to extend a big fuck yah to local bicycle company Surly Bikes for choosing to sponsor our race. We can’t wait to see the goody bag of prizes we get from them. It will be a short love affair however, as we will be giving all the prizes away on May 5th.

And make sure to get to your local bike shop and get a new complete Surly Steamroller while they last. I saw a few at The Hub on Saturday. I bet that won’t last long.

I’ve also enjoy their flickr photo stream. There are roughly one billion photos from their recent invasion of Japan.

Categories: Info · alleycat · bicycle · bike · fixedgear · minneapolis · nordeast · northeast · race · scavenger · singlespeed · sponsor

Plans, we got them.

April 17, 2007 · Leave a Comment

We came up with truly evil manifest items in our latest planning meeting. All I can say is you will learn to fear The Die of Misfortune!

slimy die

Categories: Info · alleycat · bicycle · bike · fixedgear · minneapolis · nordeast · northeast · photos · race · scavenger

Race Flyer

April 13, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Hot off the presses.

scAVENGER! Flyer

Thanks mucho to our flyer designer Maranatha Wilson. Who worked very hard to get this done and did it for free. Check out her website humideye.com for samples other samples of her work.

Anyone willing to do some promotion on their own can use the full sized JPG and PDF at their leisure

Categories: Info · alleycat · bicycle · bike · fixedgear · minneapolis · nordeast · northeast · photos · race · scavenger · singlespeed

Housing

April 12, 2007 · 1 Comment

We are currently looking for some folks to host a few people from out of town. Anyone able to offer up some couch space? If so contact us.

Categories: alleycat · bicycle · bike · fixedgear · minneapolis · nordeast · northeast · photos · race · scavenger

Reminder bring a Camera to the Race

April 12, 2007 · Leave a Comment

“I Turn My Camera On” by Spoon

Use this video as a reminder to bring your digital camera to the race. Many easy points will be possible during the race simply by taking pictures of things along the way.

Categories: video

Things are looking up!

April 11, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Hell yah April 11th, 2007. How is it that I can make it the entire winter without falling off my bicycle only to eat shit this morning? In my alley nonetheless. Ah well.

Methinks it isn’t going to look like this on May 5th.

Snowy April in MN

Categories: bicycle · bike · minneapolis · nordeast · northeast · photos · singlespeed