Tour de Dewey

For Dubba's 40th birthday his wife revived an historical event in the Boulder area - the Tour de Dewey.  The TDD started in 1997 with a handful of friends at Dubba's Dewey street house.  It somehow arose one fall from the end-of-race-season-burnt-out-on-racing-and-traveling-mindset while under the influence while riding cruisers. 

The first year was a humble beginning, and somehow it soon grew into a few hundred people by 2004 when it was decided best to stop the event altogether...it was just TOO big and rowdy.  Costumes, cruiser races - including a shotgun prologue, Individual Time Trial, Circuit Race, and Hillclimb - were all part of the TDD.  It was a moving event with nobody knowing where they were going exactly before the 'race' -- each stage was at a different undisclosed location until the night of the event.  With the TDD, the IGSSC (Intergalactic Singlespeed Championships) grew (and died) as well, for the same reason.  But it appears for now that the TDD lives again and will re-appear at (random) times. 

For this year's event I created a Time Trial "Chalice" of sorts out of scrap metal i had in the shop.  I welded and brazed it together one afternoon and added some hammered rattlecan paint to finish it up.  It was easily packed because it unscrewed at two locations for easy stashing. It held the beer that riders would race out to, drink, then spin around the chalice three times before hopping back on the TT bike (14"-wheeled kids bike) and heading to the finish line.

that's a 32 and an 18t ring...perfect ratio for the single

Dubba drinks from the chalice at the pre-party at Upslope Brewery

It was another classic TDD, lots of great costumes, lots of people I hadn't seen in a long time - some since the last TDD, lots of PBR, lots of fun, oh...and lots of near misses on the bikes (with one major exception).  I ended up with 16 stitches in my chin from a rather large collision with a buddy in the circuit race.  Ouch for both of us!

I've created a photo album of all the pictures I have available.  Many or most of these are from friend's cameras and not my own. Enjoy the show.