MiniBikeWinter

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This bike-centric series of events celebrating human powered culture will take place

Feb 14th - 18th, 2008 aka Dead Presidents Day Weekend

This is being updated constantly so keep checking back for the most recent info. If you want to get involved there are ways to get involved, like putting your ideas here...

If you're looking for the planning page for MBW 2007, go to MiniBikeWinter2007. If you're looking for the planning page for MBW 2006, go to MiniBikeWinter2006.

Contents

Theme

Medieval Times

  • Ideas: make scarves for each crew; give/get scarf before competing, get nookie if you win.

Overall Schedule

Need a decision on this one soon. Should we:

  1. Have as many events as possible?
  2. Have a medium number of events?
  3. Keep it mellow and focus on a few, epic events

These things should be kept in mind: lowered participation if fewer events, too much stuff to do for a bunch of people who're drunk all weekend with no sleep, coordination effort.

Thursday the 14th

  • Overlord: Dan/Phil/Shawn
  • Time: 8pm to midnight
  • Location: Most likely Free Geek (possible: Free Geek, Kitten Shack, A Better Cycle)
  • What: Stencils
  • Irons: Phil, Dan, Shawn; Ironing board: Shawn; Paint and magic sauce: Phil
    • NEEDS: towels/ironing boards, irons, newspapers, acrylic paint, fabric medium, easy-tac
    • Dumpster diving/pizza procurement: Carl and Adriane
  • Done at midnight, then naked ride

Opening Ceremonies (Friday the 15th)

Minibike Capture the Flag

  • Overlord: Marc
  • Location: Ladd's Addition
  • Time: 2pm
  • Rules:

1. Bicycles optional, but if used, must be 16" wheels or smaller. Other kinds of non-motorized transport with small wheels accepted. 2. SE Ladd Ave. is the dividing line. The avenue itself is neutral ground, as is Ladd Circle. 3. Flags placed at North and South rose garden traffic diamonds. To capture flag, bring it inside the center traffic circle. 4. You can only tag opponents, not their bikes, and only when they are on your side. The flag carrier can be tagged anywhere. 5. Jails will be the East and West rose garden traffic diamonds. Only those captured can be inside the diamond. Release a teammate by having them come to the edge and tag them. Anyone they are also touching at the time of the tag will be released. Respect the roses. 6. Dress accordingly. 7. Spectators can hang out at the center traffic circle to watch the action.

Potluck Dunch

  • Location: Stripes place: 1342 se 32nd ave
  • Time: 4pm

Partytime

  • Overlords: Mykle and SG
  • Start time: 8pm
  • Bring: alcoholic beverages, white costumes

Torch Ride!

A brightly-lit ride to the Pyle. Bring your blinky shit, and/or your flaming shit.

  • Overlords: Corey
  • Start location: Col. Summers
  • Destination: The Pile (@ Rocco's)
  • Start time: 8:30pm
  • All bicyclists of Portland are invited, with as much bright light and/or fire on their bikes as they can muster.
  • Be prepared to light the city with your glowing white ass.

ZooBomb Badass Challenge

  • Overlord: Corey
  • Real Time: meet at pyle at 9:30p
  • What: Ride/get to top of the goddamn hill w/o engine or max or mini-bike towline.
    • Announce rules at lightbar and pyle
    • Winner lights torch at top of hill. (need TEAM FIRE SAFETY and TEAM LOOKOUT on duty!)
    • Torchholder waits at to for first to arrive, hands torch to them
  • NEED: larger torch/basin for top of hill
  • Only Badasses need apply.
  • <18" to enter

Family Bomb

  • first ride down the hill: everyone down except medics and racers!
  • Start 11:30p

12" Bomb

  • Overlord: Corey
  • after family bomb
  • same basic rules as Tour da Bomb
    • only restrictions -two twelve inch wheels, single speed
  • Same time as Skate Bomb

Skate Bomb

  • Overlord: Billy the Kid
  • Time: After 12" bomb
  • Corking: Cupcake, C-Saw, Mechanic Mark

Gravity Race

  • Overlord:Chuck
  • Time: after skate bomb

After the races

  • 1:30 is last Max
  • OG to Archery Range or Fern Gully

Medieval Day (Saturday the 16th)

  • Coordinated Max ride to brunch?

Brunch

  • Overlords: Adriane and Tiago
    • Questionmark will gather people to help cook: Stripes
  • Location: Adriane and Tiago's: up by Univ. of P.
  • Time: 11:11am
  • Needs: Bring food to cook/premade food
  • Money?: ???
  • Bring food to share!? Maybe?

1:00pm, Chariot Rites of Passage

  • Location: ride from brunch
  • Chariot Beauty Contest
  • Teamwork drinking
  • Chariot Speed and Endurance Race

3:00pm, BEN HURT II Chariot Wars

  • No rules
  • Last Chariot Rolling
  • A chariot is 3+ wheels that carries 2 people
  • Both Gladiator and Steed need to be in contact with their chariot at all times
  • Padded Weapons
  • Fire, chickenshit, and WMDs are all acceptable weapons
  • You will get hurt

Big Public Party

  • Location: not on the interwebs
    • Back door=main entrance
    • Meeting point: under the Morrison Bridge on the west side - meet 7:30pm, depart at 8pm (advertise that ride leaves at 7:30p)
      • Ride leader: Metal Nate
  • Overlord: Phil
  • Committee: Corey, Jamey, Bump, Justa
  • Theme: Medieval/Metal and Lace
  • Time: 8:30pm-2am
    • Setup: noon-7 on Thursday the 14th, also 6pm on Saturday the 16th
      • Rampbuilding also on the 14th at same time
    • Cleanup: ???
  • BYO cup
  • Ramps
    • Overlord: Cupcake
    • Rampbuilding: every Tuesday and thursday the 14th
      • NEEDS: 2x4, plywood, bodies email cupcake fasboy4000 [at] imaterrorist [dot] com
  • Booze: Cupcake
    • Hair of the Dog: 1 keg; possibly more coming
  • Lighting
    • Overlord: ???
  • Sound
    • Overlord: Jasen
  • Art Silent Auction
    • Overlord: Cupcake
    • Cash only, end at midnight or so, pay back people donating money to rent the space
  • Bands
    • Overlord: Justa
    • Confirmed: HCABBC (20 min), Zoobomb Cover Band (45 min), Golden Greats (20-30 min or more)
  • Dance Teams
    • Overlord: Jamey jbgj658 [at] yahoo.com
    • Teams: BCClettes, Brakes, Chain Rxn
  • Food: Adriane and Carl
  • Volunteers needed: door volunteers (Tori chair?), keg volunteers, setup, teardown, rampbuilding
    • On the setup crew: Chuck on Thurs. or Friday, Stripes on Friday, Jamey on Thurs. or Friday
    • On the cleanup crew: Stripes, Chuck, Badass, Jamey(?), Phil
  • Fashion Show (20-30 min)
    • Theme: Metal and Lace
    • Organized By: Phil
    • NEEDS: folks in fashion show let phil know so he can ask you some questions

Schedule of Acts

  • DJ
  • HCABBC
  • Fashion Show
  • Live Dance Performance x2
  • TAFKAADPTHGATDI
  • Live dance performance
  • Golden Greats
  • DJ

Sunday the 17th

Brunch

  • Overlord: Question Marc and C-saw and Dan
  • In the Merc? No.
  • Location: C-saw's house - 2248 SE Brooklyn
  • Time: 11:11am
  • Cooks: Dan + more (contact question marc)
  • Food: C-Saw has a bunch of potatoes, Food committee needs to bring the rest or let people know to bring food

Group Ride

  • 1:30ish leaving from C-Saws to olympics

Olympics

  • Overlord: corey
  • Time: 2-5p
  • Olympics? For a listing of last year's Olympic events, see [1].
  • Fastest minibike: Felix
  • Other ideas: Minibike tag, relay, derby
  • If you have ideas for event, get in touch with corey corey7e [at] gmail.com
  • Rollo: Chuck will make walls, Erin will bring mallets and extra minis
  • Sprockettes ~3:30
  • Cupcake Challenge: 4:45ish
  • Location: under Hawthorne Bridge
  • Food: Carl and Adriane

Tour de Bomb

  • Time: 9pm at pyle
  • Oversight/starter: Emily
  • Judges at the bottom:
  • Official Zoobomb race.
    • 10pm official start
    • compete to be the Fastest Zoobomber
    • restrictions - must have two 16 inch wheels (or smaller), single speed.
    • this is a ride for racers only. all non-racers start 5 minutes before the racers, do a family bomb to fountain or whever they want to watch (1st steep turn might be very telling).
    • Finish line: to the right of the fountain
  • Volunteers needed: Starter (Emily) and finisher (Esther) with cell phones, another at finish (Shawn-girl), speedhole curve, mid-burnside/fountain Y, 10mph curve, medic, documentors.

Classes

  1. Family bomb/Open class starts at 10pm
  2. Freakbikes - nothing stock
  3. Minis

Legoland

After the races.

  • Oversight: Metal Nate/Emily
  • Beer Bungee (Shawn)
  • Ben Hur race
  • Award ceremony: key and other stuffs MC: Dan/Emily
  • Nerds on Wheels after 11pm

Monday the 19th

Anything? Post-climactic cuddling, movie-watching, eating, and dog sled racing?

Monday Brunch

  • Possibly Kittenshack.... Contact question marc to offer venue or cooking

Housing

Gabe's in charge of this. Offering houses: Lapis, Adriane/Tiago, Shawn, Gabe, your mom, add your name here.

Food Donations

Carl and Adriane are on this.

  • Asking for food from these places: hot lips, new seasons, good eating, trader joes, any co-op, black sheep, food fight, blossoming lotus, living spoonful, any pizza places, voodoo, paradox, higher taste, king harvest, el gaucho steak house, tofurky
  • Chuck arranging Food Yes Bomb donation

Trophies/Prizes

  • Trophy-making: tentatively Monday Jan. 21 7:30 at Dropouts clubhouse
  • Sage has said he'd make some trophies
    • Otherwise, make tropies for your own event
  • Cupcake and Laura said they'd make some smaller prizes. Others are interested. Do it!

Scorekeeping

  • Overlord: Tackler
    • agent.lapis [at] gmail.com
      • Volunteers: team scorekeep needs you! I'll provide materials, you provide the time, writing utensil (non-sharpie) & own at least one item of polka-dot clothing to wear while on duty. Send me an email!

Infrastructure/Ideas:

  • Scorekeepers and Judges shouldn't be the same people. Judges decide who wins, scorekeepers keep track of it all.
  • All Participants and Judges in a given event should be noted.
  • A whiteboard may be helpful when a lot of events are taking place at once.
  • I have 5"x7" cards for noting the placers in each event & will purchase several sheets of posterboard for people to see who to watch at events. After Friday night's events, the frontrunners will be listed at the top, newcomers filled in below.
  • Facts listed: overall points, overall participation and the average.
  • I'm not exactly sure how to decide the minibike winner. Highest average would be a good idea, but if someone only participates in habanero events and places in those, they'd be a shoo-in. Most points could go to someone who hardly ever places but competes in almost everything. *ack!*

SCORE!

  • Five different scoring ratings for two types of events (single heat or "vs" multi-heat):
    • Poblano: single heat with no chance for injury; ie mini & chariot beauty contests
      • Non-placing participants receive no points. 1st place gets 3, 2nd 2 & 3rd 1.
    • Pepperoncini: multi-heat with little chance for injury; ie tricycle chug relay
      • Heat winners receive 2 points, losers 1.
    • Jalapeño: single-heat with average chance for injury; ie standard races & bombs
      • Non-placing participants receive 1 point. 1st place gets 4, 2nd 3 & 3rd 2.
    • Chipotle: multi-heat with average to high chance for injury; ie whiplash, jousts & deathjam
      • Heat winners receive 3 points, losers 2.
    • Habanero: single-heat with high chance for injury or particularly grueling; ie derbies, chariot deth match & badass challenge.
      • Non-placing participants receive 2 points. 1st place gets 5, 2nd 4 & 3rd 3.
  • Cupcake Challenge and its spinoff events are incomparable to other events and should have arbitrary frosting ratings as all cupcake challenge participants are winners.

Publicity

Misc.

  • Official guide to be handed out at start of event: Gabe

Meetings

Dec. 12

Jan. 14

  • Attending: C-saw, MNate, Phil, Shawn, Chuck, #1Badass, Felix, Questionmark, Dan, Jamie, Stripes, Emily, Corey, yer mom

Commits

  • C-saw will ask pear about the warehouse space and get back to phil KILLED
  • Phil will talk to organics to you KILLED
  • Felix will check out warehouse space at SE9th and alder KILLED
  • Shawn will make a room use request to use FG for stencil night DONE
  • Corey and Jamie will talk to Phil about venue options DONE
  • Phil will make a forum post requesting volunteers for needed positions for saturday party MEH.

Jan. 28

  • Attending: Shawn, Phil, MNate, Mechanic Mark, Cupcake, Dan, Laura, Kloudt

Notas

  • Rampbuilding: every tuesday. Need wood. Email cupcake fasboy4000 at imaterrorist dot com
  • Chariot events: Gabe needs help? contact him if you wanna help, 'k?
  • Brunches: when do people need to bring food, and what (cooked, raw, regurgitated?)? Should brunches be publicised in the Merc?
  • Friday night: OG to archery range or Fern Gully after races instead of Legoland

Commits

  • Phil will talk to Justa/Jason about sound coordination
  • Phil, Justa, and Jamey will create a schedule of Sat. events
  • C-saw will bring fire wood to sat. nite spot
  • Phil will ask Tori to be door checker chair
  • Phil will alert PDX Mercury of fashion show
  • Phil will make email and/or forum post requesting fashion show info of participants
  • Shawn will print up bid sheets for silent auction
  • Shawn will email Question Marc and Adrian/Carl for updates and brunch questions
  • Cupcake will contact Billy the Kid re: C-saw, CupC, Mech Mark corking skate race
  • Phil will procure paint and magic sauce for stencil night
  • Phil will talk to Ota about tofu
  • C-Saw will ask Stumptown about coffee

Next Meetings

  • Monday, Feb. 11 at 7pm at Free Geek if needed
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