Sometimes We Do Good Things

Normally we burn down houses, grease the steps at old folks’ homes and yell “Fire!”, kick kids, try to corrupt the incorruptable, you know, the typical naer do well sort of shit.

Well, as penance we finally done somethin’ good, pa.

May 24th saw the 1st annual “Underpants and Heavy Cans Ride” take place under beautiful skies around the city of Portland. The manifest was underwear bonanza:

We’re putting different marks in your undies today

And the trophies were a thing of beauty, headed up by Tricia and Eva and assisted by the other Ironcladies. I mean seriously…in bike racing you get flimsy medals (well, unless you win Pain on the Peak, then you get half a  M1 A1 Abrams tank’s worth of metal), and in alleycats you might get a fancy belt buckle, but here we had these beauties for you to win:

How about these lovelies?

And above that we had custom hand made underpants as other winning prizes……amazingly and lovingly sewn again by our Ironcladies, who really did all the work for the event.

badonkadonks unite!

The purpose of the day of course (well, along with all things underwear) was to collect food for the Oregon Food Bank and when all our hearty bicycle warriors came home, the final total was 766 lbs of food collected. For a relatively small but dedicated group of folks, we certainly earned our beer that night.

So please…..check out the photo album of the event here and see lots of folks getting  lots of custom underpants and riding their bikes.

We must simply thank the following:

American Apparel – thanks for the undies!

Cars-R-Coffins – Best stickers ever

Swobo – very cool stuff and you know it

Surly – pretty rad!

Rapha – some awesome giveaways!

BikeTiresDirect.com – the  coolest

Roots Brewery – thanks for the space and the tasty beer!

And THANK YOU to the riders who showed up to take on the challenge! A few of the local teams (Beer, Cthulu) a few local legends (Rev Phil) and a whole host of others that came out – thank you so much, without you it wouldn’t have been such a success!