Cranksgiving 2016

Apparently, this is a thing.

It happens all across the country. In cities big and small. Folks hop on their bikes and engage in something resembling what would happen if a food drive had a weird drunken threesome with a scavenger hunt and a road race.

Teams form up, they are given a list, and then they pedal their asses around town, cycling from grocery to grocery, in order to buy/collect food, which will then be donated to charity, and of course, used to brighten the Thanksgiving of those less fortunate.

No, I'm not making a homeless joke at the expense of a great event.

Because, I think this is definitely a great event, and I think folks should get off their asses and do it. We ride countless miles day after day, week after week, and month after month, and the majority of the time, we ride for ourselves, or our friends. We either turn our cycling into a personal exercise, or a social one.

Perhaps we can also remind ourselves, that sometimes we can even turn our rides into charitable ones.

Now, I know there are all manners of cyclists, with all manners of differing opinions, on riding, on life, on everything, and one of the beautiful things about this world is that all of these differing opinions don't have to gel, and these styles don't have to mesh, and nothing on nothing about nothing has to be similar at all. All of these differing factors don't have to shape up and coalesce in any manner at all, but that still won't stop us from being friends, or from banding together and doing something decent in this world.

Because as crappy as the overall social environment seems at the moment due to this election nonsense, we can still be friends, and be social, and ride around town, and carry on, and remind ourselves that regardless of whoever is sitting in the oval office, and however elated or doomed we might feel at that developement, we can give a big fuck you to all that, and do something worthwhile and awesome for folks who are going through pretty difficult times.

So, on Nov 13, in New Orleans, starting at noon, and beginning at their bike shop (which you should visit) the lovely ladies of Dashing Bicycles will be hosting Cranksgiving 2016. My beautiful Wookie Life Mate and myself will be taking part in the event, and I hope whoever reads this blog, or learns about the event, or catches it on facebook, will come along and chase canned foods around the city. There will be an after party at one of the best pizza places in town, and prizes awarded to teams for various accomplishments throughout the ride.

DID YOU HEAR WHAT I SAID? THERE'S GOING TO BE PIZZA!

It's going to be fun, and besides, you shouldn't upset our National Bird.



Turkey will judge you.

Find a Cranskgiving in your area by going here:

Cranksgiving 2016

Or, if you're local, by getting all the details here:

Cranksgiving NOLA on Book of the Face.

Thanks for reading, and I hope to see everyone out there.

And thanks for letting me climb up on my soapbox.


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