{"id":132,"date":"2006-07-11T16:08:23","date_gmt":"2006-07-11T23:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyclecide.com\/beer\/pedal-monster-press-release\/"},"modified":"2006-07-11T16:20:08","modified_gmt":"2006-07-11T23:20:08","slug":"pedal-monster-press-release","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.cyclecide.com\/beer\/photos\/pedal-monster-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedal Monster Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BY MAYORAL PROCLAMATION &#8212; no, really, we&#8217;re not lying, the paperwork&#8217;s<br \/>\ndone and Gavin Newsom said so &#8212; THE WEEKEND OF JULY 22-23 HAS BEEN<br \/>\nDECLARED &#8220;CYCLECIDE WEEKEND&#8221; IN SAN FRANCISCO!!!<\/p>\n<p>Honk honk!<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco&#8217;s Heavy Pedal CYCLECIDE BIKE RODEO presents:<br \/>\nPEDAL MONSTER!<br \/>\nJuly 21nd &#8211; Poker Run, bar TBA<br \/>\nJuly 22, 2-10pm; July 23, 2-8pm &#8211; Mission Village Market, 18th and<br \/>\nAlabama Streets, San Francisco.<br \/>\nPoker run participation $5, 21 and over. Carnival is all ages; $7-10<br \/>\nsliding scale. RIDER ASSUMES ALL RISK.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco&#8217;s CYCLECIDE BIKE RODEO is, as always, 2 DUM 2 DIE &#8212; and<br \/>\nready to get hitched at City Hall, regardless of handlebar shininess or<br \/>\nheadtube length. In the wake of their countless tours across the<br \/>\ncountry, insane and successful hometown shows, myriad television appearances,<br \/>\ndocumentary films, festival headlinings, international fashion magazine<br \/>\nmodeling spreads (no really), and cultural blah blah and interactivity<br \/>\nthus and so on and the &#8220;for the Kids&#8221; every which way, the Honorable<br \/>\nGavin Newsom and the City of San Francisco do hereby proclaim July 22-23<br \/>\nto be CYCLECIDE WEEKEND.<\/p>\n<p>And in return, Cyclecide is proving its eternal love to the City and to<br \/>\nthe culture of the bike with a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0freakish, pedal-and-contraption-centric<br \/>\ncarnival of stupid and epic proportions. Mutant Bike Clubs from all of<br \/>\nthe U.S.A. will descend upon San Francisco &#8212; from as far away as<br \/>\nSeattle, Reno, and New York &#8212; to carouse and joust and make out with local<br \/>\nhotties. The Cyclecide Bike Rodeo will run around like a chicken with<br \/>\nits head geeked off. There will be bands, shows, games, and general<br \/>\ncacophony, the likes of which San Francycle has rarely seen. Accept no<br \/>\nimitations &#8212; CYCLECIDE REMAINS THE WORLD&#8217;S ONLY BIKE RODEO AND<br \/>\nPEDAL-POWERED CARNIVAL MIDWAY! Even the mayor agrees.<\/p>\n<p>Fri\/21:<br \/>\nPOKER RUN. Starts at darkish. Bar TBA on cyclecide.com. Wherein mutant<br \/>\nbicycling fans and feisty cyclists are all invited to throw in $5 to<br \/>\nparticipate in a multi-bar POKER GAME involving DRINKING and BICYCLING.<br \/>\nThere will be prizes and very probably some pie-fighting and light<br \/>\npavement-wrestling<\/p>\n<p>Sat\/22-Sun\/23:<br \/>\nPEDAL MONSTER Festival takes over the Mission Village Market. (P.S. the<br \/>\nmarket is slated for destruction soon after that. Bye-bye, lovely<br \/>\nMission weekends searching the flea market for thrifty treasures. Sniff.)<\/p>\n<p>Featuring:<br \/>\n-Cyclecide Rides &#038; Sideshow, with Skits, Mutant Bikes, Rodeo Clowns,<br \/>\nand punk rock mariachi band Los Banos<\/p>\n<p>-An Only In San Francisco Circus Midway, with Wrong-Way Bike Games,<br \/>\nOrnery Clowns Doing Incredibly Stupid Things, and Hot Utra Gypsy<br \/>\nBellydancers Selling Raffle Tickets for Mutant Bikes and Other Prizes.<\/p>\n<p>-Interclub Tallbike Jousting, as seen on TV and in the 2003<br \/>\nfilm-festival hit documentary *Too Dumb To Die* &#8212; contestants include<br \/>\nNeanderthals from out-of-town bike tribes, Doyle the 2005 World Tallbike Jousting<br \/>\nChampion, and Gorgar the Vain and Belligerent Urine-Eating Monster<\/p>\n<p>-Pervitadora Records&#8217; Glen Meadmore &#8212; the Hot, Horny, and Born-Again<br \/>\nSinging Cowboy<\/p>\n<p>-The Life-Size Mousetrap &#8212; the Rube Goldberg-inspired creation based<br \/>\non the children&#8217;s board game but instead of a net at the end there&#8217;s a<br \/>\n2-ton safe that smashes things. With three-a-day performances by sexy<br \/>\nmice, cranky blue-collar clowns, and the one-woman-band Esmerelda Strange<\/p>\n<p>The Disgusting Spectacle &#8212; a Giant Head Sculpture that Picks its Own<br \/>\nNose with an Equally Giant Pointy-Fingered Hand, Powered by a<br \/>\nHuman-Sized Hamster Wheel<\/p>\n<p>BMX Ramp Competition and Flatland Expo Presented by First Rule<\/p>\n<p>Kielbasa, the Accordion-Playing Lunch Lady<\/p>\n<p>The Slow Poisoner<\/p>\n<p>The Outlaw Country of Hellbound Glory<\/p>\n<p>Flower Frankenstein \/ BikiniKat<\/p>\n<p>DJs Toph One, jef leopard, Renessa, &#038; Big Daddy<\/p>\n<p>Emceed by the Reverend David Apocalypse<\/p>\n<p>More acts TBA.<br \/>\nMore details at: www.cyclecide.com<\/p>\n<p>Available for interview: Cyclecide&#8217;s &#8220;fearless bleeder&#8221; Jarico Reesce<br \/>\nand the Life-Size Mousetrap&#8217;s creator Mark Perez<br \/>\nFor high-res photos or more questions, call Cyclecide press office at<br \/>\n(415)596-6599 or email <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyclecide.com\/ym\/Compose?To=linda@cyclecide.com&#038;YY=41161&#038;y5beta=yes&#038;y5beta=yes&#038;order=down&#038;sort=date&#038;pos=0&#038;view=a&#038;head=b\"><font color=\"#003399\">linda@cyclecide.com<\/font><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyclecide.com\/ym\/Compose?To=summer@cyclecide.com&#038;YY=41161&#038;y5beta=yes&#038;y5beta=yes&#038;order=down&#038;sort=date&#038;pos=0&#038;view=a&#038;head=b\"><font color=\"#003399\">summer@cyclecide.com<\/font><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY MAYORAL PROCLAMATION &#8212; no, really, we&#8217;re not lying, the paperwork&#8217;s done and Gavin Newsom said so &#8212; THE WEEKEND OF JULY 22-23 HAS BEEN DECLARED &#8220;CYCLECIDE WEEKEND&#8221; IN SAN FRANCISCO!!! Honk honk! San Francisco&#8217;s Heavy Pedal CYCLECIDE BIKE RODEO presents: PEDAL MONSTER! July 21nd &#8211; Poker Run, bar TBA July 22, 2-10pm; July 23, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cyclecide.com\/beer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cyclecide.com\/beer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cyclecide.com\/beer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cyclecide.com\/beer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cyclecide.com\/beer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cyclecide.com\/beer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cyclecide.com\/beer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cyclecide.com\/beer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}