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Tide Ride

As always seems to be the case, I came away from this year's Soapbox Derby without nearly enough pictures. So instead of making a pictureless post where I try to describe all the awesomeness (fire juggling, epic crashes, rocking bands, tons of people having a great time, circus arts galore, ridiculous downhill racing, and more), I'll just wait until the pictures come back from the photographer so I can make a proper post.

In the meantime, here's a picture of my entry. The chassis is more or less the same as last year (with a tweak or two). The theme, however, is much different. What you can't see from the picture is the bubble machine that is duct taped to the back. Giant laundry detergent box. Bubbles. It's my Soap Box Racer. Get it? Some people did and some people didn't. And then some people got it but didn't think it was so funny. Oh well. To round out the spectacle*, I ended up wearing this all day. So even if I wasn't the fastest derby racer out there, I was voted cutest by the mostly-drunken other participants.

Anyhoo, I hope to get a bunch of pictures here soon and make a proper post summing up all that action and awesomeness that was the SH'BANG!

Sunday September 12 2010

File under: quarry

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on Mon 13th Sep, 2010 03:09 pm PDT Saxtor said:
Were my old wheels still part of the equation?
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on Mon 13th Sep, 2010 06:32 pm PDT Andrew said:
Is that thing street legal?
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on Mon 13th Sep, 2010 10:08 pm PDT Wren said:
@Saxtor: Yep. In fact, they never even came off since last year. The front wheel, however, came off at a very inappropriate time...like halfway down the race track. Doh!

@Andrew: Totally street legal. You come up to the quarry and I'll take you out for a spin in(/on) it.
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on Tue 14th Sep, 2010 03:24 pm PDT Sean said:
Does it have a bell or horn?
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on Wed 15th Sep, 2010 09:51 am PDT Mark said:
Sorry I missed the Sh'Bang again...now I'm curious about the origin of the name "soap-box" derby!
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