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March has been off to a brilliant start, with a bike birthday party and time trial in the same weekend!

Awesome cycle girls Becky and Louise hosted a fun bike-love celebration for their March birthdays. Despite the rainy weather, a heap of people participated in an adventurous ride to Kakaako waterfront park for a firedance by Louise (with a couple of first-time fire dancers trying their stuff out as well) and then a ride to Cycle Manoa for a pinata smashing and dance party!

Penny trying out fire dancing

Awesome dance party set-up in Cycle Manoa

The AMAZING hand-crafted Hummer pinata that everyone was all too happy to smash!

Smashing the Hummer with bike parts!

There was a even a pool set up in the bike warehouse

Thanks for the super amazing party for 2 awesommmeee cycle girls!

Part 2 of the weekend was the time trial.. a bit more serious (well, sort of……)

The time trial was held at Mokuleia on the North-Western shore of Oahu with a 12.4 mile route. The organizers created a special fixed-gear category, which inspired a rambunctious crew of riders to participate.

A summary of the “seriousness” of the time trial

1. Ted Shred Stops

2. Time trial on riser bars + a whip skid

3. Eilif completing the entire 12 mile time trial by wheelie, shirtless and in terrific spirits

4. The helmet aero-fications by speedo swim cap

5. The helmet aero-fications by dinosaur shower cap

6. New rider Sabrina’s completion of the time trial as the only female participant, complete with riser bars, a hello kitty backpack and a backwards helmet that none of us caught!

All the participants with the head organizer that created the fixed gear category, David Lum

And congrats to the fixed-gear winners!

All in all, an awesome bike weekend in Hawaii!

Enough with the trash talk, if you think you have what it takes to earn KC Street Cred come out and race every Saturday in Feburary! Registration at 2:30 pm, race at 3! There will be cash prizes for top women at EVERY STAGE, so come out and race ladies!!! First race is the KC Crusade! $5 to race. Meet at Volker Velowerx @ 18th & Wyandotte.

One of my top youtube searches of 2009 was for parkour. You know, those guys, and sometime girls, who run around cities, scaling walls, hopping from rooftop to rooftop, and swinging off poles? Sure you do, those who are really good at it make it into Hollywood movies as stunt artists, and we also saw some really hunky parkour guys touring with Madonna on her Confessions tour in 2006.

Well, today I discovered the amazing amalgamation of two incredible urban activities: parkour and biking. The guy in the video, Danny MacAskill, has wicked skills and no fear.

Filmed over the period of a few months in and around Edinburgh by Dave Sowerby, this video of Inspired Bicycles team rider Danny MacAskill features the most amazing collection of street/trials riding ever seen.