San Francisco
“BREAKERS TO BAY
May 17, 2009
10AM, Leave at 10:30 SHARP, 40 minutes, start to finish.
Location SF: TBA (check back here, or the Mash site)
Winner gets a Cinelli Mash frame set, size 55cm sample from the Interbike trade-show.
Please come out and go against the grain. ”
Tomorrow is a San Francisco traditional marathon run known as the Bay to Breakers…It is an event where you run from downtown San Francisco (at the Bay) to the ocean other side of the city (these are the Breakers). In total, it is probably about 15 miles. What makes this race famous is the more recent “Burning Man” aspect to it where grown up adults decide to put on stupid costumes with their friends, tote kegs of beer behind them, and leave a trail of trash through our beautiful city. What used to be an honest run is now a slow moving parade of garbage, vomit, and disrespect.
The Mash Crew is giving away a 55 cm Cinelli frameset to the winner of a race that has a route which is exactly opposite that of the Bay to Breakers marathon.. in effect, you will be battling a solid wall of drunken 30-year-olds living out their old college memories that stretches on for miles. It will be interesting to see how this is gonna turn out.
Be safe and be nice to other people, kids..
point of clarification: bay to breakers is not a marathon
“be safe and nice to other people” has a quesitonable juxtaposition when you remark that your racers are “battling [polemics much?] a solid wall of drunken idiots”
us/them and just cuz people are drunk doesn’t mean you can go biking straight head-first into a crowd and expect it to be OK or safe… pick something worth being a vigilante for or help with a cleanup effort
–I’ve enjoyed both highly aggressive alleycats and sanctioned racing and am nobody special but have to voice ‘this race is a bad idea’ and will just result in contestants looking like assholes, risking fights and frowns all around–consider doing like Los Angeles’s wolfpack ‘crash the race’ and going before everyone else in the correct direction
please re-think the consequences of this event as described… I’ll be at B2B and prefer saying hello than kicking someone’s ass because they crashed straight into a pedestrian
apologies at tone, I’ve recently seen a few crashes that could’ve been prevented… where the consequences sucked….