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jakubtoborek

I've got a cold and am on plenty of medicine, so bear with me.

What is the strangest/funniest/funnest moment that you have had during an alleycat or similiar event here in town.

Mine has got to include Tall George's Avenger race in which I ended up running around Wal-Mart in my black spiderman costume looking for packing tape and condoms. Another, though most likely not second, must be the chicken pace line Dan and I pulled during the Night of the Living Dead race.

Share and be nostalgic.

andy · Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 4:57 pm Post subject:

definitely winding up naked in a strange part of town during the loverboy

elzie5000 · cutter Joined: 25 Oct 2007 Posts: 1177

Knocking on a stranger's door at my checkpoint for Dead Ends I and saying "I'm going to sit in front of your house for a few hours waiting for bike racers if that's ok with you. Oh, and can I borrow your basketball?"

Rowbear · townie Joined: 26 Jan 2008 Posts: 185 Location: Lex-town

being unwelcome at the warehouse alley cat by d.j. tim a.k.a. political hero cause me and my friends were from Louisville.
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alex · Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 8:13 pm Post subject:

tim is from louisville....

politicalhero · Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 8:35 pm Post subject:

Rowbear · townie Joined: 26 Jan 2008 Posts: 185 Location: Lex-town

selfpropelled · townie Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Posts: 183 Location: local

Griffin dressed as a gumball machine crashing in front of a cop and getting a citation for wreckless riding. Best part was Les Miller in his wyat earp costume taking pictures of the whole thing while 70 other racers zoomed by... The looks on the cops faces were priceless.

brokebike · cutter Joined: 21 Oct 2007 Posts: 2434 Location: local

Mine was probably during the first Halloween alleycat in '06. I started out racing it, but when I got to the checkpoint at the Cemetery on 7th street, the atmosphere there was so perfect (dark, creepy, old graveyard... Robert Brandon and a bunch of alcohol, Tim & Grant acting a fool, etc.) that I ditched the race and just hung out there. We stood out in the middle of this cemetery and got piss drunk, while all the racers navigated the muddy trail down to where we were.

Later on, after realizing that we had basically broken into the cemetery gate to gain access to the grounds (not really, but kinda), and when two police showed up to question us (they had gotten a call about people roaming the cemetery grounds), we played dumb and said that the gate was already open (it wasn't, of course). We watched while the two officers scoped the entire cemetery with their flashlights - then they continued to hang out with us as we explained to them what an alleycat was.
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dan · training wheels Joined: 09 Dec 2007 Posts: 23

My favorite was watching Chris Simpson and his foosball partner run around the outside of Tall George's apartment naked after my partner and I blanked them foosball at the Avenger.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/53167817@N00/1103718636/in/pool-alleycats
http://www.flickr.com/photos/46957218@N00/1105020548/in/pool-alleycats

My other favorite is riding between two long narrow lines of stopped cars on Nicholasville Rd. with Rich right behind me yelling "Don't slow down! No brakes!!!@!#"

And everything about the hobo barrels race.

politicalhero · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 10:08 am Post subject:

this is a really tough question to answer... I am not sure if you guys realize this, but damn we do a lot of drinking. Thank god for flickr and the forum so I can get a gentle nudge as to what happened.

There are a lot of strange memories, many that have been repressed (Bigger as Mr. Americant). However, I am gonna go with the first alley cat I put on with the help of Brokebike, The Broke Spoke. While planning it I was hoping for 15 people and damn there were about 45. This was the first time I met Tall George (on a little BMX), Chris, Tiff, Kevin, etc.

It was just strange that folks came out of the woodwork!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalhero/222013077/sizes/l/

mcrib · townie Joined: 24 Oct 2007 Posts: 232 Location: 40502

Easy for me. This years Halloween race. Ate a pot brownie before the race and drank a few beers. Rode the race with a guy wearing pajamas with a dildo in a box. Was lost, confused, lightheaded, dry mouth etc. We didn't even make it to half the stops. weird night
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mcrib · townie Joined: 24 Oct 2007 Posts: 232 Location: 40502

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcrib/3009696962/
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mofokuban · townie Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 172 Location: Dayton, OH

Getting admonished by a cop when I paced him to a stop sign during this year's Hallowcat.

HHack · hipster Joined: 07 Nov 2007 Posts: 61

Strangest: Getting lost trying to find a checkpoint during the Curb Durby. (by the way, the checkpoint was my own house.)

Funniest : Watching Alex take a victory ride on the tall bike just after winning it in the Avenger race. (for those who were not able to participate, there is video available)

Funnest :Standing in the fountain at the beginning of the Oaks Day Alleycat, then the rest of the race in a driving rainstorm.

Favorite: After the Avenger when Tall George and I let Dan and his foosball partner fool themselves into thinking they were not going to be beaten all night and the looks of bewilderment on their faces after we handed them their asses. Wink

Aren't you glad you didn't bet on that one.