Tour De Fat.

Saturday morning, Joseph and Shannon (a friend that just moved here from Des Moines and we went to college with) went on a bike ride with the Tour De Fat, which ended with a festival. The whole event is put on by New Belgium Brewing, the company who brought us Fat Tire beer. I, of course, did not ride because I don't have a bike, and Joseph advised against me taking my Vespa, so I just met up with them after the ride.

We found out it was San Diego's first year holding the Tour De Fat event, which makes it the 11th Western city on their "tour". After Joseph did a little research, he realized how dedicated some of these people are and how much time they put into their costumes for the festivities.

This guy's "costume" was probably the tamest of all. A lot of people got really creative with their outfits. I saw one lady with "hair" made of bicycle chains, another group were Teletubbies, not to mention all of the accessories made of tire material.


These girls, The Rockettes, did some crazy tricks with mini-bikes and did a whole dance routine for about (20) minutes. I can't believe someone didn't faint, it was so hot out and they were non-stop!


After watching a mini-concert, a magic show, a sipping on a couple of cups of beer, the finale began. What I didn't know was that the main event includes someone volunteering ahead of time to trade-in their car for a bike. The "winner/volunteer" vows to ride only a bike for a full year! Can you imagine?! Crazy... (The woman above gave her 1997 car for a bike and made the vow. Let me mention that Tour De Fat auctions the car off and gives back by improving & creating more bike trail within the city)

The final musical performance was March Forth Marching Band. They were awesome. Very entertaining!

They even had performer's on stilts that were doing crazy flips and dance moves. It was a nice way to spend the day/afternoon. Who could resist?? Yay for Joseph finding out about this event and actually riding his bike for it!