More Corndog

Corndog Start

The corndog.

Daniel that Nineteen year old punk beat my ass in the Corndog. Congrats Daniel

T-shirts.

T-Shirts have been finalized. Colin Northcraft's idea with my artwork and Kevin's internet hunt for the proper font have concluded in this years main T-Shirt Design.
The t-shirt will look something like this.

Also, Daniel put forward a design that we will be printing in a limited run of 50 for those who were not in the first 25 paid registrants. You can swap the Rainer design shirt for one of these...

Thanks to Dream for hooking up the alternative prints.

Thanks
Robert

Racebook imput.

Tonight at Mobius we will be meeting about the content and design of the racebook. Bryce "Dream" Weaver has volunteered to help print off the racebooks, so we will be working with him and his P.O.S. PC tonight. Thanks Dream.
Later
Robert

My Boy ain't gonna' play no Foosball!

Oh my!

Oh Foosball, Te amo Foosball.
Foosball action in the Seattle area is up %10 from last years disappointingly low ratings of around %0.001. So, Foosball now rules and it will with vigor for the next few minutes.

Leland clicks off one of many.

Thanks to Terry O'Neil for the use of the Church of Bicycle Jesus, and thanks to Dave Ranstrom and Arizona Dave for letting us violate their living arrangements.


This was a successful fund raising event for the Westside Invite 2009, and we thank all of those who showed up and drank our beer. Thanks again to the Dead Baby Bike Club for supplying a good supply of docile swillers. And, thanks to the Elysian Brewery for brewing beer that kicks ass, tastes good and gets me Fucked Up.



As far as winners, Swerv the Irv was a king for the night. He won both tournaments. The first with Brandt and the second with me. These most glorious achievements should not be over shadowed by my last glimpse of Irv as he slipped into the bathroom with a beautiful young lady in tow. King? You bet your ass King.


I had a great night and I hope everyone else did as well. Cheers Gerg.
Thanks
Robert

Savior.

Josh made due with just regular gasoline when I forgot to buy lighter fluid.


Thanks Josh.

R-alley Cat blow out.

The extreme cold destroyed all but one photo which is being saved and re-touched(heavily) as we speak. Corndog won. Monica was first and only female, she got all pink deep v's. Treebeard tumbled in at 2nd place, but there is no proof he didn't use his ham radio. Zack won the freestyle with a backwards spinning wheelie. DFL went to a young man on a full-suspension MTB. Needless to say, he had some mechanical issues...
Thanks to everyone who particapated, and special thanks to Counterbalance Bicycles and Saul from Raleigh USA.
Cheers
Robert

Thursday March 5th.

Tonight at the meeting we will be fine tuning the T-shirt designs. Voting for the shirts will last one week. Keep and eye out for Chuck and or Corndog.

We will also discuss our first fundraiser for the Westside R-alley Cat. We will need checkpoint folks and spectators. Checkpoints will not be revealed until the start of the race, sorry.

And, I am sure we will bs about a lot of shit too.

Also, Billy from Hooverville Bar says that they are working to fix up and re-open, but they may not be open by May. So, I have volunteered myself and everyone else to come help with clean-up.
Good Luck! Hooverville.

Thanks
Robert

Belltown Underground Confirmed.

Thanks to Joshua at the Underground Events Center for making this simple and easy. We now have access to this great space for two nights. The Dead Babies have agreed to run Security and the Bar. We want people to explore the city and find unique spots to finish out their evenings, so we are closing the venue at 12pm both nights. We can all go out and enjoy this great city we call Seattle. Both nights at the Underground will be beer only. If you register and pay for the Westside Invite you will recieve a custom waterbottle. With this waterbottle you will recieve beer from the WSI all weekend long. This includes the Underground, but no other bars in Seattle. If you have not registered or paid you can purchase a cup at the door and drink beer all night for $10, 21 and older only. We see the beer going very fast. Yum.

Meetings every Wednesday at Mobius Cycle.
Later
Robert

Westside R-alley Cat

Yo. Kevin and I are throwin' this here alley cat to scare everyone away for good.


This alley cat is going to take you to the dirtiest, scummiest, and nastiest places in Seattle. This is the first of three Fundraisers that we are organizing to promote and fund the Westside 2009.
We will finish the race at the I-5 Colonnade with a BBQ and Fixed Freestyle and Footdown. If anyone wants to run a checkpoint please raise their hands now. There will be prizes, beer and food. Hopefully some blood and puncture wounds too. Kevin is organizing the freestyle event so as to iron out any kinks before the Westside in May. We are still debating on what style of freestyle to do. Will each rider get one minute to perform, or will it be a open session? Any suggestions?


Come out and join us, Rain or Shine.

Thanks
Robert.

I saw it for Myself.

It is true. A fire started in the building that housed Hooverville Bar this last Wednesday. No one was hurt and I believe it was not a total loss. The fire reportedly started in a ceiling fan on the upper floor. This may change the schedule for the Westside Invite, keep checking the website for updates. At some point we, as a bicycle community, should get together and find a way to help the owners clean up or rebuild. Hooverville Bar has been an ardent supporter of messenger and other cycling events since they opened, and we owe them our gratitude.

Thanks
Robert

The Dead.

Tonight a meeting with the Dead Babies. Our goal: Bring them to sobriety. It will be a long and hard fight...

Now really, we are trying to organize a Fundraiser for the Dead Baby ride Friday the 6th of March. We hope to end it at Hooverville and some how raise some money there. A Foosball tournament is also in the works.

The following day, Saturday the 7th of March, Kevin Anderson and I are organizing the Westside Ralley Cat. This will be an alleycat that explores the alleys and nasty spaces that our wonderful city has to offer. The start location has not been finalized, but we plan to finish at the I-5 collonade MTB park for a barbeque and a Fixed Freestyle event. The alleycat will start at 2pm and will be $10.

Fliers will be available soon.

Robert

One more for the Road.

Another quality meeting. Thanks to everyone in attendance. Over the next few weeks we are going to be putting together the data portion of the racebook. We are compiling a list of the best Coffee Shops, Bars, Restaurants, Bike Shops and Oddities in the Seattle areas that will be visited during the Westside Invite. As expected we have come up with to many. The material that we refine will be given to Jason Britton. Jason will design the racebook with art direction from everyone with a mouth. Good luck Jason!

There was an very impromptu T-Shirt design contest that concluded last night with six excellent designs produced. In two weeks these six designs will be digitally rendered in ballot form for the Seattle messenger community to vote on. The winning design will be applied to the majority of shirts, but not the first 25. Mark Pilder, bless his soul, will be printing them for us. It is said he will work for raw meat and IPA, but this information is unsubstantiated.

I also have word of a possible Title sponsor. Knog, a bicycle light and accessory manufacture out of Australia has stepped up and offered to be the title sponsor. Their monetary assistance will rid us of any worries we had about covering the costs of food, prizes, permits and race kits. If you are coming form out of town prepare to take a lot more shit home with you than you brought here. Having a title sponsor also means their name goes in the title, so there may be some major changes in the next few weeks. Keep checking the website for updates.

Thanks
Robert

Registration is OPEN!

Registration opened last night at 6pm. So far it has been a success. If you have not registered yet, do it now.
Look for some website changes in the next few weeks. Some locations are changing, and we are rearranging the schedule to better accommodate everyone.
Thanks
Robert

Thursday 11th, meeting.

Tonight on the agenda is the agenda. Who is doing what and when.
The race book information will be discussed. Jason Britton and I plan to design the layout once we have all the content.
Budget and Dead Baby Security will also be topics.
Food Sponsors.

Robert

New Confirmed Sponsors

Chrome Messenger Bags
&
Chris King
Have just been confirmed for sponsorship of the Westside.

Robert

Brilliant meeting.

First of all thanks for everyone who came out to the meeting, or is watching this from home.

Last night we focused on cultivating Food sponsors for the Westside Invite. As some of you know, we are planning to have three free meals available for anyone who registers.
No one company will be able to provide us with that much food. So, we are faced with finding multiple eateries to donate what they can and have enough to cover the three days.
I think this can be done.
Everyone who was at the meeting is now on a quest to bring in one food sponsor. I invite everyone else to join in if you like. Have potential sponsors contact us at westsideinvite2009@gmail.com.

Recently we have received a few big sponsors, and the first round of fliers are about to come out.

New Belgium, thank you.

Raleigh USA, will be donating two Complete bikes to the winners of the Westside Invite.


Raleigh, thank you.

Also a SF messenger bag manufacture, Freight Baggage is in on the deal.
Freight Baggage, thank you.

Thanks again to:
Stumptown, Hooverville Bar, and the Dead Babies and everyone else for showing their support.

In the second half of the meeting we spoke about Fundraisers.
It seems that in the next Four months we will host three different fundraising events.
Money made at these events will go to the purchase of food, prizes, t-shirts, etc... for the Westside Invite 2009, Seattle WA.

The first event will be most likely the first weekend in march. It will be an alley cat.

The second event will be at the end of march, or early april. Possible Corndog Classic?

The third event will be a raging party/artshow/goldsprints/disco/last horrah before the Westside Invite decends apon us like a dark storm, washing us off the face of the earth.

We will be passing out fliers and promoting these events soon.

We also spoke about the race book and what it will have in it. Maps, specifices about different areas, local restauraunts, and photos were a few of the items that we came up with. In a few weeks the Thursday meeting will be based solely on the collection of the data to be stored in the book.
What would you like to see in a race book? Let me know.

Registration.
Registration will be all day friday before and after the Ladies only alleycat. Most likely we will start registration at around 9 or 10am at Mobius Cycle in Downtown Seattle. At some point registration might be moved to Hooverville Bar where we will can be ready to register people before and durring the Welcoming party.

Things are looking good for now, and everyone is welcome on thursdays to come to the meetings.

Thanks
Robert

They also kick ass

The Dead Baby Bike Club will be sponsoring the Westside Invite by providing security for all of the events. They will be a visible fixture of all events, and we look forward to working with the Dead Babies. They also kick ass.

Thanks
Robert

New sponsors

Thanks to all of the new sponsors. They kick ass.
Raleigh Bikes...
Stumptown Coffee,
Hooverville Bar in Sodo,
and possibly
New Belgium beer.

Look forward to more sponsors in the coming months, and a few fliers real soon.
Thanks
Robert

Polo Tournement.

On line Registration

On line registration will open Valentine's Day. Febuary 14th.
Later
Robert

TCB Racks and Freight Baggage.

Thanks to Thad for hooking us up with a couple of his handcrafted racks.
They will make for good prizes, so long as I don't get racked myself...
Thanks Thud.
Check out his website, www.tcbracks.com.

Also, Freight Baggage is sponsoring us.
Check out their website, www.freightbaggage.org.

If there is anyone else who wants to Sponsor the Westside. Let me know.
Thanks

bobbyb

Anarchy Point.

A new image of Anarchy Point.

Thursday the 23rd, and more.

This thursday we talked about sponsorship and registration. Next thursday Sponsorship.
Thanks to Thud and C-Murder for the comments and we will be processing your requests as soon as we can.
Cheers
Robert

Thursday meetings are incredibly exciting.

Meetings !

If you are interested in taking part in the organization of the Westside Invite 2009, Seattle Wa.
Then feel free to come by our weekly meetings at Mobius Cycle on Thursdays around 7pm.
This week we will be talking about Registration criteria and Sponsorship. All are welcome.
Thanks
bobby b

The Logo

www.westside2009.com

Westside 2009

I have decided to chronicle my next four months in this web-log, so when I look back in life I'll remember more.
Thanks
bobbyb