Memphis and the Bicycle Film Festival

Travis, David, and I went to Memphis this past weekend for the Bicycle Film Festival. For those of you not familiar with the Bicycle Film Festival, it started 12 years ago in NYC. It has since grown to be in 38 (I think) cities across the world this year. Well, we went to it in Memphis.

We left Thursday evening around 6:30 PM and made it to Memphis around 12:30am. We checked in to the Pilgrim House hostel located in First Congregational Church on Cooper St in Midtown Memphis, then pedaled to meet up with Cort and AB at a bar. We stayed there til the bar closed at 3AM, then rode around getting our bearings on Memphis. The Brooks Museum, which was where they were showing the films, was about 1.5 miles north of our hostel in Overton Park. We checked that out, and just did some miscellaneous exploring. http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2876032

Friday morning, we woke up around 9 or 10AM and rode east towards the U of Memphis campus. We ate breakfast at Brother Juniper's (amazing!!) before heading out on our day of riding in Memphis. Then we walked across the street and bought a few innertubes from Peddler's Bike Shop on Highland St before riding around campus. We hit up a parking garage just for good measure. We then headed to the Schwinn Bike Shop on Summer Ave. They held strange business hours for a bike shop, and we never actually made it in to look around. Thru the windows, it looked like it had a pretty amazing collection of franken-parts. http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2876052

Later that day, we did more pedaling to the No Regrets Tattoo parlor, back to the Schwinn shop with Cort and AB, back to the hostel, then to the museum, then to Nocturnal for the after party and open sprints, then to Alona's (sp?) house, then back to the hostel.

Saturday= woke up, ate at Huey's, went to the museuem, tried to play polo in a nearby parking lot but got kicked out. Ended up playing polo behind the Hi Tone for an hour or so before the showing of Road to Roubaix. After the movie, headed to the hostel to drop off our stuff before heading back to Rainbow Lake in Overton Park for the Watercat race. No bags, no locks, valuables in a zip-lock bag because you will get wet, we were told. Here's my route: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2876218

I got sepearated from David and Travis coming back over the Auction Street bridge, but still managed to beat them both by a hair. Here is their route (I think): http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2876140

We then went back to the hostel to clean up, rode to Bosco's for dinner, then to Murphy's for the after party. Then, I went back to Alona's house, then to the hostel to sleep. Travis and David stayed out later and went to a few more bars and stuff after Murphy's.

Sunday, we rode to Huey's again, then got our bikes washed by the Memphis Belles burlesque show girls at Shangri-La records, bought a bunch of vinyl while they were doing that, rode back to the hostel and visited Revolutions Bike Co-Op, and headed back to B.R.