Sir KFC

This month Portland is celebrating Pedalpalooza. Pedalpalooza is a 2-3 week celebration of bikes and fun on bikes. There's events to suit every personality: naked bike rides, bar hopping bike rides, nature nerd bike rides, and family rides. There's even a ride for people who like to dress up like Santa. One of the events is the Stumptown Joustdown, which is a jousting tournament on bikes. As soon as I told mentaljr about this, he was all over it. He made a suit of armor. This is him on the way to the battlefield.

He worked really hard on the armor.

There was even a helmet.

Here's an action shot.

The best part is that the armor is made of KFC buckets.

Unfortunately, the event started about 45 minutes late and I had an appointment, so I missed mentaljr's bike jousting. By the time I got back, they were getting creative. There were chicken jousts (person on shoulders of biker on tiny bike), sidecar bike jousts (homemade bikes with side cars), unicycle jousts, etc. Mentaljr volunteered for the on-foot joust. I was kind of worried.


The joust quickly turned into a good old-fashioned stick fight at which point the organizer stopped the "joust" much to mentaljr's dismay.

It was a cool event, but still pretty scary. I can't believe no one ended up in the hospital. Here's a last shot of mentaljr on his bike.