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Bring Your Own Big Wheels

Posted in GETV Episode by ekai on the April 19th, 2006

On a rainy Easter Sunday in San Francisco, a bunch of overgrown men hopped on small plastic 3-wheeled vehicles and headed down the twisty, turny Lombard street. Episode links: byobw, squidlove, photos, lombard street

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  1. Laughing Squid » Big Wheel Race Down Lombard Street said,

    on April 19th, 2006 at 7:28 am

    […] UPDATE 1: Geek Entertainment TV made a great video of BYOBW. photo credit: robot138.com tags: events (T) , San Francisco (T) , Easter (T) , Lombard Street (T) , Big Wheel (T) , BYOBW (T) posted by Scott Beale on Thursday, April 13th, 2006 Comments RSS feed | Trackback URL […]

  2. Micki Krimmel said,

    on April 19th, 2006 at 11:27 am

    There is no team in fuck you! Ha! Fantastic blog, Eddie.

  3. CTP said,

    on April 19th, 2006 at 11:37 am

    Nice stuff!!! I’m one of the early crashers there in the first heat. My knees still hurt!!! LOL

    Here’s a link to the vid I made of the 2003 race
    http://www.recursiveirony.com/byobw

  4. jibber jabber: the eddie underworld » Videoblogging Week: Day 7 (or so) said,

    on April 19th, 2006 at 11:40 am

    […] Day 7: Ok It’s been a week or so since Videoblogging Week ended, but since I missed doing a last video, I’m tossing this into the mix as it. This is the BYOBW (Bring Your Own Big Wheel) race on Easter Sunday down Lombard Street in San Francisco. Yeah, that really twisty one. I also pushed this out as a GETV episode, letting the streams cross. […]

  5. Chopstork » Blog Archive » BYOBW—And a big wheel was brought. said,

    on April 19th, 2006 at 12:07 pm

    […] BYOBW—And a big wheel was brought. April 18th, 2006 by some dude big wheel, byobw, lombard, san franciscoA little photo essay chronicling the chronicles of Old Man racing down a big hill on a big wheel… (My full set of pictures here) (SF Chronicle story) (A little video from Geek Entertainment) […]

  6. cis said,

    on April 19th, 2006 at 3:37 pm

    Makes me smile about the petrochemical industry, these Big Wheels.

  7. Metroblogging San Francisco said,

    on April 20th, 2006 at 11:07 am

    yet another byo big wheel post…

    Please forgive me/us for posting about this yet again — but if you haven’t seen it yet on Scott Beale’s blog, you absolutely have to watch the Bring Your Own Big Wheel Lombard ride video shot by Eddie Codel (Mr…….

  8. ekai said,

    on April 20th, 2006 at 12:03 pm

    Thanks for the comment/link love. This was a fun one. We have the best freaks here in SF.

  9. bravo sierra » Blog Archive » Ich werde alt und intolerant* said,

    on April 20th, 2006 at 10:16 pm

    […] * irgendwann schreibe ich was über Intoleranz ** Link zu den fremden Federn […]

  10. jon said,

    on April 21st, 2006 at 1:36 pm

    yo! thanks for the BYOBW love! and please come back next year for more! in the meantime though there is … FESTEVIL – JUNE 6, 2006 .. thanks! jon

  11. Vinnie said,

    on April 21st, 2006 at 7:56 pm

    that’s the best turn in the whole race. watching people smash into it brings a smile to my face 😉

  12. Personamalized » BYOBW said,

    on April 23rd, 2006 at 6:31 am

    […] Geek Entertainment TV […]

  13. » BIG WHEEL RACE said,

    on April 25th, 2006 at 2:25 am

    […] Wat te denken van Lombard Steet wat -met zijn 30 graden- één van de steilste straatjes van de wereld is. Het is al een hele onderneming om van dat ding af te rijden met je auto, maar afgelopen weekend deden een aantal luitjes het met een trapfiets -Big Wheel-. Stelletje zotten! […]

  14. Mr. O said,

    on May 19th, 2006 at 1:22 pm

    HILARIOUS! I smell an ANNUAL BYOBW event! 🙂

  15. Laughing Squid » BYOBW, Big Wheel Race Down Lombard Street said,

    on April 2nd, 2007 at 5:25 pm

    […] Eddie shot some video of last year’s BYOBW for GETV and there a ton of great photos on Flickr. photo credit: Troy McClure SF tags: events (T) , San Francisco (T) , Easter (T) , Lombard Street (T) , Big Wheel (T) , BYOBW (T) , Bring Your Own Big Wheel (T) , Jon Brumit (T) […]

  16. ni.vu.ni.connu / Des pâques joyeuses said,

    on April 7th, 2007 at 1:16 pm

    […] Voici une bonne façon de s’assurer d’avoir de joyeuses pâques: descendre la rue Lombard à San Francisco en Big Wheel. Il ne faut pas rater la vidéo et les photos. […]