Were you one of those kids that was always asking teachers for extra credit while your classmates were too busy calculating the trajectories required to get pencils lodged in the ceiling? How sad, but we got something right up your alley. If you plan to ride this year’s Nine to Five All-Night Scavenger Hunt – and you really should, a pre-register, too! – be sure you keep an eye on the Facebook event page for the opportunity to get some points for your team before the ride even starts. Don’t worry if you can’t, no one is going to win or lose on the kind of points we’ll be handing out. But it might give you time for an extra sip of your coffee come the big night.

Don’t forget to pre-register to be sure you get food and a shirt (especially if you enjoy things in the right size)!

If you haven’t noticed already, this year’s Nine to Five registration is now open! The Nine to Five is Seattle’s only all-bicycle sunset-to-sunrise solstice scavenger hunt. Organize your team of up to five or ride solo to complete as many items as you can before sun up while joining group meetups throughout the night for caffeine and snacks, and a full catered breakfast in the morning. A celebration of our city and bicycles!

Pre-registration is very important with the Nine to Five. We  order all the food and catering in advance, and it’s much easier if we know how many folks we are going to have so everyone gets food! To help sweeten the deal, this year we are including a specially designed t-shirt with all preregistrations. Wear it into work on Monday to show off when your coworkers ask how you spent your weekend. If nothing else, you can use it as an excuse for cancelling all your Sunday plans.

More info and pre-registration is available NOW on the Nine to Five page.

We did it, people! SIX YEARS! The Resurrection has now survived longer than Webster (the TV show, not Emmanuel Lewis who I think is still alive, but who has time to fact check?)! And what a day. This Resurrection took place earlier in season than usual, being in March instead of April. We could  have had terrible weather, but Seattle gave us incredible sunshine as we sent more than fifty racers all over the city to get smeared with blood, confess to terrible, terrible things, climb awful hills and hang out with rabbits.

Without the help of our sponsors, volunteers and riders we could never keep doing this, so to us you’re ALL winners. It’s just that some of you are a more winner-y than others, for example our top five overall racers:

1st/2nd and 3rd/4th pairs this years opted for opposite routes around the city, with Fred and Matt taking the clockwise route and Sean and Dustin taking the counter-clockwise route:

Be sure to check them all out, and maybe even send them a note (or better yet an order!) and tell them you appreciate them supporting bike events like ours.

There are a ton more photos on Facebook (special thanks to Rob and Dida!), and all of the photos with Demetrius are in the gallery after the cut as well. If you have photos, post a link in the comment or on our Facebook wall!

Thanks again, and see you at  the Nine to Five, White Trash Sprints, NACCC, Tour de Watertower and all the other great Seattle summer events we’re looking forward to!

Photos by Rob Kittleson, Dida Lopez and myself (Greg Mertzlufft). Thanks!

The folks organizing the NACCC are throwing a party on Saturday to help raise funds for this summer’s North American Cycle Courier Championships in Seattle. Doors at 7pm, with DJs, bands, raffles, a bicycle scavenger hunt and more. This will all be taking place at Belltown Underground near 1st and Wall. $15 each / $20 per couple goes towards NACCC funding. See you there?

This is some insane bike illustration from Ugo Gattoni. This fold-out book is based off of Gattoni’s original work that was five meters long by forty-one centimeters tall. His drawing is so fine, that he had to draw with a magnifying glass. I’ve put his video below, but you can see more pictures of this on fubiz.net’s article.

BICYCLE from Éditions Copains on Vimeo.

The crew over at Menstrual Monday will be hosting their 2nd annual ladies-only Girls of Summer alleycat tomorrow and it should be awesome. Just look at the sponsor list! Word has it, it’s over $3000 in prizes. Registration starts at 2pm at the I-5 Colonnade (race at 3pm) but show up early if you’d like your bike looked over by the crew from Back Alley Bike Repair; they’ll be there starting at 1:30pm.

A Fourth of July tradition and a must for true Americans. If you don’t go to this, you’re no longer allowed to vote. Really. Look it up.

Photo by Jessica Gilmore

This year’s Nine to Five is done, and I expect I’m not the only one still recovering. One of toughest parts of organizing an event like this is not having the time to hear all the great stories (and see the photo evidence) from all the stops we spend the rest of the year trying to come with. This year, before I write the official Nine to Five wrap-up, I’m asking for your help in sharing the Nine to Five Experience!

Please upload your videos and photos and email me your favorite stories by Wednesday night, even if it just a couple words on where you found the toughest item or worst failed attempt. Whoever uploads the best photo/video from the night (“best” as we see fit, that is) will receive a $25 gift certificate to Jebena Cafe, possibly the friendliest Ethiopian restaurant in Seattle.

Post links to your photos / videos / stories in the comments or email them directly to greg@gomeansgo.org. Thanks!

One of the toughest parts about organizing the Nine to Five is being prepared for the right number of people. Our supply runs/catering order are done well ahead of time, which is why ask (and plead and beg!) you to preregister for the event to help us judge the numbers. We don’t like to turn folks away by requiring pre-registration, but it really does help us (not to mention you and your fellow riders) a ton. As a thank you for registering, we’ll be entering ALL registered riders in a couple drawings in the next week in a half leading up to the big night, the first for one of these sweet wallets from POKETO featuring art from Dutch husband-and-wife design team, MAKI:

“Some things take time” is one of my favorite riding mottoes, following only “every hill must end” and “it’s always a f’in race”.

So what are you waiting for?

This weekend is Seattle Goodwill’s Third Annual Cyclist Sale. They promise to have over 250 bikes for all ages and riding styles, as well as “jerseys, shorts, hats, shoes, seats, helmets, pedals, rims, tires, racks, frames, fenders, handlebars, water bottles, lights, reflectors, training wheels, pumps and more.” This could be a good excuse to get a friend on an inexpensive bike or pick up a project for yourself (I don’t think I’m allowed any more of those until I finish what I have).

The sale is at Seattle’s flagship store off Ranier, and runs 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 9 and from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, June 10, but I’d suggest getting there early. If one of you ladies doesn’t snag this for the White Trash Sprints this Fourth of July, I’m going to be be disappointed: