Big Wheel Race Down Lombard Street

by Scott Beale on April 13, 2006 · 20 comments

BYOBW

Bring Your Own Big Wheel (BYOBW) is an annual Big Wheel race down Lombard Street, San Francisco’s famous crooked street. Now in its 6th year, BYOBW takes place this Easter Sunday, April 16th. Here’s a video by CTP and some photos by robot138.com of previous races.

6th Annual BYOBW
Easter Sunday, 2006
4 pm
Top of Lombard, SF
Bring your own Big Wheel
Free event!
Prizes!
Fun!
No rubber wheels!
Parking is awful – come early to park
No public restrooms!
Please invite your friends and families!

UPDATE: Here are some video and photos from Saturday.

photo credit: robot138.com

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Chopstork
April 18, 2006 at 11:49 am

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1 Ted Rheingold April 13, 2006 at 5:17 pm

That’s Santa Smooth (Local 415) making his move on the outside.

Santa loves the big wheel race!

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2 byobw April 13, 2006 at 11:40 pm

santa always tries hard but falls hard too! ouch! will be fun to watch you guys and gals try to sweep the event again, best of luck as always, but don’t get your hopes up! the guy in the chemical suit always wins, xox, byobw

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3 leah April 14, 2006 at 11:29 am

yay! something for jews to do on easter, ill be there

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4 Patrick Major April 14, 2006 at 1:58 pm

God, I miss this !! Not this specifially, although I sure wanna play, but the spirit of joyful wierdness..Moved from there to Oregon in ‘91.
I am an undercover Bozo prankster, living a stealth life here in Oregon, with judges and D.A.s to get the too high for too long folks out of the jails and courts and into their own souls and skins again.
I got a big wheel!! My grandson will totally help me fix it up to maximum BLING power. RU gonna do this next year? I sure hope so. I will follow the site 2 find out. If UR there, I will b 2, and you can tell me by the fact that I am 60, but don’t look a day over 59, and by the moss on my ears…Thanks for the film link too…I have for years now, used the title ‘ squidfarmer,. Glad you’re there.

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5 Matt Goff April 16, 2006 at 7:04 pm

I put my photos from this year up on Flickr tagged with “BYOBW”.

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6 Don Schofield April 17, 2006 at 3:53 am

the film was fantastic…it made my morning.
don schofield
virginia beach, va

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7 Fatty Lees April 17, 2006 at 6:12 pm

Great photos Matt!!!!

You got one of me moments before knocking a bystander flat on her ass. I felt really bad about it, but felt even worse when I realized I forgot to hit RECORD on my camera before leaving the starting line. Does anyone have otehr photos or video to contribute…one of my crash would be spectacular if someone out there has one.
Thanks,
Fatty

Fattylees@yahoo.com

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8 Eddie Codel April 19, 2006 at 12:55 am

I’ve got video. Feast and pass along.

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9 Johnny Dynamite July 8, 2006 at 12:35 pm

The Big Wheel Biker Gang will be there in 2007! Being that were from Pennsylvania, we’ll start riding there now. We should arrive just around Easter.
-Johnny Dynamite

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