The Tour de Revs bikes raise consciousness about alternative transportation as they ride through farmland raising money for Lutheran World Hunger. In
According to the blog, the Tour de Revs were most recently at the Matanuska Valley in Alaska. It is the site of the Alaska State Fair, a midwest state fair imported to Alaska with Depression Dust Bowl refugees. For photos of the fair from the 70's, by cysewski, clik.
The tour the revs travel in a van and do pledged bike rides to raise the money. This is what went on in Sumner at one o'clock as they set out on the 50 mile ride:
I ask and yes, these six bikes are the biking group that will accompany the Tour de Revs from Sumner Pierce County Library parking lot.
They're stopped at the railroad tracks! And a couple of kids bike off, maybe to the railroad track.
When the yellow bike rider stands up off the log she was on, the bike falls over.
Then there is a train whistle, AMTRAK, Sounder Commuter Train, freight train. It is a freight train that goes by on the other side of the big hardware store.
Then the three-person bike made of bamboo arrives.
Their cleats sound on the cement.
(A mustang that just parked backs up right up to them to un-park, as though they are not there because at other times they are not there.)
All right, all right, someone says. Traffic and Maple. Or we could go right. To the trail head. OK. OK.
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