In the competitive sport of box wine drinking and bicycle racing there can only be one winner. Eighteen teams rivaled for the glory of rising to the top of this year's Tour de Franzia...and when it came time to name the winner on the podium that sunny Saturday afternoon, two teams stood side by side locked in the greatest tie of a century.
Eighteen teams of four, one box of blush wine per team, 30 laps and one bike per team. Points are awarded as a team finishes their laps and points are awarded as a team finishing their wine...more points for the wine. Excretion of vomit from the body is an automatic disqualification. To start the race, no one can drink until you have the bike...so the first rider must drink a full glass of wine, do a lap, dismount and hand the bike off to the second rider...who will then down a full glass, take a lap etc...once the fourth rider finishes their glass, the entire team is free to drink and ride however many laps.
So...long, fun story short...once the points were mathelated, we tied for first and then lost in a poor crowd noise contest (in the event of a tie, loudest cheers for a team takes all)...which yeah, they probably deserved the applause since they were dressed as some sort of bike warriors and had spent a lot of time on their costumes...we looked like 70's athletes hanging out with a blue haired transvestite who just got out of the shower. The team that beat us got first in drinking and fourth in laps. Our team got second in drinking (only seconds behind I might add) and second in laps.
Super good time, and many thanks to the parents of the dude that put this all on for letting a hundred or so drunk sweaty cyclists into your home for keg beer and hot dogs afterwards.
I'll post pictures once I get them. Good things that Tour de Franzia...good things.
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