How to make “gypsy tinsel” like Cyclecide

I ‘ve been “stripping” for a week. Making strips of fabric, that is. Cutting cutting cutting. For days on end. The project ended up looking like some clowns got trapped in a shredder, but hopefully in a good way.
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Cyclecide Tour: The Woo People of Flagstaff’s drunken ‘Tequila Sunrise’

Oct. 3, 2004
Flagstaff, AZ

Our Flagstaff show with the New Belgium tour landed on the same weekend as Northern Arizona University’s homecoming day. It did last year too, and in addition to the nice, mellow, bike-riding crowd the Tour de Fat usually attracts, our 2003 Flagstaff experience included far too many altercations with drunken frat boys, pugilistic sorority girls, unattended children, and slurring dads. One poor girl even fell off the Carousel, got run over, and left the party in an ambulance. Continue reading

Cyclecide Tour: They Clap For Your Bravery

Friday, Oct. 1 2004
Phoenix, AZ

Jarico was on ESPN Bicycle Radio last evening before the show. That’s probably the only reason 40 people came through the Icehouse door. Otherwise, it might have been just us, the promoters, and Pablo and his family.
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