Abbie Durkee is your key connection to My Alibi women’s bike clothing.

Go to my-alibi.com for more information on the bloomers she’s donated to today’s event:

Isn’t he handsome?

Cranksgiving’s good friend  Adam Prosise built Curt with the help of Ichi Bike and Ichi Bike has generously donated Curt to the Cranksgiving cause.

Curt will be raffled off on Sunday. Tickets will be $10 each and will be available before the race begins and for a short time after everyone gets back. All of the money raised from the raffle will be donated to The Food Bank of Iowa.

We hope to see you on Sunday! Registration opens at noon and the race will begin at 1 p.m.

Check out Ichi Bike at 311 E. Walnut tonight at the East Village Promenade !! They’ll have awesome bike art available as well as gear you may need for Sunday!

Bike World of Des Moines has joined the cause!

We are going to have some awesome prizes available for participants this year. One of them being an alien tool from Bike World.

With one of these, there is no way you’ll end up broken on the side of the road/trail. Unless you forget to bring it with you…

Thank you Bike World!

Cranksgiving isn’t just about having fun. (But we’re going to have a lot of fun.) It’s about helping hungry Iowans. The Food Bank of Iowa is a great source for people who are unable to provide food for themselves and their families. Here are some fast food facts:

• 1 in 8 Iowans are food insecure
• 1 in 5 Iowa children does not have enough to eat
• 359,469 Iowans live at or below the poverty level
• For every $1 donation, the Food Bank of Iowa can provide 5 meals

The Food Bank of Iowa is a private, not-for-profit organization committed to the mission of alleviating hunger through food distribution, partnership and education.

Donated food and grocery products are solicited, received, counted and distributed to 425 partnering agencies in 55 counties that directly serve needy individuals within their communities. Forty-two of these counties are served from the Des Moines facility.

We raised over 1,500 food and grocery items last year. Let’s try and up that to 2,000 this year!

Come one biker, come all!

Yes, that title was meant to be sung as it would have been in WICKED! (I hope that if you haven’t gone to see the Broadway musical while it’s here in town that you do so before it’s gone. It’s uh-mah-zing. Amazing.)

Cranksgiving 2011 is going to be popular because it’s going to be featured in Cityview on Wednesday of this week AND Juice on Thursday. Make sure to pick up your copies, tell your friends, and show up with bikes, helmets, and loaded wallets on Sunday!

Be there noon to noon-thirty to register and get your t-shirt from T-Shirt Graphix.

Cranksgiving 2011 is going to be a ton of fun! However, riding bikes this time of year isn’t for everyone. If you want to participate but aren’t too keen on racing, come help with registration, checking receipts, and figuring out who crossed the finished line first.

We’ll also need help collecting the food items and loading them into Sara’s car… Let’s pray they all fit.

If you’re interested in volunteering, please email Sara to let her know: blondie2950@gmail.com

We all would really appreciate having some helping hands around.

Thank you so much!

Cranksgiving 2011 participants over the age of 21 will now be able to enjoy a brewski either before or after the event courtesy of FryGuyImages. Steve Fry is a Des Moines based photographer and long-time friend of Rasmussen’s Bike Shop.

His images are vibrant captures of what makes life so enjoyable: cycling, competition, adventure, music, cars, people, and family.

See his galleries at fryguyimages.com

We are very fortunate to be able to offer a Chrome Messenger Bag again this year! Instead of just doing a simple buy-a-ticket kind of raffle, we’re going to make it a challenge to enter the drawing for the awesome opportunity to win it. You’ll have to show up the day of the event to see how you can enter to win!

See you on Sunday!

Just visited Ichi Bike at 311 East Walnut to see Dan about doing a bike again this year for Cranksgiving and he is in!

He says that the bike he builds for the Cranksgiving Raffle will be rad! We can’t wait to get picture updates from him as he builds it! We’ll keep you posted on what the bike will look like, but expect to pay $10 per raffle ticket for the chance to win this rat-rod style bike.

It’s gonna be SWEET!

Thank you so much for visiting the site. Please keep coming back to check for more information. In the meantime, put Cranksgiving on your calendar! The event will be held November 20, 2011. Registration starts at 12 p.m. and the event begins at 1 p.m. We’ll start and finish at Mars Cafe.

Big Biking Love,

Sara