SaltCycle: A mighty fine Cranksgiving to you, dear!

In a success that critics could only call 'rip-roaring' Cranksgiving has been beneficently bestowed upon us. Despite 'Hurricane grade' winds (quoting Kyle or Jake quoting the yellow journalist news) we had a full 22 riders, and quite the victory-filled food gather. Photos courtesy of myself and Ryan to follow after the jump, along with places!:

The first group to the kickoff.

dumping the bikes.

The 4th ave stairs were cleverly an option early on, but racers were thwarted by gates!

Bookin' in and outta Smiths.

So, racers... I have to apologize. I've figured out what happened with the turkeys. I put the option for people to get turkeys on the manifest, expecting 4-5 at max, the rest I'd figured would go for an unspecified penalization. Instead we got 18 TURKEYS! full size buggers! What happened was people were expecting to get some fantastic discount and get the turkeys for $6-8 dollars due to a sneakily-printed smith's advertisement. Instead they all paid $20-$30!!! But I suspect it went a little like this:
Tired alleycat person: "One $6 turkey please"
Long-suffering smith's employee: "That deal's only if you buy 26 bucks of other shit."
TAP: "What the!! Well, hell, I'm already in line, let's do this thing!"

So I effectively swindled the lot of you out of $30-$40 today, albiet for a good cause. Sorry! If it makes you feel any better finding a spot for 20 turkeys was an adventure all to itself, and I think the food bank's gonna bug out.

So thanks everyone. Y'all crazy. I hope you had fun, I had a blast, big thanks to SATURDAY CYCLES for pulling through with some last-minute schwag, the Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective for always being there, and Jason's Deli for lending me a walk-in freezer. Let's put on some more!

Places:
1st Overall John McElwain
2 Drew Thomson
3 Jace Burbage
4 Scott Glover
5 Jessie Gilmore (First Woman and First Fix!)
6 Justin Hawks
7 Noble Williamson
8 Jake Wilkenson (first blood!)
9 Kyle Stergerwald
10 Peter Worden
11 Tom Fleming
12 Chris Ginzton
13 Rob Lingstuyl
14 Erickson
15 Jonathan Morrison
16 Joellyn Manville
DNF Courtney
DNF Ryan
DNF Tyler
DNF Evan
DNF Meara
DNF KURT CLOSEN, the architect of madness and accountant supreme for the cranksgiving alleycat!
Caught on part-way through: Patty E.

W00t!