Viva!
Una Pacific 15
Let's do this!
I am a sucka for tradition. This the fourteenth running of men and one-time woman, through the woods is something to be treasured and glad that you all can join us this year. Here we find ourselves headed into Una Week. As anticipation builds I wanted to get you the information on location so you can guide yourselves to this great event!
I am looking forward to seeing all you freaks and meeting some new members who we welcome into our Fat Guy Family. Due to running school right up to the bitter end, our tribe will be cruising in a little later than usual and hoping to be there by 6 PM, but hope all you Idahoans can find a trail and an appropriate watering hole to pass the time.
Scottie bring those sick beats, let's see if we can wake up the neighbors.
Can't wait to see you all, drive safe!
Viva!
Una 15 - SUCK IT COVID!
Friday, Jun 26, 2020, 11:00 AM
https://www.redlion.com/red-lion-inn-suites/or/bend/red-lion-inn-suites-deschutes-river-bend
The Ride
The Mckenzie River Trail.
The location of this year’s ride will once again..fourteen times again be the Deschutes River Trail me thinks, more than likely, just need to get shuttle arrangements worked out. This trail is our favorite over the last decade and I think we might have figured out how to get us all back. The ride itself takes about 3 hours, allowing plenty of time to stop and see the sights and photo ops. We will follow the beautiful Deschutes River and along the way see obsidian lava flows, as well as Benham Falls and Dillon Falls. The terrain is "unique" to the high desert of Central Oregon and flows fairly easy with a few technical sections to switch things up a bit and make it interesting. We will, of course, wind our way down to Bend and meet up with family and friends at “The Lodge” for Victory Lunch and brew. Remember to bring a helmet and them tiny little bike shorts that you all like to wear. We will wear our authentic Una Pacific riding jerseys in mass so you can represent in the forest and keep as a memento of your wonderful experience. Between a nice shirt and lycra we are sure to be noticed!
The excitement is building!!
The Jersey
The shirt this year is one to be worn with much pride. It holds supernatural powers to be unleashed over tall mountains, ensuring safe descents among the rocks, roots and moon dust of Central Oregon. And most important, the low tech fabric will absorb the stink, another great souvenir.
Una Pacific 15: Sponsored by Fatguy Biking
Fat Guy Biking is not really much of anything. It is an idea, a movement started to emphasize that mountain biking is not just for those fitness fa- natics whose goal is to be first to the top while scoffing at their fellow, perhaps fatter and less fanatical, brethren because we only slow them down. Instead, Fat Guy Biking embraces the less fit, infrequent biker and adopts the motto: “We’ll ride... as long as there is beer waiting at the end!” Fat Guy Biking does not require membership or a secret handshake, just an understanding that it’s important to have fun, take your time (much longer for some, and hey that’s ok) and only then can those who ride have their beer and drink it too!
Salud! My Friends, Salud!
The Red Raider Invitational System: A Little Drunk History For Those New to Us!
The Building of the Red Raider Invitational Criteria... (how it all came to be...reprinted from Una Pacific 2 newletter for the masses, time to dust off our story)
As mentioned before Una Pacific 0 and Una Pacific 1 ended at the Cascade Lakes Brewery in Bend. After the ride in 2006, as we sat and enjoyed our accomplishment and each others’ stench we were met by our families and ordered up some grub and brew. As we became happier people, did I mention the wonderful brew, 20" Brown is a classic after ride tradition! The discussion moved toward planning for the future of mankind. My brother-in-law Matt and I began to get a little outrageous and not even the World Cup finals between Italy and France (Go Italia!) could distract the flow of gibberish of how we wanted this ride to be. Because Matt and I are both Southern Oregon State College/University alum, we thought, it would maybe make Una Pacific a lot more meaningful if we could weave that little piece of pride into it. Well we did, and on that day, there were not enough napkins available to record the bi-laws spewed forth from our pie holes. Needless to say, our wives were very proud to be with us that day!! But we got it all out of our systems and when we later looked at the battered and torn carnage of paper, usually meant for wiping greasy fingers and lips we recognized that it was all good!! We had created something truly inspired!
What does this mean to you? In order to take part in an Una Pacific event, you must be, 1) a graduate of Southern Oregon State College/University, or 2) receive a special invitation
from an alum of the fine institution nestled in the armpit of the Rogue Valley. In simple terms we created the Red Raider Invitational Criteria to ensure those selected to participate have the desire and ability to live by the Fat Guy Biking motto. By receiving this letter, you my friend have been chosen!