(21 Apr 2025)
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San Francisco – 20 April 2025
1. Big Wheel Race start
2. Various racing and crashing
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jared Hirsch, Co-Founder, Bring Your Own Big Wheel Race:
"Bring Your Own Big Wheel, or as we like to call it, B-Y-O-B-W, is an event in San Francisco that is free to do. You come with a plastic children’s tricycle, preferably plastic, and you race it down one of San Francisco’s windiest streets for fun."
3. Crooked street sign
4. Racers wearing Easter Peep and Santa costumes
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Araceli Parra, Big Wheel Racer:
"It’s just so much fun, I mean, this is like my Halloween, I get to dress up, we go down the scary hill."
6. Racer dressed as shark crashes into wall
7. Racers drift by camera
8. Girl racing in dress gets crashed into
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9. SOUNDBITE (English) Araceli Parra, Big Wheel Racer:
"You drift. You smash into people and like this costume originally should have a skirt, but I was like you could get banged up pretty bad and pretty much your costume will be disintegrated after a while."
10. Various races crash
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11. SOUNDBITE (English) Mason Delapp, Big Wheel Racer:
"It’s a San Francisco tradition. Me and the community that I come with, my friend owns like 13 of these. So it makes it super fun to have a tradition every year and it’s a San Francisco classic. I would say it’s frenetic right at the beginning because you all are on the starting line and everyone’s just trying to outpace each other as you come around those first corners. You see people crashing left and right and it becomes a lot of chaos. But if you pick the right line and you weave through everybody, you can be a winner."
12. Various spectators watch racing
13. Racer rolls after crashing
STORYLINE:
Easter eggs weren’t the only things cracking up on Sunday.
San Francisco’s quirkiest Easter tradition rolled into the city once again.
It’s the legendary Bring-Your-Own-Big Wheel race, where grown-ups channel their inner toddlers and take on the slopes of the city’s real crookedest street.
And it’s not world-famous Lombard Street.
Those in the know, know that Vermont Street, in the hilly city’s residential Potrero Hill neighborhood, is actually the street with the sharpest curves.
Every Easter, for the past 25 years, minus a couple due to the pandemic, hundreds of daredevils, eccentrics, and engineers of questionable braking systems gather for this grassroots showdown.
Helmets are mandatory and only plastic trikes, not metal, are allowed.
Costumers are encouraged. Dignity is optional, and the competition is fierce, if your Big Wheel doesn’t crack in half before the finish line.
Spectators lined the twisty street, cheering on the chaos.
And while no official prizes are given, glory, and maybe a couple of bruises, awaited the winners.
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