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Every memorial day weekend for the past 50 years, misfits of all types —  junkyard artists, compulsive tinkerers, garage engineers — have gathered in Humboldt County, California for a competition unlike any other.
The Grand Kinetic Championship is a three day, 50-mile “human-powered sculpture race.” As you can see, kinetic scultpures come in many shapes and sizes.

But no matter how extravagent, they must also be rugged.  The course includes numerous obstacles: rutted out dirt roads, massive sand dunes, and even water crossings. That’s right: kinetic sculptures float!

And so last year, a small group of friends from the Bay Area decided to form a team — the first new entrant in years.

We called ourselves “The Sardine Dream.”

Over the course of three months we:

  • Purchased an Italian made surrey bike
  • Created a floating chasis out of 4 rain barrels
  • Paper mached the team mascot “Paulina”
  • Riveted our sardine can sculpture
  • Spent countless hours in the hardware store
  • Screen printed shirts (obviously)


The final result was “The Tin,” our very own pedal powered kinetic sculpture.
Come race weekend we pedaled, paddled, and pulled our way through the entire course.
This year, we’ve got something even bigger planned.


THE SARDINE DREAM 2.0
“I  Dream of Sardine”

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The Sardine Dream 2.0 will feature:

- A custom-welded scultpure
- All-terrain mountain bike tires
- Propeller Powered Propulsion
- Full-range 3x9 gearing
- More fish than ever!!!

You can follow our journey on Instagram, and we apprecaite any and all donations! All donors will recieve a hand-printed Sardine Dream T-Shirt.


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