Anybody in the book? Well, here's your chance! The city of Davis will attempt to break the world's record for the most bicycles in a parade. The event is scheduled for Sunday, October 3, 2010. The current record is 3,515 held by Bangkok, Thailand. Davis hopes to shatter that record with over 4,000 bicycles.

The event has a website up that you can view here. A festival at Central Park will benefit the Davis Schools Foundation and the Davis Joint Unified School District. As a side note, Davis is the new home of the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame.

Plus, there are about 20 geocaches located within a half-mile of the route. (Not including any pesky puzzle caches.)

Here are the rules to break the world's record for the Longest Parade of Bicycles:

1. For the purpose of this record, a bicycle is defined as a two-wheeled vehicle powered only by pedaling.
2. Only bicycles (two-wheeled) may participate in the parade. Bicycles with 3 or more wheels, training wheel, trailers, addes wheels are not permitted.
3. All bicycles participating in this world record attempt must be moving—it is not acceptable merely to park them in a row.
4. The minimum distance of the parade must be 2 miles from the starting point to the finish.
5. All bicycles must cross the start line and cycle the length of the route to the finish line.
6. If a bicycle cannot complete the route, that vehicle must be deducted from the total count.
7. There must be no significant ‘gaps’ in the flow of bicycles. The bicycles in the parade may not be more than two bicycle-lengths apart during the parade.
8. The following must all be recorded for each bicycle entrant in the parade: name and telephone number of the bicycle rider, the make and model of each bicycle.
9. Bike riders are encouraged to pre-register before October 3 to save time and energy on the day of the parade. Registration will be open on the day of the parade, but we hope that 90% or more of the riders will have pre-registered.
   The route of the bike parade will wind through Davis streets. Traffic will be blocked along the parade route. Riders will travel the route 3 or 4 abreast, anchored by a lead rider supplied by the Davis Bike Club. All riders in the parade must follow the direction of the lead rider.
10. Only riders 10 years of age or older may participate in the parade. Children must wear helmets; adults are strongly encouraged to wear helmets.

The registration page is now open.

cool. stop bumping the poor smiley!

Oh no! The record was just shattered in Udine, Italy, as the new record holder in the "largest parade of bicycles" category with 48,615 bicycles! Read about it here.

Now Davis will attempt to set the record in a brand new category, the "longest single line of bicycles." I wonder how long a single line of bicycles would be. Any math majors here?

well i line dictates that it goes on forever in bolth directions. so it cant be measured