<p>can somebody please explain to me what beer bike is? cause if i have to drink beer and THEN ride a bike, ill probably get like four feet</p>
<p>check the rice entry of wikipedia. The bikers don't do the drinking - the chuggers do; and underage chuggers chug H20 during the competition.</p>
<p>Actually, pretty much everyone chugs water now; it's faster.</p>
<p>do people like- train to win?</p>
<p>They certainly do.</p>
<p>Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiike!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>ooops....sorry, posted on the wrong thread.</p>
<p>What's even bigger about Beer-Bike, however, is not the race itself, but rather the parade beforehand. Each of the colleges fills, like, 10,000 water balloons, and then we have a "parade" backwards around the inner loop, which is actually just a giant water balloon fight.</p>
<p>We think it's the largest in the world by sheer number of balloons (the next-biggest we could find was 50,000), but not by people. We haven't bothered applying for a Guinness Record.</p>
<p>What amazes me is that we do this EVERY YEAR.</p>
<p>Most colleges fill between 20,000-30,000. Maybe Lovett is less active with the balloon filling?</p>
<p>So that's like, what, at least 50 water balloons per student? haha you guys are crazy. Hopefully next year I'll get to join in :)</p>
<p>Clendenenator, seeing as how I've been here for a Beer-Bike, and you haven't, I think my word is a bit more reliable than yours.</p>
<p>People tend to exaggerate.</p>
<p>A Beer-Bike of sorts, at least, NYSkins.</p>
<p>I doubt you counted every water balloon! I can show documentation; you can choose to believe it or not. I myself filled about 7 large trashcans full of waterballoons for Halloween in a few days; why is it so hard to believe 350 people can get to 30,000?</p>
<p>Because not all 350 people in a college will fill water balloons. Nor can you fit that many trashcans in a garage.</p>
<p>I'm not being cynical, just realistic. No college has the apparatus (nor the number of really dedicated an enthusiastic people) to fill that many balloons. I don't think there are even that many balloons in the city of Houston. Our Beer-Bike coordinator had to go out to Katy last year because every CVS, party supply store, dollar store, etc. in the city was sold out of water balloons that week.</p>
<p>Based off of how many balloons we bought last year and how many broke in the process of inflating them, 10,000 is a pretty solid estimate. Most colleges fill somewhere in the range of 50-75 trashcans (if memory serves correctly). If you assume 150-200 balloons per trashcan (which may be optimistic), 10,000 is a pretty reasonable guess.</p>
<p>NYSkins is right.. and 50-75 is a high estimate.. about half fill under 40 I think, but I may be wrong....</p>
<p>Anyways, how does it matter? they all get popped in the end!</p>
<p>One day you guys will look back and say "was I really having an argument with an anonymous person online about how many water balloons are filled for beer-bike???"</p>
<p>and that day is today</p>
<p>Not anonymous...I know who Clendenenator is. Though I'm not sure he knows who I am. Hmm...that's a bit creepy on my part.</p>
<p>Oh, well, that's what happens when you relentlessly facebook-stalk freshmen over the summer.</p>
<p>^^...That IS kind of creepy...</p>
<p>Well, Clendenenator's screenname is really similar to his last name, and he was a prominent poster on the Rice 2011 group (which for some reason the incoming freshmen tend to think the upperclassmen don't read and say things that get them reputations before they even get to school).</p>