Bikes, beer and beards - all were in abundant supply this weekend at the second annual Sacramento Bike Games, which lasted all of Saturday evening.

A select group of people received phone calls Saturday morning from the event's organizers telling them where to meet up for the first event, a skid-stop competition held on the American River Bike Trail at noon.

After that, the action moved to Discovery Park, where the Pick Up, Footdown and Trackstand events were held. While Footdown and Trackstands have been explained in previous articles in this storyline, Pick Up is probably unfamiliar to readers. In Pick Up, objects of successively diminishing size have to be picked up by players riding past them, without dismounting from their bicycles. Saturday's game started with two-liter soda bottles and ended with dimes.

Julio Villa, winner of Saturday's Footdown event, said the games “were a lot of fun. It was pretty tiring but totally worth it. I'm looking forward to next year's games, when I will totally crush the competition."

The Games were informal, with anyone who had paid the $6 entry fee and received a spoke-card 'ticket' allowed to participate in any event. Many people attending brought their own supplies of food and beer. Organizers, who were mostly regular participants of Sacramento's semi-illicit games of Bike Polo, kept track of wins and scores on notebooks and pieces of cardboard.

Besides the games, there was a barbeque of vegan hot dogs at Discovery Park. However, the meal was sadly marred by a shortage of buns. "It was totally weak, all that competition made me so hungry and I was fittin' to eat, even though the dogs were vegan," Villa said.

Around 3 p.m., the games moved again, this time to downtown Sacramento for the Bike Polo tournament. Teams were picked by shuffling the spoke cards. Held in a parking lot at an 'undisclosed location,' Polo lasted for about three hours before the games moved for the last time to a house in the Mansion Flats neighborhood for the final event - Bike Jousting.

The competitors arrayed themselves at opposite ends of a driveway lined with spectators. Their lances were made of three-foot lengths of PVC pipe tipped with pillows secured in place with copious amounts of tape.

"Everyone was drunk," said one spectator of the chivalrous cycling. "People were up on balconies, cheering like Caesar at gladiators."

No word yet has come from the event organizers about next year, but a continuation of the games seems likely.