<div>Friends, family, and curious lurkers,
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<div>Last May, an intrepid crew of friends in the Bay Area put mind and might together to build a contraption unlike any other. We deemed our glorious machine The Tin, and we deemed ourselves The Sardine Dream .
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<div>We were competing in the 2025 The Kinetic Grand Championship, a three-day, 50-mile human-powered sculpture race, sometimes called as "The Triathlon of the Art World."
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<div>Kinetic sculptures come in many shapes and sizes. They must be extravagant but also meticulously engineered. The course includes numerous obstacles: rutted-out dirt roads, massive sand dunes, and even water crossings. That’s right: kinetic sculptures float!
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<div>Last year, The Tin – while put together in a hasty three months – performed swimmingly. We paddled, pulled, and pedaled the dreamy, fishy contraption through the entire race – and even scored a feature on the local PBS!
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<div>This year, The Tin returns with a larger group of seafarers and an even dreamier mission for the 2025 Kinetic Grand Championship!
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<div>This year, we're rebuilding The Tin from the ground up, and we're asking for your help to make the following improvements to the contraption:
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<div>Wheels: Replace the Surrey’s small tires with 26 x 4 “fat bike” tires, i.e. monster-truck it.
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<div>Flotation: Swap out our four rain barrels for inflatable pontoons.
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<div>Drivetrain: Upgrade our manual two-gear system with a 2 x 10 drivetrain.
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<div>Breaks: Add four brand-new disc brakes to each tire.
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<div>Propulsion: Rather than paddling, why not build a pedal-powered propeller instead?
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<div>2nd Deck: What’s better than a floating Surrey bike? A two-story floating surrey bike.
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<div>Sculpture: a bigger and better fish sculpture! Involving metal framing, paper mache, foam boards, and lots of paint
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<div>Costumes: we must be a helmeted, shiny, scaly, school of fish which will also require paints and fabric
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<div>Thank you for keeping our tinned fish dream alive! We promise not to let you down.
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<div>Sincerely,
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<div>The Sardine Dream Team
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<div>Eli Cohen
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<div>Katie Carlson
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<div>Lucy Bennett
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<div>Eli Demosthenes
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<div>Natalie Rudin
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<div>P.S. - If you'd like to know a little bit more of the backstory to Kinetic Sculpture Racing, please enjoy this delightful video.
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<div>And here is a sneak peek of the team hard at work on the new bike!
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