The Damen Derby is a bicycle race that takes place on Damn ave in Chicago Il. The race starts on the North side of Chicago at Rosehill Cemetery,where Damen meets Bryn mawr and ends at Harrison park,18th street, on the south side.
Damen is a long, strait street that crosses several "5 point" intersections... as well as regular car and bus traffic along it's length. This is a friendly leisure bike ride, wink wink, with all rules of the road adhered to.
This is NOT an undergound, illegal bike race that has limited exposure beyond the targeted participants. There is no cheering section, no audience, and no trophies.
We collect beer money at the beginning of the ride and the first to finish can go buy the beer and pocket half the cash.

When I walked onto the loading dock, I was taken aback by the sight of the once proud machine. I was in denial at first, wanting to be the hero that saved Skippy from certain doom. But then i saw that he had been stripped of his front and rear racks...horns and lights. He was indeed meant for this journey, this gift to an under served nation. One last act of heroism by a hero that saved more that one life at the price of it's own. Skippy has been shipped in a container with 500 other bikes bound for Panama. These bikes are part of an ongoing mission of WorkingBikes of Chicago that ships over 6000 used bikes per year to under served countries around the globe.

This is a comic book produced by the Schwinn bicycle company back in 1949..enjoy Kiddos