This past weekend I attended Garibaldi Days - a small town festival on the Oregon Coast. One of the entries in the local parade were the Astoria Clowns - a group of crazy clowns that dress up in thrift store type clown attire (and you can meet up with them in the beer garden after the parade). One clown plays the calliope while several of them are on various mangled bicycles. One bicycle has a roller-skate for a front tire, another has messed up axles so that the clown bobs up and down - you get the idea...

Anyway, one of the clowns was wearing what could only be described as a baggier version of (drum roll please...)

BIKE SHORTS