Like riding your bike? Like donating food to the food bank? Check out this awesome ride on Sunday and learn how to combine them.

A local grocery store decided to add a repair station for its cycling customers. Find out which store and see what the repair station looks like.

It's always a lot of fun discovering a secret bicycle garden. Check out the one we stumbled upon last week.

Tucson NASCAR fans, we've got two pairs of tickets to this weekend's action at Phoenix International Raceway this weekend. If you want to watch a bunch of people in technological marvels drive really, really, incredibly fast, here's your opportunity.

The first two folks to send an email to [email protected] with the subject line "TW NASCAR Giveaway!" get 'em.

Start your engines, folks.

• Look upon the cannon, ye mighty, and despair.

The monstrosity seen above is known as "Big Bella" (because "Stupid Crap Launcher" was already taken by the fans in the End Zone seating sections at the Philadelphia Eagles' home stadium). It weighs more than 600 pounds, and can launch 100 shirts in one minute.

Apparently, Big Bella is just one option in the Sixers' multi-pronged plan to transform professional basketball into the sideshow at what has become a carnival of frivolity — according to a press release sent out by the Sixers, "the team will also drop T-shirts, free game tickets and other promotional items from the rafters of the Wells Fargo Center down to fans below in a new themed 'Sixers Parachute Drop.'"

Spectacular. As a Suns fan, I almost wish they had brought a similar concept to Phoenix. After all, I'll need something to convince me that it's a good idea to watch Goran Dragic and the Ramblers on their chase toward a lottery pick in the NBA Draft this year....not that I'm bitter, or anything.

For more on "Big Bella," head over to Sixers.com; for the best commentary on the aforementioned Giant Distraction, check out Gawker's take, entitled "Philly Unveils World’s Largest T-Shirt Cannon; Haters Crying Themselves to Sleep; They Literally Cannot Believe It."

Walking advocates spent an afternoon hosting a Walking Workshop this week. Find out what a Walking Workshop is and what they discussed.

The 2012 Regional Bike and Pedestrian Count wrapped up yesterday. Construction may throw off some of the numbers this year. Did you get counted? Let us know.

Like bicycles? Like scavenger hunts? Combine them during the Headless Hunt and raise money for a El Grupo Youth Cycling.

You are in luck if you missed Kidical Mass earlier this month. Check out the details on the second ride happening this weekend.

Simply put, this is one of the greatest pranks that I've ever heard of.

Four days after Cal beat Stanford with "The Play," a kickoff return that's as famous for its numerous laterals and on-field chaosas it is for the Stanford trombonist that was run over in the end zone, brilliant members of the Stanford Daily student newspaper saw fit to create a fake edition of Cal's Daily Californian filled with stories meant to convince students that the NCAA had awarded the game to Stanford.

From ESPN Playbook:

Thirty years after several Stanford Daily newspaper staffers produced a fake, four-page “Extra” Daily Californian that reported the NCAA had overturned Cal’s famous, last-second, lateral-filled kickoff return against Stanford four days earlier, they still have trouble picking out their favorite part.

But lurking on the Berkeley campus that Wednesday morning of Nov. 24, 1982, posing as Cal students while watching real Bears faithful pick up the fake Daily Cal, is definitely at or near the top.

“Oh, it was a total crackup,” says Adam Berns, 50, who came up with the idea, sold it to the paper’s editor-in-chief and business manager and recruited his best buddy on the staff, Mark Zeigler, to write most of the stories with him. “People were everything from being really super pissed off to a couple crying to, you know, all sorts of reactions. In fact, Mark and I probably stayed later than any of the other people [at Cal] ... to watch the reaction of people, which was really funny.”

Says Zeigler: “Obviously we were never going to change that outcome, but this was probably the next best thing.”

For the rest, see ESPN Playbook.

Instead of adding bike racks when people have to lock to a hand rail because there isn't enough bike parking, the UA adds a sign threatening impoundment and fines. Check out the photos.

Advocacy really can work. Lots of cyclists worked with Trader Joe's last year when they hampered bike parking at their store. A year later, the situation is vastly improved.

It's always great when someone gets their stolen bike back. Find out how one TucsonVelo reader got his back and where it was spotted.

Mountain biking legend Gary Fisher will be in town next week encouraging recreational bicyclists to use their bikes for transportation. Find out how you can ride with him.

Tucson's new bicycle and pedestrian coordinator has been on the job for a few weeks. Find out what she is working on.

The Euclid and University Intersection reopened this weeks giving cyclists a better option for crossing Euclid Avenue. See what it looks like now that the streetcar tracks have been laid.

Check out the photos from Tucson's second Kidical Mass.

• Paul Ryan could not look any less comfortable, or any more like an early '90s fitness model, than he does here.

Poor, poor Paul Ryan. On the day of his Vice Presidential candidate debate with current VP Joe Biden, it's come out that he has no idea how to look natural in a photo shoot.

The photos, outtakes from a spread taken by Time magazine while Ryan was in the running for Time's 2011 Person of the Year award, were published today as part of the magazine's profile of the Vice Presidential nominee, which can be found at their website.

I'd include text from either of the stories that have been posted, but neither is particularly relevant to Ryan and these photos — the profile centers around Ryan's vague descriptions of his proposed budget changes while on the campaign trail, while the copy accompanying the photos spends more time talking to P90X creator Tony Horton, with the excuse that Ryan is a devotee to the hardcore training regimen.

So with that, I'll leave you with that photo above, of Paul Ryan looking a bit like Kermit the Frog curling a 40 pound dumbbell. Spectacular.

We're giving away four pairs of two tickets to today's Mexican Baseball Fiesta action at Kino Stadium to the first four people who send a tweet to @tucsonweekly with the hashtag #VamosATucson.

If you don't Tweet, don't fear — we'll be giving away tickets for this weekend's action later today as well on Facebook and on The Range.

For those unfamiliar, the Vamos A Tucson Mexican Baseball Fiesta is pitting four of Mexico's top teams (Hermosillo, Mazatlan, Obregon and Culiacan) against future stars from the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres.

Last night's action was a mixed bag for the Dodgers and Padres youngsters — the Padres Future Stars were beaten by Culiacan in the first game, 5-3. The Dodgers Future Stars were able to come back in the bottom of the ninth inning to beat Obregon by one run, 5-4.

For more info, including the weekend's schedule, check out the Tucson Padres website.

• Mayor Jonathan Rothschild, left, and his chief of staff Andrew Greenhill ride their bikes to work during Bike to Work Week.

Have kids? Like to bike? Check out Tucson's second Kidical Mass ride tomorrow.

Breaking bicycle traffic laws on campus could be quite costly. See why here.