Rock The Bike Blog

Thanks to Big Top Coop for posting this video summary of The Genie's LiveOnBike performance, and of the gallery space at The Road To BMF benefit. Enjoy.

Lots of great shots of Rock The Bike products in action also: The Down Low Glow, the Biker Bar, Mundo Cargo Bikes (also used here to carry the camerawoman). 

In the true spirit of the Bicycle Music Festival, we pedal powered five bands, went LiveOnBike with a scratch guitarist, fed and quenched sweaty pedalers with tea, kombucha, pies carried in by bike and a local street chef, and featured a contortionist, a unicyclist, a bootleg beer garden, and a quartet of breakdancers, putting us squarely on the Road to this year's SF Bicycle Music Festival.   Read More »

I love how the pedalers get grossed out as they see the father of the house preparing to take a shower. It's always cool when you can let the pedalers get the best seat in the house at a music event or let them in on a secret.  At Rock The Bike's Pedal Powered Stage events, we serve up smoothies to the pedalers, bike blended of course. We're thinking of putting the pedalers on a raised stage and lighting them at our Feb. 5th event. 

The other moment that's just classic about this video is when people continue running into the room to add more power and bring the system voltage back to the green. At first, they're wearing the nice uniform: red jersey and cycling shorts. But as the system voltage continues to get clobbered by the energy hogging electric shower, the producers themselves run into the room wearing street clothes.  Read More »

El Arbol will not be the first tandem tall bike. Check out this lamplighting bike from Chicago at the turn of the 20th century. Read the Full story here: 

http://www.rat-patrol.org/Archives/Eiffel.html

Or how about this family contraption, complete with treddle-powered sewing machine:

Thanks Flickr friend Whymcycles    

More recent but also notable, from Chicago Critical Mass, via Georgeaye. The photo has been viewed 4500 times on Flickr.