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Justin Ancheta performing LiveOnBike at the 2010 San Francisco Bicycle Music Festival, co-produced by Rock The Bike.



Fans pedal powered 7 hours of live local music.

Here you see the three key elements of a Pedal Powered Stage in action: Read More »

• Generators: In this case a Biker Bar (the 3-person rig in the foreground) and two Electric Mundos.
• Pedalometer: The floating beer can in the tube rises and falls, showing pedalers how hard to pedal.
• Pedal Power Utility Box: the box on the table. It accepts inputs from up to 7 pedalers, smooths out the peaks and valleys of Pedal Power, and serves up clean pure sine AC power to our audio gear. Protects circuitry behind a plexiglass panel.
  
  
  

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Full event info: Maker Faire

Info and RSVP for the Ride to Maker Faire from Dolores Park with the Rock The Bike crew: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=530605644#!/event.php?eid=316015644330&ref=ts

$5 discount for anyone who rides to Maker Faire at any time. Read More »

photo: Hansen

Huge thanks to the crew from the University of Oregon Outdoor Program, where Rock The Bike built a Biker Bar and related Pedal Powered Stage gear last week. Our work culminated in the all-day Willamette Valley Music Festival. Read More »

Starting this Tuesday the 4th, Rock The Bike will be in Eugene, Oregon building a Pedal Powered Stage with the U of O Outdoor Program. Read More »

Thanks to the fans, roadies, bands, Market Bar, and the city's Neighborhood Empowerment Network.

El Arbol had its Pedal Powered Stage debut. My cousins were crawling all over it. Here my 220 pound cousin Jonah and a girl pedal power stereo right while two other girls play on other parts of the tree.

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We noticed that the majority of recent customer service issues with the Down Low Glow involved our Dual Tube systems. The most common issue is:

"One tube is bright and the other is dim, even with a full battery." or
"They take a long time to warm up"

We have backordered this item until we can troubleshoot the problem. Read More »

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 »

Rock The Bike is helping Pure Austin Fitness pedal power their spin class. Pure already owns two of our Fender Blender Pros, and the goal of the current project is to convert these bike blenders to pedal power generators using our latest technology, then use them to pedal power the audio in their spin class. Here are some shots from the work I did in Austin over the past five days. 

On Friday I met up with Pure Austin's Beto Boggiano at his workshop. We chopped off the dropouts on the Fender Blender Pro frames, in order to respace them for the new generator hubs. Read More »