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 »
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 »
We had a blast last night at the Urban School, pedal powering their first dance of 2010. Thanks to Lucy, Lucas, Catherine and all the students and teachers.
As with any Rock The Bike event, we invite people at the event to pedal. The kid in the foreground is pedaling the Choprical Fish, which is powering the lighting at the dance. 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:
Tell your friends in Austin, invite Lance if you know him... Rock The Bike is coming to Austin.
I'll be working with Pure Austin Fitness on a new Pedal Powered spin class. Along with the gym's founder Beto (also a bicycle maker), we'll be converting the Pure Austin's 2 Fender Blender Pros to electric generators. If all goes well, this roomful of spinners will have loud, clear pedal powered music. Read More »
Last year's Dolores Park to Maker Faire Social Ride. Photo: dustinj
Maker Faire is back May 22 and 23 at San Mateo Fairground. Rock The Bike is aiming to make the Pedal Powered Stage event more fun this year and once again host the Dolores Park to Maker Faire Social Ride starting at 9AM on Saturday May 22.
Sunday Streets going huge in 2010.
Above: Sunday Streets' founder Susan King taking us through the route maps for the 2010 season.
This year, all Sunday Streets days will go 10-3 instead of 10-2. The extra hour is key as it will help the Rock The Bike crew sleep in a bit and still bring out the Pedal Powered Stage. Many thanks for this compassionate update to one of our favorite events. Read More »
To our delight Jay Leno climbed on a stylish white and orange step-through cruiser with a properly installed Fender Blender Universale bike blender (FBU) and blended what appeared to be a daiquiri, about 15 minutes into his show as part of the Last Minute Gifts segment. He pedaled for about 15 seconds, though to be honest I was too busy celebrating and making rock signs to count accurately. Read More »
Team Yuba's Ben Sarrazin hauled 330 pounds of food, mostly rice, to a food bank to win the two-wheeled division of the "Supermarket Street Sweep. Rock The Bike ran support for the race.
The battery output wire on the Down Low Glow has a certain amount of insulation. But with repeated flexing that insulation can break down.
Please look at the battery in the picture and compare it to yours. The black insulation has kinked and separated where it exits the pack, and you can see the white and red insulation of the inner two wires underneath. This is a result of repeated flexing of the wire. It is worse in cold places where the insulation can be brittle. Read More »
