Fender Blender Pro

The Fender Blender Pro was built from the ground up as the ultimate expression of human power. Designed for day-in, day-out use, the Fender Blender can hold its own at schools, festivals, trade shows, fundraisers, and events of all types. The Fender Blender Pro brings together fun, fitness, health, nourishment, and sustainability.

Designed and built with love in the Bay Area. Good for thousands of smoothies with minimal hassle and maximum fun.

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Features:

The Fender Blender Pro fits a wide range of riders.

Blends in front: makes bike blending more fun and social. Ensures the best results.

Very friendly to adults and kids (down to approximately 7-year-old kids).  Widely adjustable seat height and handle bars offer comfortable and easy grip position. As it is lowered the seat gets closer to the handle bars.

Many good surfaces and options for your branding: wheel cover, chain guard and large diameter tubing.

Efficient blending mechanism so there is less chance of human effort being wasted.

Available in Green, Orange and Blue or in your custom color, please read more about custom frame colors and branding options.

Comes with fully illustrated instructions for setup and use, view and download them here.

Assembled dimensions: 60″ long, 42″ tall, 30″ wide; shipping carton dimensions: 38x34x11 inches.

Weight: 55 pounds

 

*UPGRADE OPTION* Commercial grade VitaMix blender  -  2x the volume and 2x bigger blades, giving better circulation of ingredients for faster, more consistent and gratifying blending. This 6 minute video shows in depth the benefits of the Vitamix:

If you want to power sound, lighting, or other electrical activities with your Fender Blender Pro, we recommend the Electric Fender Blender Pro.

  • Bike Blender parts now made from recycled milk jugs

    Rock the Bike is excited to announce that the custom plastic components of all the Fender Blenders are being made from 100% recycled or reused plastic. Historically, these parts have been made of virgin HDPE (high density poly ethylene), and now will be made from a recycled source of the same material – recycled milk jugs.

    Rock The Bike has always sought to make products that help individuals tread lightly on the planet. Making sure that our products utilize as much recycled materials in the manufacturing process and contain as many recyclable components as possible is an exciting way to deepen our commitment to being a truly environmentally minded outfit.

  • Video shows three different Fender Blenders available from Rock the Bike


    This three minute video shows the three different types of bike blenders we make, in use.

  • Fender Blender available for rental

    The Fender Blender is available for rental for Bay Area events. Please contact us to pencil your date into our rental schedule.

    We provide training and tips on recipes. Our Fender Blender also has removable wheels so that you can tow it to your event with another bicycle, and wheel it around your event.

    If you’d prefer to pick up the Fender Blender with a vehicle, any station wagon or small SUV will be able to handle it. It can be disassembled to lay flat, then reassembled at your event location by tightening a few bolts.

  • Draw people to your event with a Fender Blender

    If you’re interacting with the public at events, whether it be a trade show, a performance, a marathon, or a science faire, the Fender Blender can help build excitement at your booth. Kids are magnetically drawn to the simple red frame, and they can pedal their own smoothies, or just turn the pedals for fun.

    Bike blenders are a kid magnet at events.

    Once people are gathered at your booth, what you do from there is your own choice. But having a natural, fun, guaranteed effective way to bring people in can’t hurt.

  • Brand your Fender Blender with your logos

     

    Your Fender Blender can be tricked out with your custom logos and colors. The large wheel covers are easy to customize with your company’s logos or graphics. Please find out more in our FAQ section: What do you offer for customizing the frame color and printing our design on the wheel and frame of the Fender Blender Pro?

    Please call us at 1-888-354-BIKE to discuss options or get a quote.

  • Custom aluminum chain guard keeps your pants clean

    The sleek brushed aluminum chain guard comes standard on all Fender Blenders. It keeps pants clean and prevents the chain from ever slipping off the gears of the bike.

  • Non-Proprietary parts, easy to maintain

    From the gears, handlebars, and bearings on the blender, to the Oster blender blade and pitcher, you won’t have a problem finding and replacing any of the parts on your Fender Blender. Should your chain wear out (after thousands of smoothies, mind you!) Any bike shop should be able to service your bike blender.

     

  • Sized for large and small riders

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    Designed to fit riders from 7 years of age on. Just adjust the seat height for smaller or taller riders and let them loose. Designed for maximum rider participation and superb ease of use. Watch how easy it is below:

  • Shipped ready to ride

    Simply bolt on the lateral feet with included hardware, tilt the handlebar into place, load your blender pitcher and get to work! Premium product designed for nearly instantaneous customer implementation. Ship to your tradeshow and have it up and running in fifteen minutes!

  • Locally made components are built to last

    Gian aligns Fender BlenderThe curved steel frame is locally welded. The machined plastic parts are made of recycled plastic, and are dishwasher safe and virtually unbreakable. The square drive shaft is heat treated and hardened for maximum life. All hardware is stainless steel and will never rust. Frame is powder coated for long life/outdoor use. The Fender Blender uses a simple friction drive to spin the blender blade fast, while remaining simple and easy to service.

  • Nutrition Council Cincinnati…Rockin it Out

    Hi, Friends, Wanted to let you know how much we love our new bike. Sending along a shot from one of its first outings. Thank you for making it possible! We’ll be rockin’ and blendin’….Nutrition Council

  • Travaasa’s Events are Going Great with Custom Fender Blender Pro

    The events have been going great.  I was really impressed with the quality of the bike.  Thanks for all of your help. –Adam, Travaasa Travaasa is a interactive resort in Austin, Texas that provides guests with more than just a room. Their activities include guided adventures, cultural encounters, cooking classes, spa treatments, and fitness and [...]

  • St. Joseph Health is Very Pleased with the Quality of the Fender Blender Pro Vitamix

    We are just under two months of owning our new Fender Blender Pro + Vitamix, bicycle blender, and I am excited to say it is a hit!  We already knew that bicycle blenders are a great resource to promote fitness and nutrition at our outreach events, and we are very pleased at the quality of [...]

  • Bike Blended Smoothies give Spinlister the edge in a recent funding conference

    Spinlister, a new framework for borrowing bikes in cities around the country, were headed to a recent Venture Capital funding conference and wanted to grab attention by offering Bike Blended Smoothies. Our favorite mobile chef Slam strapped one Fender Blender Pro and a cooler full of smoothie supplies to her cargo bike and dropped off [...]

  • Whole Foods loves its Fender Blender Pro

    Check out this great tweet from Whole Foods:

  • The lines were never ending to create customized smoothies

    go vibrant is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to make an active, energetic lifestyle irresistible.  Our efforts are focused around amplifying the efforts of other organizations/clubs/etc sharing a similar goal.  We accomplish this in a variety of unique and irresistible ways.    We heard of a stationary bike retro-fitted to include a blender powered [...]

  • Students were really excited to use the blender and drink their creations

    Habits of Wellness The “New England Dairy & Food Council Fuel Up to Play 60″ grant helped us purchase a stationary bicycle blender. During our kick off event, we made over 400 fruit yogurts smoothies. Students signed a pledge to eat well and be active on a daily basis. It is great to see students [...]

  • FunFest with SF Giants a Success!

    We would like to thank Rock The Bike for allowing us to rent out smoothie bikes for this year’s FunFest at the SF Giants’ AT&T Park! We managed to serve over 2,200 smoothies and received more thanks and smiles than we could have ever asked for. This was a first for LIFT and you helped [...]

  • Enjoyed our bike blender greatly at the retreat.

    We have been enjoying our bike powered blender greatly. We used it on saturday for a Minnesota Campus Energy Challenge Retreat and it will be used again this Thursday for a end of the semester party for our campus bike coop.

    -Miwa in Minnesota

  • Mayor of Baltimore cranked out a smoothie on my Mosaic Bike

    “Rock the Bike team met the public at the Maker’s Faire in May 2007. The Fender Blender, as always was a great draw and a big smile machine for kids at our booth.”

  • Bay Area Venture Capitalist Steve Jurvetson blends a smoothie on Songbird’s Fender Blender

    Bay Area Venture Capitalist Steve Jurvetson blends a smoothie on Songbird’s Fender Blender

  • Spring Harvest Smoothie Recipe

    Jones Valley Teaching Farm shared this refreshing, seasonal smoothie recipe:

    Harvest spinach and strawberries, if available- figs, blackberries, raspberries and mulberries

    This makes one blender full- about 10 sample cups.

    ¾  cup spinach

    ½  cup strawberries

    ½  cup other berries and figs

    ¾  cup OJ

    ½ cup low fat vanilla yogurt

    ½ banana

    Mix all ingredients together in bike blender and let student pedal. Serve in 3 or 5 oz. paper cups.

    Bike Blending with an FBU at Jones Valley Teaching Farm
    Above: A youngster pedals the Fender Blender Universale at Jones Valley Teaching Farm.

    Click here to read more about the Fender Blender Universale at Jones Valley Teaching Farm.

     

    If you have a recipe you’d like to share with the bike blending community, please send it to customerservice@rockthebike.

  • Bike Blending: How many crew? How much ingredients? How many bikes?

    Here’s a copy of a recent receipt from Trader Joe’s for a Bike Blending event that served 100 people. 

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    To serve the most people in the least time, here are the factors to consider:

    - Ingredients. This is the easiest. Ingredients cost $0.60 per 8 oz smoothie. Scale this to meet your crowd needs. 

    - Crewmembers. This helps you prepare the pitchers of ingredients faster. 1 person per bike for a relaxed event. 3 crewmembers per bike if you think you’ll be slammed. 

    - Number of Fender Blender bikes. Increase the number of bikes to maximize your participation levels when maximum crowd flow is expected. Each bike can do 100- 250 8 oz smoothies per hour, depending on the number of crewmembers.  

    - Type of pitcher: See the Osterizer v. Vitamix comparison. It’s easier to serve large crowds with a vitamix. 

    - Number of pitchers. Two pitchers are incredibly useful. Make double  the same amount of time by prepping a second batch while blending the first. If you foresee having vegan/dairy-free smoothies you might want a pitcher just for those.

     

  • Creating Healthy Communities, One Smoothie at a Time

    CalFresh (formerly known as food stamps) is a federal nutrition assistance program that helps low-income individuals and families buy the food they need for good health. It is guaranteed to anyone who meets the eligibility requirements.

    In 2012, Humboldt County’s Department of Health and Human Services opened up grant applications to access funds provided by the CalFresh program. St. Joseph Health was one of approximately 40 recipients to receive this funding in Humboldt County.

    Our funds will be managed by our Community Benefits Department, in a variety of outreach efforts. These funds will help support nutrition education through Paso a Paso, four local community gardens, community dinners, and the purchase of a bicycle blender.

    The bicycle blender is a fun way to educate community members on how to create a low-cost, nutritious smoothie, while getting a little exercise. The bicycle blender will make appearances at Paso a Paso classes, community dinners, bike rodeos, our annual health fair, and other local events. So keep your eye out for the red-hot fender blender pro at a community event near you!

  • Custom Branding on Fender Blender Pro

    Full Wheel Wrap, Flaming Saddle Upgrade, and modified handlebars.
     

    We can produce custom logos with our printing partners and install them to our customers’ specification on the Fender Blender Pro.


    Customized Full Wheel Wrap, Custom Color, and Frame Branding

    We provide a full service offering for wheel cover and frame branding, in which we handle the printing and application of the stickers and charge time and materials.

    For this offering the process usually goes as follows:

    1. Client supplies the hi-res digital graphics files and/or verbiage and input on where on the frame or wheel cover they would like branding and the sizing.
    2. We consult with the client and suggest options and create a rendering that shows the branding placement on the Fender Blender Pro that the client can approve. This includes 1 round of revisions.
    3. Upon client approval, we organize the printing and apply the decals during assembly in our workshop and ship the branded Fender Blender Pro to the client


    Wheel Branding:     Wheel branding wraps the stock rainbow fruit/dot covers in a full vinyl wrap. The fee for printing graphics and installation is $450 (Quantity Discounts are available). For an additional $300 fee, Rock the Bike can assist with graphic layout, design and include a rendering proof. White wheel covers are an additional $80, Black wheel covers are an additional $100.

    Making your own wheel branding art? Art must be received print ready – 300dpi in PDF or TIFF file format. Download the wheel branding template with instructions layer.


    Full Wrap and Custom Color

     

     

    Frame Branding: Put your company name or logo on both sides of your Fender Blender Pro frame! Graphics are fit to the dimensions of the arcing top tube, measuring 15″ x 2″. We charge $100 to print and install a set of single color logo frame graphics. To assist with graphic layout and rendering proofs, add $200. $100 for each additional bike.


    Frame Branding and Full Wheel Wrap

     

    Custom Frame Color: Choose your desired Pantone color and we will find a close powdercoat match. Powdercoat doesn’t offer every color under the sun, but it’s more durable and environmentally-friendly than paint. We charge $350 for the first bike and $250 for each additional bike of the same color.


    Custom Color and Full Wheel Wrap

     

    To get the customization process going, please email us your high resolution graphics and ideas or sketches of what you would like.

     


    Custom Color, Full Wheel Wrap, Custom White Saddle, and Custom White Tire

    *NEW!* — Customize your Spin Art attachment to match your Fender Blender Pro!
    The recycled-plastic Spin Art drum makes a nice branding surface that perfectly complements the custom branding of your Fender Blender Pro. Branding on the Spin Art drum is $110 for the layout, printing and branding. If you’re placing an order for multiple bikes, each additional drum is $80.


    Custom Color, Full Wheel Wrap, Frame Branding and Custom Spin Art Drum

  • Thanks Bicycle Music Festival fans, crew, and bands for an amazing 2010 festival!


    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:

    • 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.


    As usual with our local events our trusty roadies hauled all of our Pedal Powered Stage gear to and from the venues on cargo bikes, such as the Mundo and the Xtracycle. In the foreground special Roadie guest Aaron from Aaron’s Bike Repair in Seattle carries his girlfriend and tows our Biker Bar. Strong!

    Once we set up our Pedal Powered Stage, we wasted no time getting band after local band amplified. Here’s the Tri Tip Trio breaking it down at Golden Gate Park.

    El Arbol in effect as a two-person generator.

    Locura got the dancing started at Showplace Triangle, our night venue.  photo: Aufdencamp


    Obo Martin, LiveOnBike. photo: Aufdencamp

    1st time Golden Goose Lindsey rolling with the pack. The Golden Geese are the volunteers who shake the buckets for musicians after each set.

    Untitled from TyrellVoightKampff on Vimeo.

     

    Karlanga’s Silk Performance from TyrellVoightKampff on Vimeo.

     

    Our night venue: Showplace Triangle, the largest of San Francisco’s popular “Pavement to Parks” mini parks.

    It was our first time offering monitored bike parking at one of our events. Thanks Sam and the crew from DPW for your help!

  • Travaasa Austin promotes their event on the news with the FB Pro

  • Fender Blender Pro blends up smoothies and cocktails and can even grind coffee

    The Fender Blender Pro is up to the task of ice crushing and quality blending. Check out all these great videos of it in action!

     

     

     

     

  • NPR’s Jen Sharpe checks out Human Power on All Things Considered

    Seeing human power as a tool for community building, his company: Rock the Bike, sells what might make a good mascot for the human power movement: A pedal-powered bike blender called the Fender Blender.

    NPR’s Jennifer Sharpe interviewed Rock The Bike in August, and also attended the California Academy of Sciences Night Life event the night Rock The Bike brought the Pedal Powered Stage.

    Recording the sounds of a shop for NPR by leifcycle.

    In the shop on the day of her visit we were finishing up a build of a new hybrid Electric Mundo that we used at Nightlife as one of our generators.

     

    david butcher and his pedal-powered prime mover by sharpeworld.

    Sharpe also interviewed David Butcher, a pedal power afficionado based in the Mountain View, who seems to get younger as the years pass.

    lonnie green and his human powered bulldozer by sharpeworld.

    And she visited Lonnie Green in Grass Valley who came up with a Pedal Powered earth mover.

    Transcript excerpt:

    (Soundbite of song, “Sending Out”)

    Mr. FOSSIL FOOL (The Bike Rapper; Founder, Rock the Bike): (Singing) You got to leave your Prius outside the club. You got to leave your Hummer outside the club.

    SHARPE: Pedal-powered bike rapper Fossil Fool, also known as Paul Freedman, is out on the steps of San Francisco’s Academy of Sciences. Seeing human power as a tool for community building, his company: Rock the Bike, sells what might make a good mascot for the human power movement: A pedal-powered bike blender called the Fender Blender.

    Mr. FOSSIL FOOL: Almost everyone that buys it, the first thing that they want to do with it is they want to take it out into their community and share a sweet, thick, bike-blended smoothie.

    (Soundbite of a blender)

  • Habana Outpost profiled on CNBC, owner pedals a Fender Blender

  • Goodlifer profiles Habana Outpost

    Because of its crowd appeal [the Fender Blender Pro] is probably the [eco-friendly feature] that gets the most attention at Habana Outpost.

    Habana Outpost

    This past weekend, Habana Outpost celebrated its season opening with an Earth Day Expo, featuring kids’ activities, outdoor film screenings, an eco fashion show, workshops, local vendor booths and live music. We arrived promptly at noon on Saturday, hoping to beat the crowd (which on this first warm day of the year could be nothing but insane). We did, and were the first to make use of the smoothie “bike blender”, a stationary bike with a blender attached to it — pedal and receive $1 off your smoothie, seems like a deal too good to pass up. Even though it may not be the most efficient eco-feature, because of its crowd appeal it is probably the one that gets the most attention.

    Habana Outpost: bike blender

    Taking the bike blender for a blueberry spin.
     

    Habana Outpost: bike blender

    TV cameras hovering over the coolest eco-feature, the human-powered bike blender

    Sean Meenan opened NoLita’s Cafe Habana and Habana To Go in 1998, with a mission to serve home-style Latin food with unique Cuban and Central Mexican accents. Habana Outpost, located in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn, is the third member of this culinary family. Besides being a fun place to spend a sunny day, Habana Outpost is NYC’s first eco-eatery, aiming to reduce wasteful consumption and promote sustainable solutions by using earth-friendly practices in the design, construction, and day-to-day operations.

  • Sierra Magazine plugs the Fender Blender

    It takes just a minute to whip a morning smoothie or an after-work margarita with a pedal-powered blender from Rock the Bike.

    Fender Blender Universale in Sierra
    Fender Blender Universale in Sierra

    It takes just a minute to whip a morning smoothie or an after-work margarita with a pedal-powered blender from Rock the Bike.

    Sierra Magazine cover
    Sierra Magazine cover

  • Fender Blender appears on Seattle Times cover page

    Starbucks is using a bicycle powered blender to project a hip, green image at outdoor events.
    Seattle Times



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