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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Thanks Bicycle Music Festival Fans, Crew, and Bands, for a fantastic Road To BMF opener

Posted by fossilfool

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 hauled 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.  

 

Mark Wessels serving up a delightful unicycle performance.  Read More »

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Thanks Bicycle Music Festival Fans, Crew, and Bands, for a fantastic Road To BMF opener

Posted by fossilfool

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 »

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Update from Austin's first Pedal Powered spin class.

Posted by fossilfool

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 »

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Both Sunday Streets and Maker Faire post their dates for 2010.

Posted by fossilfool

 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 »

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Thanks Earth Hour Pedalers and bands, for rocking it at the 2009 Debut of the Pedal Powered Stage!

Posted by fossilfool

Pedal Powered Stage 2009 Debut at Earth Hour SF
Pedal Powered Stage 2009 Debut at Earth Hour SF. Photo: Steve Rhodes

Thanks to everyone who came down to the Earth Hour celebration at Market Bar in downtown San Francisco, where Rock The Bike had the 2009 debut of our Pedal Powered Stage. We biked in all the gear and pedal powered all the lighting and sound equipment and smoothies, making Saturday's event Carbon Negative. A Carbon Negative event is one that has such an inspiring effect on participants that it causes individuals to reduce their carbon impact in the coming months and years.

Big thanks to Guella and Justin Ancheta, and Fossil Fool for their performances, to Raul and the Market Bar crew for their hospitality, and to Mayor Newsom and the Neighborhood Empowerment Network for sponsoring the event. Check the  Video from CBS news. Read More »