innovation

This is a stunt video, not an education video. The idea was to recreate a tool I read about in the book "Snowcrash". The device is called the carpoon and it costs $5. The Carpoon: Designed to attach to large slow moving vehicles and allow a bike to quietly skitch behind it. Enjoy.

We're entering the Innovate or Die competition. We'd really appreciate it if you would view, forward, rate, and comment on our YouTube entry.

Also, please take a look at the other submissions in the contest. There are some cool ones, particularly the Pedal Powered Zoetrope, and the Dual Purpose Bicycle (for powering tools in the developing world).

Innovate or Die.
Originally uploaded by Rock The Bike

Dante is on the cutting edge of research into human powered amplification. We set him up with a bench in our workshop, and he's putting the finishing touches on the Ginger Ninja's touring rig as I write these words. Dante helped Rock The Bike develop an offering for an Xtracycle-based DC motor mount for human powered music systems. Now he's working day and night on a 4-bike human power setup for the Ninjas. No one's had a chance to hear it in action yet, but it'll probably be 5 times louder than the setup we used for the Bicycle Music Festival.

It's amazing how the project just totally flows through our community. First Blender man Nate got the bug, then me, then Kipchoge and Dante. With each handoff, we get more experience. Dante is now the most knowledgable guy in our community when it comes to human power. It's a rad collaborative atmosphere, knowing that we're producing powerful tools for sending out the bike vibe, the peace vibe, and the party vibe, through bikes and music.