Upcoming Rides

Title Time Where's it at?
Earth Hour Community Celebration and LiveOnBike performance 03/27/2010 - 06:30 - 23:30 SF Cruisers
4th Annual Pedal Powered Stage at Maker Faire 05/22/2010 - 08:30 - 05/23/2010 - 18:00 SF Cruisers

SF Cruisers

SF Cruisers taking a rare daytime cruise at the Bicycle Music Festival

 

Since 2004, the SF Cruisers ride for pleasure, at a cruising pace, in a non-confrontational style with ample musical accompaniment. We often pick a cultural destination (art opening, Stern Grove concert, dance club) and make a musical journey to get there.

The rides are public, and usually free. To get email updates of upcoming rides, create a Rock The Bike account, then come back to this page and click subscribe.

Check out the video from our Independence Day Cruise!

 

 

Earth Hour Community Celebration and LiveOnBike performance

Time: 
03/27/2010 - 06:30 - 23:30

With an extra special LiveOnBike cruiser ride starting at 6:30 from the same location. 

Live Music starts at 7:30

Earth Hour 8:30-9:30. The band plays ON! 

Late night ride back to Mission District

4th Annual Pedal Powered Stage at Maker Faire

Time: 
05/22/2010 - 08:30 - 05/23/2010 - 18:00

Maker Faire is one of our favorite events of the year, especially now that we've discovered we can bike there. Our plan this year, in a nutshell, is to make the Pedal Powered Stage an even more fun, musical, energizing, hands-and-feet-on, creative space for Faire goers.

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The Road To BMF

Time: 
02/05/2010 - 08:00 - 23:59

Road To BMF: benefit for BMF

The event starts with a LiveOnBike performance by The Genie at 6:30, then awesome street food from Sol Cocina and Bike Basket Pies. 

Then we'll feature live performances by awesome local bands on Rock The Bike's Pedal Powered Stage

Shotgun Wedding Quintet

Tomato Riper

SHAKE YOUR PEACE! 

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LiveOnBike Performance by the Genie

Time: 
02/05/2010 - 06:30 - 08:00

The Genie will grace our mobile performance stage right before the "Road To BMF" event at Cell Space. All volunteers and fans invited. 

The Genie is an exciting performer who developed a style called the scratch guitar. It involves looping an electric guitar that sits on his lap, combining sounds from a Velcroed-on iPod, and doing heavy filter sweeps with his big toes on devices like the Kaoss pad.   

Thanks Urban School!

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 »

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

 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 »

New Year's Eve at Sera Phi

Time: 
12/31/2009 - 21:00 - 01/01/2010 - 02:00

Pedal power one of SF's best underground sound systems, with a full lineup of dance worthy musicians.    
NYE Lineup

 

The headliners will be Band Of Mystics, who have played for Rock The Bike at Sunday Streets, West Fest, and other occasions this year.  Read More »

Yuba's factory team takes first in the two-wheeled division at food-hauling cargo race "Supermarket Street Sweep"

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. 

 

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Pastana Surfs Valencia as Rock The Bike crew roll from Bike Expo to nighttime gig at Baobab.

Of the three in our crew that can surf Mundos only Adam Pastana has the sense of foundation that allows him to dance while surfing. We were on our way from the SF Bike Expo to power the Genie and yours truly at Baobab Village last night.

My parents have told me to take this off our homepage and focus on selling the Down Low Glow.

I think it's rolling street theater and an absolutely stunning breakthrough in rocking the bike (lowercase). It's inspiring to me, so I hope that, despite the obvious safety considerations, it's inspiring on some level, to you too.

Besides that, this brief video shows three of our most important products in action: Read More »

Surfin' Mundos with the Rock The Bike Crew in SF.

Adam Aufdencamp spreads his wings on his first Mundo surf.

Below: Video of a Sunday Night Mundo surf with Pastana and Masha. Footage: Aufdencamp.

Pedal Powering the Fashion Show at SF Bike Expo this Saturday. Join us for epic 5-mile gear haul missions to and from the expo.

Time: 
11/21/2009 - 08:30 - 20:00

Come roll with us to and from the  SF Bike expo, where we'll be pedal powering our first Fashion Show.

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Thanks Fair Oaks St. and the Yes Men! for too much fun in San Francisco Halloween weekend.


Late night Haunted Hay Ride on the Biker Bar, cruising down 18th from the Castro to the District, with five European tourists along for the ride.


Rockin' Halloween colors on our way to Fair Oaks St. with a Masked Masha rolling a Mundo with the Down Low Glow. At sunset, yeow! Read More »

13 Rock The Bike crewmembers pedal power two huge events in two days.

It was a big weekend.


We hit the road Saturday to Pedal Power the 350.org rally at Justin Herman Plaza.

 

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Pedal Powering Climate Justice rally at Justin Herman plaza

Time: 
10/24/2009 - 15:00 - 17:00

350.org and Greenpeace are planning a major mobilization of bike people, environmentalists and others with a conscious for next Saturday.

http://www.350.org/sf

Join one of the awesome bike rides that will converge on Justin Herman for this event. Then help us pedal power activists, poets, speakers, and live music.

Thanks, Life Is Living! Rock The Bike pedal powers epic 4 hour BBoy Battle in West Oakland.

BGirl Slant. by you.

Battle!  by you.

A huge shout out to YouthSpeaks and the crew behind Life Is Living, where we pedal powered our first BBoy Battle yesterday! Read More »

Pedal Powering BBoy battle at YouthSpeaks event this Saturday

Time: 
10/10/2009 - 11:00 - 17:30

Pedal Powered Stage at Raise-A-Roof for I.M. Scott School

Time: 
10/04/2009 - 12:00 - 20:00

http://sf.funcheap.com/2009/09/15/free-pedal-powered-stitchcraft-concert...

 

Stitchcraft performs and dignitaries rally the crowd at an upcoming event in Potrero hill for the I.M. Scott school.

We'll be bringing out Pedal Powered Spin Art, Bike Blended Smoothies, and our Pedal Powered Stage.

Come join in! Help the musicians out with some good clean pedal power.

 

Fossil Fool performance at Cycles of Change APC

Time: 
09/27/2009 - 13:00 - 16:00

What's up  bike people of the East Bay?  Support an awesome community bike program. Come on down to the Cycles of Change APC bike shop 3rd anniversary party. Catch a pedal powered performance by Fossil Fool, the Bike Rapper, grab some ice cream, sounds good, no?

If you're coming from SF, catch the 11:50 ferry from Ferry Building with the Rock The Bike crew.

 

Pedal Powered Stage at Woodstock West

Time: 
10/25/2009 - 12:00 - 19:00

Pedal Powered Stage at Woodstock West, Oct. 25th, Golden Gate Park. Be There! by you.

Pedal Powering 4 bands at Critical Mass 17th Anniversary Afterparty at Cell Space: Ride Too

Time: 
09/25/2009 - 21:00 - 09/26/2009 - 01:30

Join the Rock The Bike crew at Cell Space as we power an awesome lineup including Oona, The Ferocious Few, the Rabbles, Fossil Fool, and more.

We'll be bringing our complete pedal powered stage. Scott from Hyde Street Studios will be working the knobs. Read More »