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The Ultimate Guide to Interactive Earth Day Event Activities!
The Ultimate Guide to Interactive Earth Day Event Activities!
Looking to host an Earth Day event that people will actually remember? The secret is choosing hands-on activities that keep everyone engaged, energized, and inspired to care for our planet. Interactive... Read more...
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Make your University's exercise and nutritional programs sustainable and fun! Empower: Health and Wellness Rock the Bike's Fender Blender Pro can be customized with your University's logo and branding. Generate... Read more...
1.7 Million Views! CNN Covers Rock The Bike's Roll-Up Generator at Standing Rock
CNN sent journalist Sara Sidner to Standing Rock in North Dakota, though they don't identify which camp they visited: Oceti Sakowin Camp, Rosebud Camp, or Sacred Stone Camp. While walking around, Sara found a Roll-Up, our portable pedal-powered generator, brought to Standing Rock by friend/collaborator/co-conspirator Mike Cobb, and gave it a spin. Check out the video below: Read more...
Fender Blender Mundo
Fender Blender Mundo
An homage to the original Fender Blender bike blender. You can toss this in one of your Mundo bags, roll to an event, set up your rig, and put your... Read more...
Generator Pro
When you do events with Pedal Power, especially with groups of pedalers, it’s good to have a simple, comfortable bike that looks inviting and leaves no option but to get on and pedal. The Generator Pro is that bike. It has no gears, no brakes — only the seat to adjust. The handlebars don’t even turn. Nothing rubs the tire, nothing gets hot, and no parts wear out when people pedal for hours on end at events. What it does have is a large and effective brushless generator wheel. The... Read more...
Update from Austin's first Pedal Powered spin class
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... Read more...
Fantastic pedal power social dynamics in the BBC's powering-a-house experiment
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... Read more...
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. Justin's pedaling the Mundo 1000 during the sound check, one of our two bikes equipped with our Grasshopper generator system. Despite their abundance of energy for gogo dancing and... Read more...
Jay pedaled! National TV debut of the Fender Blender Universale
Jay pedaled! National TV debut of the Fender Blender Universale
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... Read more...
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! Whoah. Amazing weekend. So much gratitude to the crew, the people of Fair Oaks St., and the Yes Men! Kai and Pastana showed up Saturday afternoon to help mod the Biker Bar into a Haunted Hay Ride. Tara had... Read more...
13 Rock The Bike crewmembers pedal power two huge events in two days.
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. Lauren from Greenpeace on the mic. The Biker Bar's swingarms... Read more...
Thanks, Grind for the Green!
Rock The Bike pedal powered the Grind For The Green hip hop conference this past Saturday in San Francisco. JMellion and another rapper. Two bikes held it down. The Choprical Fish and... A Mundo 1000 Smoothie break at Lunch. Speakers included M1 of Dead Prez. One the way back we hit the Bicycle Film Festival Street Party. Read more...
My tux for the Prom
Borrowed Jay's tux for Mission High's Green Prom. We'll be pedal powering 4 hours of dance music for one of San Francisco's largest high schools. Read more...
Pedal Powering Youth Speaks assembly at Lincoln High School
Pedal Powering Youth Speaks assembly at Lincoln High School
Youth Speaks' Brian rocks the mike as Lincoln High athletes power the audio gear (and answer questions while they're at it).Big thanks to Lincoln High School and ESLI for inviting... Read more...
Manicato Performing at the 2008 Bicycle Music Festival under Pedal Power
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