• Pedal Powered Activities for Events and Education

     

    Pedal Powering activities at your event increases the fun and participation while decreasing the use of diesel generators, extension cords, and batteries. This instantly gets your audience moving, breathing, and active. People are more likely to loosen up, enjoy themselves, and learn something new at an event when they have a few different ways to plug in. Please read on to see all we have to offer!

     

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Featured Products

  • Fender Blender Pro

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    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.
    $1,700.00
    (in stock)

  • Fender Blender Universale

     Fender Blender Universale

    Turns any bike into a party bike! Our most affordable bike blender, it’s also great for schools, camps, and fundraisers.

  • Fender Blender Xtracycle

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    The original Fender Blender bike blender. You can toss this in one of your Xtracycle bags, roll to an event, set up your rig, and start cranking out smoothies or Margaritas. Inventor Nate Byerley (a.k.a. the Juice Pedaler) created this product so that he could make money and smiles at summertime music festivals in California. [...]

  • V3 Mundo Cargo Bike

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    Get that ‘useful’ feeling. The Mundo is a long-wheelbase bike with a stout welded cargo rack. Its one-piece frame fits a wide variety of riders, from approximately 5′ to over 6′. The slack seat angle and upright bars put you in a relaxed, upright position in traffic. The steel chassis and Side Loader racks offer [...]

  • Xtracycle Sport Utility Bike

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    Xtracycle Sport Utility Bicycles Xtracycle’s FreeRadical allows you to turn your favorite bicycle into an SUB. And we guarantee that you’ll start using your bicycle in ways you never thought possible beforehand. “Isn’t that just like a bike trailer?” Not at all. Trailers get left at home because they’re not fun to ride. The Xtracycle [...]

  • Spin Art for Fender Blenders

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    Amaze attendees at your event with Pedal Powered Spin Art. It’s so easy it almost requires no supervision. With just a few pedal strokes, you can get the platter of your Pedal Powered Spin Art station spinning at 1000-2000 RPM, enough to produce dazzling spirals, circles, and streaks as you squirt paint on the paper. [...]

  • Ice Cream Bike — Pedal Powered Ice Cream Maker

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    Casual pedaling effort — you can wear street clothes, even a dress and flip flops. Take the cranking out of your arms and into your legs for a more ergonomic method that taps into larger muscle groups,  yielding amazing results at your events. Crank out up to 1.5 gallons in only 20 minutes of casual [...]

Featured News

  • What are the elements of a Pedal Powered Stage?

    What follows is a breakdown of the key elements of a Pedal Powered Stage. If you are ready to buy these components,  go to our online store for purchase links to all of Pedal Powered Stage products.

    Pedal Power Generators:

    How many?
    You will need enough bicycle generators that the pedaling effort per person is approx. 50-75 Watts. Based on my experience at events, 50-75 Watts is the amount that an average audience member can continuously provide. You should also have ‘ringer pedalers’ in your crew. Ringer pedalers are strong racer or everyday commuting cyclists who can contribute up to 4 times more than an average pedaler. Whether you’re relying on ringers or the GP (General Public), you’ll need enough bikes that the effort can be shared. Tip: Use a Kill-A-Watt to measure the consumption of the gear you want to use. Then divide by 60 watts!

  • El Arbol: The Bike Tree

    Tara performs on El Arbol at the start of the SF Marathon

    El Arbol without its Canopy of Leaves

    El Arbol is a 15′ tall Bike Tree, a functional tall top-bottom tandem bicycle with a built-in 1500-Watt Pedal Powered stack of loudspeakers. Perfect for Pedal Powered Stage events, it’s fun, loud, clear, and expands the notion of ‘Stage’ to include the pedalers.


    Justin Ancheta band performs through El Arbol at Maker Fair. Photo: Krista Jones

    The height of the upper loudspeaker helps the sound spread out easily above a crowd, without requiring deafening levels of volume.

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  • No guarantees it’ll work for you but here’s how I fought the tall bike law in court and won.

    California’s Vehicle Code prohibits tall bikes, stating you have to be able to put your foot down and stop safely. I agree with the ‘stop safely’ spirit of this law. We don’t want to be seeing people keeling over. But tall bikes are fun, can be designed to be safe, and are great for Bike Culture events and rides. Here’s how I designed a tall bike that keeps to the spirit of the law, and then successfully defended myself in court!

    When I started making my tall bike, El Arbol, three years ago, I knew it was going to be bigger and heavier than the other ones I’d seen. So I began looking for ways to stabilize it at low speeds so I could stop without needing to put my hand on a nearby truck.


    Kipchoge riding his Long Tall Sally in San Francisco traffic.
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  • See a dynamic highlight video from the 2010 San Francisco Bicycle Music Festival, featuring Rock The Bike’s Pedal Powered Stage

    Start a Bicycle Music Festival in your town? Talk to us for advice on the gear you’ll need! Start a conversation about your Pedal Powered Stage this month and get free shipping. Please use the contact page or call 888-354-2453.

  • German electronic music performance powered by Rock The Bike Pedal Powered Stage

    Watch as a Brazilian reporter covers a German electronic music event a park, pedal powered by Rock The Bike gear and the Green Music Initiative. The Portugese is a bit hard to follow in the beginning (though she interviews people in English later), but the Pedal Power dynamic is great throughout. The gear shown in the video is: Rock The Bike’s Biker Bar, Mundo 500, and 6′ Pedalometer.