advocacy

Stu Harrod writes:

I attended our city's Go Green festival on the Mundo sporting recycle bins on the rack and wound up in the newspaper. The bike is fantastic and has already saved me over $50.00 in gas the first week, and has drastically reduced my carbon footprint.

Anyway, the mayor jokingly pointed at my bike during his opening speech and told the crowd to check out the city's new recycling truck ! The bike helped make an positive impact on the city officials and also gave a big boost to our fight for bike lanes and bicycle/pedestrian paths in our city.

 The bike has apparently already created a buzz about town...I was amazed at how many people commented that they've seen me around town on it and were shocked to see what I was able to haul on a bicycle. Funny thing...after the mayor's speech people started using my recycle bin on the bike to deposit their aluminum cans and plastic/glass bottles at the festival. The Mundo was put to work as an impromtu recycle truck and was definitely in it's element.

When Clif Bar wanted to pump up the volume on their "2-Mile Challenge" bike advocacy tour, they turned to Rock the Bike for a human-powered Soul Cycle Mothership party bike. The party bike helps spread smiles at events and increase the numbers of visitors to Clif Bar's 2-Mile Challenge bus.

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Originally uploaded by macpaulster From our Flickr friend MacPaulster's account:

"Hats off to Mike Sinyard, CEO at Specialized Bicycles, for riding the winning "Innovate or Die" contest entry, Aqueduct, in the charity Prologue of the Tour of California 2008. The pedaling of this rig powers both the drivetrain of the tricycle and the pumps that purify water.