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Show your bike you care

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

There will be a lot of bicycle lovin happening in Berkeley tomorrow.
It all starts with a sunset ride through town to Ashkenaz.
We’ll be taking this route. Cruise with us!
Click on the flyer for more details.

Estamos Bien Listos

Monday, February 16th, 2009

After a busy time in Mexico City with shows on Reforma Avenue, Cholula, and Hirvana in colonia Roma, many long hours redesigning the generator system, a packed show in Oaxaca at the Cafe Central, we´re heading for Chiapas and San Cristobal. After a short trip into the mountains for a huge fiesta and lots of [...]

Josh with the Ninjas

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Hi everyone, My name is Josh. I am an bicycle mechanic,volunteer, bicycle advocacy supporter, as well as musician. I found the ginger ninjas while they were on their east coast tour last fall. They were looking for a show to play in Worcester. I emailed them immediately when I first read about them and listened to their music. I [...]

Plaza Revolucion

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Arrival in Guadalajara

Friday, January 30th, 2009

The bus gods on our side

Monday, January 26th, 2009

Mission: Get 7 people, 7 bikes, musical instruments and other equipment, and 7-10 dry bags filled with all things personal one might need or want (and be willing to carry on bike) for a trip to another country, on one bus to Mexico. The doubt that this could be possible added weight to our 75 [...]

Dante in DF

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

HI
I have been in Mexico City for 3 months. I lost my Bike and everything in Puerto Escondido.
Totally Total Total Totally every thing. I decided not to let it keep me back.
So when the band left, I stayed in mexico working with the people here to build and sell pedal power generators.
I now have many [...]

Playing in Central Park Today

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

Ever since hearing Paul Simon’s free concert in Central Park (on tape) I imagined how fun it would be to play there. Something epic about it. Well, we’re not doing a 2 million person free gig but we are playing in the park for a big event, and it is free, and it is sunny, [...]

At the DNC

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

More details about the tour launch soon! Here’s our Denver gigs so far. More to come this week.
We’re hooked up with the righteous heads at the Sustainable Living Roadshow. Playing with/near them today and tomorrow. 
We’re playing next to the free bike rental (map of bike rental locations) spot beneath the pedestrian bridge at 16th and platte, [...]

Stanford Magazine Article

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

A great writer came down to ride with us last January. Here’s what he wrote:
“Kipchoge Spencer was somewhere in Mexico, and so was I. We had that going for us. But other than knowing that Spencer and his rock band, the Ginger Ninjas, were riding bicycles across the state of Jalisco, I was clueless, and [...]


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