this is a video of joey chang aka cellojoe riding his bike while playing the bucket bike drum musical mayhem machine. observe the shark/cello on his bike…

I (Dante) came on this tour by the request of Kipchoge to build four bikes equipped with human power generators. Each bike includes a 12volt 6 aH Lithium Phosphate battery, Brunton 12 volt 26 watt fold-up solar panel, Brunton Charge Controller, 12 volt Generator, 58F Capacitor, water resistant housing, cabling (for on-the-fly thumb shift engage), [...]

Gabe Dominguez of SHAKE YOUR PEACE! talks about how a bicycle music tour is different from a garden variety music tour.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJy-o-qDmGQ

I’m talking to The Lazy Environmentalist on Sirius Channel 114 (Lime Radio) at 8:10 PST today.
Links I mentioned:
-xtracycle.com
-the Ginger Ninjas myspace page www.myspace.com/gingermyninja
-the Dick Cheney (needs more love) music video
- “Selling the Revolution” the making of Xtracycle movie from 2001
- Worldbike
- Treehugger Video Contest entry: how I personally try [...]

Eco and I made a little movie about selling the car and replacing it with longbike/tallbike/carshare/stokemonkey/walking/moving close to work for a “what I can do about global warming” contest put on by TreeHugger. Here’s our 2 minute entry with original music by Eco. Vote for me, vote for me!

We finished the vid. Biggest props of all to my bio-pops Ed Montgomery for producing and carrying it through over the past year.

Get your button and help spread the strange love craze. The single is available on itunes.

I was interviewed by Grist Magazine recently. They edited out much of my thinking about what it means to be a bike-ridin’ activist/environmentalist/concerned human, so I thought I’d post the long version here.

What work do you do? What’s your job title?
I’m lead singer of the Ginger Ninjas, president of Xtracycle Inc, coinstigator of the [...]

Eco and I are playing a gig for Transportation Alternatives‘ holiday par-dee at The NYC Fire Museum (278 Spring Street between Varick and Hudson) on Thursday, December 14th from 7:30-10 pm.
And, the video that has received so much attention (from the crew)that the producer calls it a “movie” is finally going to see the light [...]

We met a man called Tim Harvey in Fairbanks a couple years ago. The band was on Alaska tour. Tim was on his way around the world — by human power. A couple Sundays ago when we were on tour in the Pacific Northwest, we passed by Tim again — on the last leg of [...]

The Halloween Hot Tub Tour is Ready to Roll.
We’re going to Oregon to fetch a hand-me-down wood-fired hot tub (that we’re hoping to power with magic evacuated solar tubes) that you can enjoy at future Willow Springs Shows.
The tour kicks off this Saturday the 4th, at home on the San Juan Ridge, with a full [...]