I wanted to be a part of the pleasant revolution from the start. I had tried to ride the first day of the tour to Nevada city, hoping that this would satisfy my craving for adventure. I never made it. It would not be until two months later […]

Life is my adventure. This is my life. When I took on this project, to build and maintain 4 bicycle generators for the pleasant revolution tour, I took it on as a way of life. To travel and live off my bike. I love the Ginger Ninjas. They have made this possible. So I am […]

By David Kupfer
The Pleasant Revolution is all about promotion, promotion of adventure, person to person cultural exchanges, bicycle values, freedoms found by biking, bike powered music, backwoods California rock and roll. So many kids and adults were and are inspired by the music and the message and the mission that is impossible to calculate the […]

North of santa barbara, some friendly guy, a bike rider himself, invited us to thanksgiving at his place as we rode by. we declined, needing to make miles, but were stoked to be let in on some inside knowledge: although bikes aren’t allowed on the freeway overpass above the santa maria river, you can avoid […]

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), […]

This is a short video we did for a contest called Innovate or Die that promotes human power via the bicycle cranks. We’ll be putting up more details on the system when we have a chance.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R_R9Q_OXqA[/youtube]

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!

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 […]

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 […]