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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 [...]

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 [...]

The Present Revolution

Monday, March 17th, 2008

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 [...]

Dante’s Adventure

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

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 [...]

Journal: Sayulita to Guadalajara

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

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 [...]

Off-road bicycle music touring

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

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 [...]

Dante’s Power Project

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

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), [...]

Our Human Powered Sound System

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R_R9Q_OXqA

Interview On Sirius Radio This Morning

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

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 [...]


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