Comments on: Big wheels keep on turnin'

Big wheels keep on turnin'

GrammarMoses — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 05:10:47 -0800

Suddenly, a man in a vintage hat rides up, hip-hop blaring from a glowing Plexiglas container shaped like a tropical fish set above the back wheel of his bicycle, control lights flashing. Fossil Fool, a rolling rapper from San Francisco who rides the college circuit preaching the benefits of peddling, grabs his microphone, cranks up the volume and starts to rap. Paul Freedman, aka Fossil Fool, is one of the founders of Rock the Bike, which makes Soul Cycles -- bicycle-based, often human-powered hi-fi and PA systems -- for "playing clean, powerful, uplifting music at street festivals and off-grid parties." RTB recently made a mobile DJ booth for Austin's DJ Manny; here's how. Attention, party-throwers: In 2008, you may well be able to rent or borrow a Soul Cycle for your own shindig.

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 05:56:41 -0800

preaching the benefits of peddling I agree wholeheartedly. The small entrepreneurial retailer is an important factor in any healthy economy.

By: GrammarMoses

GrammarMoses — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 05:59:39 -0800

[sic] humor, FoB.

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 06:41:02 -0800

I put on my vintage hat and ride up, blaring hip-hop from a glowing plexiglas fish.

By: danb

danb — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 06:42:34 -0800

I cast level 3 WTF.

By: wfrgms

wfrgms — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:03:35 -0800

Bicycle activism has officially jumped the glowing plexiglas fish...

By: Chuckles

Chuckles — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:00:40 -0800

Heh.. I took a bicycle audio system along on The Ride for Heart (in Toronto) a couple of times. I'm not quite so into it anymore, but I wanted to play with a tripath amplifier, so I started building something up - a Class D amplifier and a sonotube subwoofer (lots of sonotube subwoofers online) should keep everything very light and portable, without sacrificing too much performance. It will cost a lot less than $3,000 :P

By: aGreatNotion

aGreatNotion — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 15:20:37 -0800

Ridiculous as his schtick may sound, Paul is one of the nicest, least selfish people I've ever met.

By: HuronBob

HuronBob — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 15:25:19 -0800

there was a guy at the Chicago Peace March yesterday with a bike/pa system (ran off an ipod duct taped to his handlebars...heh).. Thought it was a pain, too loud... he pulled in right next to me... 'til he pumped up "War, What is it good for" and about a thousand people started singing and moving along with the beat... neat stuff!

By: DenOfSizer

DenOfSizer — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:49:46 -0800

There's some hate going down in the comments on the first link.