Pedal Revolutionary Radio

2010-09-12T13:04:00.007-07:00

Making clean airwaves since 2000

Next shows:
Oct 28, Nov 25, Dec 30, Jan 27, ad libitum

Listen at 102.7fm, or
live streaming at coopradio.org

or, for the modern cyclist on the move, visit Coop's Sound Resistance Archives and CiTR's backarchive

A WORD OF CAUTION: Wise gentlemen & ladies do not ride the bicycle while enjoying aural pleasures. Instead, they promenade. [See figure]

Pedal Revolutionary is a proud part of the Sound Resistance alliance

2007-08-30T23:51:00.000-07:00

thurs. august 30 5-6pm cartoonist andy singer!

World-carfree-famous CARtoonist Andy Singer joins us for tea and empathy. Visit our archive to hear the interview. Stop by his website or enjoy a few examples of his work here:

2007-01-04T15:41:00.000-08:00

THURSDAY JAN 4 2oo7

COMMERICAL DRIVE GOES COPTASTIC!

We'll talk about the Winter Solstice Critical Mass ride, which proved to be a bit, er, expensive for five of us pesky riders...To pay our fines, we'll have to eliminate almost 300 litres of fuel from our diet, just to make ends meet!

But we can thank our lucky stars that finally the city is cracking down on gratuitous assaults. The number of cars beaten by bare cyclists' heads every year is on the rise, and the mayor must take action. We can only hope that enforcing the helmet bylaw will protect vehicles from all that hair product and frivolous lawsuits.

Please check back for updates!

In the meantime, see video of a vicious bunny here!

Reverend Emilie Smith, one of the Commerical Drive Five, will join us to discuss her experiences with police in Vancouver and Oaxaca, Mexico. More information about it here http://www.nodo50.org/cipo-van/

Plus we'll get an update on the China Creek Skate Park & a traffic report from Nick Master of Disguise!

2006-12-21T01:07:00.000-08:00

THURS DEC 21 2006 THE END IS NIGH

TEOTWAWKI (the end of the world as we know it) is coming for you, your family, and your little dog too. don't worry, it'll even get your boss.

submedia founder, surradical moving picture maker franklin lopez drops by for a chat. we'll sit in comfy chairs & not panic.

see episode I of the end of the world as we know it & i feel fine right here.

how do you cope with vancouver rains? this is what franklin does.

he brought his bike & his camera to vancouver's november critical mass ride. he fired his car last year.

ooh, and we have an early boxing day special!

we play excerpts from the last work less party production, the church of pointless consumerism. i saw it sunday night, & nearly peed in my pew...

the show may be ended, but the world hasn't stopped ticking yet. still time for a bit of old-fashioned comic relief!

according to raptureready.com, the rapture index ("the prophetic speedometer of end-time activity") is currently running at 162. brrrrr! layers, folks, layers! you may want to get the t-shirt now.

& better make that bunker for two.

remember, even TEOTWAWKI finds time for romance. [see figure]

please note: the pedal revolutionary show will be beamed from a guaranteed holiday-music free zone. we offer small mercies. big ones are probably tricks.

TEOTWAWKI & 'just a friend'

2006-12-07T13:35:00.000-08:00

Monkey Warfare
THURS DEC 7 2oo6

Starring
The Director of Monkey Warfare
Reg Harkema

Actor/Prop Wrangler Cindy Wolfe
&
Molotov Safety Instructor Flick Harrison

Bike Theft Confessionals, Molotov Cocktails & Revenge Fantasies. The things that made college radio all the rage!

hear the interview
(to download, right click or ctrl click on the desired format)

mp3 format (27 mb)
ogg vorbis (24 mb)

see photos from the Vancouver premiere

read Rhiannon's review in Momentum Magazine.

watch

comment faire un molotov cocktail

starring flick harrison

oscar wilde brought us salome in french. these days, heads on platters are hard to come by. fuel will be too, but not for another decade or so. alors, smoke 'em if ya got 'em.

+

guerilla riding tips
starring reg hakema

ce nʻest pas un pipe bomb
(mais c'est la meme chose)

& hay, there's a momentum party
& the b:c:clettes will be bootifying it!

2006-11-21T00:44:00.000-08:00

THURS NOV 23 2oo6

You Never Bike Alone
Unless You're A Real Jerk.
Ah, probably even then; we're a pretty open bunch. After all, we get out a hell of a lot.

So does Bob Alstead,
& he's got the footage to prove it.
He's the director of You Never Bike Alone, the feature documentary about Vancouver's bike scene, struggles & all-around hotness. It premieres this Sunday, & we gots tickets to give away on-air.

Here's to screwing the highway expansion one booty shaker at a time!
This Friday after Critical Mass, shake it like you mean it:

2006-10-25T17:30:00.000-07:00

THURS OCT 26 2006

Parade of Lost Souls Returns from the Grave!
Michael Parenti & the Globalization Ghouls!
& Yessss More Portland to Love!
plus
News Room Assistant Katy J will be out in force, reporting from the ground up!

Historian, writer & critic Michael Parenti joins us in dis boot. Catch him Thurs. Oct 27 in East Van, talking about his new book, the Cuture Struggle.

The talk is free & he'll wave his arms around lots & get excited. It's good stuff! Scads better than domestication & the auto-da-fe!

7:30 pm, Italian Cultural Centre, 3075 Slocan St
More info at Indymedia.
Register for a seat if you can: call 604-877-7575 or email rsvp@vancity.com & you'll get an email confirmation.

Lyla Emery Reno comes in for a visit. Finally, some cultcha!

Her bike photos open as part of the Ayden Gallery's latest show 'Integrate.' 16 artists from the U.S. & Vancouver, live painting & deejays.

Fri Oct 27 7:00-11:00pm, International Village (Tinseltown), 2103-88 West Pender, 2nd Floor, 778 891 4310

The show runs until Nov 26. Ayden Gallery's open every night from 5-9, 10pm Fri/Sat. You can even own a piece of yer friendly neighbourhood DJ:

still life: woman surfing tallbike

They're baaaack....Join Public Dreams for a Nightmare on OUR Street Oct 28 6-11pm. Andrea Curtis will fill us in on all the goodstuff.Commercial Drive will be CLOSED for BUSINESS from 5:00 on! Muhuhuhahahaaaa!

Start at William & Cotton. The all-weather gravel field will be full of shrines & altars -- the Day of the Dead approaches. There will be a place to leave remembrance for road casualties. Contribute your own touch to the scene, or add to the commemmoration of the poor dying highway expansion!

The procession starts at 6pm & will terminate in Grandview Park (Charles & Commercial) where you can get groovy & shake dem bones. Those coming dressed as street barricades get all the revolutionaries they can handle!
More info

THURS OCT 26: Free workshop at 1000 Parker by Vanessa Richards 6-9pm (778.838.7678, community@publicdreams.org). Kevin Falcon Voodoo dolls are de rigeur!

BELOW: click me, read me, ride me!

To listen to the show, tune in to 101.9fm or go to citr.ca & listen to the live stream. Podcast is still pending. To subscribe, go to citr.ca & follow the instructions.

2006-10-12T03:12:00.000-07:00

THURS OCT 12 2oo6

ah, city council -
cruisin for a bruisin,
or just plain ignernt?

the bad news: people are having fun.

the good news: the npa is here to help.

image courtesy of found magazine, the vancouver issue. item found at cambie & 12th.

the city's initiative to rid vancouver of one of the oldest, most unique skate parks in north america is not going unnoticed. a group of fine bmx chaps will bring us the latest on the emerging battle for china creek.

& city council, bless its little black heart, has a plan. 2 plans even.

upgrade has such a nice ring to it, doesn't it? upgrade. it almost doesn't sound like a lie. concept plan kinda gives it away though. better luck next time boys.

option 1, make it better. option 3, rip it down & build it again, only sucky. don't know what happened to option 2, but i like to think it involved the phrase "bite me."

& while we're at it, we'll get a bit of low down on the local bmx scene, & urban riding. 20" & counting!

hey look, nicole kidman in bmx bandits (1983). who knew she'd fall for a cultist? like the song says, nicole, you stole my soul with your cute little bunny hop...that's from a semi-vile song by wheatus.

hear the vile, vile music i couldn't bear to let on the show, despite the fact that it's by an actual band called bmx bandits.

~ and on the eastern front ~

car-free commercial drive fest vs. commercially-driven car-frenzy-fest

GWAC AGM. mean something to ya? if it doesn't, it will soon.

as the highway expansion continues to heave its bloated carcass towards the realm of possibility, a line has appeared in the sand, & its name is Grandview Woodland. they just had their Area Council Annual General Meeting & election last night, & the fur must have been a-flying.

we'll get an eyewitness report from kevin potvin, earthshaker, editor of the republic newspaper, & owner of magpie magazines. he ran for council last night, & we look forward to a good-old-fashioned bull session.

photo of kevin potvin courtesy of the straight, taken during oct/05 critical mass.
come on, that's adorable. lookit the vest. come on! i love this town.

to read more about the highway expansion suck-o-rama-rama, meet the citizens concerned with highway expansion, or read the livable region coalition's position paper.

say it with me, "i'm mad as hell, & i'm not gonna take it anymore!" feels good. even better if you holler it leaning out the window inna dirty undershirt, or beat your breast in the rain. look, i'm no howard beale. but then, there is no howard beale. never was.

but there is a hell. we'll be treated to a rush hour traffic report from the streets of terminal city. coming to you live from the carside of caged humans, News Room Assistant Katy J & Deputy Sub-Commandant News Room Assistant Heinous Grime bring us up-to-the-heartbeat coverage of the grim reality facing car people. how can they stand it? we attempt to find out...

& btw, the workless party's havin a masquerade ball! sat oct 14 at the capri (fraser & 23rd). check out the awesome lineup

during the party, the bicycle bee will be auctioning off a 3 speed mini tall bike, & a full on massage from the incredible b:c:clettes bike dance troopers! bid on these items after the carnival band finishes (around 10:45) & look for our silent auction table full of bike art & mania, manned by live honeybees!

2006-09-28T14:25:00.000-07:00

SEPT 28 2006
who's street? our street!
city repair a la hoi polloi

one who does not repair the gutter will have a whole house to repair. ~spanish proverb

we gonna fly out to the nation's small letter 't' today, toronto...city of cbc couture, carpileups, & home to a super gutter rescue crew...they need an east west bike route linking extant bike routes. & they're gonna get one!

hear tales of transmogrifying gutterbunnies to real live cyclists!

first there was the will, then the chalk, then the stencil. let there be might!

we'll be talking to Hamish Wilson about the situ with the Tooker initiative, as well as about the bike scene on the mean streets of t.o.

check it: takethetooker.ca

who is tooker?

parking myths

photo courtesy of Yvonne

"I was riding west along Bloor after having attended the Take the Tooker event on Friday. As I passed Spadina I began to notice stencils of bicycles - what looked to be the makings of a real live bike lane on the North side of Bloor. It didn’t take long to find and photograph the action.

Though not an ‘official line’, what struck me the most was how much better I felt as a cyclist once on the safe side of it. Toronto needs more bike lanes - thanks to all the street fighters working to make them appear."

Cheers,
Yvonne

lookit, resistance even gets pretty. this is a piece by roadworth in montreal, a couple years ago:

hah! take that forces of darkness!
more prettiness

another DIY brigade is out in force this fall, & wants you! in fact they're drooling just thinking aboutcha! they are the bicycle bee.

the bike bee is a community created, peer educatin' event, coming up oct 20-21. the weekend of workshops will cover topics like the ever popular fixing a flat, building a reclaimed bike, bike anatomy 101, anti-theft devices, bike art, building a custom chopperific bike, etera cet...

they're looking for warm bodies to act as volunteers, workshoppers, and allies. visit their site for details, or come to their next meeting, oct 4 at spartacus books 319 w. hastings at 6:30pm (it's a potluck, so bring some finger foods, veggie friendly if you can). they can be contacted at bicyclebee AT gmail DOT com

2006-09-14T14:21:00.000-07:00

SEPT 14 2006 ride softly & carry a big stick
aka
look ma, no hand brake!

today we talk gearless, & look at a recent flurry of tickets served to fixie riders who don't do handbrakes...

what the fixie?
wiki sez

pete will do an interpretive fixed dance sans brakes

mark ginsberg, bike lawyer type, will let us ply him with questions

photo by dabby

couriers try their best to comply with a portland judge, giving the stick brake the old college try.

for those who like to read:

Judge finds fault with fixies from bikeportland.org

Despite ruling, Officer continues to ticket fixed gear riders

also we gonna wax poetic aboot the weekend of bikepiggingout&brazentheftofthecityofvancouver coming up sept 21-24

see velovan.blogspot.com
for full schedule or
alley kittening or
velomutation
or speed freaks
or bicycle CARcass

& that's enough or your bike will pee itself!

2006-08-31T13:52:00.000-07:00

AUGUST 31 - the bleeding edge of critical mass.

the car lady. the bike peeble. the streets. the pundits. all rolled into one hour. mp3 comin soon.

2006-08-17T14:13:00.000-07:00

AUGUST 17, summer marathon 2006
who's tired?! even the 14 year olds are exhausted! lookit them.
geez, wouldja look.

there's more bike stuff goin on that you can shake a tailfeather at, lady.
today we gonna have a...

gonna have: neha bangar, giving us the low down on Traffic Jam, a day of music, freeschool, food, & community fomenting. she fights evil over at the society promoting environmental conservation (SPEC to its friends).

when? sun sept 10.

where? duh, the eastside of course. bless its subversive little heart.

which reminds me cos i almost forgot...
the gateway project sucks sustainable buttock.
read others say it with more grace:
gateway to gridlock
mmm, traffic flooding

bartender, another round of u-locks please.

an' we gonna have:

<---dan kaufman, the biker behind a new internet veloTV site from portland, CrankMyChain

watch team canada & zoobomb rain mini-terror upon a yankee mall consumer frenzy!

an' we gonna have:

<---diabolically friendly bikers warning us of the impending Quickening, this saturday in the other albany (oregon).

they been welding bikes all night & they're ready to slay some airtime! they said they'll try not to swear. i'm gonna try too. let's all try.

--->an' we gonna have music by forty hundred thousand locked up guns, crank my chain & joey only.

don't fegeddabout critical mass bike ridin, fri august 25, vancouver art gallery, georgia side. meet 5:30, ride at 6. then the velofusion begins, complete with cherry auction & hymenager hunt. & the booth of 4 options! why buy the cow when you can get the milk for $3?

if you miss the broadcast, come back later for the archived version. if this was a show about drying paint, or eating spaghetti with your feet, the podcasts would be fast & furious. as it is, they are pokey & voracious. one day we have it all!

ride like sun!

eat like monster!
sleep like bear!

take my bike, please.

2006-07-20T10:50:00.000-07:00

JOOLY 20 2006 : race me to the end of love
mp3 masscast to come, after de weekend

"The riders come out, knights for the tournament, neck to thigh in slippery lycra with the sheen of deep space condoms, faired helmets on their heads like the glans from another galaxy and neoprene pixyboots to slide the air around their feet, mounted on gaudily caparisoned donkeys - the carbon fibre monocoque monoblade." - James Waddington, Bad to the Bone

flying by the seat of our pants, we gonna talk racing.

pro, amateur, freak...speed has been seducing bike geeks for generations. internal combustion is for liars, cheaters & horsethieves. & disagreeing is for wimps...

we'll be joined by vermont's brian, justin & conner, the boston scientific team, fresh from the battle for gastown last night. the tour de gastown is part of BC superweek, a racing extravaganza drawing riders from all over de place.

a procession is like a race, only sl-o-o-w & saavvvory. & if it's on fire, everyone's a winner! public dreams' illuminaires festival is just around the corner, & the illustrious heidi taylor will be giving us the lowdown on yet another reason why the eastside rules vancity.

we'll also talk to de dead baby bike club, in the last stages of preparations for the notorious & effably famous dead baby downhill, august 4th in seattle, washington.

preregister, lest ye be left with a stupid number!

team canada is going down in force, both on bicycles & in motorized coaches. you want come? email me! iamlachance at gmail dot com . mebbe you ride, mebbe you drive, whatever, in seattle you be fly, not disappoint!

sheeit, even ifny was a racer, in her ghetto way. see her totally official race results from the orenji kurassiku (orange classic) in gifu prefecture, japan, 2003. they look good, especially if you're illiterate! (here's another. scroll waaay down; 2 laps is better than DFL!).

after july's critical mass bike ride,
we're having another velomash!

whippit,
burnit,
savour the blur,
biker peebles!

2006-07-06T13:48:00.000-07:00

JOOLY 6 2006 : critical massterspincycle

welcome to
june critical massive
ride-a-bike-a-tronic
t'eem roundup show
with a cherry on top

~ clap yo hans ~

today we travel troo space & time,
enter the massive critical cave,
arms akimbo & wishing well.

listen to this show!
(see instructions)
http://207.6.195.230:9080/~jablko/masscast.m4a
(yes, the end of this masscast is cut off.
we're bikers, whatchoo want?!)

--> vancouver
most conservative under-estimate of participants: 1,835. after scientific number crunking, the realistic count is 2,050 peebles! plus 20 dogs. many children too, starring echo the wunderkinder & at least 3 minibikes. see photos & videos at the dynamic critical mass blog.

do you think our cops were naughty or nice? give our boys & girls in blue positive/negative reinforcement at vpd@vancouver.ca

--> victoria
their massers were sucked into the vancouver vortex. we love you, island of sin! the recyclistas & bike laboratorians kept our pack meaty!

--> winnipeg
we freakin love the 'peg. unfortunately, so do wargames-types & rudy giuliani (sic sic sic!). cops love them so much they mashed them like little free-thinking potatoes a couple masses in a row. bad cop, bad bad. pick on somebody your own antiquity. arresting a big blue teddy bear may be the dumbest PR move ever.

read about the shiznit on dada world data (has photos & videos too. be warned, video #1 & #3 might make your fists cramp into a longterm clench). mainstream coverage can be found at canada.com or cbc.

their june ride was 400+! (with no hills! it's like bike heaven!)

--> seattle
packing's county sherriffs were especially naughty this month. tut tut, hitting isn't nice, even if the other kids won't play with you. seattle bikers sing like canaries on our show. read what the bikers are saying, or check the media coverage about it in the stranger, seattle p.i., & seattle k-5 tv.

here's david horsey's latest eddy cartoon onnit:
-->portland
despite past police naughtiness, & the recent first-ever arrest on a world naked bike ride, p'land's june mass was a fine honey breeze anointing the brow of a sleeping bull. almost a hundred bikes attended. agent lapis' report is just in (her bike was recently smucked by a car, but with a new wheel, she is once again rokkin the casbah):

"mass was fun, it was especially good after getting hit -- being out & visible, doing a little corking. turnout was the smallest i've seen for a summer mass, maybe half the size of the kickoff parade. very few people i actually know.

"there was maybe seven police. they left us at around 15th & hawthorne to pull over a car that ran a red and then we could cork and enjoy ourselves."

phil sez: "i think pdx is willing to let the mass linger in boredom for a bit, the good news is that this was the smallest number of police in recent history." saweet!

...if you want to impress that special somebiker, or you just wanna know where we've been, check out the history of cm or the wikipedia cm entry...

& in tribute to billy bob, we will be spinning the volcanic johnny hallyday, "le demon du rock." if you look carefully, you can see the little cyclist trying hard to get out. regard the white knuckles. so close! and yet so rarrrr

p.s. if you like bikes & live around vancouver, you should think about joining the velolove mailing list. if you have q's or a's or p's or q's, email us at pedalrevolutionary at gmail dot com. for other events listings, check out the b.e.s.t. calendar & momentum magazine.

see you on road, ungh.

2006-06-21T23:05:00.002-07:00

...the revolution will not be motorised...

Pedal Revolutionary Radio covers news, culture and tactics useful to people who like bikes.

In addition to what you might expect to hear, we chew into:

critical thinking, dialogue, manual paradigm shifting
conscionable transportation, integrated transport
public space/the Commons
free fun
relocalisation, city gardens, clean air, clean water, food sovereignty
creativity, rediscovery of cottage crafts and handmade traditions
celebration of community
physical health and vigour; passionate living and loving sexual expression
resistance; organising strategies and tools
sustainable behaviour; ecological issues like climate change and pollution
community alliances, interdependence, mutual cooperation (anarchy)
building paths to a carbon-light future
family time
profiles of community leaders and projects
democratic health, citizen participation and strong voices, government accountability, freedom of choice and information
free and open source software
fair (re)distribution of resources, social justice
waste reduction and activism; sharing
natural beauty and sensory exultation
inclusiveness, anti-oppression, solidarity
discourse, the art of conversation, appreciation for others, dialogue, diversity, empathy
family time, friendship, civil society, collaboration, sharing
sport, recreation, innovation, spirited competition
independence, nonconformity, DIY ethos
street art, beautification projects, urban exploration/appreciation
civic history, legacy-building
history of the bicycle, contemporary bicycle communities here and elsewhere
environmental stewardship
living with less, conservation, reducing consumption
humane urban planning strategies and advocacy for community interests
outreach, promotion of any and all of the above

...in addition of course to the bicycle and all the benefits it confers

Past guests and organisations have included:

Annie Leonard (Story of Stuff)
Miriam Webster (author of Age of the Bicycle)
Andy Carr (cartoonist)
Sarah Westervelt (ewaste project coordinator for the Basel Action Network)
Stephen Rees (recusant transportation economist and regional planner)
Michael Parenti (Historian, writer & critic)
Streets are for People
The Bus Riders' Union
Joey Only
United Steelworkers
The St1muL470r
Free Geek Vancouver
The Creaking Planks
Trike (a band)
The Swiss Bicycle Brigade
The B:C:Clettes
Mykle Hansen (bizarro fiction author and codpiece model)
Zoobomb
Reverend Phil Sanno
Flick Harrison
Steve Kisby
Conradical
Pepperspray Productions
Reverend Emilie Smith
Bob Alstead (director of You Never Bike Alone)
Carmen Mills
Red Sara
Katy J
Lyla Emery Reno (photographer)
Public Dreams
Kevin Potvin
Fred Bass
The Bicycle Bee
Take the Tooker
Kevin Falconian
Mark Ginsberg (bicycle lawyer from Portland)
Society Promoting Environmental Conservation (SPEC)
Dan Kaufman (producer of CrankMyChain)
Forty Hundred Thousand Locked-Up Guns
Velofusion
Bicycle CARcass
Critical Massterminds
Velolovers
The Boston Scientific Team
Dead Baby Bike Club
The Flying Trannies
festEVIL

2006-05-24T19:52:00.000-07:00

MAY 25 2006
broadcast in iron, will we get it all into one unbig hour?

Today We Ride With:

the flying trannies!

the B:C:Clettes, fantasy on ice in our humble studio!

Conradical, bringing us his new book, workers of the world RELAX!

zuihitsu bryce of uberchopper fame!

b.e.s.t. is the b.r.e.a.s.t.!!

& Shoot The Breeze About:

june bike month creeping through the undergrowth, waiting breathlessly to open its distrubingly lumpy raincoat...

chopper night in canada!

what's this about naked streets?!

avast ye, critical mass, we aRRRRrrrr traffic! gridlock, prepare to be boarded!

the door prize - don't be a winner!

festEVIL is nigh!

one inch is hot! get some cheap action!

what, me arrested?

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