CrankMyChain! Cycle TV

PORTLAND, Ore. - Reverend Phil hosts this short promotional piece which shows the anticipation, training, and a just a taste of what is to come at the fourth Mini-Bike Winter. MBW is an Olympic style festival of fun and freaks in Portland, Oregon. For more information go to ZooBomb.net or the MBW forum.

Yo, ho, ho ,ho! Hide the kids.

From the PDXK.TV vault with permission from Captain Bogg and Salty comes a rare live performance of this Buccaneer's Christmas carol live from Miz Kitty’s Parlour. Be merry, be amused, be warned!

PS don't tell Virginia.

PPS This ain't got nuthin' to do with bikes.

Low volume please turn up speakers.

VANCOUVER, B.C. - The North Shore Mountainbike community work together to keep the mountains safe and environment stable for riders from all around the world. There is growing concearn that the Mountain biking is creating environmental degredation of the mountains.

Presented by VFS

Directed by Kevin Michael Martin

Produced by R Huston Tronnes

Labels: advocacy, MTB

PORTLAND, Ore. - Posted by Jonathan Maus at BikePortland.org

Yesterday I got a sneak peak at how bikes mix with the gleaming and futuristic new Portland Aerial Tram. Built by a cooperative effort between PDOT and OHSU, the new tram carries people from a new OHSU health center on the South Waterfront up to OHSU’s Kohler Pavillion.

I was joined by PDOT tram project manager Art Pearce, a rep from ODOT, PDOT bike coordinator Roger Geller, and volunteers from OHSU’s Bike Commuters Group.

Read the rest of the story at www.BikePortland.org

Any Town, USA -

Take a driving test. What is your reaction?

Video Produced by Steev Hise ( http://detritus.net/steev ). Thanks for the test, Steev!

Labels: Art, Politics

GOVERNMENT CAMP, Ore.- Reverend Phil takes his Camera up the real big hill near Portland. That'd be Mount Hood. Looks like fun, mostly!

Labels: Rev Phil, Zoo Bomb

PORTLAND, Ore.- I invited Reverend Phil down to the CrankMyChain Garage for a chat about his exciting hump-day ahead.

Saddam Hussein goes for a liberating bike ride in this short bicycle propaganda piece.

Watch as the legendary Jack Castor wipes out while riding downhill with his legs over the handle bars of his HiWheel bike. Castor has riden accross the US on a HiWheel bike and prefers to ride even the steepest decesents with his legs over the handle bars. Here is his rationale as quoted from bikeroute.com

"Coasting the hills with the legs over the bars serves a

couple of purposes. It takes energy to pedal down the hill,

even when not resisting the pedals. Trying to retard the

bike with the pedals can really put the legs to work. On

the other hand, hanging the legs over the bars allows the

rider to completely relax the legs. They get a nice rest,

and are ready to go vigorously again. I have twice coasted

nine miles, and once six miles, on an ordinary. I find that

coasting legs over is the most pleasurable thing I do on the

ordinary."

In this case it was not so pleasurable. It seems the rubber came off his front wheel but take a look for yourself.

If you'd like to find out more about HiWheel bikes and Jack Castor be sure to vist bikeroute.com.

A teenage boy is cycling through a park, when he takes a turn into the woods and finds himself in a surreal mini-adventure.

This film by Leo Bridle utilizes paper cut-out animation, live-action scenes and keltic sounding music by Chien Bizarre.