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Greetings and thank you for your interest in Heavy Pedal Cyclecide Bike Rodeo! Since 1996 we have used bicycles not just as a vehicle, but a medium for expressing our interests in art, music, and performance. We see the bicycle as a malleable machine that can be altered and transformed for the sake of fun. We began as a bike club. We dumpster-dived for bikes that had been thrown away and transformed them into tall bikes, chopper bikes, tandem bikes and all kinds of pedal-powered bike monstrosities like the Lawn Mower Bike “Suburban Intruder”, the Rocket Bike, the Chupacabra, and others too terrifying to name.

Inspired by traditional American rodeos, we created comedic skits and stunts featuring our untamed metal steeds and our bike riders as rodeo clowns, stunt riders, and beauty queens. We rope the audience into our show, getting them to try their hand against us in contests of bike-riding skill, such as barrel racing, piñata-bashing and tall bike jousting. Our mariachi-country-punk band “Los Banos” provides the lively backdrop for our performance. Emboldened by the success of our bike rodeo, we decided to build the country’s one and only pedal-powered carnival midway. We began with the exciting Dizzy Toy, and then progressed to the thrilling Pedal-Powered Ferris Wheel, and then kept growing, adding the sweetly nostalgic Bicycle Carousel, the amazing Cyclofuge, the charming Flight of the Bumblebee, the cacophonous Axe Grinder, and more. Little kids, big kids and kids-at-heart can all participate in our shows now, whether by tackling a bike during our rodeo skits or riding one of our pedal-powered carnival rides.

The Heavy Pedal Cyclecide Bike Rodeo has been independently operated and touring for over ten years now. We travel in a converted school bus full of clowns and their alter-cycles and pull a trailer loaded with pedal-powered rides. We’ve toured across the United States and down into Mexico and have been featured performers at festivals such as Coachella, Stage Coach, Bumbershoot, Tour De Fat, Burning Man and Maker Faire, to name a few. We remain passionately devoted to the idea of the bicycle as a piece of interactive kinetic sculpture that can make music, breathe �re, even save the world!

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“But what started as a club is now an in-demand troupe of welders, musicians, clowns, and general nutcases roughly two dozen strong.” SFWEEKLY.COM Key Word “CYCLECIDE” SF Weekly May 2003

“Cyclecide is a touring freak show that showcases muscle-powered contraptions welded together from bits of bikes salvaged from junk heaps, sca�olding, and car parts. ” Fault Lines Spring 2007“Tall handles, double-decker bikes, unicycles propped up by roller-skate wheels…all of them awesome, and all of them practically un-ride-able.” “San Francisco-based Cyclecide is a collective of about two dozen people who build crazy bicycles and pedal-powered carnival rides out of bicycle parts.” WIRED.COM key word “CYCLECIDE” Wired May 2007

“They’ll also �nd Cyclecide, the world’s most famous bicycle rodeo. This comely creature is one of the troupe’s bikes, and sets the tone for what those who ride the bikes will experience.” CNET 2009

“Basically what the dozen or so members of Heavy Pedal do is build the strangest bikes they can dream up, and occasionally haul their collection of twisted metal to various sites and hold bike rodeos.” SFGATE.COM Key Word “CYCLECIDE” archived San Francisco Chronicle April 2000

“What they bring, perhaps, is a message of levity during politically and economically stressful times. What they will meet, most likely, will be blank stares.” SFGATE.COM Key Word “CYCLECIDE” archived San Francisco Chronicle April 2003

“I have not felt that innocent, child-like bliss until I saw Cyclecide earlier this year. They transport people into somewhere between Santa Claus’ Village and a cyclists’ acid trip.” Bittercyclist.com 2004

…”homemade bicycles–pedal driven Ferris Wheels, bikes with no seats, bikes with 100-pound motorcycle forks, 10-foot long chopper bikes and tiny kiddie bikes welded and stretched into immense jousting steeds, to name a few highlights–here is the basic recipe: rent Mad Max and Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, toss them in a nuclear reactor together, and watch the ensuing mutant merriment”… Boise Weekly Sept. 2004

“Look around, and you might see a lot of people having quite a bit of fun. Kids pedaling the Bike Ferris Wheel? Dorky guys giggling as they test out the “Suburban Invader” (lawnmower bike)? Girls in striped stockings screaming bloody hell as they bike-joust with padded lances?” Not For Tourists March 2007

“Another audience member wheels forward on a once-innocent machine corrupted by gold mannequin legs, a leopard-print banana seat, and a nasty �amethrower that erupts with four feet of �re.” SFWEEKLY.COM Key Word “CYCLECIDE” SF Weekly May 1999

“It is from this heavy metal trash heap that Reesce and about 15 cronies fashion their weird bikes, contraptions that look like Salvador Dali dream- cycles riding through a psilocybin hallucination.” SFGATE.COM Key Word “CYCLECIDE” archived San Francisco Chronicle April 2001

“These tough guys and crazy chicks may sell “blood towels” at shows, but they have a heck of a soft spot for keeping people — especially children, who adore them — having fun.” SFWEEKLY.COM Key Word “CYCLECIDE” SF Weekly May 2004

“What do you get when you weld a lawn mower to the front of a cruiser bicycle? If you`re one of the creative minds behind the San Francisco-based Cyclecide rodeo road show, you call that a ‘suburban intruder.’” Daily Camera Sept. 2003

“A troupe of bike acrobats rode stunt bikes and juggled bike tires.” SFGATE.COM Key Word “CYCLECIDE” archived San Francisco Chronicle May 2005

“Two new cop cars arrive to survey the scene. Like their earlier cohort, they just pull up close enough to check out all the bikes and try to hide their smirks when two jousting fools wind up in a pile on the pavement.” SFWEEKLY.COM Key Word “CYCLECIDE” SF Weekly May 2000

“we took a spin on Cyclecide’s pedal-cranked Ferris wheel. Physics is great. With a single push, our identical weights made it possible to spin at top speeds without even breaking a sweat.” WIRED.COM key word “CYCLECIDE” Wired Feb. 2007

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“Introducing Cyclecide, an inventive band of Bay Area performance artists who make creations out of materials from the junkyard. These Makers create everything from amusement park rides to outrageous bicycle contraptions to found-object sculpture. Plus, we take a historical spin through the origins of the modern bicycle” MAKE MAGAZINE

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RIDESConceptualized at the same time as the Cyclefuge, the Bumble Bee bike ride gives �ight to the bicycle. Using a unique �exible drive shaft system, two riders propel themselves in mid air like bees buzzing around a �ower. It has a diameter of approximatley 25 feet and is 12 feet tall.

Bumble bee video

Developed by Paul the Plumber. This three person pedal powered ride is a further extention of the two seater. This is the stationary set up of the moving Star Wheel.

three seat ferris wheel

As you pedal the world around you becomes a blur. Requires a 20 foot diameter.

the dizzy toy

the dizzy video

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A revision on the �rst

Carousel includes 6

more bikes and a

superbly crafted

canopy by Renessa.

Requires a 30 foot

diameter area.

12 bike Carousel (#2)

The two person pedal powered Ferris wheel is quite a thrill to ride and mesmerizing to watch. Feels like a swing that goes all the way over the bar. Developed by Paul the Plumber, it uses heavy duty car rotors and intricate bike parts.

Ferris Wheel

Ferris Wheel video

RIDES

12 bike Carousel video

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RIDES

cyclofuge

Akin to astronauts on a centrifuge, this ride swings 4

people around as 4 people pedal below.

Great training for our bicycle space program!

It has a 40 foot diameter and is 12 feet tall.

Kiddie carousel This carousel is for kiddies.

Kiddie carousel video

cyclofuge video