March 16, 2010 was a beautiful sunny day around Madison so I took photo's and a bike ride across town. These are scenes from bike ride to Yahara Bay Distillery to Creative Commons music by Dabra "Maybe I Should Stay". Produced by Roger.

Bike the Barns 2009 presented by MACSAC in partnership with Underground Food Collective is a 52 mile bike ride to the southwest of Madison, Wisconsin to visit farms for tours and food. This tour included Primrose Community Farm, Garden to Be, and Snug Haven Farm. It ends at Elver Park for food, beverages, and entertainment.

Watch the video in HD at YouTube… or in HD at Vimeo.

And thanks to ccMixter for the Creative Commons music they provide… like the music I’ve used here from DoKashiteru "Indpendence Day". And don’t forget the folks that provided entertainment after the ride… Michael Kurarski, Reid Miller, Steve Pierick, & Carol Ormand – accordion, banjo, fiddle, & fiddle.

This was My Ride for the Biking to Work Week in Madison, Wisconsin. I primarily produced it for CrankmyChain and the weekly live casts that Dan Kaufman has been doing on Stickam.

I was a bit late, by about 7 hours, as the ride with Mayor Dave Cieslewicz was at 8:30am on a chilly morning, and I had to ride 10 miles to the start location – so I procrastinated. Okay, I slept it.

So I recreated the ride and recorded my own parallel ride. This is my ride from close the start – I took wrong turn, so I’m a block early – along the trail to the 5pm social, and then to home, with highlights along the return (including tunnels under busy streets).

A time lapsed, fast ride, along the Mississippi River below St Paul to Seventh Heaven Cafe for a BeckMuffin, McBecky, or whatever it may be called. The ride covers about 2 miles in 45 seconds, the cafe is on 7th street in St Paul.

To Creative Commons Music "Tomato Ketchup is not a Vegatable" by dangerous_objects on ccMixter.org

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This is Aaron’s graduation race… My nephew talked us into doing this race (his dad and Bindl uncle’s), and then he took a 2,000 mile bike ride to Niagara Falls without a video camera. So I got this idea to try out the Google Maps for documenting a trip. Click on the lines and images above for notes and highlights. 2008 race results at OnLineRaceResults.com. See a better quality video in later post – the one embedded in map above is only YouTube regular quality.

Battery tips from Chuck Dove at Action Battery in Somerset Wisconsin. Tips on charging and discharging lead acid batteries when used for electric bikes. Includes brief footage of the Apple River. Chuck shows a battery pack that could get up to 3,000 miles.

This is an on-line Stickcam interview with Dan Kaufman. Dan does live web casts from his bike while riding and covering bicycle activities. He’s a bike enthusiast, musician, and operates a bike company called Crankmychain. He uses Stickam for live casting of biking events, from his basement studio, and of leisure rides about town as he stops for an occasional song or two.

Testing the Cyclemotor on my bike. The one from first electric bike series where I couldn’t get the other kit on bike.

An interview with Jeff Radtke of Neodymics on his Cyclemotor – or electric bike adaptor/kit. Part of the Rural Roads with Roger series.

Rural Roads reviews the Cyclemotor by Neodymics… it’s an electric bike conversion kit by inventor Jeff Radtke, or a bicycle-to-moped upgrade (BMU™) as described on the Neodymics website (www.neodymics.com). It’s an intriguing "upgrade" since the entire kit is self contained, and makes it quick to install and remove. At first glance it looks odd, but become evident very quickly that it is very functional.