Bike For Sale

This lovely little cruiser rarely sees pavement so I'm hoping I can find a new owner who will give it more use. Here are the details:

Frame - Schwinn Sprint w/ custom paint from Dennis Raml. Candy Red, Cream seat tube, gold lug lines.
Size - 53cm
Wheels - 700c Mavic Open Sport (double wall rim) with Origin8 hubs, flip-flop rear.
Tires - 700x25 Bontrager Sport
Handlebar - Wald cruiser
Saddle - Specialized
Brakes - Tektro
Extras - Rear Rack, Front Basket, Bell, Fenders, Kickstand, Memphis grips

Price is $200. Contact fixmemphis@yahoo.com to test ride.

Bikesploitation Ideas

Having been to a fair share of film festivals (including producing the Bicycle Film Festival in Memphis) I want to remind everyone of the oft-overlooked entry: the Public Service Announcement (PSA). PSA's are relatively easy to produce and can be done in very little time with a relatively small (sometimes no) budget. And since I'm involved with a project this year I thought I'd throw out a few ideas so that they don't go to waste.

1. Traffic Jam - A man sits in a car. All shots are interior, tight and below window level. Bicycle bells are heard in background. Man wears suit pants, shirt and tie. Man tunes stereo, taps steering wheel, shaves with electric razor, eats breakfast (pastry or pop-tart), tunes stereo, talks on phone, eats packed lunch, rolls up sleeves, fidgets with phone, rolls down window, money is handed out, food is handed in. Exterior, high vantage point shot of traffic jam with bicycles weaving in and out, delivering goods. Fade to black. Give it a smart tagline like, "Stop living in your car, and start living." Partnership for Bicycles or some-such organization. Boom. Done.

2. Bodies - Accident scene. A car has hit a bicyclist. Car driver being lectured on the dangers of texting while driving by police officer. Show mangled bike and cyclist laying on ground unconscious. Cyclist wears cycling outfit. Same scene, outfit changes to fireman, doctor, judge, chef, man, woman, child etc... in succession. Black bar across bottom with tagline, "Texting While Driving. You never know who you'll run into." Done.

3. The How-To - This one can go either way; serious or parody. "How to Ride Bikes in Memphis."

The deadline for entries is April 20th. You can get the submission form and all the info at the Live From Memphis website. If you need any help just get in touch and I'll see what I can do.

Tour Of Flanders Watch Party - April 1st

Overton Park - Orange Trail

My friends have been at it again, this time marking out a trail in the Southeast corner of the Park. (That's the Poplar /Parkway corner for the direction challenged). It's just a little half mile loop but it's quite fun; a little tighter than the other trails. Here's the route:


View Overton Park Orange Trail in a larger map

Call For Actors

CALL FOR ACTORS

Shoot date : Saturday, March 31
Time: Each person (besides Romeo) will be needed for approx. 20 - 45 minutes. You will be scheduled in a group or by yourself sometime between 12 – 6:30 PM. Romeo will be needed for 1 -2 hours, possibly longer.
Where: Midtown
What: Short film (for Bikesploitation Film Festival + others)

ROLES
Romeo: 20-30 years old, male, preferably tall and slender; must feel comfortable acting silly; MUST have full body cycling outfit (spandex) and helmet; must be able to ride a bicycle.

Female: 18-30, character will be trashy/slutty; must have this type of attire and able to portray this type of personality; must be able to ride a bicycle

10 Guys: 18 – 40 years old [NOTE: Characters vary. Some will have individual scenes – some will be in small groups. Some will have dialogue – some won’t. Some will be required to ride bicycle.]

Send resume and headshot (if you have them), and contact info to elleok@gmail.com.

Warm Weather Whatevers

I have been a bit absent with the post-making lately and I'm going to blame it on beautiful weather. I'm more like everybody else than I realize; we all want to get out and ride more when the sun is out. It's just that since I'm the expert (SIGH) I get busier with making sure all the bikes work, so I'm kind of tired when I get home.

Then last night I had a dream about this website. My page visits had increased from +/- 200 to about 500. So I checked it this morning but that didn't happen.

Whatever. I'm going to go enjoy this dream-like weather on my ride to work.

This totally makes me want to do yard work.

I found this image via Pinterest while not shopping online.

Look Who's Parking

Looks like Bosco's heard our wishes (or got tired of everyone locking up to the deck) and had Gadsby Creson design some racks.

Trek Transport Can Change Your Life

You might remember last year when we ran a contest for the Trek Transport. Well, only 1 person rode it and they didn't really carry anything. But now that we're having such beautiful weather we're going to give you another chance. Check out this video and imagine yourself changing the world:


Don't know where to ride it?

-The Cooper Young Community Farmers Market opens at 9AM tomorrow. Get your week's worth of groceries easily!
-Hop on the Shelby Farms Greenline and make your way out to the Red Barn at the Agricenter for the Memphis Area Master Gardeners Spring Fling.
-Roll over to Hollywood Feed for Streetdog Foundation's Pet Adoption.
-Or just get some friends together and go have a picnic! The weather will be beautiful!

Learn more about the advantages of the Transport at the Trek Website.

To reserve the bike for Saturday send an email to cort@peddlerbikeshop.com or call 901-327-4833 and ask for Cort.

Where Do You Shop?

After reading this hypothetical question from the Memphis Flyer I began to consider where we actually shop and where we can improve our spending habits. Most of our food comes from Kroger (side note: almost every Kroger in Memphis has a nickname. There's Kroghetto on Union, Kosher Kroger in East Memphis, Freddy Kroger at Poplar/Highland...) while most of our paper and cleaning products come from Target. But we're thinking that we can eliminate a lot of our Krogering by patronizing local joints while at the same time trying to keep the expenses down. Here's what we've come up with so far:

Vegetables and fruit - Easy Way, Farmers Markets
Pasta - Valenza Pasta
Herbs and natural soaps - Maggie's Pharm (trying to go phthalate-free)
Beer and liquor - Joe's, Tip Top, Bosco's
Chocolate - Dinstuhl's

So as you can tell our diet consists of vegetables, pasta, and cocktails. We've gotten meat from farmers markets and it's always been delicious but the one that is the most convenient time-wise is only open in the summer. I know of two meat markets in Memphis but is there one in Midtown? Where are we going to get bread and cheese? Toilet paper?

I can easily forgo one-stop shopping if I can get better products and support local business. Besides, it gives me the opportunity to ride my bicycle for more errands.

What about you? What is your favorite local place for essentials? (Especially cheese!)