If you haven’t heard about the awesome event(s) happening this weekend hold onto your hats….

Paul Freedman of Rock the Bike (AKA The Fossil Fool) is working with the University of Oregon’s Bike Program (a project of the Outdoor Program) to build a Pedal Powered generator.  They’ll be holding an informative and exciting expose of the program’s new bicycle electricity generation system, dubbed the “biker bar” on Friday night in Agate Hall (May 7th, 7-8pm, 18th & Agate).  WeBikeEugene did a good write up on the $10,000 grant that was received for the project.

via rockthebike.com

The Biker Bar will be debuted at the Bike Music Fest, the mainstage of the Willamette Valley Music Fest on Saturday (May 8th). Besides the music powered by your legs there will be free bike repair, bike blended smoothies, screen printing, and MORE all day long in the EMU Amphitheater, corner of 13th and University.  For the bicycle centric events, come down between 10am – 4pm.  A bicycle ride, and live on bike performance by Fossil Fool will take place at 4pm.  Music will keep going until midnight!

For a good write-up by Paul (just what we need, another Paul in the Eugene bike scene!) about the Pedal Powered Stage checkout this Rock the Bike blog post.

We’ll see you at the Biker Bar!