We got the bike back!!!  Portland friends & press--you guys are amazing! Thank you very much for everything!

The man (Russ Jones) who called us last night, bought the bike outside a pawn shop [on 82nd]. The man who had the bike was intending to sell it to the pawn shop, but the pawn shop was closed. Russ paid $150 for the bike and then a friend of his realized that it was the bike in the paper and he called us right away. The man he bought it from fits the description of the tall homeless man that many people had reported seeing the bike with. The seat is missing  - the bike is in near-perfect shape (just a few slight tweaks that we can fix) - and the contents of Len's bag is missing (pump, helmet, lights, tools, bike shoes, gloves, sunglasses - and most inconveniently - the key to the customized Pinhead Security locking hub skewers (that lock the wheels to the bike) and a few other custom items.

WE are so happy to have the bike back in one piece!

As far as we're concerned, the man who returned the bike to us is a true hero and we are so thankful that he called us!

Thank you all again for making that bike so readily identifiable in Portland--that is what got it back!

- Tamara & Len Rubin

We are the goon squad and we're coming to town!
Beep, Beep,

Streetfilms needs spare footage of Pretty people on Pretty bikes in Chic* attire (and that could be YOU). Be a model or just join the ride and enjoy some carfree sweet spots.

We’ll meet at Pioneer Square, which was once a parking garage, and then ride to a handful of these very rare, nearby, carfree locations for some shooting and pontificating.

PLUS, if you can’t make it in person, we’ll be broadcasting the ride live from the Disco Trike to the Internets @ http://www.crankmychain.com/cmc16/live.php

Date/Time: Wednesday, May 5th. We’ll convene around 11:30a and start riding at 12:10p
If it’s actually raining we’ll postpone until the next Wednesday. RSVPs are cool or follow @ Twitter PDXKtv.

Warmest regards,

Dan Kaufman
PDXK Productions
CrankMyChain.TV
503 267 2862

*Chic (pronounced "sheek"), meaning 'stylish' or 'smart', is an element of fashion and the counterpart of posh

Thank you for putting up with our technical difficulties. As you know, we use a CMS to organize the show and videos and from time time the video sources (you tube, etc) change their code and so it affects us globally.

We are back up and we would love to  hear from you.

Thanks!

Cranky Jay
Manuel Labor Tech

The Flaming lips are shooting a video up in Mt. Tabor park from 10am-10pm. It's a naked bike ride video. We're hauling up the disco trike and setting up the live feed. Let's hope we can get a good signal and not violate the terms of the Stickam service agreement to badly. Join in virtually and say hello.

VIDEO:
Recording from the webcast - It's very choppy because of our connection issues:

NOTES:

We had a blast up at Mt. Tabor park and it's still going on (as far as I know). The broadcast was a surprisingly a bit choppy due to the location and we almost got shut down on Stickam.com cause we showed butt cracks on the first take. I thought that would be okay.

The ranger didn't like the butt cracks either. He forcefully said, (and I'm paraphrasing), "put on bottoms or we'll put on handcuffs".

He felt that FL were pushing the limit of their permit with the park. Ya think?

I think if the city wants more Naked Bike Ride movies and the massive budget$ behind them they need to lighten up. Who hasn't seen genetalia in the Portland park before, anyway? ;) Eww, it sounds nasty that way. Well, it was actually quite beautiful today.

In the first scenes the band leader, Wayne Coyne, was carried around by (TEAM BEER) John Howe's trike in a in a big plastic ball (fully clothed) above the crowd of 120 or so naked (and later topless) riders. I was concerned that he was going to roll off the zip-tied milk crates that were holding him up and down the hill, but several strong Portland Cyclists prevented catastrophe during each take. By the look on his face I'm not so sure Wayne was convinced of the safety on his self-designed contraption.

Wayne says he'll get naked later in future scenes.

It was (and is) a perfect day for a naked bike ride video. You can still ride up and let the Flaming Lips exploit your body or catch the video at some later date.

crankmychain.com/cmc16/musicvideo.php?vid=eaa5bef67