Roda on the streets Melbourne

Balloon powered bike!

RODARODA at Melbourne Bike Festival

WEDNESDAY 24TH NOVEMBER

7:00pm - 12:30

COST: FREE

1000 £ Bend

361 Little Lonsdale St,Melbourne VIEW MAP

Head on down to Bikefest for an opening party to remember. Featuring the launch of our visual arts program, the opening of Bike Shop, screenings of the Once Bitten clips, bicycle valet parking and more. Don’t miss our opening night performance by the Roda Roda Soundsystem. With all the pomp and ceremony of a Carnivale, The Roda Roda crew and fellow bike/music nerds will treat opening night revellers to bike-inspired tunes from all corners of the globe. See you there!

Roda Roda Sepeda Pawai October 2010 - Video

Video of Roda Roda Sepeda Pawai (bicycle parade) Jogja Indonesia 2010
Shot by:  Tohjaya Tono and edited by  Jason Heller.
Music by South Rakkas Crew and Pupa Jim.

Survive Garage

the Yogya dragon serenades us before the big ride

lita and brother on ayam gila sepeda

Fully operational speaker soundsystem!

The following images are of fellow bike riders congregating at the Alun Alun before our big ride.

Sepeda Pawai! Roda Roda 30/9/2010!Low rider bike tricks as we begin to congregate at the Alun Alun Utara.


Anak bike and cardboard soundsystem bike ridden by Mas Malik and Mas Jason. The little head popping up above the cardboard bike is that of Helen Addison-Smith riding the Chooper bike.

Bayu and the Ayam Sepeda!
Malik at the controls of the kids bike.

Mas Boy: Jogja project coordinator extraordinaire.

The first minutes of the parade!
Lucreccia Quintanilla's "Pepes Sepeda" made out of banana leaves and bamboo instruments. On vintage bike donated by the bike emporium :Jogja Baik

Dylan Martorrell's musical Ayam bike! A moving sound producing and amplifying machines.

Mas Butchers hairy coconut bike!


Lichen Kemp and Heri Dono's collaboration: The Anak Bebek bike (baby duck bike)
Trike design by Lichen.

Rod Choopers working on his bike.


Images from the actual day of the parade. Preparations and stills taken at Roommate gallery studios where RodaRoda worked from for about 3 weeks . The photos were taken by our very talented photographer friend Tika.

Ayam Sepeda on her trial ride. Success!

Writings on the wall accompanied by the sounds coming from Soundsystem!

Rolly Lovehatelove's soundsystem sepeda mural and the soundsystem bike, version 1.

About a week before the event local graffiti artists invited Jason Heller and the cardboard soundsystem bike to paint a Roda Roda mural for the event.
The cardboard soundsystem provided the perfect soundtrack for a couple of hours worth of mural painting!

Preparations!

Rolly test riding soundsystem bike around!

Tall bikes and the wonderful Ling from Jogja Baik - Ling is lending us some beautiful old dutch bikes for the parade

Mas Butcher sitting on Jasons box speakers.

Lulu making instrument sculptures

studio shots

atoms shed