Mountains and darkness, endless climbs and inky black lakes. And one unlucky badger. Last month, Team Boneshaker hooked up with Howies and Rob Penn, author of ‘It’s All About the Bike‘, for an all-night ride right across the width of the beautiful but not very flat country of Wales. It was quite a trip…

There’s an ace blog post about it here (that’s Boneshaker’s own Jimmy Ell in the pink legwarmers), and another excellent one here.

Set of 6 postcards, A6 size. Each card in the set includes an illustration from one of the following artists: Stevie Gee, John Coe, Abi Stevens, Kerry Hyndman, Joe Waldron and Rosie Gainsborough.

The postcards sets come with 5 free chrome badges (to share with your friends or keep for yourself – you choose) and a couple of vinyl stickers (these are weather-proof, so you can stick them on your bike or around town).

Find them here

Good friends at No Gears Bristol have a nice new t-shirt designed by NKD – here are a few words about the project:

No Gears Bristol is a group of like-minded cyclists who live and ride in Bristol. From premiering some of the best cycle films in the world, to curating bike-based art shows, they have a love for anything with two wheels. At NKD we share this passion for riding and jumped at the opportunity to create some T-shirts for the No Gears 2012 range. The t-shirt was hand printed by Not Guilty Press and is available to purchase here.

Say the organisers:

“That’s right. You did read that correctly; You, the concert goer, will physically pedal to power the stage and the entertainment. Besides being the most fun and green way to amplify a live concert, it transforms the festival into a unique audience participation show! So put your drinks down and pull your helmets on; Penny Farthing Festival is 100% community driven.

So how in the high wheeler are we going to achieve this? Well, its all down to the Biker Bar; a mechanism that hooks up to the PA, enabling all of this to work. Easy peasy, generating electricity made easy.

Our mission is to promote sustainable energy and transport in Bath. We aim to show that cycling can easily be made a part of everyday life, and how it is able to transcend a means of transport.

So remember to polish your frame, oil your chain and to adjust your seat height and we’ll see you on the 5th May 2012 for Bath’s first and only bicycle powered music festival!”

www.pennyfarthingfestival.com

Wowzers! What an inspiring, beautifully shot little film. Some great ideas for pimpin your ride in there

More info at orto.si/kolesa

Due to the interest in the the artists (both illustrators and photographers) that we feature in Boneshaker Magazine, we are pleased to offer FREE desktop wallpapers for your Mac or PC. The most recent addition is the Issue 8 cover by the fabulous Stevie Gee. Check them out here.

Safer cycling and cities fit for people is an important issue for Scotland. Pedal on Parliament will be gathering cyclists (and anyone who wants to join them) from across the nation to cycle on Holyrood to tell our politicians that cycling matters. Well worth getting involved – more info here.

www.pedalonparliamnet.org

We are pleased to announce that we are taking part in Facing Pages 2012, the biggest event in Europe on independent magazines. Never before has such a large variety of international independent magazines been brought together. Facing Pages (formerly O.K. Festival) offers an exhibition of many unique magazines, lectures by renowned magazine makers, inspiration, parties and networking. Facing Pages shows how the independent magazine has grown into a new phenomenon within our visual culture, and why these magazines can be seen as pioneers in the digital age.

Facing Pages will be held in the weekend of 20/21/22 April and will take place in Arnhem, The Netherlands. An event for everybody who loves magazines, or in a broader sense; loves photography, design, illustration and publishing. Discover the world of magazines with them!

www.facingpages.org

Dean’s Story from The Bristol Bike Project on Vimeo.

A new soundslide by our good pal and boneshaker contributor Nick Hand about one of the volunteers at The Bristol Bike Project, also featuring one of the boneshaker mag founders James. Well worth a watch….inspiring stuff!