Candy Cranks

Last Tuesday, a bunch of the PunaniPedal guys and gals met up for a relaxing bike ride through town.

Our fundamental rule is that ladies ride in front to set the pace:

We had a nice hang out at the beach!

Its a birthday month for Sheiks and Kelsey on the left! yay!.. and i just injured my knee :/

(Photographed by Michael Keany)

In other news, on my travels to Portland, I got a new tattoo from cool cyclist Jeremy at Style Ink! Yay for ladies on bikes!

Happy 14th! give lovin to your bicycles!

Every first Friday of the month, Honolulu’s downtown and Chinatown districts attract connoisseurs of art, food and music festivities. Of course, parking is always a hassle, so to encourage more transportation to this event via bicycle, a friend Vincent decided to establish a Bicycle Valet service, free of charge.

Cute boys and lovely ladies dressed in their finest vests and cutoff jeans to watch over bicycles while their owners enjoyed the evening out.

Vincent, the mastermind behind the bike valet:

The cyclist turnout was high, and future expectations of increasing attendance via bicycle is extremely positive!

Yarr! The lovely lass Jamie hosted a Birthday Bike Treasure Hunt around Honolulu.. Pirate themed of course me mateys!!

Yo ho ho! There were so many pirates looting the feast! Rum and oranges for all!

Pints of Guzzle Grog were consumed on the Captain’s orders before sailing to our favourite bike fancy, the Kickstand!

Land Ho! Its Christmas-tree Park!

And voyage to the final stop of the rainy flats of Daimond Head to plunder the rum, the finest treasure of all!

[Photos by the lad James Unabia]

Happy Birthday Jamie!

The local fixed gear collective, Aloha Fixed, held their Island Unstoppable ride, over 100 miles around most of Hawaii’s main island, Oahu.

30 showed up for the ride, with 16 finishers, and a few ladies are in there!

Completing the epic ball breaking, Pinapple Hill

Congrats friends!!!

Its amazing what a difference a bike friendly city makes to an adventure! To escape the heat to some chilly weather, I recently traveled to Portland, Oregon, a bike heaven. The streets are designed with bicycles in mind, providing heaps of space in wide and extensive bike lanes. Drivers seem to understand the riskiness of cyclists on the roads and are more often too courteous when passing than not. Throughout the rainy and sunny weather offerings of the Pacific Northwest, 8% of the Portland population consistently commutes via bicycle. The city would like to see an increase to 25% in upcoming years.

If only Honolulu and other cities were as progressive regarding cyclists… what a wonderful, bike-friendly world it would be!

Updates from the bike scene of Honolulu, Aloha Fixed, the Manifest and the Kickstand are sponsoring an island ride on Saturday! Heaps of fun, excitement, and boys in spandex!

Now that I’m back in town, more updates to come! Happy New Year dearest readers of Candy Cranks!!

Aloha! So for my 21st birthday, a bar hop was an obvious necessity in the night’s plans, so what better way than make it into a bicycle ride?! We started off on a nice 3 mile ride out to La Mariana Sailing Club, a funky original tiki bar.

There were so many bikes!

And most of the ever expanding Punani Pedal Club!

As we moved on to more bars there was bike parking madness!

So it was an amazingly fun night and ride, thanks to all who rode and partied!

love from nimz!

(photos by Mike Keany!)

Punani Pedal Club hosted its first Alley Cat for our friend Christopher who is moving to Portland!

The manifest included his favourite spots in Honolulu, including a couple bars, the university’s “free store” and the infamous abandoned Queen Theater! All stops had to be completed within 40 minutes….

Stop 1! Queen Theater where a photo must be taken!

Stop 2! Convenience store by Young Scale Co. where a mini whiskey must be consumed!

Stop 3! The University Free Store where something must be left behind!

these ladies found a castle!

Stop 4! Anna Bananas where a beer must be quickly consumed!

Stop 5! Fresh cafe where a cookie must be eaten! We found Open Mic there!

Stop 6! Smiths Union Bar where Karaoke must be sung! Only 1 team made it there as the rest of us got distracted by the open mic.. winners!

Photos by Aly Ishikuni and Nimz

Aloha Christopher! More alley cats to come!

-Nimz

Round 2 for November rides in Honolulu! We had an amazing turnout for a Sunday evening, total of 16 people, 8 of whom were girls!! Alright Honolulu bike ladies! Many new faces and new friends were made!

As you can see, I’m way excited about this!

Devon and Jamie rollin out down Beretania Ave

Bike booty headin through Waikiki!

Devon’s first ride up Diamond Head deserves a high5!

Z and Sheiks lookin steller

Chicks on Bikes!

Mary and Jason made it out on Bianchis!

And the group! Punani Pedal photographer Mike Keany in the top right corner! 8 lovely ladies and our punani pedal boys on Diamond Head!

And this is where J.Ham starts to remove his girl pants…

Photos by Mike Keany!

Aloha from Honolulu!

Nimz

Though Hawaii doesn’t have much of an autumn season, our ride to welcome November was very friendly with “fall”…

Rain Battle wounds:

Photo credit: Michael Keany.
Besides the wipe outs, the fall ride was quite fun! We had a sadly skewed sex ratio, favouring males, yet three lovely ladies attended

Photo credit: Aly Ishikuni

The boys sabotaged our ride by changing the route and speed racing up Diamond Head, so the girls broke off, chatted and took awesome photos!

Photo credit: Aly Ishikuni

Eurgh, boys.

Photo: Nimz

Photo: Nimz

We biked through the rain for Frozen yoghurt madness!

Photo Credit: Aly Ishikuni

Photo Credit: Michael Keany

More photos can be viewed here!

Aloha, Nimz

Photo courtesy of Carlyn Arteaga

After an amazing Halloween weekend, our local university recycled bike hangout, Cycle Manoa + friends put on a brilliant ride for Día De Los Muertos, complete with an altar for remembrance and Halloween treats!

Faces were painted like skeletons! Amazing!

All photos courtesy of Carlyn Arteaga! Cheers!

Punani Pedal Club from Hawaii here as a new author contributing to Candy Cranks!

Basically, the club was created lady bikers who were sick of testosterone filled boys that run red lights and bike fast. Honolulu isn’t the safest of cities and certainly not very bike friendly, with disappearing bike lanes and terrible drivers. The mission of sorts for Punani Pedal is to create a safe and fun group atmosphere for biking to encourage more girls to ride, without feeling intimidated by the crazy fixed gear boys we have here. Though all are encouraged to come on our rides, we want to support our female bikers and keep the speed down and the fun rolling!