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Aloha Sunday!

March 7th, 2010 · Nimzi - Honolulu · 1 Comment

Our local fixed gear collective, Aloha Fixed, is reviving their “Aloha Sunday” event, a fun filled day of sprints and tricks on track bikes! The ladies of Punani Pedal have been invited to join in this event, as they have created female categories for the following competitions:
a) warm-up event: trackstand “simon says.”

b) sprints. it would not be group sprint, but one vs. one with partners selected by random draw. winners of each of these individual races will advance further until there remains only 1 vs. 1. the route would be around diamond head to provide stretches of down and uphill.

c) cool-down event after the sprints: longest skid competition.

d) footdown

e) individual trick competition!!! so how about this format? impartial judges (those who do not do tricks) will rate individuals like the olympics. we will tally the judges points and determine winner. each individual will have either 3 or 5 minutes to show their best stuff.

f) trackstand “water balloon.” toss a water balloon like a hot potato.

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A photo update for sure when the event happens!!
Cheers!


Tags:bicycles

Cruisey Tuesday Rides!

February 15th, 2010 · Nimzi - Honolulu · 4 Comments

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!

Tags:bicycles

Bike Valet Services!

February 9th, 2010 · Nimzi - Honolulu · 2 Comments

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.

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

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Vincent, the mastermind behind the bike valet:

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

Tags:bicycles · clever · quirky

Treasure Hunt Bike!

February 3rd, 2010 · Nimzi - Honolulu · No Comments

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!

Tags:adventure · alley cat · bicycles · fun · quirky

Island Unstoppable!

January 18th, 2010 · Nimzi - Honolulu · 3 Comments

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!

ridersCompleting the epic ball breaking, Pinapple Hill

Congrats friends!!!

Tags:adventure · ride · single speed

From HNL to PDX

January 12th, 2010 · Nimzi - Honolulu · No Comments

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!

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

Tags:bicycles · ride

Bicycle Birthday Bar Hop!

December 15th, 2009 · Nimzi - Honolulu · 1 Comment

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!)

Tags:adventure · alley cat · bicycles · fun · quirky

Alley Cat, Honolulu Style!

December 2nd, 2009 · Nimzi - Honolulu · No Comments

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

Tags:adventure · alley cat · bicycles · fun · race · ride

November ride Honolulu

November 17th, 2009 · Nimzi - Honolulu · No Comments

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!

Photo by Mike Keany!

Devon and Jamie rollin out down Beretania Ave

Photo by Mike Keany!

Bike booty headin through Waikiki!

Photo by Mike Keany!

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

Photo by Mike Keany!

Z and Sheiks lookin stellersheik and z

Chicks on Bikes!

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Mary and Jason made it out on Bianchis!

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

Photo by Mike Keany!

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

Photo by Mike Keany!

Photo by Mike Keany!

Photos by Mike Keany!

Aloha from Honolulu!

Nimz

Tags:adventure · bicycles · fun · ladies · ride

When Autumn Falls

November 9th, 2009 · Nimzi - Honolulu · No Comments

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

Tags:adventure · bicycles · design · ride

Día De Los Muertos Honolulu

November 6th, 2009 · Nimzi - Honolulu · 1 Comment

Photo courtesy of Carlyn Arteaga

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!
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Faces were painted like skeletons! Amazing!

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All photos courtesy of Carlyn Arteaga! Cheers!

Tags:adventure · art · bicycles · quirky

Aloha all!

November 4th, 2009 · Nimzi - Honolulu · 1 Comment

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

Tags:bicycles · fun · ladies · urban