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STOOPIDTALL - The Maiden Voyage at CicLAvia 4/21/2013 -MOBILE FRIENDLY- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/STOOPIDTALL Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/STOOPIDTALL Music: "Fact or Fiction" - Particles Like Planets Written by: Cody Vanhoozen, Tyler Shippy, Mikey Tucker, Eric Boudreau https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/fact-or-fiction-single/id643370008 http://www.facebook.com/particleslikeplanets Painting by Catherine Brooks http://www.catherinebrooksart.com Check out the new Flamethrower Video! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAhv8ghjzKI -------- INFO --------- Built and Ridden by Richie Trimble of Los Angeles, CA at the CicLAvia 2013 event. http://www.ciclavia.org/ What an awesome adventure!! Thanks for all the support and all those beautiful smiles. --FACTS-- 14.5ft at the Seat Built in 12 work hours One Huffy beach cruiser, 2" square tubing, 3/4" round tubing, and 1" round tubing 26" single speed coaster brake wheelset 6.5 single speed bicycle chains (32.5ft of chain) To bend the pipe i used an upside down shopping cart and a split log. Ghetto, i know, but hey, IT WORKS. My last tallbike was just under 10ft tall at the seat and you can see us featured in 30 Seconds to Mars' music video, "Kings and Queens" - http://youtu.be/hTMrlHHVx8A STOOPIDTALL, is the inbetween from that one (Kafourki) and the world record tallest bike that i'll be building later this year. THANKS: Thank you to all the Los Angelopes who guided STOOPIDTALL through the sea of fellow cyclists! Thanks to all the photographers and videographers who documented STOOPIDTALL's Maiden Voyage! And SUPER Thanks to LAPD and the Traffic Enforcement officers that allowed us passage to brighten people's day. ------- What's Next? STOOPIDTALL will be featured in ZEN DOG, an indie film shooting in JULY - zendogmovie.com and facebook.com/zendogmovie Articles: http://la.streetsblog.org/2013/04/23/king-of-ciclavia-richie-trimbles-14-5-ft-tall-bike/ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/23/stoopid-tall-bike-is-the-t_n_3140088.html?1366740098 http://blog.halbergman.com/2013/04/22/stoopidtall-the-tallest-bicycle-in-los-angeles.html richie@stoopidtall.com FOOTAGE COPYRIGHT © RICHIE TRIMBLE 2013