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9:30 Coffee Break: Get On Your Bikes and Ride!

Posted at 9:08 AM on April 7, 2010 by Jill Riley (27 Comments)
Filed under: 9:30 Coffee Break

Minneapolis has been named by Bicycle Magazine as America's most bike friendly city. Help us create a coffee break of bike songs!

Also, this rules:

Also, local band City On The Make:

Songs played:
Queen "Bicycle Race"
Dance Band "Pedal Power"
The Sugarcubes "Motor Crash"
Tomorrow "My White Bicycle"
City on the Make "Chicks On Bikes"
Kraftwerk "Tour De France"



Comments (27)

of course, Bicycle Race - Queen

Posted by Joy Z | April 7, 2010 9:14 AM


Sunworshipper - Mylo
Bicycle - Memory Tapes

Posted by wellst | April 7, 2010 9:14 AM


Brand New Key/ Melanie

I ride my bike here in Chicago...and will be moving back to MSP this summer..where I'll become a biker there too!!
Jill- come help me move in August, and Ill take you to Lollapalooza!!

Posted by Eli Hall | April 7, 2010 9:15 AM


"My White Bicycle" - Tomorrow

(some great 60s Brit psychedelia - it's on Rhino's Nuggets Volume 2 collection)

Posted by IndyR | April 7, 2010 9:17 AM


"Bicycle Built for Two"

"Apology Song" by The Decemberists

"Bicycle Race" by Queen

Posted by Cat | April 7, 2010 9:17 AM


Motorcrash by the Sugarcubes

Posted by Steve | April 7, 2010 9:17 AM


Queen - Bicycle Race
Be Your Own Pet - Bicycle, Bicycle you are my bicycle

Posted by Mike | April 7, 2010 9:17 AM


Infuse the coffee break with a lil' punk: Bicycle, Bicycle by Be Your Own Pet. That'll keep ya regular!

Posted by Robert | April 7, 2010 9:17 AM


GET ON YOUR BIKES AND RIDE!!

I really don't know, besides the obvious...

"Shiny Happy People"- REM

Posted by Justin | April 7, 2010 9:18 AM


Pink Floyd - Bike
Queen - Fat Bottomed Girls

Posted by Jess | April 7, 2010 9:18 AM


LDN - Lily Allen
This Charming Man - The Smiths
Pretty Good Year - Tori Amos

Posted by Suki | April 7, 2010 9:18 AM


theme from Pee Wee's big adventure

Posted by Luke Schwitzer | April 7, 2010 9:20 AM


Dead Eye Dick - New Age Girl

Posted by Pail Ale | April 7, 2010 9:21 AM


Streetlight Serenade - Bouncing Souls
Bicycle Race - Queen

Posted by Beth Anne | April 7, 2010 9:21 AM


"Black Hole" by She & Him

"I'm alone, on a bicycle...for two"

Posted by Tara | April 7, 2010 9:22 AM


Also:

Atmosphere - Sunshine
They Might be Giants - Narrow Your Eyes
Tori Amos - Pretty Good Year
Flobots - Handlebars

Posted by Jess | April 7, 2010 9:22 AM


Halloween, Alaska – Des Moines
Dance Band – Pedal Power
Cool Kids – Black Mags

Posted by Jared | April 7, 2010 9:22 AM


"I've got a bike, you can ride it if you like"
Bike, by pink floyed

Posted by alex | April 7, 2010 9:23 AM


"Tire Swing" by Kimya Dawson

Posted by Crystal | April 7, 2010 9:23 AM


I can ride my bike with no HANDLEBARS

Flobots!

Posted by deej | April 7, 2010 9:23 AM


I am a Bike Thief - Freezepop

Posted by Bill Norman | April 7, 2010 9:26 AM


Tour de France - Kraftwerk
Sunshine - Atmosphere - "But I think something's tellin me to ride that 10 speed"

Posted by jason | April 7, 2010 9:27 AM


Two songs from Cracker - "I Ride My Bike" and "Bicycle Spaniard"
"Les Bicyclettes de Belsize" by Engelbert Humperdinck (You might not have this one!)

Posted by allan pointon | April 7, 2010 9:28 AM


little shocked to see you didn't play "bike" by the pink floyd.:(

Posted by ken iosso | April 7, 2010 9:53 AM


Would have been nice to have had a local band make the cut.

Bike Ride on 35W by St Dominic's Trio comes to mind.

Posted by mike | April 7, 2010 11:56 AM


What about Mark Olson & Gary Louris' "Bicycle" from Ready for the Flood?

Posted by Brian E. | April 7, 2010 4:41 PM


You have to play "Bike" by Pink Floyd

I've got a bike
You can ride it if you like
It's got a basket
A bell that rings
And things to make it look good...

Posted by Bob | April 8, 2010 8:58 AM


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