The Bicycle Music Festival has always been one of those bizarre scenes you really have to see to appreciate.  Part feat of mechanical engineering, part coffee house jam and slam night, the entire festival is run by five cyclists on stationary bikes generating the musician's power, allowing them to setup in public parks without using batteries or generators (you can read a quick look at their setup I wrote a few years back).

For the festival's seventh year, they're making things a bit more legitimate.  What was a always a long, unsanctioned, on-and-off-the-bike musical tour of SF's best parks now finds itself all the proper permits for a full afternoon in Golden Gate Park.  But, in keeping with tradition, the festival will pack itself up at 5pm and, while towing a bicycle-drawn stage, host a bike parade to their night venue at 22nd and Bartlett.

The whole festival runs from 12-9pm and is free.

[BMF]