New Soulcycler shows coming in Sept-Oct!
Come Join Rick for another series of his 90-minute presentation:
“Soulcycler, Words and Images from a Transformational 25,811-mile Bicycle Journey Around the World .”
Besides working steadily toward a book/film contract from his around the world bicycle adventure, Rick is ramping up for series of new Soulcycler shows in Northern California including:
Sonoma Veterans Memorial Hall, Sonoma, Wednesday Sept. 8th, 7pm
Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, Thursday Sept 9th, 7pm
Marin Center Showcase Theater, San Rafael, Friday Sept. 10th, 7:30pm
Veterans Memorial Center Theatre, Davis, Thursday Sept. 16th, 7pm
Del Mar Theater, Santa Cruz, Thursday Oct. 21st, 7pm
*For show times and details, check out the Gigs calendar.
If you are interested in bringing a Soulcycler show to your area, please call:
775-339-1344 or email soulcycler@yahoo.com.
You can find a preview of the show here: Soulcycler Preview
Namaste!
Welcome to Soulcycler, the home of Rick Gunn, writer, photographer, adventurer, speaker, human being. Because my life has expanded in so many ways after returning from my recent 3-year, 25,811-mile bicycle journey around the planet, I felt the strong need to build a website that reflects that expansion. Beside all the classic photo galleries, round-the-world bicycle tour journals and photos, I’m expanding the new site to include information about my new 90-minute multi-media presentation “Soulcycler.” This will include, interviews, information on booking, as well as upcoming show dates. Other new things on the site will include a cycling page, cycling-links, gear info, world-cycling route info, maps, workshops, upcoming tours, and cycling friends on the road. Last but not least will be “Rick’s World.” a series of the latest news, travel and writing adventures, photos, rants, observations, and other madness from cycling’s foremost cerebral wasteland. ~Enjoy! Rick Gunn 
Greg Mortenson in Carson City
“To love is to stop comparing.” Someone once wrote. This particular afternoon, I couldn’t help myself. “I have nothing in common with Greg Mortenson,” I thought myself after hanging up the phone. I’d just received a call from the Carson City Library inviting me to present my show “Soulcycler” as an opener for the best-selling author’s upcoming appearance in Carson City.
Humbled by the invitation, I set down the phone and my mind began to whirl. “Why me?” I thought. “I’m nothing. A nobody. Yes, I had ridden a bicycle around the globe, and lent a hand along the way, but that was the extent of it. I was certainly no Greg Mortenson.” [Read More...]
Of Demons and Angels, and the Raid Pyreneen
May 22nd- June 4, 2009 Southern France “The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but the sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.’ ~George Elliot I was done. I mean, full-on, flat-out waisted. For three days I’d climbed in the rain. Ascending steep succession of passes while a dense Atlantic storm lashed at the Pyrenees. Hauling 80 pounds of bike-gear up 10,000 feet of pavement, it felt as if the surrounding mountains would consume me. Moving in and out of mist like dark granitic phantoms I traced the peaks, their dark as edges disappearing into the clouds.Cold, wet, tired and lonely, I pushed my mind body closer and closer to the edge.Six hours into the fourth day, after a 4000 foot ascent up the Col D’Abisque–I reached the breaking point. I was somewhere near vaporous gray summit the demons came. Those self-critical voices that thrive on pain, fatigue, isolation and fear. ’Look at you,” they began, “your getting old…’ ‘Your pathetic.’ ‘Your 45, broke, unemployed and unmarried.’ ‘Your not fooling anyone…’ ‘Your never going to make this.” [Read More...]
Shedding Skin in Java
This is not going to be pretty, I said to myself after scouring a map of Java. Straining my eyes in the dank light of my tumble-down hotel room, I’d studied that map for an hour trying to link a decent cycling route across the island. After coming up empty-handed, I began to recognize the ride ahead of me for what it was: a steaming mountain of manure I’d have to climb — a 600-mile turd between me and my destiny. Taking another sip from my cold Bintang beer, I put on the Rolling Stones, then continued assembling my bike from the second-hand refrigerator-box I’d used to fly it from Borneo’s Kalimantan. “It’s alive!” I shouted when I was done. A handful of cockroaches scuttled beneath the bed. Perhaps I should have been disgusted, but I no longer cared. [Read More...]
Are you ready for the world?
Then get ready to book writer-photographer-adventurer Rick Gunn for his 90-minute presentation “Soulcycler, Words And Images From a 25,811-Mile Bicycle Journey Around-The-World.” “Soulcycler” combines 350 breath-taking photos from 33 countries, set to music, accompanied by a selection of uniquely emotional stories from around the globe. Inspired by a series of formative experiences during his childhood, Gunn delivers a front-row seat to the pursuit of his lifelong dream of cycling the planet. [Read More...]