World Champion Pole Dancer Marlo Fisken
photo: New York Times


Friday, August 21, 2009

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Sunset PoleRide with Ariel on TMZ!






Heading east on St Marks between shoots.

Ariel gives the thumbs up to her new Bern Helmet. Bern is the official helmet of PoleRiders.

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Time Out Article

Click on the picture for the article in this weeks Time Out

Monday, July 6, 2009

Gay Pride PoleRide

We arrived on time and the parade started on time but waited close to three hours before we started marching. This is a huge event. Bigger than any other that we have done so far. We were invited to join the Reverend Billy group and were lined up with their wedding party on 52nd st.
Sean from Rickshaw USA showed up with his dog Cooper and some friends on a tandem.

Marlo beautifies this David Byrne bike rack in front of MOMA Finally we get under way but Sean has a mechanical problem at the beginning and we lose our group...
...but end up rolling with Dykes on Bike-Cycles. Thanks again to our new friends for letting us ride with you!












Marlo danced so hard she ripped through both of her boots stopping only to drink water change music and towel off with the Sham Wow.

When we got near the end of the parade the route narrowed at 8th st. and Christopher st. and the crowd was much wilder and cheering louder than before. One woman was crying for Marlo.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Poleriders In The New York Times with MJ!!!


Here is the quote from the Times...Click on the picture for the link.

"On Thursday night, a crowd gathered in Union Square in Manhattan for a fond and spontaneous memorial to Michael Jackson. A few hundred onlookers formed a circle, leaving enough space in the middle for the grandstanders and the brave to dance like the King of Pop. Or try to...

...And inadvertently, that Union Square memorial demonstrated why. In the middle of the impromptu festivities, a pedicab cycled by with a platform attached to the back. Jutting from the platform: a silver, 10-foot stripper pole, on which a woman in lingerie was spinning, legs splayed, upside down, then right side up, then upside down again.

There were flashing lights and, inevitably, the name of a Web site stenciled on the side.

Half of the people in the Michael Jackson throng spotted the rolling spectacle and started pointing. A few dozen turned on their heels and joined this woman and her cycler in a slow, jaw-dropping and highly distracting procession down the street."

Here are the pictures of us rolling by Union Square as we played "Dirty Diana"...





Friday, June 26, 2009

Pole Superstar Ride

Pole Superstar is putting on a pole dance competition in NYC October 1st at the Highline Ballroom to benefit SPIN Single Parents In Need. See their website for details and the promo video.
The client, Dianne Passage (center) showed up with an entire entourage including a stylist, assistant, photographer, bodyguard and two helpers to hand out rubber band bracelets with their logo. Yeah, she's a superstar.
This is just beautiful.
Construction workers on Hudson stopped working and watched the show while we paused at a red light.Not stopping for gas.
In front of Marquis.






The ambulance had its siren on and was on the way to an emergency but that didn't stop them from stopping to snap a few pictures.

I sense a kick heading in the direction of my head. This is becoming intuitive at this point but I did get clipped a couple of times.
She loved us!

Not Mr. Softee.


Armpit grip...Not easy.

Bike lane detour.
Julian from Revolution Rickshaws did a great job driving the photographer's pedicab and is available to follow PoleRiders as your personal pedal limo driver.



I'm laughing because the bikers behind us are popping wheelies and burning rubber. You can just make out Sean Robinson of Rickshaw USA on his bicycle behind the motorcycles. In October, Sean and Sean's dog Cooper will be embarking on a grand tour of the United States in an old school 3 speed rickshaw. Sean just showed up and was a huge help taking pictures, bringing water, managing the crowd, directing traffic and providing the Sham Wow for Marlo to towel off. (The Sham Wow has since mysteriously disappeared.)

Riding through the Meatpacking district. Cobblestones and Poleriding are not a good mix.
Peace, love and Poleriders