Sep 23, 2026 · 2 hr 9 min · 15 segments
Show Notes It’s a little out of schedule, but Kris’ old mentor Dr. Pete passed away recently. So in honor of him, here’s the story of his very first band, One Pedaled Bike. Useful Links Dr…
One day, a very, very long time ago, I'm talking like high school-ish, I was riding my bike to the local Wawa.
I lived in Smithville, which is a town in southern New Jersey, and it only took me a couple of minutes.
I rode there all the time.
I was probably getting an IC, but who can remember? Along the way, the right pedal snapped off of my bike, and I crashed.
It didn't come unscrewed.
The actual bolt that holds it in place just snapped in half.
I picked up my bike, got back on my feet, went and tracked down the pedal, picked that up, and said to myself, great, what good's a one-pedaled bike? Hey, that's a good band name.
I have always loved music, especially video game music.
As such, when I was in high school, when I was introduced to a program called Scream Tracker, I fell in love immediately.
My friend Justin was a master on the program and taught me all about how to make it tick.
He showed me that people had a tendency to upload their songs to the internet, a novel concept at the time, under pseudonyms.
Naturally, I chose to compose my music under the name One Pedaled Bike.
and the two of us became fast friends.
I showed him the music I was making on Impulse Tracker, I think that was the successor to Scream Tracker, I'm not entirely sure on that history, and he thought it was pretty cool.
He wanted to make normal people music though, which is something I also had an interest in, but was nowhere near talented enough to do on my own.
He connected me with another fella that I had known, but never really spent any time with, named John Wentz, and the proper band One Pedaled Bike was born.
We modeled our basic identity after the band Dispatch in that we didn't want to have a frontman.
There were three of us, and all three of us would be frontmen.
We'd all sing and play our respective instruments and help with the songwriting.
Since we didn't play in the garage, we effectively just took over the living room.
No, not a garage band, living room band.
One day, a very, very long time ago, I'm talking like high school-ish, I was riding my bike to the local Wawa.
I lived in Smithville, which is a town in southern New Jersey, and it only took me a couple of minutes.
I rode there all the time.
I was probably getting an IC, but who can remember? Along the way, the right pedal snapped off of my bike, and I crashed.
It didn't come unscrewed.
The actual bolt that holds it in place just snapped in half.
I picked up my bike, got back on my feet, went and tracked down the pedal, picked that up, and said to myself, great, what good's a one-pedaled bike? Hey, that's a good band name.
I have always loved music, especially video game music.
As such, when I was in high school, when I was introduced to a program called Scream Tracker, I fell in love immediately.
My friend Justin was a master on the program and taught me all about how to make it tick.
He showed me that people had a tendency to upload their songs to the internet, a novel concept at the time, under pseudonyms.
Naturally, I chose to compose my music under the name One Pedaled Bike.
and the two of us became fast friends.
I showed him the music I was making on Impulse Tracker, I think that was the successor to Scream Tracker, I'm not entirely sure on that history, and he thought it was pretty cool.
He wanted to make normal people music though, which is something I also had an interest in, but was nowhere near talented enough to do on my own.
He connected me with another fella that I had known, but never really spent any time with, named John Wentz, and the proper band One Pedaled Bike was born.
We modeled our basic identity after the band Dispatch in that we didn't want to have a frontman.
There were three of us, and all three of us would be frontmen.
We'd all sing and play our respective instruments and help with the songwriting.
Since we didn't play in the garage, we effectively just took over the living room.
No, not a garage band, living room band.
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