What You Need:
– Staff of two (1 bike coach and 1 food handler)
Instructions:
1. Core the apples and cut them into wedges. Fill the blender pitcher with wedges.
2. Add up to an inch of water at the bottom of the pitcher. The water is necessary to help the wedges move, and reduce in size at the beginning.
3. Blend, blend, blend! You’re done when all the ingredients are circulating in a vortex, but don’t worry you can’t over-blend it.
Coach, please note: It’s likely that the blade of the blender pitcher will jam at the beginning. You may have to grab the wheel and move it back and forth to help the blade reposition and be ready to power through the apples. You may also want to whack the the side of the pitcher to shake apples down into the forming vortex. Adding more water can make this whacking step unnecessary. If you do the whacking step, do it with two hands where one hand stabilizes the pitcher while the other gives it a whack. That way the pitcher won’t go flying!
4. Dump the whole contents into the cheesecloth and then squeeze! Clean hands or gloves are essential for this step and this is why the coach can’t be the chef/food prep person.
If you stop here you have pedal powered apple juice, continue on to make apple cider.
5. Add a stick or 3 of cinnamon and some cloves (to taste), and heat until warm and steaming. Take notes on how long it takes to heat the juice in your electric kettle or stove top and then don’t overheat (and risk scalding your guests). For the nearly quart of juice that’s likely to result from one pitcher full of apple wedges, you probably only have to heat it for 3 minutes or so.
A 20″ bike is the smallest bike you can use with our FBU bike blender. This will allow you to get the youngest kids pedaling. The small size of the frame on 20″ bikes means that there may be some customization needed to install the rack at the correct height.
Tip 1: Do not use the extension pieces.
The directions in our owner’s manual say not to use the flat brackets, shown below, which provide multiple holes for achieving the correct height on larger frames.
Instead, use the bottom hole on the FBU’s rack as shown above.
Tip 2. Use P-Clamps to achieve the correct height. Even if you follow Tip 1, you may not able to get the roller of the FBU to sit low enough to make good contact with the tire. Here’s a photo example:
On a good install, the surface of the rack should only be about 1-2″ from the spot on the tire where you want the roller to hit (the widest part). Note that in the photo above, the distance is about 3″ so the roller is making any contact with the widest part of the tire.
In this case, you must do the following workaround to get the rack to sit lower: Use P-Clamps to grab the strut of the rack. P-Clamps now come with every 20″ kit that we sell.
Take a look at the example of how to use them:
Here’s a closer look:
View the video directions to mount a bike in our stationary stand:
BLENDING PEDAL POWER
Fender Blender Universale (rear rack needed) Roll Up generator stand
The ideal bike for both of these activities will need to have the following features (CLICK TO ENLARGE):
We encourage you to look for the following features in a new or used bike (or your existing bike) when identifying the right bike for your Fender Blender Universale:
Read on for more specifics.
Read MoreThe FBU requires a stand to be able to blend smoothies in stationary mode. Without a trainer, you’ll literally have to ride around the block to blend a smoothie. We sell a good-quality basic trainer. Call us at 888-354-BIKE if you have more questions about Fender Blenders.
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