This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb initially started as a new wave band, with folk singer David Dondero on drums.
This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb is staunchly pacifist and concerned with the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and racial equality in general.
On March 2, 2006, at 5:30 am an Ohio University police officer spotted a bicycle attached to the Oasis restaurant bearing a promotional sticker for the band.
[2][3] A similar incident occurred in 2001, when a police officer spotted and detained a woman at an Austin, Texas peace rally.
[4] On March 14, 2006, Bellarmine Hall at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was evacuated because of another bicycle with the band's name painted on it.