70 Day Time Lapse: 2008 Texas 4000 for Cancer Bike Ride from Austin, Texas to Anchorage, Alaska

[sevadaj]

Thank you bike riders!!!!!

[2089Rebirth]

YEA! Fiero @3:22  way to go guys. My goal is from LA to Mexicali

[Bluepies]

I got about two minutes into the video before I accepted that the music wasn't getting any better and put it on mute.

[basecode8]

Epic ride!!! Congrats!

I'm looking to make a time lapse vid (of a much shorter ride) of the Cape Cod Getaway for BikeMS next month. You mind if I ask what software you used and what your end framerate (pre-Youtube-upload) was? I'm trying to balance vid length with viewable framerate. So far, yours seems the smoothest I've seen.

[swashbuckler18]

@basecode8 I use Final Cut Pro when editing video. All this footage was shot with a miniDV camera so the frame rate should be 29.97. I would recommend looking into the GoPro HD cameras... they're pretty small, mountable to your bike, and shoot beautiful HD footage. Bets of luck on your ride and thanks for watching mine :)

[MaxCruise73]

Parts of your video brings back great memories. Rode from Seattle to San Francisco along the coast in 2000. We completed our ride on the south end of the Golden Gate Bridge. I recognized Avenue of the Giants, and when you crossed into Oregon. No shoulder to a 3 foot wide shoulder.

Did everyone in your group complete the ride? And how were you able to cope with "life" after the ride?  Thanks for the video and stirring up great memories.

[idonotwastenames]

wow! nice vid

[sickVoDKa]

How many miles did you average a day? 60-70. Also, I truly think Atlas was a great song to choose for such a video. It goes so well.

[swashbuckler18]

@sickVoDKa Average was 70-80 miles per day. Thanks for the comment, that song pumped me up every morning for my ride. I like how Lucas Brunelle used it in his new bike film festival trailer... tells me he's seen my video!

[paulheckbert]

I saw the Golden Gate Bridge. cool! How many miles were covered while the camera was on? Knowing that would allow us to compute the average effective speed of the video (distance traveled while camera on / play time of video). How often did you shoot a frame?

[LARC0]

WOW!! this was freaking epic!!! great job Guys and Gals!!!!

[xxxrandomjamezxxx]

Nice keep it up n let no one bring you down. thats what i do.

[swashbuckler18]

Thank you to everyone who has watched and commented on the video! This was without one of the most most amazing things I have ever accomplished, so it's great to have this video to look back on.

[jcmegabyte]

Very cool - can't say I've seen a time lapse from a biker's point of view before - especially on such a ling ride! :-)

[IcyScythe]

Good choice of music.

I'e always wondered though how does running/biking long distances raise money for cancer/aids/whatever.

Sincere question. I mean is there someone out there who won't write a check unless you do it?

[swashbuckler18]

Each rider had to raise thousands of dollars through donations, sponsorships and pledges. We collect all these funds before we leave for the ride, so it's kind of expected that you're going to follow through and finish the ride with the team. Thanks for watching!

[Powerslider]

that was great.. The world is beautiful.

[Sparco41e]

very cool... wish there were annotations to show when you were in various states and some of the towns or cities.

[SourceOfAberration]

5:15 - 5:22 is the Columbia River bridge in Oregon. I've crossed it as well. By the way, this is an excellent video. You people must have been determined like crazy to accomplish such a thing.

[aaronis31337]

That was SO bad ass! I wish I had 2 1/2 months to do a ride like that! It's a life defining event! New dream to come true I hope.

[knifipu]

Great.

[AmericanCycleMovie]

Looks like a blast! I wonder if you guys ever crossed paths with us. We were out there Summer of 08 too!

[EccentricInTexas]

Nice Video!!!  Not sure whats up with all the idiots hating on the video... But thanks again for sharing.

[907AK75]

how many tires poped haha

[xaajeh]

wow, ride more like jack asses why don't you? You're stupid little cause doesn't give you the right to block traffic. And try to actually use your brain for once and research cancer before riding to support "cancer research". I bet all those riders each have at least 5 pathetic lifestyle habits that contribute to cancer.

Oh, and keep asking people to waste more money donating their money to an organization they know nothing about so some chump executive can fund his new summer house.

[swashbuckler18]

lets be best friends forever.... please?

[aaronis31337]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. Classy response.  Thanks!

[akechi1]

"You're stupid little cause"

If he's stupid for being in a physically demanding/challenging event that raises money for cancer research, you have to be the world's biggest idiot for saying "you are stupid little cause".

[swashbuckler18]

And still it took us 6 days to get out of here! The desert wasn't much better the next 2 weeks but the ride took a beautiful turn once we hit California.

[calamarichris]

I'd probably be pedaling that fast too if it meant escaping from Texas.

[daFranch1se69]

lol pwnt, is big tex that bad?

[calamarichris]

No, haha, I was only kidding.

(It's much, much WORSE!)

[tariqabdulla]

Very good job!

[bowlochile]

Truly awesome