"Handlebars" by the Flobots

[MrBenster12345]

GUYS THIS SONG ISNT RACIST FOR THE KKK PART LOOK AT THE ALBUM COVER THERES A BLACK WOMAN WITH A USA FLAG AROUND HER MOUTH

[OuRchEMicLeRomAnCe]

@MrBenster12345 LOLOL

[morgan123476]

1,024 people fell off their bikes

[75fn]

u should of kept the song original

[MrEstablished97]

0:57 .... wtf :/

[imaHICK1995]

the KKK

[1thelegoman1]

at 2:26 a kid has a Gun

[ujustgotdropped]

this was the perfect video to play SNAKE :D pause and push down right repeatedly to play

[freakadoshiz]

0:40 subliminal kkk?

[QWERTYCommander]

Moral of the story: If you see a kid able to ride his bike without the use of handlebars, kill them. They could become the president and start a global holocaust.

[BHSsoccer12345]

There are clearly handlebars on that bike...

[xrainbowRebel]

@BHSsoccer12345 Please tell me your joking.

[TheAlbinoplatypus23]

0:46 You and your friends must've seen my cousin Freddie...

[Nikobot2]

I listened to this song at night and all of those images flew through my mind...

[abcaustin3]

u dicks



[computernerd051]

I:>

[TheSlevinKevin]

Sound's like weird Al!!



[HeyGuysItsIan]

what was this about?

[bedfordxc]

I hate it so much when bands and celebrities try to make political or economical statements...

[djbeccaria]

@bedfordxc then dont listen...

[bedfordxc]

@djbeccaria

Weak minded people listen and then think they know how the world works and now we have complete idiots making policy

[ploppercon]

@bedfordxc They're a political/economical band...

[bedfordxc]

@ploppercon They dont know anything about politics or the economy

[ploppercon]

@bedfordxc wow

[bedfordxc]

@ploppercon I have a degree in economics and I've served in the marines...I know more about the world than those clowns.

[TheMosquito101]

what the hells is up with the pictures

[retrorebound]

@TheMosquito101 fail

[mexicanmonster42]

my god this world sucks little kids with guns,mean little girl firing people,and the KKK god i feel so like ugh

[fatwreckdsucks]

@mexicanmonster42 COOL NAME

[Slipknoter344]

Finally! I found this video like 3 years ago and forgot what it was called! love it man.

[nguyen350681]

looks like the dislike bars is twice as long as kim kardisons wedding

[deathiswaitin]

1,020 cannot ride their bike with no handlebars

[Dakota3346]

These kids are great actors not bad my friend not bad at all.

[galanoth17]

these kids are good actors. great job

[Daringskippy1]

At 2:03 it kinda looks like Pam off The Office

[SlipKnotFan0101]

How can i download this version of the song on my ipod touch??? O.o

[lyingmongoose]

Damn, I'm looking for a different version. His vocals are a little different, and at the end at the 'holocaust' part there's an echo, so it goes 'A Holocaust! (A Holocaust!)' Anyone know what I'm talking about?

[TheDjkflow]

@lyingmongoose yeah i do i got it on my phone i download it but it was not the one i want i want the one with the echo

[TheSmat3619]

I loved this song when it came out, and just like every other song we love, it faded from my memory. And then today I heard it in Best Buy and got chills down my spine. The world is so much more bad off then when this song debuted. It's a beautiful message because everyone starts off as innocent children.......

[CoruptedGameStudio]

1017 people tried to ride their bike with no handlebars

[613avatar1]

HEY I AM A KID I WILL BE THE NEXT POLITIC THE NEXT PRESIDENT I HAVE SEEN THE FLAWS I HAVE SEEN THE PROBLEMS I SEE THE END I SEE THE UPRISE I SEE THE PROBLEMS WITH AMERICA I SEE THE PROBLEMS I SEE EVERYTHING!

[SuperSkater54321]

This vid is epic!!!!!!!

[Thecamrenshow]

ak47 boi - 0:26 Wtf kkk 0:40

[Thecamrenshow]

ak47 boi - 0:26

[YouvGotNoIdea]

Wtf? 0:26

[collegehumorrulz1]

welll no one rides bikes anymores its longboards now =p

[thejohncannabis]

The real message in this song is that humans can do absoloutely amazing things but the choice is to use you cappabilities to commit amazingly horrible acts or extremly kind acts.

IF YOU SUPPORT THIS IDEA YOU SHOULD THUBS UP AND SUB ME

[Johnnyshah1]

Er... Yeah your fired... Oh and you too... Oh maybe.. Yeah you... Er... You too... OH AND YOU YOU SON OF A BIT**

[oguljenikrompir]

and wtf with that lil nigga on 0:26 ?

[cruz967]

this was sort of sad cause all of the dead people and kids with guns and there killing people its just sad

[DaRealElChiaUSA]

the front part of that kid was all business but his back side was all party

[TheSmat3619]

@DaRealElChiaUSA it's a girl

[AbyssalPrincess]

@DaRealElChiaUSA lol I see what you mean XD

......but that's a girl

[Critikills]

What Version of the song is this?

it's more chill

[Critikills]

0:26 Sambo with AK74U?

[chochedx]

2:45 that was easy

[BrEeZyIsHeRe]

@chochedx haha Staples!!!

[lmao596]

1016 people got speed wobbles

[TheSalesDan]

NOBODY is gonna ride with no handlebars for you, you must do it yourself!!! This is art, inspirational art!!!! GOD BLESS AMERICA because you can ride you handlebars. Figuratively speaking

[LuNeZ100]

TempO Starcraft brought me here !

[Stormstout1]

@MENDSk8ing I get my view on life from awesome friends, loving parents and a nurturing education. Books help too :)

[ELIZ261]

that funny

[CodyIzAplayer]

James at war's version was better.

[aer8862357]

1,015 Can't ride their bike with no handlebars.

[smhoe]

this makes me want to kill bullies more than is already needed

[myawesomeness23]

Lot of horrifieng pictures here. 1:07, 1:24 1:27, lots more. U Have to be quick though to see them

[myawesomeness23]

oh damn. i never noticed this in the video. Pause DIRECTLY at 1:07 | click pause right before it changes to 1:07 so it will stop at the right part. Its a picture of blacks being hanged by, KKK members?

[Arbaz1704]

@myawesomeness23 Unfortunately, they weren't KKK members. They were just regular people. Life's fucked up, eh?

[starburst223]

Its such a simple idea that leads people to have a complex and crazy mind bottling way of thinking of it. Powerful, beautiful and much much more than we think it is.

[greentuger]

That is a Staples easy button!!! I can run up a hill without stopping. The kids made this video interesting and funny! On a serious note... Where she fires people, from experience, when one has to do something they don't want to do, they do it regretfully and then they drastically do it out of pleasure not to feel regret anymore. It's like blaming the victim for being a victim. You learn about this stuff in psychology.

[Synistar092]

lol is that a staples easy button

[abcdefghijklmno53796]

whoaa whoa the kkk is not cool

[abcdefghijklmno53796]

pause directly at 0:26 black kid with an ak47

[chicwithsunglasses]

Those subliminal messages scared me

[theevilm1]

Just because you can, does not mean you should.

[heidifiregoddess]

Don't you think the real message is "shit rolls downhill" ? The farther up the hill you are the less shit rolls onto you and the more you can shit on others?

[Synistar092]

@heidifiregoddess isnt that the nationally recognized motto of white people

[RDmLabel]

0:40

subliminal messaging

[laojace]

thumbs up if you thumbs up the top two comments different as they are.

[Allsmilez126]

i know this is about humanity and all the worlds disasters but what exactly does i can ride my bike with no handle bars really mean????

[AlexSaysHi2013]

@Allsmilez126 I can do anything, but then that develops to I can do ANYTHING, anyone, or build anything, or kill anything, I want look at what I CAN DO!!! MUAHHAHAH

ahem or um, you know, somethin like that...yeah

[Allsmilez126]

@AlexSaysHi2013 Lol yhu said " i can do anyone" ...but i got the meaning..lol thnks

[AlexSaysHi2013]

@Allsmilez126 no problem!

[majorianmask]

This song is about humanity. When he says I, hes talking about all humans.

[McKennezie]

take a close look at 0:40 1:07 1:25 ect. what's all of that for???????

[AlexSaysHi2013]

@McKennezie racism-power over a a people, examples Jim Crow law in the South, and apartheid in South Africa, poor people images-people with power over the economy leave these people in their wake

get it?

[McKennezie]

@AlexSaysHi2013 errr, not really. but thanks for the help :)

[AlexSaysHi2013]

@McKennezie what eves

[anonwoohoo]

Flobots have such great and inspirational music but they were tricked into supporting Obama for president :/ Son, I am disappoint.

[fifiree]

subbed

[englishovals]

Peer pressure's a bitch...

[badsalad313]

Machiavelli would've loved this song

[ThiPokeNewb]

@badsalad313 Who is Machiavelli? How would he have loved this song O.o?

[badsalad313]

@ThiPokeNewb Google him :P

[horrorwench1]

powerful song if one just listens to the words.

[ewmess]

did that one time and crash right into a car....

[MrJustcause2010]

that bike clearly has handlebars

[xPRBxBeaSTiiNx]

KILLUMINATTI!!!!!!!!!!

[bowserelguerrero]

esta muy pendejo el video la verdad -.-

[shadowdusters]

i like the song



[minecraftworldism112]

errr 0:24 wait for a boy with a gun:D

[magnus4738]

poop

[magnus4738]

this is fucked up and hilarious and the same time

[iElitePig]

filmed in new york city , manhatten, chinatown?

[PrototypeClex]

You know what's really scary? The one who has the power to push "the button" isn't the President. It's these few men and women we never see on TV, never read about in the papers and didn't personally vote into office.

[taylor13kanye741]

@PrototypeClex o.o what?



[scott1506]

was this used in an advert

[Stormstout1]

I don't intend to criticism anyone but the top rated comments aren't exactly correct. This song is meant to demonstrate human potential, the potential we all have to do great acts of love or huge acts of hatred and violence. The song writer is trying to display how his small achievement of riding w.o handlebars can translate into bigger and bigger actions and how as a human he has the power to do wonderful things that benefit all mankind or horrible, heartless atrocities.

[titanomegistoteras]

@Stormstout1 exactly. they actually sympathise ambitious/arrogant people. it remids me of ancient greek tragedies

[AlternateMars]

@Stormstout1 Your a genius

[GoneReality]

@Stormstout1 well said my friend

[AlexSaysHi2013]

@Stormstout1 it's all up to interpretation, that's art, derp

[kegmonkey]

@Stormstout1 THANK YOU.

[MENDSk8ing]

@Stormstout1 Dude that is so true. wheredo u get your views? Influence? Experience?

[MENDSk8ing]

@Stormstout1 Dude that is so true. wheredo u get your views? Influence? Experience?

[PrimerDust318]

@Stormstout1 I get that. I remember being a kid and the feeling of accomplishment taking my hands off of my bike's handlebars and not crashing. And hitting adolescence, learning everything from how to play guitar, World history, seeing one person in Tiananmen Square stop a tank. The Soviet Union and the Berlin Wall collapsing. I graduated high school and started at Humboldt State. Went to work for an environmental engineering/consulting firm thinking my work would make the world better...

[PrimerDust318]

Respond to this video...  Only to discover that we were basically just providing damage control for industry with a less than stellar track record. I became part of the problem without even realizing it at first.

[Cannabismom]

Most Powerful and Amazing Song..

[brkarg]

Every time I get fed up with film school, I watch this video. The aesthetics of everything remind me of why I got into it and keep me going to class.

[TheWolzen]

Singing wasn't that good but the video was great.

[nega577]

me to

[skips36]

were did you get these pictures? reply please

[ALYZZAOFDEATH]

That bike had handlebars. :|

[xxcollisionsxx]

i believe this song is directed to the government that controls the world, the illuminati,.

[skips36]

@xxcollisionsxx me too

[ArrowStarz14]

that was amazing! I almost cried. great job.

[Wormkiller7]

awesome song...

deep message



[youtubing18777]

If you could just take a few mins to check mine out. Its titled "knoebels flume" thanks =)

[Flattlane19]

i have a unicycel does that coount

[Archon762]

nice use of subliminal messaging

[muttatdesk]

thats the easy button from staples!!! 2:45

[SpazztasticFridays]

this is all i have to say

╭∩╮（︶︿︶）╭∩╮

[XavierTheAwesome]

@SpazztasticFridays

>implying that's saying something

[sbriandaboss]

What i get from this song is a unquenchable thirst for power.Or self accomplishment and how it all can start from something as small as riding a bike with no handlebars which can excalade into genicide just to try and quench a thirst for self accomplishment

[TheWeedPuffers]

0:56 pause the video... subliminal messaging??? wtf

[ciasplntr]

@TheWeedPuffers Hardly even worth explaining to you... random images of hate pop up constantly throughout the video. It's not as simple as the Flobots trying to turn you into a racist or something. There's a message. Try to figure it out.

[TheWeedPuffers]

@ciasplntr haha i know especially since this isnt even made by the flobots i just think its weird that they put all these little millisecond pictures. i understand and im not offended but i just hope others feel the same way :)

[twistedbro5]

1,004 people r deaf

[ragingphase]

Im trying my best to figure out what this song means can someone please reply to me and tell me whatthis song means Thnx :)

[101hew]

@ragingphase well to me the song is showing the progresstion of something simple and inncocent in to something evil strong and scary by abusing and gaining power.......well thats what it means to me personaly though.

[RobloxHelperz]

Some of these images flash so fast you cant see them unless you pause thus leaving a subliminal message in the back of your head.

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BTW

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Please correct me if im wrong and i used the wrong type of subliminal type for what im talking about

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No sarcasm intended :D?

[RobloxHelperz]

This video is just.... Wow.... * Mouth jaw drops 0.0....?

Why are there men in white suits staring at dead bodys??!??!?

[ragingphase]

Whats interesting about this video is that it starts off with such an easy thing like riding a bike with no handlebars than gets more real and more intense than at the end No Handlebars again :)

[gummyandkali]

i want to help the Hobo's. i feel bad for them

[SpaceBound96]

did anyone else see the kkk ?

[NativeEagle7]

this is the song that opend my eyes to the world

[atomicswoosh]

that was easy

[FoulkeVlogs]

i disagree with this video because its about two pathways a person can take a path of freedom and uncorpritsed business and the path of restrictions and big business and to where big business wins and kills all the people he held dear the only good part was the girl who was firing everyone and partial pictures in the end BTW holocaust is a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire

[Thegamingguru65]

@FoulkeVlogs yea representation was very bad lol

[greatghostofdookie]

that kid is never gonna get laid acting like that haha

[gigglesmansonn]

This EP version is SO much better.

[brionazapata96]

this isnt racist at all just a couple of kkk pic dick face

[ScaryGnomeFilms]

@brionazapata96 Broski, I'm just saying. The KKK picture doesnt mean that the creator of the video has a favour for the Ku Klux Klan, it's just one of the many pictures and groups that depicts how corrupt this world is. Which is also sort of what the lyrics and the song were meaning to depict. So, please, don't go calling people dick faces when you don't have your facts straight.

[FallingDownAHill]

I CAN RIDE MY BIKE.. WITH TRAINING WHEELS. :P

[stricklerville]

@ReDDrago0N Everyone still wants to be like the U.S. jealousy is what drives people to so called "hate" us. When you are on top, everyone wants what you have.

[gameplaya38]

that vid sucks! musics good though :D

[paigep17]

lol the button that releases the nukes is a that was easy staples button:P

[dk67321]

look at wt has become to our wrld ppl dyin 4 corrupted fukin ignorant bitches dat got nuthan 2 do let those bastards rest in hell

[EmmieTheDino]

2:47, That was easy;)

[Mrobertson96]

i wish i could wank with no hands no hands

[dudewat212]

This is some "Birth of A Nation" type mess ! If you don't know what that is, please google it.

[JustAUsernam3]

I love the clear, powerful contrast of the innocence of youth with the corruption of the world. Very moving.

[JustAUsernam3]

This isn't a racist song/video. It demonstrates the negative effects of pride, arrogance and abuse of power. The lyrics and images reflect the fact that some people, imo wrongly, feel superior to others because of ethnicity, gender etc. They embody the results of an abuse of power and a feeling of entitlement. There is nothing racist or discriminatory about an attempt to open the eyes of people to the wrongs in this world.

[Sarge1886]

@JustAUsernam3 wrong and right are so intertwined that we would not know one with out the other. war and peace are happening at the same time

[TheGstar1985]

@JustAUsernam3 Well said mate. Hi5 from Aus.

[sinbadinall]

@JustAUsernam3 sad thing is to those people who do this. We cannot open their eyes. There will always be people like this.