People For Bikes: If I Ride

[c3023239]

all i heard was "chocolate milk"...

[makeiteasyable]

nice. truly wonderful..

[brunopelias]

I would like to translate the poem to my language, but I miss some parts when listening to it!! Can any english native speaker, write it all here for me!! Thanks a lot!!

[sjmulder]

@brunopelias YouTube won’t let me paste a link but the poem is titled “A Poem To Biking”. You should be able to find it with Google fairly quickly.

[MrCzahn]

just saw this commercial on tv!  i was so happy

[BayshoreCRA]

This was a great video!!

[ore83]

AWESOME VIDEO, thanks!!

[ntn056]

What is this music? I love it!

[hamson4]

that is right she's amzing

[sposdta]

That was delicate and beautiful. I liked that poem. Thanks for the spot. The world is listening.

[BigPoppaSun]

I hope whoever stole my bike enjoys it as much as I did.

[gmilanese]

Awesome message and I am 99% positive that almost al the footage is from Portland, Oregon. What a great place with a huge scene in biking, love that city!

[IIFunkyMonkeyII]

oo that sounds good if oil tankers hold chocolate milk yum!  =P

[dhikaeliazar]

Awesome.... :)

[thedavidcarmona]

: ) If I Ride - It forms a bond, not isolate us from one.

[SuperStratford1]

I enjoy watching this in the dead of winter....Gives me pause to know spring is on the way...a time for renewed hope and rebirth....my bike is waiting in the wings....to take me to new places to meet new faces....get out and ride!!!!!

[birdhums]

I just like this video a lot. Inspiring.

[TheAdventurous500]

You guys are doing amazing things and I'm proud of you! Keep it up friends!

[assthemagichat]

is that Explosions in the Sky?

[smilegrace]

@assthemagichat yes, It's So Long, Lonesome from their album "All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone"

[CheangYan]

I wish we have that in Singapore...:)

[bcqwert]

love it

[RiemTiem]

Amazing. =)

[BikerFearless01]

Simply inspiring! Let´s get there together!!

[maciejsza]

I watch this regularly coz it makes me feel a little bit special for riding a bike, thank you!

[fisher314]

you nailed it. atta boy/girl.

[flybikes90]

my life in my childhood was surrounded by bikes and bmx. i sure do miss those days.

[TheMerbit1000]

Love this

[purps45]

I wish I had more people like this to ride with. All in good time...

[Velomancer]

I ride!

[OldMedStudent]

Perfect! 

[lostL01]

I LOVE THIS! I KNOW WHAT SHE MEANS!

[sbarhq]

It won't let me sign because I don't have a zip code. :(

[shmutzo]

I rode....I was a commuter for 8 years. I have left my job last month, but I'm looking for those that are interested in riding.....I don't want to stop riding! .

[spacecadetdavsot]

This video made me smile and cry tears of joy.

[erickBUENO2009]

@spacecadetdavsot yeah me too!

[jester1cp]

If i ride i will not wear spandex

[keencyclist99]

I love it and have watched it over and over again. I've also forwarded it to all my Families on Bikes email list, as well as a stack of others, including some Americans. Good luck, and happy cycling!

[todrobbins]

Great Explosions in the Sky track! And a moving mantra. Cheers.

[MTBthemonster]

I think I'm going to go ride my bike now :)

[PHATBIRD7]

IF I RIDE I CAN BE FREE AND I CAN BE A ROHIRRIM THEN CAN BE ME AGAIN

[Cableguy008]

Fake and gay

[keikoschneider]

Brought me to tears.

[ttabong02]

내가 자전거를 타는 이유는./..???

[Bostonbob3]

If I watch enough old Janet Champ Nike commercials, I will steal them and "create" this video.

[inesalag]

I hope you have also seen the videos from Denmark or some nordic european country, that promote cycling. You can find them with initials NFTA, I love number 9 or 7, i forgot.

[masurferkidd]

wow i ride and this just sounds like come kind of fucken brain washing video, oil tankers carrying chocolate milk??? are you fucken stupid

[cheeb94]

Kiss my ass you SUV driving, potato chip eating, obese, hyperlipidemic, fuck!

[masurferkidd]

@cheeb94 lmao

[rukmini23]

always puts me in a great mood!!!!!

[47xxy]

totally amazing,

[soobeng]

Very beautifully made. I love it.

[virsunen2]

cycling is the BEST!

[joaofq]

AEEEEE VIVA OS BIKERSSS!!!

[ffitchm]

I sure hope chocolate milk is not transported so inefficiently due to my bike riding.

[bikeliving]

LOVE

[mdwittenberg]

Woo! I love the "If I ride, my breath will fill the air instead of car exhaust" -- I hope to see more videos

[dirtrider0919]

@mdwittenberg

To bad our breath has co2 in it also

[naythong]

@dirtrider0919 Breath = 2.3 lbs of co2 per day per person. Car exhaust = 46.4 lbs per day per U.S. vehicle.

[Bobs482]

@dirtrider0919 Too bad you don't know the right 'too', or that the co2 emitted from human breath is far less than that of a car. There is also no pollution.

[simonmajura]

It's called

C Y C L I N G

[BlueSmurfer]

Beautiful video!

[metale666]

superb....beautiful !!

[ww3k]

beautiful

[rukmini23]

Great Video, takes me on a ride to a better place in time.....

[jiggytree]

I want the audio off this video as an mp3 so I can easily listen to it everyday and so I can toss it on playlists.

[cstubing]

@jiggytree It's a song by a band called Explosions in the Sky. The song is called "So Long, Lonesome" and is from their 2007 album, "All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone". Get the whole album, they are fantastic!

[trwei396]

That's a great poem. Anyone know who wrote it?

[outbackwebman]

We don't "ride", that's what motor bikers do.

We cycle, pedal, crank. I crank hard.

[Taupofreeride]

29ér fixie all the way!

[Pun3Handler]

fixed gear all day

[golbaldoc1]

i love to ride its the best how ever witch way you ride free riding rules just ride and have fun respect to the real people

[crtrnr]

I Ride.........to Ride My Bicycle

[scrubrat90]

what the song? it sounds familiar

[cyber8686]

@scrubrat90

Explosions In The Sky - So Long, Lonesome

[samdon815]

No insurance , no stop lights , no state inspection , no concern for traffic laws , blocking auto movement. You get no respect from me.

[DerAngriff]

@samdon815 You're old so I can see you're not as interested in the alternatives as some of these young folks are. So you might miss out on the mayhem of Peak Oil (Demand outstrips supply) . Cheap energy is going the way of the Dodo unless you can knock out China and India (both emerged global economic players with growing interests in energy consumption/security). So unless there's a miracle in development of replacement to the fossil fuels, you best get your fitness on. Punch on.

[michaelmcc84]

@samdon815 what a dick......

[deblirious]

great video!

[Sephonet]

If I ride, I'll be on the side of the street rather than get stuck in the traffic

[baalynduh]

If I ride I don't have to find a freaking parking spot! thank gawddd!

[SuckXmyXchickeN]

too bad i live 50 miles away from my college, or I would ride to school everyday.

[Giventoflytrials]

Good vid. Would watch again.

[Nickbanabopick]

Kinda of chessy, sappy video, but riding a bike is good for the planet and you. I haven't driven a car since 1985. Instead I ride a bicycle, walk or take public transportation. No need to spend money on a gym, car, gas, or car insurance. Get plenty of exercise doing somethinhg fun.

[91lilfrozone23]

a bike will NEVER replace a gym or a good set of weights at home ....

riding a bike is only cardio lol

[TheYtml]

i agree for most of what you say, but in cali you can definetly build leg muscles. i ride up 2 800 ft gradual hills in 1.75 miles on my way home from school every day lol

[91lilfrozone23]

well i'm getting my bike back from my farm (i have it there cause it's sweet to ride on the mountains lol) so i can go to the gym on it, it's only a mile away.

and atm i'm running there.. even though i got a car lol

and yea, a bike can definitely build leg muscle, specially on hills..

i just wouldn't just rely on that to build my leg muscles since i do bodybuilding though :D

[TheYtml]

@91lilfrozone23 ya i kno, just saying, it can build some muscle

[TheYtml]

oh ya and 1 1000 foot gradual incline on the way to. but the benifit (like they said in the video) is that i can ride like 35 mph down the hills lol i get home in 10min with that one hill

[Nickbanabopick]

You do get a good cardio and leg muscle work out, if you want to stretch it. I ride my bike mostly as a city bike though on fairly level streets. I live in the Bay Area.

[TheYtml]

ya i definitely stretch it, my friend lives 4 houses down from me, and his mom drives him home and i beat him by bike lol

[Nickbanabopick]

It's not meant to replace a gym. I just don't like going to the gym. A good set of weights at home, though, is a good idea.

[turlinen]

Yeah, and the seat of your car won't do even that...

[91lilfrozone23]

do what?

[baalynduh]

@Nickbanabopick damn 1985? u got u license suspended didn't u?

[Nickbanabopick]

I still have my licence. I get it renewed every five years or so.  Of course, I have a perfect driving record.

[wasabiiii]

DerAngriff, but Hitler and Lenin mostly succeeded. =)

[fernkitty]

I like it. It speaks to everyone. Who can argue with getting to fly downhill, fireflies and chocolate milk? Sometimes the most profound messages are presented in the simplest ways.

[jacebarret]

Nice video. Nice vibe about it. I ride to work in a country where bikes are at the lowest tier of the road hierarchy. I ride in a South East Asian country. This video, makes me feel that with enough exposure and awareness, the same thing could happen back home.

[clockcycles]

Seeing people ride, smile and laugh, let's me know there is hope for us all!

[GermFreeFusion]

That kid had a flat tire.

[SomeRandomAhole]

Yay! More silly utopianist libtard drivel. Yay!

[DerAngriff]

It is syrupy and koom bi ya.. And perhaps you've been put off by 'critical mass' and fixie culture (cliches) but mate fuck that shit, Riding a bike is fun. Not only that, if you do enough of it, it get you fit and keep you there. Car culture has contributed to human hybrid Hutts. 50 years ago it was rare to see someone fat let alone morbidly obese. Now you have these sad landwhales wondering what the fuck happened to them. Oh, and there's a ton of hot cycling women out there. So Win!

[bikecrave]

Alternative transportation -- especially human-powered -- is nice. Way to go. The more people speak up, the more others will understand what the movement is about.

[DerAngriff]

I'm always cautious when it comes to consigning a message as a 'movement'. (also a euphemism for taking a shit). Lenin had a movement, so did Hitler.JIm Jones... Kool aid. Movements are for group think and the mob. I'm all for positive promotion of cycling but movement's say Us And Them. That's alienating to the mainstream.

[wasabiiii]

@DerAngriff Hitler and Lenin mostly succeeded.

[TrekTravelBikeTours]

Great video. Hope this inspires more. And we hope you continue to produce more videos!

[BodybyGym]

I ride and do run some red lights after coming to a stop and if safe to do so. I look at it as a benefit to riding and that i can get out of the way of vehicles by the times the light turns green for them. Some states even have it written into state law allowing this for bike riders and it has shown there is actually a reduction in bike vs car accidents for states that have done so...

[ceedeath]

road rage would turn into laughter...???

I ride, but I've seen many riders who don't follow the rules of the road... sorry. running red lights is the most common.

[OaktownBman]

Lovely video. Way to launch a new campaign. Much luck and love to you all.

[Djronan1]

Amazing video. Really inspiring!