 I say happy, you say Thursday, happy, happy, happy. What's up, my friends? How you doing? I'm gonna make this fast because something very special is happening tonight. It's the Thursday night cruiser ride. Happy Thursday! And this thing has been happening for over 20 years. I've been doing it since my sophomore year in college in 1999. Whoa, that was a long time ago. And my life at times has revolved around Thursdays. When I'm in Boulder, I do not miss this ride. What is this ride? It's just a casual, fun, goofy emphasis on goofy. And we don't go fast. We definitely don't wear spandex unless it's some sort of fabulous leotard or something. And it's all about fun. When I think of my community, my beloved Boulder, the cruiser ride is one of my absolute favorite things that happens in this town that's still a little bit weird. Boulder's gotten a little shiny, but the cruiser ride is still holding strong with its weirdness. That's amazing! That is amazing! And check out this ancient footage. The second video I ever uploaded to my YouTube channel was back in July 2006. And it was the Thursday cruiser ride. And not a whole lot has changed. Go! So here we are riding down an alley, having a great time on Pearl Street. We're cruising. It's Thursdays, Fourth of July cruise. Everybody's rocking the red, white, and blue. And I see you back there wondering, wow, what is Ryan wearing? That is an awesome denim vest. Well, I started a gang. And we are the Outlaws. So we're not the Outlaws like the bad boy biker gang Outlaws. We are the Outlaws. We put the la, la, la, la, la in Outlaws inspired by my friend, P.B. Herman. Pew! All right, let's go. So I'm gonna take you virtually on the Boulder cruiser ride tonight. But if you ever find yourself in Boulder on a Thursday, come join us. You can follow Boulder Bike Night on Instagram for all of the details. Okay, now let's choose a bike. Welcome to my garage. Okay, not the gravel bike, not the full suspension. I usually ride the cruiser, the priority coast cruiser. But I think today I'm gonna ride the priority current e-bike because I wanna be able to zoom around with my cameras and get all the good angles. So let's do it. Oh, and don't forget, get out there. You know how dinged up my walls are trying to get bikes into my little apartment? Olé, olé, olé, olé. This is my cruiser helmet and I've got on my rainbow handkerchief because the theme tonight is pride. And this little guy here is one of my favorite accessories. My sister got it for me. Check it out. It even lights up. All right, let's do this. Crank it up to five, of course. Turbo speed. It's time. I'm getting pumped. Riding from north boulder to central boulder and that's where I'm gonna meet up with all of my favorite goofballs in town. And believe me, there's gonna be a lot of them. We bike a holics or what? Bike a holics? Oh yeah. What do we have here? The limousine. It's a limousine bicycle. It's a limousine bike. Tell me, where'd you get the idea for this? Well, when you have a tiny bike, you want a tiny tandem bike. Let's see it. Let's see it in action. That's some dumb and dumber stuff right there. I love it. What makes the Cruiseride magical? The people. The energy of the people. And when there's bikes and there's bells and there's good juju, it's always a good time. Ladies and gentlemen, one of my favorite people on planet earth, one of your favorite people, look. Who do you want? Happy Pride Ride. Happy Pride Ride. Yes. Yes, what do you love about the Cruiseride, Dana? Oh, I love everything. I love that there's so many interesting people that come out and just, they're just happy. They're just like doing their jam. They're just like ring it, ring, ring, ring, ring and a happy Thursday. Like, you can't be in a bad mood and be on a Cruiseride. It's impossible. It is impossible. It's impossible. Dana, I love you. Yeah. T-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t. Hey, how are you? How do I look? You look great, man. For you two. This is for you two. This is for you two. How long have you been cruising? Why do you love the Cruiseride? I've been cruising since the summer of 2009 and why do I love the Cruiseride? Because it is one of the last true, bolder traditions that we have that really epitomizes and embodies that keep older, weird mentality that every week, a bunch of us, the local weirdos, we get together, we ride our bikes, we dress up, we have fun. There's no prerequisites. This isn't a meetup.com. There's no waivers. There's no wristbands. You just bring you and that's all that matters. My man gave in the house. Thank you, man. Happy Thursday. Thank you, Ryan Van Duser. Thank you for bringing the spirit, brother. Thank you and thank you for my 2008 bolder high graduation speech because that's what inspired me. If be yourself, folks, that's what's really cool. And so I owe it all to you, Ryan. Oh, not all of it. I did speak at his high school graduation, but I'm proud of this guy. Did you know that Ryan Van Duser was cruising up to 10 years before I started? And so he set the example for me and many others to keep coming. And that just means I'm old. Look at that gray hair. Wow! How long have you been cruising? Oh, at least 10, 12 years. What do you love about it? The crowd. It's the best part of my week, 39. What's up, brother? Hey, how's it going? So tell me about your shoes. Okay, so I hurt my hand so I need a little more stability so I can ride the bike with one hand. And so these, they're essentially like training wheels on your feet and they stabilize the bike and allow you to go from a stop to a start and make quick turns. And since I can only use one hand right now, it's a lot more balanced. So this is really cool. Where do we get this? This is helmet flare. This is a decorative attachment for your helmet. Our mission is to increase helmet use by making them more awesome and letting people express themselves while wearing a helmet. You can get them at helmetflare.com or on Amazon. Cool thing is you can swap them out because there's a magnet base. You just stick it on your helmet, pop on whatever design you want. My man here has purple horns. Check him out, make your helmet badass. Bubble machine. Bubble machine. You know, some bikes carry Bluetooth speakers and other bikes carry entire sound systems. Where are the mastermind behind this? That's right. How did you put it all together? I had these subs, four Yamaha subs, two tops. It's like 10,000 watts of sound. And then I was like, I can't bring these anywhere. So I was like, I need to find a way to take them around. So I bought a Harbor Freight trailer, built that out, did all the wiring underneath, got some lights, and then I made this tow contraption on that e-bike. And we'll pull it around all the bike paths and do a dance party at the first stop. Wow, this is a great turnout. Thanks everybody for coming out tonight. Thank you for hoisting that beautiful rainbow flag too. For those of you that are new, there's just a few simple guidelines and I'll recite them as so. One, we ride as one. What does that mean? We ride with traffic. We do not ride against traffic. Take care of one another. Look out for yourselves and those around you. Stay to the right, turn on your lights. If you have bike helmets, that is great. We appreciate that. And the more lights, the better. And lastly, and most importantly, we encourage you to ring your bells to yell very loudly. Whenever you see anyone and everyone, happy Thursday. Without further ado, we're just really happy to have you all here riding with us tonight. I better go get my bike. Everybody's leaving. Here we go, best night ever. Happy Thursday, happy, happy Thursday, happy Thursday, happy, happy, hey. I've been singing that song since 1998. Hi, Mr. Police Officer, hello. The police are like, we don't quite know what to do with you. You're not breaking any laws. Yeah, look at that beautiful flag. Nice job. Oh yeah, buddy, I like this outfit. You want it, man. I dig it. Perfect little bike, too. Yeah. So the cruiser ride isn't just fun for us. It's fun for everybody we see. And when we see people come out of their houses or on the street, we go, happy Thursday, happy Thursday. She's not even on the cruiser ride. She's just, you know, doing her thing. This is Boulder, what's up? Look at that bike. I'm a fan. Does the bike have a name? Super Psycho Glitter Disco Death Cruiser. Yeah, what's up? My heart for platinum, let's love this baby. Let's love this because she's sexy. She's awesome. She's luscious, yeah. Whoo, yeah. Yeah, I love early everywhere. There's bikes everywhere. I don't know where my bike is. I lost it. Look at this. Oh, I love the chaos of it all. It makes me happy. Happy Thursday, guys. What's up? We are now heading east on one of Boulder's famous bike paths. We have a lot of these things. We have over 300 miles of bike paths and bike lanes in this city. We take care of our cyclists and it's pretty awesome. Whoo! That's one of my favorite murals in Boulder. I love that thing. Here we go, buddy, yeah. Whoo, como estamos? That's what I'm talking about. What's up? How are we all doing? We're great. Look at the best look. Oh, I love this love wins sign. I'm gonna film this love wins. Hi there. How you doing? Yeah. Happy Thursday. Happy Thursday. Look at those beautiful Boulder mountains. Look at that beautiful Dana. How's it going? Awesome. One of our favorite things is coming right up. Here we go. Dana, are you ready? I'm ready. You ready? One, two, three. Oh, hey. Those little kids were psyched. They're like, what is this? Rolling into our neighborhood. Happy Thursday. So yeah, this is pretty much what we do. We just ride around and wish everybody a happy Thursday and honk horns and ring bells and play music and just goof around all night long. It's a pretty good deal. Happy Thursday. Happy Thursday. I think the best part of the ride is wishing people a happy Thursday. It's like we're in a big rolling parade. So it's June 23rd, which means it's one of the longest days of the year, which is awesome. We have plenty of light for cruising. All right. Right, all right on. Let's do it. What's your dog's name? Tony. Tony the dog. Tony, yeah. It looks like he's doing all the work. Huh? Yes. Oh. So I found a ride virgin first timer. How you like it? It's absolutely amazing. It's such a blast. Everyone's so happy and happy Thursday. Yeah. You going to come back? Absolutely. Bring all your friends. We need more. Yeah, we got more of them behind me. This is so fun. Oh, I love, I love seeing the smiles on faces of people who are here for the first time. They're like, whoa, I had no idea. Sprinkler, sprinkler, summertime, sprinkler, oh. The thing about the cruiser ride is that it seems to get bigger as it goes on. You know, when we left the park, we had a good crew. And now the crew is just gigantic. Check it out. Yeah, Thursday, happy, happy, but that's OK. We still got the spirit. Thank you for watching my video. I hope you enjoyed it. If you ever come to Boulder, come join us on a Thursday night. We know how to have fun. And please like and subscribe and watch my other videos.