 Okay, I love my friends. How are you doing? Actually, I should be asking you how you're doing. Hi Dana And we're wearing our love shirts because it's Valentine's Day and we are gonna share some love. We love love Yeah, we love it a lot and we're here today with some exciting news because It's time. We're gonna raffle off another one of these priority 600x bicycles Yeah, the priority 600x the sexiest bike this side of the Mississippi Maybe even on the east side of the Mississippi in Alaska, too. Who knows maybe the entire world Anyway, you want this bike? It's hard to get, you know supply chain issues and stuff But we got one set aside for you All you got to do is buy some raffle tickets a whole lot of raffle tickets and this baby can be yours We're talking pinion gates Ren fork and that really cool get out there logo And just a reminder we did this last year. It was super successful Dana. How much did we raise? 44,997 Dollars American dollars that I shouldn't say we raised it you've raised it You are all so generous and you were buying those raffle tickets and so just a quick overview You buy these raffle tickets and it puts your name in the entry block of like thousands of other people And then they pull a winner so any of you could win this bike and it's awesome to raise money to win a bike, but it's also Awesome to raise money for the KRD foundation, which is where all This work goes to do what we do which is put kids on bikes really quickly. What's the KRD? Yeah, it's the Kirk rocky Derek Spiler foundation and my brother Rocky Mad donated him a kidney You know he had a great life cancer finally took it and Heart was broken Ryan And the only thing to do with a broken heart the way to heal that is with love and so I started this foundation with things that he was passionate about which was getting outside and Getting kids outside and kids on bikes and Yeah, you know everything that we get yeah from riding bikes, and I think you get probably too We all know the magic of bicycles and my whole goal with all this is obviously to get kids on bikes But to get kids loving bikes at an early age so that they keep that love throughout their lives and Just have a healthy lifestyle and something fun to do healthy to do good for the environment as we all know bikes are just The best it's good for the world. It is good for the world for the environment for everything We're saving the world one bike at a time. You're saving the world Exactly so we raised a lot of money last year Dana. Where did all the money go? We do the kids holiday bike giveaway for community cycles the community cycles is here in Boulder It's a bolder nonprofit, and that's like three or four hundred bikes We also consistently help out the Pueblo Boys and Girls Club. Why Pueblo? My brother was from Pueblo. Thanks for asking. Yeah, and yeah, so that's great We love to help out that community also this year a bulk of Our money went to indigenous communities, which I was really excited about of course We've supported the Blackfeet Nation up in Montana. Yeah, Cheyenne Boys and girls. Yeah, and then we had a new one in the Navajo Yes, we gave money to a not Navajo youth bike packing Group run by John Yazzie out in Arizona very close to where John and Mira and I were riding this past November And his whole mission is to get Navajo youth on bikes outside Loving up on nature sleep it under the stars and we were able to give him a very good chunk of money and then another new one that I was really excited about is the cycle effect and This group empowers young girls. Yeah mountain biking Hello Dana, my name is Yara Magarejo. I'm a senior in high school and have been with the cycle effects since seventh grade I'm going to be completely honest when I first started the cycle effect My self-esteem was so low and I wasn't super into it I was so terrified and I thought it was too hard for me My parents made me stay and I was so mad at them But now I realize it was the best decision I've taken to shape me to be who I am Being my last year as a high schooler, I've realized a lot of things I still have growing to do but the cycle effect has shot up my self-esteem He has made me realize I am capable of anything I still have that voice in my head telling me I'll never be good enough But the cycle effect has helped me silence that voice. I understand that with work commitment and perseverance I can really amount to anything and It's so important like you just get so much confidence You know when you're you're outside You're in the dirt you're riding bikes like it's I think really important for all young people But this one focuses on young girls young girls and that makes me happy because you know I most of the audience out here right watching this right now are men most People that ride bikes are men So I think we need to get more ladies on bikes and just make them feel more welcomed into the sport So we're really excited about the the new things that we were able to Gather yeah money for it and help and I also want to give a shout out to priority of course they donated the bike and the bikes and They also you know David is just such a sweet guy like Ryan and I love him You know he's so great, but we had a special request this year with the Pueblo boys and girls club and Dave was able to let us help Santa out with some kids that got new bikes Yeah, lots of new priority kids bikes with the carbon belt drive. You know, they're the best Yeah priority whenever I've asked them for help on any kind of fundraiser They say yes without even thinking twice about it. They are a wonderful company You know them fairly well now if you watch my channel and again their mission is to get more people on bikes And I love them. They're absolutely wonderful. I ride their bikes, too I love them and they're good humans and we think that you're really good humans, too This is a whole community of good humans here want to ask you once again to you know Go out there buy some raffle tickets You may win which is really awesome And if you don't you're just a really awesome person and you're still supporting something great You're helping us do this. So Yeah What else you got? I don't really have a whole lot else to say other than I will link the fundraiser below in the description of the Video click on that. It's gonna be live for about a month. Please share this with everybody Even if they they're not on my channel if they're not subscribers It's a great opportunity to get your hands on the priority 600x This is the bike that I designed in conjunction with priority and I've written on the great divide and so many other Adventures it is a rock-solid bike it retails for $3,500. So it's a it's a very nice bicycle And maybe I will I'll sign whoever wins you will sign it for you He is going to and if you don't want me to sign it sign it I won't sign it because maybe you want it to look pristine He's gonna sign it and one more thing one more thing I know it's been a rough couple of years like that's really how we started doing. Yeah this fundraiser, but I Don't know about you. I talked to Ryan frequently. So I do know but I feel like It's getting brighter out there folks. I feel like it's getting lighter. It's getting brighter spring is coming and We've got this good things are happening. Yeah, good things are happening And again, thank you from the bottom of my heart for all your support on this channel and everything and just watching my videos and commenting and You know, it's it's a total privilege to be able to to have you as an audience and to Create content for you with wonderful people like Dana and we're gonna do some adventures. Thank you Let's me use this channel, which is amazing. So thank you. You're welcome. We are gonna do some adventures Let's do let's let's raise a ton of money. We raised what 45,000 last year. Let's try to raise Even more 50 60 70 who knows share this share this share this share this And thank you. Thank you. Bye. Let's give him a kiss They don't even wore lipstick for this video. I know it's all fancy. I have on shiny lip gloss Love you all. Thank you