 Today is a very exciting day. Especially exciting for my mom, but she has no idea what is about to happen. I got her an electric bike from my buddies at Priority Bikes. And what they did is they sent it to their friends at VeloFix here in Denver. They put the bike together and they're coming over right now to her house to deliver the bike. Hello, mom. Hey, Brian. How's it going? Go ahead, my chap, too. Just came over to get some food. These bananas look a little beat up. Sorry, Brian. There's apples on the tree outside. Would you like one of those? Maybe that's better. This is the house where I grew up and my mom loves photos. So there are photos of the kids everywhere. She has four of them. Pretty cool. This is me always goofing around. Mom! There's somebody at your door. How are you? I'm trying with VeloFix, the mobile bike shop. Are you Donna? Yes, I am. Hi, Donna. It's very nice to meet you. We've got a little surprise for you out front. If you want to follow me, it'd be great. Oh, boy, surprises. What do you think it could be? What do you think it could be? Look at this, look at this. Oh my gosh. You liked it. Oh my gosh. All right. This is absolutely incredible. Oh my. You don't even know what it is. Well, I can tell it has a battery. Oh my gosh, I've wanted an electric bike forever. And then if I just start pedaling, it'll kick in. It'll kick in. It's very smooth. You probably will hardly feel it, but trust you, it is helping you. Oh, let's see. How's it feel? Good work, guys. High five. High five. That was a good surprise. Look at that smile. Oh my gosh. The ladies at the street are like, hey, is that a new bike? They're like, I want an electric bike. So one thing about the gears on this, Donna, is it's a pretty special. It's called a new Vinci hub, and it's a pretty neat and unique hub. Most bikes have different gears that you sort of click into. This one's pretty much infinite gears. So you just turn this and it goes to basically wherever you want. It's kind of a different feeling, but it's super smooth. It's really cool, but you're not gonna feel the clunk of gears when you start shifting. Well, there's a lot of things about this bike that are really special, not only for a commuter, but also in my opinion, that quite frankly sets it apart from a lot of e-bikes out there. The fenders are great. They come stock with the bike. The lights, the integrated lights, as far as that goes, a nice bright LED headlight, a nice flashing tail light. So it's easily seen. People, you know, a lot of times when they're commuting to work, they don't, you know, they're wearing long pants. They don't want to get grease on their pant leg, those kinds of things. With the belt drive, there is no lube. There is no grease, and it's super quiet. It's super clean. And it lasts a long time as well, pretty much in all elements. That carbon belt drive is really durable. The Bosch motor, it's very smooth. It's very intuitive. Smooth enough to, again, to the point where you almost don't even realize it's helping you, and then you realize your Superman going up a hill, and then that's when you realize it. It's absolutely, you know, a fantastic feel. What have been some of your concerns about electric bikes, Mom? Well, I don't want to go too fast. This is pedal assist for one thing. There's not a throttle. Some e-bikes have a throttle where you don't even have to pedal, and they can be kind of jerky and torquey as it were. This one, again, speaking back to the smoothness of it, it almost doesn't feel like it's doing that, whereas some kind of have a feeling of, whoa, it's kind of getting away from me, which is sort of a cool and fun feeling, but it's not as smooth as this one. So you don't really have that concern. This is a class one e-bike, which means that it assists you up to 20 miles an hour, and that's where it stops. So it's not gonna keep going beyond 20 miles an hour for you. You can, you know, you can, if you're riding down a hill, it can go faster. If you have pedal really hard, you can go a little faster, but the pedal assist will stop at 20. I'm a big hiker and I can hike up hills, but I can't bike up hills. And so it's like, yay, now I can keep up with everybody. And I'm always the pokey one, always. So it's like nobody wants to go biking with me because I'm too slow. Folks of all different levels can enjoy riding together. And one person isn't killing themselves to keep up with the other person and the other person isn't slowing down. Everybody can get the ride at their speed or their effort, as it were, and ride together and enjoy the joys of riding a bike together. And now we can ride together. That's the big thing. We can finally share biking. Yes. Go mom, go. Priority is a direct-to-consumer brand. And we are their, basically, we're their concierge delivery and assembly service, as it were. So basically what happens with our services, the bikes come to us. We unpack them, assemble them, and then deliver them to the customer at a time of their choosing. All right, mom, I'm gonna steal your bike for a second. I wanna play with it. Of course, we need to try turbo mode out right away. Oh man, this is smooth. My mom is in luck. This is gonna change her world. Mom, I love your bike. Okay, you can have it back. Merry Christmas, mom. All right, you have really done it this time. Yes, I'm so excited. And it's cold today. It's not ideal biking weather. We're gonna take this thing on a serious ride when the sun comes out. Okay, it's a deal. Thank you. All right, the sun is shining. It is time for your inaugural ride. Are you ready? I'm ready to go. All right, but it is always more fun, I think, to ride bikes with friends. All right, ladies, let's go for a little ride. So these are my chosen sisters, my travel companions, my best buds. I can now go out and have fun and play with them on a bicycle. And why couldn't you before? Cause I couldn't keep up. How does it feel? It feels like I'm gonna get better at this and I'm gonna have so much fun. I'm just looking forward to being able to go out and bike with my friends to be able to make some trips without my car and to be able to continue smiling through retirement. The bike is amazing. The bike is absolutely amazing. So smooth and it's so, I just feel very stable on it. I just did my first skid back there and everybody was pretty impressed. You're ready for the X Games. Oh, it's already, it's so great. Like we can go out, we can ride together. When it's hard to ride, or maybe you're not as confident, you don't ride your bike as much. But now she's just gonna be out there. She's gonna be riding. She's already practicing skidding and putting her knee up when she turns into it. And yeah, she's gonna be great. Quick question. Where the heck did you get this helmet from 1985? Yeah, I believe it. What is this thing? Yeah. I think we need to get you a new helmet. What just happened mom? I hit 20. Awesome. 20 miles an hour? Yep. How'd it feel? It felt okay. Is that your first? Yep. Awesome. Have you ever ridden your bike 20 miles an hour? I don't think so. This is a really big moment. I really feel like a proud papa even though my mom's my mama. I feel like I'm teaching her how to ride a bike for the first time. We're going up a pretty big hill right now. And I can't keep up with my mom. Wait up. Good job mom. That was my turbo speed up the hill. We both did turbo and left them in the dust. Yeah, I'm not even breathing hard Ryan. I never thought I'd see the day where our mom would kick my butt up a hill. Yeah. Oh gosh. Well, one thing. We just got our ass handed to us on that hill. But your mama was like, I'm like digging in, going, going, going. She's like, on your left. Ding, ding. You rubbing it in mom? I haven't seen a smile on your face this big in a long time. I know. It's a little break. You've gone 12 miles, which is like a world record for you. Yeah. It's been a great 12 miles. I mean, it's beautiful to see all the trees changing. And usually when I go out and I hike, you know, it's four or five miles. That's all I see. I've seen 12 miles worth of beauty today. So that's pretty incredible. Nice. And how does it feel? This is all new. Yeah, I know. It's like, oh my God, I'm out riding my bike. Yeah. And if I need a little boost to get around somebody, it's so easy to just, you know, dig into the pedal a little bit and zoom off I go. How do you think after, you know, just riding it for a couple of hours, this is going to change your life? I'm going to be more intentional about the trips I take from the house. And it is my intention to get on my bike more, have more fun and use less gas. I like it. So yeah. And I think today going 12 miles is giving me more confidence that, you know what, I can get out there and do this. Totally. And, you know, I've been, I've been a cyclist all my life. I don't have a car. I ride my bike everywhere. You've, you know, but you've never been able to join me on any bike adventure ever. Yeah, yeah. Hopefully now we can plan something. Yeah, that'd be awesome. Yeah. I still got to get over my fear of the roads. Yeah. I mean, there's no getting around cars. Cars are always dangerous, but luckily Boulder is a safe place to ride a bike with all the bike paths. But I think the more that you ride the bike, the more you're going to feel comfortable on it. Your balance is going to get better. Yeah. You're going to get used to stopping and starting and going up and down hills and going around people. You know, the balance thing is a good point because I think as people age, balance becomes one of the more important factors in their physical fitness. Yeah. So hopefully the bike will assist me with that as well. But I think it will just give me more hours being outside, which is just incredible. And what about, you know, we're going to put a rack on this bad boy and some bags. Yeah. What's the deal with it? Go shopping, go to the gym. When you think back to some of your best childhood memories, anybody, not just you, but it's learning how to ride a bike and you have that sense of freedom and you're getting that back. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's been a long time since I've like gone out and played with my friends on bikes. So it was so fun today to just stop by, pick up friends and go play outside. I mean, that's what I want out of retirement is more play. Yes. And you deserve it. Check out her new helmet. Looking good, mom. She did it. No more of this thing. This thing is like 20 years old. Looking good. Yep. Now it looked like I belong on this bike.