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Featured Clip
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Dumbest Bike Lanes (2:43)
Slate V went looking for the dumbest bike lane in America, and gets treated to images of contenders from all over the world.
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Trainer n00b (2:01)
Some rites of passage are just too damn painful to watch. But God bless the soul who doesn't give an ounce of shit making himself look like the biggest loser all over the Internet. (Hey brother, mebbe the next clip outta you will be an off da hook wheelie while on those same rollers, eh?)
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Scraper Bike Double Feature (3:38) / (4:22)
Another Oaktown phenomenon: immortalized by the Trunk Boiz, satirized by some squishy butt crack up from Canada (eh). (For your edjumucation: origins of "Scraper")
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Miller: Alternative Fuels (0:30)
2007: Global warming messaging hits the mainstream, and this TV spot by Errol Morris for Saatchi+Saatchi is one of the finer examples of the theory revealed. Let's just hope people who waste away on their couches in front of the tube have the wisdom and emotional wherewithal to actually be inspired into action. Now if only Miller didn't taste worse than donkey piss...
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Yogurt vs. Gasoline (6:31)
Produced and directed by the Neistat Brothers. A Manhattan face-off between a Ducati and Schwinn yields some truly delightful results. I soooooo wanna do a San Francisco trans-bay version of this film, partly because Lisa and I ride the same vehicles (Schwinn, Ducati) and because I know we'd get similar results here in similar conditions and terms.
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Tokyo Drifting (1:41)
Street drifting? This here is how it's done, baby.
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Flatland BMX (5:58)
I used to love making fun of punks and their BMX bikes, telling them to throw that shit away and get a real bike. But lemme tell ya some of those big air dudes and those crazy skilled flatlanders never cease to make my jaw drop clear down to the dirt every time I see one of their sick shows. Here's one fine example, and so many more to see on YouTube, like this one.
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BikeCar Documentary Promo (3:25)
Travis Parker, Louie Fountain and Scotty Wittlake approached travel differently this past winter. Putting snowmobiles and 4x4's to shame, the crew traveled across the Northwest through Idaho, Washington and Oregon in a bikecar. See the official film site.
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EPO Te Quiero (3:25)
In the spirit of the 2007 Dope de France, we seriously need some comic relief. Produced by Laplage Records.
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Bike & Train Tours: UK Old School (8:48)
A short film about a day out cycling in 1955, made by the British Rail film board. Rando and retro geeks, feast your eyes. Commuter advocates, dig the bike storage facilities on the train (yes, over fifty years later, no U.S. rail line offers anything that comes close, but Caltrain gets honorable mention).
This is 50s content... you're gonna love the music and narrator tracks. And the duds on those boys and girls: seriously, can't touch this. Don't miss Part 2 of the film, clickable at the end of this selection.
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Trackstand as Party Showstopper (4:02)
Presented by Cadence West. Yeah, that boy Burd Phillips got game; he's pretty smooth. This clip got 'hip' written all over it.
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Try the Patch (1:57)
Directed by Jim Swanson and Kristen Steele. A short film that uses the metaphor of smoking on an elevator to unveil the truth about transportation pollution. The myth of the "green" car is similar to myth of the "light" cigarette.
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Petrolius (0:45)
Ask your doctor if it's right for you.
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Sideshow!! (0:30)
If only Oaktown sideshows looked more like this. Waaaaait a minute... he got drop bars on that BMX?
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Badass Trials Kid (1:41)
I've seen me some trials videos all over the place, but this kid... Damn.
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Crazy Bike Acrobat (5:33)
Every poseur on a street fixie with "skills" just got served.
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Bike Kill / Black Label Bike Club (Brooklyn, NY) (5:21)
Directed by Rachel Meyrick
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Bike Thief (5:05)
See how easy it is to rip off a bike in Manhattan? Directed by The Neistat Brothers
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Off-Site
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NYC Drag Race Quicktime (7:57) | 50MB, off-site
IMO, the best of the bunch shot and directed by Lucas Brunelle. I likes me some metal and riding in the concrete jungle.
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Leeched Clips
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2005 Bicycle Film Festival Trailer Quicktime (1:32) | 4.7 MB
Directed by Jesse Erica Epstein
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Lance "Magnet" Nike Spot Quicktime (1:31) | 11 MB
Aw, crap. I've really fallen for the hype now... Lancey boy AND Nike. Shit, must be nice to have a lotta dough to shoot a spot.
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Fat Tire Ale: "Anthem" Quicktime (1:36) | 21.2 MB
Feel-good, warm and fuzzy advertising. Man, I guess beer really is a positive force in blissful, simple living.
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Fat Tire Ale: "Night Ride" Quicktime (1:04) | 9.4 MB
"Not everyone can relate to what you and I appreciate..." Oh, indeed.
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The abandoned bicycle Flash (SWF) (2:20) | 4.1 MB
Humanisation of a neglected bicycle in the aesthetic spirit of the Sad Bike collection.
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Premature victory celebration Windows Media (0:22) | 540 KB
The price you pay when you think you're pro shit.
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MTB ravine crash Windows Media (0:44) | 1.2 MB
Dude survived the incident with much fewer injury than one might expect from seeing this. But this just goes to show how easily stupidity is bred by a dare and video camera.
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