I can’t help but feeling everything these talented Rocky Mountain riders do on their fat bikes would probably be more fun on skis, but the riding is still a hoot, the scenery’s great and the music has a nice retro vibe.  

What a delightful sip of the North Shore this video is. Wouldn’t you know they make a growler cage for fat bikes? Just the thing for making a beer run to Deep Cove Brewery on B.C.’s North Shore, riding some of the area’s iconic gnarly trails in the process. You might need to let that growler

I’m a fan of self-shot amateur videos when they’re done well. This video makes great use of Creative Commons music to weave a meditative winter spell. Rivers make good metaphors in any narrative and a frozen one is no exception. This is from YouTube poster TheSuperMotoHooligan, who also made Winter Mountain Biking. These videos are best watched

This video is interesting for a couple of reasons. It’s the first 360° video on VeloVID. Using your mouse, you can control the camera angle you see—even turning around 180° to look at racer Cole House as he sprints for the last podium spot at the 2018 Fat Bike Birkie, an annual fat bike race held

Another amateur fat bike video from TheSuperMotoHooligan, who is no hooligan at all, as near as I can tell from his videos. I like their dreamy quality—his choice of music helps—but his fat bike snow riding videos are not rowdy, that’s for sure. And that’s a good thing. For all the macho posturing that often

Scotland has produced some pretty great riders and short cycling films. The key to an engaging cycling video, professional or amateur, is you to start with a love of the bike. This loving tribute to a Surly Pugsly certainly has that, but it also has a great soundtrack and benefits from some great Scottish scenery as

Why do I feel like I’m watching The Flinstones? I’m not sure who Tater is but he puts a lie to the myth that fat bike riders aren’t serious athletes. He’s going all out on those rollers. But 1:26 of this is about 1:16 too long. I was convinced of its WTF? quality right off the bat.

“What is crazy is that the women that I race against… were the reason I kept going.” Sarah Sturm said this after struggling to finish—and most certainly not win—one of the toughest races out there, the Leadville 100. This short film, from Rapha, is a bit of a “thrill of victory, agony of defeat” story

This one’s personal for me. It might be for you too. If you’ve ever lost someone close. If bikes have ever been a part of your recovery from anything. If not, it’s still a beautifully made video that tells a beautiful, tragic love story.  I think it will resonate with everyone. Salsa Cycles released this

I resisted adding “gravel” as a category for a long time. “If it’s got drop bars, it’s a road bike” was my ‘dogma’, if you will. But there’s no denying it, gravel is a real ‘thing’ There is a lot of common ground between road biking and gravel riding but the gulf is wide between

It’s March 17, 2020 as I write this and Canada is entering a period of social isolation in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Thinking of all those isolated folks like myself at home on the internet, I was looking over my backlog list of videos to review and this title, Go Solo – You’ve Got

I find the music a bit annoying but the video is Danny MacAskill-style fun and the story is sweet. After his Grandma Joy died in 2021, Pat Smage and his wife Hannah made this video as a fond tribute to the family farm he grew up on.

How can Lachlan Morton not be your favourite cyclist in the world? This video is longer than most on VeloVID, longer even than The Alt Tour, which saw him ride the entire 2021 Tour de France, unsupported, including all the transfers, and still beat the peloton to Paris. That was 5,510 km. The Divide is

Gravel events are real good community builders—much like mountain biking. And much like mountain biking (all cycling really), there’s a diversity problem. Nehemiah Brown knows you can’t be part of a community you can’t afford to join. Kudos to him for “creating a scholarship program so people who look like me can get access to

Danny MacAskill is really having fun in this one. As is Daisy. And as are we, his amazed and amused audience. This is classic Danny MacAskill. Like Imaginate, it gets right inside a kid’s head and features the kind of gob-smacking riding you know Danny dreamed of mastering since he was a kid. He has

Are the Fosters the original bikepacking family?!

MOTHERLOAD “is a crowdsourced documentary in which the cargo bicycle becomes a vehicle for exploring parenthood in this digital age of climate change.” I saw the full-length film recently at the ReFrame Film Festival in Peterborough and I was blown away. There’s a kind of magic when a talented filmmaker tackles the subjects they are

Kriss Kyle is a Red Bull-sponsored young Scot with mad riding skills, so maybe I shouldn’t be surprised how much his new video feels like a BMX version of Danny MacAskill’s Imaginate. Lots of bright colours and black backgrounds. (Admittedly, this video’s healthy dose of OK Go-style optical illusions adds a lot to that mix.) It even finishes with a montage

This video really gives me the warm and fuzzies. Maybe it’s because it was my son who sent me the link, but you don’t have to be a Dad to appreciate the glee in four-year-old Malcolm’s voice when he shouts “I’m doing it! I did it Dad! I loved it!” while clearing the first ramp

This video makes me smile. It pokes fun at our stressed-out selves without being too smug or saccharine. Just the right tack to take if you want to get people back on bikes. Well, that and proper separated bike lanes, but don’t get me going. “When people ride bikes, great things happen.” No argument here.  

A clever commercial for a bike shop in Crofton, Maryland. A family bike shop actually, so don’t be judging a book by its hipster cover. Definitely watch it to the end.  

This is such a touching story. One of the fundamental tenets of VeloVID is that a great cycling video is really about more than “just” cycling. This video may capture that better than any other on the site.

MOTHERLOAD “is a crowdsourced documentary in which the cargo bicycle becomes a vehicle for exploring parenthood in this digital age of climate change.” I saw the full-length film recently at the ReFrame Film Festival in Peterborough and I was blown away. There’s a kind of magic when a talented filmmaker tackles the subjects they are

Simone Barraco is a bit of a bad boy. I guess the premise here is that the cyber cops are after him as he darts through the narrow streets and piazzas of Barcelona. But he’s too slippery for them, isn’t he? OK, it’s not much of a premise but the riding is pretty fine, even

Another good one featuring Danny MacAskill’s otherworldly riding. A fun video that takes you into the imagination of a wee young lad who just so happens to grow up and make everything he imagined real. And as the outtakes at the end show you, for all that otherworldly riding, Danny really is of this world.

This video puts a smile on your face that gets wider and wider till you can’t help but laugh at some point. Which is exactly how this little girl reacts. What a great idea Dad had. The video playing in Dad’s virtual reality machine is one of Claudio Caluori’s riotous narrated downhill runs, which are pretty popular on YouTube.

What a great idea. Whether you’re an office worker commuting or a kid riding to school, this might be the highlight of your day.

A fun little video featuring 5 year old New Zealand twins Jake and Theo Riddle. Too cute.

I made the mistake of calling these push bikes in my review of the fun video Pump Track Time. They’re ‘striders’ and there are kids out there, barely past being toddlers, who take them very seriously. These kids are four years old and, as fast as they all are, watch till the end—one of them

Most videos about this amazing project out of Rouen, France are in french, and this might be the best of the lot. I’ve also posted an english video which is more illuminating to an english audience, even if most of the passengers in that video are adults, not the charming school kids you see in

OK kids, don’t try this at home. Especially if home is Trollstigen, Norway. And it’s been raining. But as long as someone is crazy enough to try this, I’m glad they got it all on video. The scenery is stark and beautiful. The music works. The riding looks terrifying, even if the rider looks fearless. Not surprisingly,

With almost 40 million views on YouTube, this is probably the video Danny MacAskill is best known for. Imaginate actually has more YouTube views but The Ridge really went viral when it came out. It made it into a lot of mainstream media because it actually lives up to the hyperbole that usually defines click bait. With Danny’s riding, it’s almost always a case

“The midges are horrendous.” Royal blood is as good as any other for them, I suppose. But cheers to King Charles to be out in the countryside in weather like that. Granted, with a phalanx of black Range Rovers ahead of him he could get out of it any time he wants but I suspect

This one has a whole bunch of WTF elements in one video. First of all, he’s on a recumbent mountain bike, surely one of the weirder beasts in the cycling menagerie. Then there’s the fact that he’s winter trail riding with studded tires, putting him even more squarely in the 0.5 percentile. To really seal

Another in the The Way I Roll series, supporting Pedals 4 Progress, from rack maker Thule that introduces us to the back stories of people in cycling. I’d never heard of Nicole Duke before this video and now I feel I know her somehow. That’s the strength of this series really—it taps into the common collective consciousness all

The idea of riderless bikes is unsettling in a zombie-apocalypse kind of way. It’s reassuring to know it’s only CGI. This ‘Behind-The-Scenes’ video explains how Hop On was made. Part whodunnit, part howdunnit, this is one for the software geeks.      

What a delightful sip of the North Shore this video is. Wouldn’t you know they make a growler cage for fat bikes? Just the thing for making a beer run to Deep Cove Brewery on B.C.’s North Shore, riding some of the area’s iconic gnarly trails in the process. You might need to let that growler

This is what unites the tribes. It’s what the roadies, the mountain bikers, the commuters and the randonneurs all have in common—our gratitude for where bikes take us, mentally and physically. How, as a metaphor for life itself, a simple bike ride can teach us important lessons. This is a mountain bike video so there’s plenty

The 2017 edition of the Red Bull Rampage just wrapped up. Predictably, it featured a massive drop that winner, Canadian Kurt Sorge, launched a full back-flip off of. Every year it seems the drops get bigger and the riders get more daring at Rampage. This is mainly a function of improving bike technology, course preparation and

Mountain biking has been around long enough now, especially on the North Shore, that its originators are true OGs. Like Betty Birrell, the 73 year old total bad-ass hero of this video, or Todd “Digger” Fiander the famous trail builder. Not young anymore but “never too old to send”.

My introduction to Chris Van Dine was GoPro’s 2013 Combing Valparaiso’s Hills, an adrenalin and testosterone-powered tear through the steep streets of the Peruvian mountain town. As I’ve confessed, I absolutely love the video, even if the riding is a bit reckless. And I was intrigued by C.V.D.—he was fluent in Spanish and seemed to have a

This trailer for Rebecca Rusch’s recently released feature, Blood Road, is powerful and dramatic. Rusch is one of toughest endurance riders in the world and the task she sets for herself—to bike the 1,900 km Ho Chi Mihn Trail in search of the 40-year-old wreckage of her father’s plane—is perhaps the most challenging she’s ever

In some ways, this is more terrifying than any of Danny MacAskill’s other videos, even if it isn’t credits-to-credits amazing stunt riding. It’s a long, treacherous downhill that Danny treats tactically—and his rush at completing it is as much a release for us as it was for him. In that way, the vibe is more Free

Tom and Ruby go night riding. Ruby is a dog—a Hungarian Vizsla who can run like the wind. She has her own lights, her own camera and the ride she takes us on is a blast. Tom’s the one on the bike and most of what we see of him is from Ruby’s point of view, which

Some pretty slick riding from Specialized rider Matt Hunter. According to Specialized’s video description, this is “another piece of evidence that 29ers really can corner”—but I think it’s stronger evidence for the fact that Matt Hunter really can corner. I suspect he could do this on a Huffy. Nicely shot though with flawless slo-mo and

This video really gives me the warm and fuzzies. Maybe it’s because it was my son who sent me the link, but you don’t have to be a Dad to appreciate the glee in four-year-old Malcolm’s voice when he shouts “I’m doing it! I did it Dad! I loved it!” while clearing the first ramp

This is as much about family as it is about cycling. After so many years the bond of family is strong here—but so too is the joy of cycling. A real sweet video. Is there something about French cycling that encourages longevity?

A clever commercial for a bike shop in Crofton, Maryland. A family bike shop actually, so don’t be judging a book by its hipster cover. Definitely watch it to the end.  

This is a funny and brilliant response to the isolation we all feel right now. It’s a fine spoof of typical road racing commentary, complete with helicopter background noise. Which is something we all miss during this, the season of the Spring Classics. I’m writing this on March 23, 2020, the same day Ontario announced

OK kids, don’t try this at home. Especially if home is Trollstigen, Norway. And it’s been raining. But as long as someone is crazy enough to try this, I’m glad they got it all on video. The scenery is stark and beautiful. The music works. The riding looks terrifying, even if the rider looks fearless. Not surprisingly,

“Help make our world a safer place to ride.” It’s easy, when taking on a topic like how vulnerable cyclists are on the open road, to take a hard line against one or the other. There’s Rob Ford (un)”apologetically” blaming cyclists for their own demise. And then there’s former pro Phil Gaiman blaming it all

Never mind Peter Sagan, who’s no slouch at bike tricks on a road bike, Vittorio Brumotti’s got kung-fu even Danny MacAskill would admire. Not surprising given that they are both world-class trials riders, but to see this done on a road bike is shocking nonetheless. He’s probably got 28c tires on that bike but he could

This is a pretty clever concept and it’s Canadian so perhaps it’s no surprise it feels like it came out of Hollywood. Lots of clever Canadians there. But this is 100% Canadian and there’s even a ‘Behind-The-Scenes’ video to show you how those clever Canadians did it. Cycling Canada sponsored the video and the idea here is

Another in the The Way I Roll series, supporting Pedals 4 Progress, from rack maker Thule that introduces us to the back stories of people in cycling. I’d never heard of Nicole Duke before this video and now I feel I know her somehow. That’s the strength of this series really—it taps into the common collective consciousness all

I’m Canadian so Alison Jackson is basically a Goddess in our pantheon now after winning Paris-Roubaix in 2023. Here’s the heartwarming ‘Backstory’, delivered with panache as one might expect from Rapha.

Jamie Christian-Johal is a pretty good sport because the answer to the question “Can A 290lb Bodybuilder Survive A Killer Climb?” is, at best, “barely”. The poor man is a fit and powerful giant who probably excels in most athletics but gravity is merciless and he will never be an angel of the mountains. Another

If you don’t have a bit of the weight weenie in you, don’t bother with this video, or this bike. But if you can appreciate this kind of stuff… This bike weighs less than 4kg! That includes the weight of the air in the tires—seriously, this bike weighs 3.986kg, including the 14g of air in

OK, I may be a bit of a Tom Pidcock fan boy, especially for his descending. It’s pretty hard to top the Fish run he did with SAFA Brian but this video is a bit more sophisticated, and not just because it’s in Europe rather than Cali. It’s really nicely filmed, as most Red Bull

“What’s the old saying? The reason old cyclists don’t ride fast anymore is because they don’t ride fast anymore.” Chapeau M. Deane!

Not much danger of burning your toast this way. Jeez, this guy is huge and he barely gets it to the golden brown setting. I guess LED Christmas lights use a lot less energy.  

Wow, how did I not know about Beryl Burton? I’m tempted to say it’s because she was only ever an amateur cyclist, world records notwithstanding—but maybe she was only ever an amateur because she was a woman. A woman who took a moment to hand a liquorice all-sort to men’s British Best All-Rounder cyclist Mike

The idea of riderless bikes is unsettling in a zombie-apocalypse kind of way. It’s reassuring to know it’s only CGI. This ‘Behind-The-Scenes’ video explains how Hop On was made. Part whodunnit, part howdunnit, this is one for the software geeks.      

This is unfortunate, is what this is. Not as unfortunate as Danny MacAskill at the Playboy Mansion, but really pretty unfortunate. Especially because Danny MacAskill produced, and seems pretty chuffed by, this not very clever Spinal Tap-ish parody. I dunno, Judas Priest’s Rob Halford calls it “a load of crap” in the mock news part of this video, and

I find the music a bit annoying but the video is Danny MacAskill-style fun and the story is sweet. After his Grandma Joy died in 2021, Pat Smage and his wife Hannah made this video as a fond tribute to the family farm he grew up on.

Simone Barraco is a bit of a bad boy. I guess the premise here is that the cyber cops are after him as he darts through the narrow streets and piazzas of Barcelona. But he’s too slippery for them, isn’t he? OK, it’s not much of a premise but the riding is pretty fine, even

Well yes, people are kind of awesome, especially when they’re on bikes. This is a compilation video of some zany bike footage culled from the internet by the folks at People Are Awesome. You might say it’s VeloVID for people in a hurry and you may even see some clips you’ll recognize from VeloVID, but I’d

Danny MacAskill is really having fun in this one. As is Daisy. And as are we, his amazed and amused audience. This is classic Danny MacAskill. Like Imaginate, it gets right inside a kid’s head and features the kind of gob-smacking riding you know Danny dreamed of mastering since he was a kid. He has

After discovering Danny MacAskill through his phenomenally popular 2010 short film, Way Back Home, I went searching for more. Industrial Revolutions came out in 2011 and, though it’s Stu Thompson, not Dave Sowerby and Channel Four, not Red Bull, this video is also a cut above the rest. The abandoned iron works is a striking

Maybe the most starkly beautiful of Dave Sowerby’s Danny MacAskill videos, this might be a case of filmmaking that actually overwhelms the riding of perhaps the world’s most inventive trials rider. The setting is dramatic—”the forgotten town of Epecuén in Argentina, a location that has been submerged for the majority of the past 25 years.”

If you want a demonstration of the transformative power of BMX, look no further. BMX has steered many people in a better direction, whether they were suburban and privileged, or sub-urban and decidedly not privileged. Like Starboy, KK Money and S-King in Lagos, Nigeria. Instead of “…going to clubs, getting drunk, causing trouble and doing all

Now this is more like it. Just days after the release of This Is Drop And Roll, Danny MacAskill is back on form riding the amazing streets and rooftops of Gran Canaria, one of the Canary Islands off northwestern Africa. His riding is every bit as eye-popping and colourful as those exotic streets and, unlike This Is Drop And

Kriss Kyle is a Red Bull-sponsored young Scot with mad riding skills, so maybe I shouldn’t be surprised how much his new video feels like a BMX version of Danny MacAskill’s Imaginate. Lots of bright colours and black backgrounds. (Admittedly, this video’s healthy dose of OK Go-style optical illusions adds a lot to that mix.) It even finishes with a montage

Another good one featuring Danny MacAskill’s otherworldly riding. A fun video that takes you into the imagination of a wee young lad who just so happens to grow up and make everything he imagined real. And as the outtakes at the end show you, for all that otherworldly riding, Danny really is of this world.

This is the bike video that started it all for me. As I write this, it’s exactly five years to the day since this video went up on YouTube. Since then more than 36 million viewers like me have gaped, open-mouthed, at the astounding, sense-defying riding of Danny MacAskill as he makes his ‘way back home’ from

Vittorio Brumotti continues the tradition begun by Martyn Ashton of trials riders trying their skillset on road bikes. Proving once again the old adage that it’s not the bike, it’s the rider. Like his other videos, he pulls this off with Italian panache and a sense of humour—not to mention the kind of mad skills

In some ways, this is more terrifying than any of Danny MacAskill’s other videos, even if it isn’t credits-to-credits amazing stunt riding. It’s a long, treacherous downhill that Danny treats tactically—and his rush at completing it is as much a release for us as it was for him. In that way, the vibe is more Free

Critical Mass-style wheelie riding is a thing in a lot of big cities and this is certainly big city riding with a big city soundtrack. On big wheels. And say what you might about scaring innocent bystanders, this kid can ride the wheelie. There are moments in this short video that look and feel as

Never mind Peter Sagan, who’s no slouch at bike tricks on a road bike, Vittorio Brumotti’s got kung-fu even Danny MacAskill would admire. Not surprising given that they are both world-class trials riders, but to see this done on a road bike is shocking nonetheless. He’s probably got 28c tires on that bike but he could

Never mind Peter Sagan, who’s no slouch at bike tricks on a road bike, Vittorio Brumotti’s got kung-fu even Danny MacAskill would admire. Not surprising given that they are both world-class trials riders, but to see this done on a road bike is shocking nonetheless. He’s probably got 28c tires on that bike but he could

If you want a demonstration of the transformative power of BMX, look no further. BMX has steered many people in a better direction, whether they were suburban and privileged, or sub-urban and decidedly not privileged. Like Starboy, KK Money and S-King in Lagos, Nigeria. Instead of “…going to clubs, getting drunk, causing trouble and doing all

Scotland has produced some pretty great riders and short cycling films. The key to an engaging cycling video, professional or amateur, is you to start with a love of the bike. This loving tribute to a Surly Pugsly certainly has that, but it also has a great soundtrack and benefits from some great Scottish scenery as

It’s easy to see why the locals in Peru thought these guys were crazy. Taking on this isolated mountain range with its 16,000 foot passes, self-supported, in the rainy season, is a bit loco. Dangerous even, as it turned out. As riders and filmmakers, there’s a youthful earnestness about this team that’s pretty admirable. They tell an

Chris Van Dine is up to his old tricks in this amazing bit of urban freeriding from 2015, jumping gaps, wall riding and trying and failing, and trying again till he nails a soaring backflip in the narrow streets of Taxco, Mexico. A multitude of GoPro camera angles are edited to capture every moment as

This is the bike video that started it all for me. As I write this, it’s exactly five years to the day since this video went up on YouTube. Since then more than 36 million viewers like me have gaped, open-mouthed, at the astounding, sense-defying riding of Danny MacAskill as he makes his ‘way back home’ from

How can Lachlan Morton not be your favourite cyclist in the world? This video is longer than most on VeloVID, longer even than The Alt Tour, which saw him ride the entire 2021 Tour de France, unsupported, including all the transfers, and still beat the peloton to Paris. That was 5,510 km. The Divide is

With almost 40 million views on YouTube, this is probably the video Danny MacAskill is best known for. Imaginate actually has more YouTube views but The Ridge really went viral when it came out. It made it into a lot of mainstream media because it actually lives up to the hyperbole that usually defines click bait. With Danny’s riding, it’s almost always a case

Mountain bike videos these days are mostly about going big. I like those that go beautiful as well. This is no The Ridge but, from the meditative music to the incredible drone shots, it’s pretty beautiful to watch in its own right. Not to say The Ridgeline isn’t about going big. In some respects this

It’s March 17, 2020 as I write this and Canada is entering a period of social isolation in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Thinking of all those isolated folks like myself at home on the internet, I was looking over my backlog list of videos to review and this title, Go Solo – You’ve Got

Maybe the most starkly beautiful of Dave Sowerby’s Danny MacAskill videos, this might be a case of filmmaking that actually overwhelms the riding of perhaps the world’s most inventive trials rider. The setting is dramatic—”the forgotten town of Epecuén in Argentina, a location that has been submerged for the majority of the past 25 years.”

“Bikers First”. I do like the sound of that. And 8 bikes in one car parking space? City planners should like the sound of that.  

My introduction to Chris Van Dine was GoPro’s 2013 Combing Valparaiso’s Hills, an adrenalin and testosterone-powered tear through the steep streets of the Peruvian mountain town. As I’ve confessed, I absolutely love the video, even if the riding is a bit reckless. And I was intrigued by C.V.D.—he was fluent in Spanish and seemed to have a

The GoPro world view captures the pro peloton particularly well. Its fisheye lens suits the schooling fish movements and group mind mentality. The last few pro bike seasons have seen a lot of these bike-mounted videos and this is one of the most palatable. There’s a “thrill of victory, agony of defeat” vibe going on in this video and the

OK Thomas, you’re forgiven the awful pun in the title of this video* and the fact that your company is called Poopy Cat and that your your motto is “They’re full of it” and that in said video your ride ends at the launch of your “poop-up store”. You’re forgiven all these transgressions because you

5 days is a nice bike tour. 50 days would be a decent bike adventure. 50 years is an obsession. But that’s what Heinz Stücke did. He is The Man Who Wanted to See It All. And he wanted to see it from a bicycle. Even if it took 50 years. An astounding accomplishment.

This is a funny and brilliant response to the isolation we all feel right now. It’s a fine spoof of typical road racing commentary, complete with helicopter background noise. Which is something we all miss during this, the season of the Spring Classics. I’m writing this on March 23, 2020, the same day Ontario announced

Street Books is a bicycle-powered traveling library that serves homeless people in Portland, Oregon. These cargo bike-riding librarians ride to select locations where people can borrow books without having to show ID or proof of address. Pretty heartwarming and a reminder what a great social equalizer bikes are. On another note, this is from Al

Shed The Monster, from PeopleForBikes.org, was one of the first videos posted to VeloVID and it remains one of my favourites. But I hadn’t looked at their video library much beyond that. If I Ride is a 2019 re-release of a video they produced originally in 2010 and it is a lovely, slightly pollyanna-ish love

Not what you think of when you think of a bike gang. The Chilangos Lowbike Club is made of former gang members who are using their love of lowrider as an escape from gang life. They “promote designing bikes, riding and just plain having fun.” Who can disagree with that?—not that I’d pick a fight

This story is from my home. It’s made by local filmmaker LA Alfonso and narrated by Tegan Moss, executive director at B!KE, the community bike shop in Peterborough. It tells a story I didn’t know, even as a B!KE volunteer—the story of how a mural came to be painted on the brick wall in the

This is the guy I want to go bike-packing with!

This video makes me smile. It pokes fun at our stressed-out selves without being too smug or saccharine. Just the right tack to take if you want to get people back on bikes. Well, that and proper separated bike lanes, but don’t get me going. “When people ride bikes, great things happen.” No argument here.  

It’s an embarrassment of riches. Nijmegen is already the Best Cycling City in the Netherlands and there already is an existing bike route between the it and Arnhem. According to Streetfilms.org, this film’s producer, the route is perfectly safe and usable. But it does have many junctions where you need to stop for lights or other road

A clever commercial for a bike shop in Crofton, Maryland. A family bike shop actually, so don’t be judging a book by its hipster cover. Definitely watch it to the end.  

This is a short trailer for director Fredrik Gertten’s film of the same name. As it begins, I’m thinking “I know that voice” and, of course it’s Rob Ford, Toronto’s infamous crack-smoking ex-mayor and equally infamous soldier in the ‘war on the car’. Ugh, I thought we were done with that guy. But the filmmaker’s point is

“Bikers First”. I do like the sound of that. And 8 bikes in one car parking space? City planners should like the sound of that.  

When I first discovered Lucas Brunelle’s videos I was fresh off a stint as a bike messenger in Toronto and was pumped to see someone capturing messenger culture in a wholly unsanitized way. Now, some 30-odd years on, I’m not as impressed—with Brunelle’s videos or the antics they celebrate. I’d like to think of it

Shed The Monster, from PeopleForBikes.org, was one of the first videos posted to VeloVID and it remains one of my favourites. But I hadn’t looked at their video library much beyond that. If I Ride is a lovely, slightly pollyanna-ish love poem to the bicycle from a kid’s point of view. Interestingly, they re-released this

She’s flying. He’s not. A fun Buzzfeed video that captures the rush of being faster than a car. Sorry, not a car—a Ferrari.  

“From grey to green”. THAT’S how you sell bike lanes and pedestrian-friendly streets.

It’s strange how the 90s are like ancient history in the cycling world. They aren’t that long ago but this video sure looks old and anyone who sees something of themselves in the characters in it may suddenly feel old. This video came out the year after Toronto hosted the 1995 Cycle Messenger World Championships.

It’s strange how the 90s are like ancient history in the cycling world. They aren’t that long ago but this video sure looks old and anyone who sees something of themselves in the characters in it may suddenly feel old. This video came out the year after Toronto hosted the 1995 Cycle Messenger World Championships.

This one’s personal for me. It might be for you too. If you’ve ever lost someone close. If bikes have ever been a part of your recovery from anything. If not, it’s still a beautifully made video that tells a beautiful, tragic love story.  I think it will resonate with everyone. Salsa Cycles released this

The last time we checked in with Missy Giove was two years ago, when we profiled some of the bad boys and girls of cycling. She lives up to her image in that video, cursing up a storm and tossing back Red Stripe through most of the episode. Two years later, it’s a revelation to

This trailer for Rebecca Rusch’s recently released feature, Blood Road, is powerful and dramatic. Rusch is one of toughest endurance riders in the world and the task she sets for herself—to bike the 1,900 km Ho Chi Mihn Trail in search of the 40-year-old wreckage of her father’s plane—is perhaps the most challenging she’s ever

Yesterday was Aboriginal Solidarity Day here in Canada and Mountain Equipment Coop (our equivalent of America’s R.E.I.) posted this 2015 video telling the story of member Melody Markle’s “healing journey of decolonizing my body”. Because, besides being an MEC member, Melody is also a member of the Long Point (Winneway) First Nation in Quebec. She is

I’m Canadian so Alison Jackson is basically a Goddess in our pantheon now after winning Paris-Roubaix in 2023. Here’s the heartwarming ‘Backstory’, delivered with panache as one might expect from Rapha.

“That’s definitely not the only issue we have. We got a lot of issues.” Aaron Chase amps up the group dynamics on this follow-up trip to Peru and the result is a more engaging video. Even if you’re just looking for gnarly riding I think this has more than Lost In Peru did. (It finishes with a

I’m posting this as part of a mini-overview of the bad boys and girls of cycling, starting with Josh Bender representing freeriders and Lucas Brunelle representing bike messengers and other urban cowboys (and cowgirls) but Missy Giove is probably the baddest of them all. How else do you characterize someone who raced with a dead

Professional Scottish mountain biker and Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist Lee Craigie left the sport of cycling behind to concentrate on the healing aspects of cycling that drew her to it in the first place. Now, as she says in this video, “A ride these days has to have an element of adventure and exploration to it.”

Wow, how did I not know about Beryl Burton? I’m tempted to say it’s because she was only ever an amateur cyclist, world records notwithstanding—but maybe she was only ever an amateur because she was a woman. A woman who took a moment to hand a liquorice all-sort to men’s British Best All-Rounder cyclist Mike

Half way through this video and I’m reflecting on how refreshing it is to watch a bike messenger video that isn’t wall-to-wall raging testosterone and bad behaviour. This is a thoughtful video about female bike messengers and the challenges they face—including being always asked if the job isn’t too tough for them. Literally at the

When I dream of the future, it looks something like this. (Unless I’m in a rowdy mood, and then it looks something like this. Either way, I guess I have a thing for e-trikes.) Really, what’s not to like about the ELF? A “a solar charged and pedal powered, electric assist tricycle with zero emissions”

It’s March 17, 2020 as I write this and Canada is entering a period of social isolation in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Thinking of all those isolated folks like myself at home on the internet, I was looking over my backlog list of videos to review and this title, Go Solo – You’ve Got

This story is from my home. It’s made by local filmmaker LA Alfonso and narrated by Tegan Moss, executive director at B!KE, the community bike shop in Peterborough. It tells a story I didn’t know, even as a B!KE volunteer—the story of how a mural came to be painted on the brick wall in the

Another in the The Way I Roll series, supporting Pedals 4 Progress, from rack maker Thule that introduces us to the back stories of people in cycling. I’d never heard of Nicole Duke before this video and now I feel I know her somehow. That’s the strength of this series really—it taps into the common collective consciousness all

This isn’t the first video VeloVID has posted that uses bicycles as musical instruments but unlike Frank Zappa’s early appearance on the Steve Allen Show, SPIN, by evalyn parry, is about more than just the novelty of a bike as a musical instrument. It is “a theatrical song cycle… starring the Bicycle as muse, musical instrument,

Opening credits roll and then: ” …90 minutes of madness and melody with guest stars Mel Torme, log roller Diane Olsen and musical bicyclist Frank Zappa.”??? I don’t know what surprises me more about this clip from the Steve Allen Show of March 4, 1963—that network TV put an unknown Frank Zappa on the Steve Allen show

This is a funny and brilliant response to the isolation we all feel right now. It’s a fine spoof of typical road racing commentary, complete with helicopter background noise. Which is something we all miss during this, the season of the Spring Classics. I’m writing this on March 23, 2020, the same day Ontario announced

I want to like Volle Band, I really do. The idea of motion-generated audio performed by riding bicycles is an awesome one in my eyes. But—I don’t know about you, but I’ve never much been a fan of ambient noise music and I can’t think of any other genre to describe Volle Band. The highlight

“More fun from Wham-O!” Gee granny, what could possibly go wrong? Now, this is how you do a wheelie.  

Actually that is pretty incredible. Think about how hard it is to get a 16 lb. road bike up a 22% grade. This guy’s pedalling an old beater up a 100% grade without even breaking a sweat. That’s some pretty serious Newtonian physics being sorted out there.

Burning Man always attracts creative tinkerers and a lot of imaginative bicycles. So it’s fitting that Paul Elkins, who built this very cool bicycle camper mainly for Burning Man, describes it as “a playful Mad Max rendition of a post-apocalyptic home.” Maybe there’s something inherent in the very idea of a bicycle-drawn camper that inspires

Graham Eccles is an anachronistic entrepreneur, if there is such a thing. A penny farthing may not be much good for long-distance mail delivery but it sure works on a local basis. Drop off a letter in the morning and, more likely than not, Graham will have it delivered by the afternoon. Quick! Must be

Another odd 1980s commercial from Aussie bike company Malvern Star. This time the target of the parody isn’t modern staged photographic art, it’s television. This 30 second spot could be the opening for any number of formulaic teen TV series of the era. And probably it sold a ton of those plastic wheeled BMX bikes…  

This isn’t the first video VeloVID has posted that uses bicycles as musical instruments but unlike Frank Zappa’s early appearance on the Steve Allen Show, SPIN, by evalyn parry, is about more than just the novelty of a bike as a musical instrument. It is “a theatrical song cycle… starring the Bicycle as muse, musical instrument,

OK Thomas, you’re forgiven the awful pun in the title of this video* and the fact that your company is called Poopy Cat and that your your motto is “They’re full of it” and that in said video your ride ends at the launch of your “poop-up store”. You’re forgiven all these transgressions because you

Vittorio Brumotti continues the tradition begun by Martyn Ashton of trials riders trying their skillset on road bikes. Proving once again the old adage that it’s not the bike, it’s the rider. Like his other videos, he pulls this off with Italian panache and a sense of humour—not to mention the kind of mad skills

Well that settles it then. There’s no way to drop a chain on a balance bike so now we know the strongest rider really did win Stage 15 of the Tour in 2010. That drama is old now, and, by bike racing standards, so are Andy and Alberto. Andy’s stomach has definitely settled down. It

Never mind Peter Sagan, who’s no slouch at bike tricks on a road bike, Vittorio Brumotti’s got kung-fu even Danny MacAskill would admire. Not surprising given that they are both world-class trials riders, but to see this done on a road bike is shocking nonetheless. He’s probably got 28c tires on that bike but he could

I’m pretty pleased to have gotten 4 of 5 correct here but I’m also reminded of that old saw, “Never mock someone for mis-pronouncing a word—it means they learned it through reading”.  

Bicycles. Is there anything they can’t do?  

Clearly, Lucas Brunelle has had a fascination with risky urban riding since his college days. “Do I have common sense? I’ll leave that up to you”.