Most recent VeloVIDEOs

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

It may not be Bruce Cockburn’s most brilliant song—there are plenty of those—but this one has bikes. And, to paraphrase Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp

This and “Bike Through Water“? To paraphrase Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction, “I’m going man, that’s all there is to it, I’m fuckin’ going!”

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”

What is it with 12-year-old bike racers these days? Xander Graham came first, in this video from the 2021 Tour of Britain. It was a

It’s hard to go wrong with nudity but this celebration of The World Naked Bike Ride is really well done. Clever editing keeps it PG*

It’s been a long time since I posted anything to VeloVID and I’m not trying to make up for lost time with a long video.

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,

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

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

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

I favour shorter videos on VeloVID. In fact, I’ve already posted a short video about the ELF that nicely captures what a charming ride it is.

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

“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,

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

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

Return to Earth is an Anthill Films production, working with Shimano and Trek so the production values are high. But what really elevates this promo

I’ve reviewed Volle Band before and I’m not a fan. I love the concept but not the execution I guess. It’s the droning, irritating music

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bicycles, is there anything they can’t do? Like I suspect you do, I subscribe to the idea that the list of what a bicycle cannot do

OK, this is really just an ad but it’s a pretty clever one. With a David Attenborough impersonator doing the voice-over this short video looks,

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

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

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

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 16 minute version of this video is already on VeloVID. It’s pretty popular and the Col Collective makes some great road cycling videos

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 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

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

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

Phil Gaimon doesn’t mince words here. And why should he? The level of carnage cyclists, and pedestrians, face in North America wouldn’t be tolerated in

Very clever Google Nederland. “Only available on April 1” should be your first clue but this is so well done I’m sure it fooled more

Whether you’re a Style Council fan or not, I think we can all agree that 80s rock videos can be pretty cringe-worthy. This is no

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,

This looks so cool! Worth a trip to Belgium perhaps? (Not that one needs an excuse).  

Well played Roostafarians. On 4/20, you release this fun video with music featuring young reggae lions Protoje and Chronixx, and you manage to have your nicely

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

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

This is such a cool project but little-known outside France. Given that this is the only english video I could track down, language might be

Bicycles. Is there anything they can’t do?  

Wow, this is dreamy! Beautifully filmed and released just in time to really amp up the juices of mountain bikers who have waited patiently all

I love brilliant ideas like this. I love them even more when they’re close to home. This is a proposal for adapting the rail corridors

More on the bicycle ambulance. If you’re a cycling advocate and want to help the poorest in the world, there’s little better you can do

I’m not sure how this escaped my notice for so long, but the bicycle ambulance concept is brilliant. Besides Mozambique, many African countries have embraced

“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.

If Canadians even think about the cycling paradise that is the Netherlands, they tend to think “We could never do that here because of our

This looks like a lot of fun. Practical for sure, but sliding out that rear end in the snow is what really appeals to me.

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

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.

Peter Sagan could have his own channel here at VeloVID. Whether it’s mid-race wheelies, charming interviews with cycling commentators of all ages, or full-on tribute

This is a sublimely beautiful video of some sublime riders in a sublime setting. As a Canadian, I’ve always thought we and Norwegians were separated

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,

“I feel like I’m lucky that I always have my wheelchair with because I can just jump whenever I want.” That quote from Aaron “Wheelz” Fotheringham,

A great overview of how Amsterdam ‘rejected the car’ and became the ‘City of Bikes’. Riding in Amsterdam for the first time is, for most jaded

It isn’t always such a fanciful notion to say cycling is liberating. Sometimes it is literally true. This trailer for the feature documentary Afghan Cycles

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

Safe to say Peter Sagan was already the most interesting man in the peloton before the 2018 Paris-Roubaix. While his first victory in this iconic

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

When I see this I can’t help but think “isn’t that why I have a city bike—because it’s so much more efficient than walking?” But

Age is no limit. Never stop riding—and don’t be discouraged if you get passed by Giuseppe Marinoni. Chances are he’s been at this a lot longer

Giuseppe Marinoni is a national treasure that both Canada and Italy would like to claim. Add in the French he speaks quite fluently in this

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

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

If you’re chosen as the Best Cycling City in The Netherlands*, it’s a pretty safe bet you’re also the best cycling city in the world.

Bless their souls, the Global Cycling Network (GCN), out of the U.K., produces a ton of videos but most of them fall into the geeky

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

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

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

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

This is the first instalment of Pro BMX rider Nigel Sylvester’s video series, GO! It’s probably the best of the lot, which has since expanded to

This is produced by Blackburn Media so you might be expecting an 18 minute long commercial for Blackburn racks but this video is simply a

The Col Collective is at it again. This time climbing a little know col in Switzerland— the 2,253m high Col du Sanetsch in Valais. With

Even fans of The Amazing Race may not know that host Phil Keoghan is an avid cyclist. So much so that he and a good friend

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

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

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

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

93 tooth front chainring, your legs rub against the derailleur and the inside of a carbon fibre teardrop fairing, oh, and you can’t see where

I think this kid has inherited his Dad’s dry sense of humour. But he must be, like, three years old so it come out like

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.

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

Sometimes it seems like the Internet is nothing more than a repository for cute kitten images and videos, which is a pain if you’re looking

“I could go miles and miles on one of these father”. This 1945 film, from the British Council, explains how bicycles were built in that era,

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

And now for something completely different… Like many men of a certain age I was a boy of a certain age during the heyday of

I’m posting this as Mental Health Week 2017 comes to and end.

I love road riding. I’d lamented not finding many good road biking videos till I discovered the Col Collective. They have a pretty extensive library of

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

I love reggae music almost as much as I love bikes so this video works on a lot of levels for me. If you don’t like

I’m writing this on April 20, better known to many as 4-20—so we’ve got a day for that. I wondered if we had a day for

Music. Sometimes it’s all that separates an artistic bike video from a vaguely irritating one. Especially if we’re talking BMX and mountain bike videos. I love the way this

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

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

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

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

I’m posting this right after the winter solstice feeding frenzy called Christmas so I feel NRK reporter Nicolay Ramm’s pain. He makes a heroic effort to

Man, I wish there were push bikes when I was a kid. These things make so much sense as a kid’s first bike. Maybe not only as

Somehow the season of advertising and Christmas carols is a lot easier to like when a it’s a bike company that goes there. I’m not sure how

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

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

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

Well this is sweet and the OK Go-style ending is nicely done but it’s really just a little PR moment for Team Sky, not to

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.

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.

Probably the shortest video here. But you don’t need more than four seconds to pick up on the joy Shaq is feeling. David Folch, 6′ 6″

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

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

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

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

This is an old TV advert from Aussie bike company Malvern Star. This company made some pretty surreal ads that could best be described as pop culture-camp. Like

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,

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

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

This is funnier if you’re Canadian, but, even then, maybe it’s not that funny to you. I dunno, I can laugh at that last line…

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

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

“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

One of the things I love most about these GoPro free riding videos is the unbelievably exotic locales they take you to. This first trip

To my mind, these Global Cycling Network videos are for the fans only.  If you’re not a fan, this video might win you over—or at

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

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

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

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

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

I’ll watch anything with Claudio Caluori in it. Wait, make that I’ll listen to anything with Claudio Caluori in it. It’s not that his riding

I know I’m not supposed to approve of this kind of riding but I can’t help it—this is one of my all-time favourite cycling videos. Lead

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

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

I know this is just an ad but, man, what a trike! Butchers & Bicycle’s MK1 could single-handedly make riding a tricycle the most totally bad-ass thing to

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

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

“If I could take one thing away from this trip, it would be that oxygen is seriously underrated.” I’m sure on a trip as epic

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

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

I’m not sure I’d want to pull it very far and I’m sure I wouldn’t want to pull it up a hill, but this thing

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.”???

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

I absolutely love this video. It’s only about a minute long and it’s exquisite. It’s got so many things I like—cargo bikes, winter riding, that slightly

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

It won me over with the H.G. Wells quote right off the top. Great camera work, some crazy-good riders and beautiful B.C. scenery. It’s not as

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.  

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

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