How to Build (and Ride) a Road Bike
Calling all NYC traffic riders! I am looking for someone to help me make another YouTube video of biking in NYC. If you can ride like I ride in this video, then shoot me a YouTube email with your contact info, and we'll take turns filming each other as we ride.
Time lapse restoration and upgrade of an early 90's Cannondale 3.0 Criterium road bike. Then a fast-paced ride through the streets of Queens and New York.
Music is "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" by George Thorogood and the Destroyers.
Sorry about the super-pixellated ride scene. Look for more rides posted in the near future!
Tagged with: Cannondale • New Music • Nyc Traffic
Filed under: Video
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dude the name of the song is good song
So what! Get one!
drinkin’ n ridin’ eh?
Damnnnn I wanna ride my road bike in NYC sooo bad!
At least he wasn’t taught grammar by an inbred red neck.
woah i always admire a road bike too bad this is singapore and there’s little of them there..
This guy seriously don’t know how to built a bike.
I use to go riding in NYC. The ground is level and the traffic is always congested. If I ever moved to the big apple, I would probably use a bike only. It’s ECONOMICAL! Nice video though. Speeding up the camera makes you look like James Bond riding a bike.
Thanks for the answer, but I figured it out. The fork and the rear wheel were the only things that came preassembled on the bike… and they put the fork on backwards…
Lol.. that was it. I feel stupid.
I’ve never heard of this! The only way I can imagine that happening is if your frame is super-small, and your wheel is oversize. Sorry, dude. GL with that.
Yes! bikers DO have a unique understanding of traffic patterns.
Quick question though: I just put together my road bike and when the wheel is turned more than about 45 degrees, the pedal brushes against the wheel. Is there any way to fix that, or is that just inaccuracy with how the frame is built?
I love you.
Dude this is intense. I’ve been seriously thinking about doing my own little bike project, can’t ride like that though. The Semi-Trunk scene is wild. Keep that shit up man.
It’s a nice ride for NY, right? Nice and stiff, which makes it incredibly responsive to the smallest intent to turn. You can pretty much blink an eyeball to the right and it’ll turn to the right. Ride on!
Funny you say this – I’ve recently had to drive through New York City for work quite often. It’s infuriating to see the bicycles fly by me while I’m stuck in traffic. But I think that knowing how to ride a bike in NYC has made me a better car driver – Maybe because I have a unique understanding of traffic patterns?
The ultimate 21st century urban transport system! You make car users look like terminally confused, anti-social, Neolithic retards. Keep it up.
nice ride. im on a 3.0 criterium in nyc too
Love your video man. Really cool.
Thanks for your concern! For the record, I rarely ride the opposite way on a one-way street. As for running red lights – I do it often, but I am very cautious, and I never make cars or people who have the right-away slow or stop for me.
cyclists running red lights and going the wrong way on one way streets is really obnoxious. If you’re riding on the road then you should obey the rules of the road.
Nice job building your bike though.
george thurogood go!
NYC to the max! In Oregon now hicks and yuppies give me dirty looks for driving that crazy, skills you can only get in the congested roads of the world.
I love this video too man.. Really great idea and everything.. I watched it a while ago before I got my job at a bike shop and now I value it so much more haha.. I think I actually might be ready to fully build an entire triple.. all except the bottom bracket!
Keep it funky bro
I like the video, nice job. Just way too many parts for me.lol