hello good afternoon dr. Holm ah-ha okay
so four years ago today a woman walked
into my bike shop this is it here he’s
looking around and she says what do you
do and I said well we sell these kinds
of bikes we also do these kinds of rides
does no no no I mean what do you really
do do you teach are you a student I said
no just this this exchange we had
started a long conversation with myself
but probably a lot of you have had
before what am I really doing okay so I
had to think a long time about what it
was that I was really doing but I
realized that you know opening a bike
shop maybe I won’t make a million
dollars but I get to do what I love I
so first I want to ask you all three 20s
there are three questions so it Shin
Jang wouldn’t even need Sangha wente
yeah the first one how many of y’all can
ride a bike change on your dog around
with Jesus and sure okay to show you
guys that I don’t weigh do so yeah so my
second question Neiman she don’t your
dogs are in town she listening to a song
she was hung back a high sugar window
right a lot of people how many used to
ride bikes to school and to work okay so
Hawaii 20 huh right my last question how
many of you still ride a bike
I’ll door shower in ching-chong cheetahs
in chuan da da da she a would she okay
so and don’t get me wrong when I was a
teenager I was just like you right I
wanted to get a car right I had saved up
my money to buy one of two things I
could buy either a bicycle
next slide a bicycle or a computer see I
bought the computer because you can’t
it wasn’t until university that I
discovered that to get around it took a
lot of time to walk but my dad he gave
me his old bike started riding it
everywhere crashed it a lot he offered
to help me fix it see and this is when
he let his big secret slip see when he
was in university he had two hobbies and
fixing cars and drinking beer they don’t
go well together see he got in trouble
with the law had his license revoked
because he’d been drinking and driving
he had to ride a bike and the bike that
we were fixing that used to be his and
it was weird because all of a sudden me
and my dad we had this thing in common
you know
the teenager you don’t like this see
like my father thirty years before I was
beginning to learn the benefits of
riding a bike
see which was strange because as an
American growing up we always want a car
you see people that ride bikes is kind
of weird right you see him as guys in
tights or you might see them as people
that are just trying to be cheapskates
or you know people that just want to be
on the road and you have to dodge him
you don’t want to hit him see what was
strange for me is I was starting to
learn that bikes was something everyone
can like including myself so if you can
imagine when I came to China I was
yeah China is the bicycle Kingdom or was
but it was given this nickname during a
Golden Age of bicycling everybody used
to have a sturdy forever bike right a
young Joe use it for everything you go
to school you go to you know you go to
the market with your family maybe how to
date on a bike
but gradually this started to change
though for instance between 1995 and
2005 bicycle use in China entered a big
decline in China during this time period
they went from 670 million people using
bikes the 435 in a bigger cities like
Beijing Chengdu Shanghai these things
were more drastic in Beijing for
instance between 1986 and 2010 bicycle
use went from 62% a 16% so and the
evidence is the same for us here in
Chengdu for instance sleepy little
streets that used to be covered with
trees are now huge boulevards bike lanes
that used to have a divider to keep you
from cars disappearing is happening
across the city places like Tim through
software park or even just out in front
of the hotel here they don’t even have a
bike point or if they do they use it for
traffic during rush hour so you’re
probably now wondering well why did you
open a bike shop then see I love bikes I
love riding them fixing them building
them sharing them talking about looking
at them but the thing I love most about
bikes is that I really do think they can
make the future a brighter place he
bikes or something that everyone can
like there’s a lot of benefits that go
along with them the first benefit I’d
like to share with you all deficiency up
this is Chengdu by the way there’s a
tongue duel so the first thing I want to
talk about is efficiency extra super
in fact some people say that the most
efficient human powered machine ever
built the design is awesome hasn’t
changed in over a hundred years a lot of
things that went into the engineering
for instance chains pneumatic tubes and
tires manufacturing processes that we
use in industries all over the world
today started with the bicycle you know
the Wright brothers the guys ever made
see and it’s not just about how cool the
design is they’re also very efficient
machines 98.6% of energy put into
pedaling a bike is transferred into
motion that means if you the average
person really just you anyone if you
were to ride your bike you could go five
kilometers there’s only a hundred
calories that means if you eat a pack of
peanuts you could get from the north
train station all the way down to the
south end of town towards the so it’s
like the Shelf you run so another
example is cars for instance if a car
were as efficient as a bike you could
get three hundred and ten kilometres for
one litre of fuel what are you fishing
see ya
I had this buddy in college she was kind
of you know that he didn’t really strike
me as a bike guy and then one day he
tells me he rides his bike to work now
he worked at a place 20 kilometers away
which meant that three days a week or
a.m. he was riding his bike
it was just surprised incredible and I
asked him why do you do this he said
well I don’t really like driving that
far and having to pay for gas and fixing
up my car see and I got to thinking
maybe this is something I could do see
he also stayed pretty fit I’m sure you
can imagine and exercise it actually the
next benefit I want to talk about riding
bikes is an easy way to stay
healthy right I’m an American okay
Americans are usually fat and it’s it’s
funny but obesity right fate puns in in
America is one of the largest public
health crisis there is what that means
is you have rising rates of diabetes
heart disease and you know a large
contributor this is the fact that people
don’t exercise enough so I’m sure you
can see how a bike could kind of help us
right heart disease kills more Americans
than anything else by the way for
example if you decided okay I’m gonna
start riding my bike to work there’s two
days a week if you took you 30 minutes
each way two days a week you would get
enough exercise or a healthy heart you’d
a vegetarian diet and you’ve got a long
life ahead of you
either way I see it this is like a
really lazy way to get exercise you
don’t have to get a gym membership that
you feel guilty about never using right
you don’t ever have to make time in your
day to go ride you use your knee to get
from place to place as your weight loss
program though moving for the next thing
I kind of want to talk about is you know
you may not be happy if your exercise or
efficient see the biggest benefit I
really feel like a bike has is it can
connect you with the world around you
allows you to share with other people
keep on using the wrong button this is a
you all probably know right T rows play
an important part of communities
traditionally speaking say like in China
rows are actually an avenue for your
community it’s an important part of the
culture here in the history for instance
the term the naam right meaning like
active and bustling
is a concept that has shaped in the
Chinese language the food and the the
stories that places have to share so
take for instance this is lunge I shot
right in Chengdu this place is always
liable why because it allows people to
use the streets as a public space it
allows them to connect with tangible
things the sights the sounds the smells
that make up the world around them it
allows you to connect with people right
another example yeah you probably are
all aware of this because this is
something I really like watching in
China is you guys know what on they’ve
Guangdong anyways right well I’m telling
you I really like watching it the
tradition and it’s everywhere from she’s
on the Beijing and the South everywhere
in China people go out after dinner they
get their speakers out they set them
down and then they start dancing right
and if they’re not dancing they’re
talking with friends people bring their
kids out to play there’s activities in
sports and it’s just lively and it feels
good but what if the city decided okay
well this park is not worth it
let’s turn it into a parking lot what
would happen to the dances the families
over the community feel with that loss
of space right this idea is a bit
far-fetched like it’s not too real no
one with no one’s going to take away the
parts but it’s also not too far from the
truth see my business is on a street
here in Chengdu we have a sidewalk in
front that’s been turned into a parking
lot what this means is that it’s
strangled businesses over the years
dozens of its left our street quiet
characters what I believe
is a valuable community is able to
interact with the environment around it
you can’t do that if a car is parked
there see it needs space a strong
community is one that everyone has a
common interest and it’s something they
can benefit from see the bike is a way
to cross cultural boundaries the way to
share with people when you’ve got
nothing else in common
there’s bikes or something that everyone
can like good example of this is a ride
that our shop posts we called the Friday
night ride chaser lights at song do da
da da
though she likes this one well hey maybe
you’ve maybe you’ve seen us before but
what we do is we get out with a hundred
people up to a hundred people can you
imagine that
Gemma door in those eight seats us enjoy
right we get out with a hundred people
we put music on we just cruise the
streets the coolest part about it is you
have families with children you have
students you have travelers you have
working professionals you have this
variety of people that come together of
all ages backgrounds inches sexes
languages and we just ride our bikes we
share just the feeling of being a
partisan so we also drink beer after
which is really really I like beer do
you like beer yeah okay so we drink beer
after which is fun you know and so I’ve
talked about benefits the efficiency
I’ve talked about staying fit connecting
with the community but you’re all
probably wondering okay well what city
in the world is like this so Amsterdam
unlike the US which is always neglected
bicycling and unlike China where
bicycling is on a few
is it bicycling success see for every
Amsterdam er there’s 1.3 bikes there’s
more bikes than people even more as
there actively use 40% of all triumph
and chips in Amsterdam are done on a
bike you’re probably wondering well has
it always been like that then be after
World War 2 it wasn’t city planners fell
in love with the car what they started
to do is just plan to make like the car
was the future and then what happened is
people got tired of it
they took to the streets in protest they
went to the mayor and calling to make
roads safer to give streets back to
communities and then it came into its
own be bicycling around the world is
also on the rise so say for instance
like in the United States you have
cities like Washington DC Philadelphia
you have Chicago New Orleans Portland
San Francisco all of these cities in the
past 15 years have seen increases of
biking the work between 300 and 500
percent and it’s not just the US Paris
London both of these cities have started
restricting car use and city centres
Oslo Norway plans to ban them by 2020
you have Copenhagen with its intent to
create a cycling superhighway which will
transform the city into being completely
carbon neutral by 2025 this within 10
years you have Hamburg in Germany its
plan is to build a network of bicycle
highways like a green network that will
connect neighborhoods with parks and the
places that people work so they can get
around efficient and it’s more global
you have cities all over the world
you have Jakarta you have Hyderabad in
India Johannes Berg in Africa
you got Bogota in Colombia all these
cities
because traffic doesn’t make a city more
livable see when you use the streets as
an avenue for communities it improves
your quality of life
here’s Paris and that is what I’m trying
to share here today see why I encourage
bicycle use is because bicycles are
something that everyone can like well I
also forgot to mention Chengdu though if
we’re to talk about Chengdu Chengdu for
instance like has all the tools to do
the same thing the infrastructure is
there right the changes should Jesus
including ago Tung going on right
hi quick pinch on ego my point being is
can you imagine if there were less paved
roads and there was more parts for us or
places to ride your bike what if the
city you have like a bike share program
that actually works you could get from
the metro the home and says to work much
more faster and efficient what if more
people rode their bikes and people drove
cars less and the air was better and
every day instead of looking like it
does today
looked like a g20 blue day see this is
why I like to encourage bicycling
because I really do believe that in
quantity can improve your quality of
life see for me it brought my family
together help me create friendships but
more importantly it was something that I
could share with people around the world
including all of you you all know how to
ride a bike because bikes are something
that everyone can like right and this is
its value see a bicycle can create
positive change for yourself when you
start to do positive things for yourself
it has positive impacts on the world
around you your space
your friends and your community the
bicycle is a tool to transform your
environment it can make your world a
better place and that changes got to
start from you but what I’m really
trying to tell you and this is simple
just get out there and ride your bike
you won’t regret it oh oh thank you
so four years ago today a woman walked
into my bike shop this is it here he’s
looking around and she says what do you
do and I said well we sell these kinds
of bikes we also do these kinds of rides
does no no no I mean what do you really
do do you teach are you a student I said
no just this this exchange we had
started a long conversation with myself
but probably a lot of you have had
before what am I really doing okay so I
had to think a long time about what it
was that I was really doing but I
realized that you know opening a bike
shop maybe I won’t make a million
dollars but I get to do what I love I
so first I want to ask you all three 20s
there are three questions so it Shin
Jang wouldn’t even need Sangha wente
yeah the first one how many of y’all can
ride a bike change on your dog around
with Jesus and sure okay to show you
guys that I don’t weigh do so yeah so my
second question Neiman she don’t your
dogs are in town she listening to a song
she was hung back a high sugar window
right a lot of people how many used to
ride bikes to school and to work okay so
Hawaii 20 huh right my last question how
many of you still ride a bike
I’ll door shower in ching-chong cheetahs
in chuan da da da she a would she okay
so and don’t get me wrong when I was a
teenager I was just like you right I
wanted to get a car right I had saved up
my money to buy one of two things I
could buy either a bicycle
next slide a bicycle or a computer see I
bought the computer because you can’t
it wasn’t until university that I
discovered that to get around it took a
lot of time to walk but my dad he gave
me his old bike started riding it
everywhere crashed it a lot he offered
to help me fix it see and this is when
he let his big secret slip see when he
was in university he had two hobbies and
fixing cars and drinking beer they don’t
go well together see he got in trouble
with the law had his license revoked
because he’d been drinking and driving
he had to ride a bike and the bike that
we were fixing that used to be his and
it was weird because all of a sudden me
and my dad we had this thing in common
you know
the teenager you don’t like this see
like my father thirty years before I was
beginning to learn the benefits of
riding a bike
see which was strange because as an
American growing up we always want a car
you see people that ride bikes is kind
of weird right you see him as guys in
tights or you might see them as people
that are just trying to be cheapskates
or you know people that just want to be
on the road and you have to dodge him
you don’t want to hit him see what was
strange for me is I was starting to
learn that bikes was something everyone
can like including myself so if you can
imagine when I came to China I was
yeah China is the bicycle Kingdom or was
but it was given this nickname during a
Golden Age of bicycling everybody used
to have a sturdy forever bike right a
young Joe use it for everything you go
to school you go to you know you go to
the market with your family maybe how to
date on a bike
but gradually this started to change
though for instance between 1995 and
2005 bicycle use in China entered a big
decline in China during this time period
they went from 670 million people using
bikes the 435 in a bigger cities like
Beijing Chengdu Shanghai these things
were more drastic in Beijing for
instance between 1986 and 2010 bicycle
use went from 62% a 16% so and the
evidence is the same for us here in
Chengdu for instance sleepy little
streets that used to be covered with
trees are now huge boulevards bike lanes
that used to have a divider to keep you
from cars disappearing is happening
across the city places like Tim through
software park or even just out in front
of the hotel here they don’t even have a
bike point or if they do they use it for
traffic during rush hour so you’re
probably now wondering well why did you
open a bike shop then see I love bikes I
love riding them fixing them building
them sharing them talking about looking
at them but the thing I love most about
bikes is that I really do think they can
make the future a brighter place he
bikes or something that everyone can
like there’s a lot of benefits that go
along with them the first benefit I’d
like to share with you all deficiency up
this is Chengdu by the way there’s a
tongue duel so the first thing I want to
talk about is efficiency extra super
in fact some people say that the most
efficient human powered machine ever
built the design is awesome hasn’t
changed in over a hundred years a lot of
things that went into the engineering
for instance chains pneumatic tubes and
tires manufacturing processes that we
use in industries all over the world
today started with the bicycle you know
the Wright brothers the guys ever made
see and it’s not just about how cool the
design is they’re also very efficient
machines 98.6% of energy put into
pedaling a bike is transferred into
motion that means if you the average
person really just you anyone if you
were to ride your bike you could go five
kilometers there’s only a hundred
calories that means if you eat a pack of
peanuts you could get from the north
train station all the way down to the
south end of town towards the so it’s
like the Shelf you run so another
example is cars for instance if a car
were as efficient as a bike you could
get three hundred and ten kilometres for
one litre of fuel what are you fishing
see ya
I had this buddy in college she was kind
of you know that he didn’t really strike
me as a bike guy and then one day he
tells me he rides his bike to work now
he worked at a place 20 kilometers away
which meant that three days a week or
a.m. he was riding his bike
it was just surprised incredible and I
asked him why do you do this he said
well I don’t really like driving that
far and having to pay for gas and fixing
up my car see and I got to thinking
maybe this is something I could do see
he also stayed pretty fit I’m sure you
can imagine and exercise it actually the
next benefit I want to talk about riding
bikes is an easy way to stay
healthy right I’m an American okay
Americans are usually fat and it’s it’s
funny but obesity right fate puns in in
America is one of the largest public
health crisis there is what that means
is you have rising rates of diabetes
heart disease and you know a large
contributor this is the fact that people
don’t exercise enough so I’m sure you
can see how a bike could kind of help us
right heart disease kills more Americans
than anything else by the way for
example if you decided okay I’m gonna
start riding my bike to work there’s two
days a week if you took you 30 minutes
each way two days a week you would get
enough exercise or a healthy heart you’d
a vegetarian diet and you’ve got a long
life ahead of you
either way I see it this is like a
really lazy way to get exercise you
don’t have to get a gym membership that
you feel guilty about never using right
you don’t ever have to make time in your
day to go ride you use your knee to get
from place to place as your weight loss
program though moving for the next thing
I kind of want to talk about is you know
you may not be happy if your exercise or
efficient see the biggest benefit I
really feel like a bike has is it can
connect you with the world around you
allows you to share with other people
keep on using the wrong button this is a
you all probably know right T rows play
an important part of communities
traditionally speaking say like in China
rows are actually an avenue for your
community it’s an important part of the
culture here in the history for instance
the term the naam right meaning like
active and bustling
is a concept that has shaped in the
Chinese language the food and the the
stories that places have to share so
take for instance this is lunge I shot
right in Chengdu this place is always
liable why because it allows people to
use the streets as a public space it
allows them to connect with tangible
things the sights the sounds the smells
that make up the world around them it
allows you to connect with people right
another example yeah you probably are
all aware of this because this is
something I really like watching in
China is you guys know what on they’ve
Guangdong anyways right well I’m telling
you I really like watching it the
tradition and it’s everywhere from she’s
on the Beijing and the South everywhere
in China people go out after dinner they
get their speakers out they set them
down and then they start dancing right
and if they’re not dancing they’re
talking with friends people bring their
kids out to play there’s activities in
sports and it’s just lively and it feels
good but what if the city decided okay
well this park is not worth it
let’s turn it into a parking lot what
would happen to the dances the families
over the community feel with that loss
of space right this idea is a bit
far-fetched like it’s not too real no
one with no one’s going to take away the
parts but it’s also not too far from the
truth see my business is on a street
here in Chengdu we have a sidewalk in
front that’s been turned into a parking
lot what this means is that it’s
strangled businesses over the years
dozens of its left our street quiet
characters what I believe
is a valuable community is able to
interact with the environment around it
you can’t do that if a car is parked
there see it needs space a strong
community is one that everyone has a
common interest and it’s something they
can benefit from see the bike is a way
to cross cultural boundaries the way to
share with people when you’ve got
nothing else in common
there’s bikes or something that everyone
can like good example of this is a ride
that our shop posts we called the Friday
night ride chaser lights at song do da
da da
though she likes this one well hey maybe
you’ve maybe you’ve seen us before but
what we do is we get out with a hundred
people up to a hundred people can you
imagine that
Gemma door in those eight seats us enjoy
right we get out with a hundred people
we put music on we just cruise the
streets the coolest part about it is you
have families with children you have
students you have travelers you have
working professionals you have this
variety of people that come together of
all ages backgrounds inches sexes
languages and we just ride our bikes we
share just the feeling of being a
partisan so we also drink beer after
which is really really I like beer do
you like beer yeah okay so we drink beer
after which is fun you know and so I’ve
talked about benefits the efficiency
I’ve talked about staying fit connecting
with the community but you’re all
probably wondering okay well what city
in the world is like this so Amsterdam
unlike the US which is always neglected
bicycling and unlike China where
bicycling is on a few
is it bicycling success see for every
Amsterdam er there’s 1.3 bikes there’s
more bikes than people even more as
there actively use 40% of all triumph
and chips in Amsterdam are done on a
bike you’re probably wondering well has
it always been like that then be after
World War 2 it wasn’t city planners fell
in love with the car what they started
to do is just plan to make like the car
was the future and then what happened is
people got tired of it
they took to the streets in protest they
went to the mayor and calling to make
roads safer to give streets back to
communities and then it came into its
own be bicycling around the world is
also on the rise so say for instance
like in the United States you have
cities like Washington DC Philadelphia
you have Chicago New Orleans Portland
San Francisco all of these cities in the
past 15 years have seen increases of
biking the work between 300 and 500
percent and it’s not just the US Paris
London both of these cities have started
restricting car use and city centres
Oslo Norway plans to ban them by 2020
you have Copenhagen with its intent to
create a cycling superhighway which will
transform the city into being completely
carbon neutral by 2025 this within 10
years you have Hamburg in Germany its
plan is to build a network of bicycle
highways like a green network that will
connect neighborhoods with parks and the
places that people work so they can get
around efficient and it’s more global
you have cities all over the world
you have Jakarta you have Hyderabad in
India Johannes Berg in Africa
you got Bogota in Colombia all these
cities
because traffic doesn’t make a city more
livable see when you use the streets as
an avenue for communities it improves
your quality of life
here’s Paris and that is what I’m trying
to share here today see why I encourage
bicycle use is because bicycles are
something that everyone can like well I
also forgot to mention Chengdu though if
we’re to talk about Chengdu Chengdu for
instance like has all the tools to do
the same thing the infrastructure is
there right the changes should Jesus
including ago Tung going on right
hi quick pinch on ego my point being is
can you imagine if there were less paved
roads and there was more parts for us or
places to ride your bike what if the
city you have like a bike share program
that actually works you could get from
the metro the home and says to work much
more faster and efficient what if more
people rode their bikes and people drove
cars less and the air was better and
every day instead of looking like it
does today
looked like a g20 blue day see this is
why I like to encourage bicycling
because I really do believe that in
quantity can improve your quality of
life see for me it brought my family
together help me create friendships but
more importantly it was something that I
could share with people around the world
including all of you you all know how to
ride a bike because bikes are something
that everyone can like right and this is
its value see a bicycle can create
positive change for yourself when you
start to do positive things for yourself
it has positive impacts on the world
around you your space
your friends and your community the
bicycle is a tool to transform your
environment it can make your world a
better place and that changes got to
start from you but what I’m really
trying to tell you and this is simple
just get out there and ride your bike
you won’t regret it oh oh thank you
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