BMX bike

That's the place, uh, my older brother used to take me.

So we lived in that neighborhood, and my brother used to take me out on the back of a BMX bike and drive around.

I don't know why we were allowed to do that 'cause I can't imagine, I can't imagine doing that now.

But anyway, my bro- I'd, I'd sit on the back of my brother's BMX, which is one of those, like, you know, trick bikes, you know, have to-

You say BMX bike.

Did it have the pegs on the back tires?

No.

Right.

And then I was like, "Oh, I should get some more BMX bikes." [laughs]

You got addicted to it?

Yeah, it was really a problem for a while.

I was buying tons of BMX bikes.

Yeah.

I still have, like, a whole box full of, like, BMX bike frames that I was supposed to give to Kromer.

I didn't skate at all.

Oh my God, that's him.

He's coming in on a BMX bike, Chris.

This guy's trouble.

[bike tires screeching]

Yeah, I've got my BMX bike I put a baseball card into.

You little shit.

You didn't even fucking knock on the door [bike tires screeching] to come in.

And hello to Mia in Northamptonshire, England, who wanted to know exactly how this got invented.

We also have a special shout-out to Jack, who is six, in Snoqualmie, Washington, who asked all about BMX.

And a very happy birthday to Monty.

Happy birthday.

Before cars were even invented, cyclists started the Good Roads Movement to demand paved streets, and it gave women incredible new freedom to travel independently.

Wait.

What about Jack's question? He wanted to know about BMX.

Oh, that's my favorite part.

Go, so going back into the bikes and stuff, since we were talking about Rad! and then we, you know, we're talking about this movie, it really brought up memories of, 'cause I was, I felt like I was so young, you know, in, in, in certain ways that, um- Yeah, like I didn't get into bikes until I was like 11, 12.

But when I was younger, I remember, you know, my, my brother and my cousins being so into their bikes, their bicycles, and how there was this distinction of, "Man, I got a 10-speed." And it's like, "Well man, I got a BMX bike," and I got...

And like the differences in what you could do and what you couldn't do in some of, in, in some of them.

And I was like, I get it.

Uh, that movie came out in '85.

Breaking Away came out, you know, in the '70s, and that was like a 10-speed bike movie.

Rad was like the BMX bike movie, right?

Oh, yeah.