I just love bikes working on bikes and riding bikes and I'm thinking about
bikes and going to sleep at night with bikes on my mind it's the way I live
my name is Timmy C I am a bass player and I also ride bikes and I think I ride
bikes maybe more than I play bass and I sort of Bank bikes for enabling me to
have a career that's as long as mine has been my name is Marshall Mullen from
Malibu California and I ride ebikes every day about a year and a half ago I
was riding down the fire road one day and I get a call from Tim and he goes
dude I got it what's going on and he said we gotta get you bikes he came home
two weeks later boom next week tewi bikes on our doorstep so they went for
sort of the maiden voyage you know we went out on these things I was kind of
like I whatever I don't know what this is and it was about 15 pedal strokes
into the ride that I realized this is it this is what we do now I've known
Marshall since he was a little tiny kid probably about six years old was when I
moved to Malibu he was a little guy every day he drove by my house and you
know I was out tinkering in the garage and he would just whiz by the driveway
kind of like who is this guy I had no idea he was some bigwig in a band and I
got to know him and his family and one day his mom said Marshall wants to get a
bike and he wanted a dirt jump bike I didn't really understand that but he
ended up getting one and now I understand that
he got a bike when he was about 12 and by the time he was 15 I think he was
doing tail whips and stuff on huge jumps that they say the learning curve was a
lot different than for me
it took us a couple rides to realize that we're now going twice as far twice
as fast and having twice as much fun and we're still getting a workout after the
first ride we went out for the first week really
we were so sore well it's sort of like an eye-opener to us we were like wow
these things are no joke to me I feel like you're getting a better workout
because there's less strain on your joints and you're spinning faster I
never really was that style of rider and now I am it's changed the way that I
ride a regular bike when I get on it I spend more and I shift better because
the shifting on the bikes is a little more precise when you make your shifts
and that carries over to regular bikes I'm in my top shape right now for riding
and it's all because of the bike I love downhill bikes and long travel
technology and bigger brakes and things like that and all of those things are
part of the ebike world so I really feel like the future for a bikes is badass
long travel suspension bikes that are downhill bikes you know and that's what
marshals riding Marshalls got a seven inch travel kinivo with an eight inch
travel core so it is a downhill bike and he can climb up a wall on it so it's the
Swiss Army knife of bikes and so if I was gonna say something to somebody I
would say don't be turned off you know instead embrace it as a whole new sport
I'm 24 years old 5 foot 9 128 pounds at 5.6 percent body fat I've never been
this fit in my life now I'm just invigorated by the ebike revolution you
know it's got me thinking about likes like the first bike I ever bought you
know I feel like an e bike is almost like a reinvention of the bicycle and
I'm fired up