Temi's mission to get more black people cycling - BBC

[@StudioVegan]

It’s about representation not just race I’ve been looking up cycling for hours I had to type in POC or black people cycling to find the videos I was looking for.

[@Lanikka_]

Same here! I’ve been thinking about riding a bike so I started looking up videos and I didn’t see any black people until I actually put “black people riding bikes”. I have this fear of riding bikes and being mistreated bcuz I’m black so yea this is definitely about representation

[@saeedbasabain4188]

Respect to black people brothers and sisters

[@fredgrebner526]

Respect to those that have earned respect ✊🏼

[@timmolloy7574]

The inner city yutes mountain biking association is the best 🤣

[@kokebs.3771]

Well done Temi. You are doing fantastic work.keep shining brother 👏

[@dubplateriddim]

This is awesome. I was lucky enough as a kid to have bike to ride to school. Depite most of them being stolen. But as a black man, I love cycling and I just love the sport. I saved for my first road bike at the age of 15 from working afterschool and I never forget the feeling flying at 80km/h down into a gorge. When I walk into a bike store though half the time people think I'm trying to steal, then I open up about my knowledge of the World Tour and my 15 years of tech experience. Then most people open up to and realise I'm just another person.

[@fredgrebner526]

And why do you think they assume you are there to steal? We’d like to know.

[@redpandagency]

I moved to Chester and started to cycling. I never was excited to cycling in London too busy

[@joshuamorris2908]

I love cycling.

[@Hakanhuseyin0912]

Keep inspiring brother 🙏🏼

[@breakingbikes]

This is great, as a fellow cyclist 👏 I applaud this doc !

[@nmartin802]

Love this!!

[@ambeh.h.a692]

@TEMI THANK GOD FOR YOU AND YOUR LIFE DREAM THANK YOU BROTHER. GOD BLESS YOU.

[@SebFlorida]

Yes Temi, good luck with your journey. its easy to see how cycling can be inclusive. keep spreading your word!

[@LondonCycling]

A great film Temi! It captured the barriers that Black people face taking up cycling but also the joy when people do. Cycling is a great way to get a smile on anyone's face. Happy cycling everyone!

[@silviashefa4097]

Whom Can We Trust If No One Is Trustworthy? One of my favorite quips from Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is when Tom is defined as “a glittering hero…the pet of the old, the envy of the young,” and there were “some that believed that he would be President, yet, if he escaped hanging.” With these few words, Twain captured the essence of leadership in our world. Those who get to the top are the fiercest, most determined, and most ruthless. Today, the latter quality has become so intense that we can no longer believe our leaders, and certainly not trust them to have our best interest in mind. I am not accusing any leader in particular, or even leaders as a whole. It is simply that in an egoistic world, where people vie to topple one another on their way to the top, the one at the top is clearly the one who trampled over and knocked down more people than anyone else. Concisely, to get to the top in an egoistic world you have to be the biggest egoist. So how do we know whom to trust? We don’t know and we cannot know. All we know is that we are in the dark. In a culture of unhinged selfishness, any conspiracy theory seems reasonable, while truth is nowhere to be found. When every person who says or writes something is trying to promote some hidden agenda, you have no way of knowing who is right, what really happened, or if anything happened at all. The only way to get some clarity in the news and goodwill from our leaders is to say “Enough!” to our current system and build something entirely independent. The guiding principle of such a system should be “information only,” no commentary. Commentary means that information has already been skewed. Information means saying only what happened, as much as possible, not why, and not who is to blame and who we should praise. Concurrently, we must begin a comprehensive process of self-teaching. We have to know not only what is happening, but why we skew and distort everything. In other words, we have to know about human nature and how it inherently presents matters according to its own subjective view, which caters to one’s own interest. To “clear” ourselves from that deformity, we must learn how to rise above our personal interest and develop an equally favorable attitude toward others. This is our only guarantee that our interpretation of things will be even and correct. Once we achieve such an attitude, we will discover that the bad things we see in our world reflect our own, internal wickedness. Our ill-will toward others creates a world where ill-will governs, and so the world is filled with wickedness and cruelty. Therefore, all we need in order to create positive leadership-and to generally eliminate ill-will from the world-is to generate goodwill within us. When we nurture goodwill toward others, we will fill the world with goodwill. As a result, the world will fill with kindness and compassion. By changing ourselves, we will create a world that is opposite from the world we have created through our desires to govern, patronize, and often destroy other people.

[@somayehfarooq6367]

Such an Amazing Man Temi! Happy to have met you and to be apart of the journey!! This film has captured you and everything you do perfectly ! Big Up!

[@Storiesforlife326]

Love travelling

[@waltcahill]

Love this.

[@Flashback_Jack]

I'm black and this is silly. Nothing after a certain point presents a barrier to anyone picking up cycling. Low end bicycles are a dime a dozen. High end bicycles however are largely inaccessible to everybody but the few with excellent careers and this is where you'll start to see a diminishing count of minorities--of people in general. That's just the reality of the matter, yet, nothing prevents minorities from pulling themselves up by the bootstraps, creating a career for themselves through hard work and dedication and hopefully by the time one is 50, can afford to buy that five to ten thousand dollar bike and kit up in lycra like the exclusive few of any race around you.

[@damienmulder909]

Why can't people just like and dislike things? Why do you need to have everything look the way you want it to look? It's okay that black people prefer other modes of transportation. Leave them alone.

[@truebodi4493]

I don't get the point.. you already have the rights to cycle so what are you trying to get at?

[@fresnoniiji]

Did Uber eats on a bike for a couple months full time. Been sprung ever since

[@kuitaranheatmorus9932]

Well this sure is great

[@verdeboyo]

Temi is doing a good thing cos many black folk think cycling was something you did when you were a kid and if you ride a pushbike as an adult its cos you can't afford a BMW. Those folk need educating! What didn't help so much was that when you watched the biggest cycle race in the world you didn't see one black face, not even mixed race. The last 2 decades its got better and now in 2024 you see folk of all colours mixing it up on the King's Highway. There shouldn't be any connection with colour, just people! All colours and all races!

[@billypittson6676]

Temi, continue to inspire, encourage and promote cycling. Good works brother. The community needs more leaders like yourself. ✊🏽

[@TruthSpeaker1001]

I endorse this video

[@fleuryrukundo6799]

In Union everything’s it’s possibly.

[@baddogg68]

Luv to collaborate on something like this and get David Brailsford on board. You've done some epic work just to get this far. 👏 wishing you the best going forward 🙏

[@DJSILKYD]

Want to get involved in this as I DH love riding.

[@nuplanner5345]

Yes-And traveling!

[@fleuryrukundo6799]

Yes you can yes you can yes you can everything’s it’s possibly.

[@dominicclarke3206]

Comments section is disgusting police should track down the people using the account to right racist undertones.

[@ewan.cartwright]

I think that's a bit authoritarian, why use the police when we can argue with them ourselves? Don't let their views go unchallenged, don't allow them the satisfaction of believing the "silent majority" is with them.

[@sylezjusz]

The video itself suggests that people of color are too thick to figure out how to get on a bike on their own so I'd start with taking it down first

[@ambeh.h.a692]

Thank GOD FOR BLACK PEOPLE THANK YOU. GOD BLESS YOU ALL.

[@itchyfannyflap]

What a weird thing to say, surely it should be thank god for all people ?

[@pawshands9706]

I find it disturbing that in these times people of color still standout when pursuing different activities. Don't get me wrong. I know skin color still is an issue with so many that just never seem to get it. I hope that with these programs people will move forward towards a just and better world.

[@seankilburn7200]

Yes because only white people are allowed to cycle or pursue other sporting activities aren’t they? Such a silly comment. Individuals such as yourself simply seek to fuel racial tension

[@pawshands9706]

@@seankilburn7200 it seems just what you are attempting to do with your shallow minded reply.

[@seankilburn7200]

@@pawshands9706 well feel free to elaborate on why you find it disturbing that people of colour standout when pursuing such activities. I really don’t see why race is even relevant here. Surely all people should be encouraged to pursue such activities irrespective of skin colour and if certain ethnic groups do not engage as much as others then that should not be a problem as everyone is allowed the freedom to choose.

[@grucru8615]

@@pawshands9706 grow up with your victimhood. There is absolutely no barrier. Name one. If there is a barrier, it’s the bbc where every black person in a video has to have ‘black’ or ‘racism’ in the title

[@pawshands9706]

@@grucru8615 blah blah blah...sorry sap.

[@evolassunglasses4673]

We are definitely moving to voluntary segregation.

[@itchyfannyflap]

These people are obsessed with race, its beyond pathetic.

[@seankilburn7200]

Very true

[@itchyfannyflap]

@@xaviertrujillo506 well do it then, stfu and get on with it, always want applause, you're not children, you're adults with your own choices in life, no one controls you, you bang on about wanting more diversity as if it's the white man keeping it from being such, deluded fool.

[@itchyfannyflap]

@@xaviertrujillo506 and striving for more diversity in what?, people riding bikes? Can you hear how ridiculous you sound? You need to free yourself from the indoctrination

[@xaviertrujillo506]

@@itchyfannyflap I don’t see why you are so annoyed at someone promoting biking and exercise, look at the like to dislike ratio, you’re definitely in the minority

[@F1ll1nTh3Blanks]

That a Madone? Nice. I love riding as a young black male but most people who do it in groupies and that are a class above me it feels like, so it's hard to find a community and I dunno a lot of people that are interested in my social circles.

[@itchyfannyflap]

Perceived oppression, no one cares about your color, get over yourself and drop the victim stuff.

[@F1ll1nTh3Blanks]

@@itchyfannyflap Are you waved.. Maybe you'd like to point me to the part of my comment that suggested I was oppressed or a victim because at this point I think you're just projecting.

[@itchyfannyflap]

@@F1ll1nTh3Blanks I love riding as a young black male you say, as if that bares any meaning whatsoever, that are a class above me you say, no one cares bruv, just do you and don't make a song and dance about it because you are black, no one cares

[@F1ll1nTh3Blanks]

@@itchyfannyflap It does because that's what I am, a young black male. That's kinda part of my demographic.. am I supposed to pretend it doesn't exist.. And vast majority of the time, people who I observe riding in groups are more affluent than I am, this is observable fact. What a clown. This is why I said that I said. Not because I am oppressed or any of that bs you're pushing on to me, that's all in your head, not mine.

[@itchyfannyflap]

@@F1ll1nTh3Blanks looool google search 🤣, and if you had any smarts about you, you would know how censored and ideologically biased that search engine is, I'll stick to duck duck go, and yes, aslong as you spout off nonsense about your race, racism will be alive.

[@SPECTRE_Madman]

I love cycling

[@Femmefatale32000]

I love cycling and don't see enough sistas on bikes, but every time I do, I strike up a conversation.

[@Femmefatale32000]

@Ronaldo Stevens what's your point little boy...?

[@truebodi4493]

whats the actual point of this? i mean they already have rights to cycling so wtf are they trying to do with this?

[@Femmefatale32000]

@@truebodi4493 well if you do not understand what I am getting at that really isn't my problem as I am not in the mood to elaborate. What was the point in your replying to my comment? 😂

[@truebodi4493]

@@Femmefatale32000 So you're denying the fact that you already have rights to cycling, At this point it's like you're starting a war with white people we have already gave you rights so I do not understand why you need more than a white man.

[@Femmefatale32000]

@@truebodi4493 all that bulls*it you just came out with? It's all in your head. Clearly you are making an issue out of an non-issue. Go back and read what I said again instead of writing idiotic comments and rhetoric. Who said anything about causing a war with WS. I certainly did not. Those were your words NOT mine. Now go and take your medication to try and keep your head in check.

[@michelle9043]

Beautiful gorgeous people in this video 🤎

[@everyday6396]

How to get rid of racism 101: stop creating things like Black Riders Associaton - literally deviding people by color.

[@EmmuelleBerger2011]

Some people are more comfortable with other folks that externally looks similar to themselves.

[@andreaannunziata4306]

@@EmmuelleBerger2011 like germans 80 years ago

[@sylezjusz]

@@EmmuelleBerger2011 I believe they're called ethnonationalists or supremacists, if they're really comfortable

[@EmmuelleBerger2011]

@@sylezjusz I see you guys are the sensitive types.

[@truebodi4493]

ikr like they already have rights to cycling this is like saying white people dont let them cycle even though we do

[@theresenydahl9531]

I live in a country where we learn to swim and ride bikes correctly in traffic as children, we even go on school trips to learn skiing very early. My closest friends are black, were raised here and none of them enjoy swimming, biking or skiing although they have full cheap access to it, they just don't enjoy it. I swim regularly and I never see black swimmers in the public swimming pool when I think of it. You got me thinking, I have to ask my friends, I thought it was a question of preference.

[@pakeezavillage.9299]

👍🇵🇰🇩🇪🌷✌️

[@വൈഷ്ണവ്]

😂😂💣💣🇵🇰

[@bearwolfable]

Just blatant racsim

[@anonymous2858]

A lot of bikes about to get stolen

[@RatluBoogerbag]

It's all well and good trying to get more people into cycling, but the more pressing campaign should be to get more cyclists wearing helmets. It is appalling that he is trying to promote cycling without wearing a helmet.

[@euan7166]

Cahcahling doesnt have a calaa

[@evan3345]

🤮🤢

[@jamiebutterworth3576]

Ok this is just dumb literally no one is stopping black people from cycling this is just cringe to me if you want to get on a bike get on a bike😆🤣 no one is gonna be like your skin colour is a different shade to mine so you can't ride a bike💀

[@TheIlluvater]

Why make an otherwise good cause about racial segregation?

[@paulgray1318]

30 years ago the air quality black-faced everybody cycling in London - still not great air for cycling.

[@mahiskitchenfamilyvlogs]

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[@hannipon8175]

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[@godhatesesau]

We not BLACK

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