Ep. 57 - Talib Abdullahi, Black History Ride
Bikes or Death
Patrick Farnsworth
4.8 • 563 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2020
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In July Talib Abdullahi created and organized a Black History Ride in Austin, TX. Motivated by the BLM movement he wanted to create a positive event that would both be education and fun. Originally, he was thinking it would be him and maybe 20 of his friends, but word quickly got out, and within a week he was leading his Black History Ride with 400ish cyclist in tow.
In August I met up with Talib and a few of our friends to ride the route and record a podcast. The format for this show is much different from past episodes. We met on his route at The Quickie Pickie and recorded an intro and then we stopped at various locations along the route and recorded segments at each one. This is just a preview of the route, you'll have to get on your own damn bike if you want to give yourself the full tour!
I believe it was in Malcolm Gladwell's book "Outliers" that he says, "The world is starved for leaders". Talib's actions shows what happens when you turn your passion into action. He lead a ride that he created and 400 cyclist showed up in support. Hopefully, many more people will do his route in the days and years to come. Follow THIS LINK for all the ride/route info, go Ride Your Damn Bike and learn something!
Talib, thank you for leading and being a positive example and helping to educate me and many others.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. Welcome back to the Bikes for Death podcast. My name is Patrick and I am your host. |
| 0:04.8 | I am stoked to be recording in the very new, actually it's not even new. It hasn't even been |
| 0:13.1 | built yet, but I'm currently sitting in what is going to be the Bikes for Death Studio. |
| 0:19.8 | If you've been following along on social media or whatnot, |
| 0:22.5 | you'll know that over the last couple weeks, |
| 0:24.6 | I've been moving just across town. |
| 0:27.3 | Nothing crazy. |
| 0:28.2 | But one of the reasons that I went with this house |
| 0:30.4 | is because it has this really sick shop |
| 0:34.2 | that the previous owner built himself. |
| 0:36.7 | It's original to the 1970s. It's super cool. The floor is |
| 0:41.0 | brick. The wall is brick. So I got big plans to make this studio pretty cool. Right now it's just a |
| 0:47.7 | makeshift podcast, but I was too excited to just record inside the house. So I came out here, |
| 0:53.7 | set up the table, a chair, a couple little |
| 0:55.5 | things, and bada boom, bada bing, we're podcasting. On that note, I am running my little air conditioner. |
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