The Power of Bicycles | F.K. Day | TEDxMidAtlantic
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- čas přidán 23. 04. 2018
- Frederick (F.K.) Day is a long time Chicago businessman, entrepreneur and humanitarian. In 1987, Day, his brother Stan and some friends founded leading bicycle component supplier, SRAM Corporation. In 2005, immediately following the Indian Ocean Tsunami, Day and his wife Leah, with support from SRAM Corp and the bicycle industry, founded international non-profit World Bicycle Relief. Their first program delivered over 24,000 new bicycles to men, women and children in Tsunami impacted Sri Lanka.
In his TEDx talk, Day illustrates the profound transformation that takes place when a person whose primary mode of transportation is walking, is provided a bicycle.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, roughly 600 million people live in rural communities where walking is the only option for many. Every day is about racing the sun, from sunup to sundown, trying to complete the day’s work before the darkness of night. Each step is a race to overcome the barrier of distance.
Through his firsthand experience in the field with World Bicycle Relief, Day describes the quantum leap in productivity that occurs when students, healthcare workers and entrepreneurs are mobilized through the power of bicycles. He illuminates why bicycles are an overlooked development solution and why there can be a world where distance is no longer a barrier to education, healthcare and economic empowerment.
World Bicycle Relief employs over 100+ people in the US, Asia and Africa, and operates 5 bicycle assembly facilities in Kenya, Malawi, Angola Zambia and Zimbabwe. To date, over 350,000 specially designed, locally assembled bicycles have been distributed and over 1,700 field mechanics have been trained. In 2010, Day and World Bicycle Relief were named #12 on Barron’s list of the World‘s Top 25 Most Effective Givers. In 2015, Fast Company named World Bicycle Relief among its’ Most Innovative Companies for organizations working on the continent of Africa. Frederick (F.K.) Day is a long- time Chicago businessman, entrepreneur and humanitarian. In 1987, Day, his brother Stan and some friends founded leading bicycle component supplier, SRAM Corporation.
In 2005, immediately following the Indian Ocean Tsunami, Day and his wife Leah, with support from SRAM Corp and the Bicycle Industry, founded international non-profit World Bicycle Relief. Their first program delivered over 24,000 new bicycles to men, women and children in to Tsunami impacted Sri Lanka. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
Biking helped me get through the most difficult time in my life. Now it has become a way of life. It is how I fight depression and sickness.
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Bikking is good .I live in the Netherlands We bike everyday.
“When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man's convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man's brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle. ”
― Elizabeth West
And COMPLETELY GREEN ENERGY!!!! No fossil fuels. So it's good for the earth too! I love bikes. What a great idea and such a great outcome. Thank you and God bless!
Very cool quote but I think people would start getting angry they couldn’t cycle faster haha.
How can I reach Frederick FK Day or is brother Stanley ?
Bicycle is a blessing
XYao Bicycles speed up life! How has bicycle assisted you? It is freeing.
Bicycles are a very important invention, they provide transportation for almost everyone in the world. They also help reduce pollution and keep riders in good health. 🚲🌎
This presentation has a very strong message. After hearing this story, we can know for sure that bicycles are saving lives and making life easier for people who do not have access to any kind of transportation. Bicycles have the power to make this world a better place 🚴🏼❤️
My blood pressure agrees.
Diba is my family name. Is it yours?
Bicycles can deliver more than you think. It supports many people to reach their dreams, go back to school, and support their family. We should be grateful and cherish the bicycles we have for transportations. Bicycles will break the barriers of transportation for success.
I'm an owner of Sram products and after this I will be supporting them even more. What a powerful presentation, it honestly made me tear up a little.
I am Zambian and I can't agree more with what he presented. Great message.
Been riding for 12 years now and each ride is brand new!!
FROM AFRICA
❤🙏🙏🙏 Thank you for your dedication and service .
Proud to be part of SRAM and that the company has this amazing program that positively impact peoples lifes.
Never looking at bicycles the same again. Keep doing what you do! It’s truly inspiring. 🚴🏻♂️🚴🏻♀️🌏
I love cycling 🚲🚲❤️❤️❤️ although I have motorcycle and scooter, I always prefer bicycle for health reasons and environment conservation
I never thought of bicycles like this until this video. Truly grateful for bicycles and the wave of aid they grant people. So inspiring 🚲❤️🌞
Bicycles are very great and were a big help. It helped with transportation and speeding up what was slowed down. It's kind how people can help out others when they are in need.
In countries where many people couldn’t afford better transportation, the only choice is walking. Bicycle connect people, get to their destination much faster than hours of walking. We couldn’t even imagine how much bicycles brighten up people’s lives in those poor countries. Thank you, Mr. F.K. Day, for your contribution to the bicycle industry and our planet.
The importance one object can make to an entire community is amazing!! Understanding the impact the bicycle has made in these poor countries is touching. You view and appreciate what you have because you have what many people do not in rural Africa for example!! Let’s support
Bikes are much more than we actually think they are. They can impact the world in a positive way and help people out who dont have transportation get to placer faster than walking.
What an amazing story from F.K. It’s great to see someone who truly love his work and helping people at the same time!
It was extremely touching watching this Ted talk. To know someone can simply bring bicycles to a countries that is in need is extremely honorable. There are young girls just like me that can not go to school because for them there is a distance of miles and miles away from their home. With the help of a bicycle they can get the education they deserve.
This presentation not only shows us how poverty affects every part of daily life in rural countries but shows us how the solution to this problem in these countries are bicycles! Transportation is so important && bicycles are the best form of transportation.
A massively underrated Ted talk. What an amazing story!
Bicycles is the basic means of transportation you will never miss.. bicycles help people mostly in Africa to travel four times further to visit patients.. we don’t this again to be a barrier again to those parts of Africa
Amazing presentation, before watching this presentation, l viewed bicycle as a tool for having fun, reducing pollution, and doing sport. However, My point of view about bicycle has changed a lot now.🚴🏻♀️🚴🏻♀️🚴🏻♀️🚴🏻🚴🏻🚴🏻
“Live a life of impact for others” is what has stuck with me after watching this video. I have never thought to much about transportation in other countries such as Africa in comparison to the United States. This impact has increased productivity in the communities that have been touched tremendously!! Great video!!!
I am moved, touched and inspired by the vast positive impact of bicycle in third world countries. It promotes a healthy lifestyle and allow people to go out and explore their surroundings area
This video is really inspiring !! I now see why bikes are really helpful in our world. Bikes are worth having since you could go anywhere without wasting money on gas for your car or have any accidents. Let’s all support this project and be truly grateful for bikes 🚲🙌🏻
It seems that whenever disaster strikes organizations just want your money while the people that are suffering would so much rather prefer your ideas and dedication. Obviously not everyone can deliver like this guy did but that's what makes him so awesome. Delivering like 200,000 bikes to so many different countries, the world needs more people like him and more bikes.
Ohh I saw the Red cross here in the US after a hurricane refuse to allow restaurants and food trucks to donate fresh food directly to the victims. they just wanted the money.
Yup. A lot of NGOs are just laundering money schemes. Tax free status + perfect excuse to get people's money = bad recipe.
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I ride my bicycle here in México all the time,i carry wood, gas,water an recycle parts to sell, its a real attainment for mankind!!!!
Really shows how much of an impact there is with something as important as the bicycle and that we take it for granted. We live in a society where we’re used to having versatile transportation and don’t pay attention to things like this. A wonderful videos
It is so great to see people reach out and use their resources to help others in need. Bicycles are a good place to start and can have such a positive impact. Something we see as so basic is life changing to others.
Awesome presentation! Knowing that bicycles have such a big impact in other peoples lives gives me a better perspective on life. Very happy that all these people are getting help and making their dreams and needs closer to reach✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
An incredible example of being the change you want to see in the world! Keep up the great world FK and WBR!
Thanks for your support!
Bicycles are essential to everybody around the world.This is because using bicycles can reduce our our time wasted to accomplish our goals.
Like in the presentation, bicycles are used for alot of things especially in unstable financial countries. I liked how this company was able to provide and assist the people of Africa with bikes. Was also proud to see the distance gap lowered when people started using the bikes as it benefited transportation, especially for the girl that was going to school to eventually get her degree and become a doctor.
After watching this i could not control my self to take another ride of the day on my bike, make me feel connected to my bike like a body and a soul. Sir what you are doing is simply awesome, hope all country's on this planet start a program similar to this and build infra to make bicycle as primary source to commute.
In order to move forward and experience new things, we must cross the distance between them and us. The bicycle has helped people not only via transportation, but also by opening up new paths to their futures.
The presentation was very educative and it showed how Large scale bicycle program saves lives. Bicycle boost productivity,health care,education and many more. The bicycle can make transportation much easier .
they changed my life. i too, got tired of walking. met many cool folks across the western u.s. as i eventually got a job as a bike courier in a few different cities. the bicycle wheel is, to this day, one of the strongest strength to weight ratio structures ever. their dynamic design, with all the spokes pre stressed, is how a few thin steel wires can take hundreds of pounds thousands of miles. i love building them. just dust it off and ride it to work. you'll arrive ready to deal with the day, not morose and agitated. imagine- no early a.m. road rage, but a smile. if you are less than 5 miles from work you have no excuse. it's only your health and mental well being we're talking about. screw the bus, dust it off and get on it(and bring all you need to repair a flat. you'll make that mistake ONCE). i know, i know, unthinkable, out of the question, i haven't ridden a bike in god knows how lon- do it
Wow! I can I get involved in something like this here in Australia for your cause. I ride my electric bike to work nearly every day. Bikes are so important.
Bloody legend this bloke.
24,000 bikes! Way to go for you and your company 👍👍
Amazing story, I can do so much more riding a bike 🚲 than walking or even driving.
During the second half of the 1980s my bicycle helped me get through welding school. I would ride my bike to work, saving the gas in my car for getting to class. Because I had a bike, I was able to ride to work every day after my car finally died.
Thumbs up for F.K.
I've been a shimano fan boy, but I have a lot of respect for SRAM right now.
Bicycle = life and love.
Very inspiring. A huge thank you to F.K. and the crew for all their work. Your insight to do these programs in a scientific manner was genius! You provided facts & data to show the effect of the programs. Well done!!!!
Also, thank you to TEDx for providing such stories with a stage to enlighten, educate and provide hope.
Again, thank you to F.K. and the crew.
My company is focused on electric bicycles in Africa. This presentation is just amazing. Throws more light into something we are already considering. Thanks for the amazing work you are doing.
i remember where i came from. being forced to bike 4 miles to work and 4 miles back home everyday for about 6 years. i now bike to work everyday 2 miles and 2 miles back juat because i want to when the weather is nice. it has so many benefits i cant get when im commuting in my car.
I live in America and I own a car but I don't drive, the car is for my wife, I've always walked and rode my bike everywhere, its the best thing in the world to me. I want to move though, at least to a more bike friendly city. To everyone else walking and cycling has become my identity and there is hardly a day that goes by that im not made fun of. Its sad.
truly eyeopening, if rich countries could have a bit less and these african countries a bit more, africa could be booming in the rural areas compared to today. Lets hope this ted talk has an effect
"Philanthropy will help people in poverty, but it won't get them out. Economics will."
.. as long as you don't identify economics purely with capitalist structure, I fully agree
Buffalo bike is the most reliable bike in the world!
Mr Day, thank you for your labor of love!
Very Inspiring Story
It's amazing! Bicycles are very helpful for this people !
Thank you for the work you do. Such an inspiring message.
HE'S A LORD OF BICYCLE 👍🚴♂
NICE JOB DUDE 👍
Such an under rated video. Truly inspirational
adore this.. hope more and more places become bicycle friendly & more people have access to bicycles
This is a great human being. Shame on our selfish ways. Good bless you sir.
Never stop cycling
This is amazing. Focused, effective, scalable, global.
I do not see bicycles the same like Mr. FK Day said in the beginning of his history. Bicycles have changed people lives in developing countries. The transportation for them is very hard because they do not have buses or cars. Having the luxury to have a bicycle can change a family or child education for the better.
wonderful 🌿🙏💕
Thank you for helping Girls in Africa. Thank you so very much!
Great proyects, please continue with other countries, especially in latinamerica
Amazing, thank you.
awesome 🌿💕🙏
I have a new found respect for SRAM.
Most inspiring biking video
Quite encouraging video.
Wow, this guy is awesome
I ride bikes. Cooler than a car
Wow. Great work.
Incredible
Awesome, thanks!
Excellent video 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
I like bicycling better than walking. I can get there. I often pass people who are on foot, even if they were running. I can bike faster.
That was great. I am wondering how a little thing you do can affect the various aspects of people's lives
If you want to get old, do what old people do. If you want to stay young, do what they do. Biking is a vital activity.
This guy said many things that had an impact on me, but the one thing he did say was regarding the 600,000 people living in Sub-Saharan Africa who relied solely on walking as their main means of transportation, and it got me thinking "600,000 people, and that's just the people who CAN walk. What about the people who can't? What difference would a Handcycle make to all those lives?"
For right now car is king even though it is destroying our environment , which will destroy us, we are connected. Would be great if bikes could take over . Could even do a taxi service or volunteer riders to help transportation for older people who can not ride. I just dont see humans waking up and realizing we have become slaves to our cars..
btw this little bike component company he runs - it's SRAM.
12:04 “Philanthropy will help people stuck in poverty, but it won’t get them out.”
The power of bikes can and likely will go much farther. What most people in our western culture don't usually realize is that cars create 1/3 to 1/2 of our entire unsustainability problem. Our usage of cars is rapidly killing ourselves and the planet as a whole through pollution and resource consumption. Habitat destruction and social alienation add to the list of the destructiveness of cars. The earth's population is rapidly approaching 11 billion. We can't sustain the existing population let alone what it's growing to. Cars are a significant reason why. We will at some point be faced with needing bikes the way developing nations do. The landscape of suffering will be a lot easier if we do it voluntarily now before we are forced to from a world overrun with air pollution that shortens life spans, mass cancers from the toxicity of petroleum products in our water, food and ground, and endless oil wars. As our oil reserves run lower and lower we are drilling and fracking closer and closer to home, we'll be having ever increasing oil wars which have all ready started. Hollywood's offerings of dystopic movies are ever increasing for a reason. We can reduce and possibly avoid widespread suffering if on a mass scale we abandon our widespread use of individual cars now. Bikes are an important and powerful tool against some very dark problems not too far down the road.
Give them cars, computer, power tools and cell phone, impact will be even greater. You will have new civilization.
I used to run Shimano, but nowadays I have a SRAM GX Eagle groupset and SRAM G2-RSC brakes on my Fezzari Wasatch Peak hardtail MTB. SRAM makes awesome products! It’s been a nice change. SRAM has been more innovative than other bike component companies over the last couple of decades. 👍🏻
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I wish he would have tied it into how bicycles absolutely can be used as a legitimate mode of transportation even in western societies where cars dominate our cities.
I wanna do something like this.
I'm going to be getting a new bike next month yehhhhhh
24000 !!!!!!!!YEAH MAN !!!!!!..
He says, the most powerful bicycle is the one in the hands of a woman entrepreneurs....
Carbon fibre bike with shimano duraace DI2- am i a joke to you?
This audience is slow to clap. Sighhhhh unimaginative witnesses to great work.
Eric Bana runs a bicycle company?
Should look at the news articles on the rental bike epidemic in China. They don’t even collect them anymore. Stadiums piled high, just rotting.
Did you teach them how to service the bikes? Giving away bikes is great, but getting a flat on a long distance ride can be a problem.
I know where you can get some bikes. China's failed bike share program has mountains of brand new bikes that are actually becoming a pollution problem
Did anyone catch the bike brand name that came forward and changed their bikes to help this relief effort in Africa?
I don’t believe he said it by name :/
@@phatrickmoore I have waited two years for that answer. And now being a bike mechanic in my local bike shop for now 3 years I have learned every bike brand sucks in their own way
@@jamesjenkins8373 I really badly want to get a buffalo bike for myself but it seems impossible!! I want it for the durability aspect but also so I can spread awareness about the project, have people ask me about the bike and then I can tell them about the program!