Where in the world is my biking buddy?

[OnTerryOh]

Hello all,

Glad you liked the videos. They were fun to make and share here.

The bystander straddling a bike early in the video is riding a rental from Bike and Roll.

It looks cold.

It's on the lake shore.

Chicago.

Right you are, Zen!! Good powers of observation and deduction. I hadn't noticed the Bike and Roll sign on the bike.

I'm fresh out of cigars but would like to buy you lunch if you visit Chicago. And I can lend you a bike so you won't have to rent from Bike and Roll!

Ding, ding, ding! Give that lady a cigar!

I assume that's the Shedd Aquarium she's running by? I never got there

Yes, the runner in the second video passes close by the Shedd Aquarium, with its circular expanse of windows directly above the lake. She stops 100 yards or so from the Shedd.

The bicyclist in the first video also rides toward that landmark and the Field Museum. She ends up next to the Shedd while the Field Museum is off to her right.

The Chicago skyline shows up nicely in the last seconds of the first video, but YouTube's advertising quickly obscures it.

How did you get that first video to have the pop-up with the song title and a link to buy it from itunes? Just curious.

YouTube offers a feature called AudioSwap that allows you to record free music over your original sound. Once you upload a video, you can preview hundreds of free music samples for your video.

The pop-up with the song title and the link to buy the song from itunes or Amazon is something YouTube adds automatically. Apparently it's all part of their effort to stop music piracy on videos, besides giving indie artists a chance to showcase their work.

"Turn up the Good" by Baumer has a nice, upbeat quality that I like a lot with the bike video.

My original audio track sounded very bad because the bike ride generated wind. Noisy wind blasts ruined the audio, though it wasn't a very windy day.