00:06Riding means nothing but life, having fun, there got to be something that you want to do,
00:11something that's going through your bloodstream for you to keep doing it.
00:17My name is Willie Queen. I'm 22 years old and from West Baltimore City.
00:22If it was up to us, we would ride 24-7 and never put up. That's bike life. You got
00:27to ride every
00:28day. If you don't do it, you don't feel right.
00:36Baltimore is like Baltimore. There's too much going on now. My neighborhood is actually one of the most
00:41deadliest blocks. Like, we number one. Got projects everywhere, but not like Baltimore City.
00:49This is a block. I hate one right here.
00:53Always hung with the boys. You never catch me with a female. Like,
00:57it all started from a pedal bike. It all started from one of those right there. One of those.
01:10You know, as you used to the police saying, you chased me, but...
01:14So, uh, Jeanette, everything was okay?
01:15Yeah.
01:16Every time I looked, there she was, bam, bam, bam, up in the air.
01:20And I was really excited about it because I'd never seen a female lift this dirt bike up straight
01:26up and down until she started riding.
01:31I was a problem child growing up after my father passed away.
01:37My father got me my first bike at the age of, like, 13. Giving me the support that I needed.
01:44I mean,
01:45he wasn't never telling me, don't do something. Because I was a female, he was basically saying,
01:51show me you can do it, and I'm going to get you whatever you want.
02:01A lot of them are gun-toting criminals who travel throughout the city recklessly,
02:07lawlessly, and with impunity.
02:12Now we got task force, police, just for dirt bikes.
02:16This is how they're trying to crack down on us. They just see dirt bikes and feel like that.
02:21We automatic a gun that's pointing at them. That's how they treat us in Baltimore.
02:25They're actually crashing to you like you're another car, or they're shooting you like you're
02:29aiming a gun at them.
02:34Willie Wayne is like the golf of the 12 o'clock boy. I actually sold my bike back in 2015,
02:43so
02:44Wayne was actually nice enough to let me borrow one of his bikes.
02:50You feel like all bike riders are gun-toting, gang members,
02:55gang members criminals. When the majority of them are business owners, fathers, young kids that go to
03:03school every day, they just profile us, then that is terrible.
03:12All right, who that is? Yo, Willie Wayne, yo.
03:16All right, who that is? Yo, Willie Wayne.
03:33Man, right now, police didn't came around, so we waiting on her to
03:33All right, who that is?
03:48Man, right now, police didn't came around, so
03:54We waiting on her to circle back around so we can get this bike up out of here, get out
03:59the way.
04:01Who's trying to hit?
04:02Yeah, trying to hit him.
04:03You know, Willie Wayne, you feel me? But Willie Wayne spent the bend on him, said bam, bam, bam, bam,
04:07bam, bam, bam.
04:07That's what they do, they always try to hit us, and then they knew you'd stay down chasing.
04:14All right, but yeah, the trail is open for you, so whenever you're ready to come through,
04:17you can just throw it in there, and we can keep walking.
04:42I don't need to go to jail by rioting. I ain't got a lot of stuff for myself.
04:50With all the raids and chasing that's going on, we're not asking for nothing but a bike park,
04:56for us to ride, for us to just relieve stress. If you give us a park, you know how much
05:01money they
05:02would make off that, how many people would come and actually just sit and watch us for hours.
05:10They got to let up off us, put money into us, invest into us, do something, because we're not hurting
05:15anyone.
05:17Bike life will never stop in Baltimore City.
