Music Videos Featuring Bikes: Top 15

I love a good music video and I'm excited for more pleasant bike weather, so what better way to celebrate both than by finding a bunch of good music videos featuring bikes?

I've picked these top five based on a highly scientific consideration of style, music, humor and a secret "x-factor" that I'm not allowed to reveal until the patent clears.

Knowing that, here are my picks for the five best music videos with bikes. I've kept some of the runners-up below -- and let me know if you think I've missed any in the comments OR let me know on Twitter or the HuffPost Green Facebook page.

1. Robin Thicke - When I Get You Alone

2. Bat For Lashes - What's A Girl To Do?

3. Lily Allen - LDN

4. Flobots - Handlebars

The Flobots |MTV Music

5. Fatlip - What's Up Fatlip?

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These videos also feature bikes, but aren't quite as cool as those listed above. Again, judging on the video, not the song. I'll basically add anything here that prominently features a bike.

Jill Scott - Golden

The Smiths - Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before

The Smiths |MTV Music

Doomtree - Drumsticks

Firekites - Same Suburb, Different Park

Corinne Bailey Rae - Put Your Records On

Sugarcubes - Motorcrash

Be Your Own Pet - Bicycle Bicycle, You Are My Bicycle

Be Your Own Pet |MTV Music

Nada Surf - Whose Authority

Kraftwerk - Tour de France

Queen - Bicycle Race

Or the original, NSFW version of "Bicycle Race" here.

Ray Parker & Helen Terry - One Summer/Day Dueling Bikes from "Quicksilver"

Soundtrack |MTV Music

And, even though it's not a music video per se, here is Andrew Bird giving an interview while riding a bike:

 

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Comments

[obeychad]

09:21 PM on 03/26/2009

I can certainly understand why you missed this one.
Remember The Jam? Well, this is what became of them... The Style Council.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJeP3mipHQY

[Matthew Roth]

05:59 PM on 03/26/2009

Thanks for this, Dave. Inspired a bit of a response here:
http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/03/26/the-worlds-best-music-videos-featuring-bicycles/

NYC Streetsblog will prolly run it tomorrow.

-matthew

[Yalegirl03]

01:45 PM on 03/26/2009

I also forgot to add Corrinne Bailey Rae's video for "Put Your Records On". It features a whole slew of girls on bikes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkEeNpWMvgk

[Yalegirl03]

01:41 PM on 03/26/2009

Here is the link for Jill Scott's "Golden": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQdmrFrM5lE

You have to add this one for the yellow jacket alone!

[Yalegirl03]

01:38 PM on 03/26/2009

You forgot Jill Scott riding a bike throughout her video for "Golden"

[AnneHope]

10:48 AM on 03/26/2009

How about "Mutha'ukas" by Flight of the Concords....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZQopX6r-54

[Palemoon]

04:01 AM on 03/25/2009

You left out some big names.

The legendary Kraftwerk created the song "Tour De France" in which the video shows nothing but bicycles. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8TGWGRWe0s

Also, the Sugarcubes (Bjork) also created a song featuring at least one bicycle, "Motorcrash". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz9WNOkVTWo

By the way, for anyone who has ever heard the song "Bicycle Wreck" by The Geezinslaw Brothers, oh boy, I wish there was a video for that. Something along the lines of "I was going around the corner doing 90 miles per hour when the chain on my bicycle broke, I was skint all over from the rocks and the gravel, wearing the fenders for a coat..." LOLOL, I cannot remember the rest, but they were so good at descriptive humor in their music.

[chrisg66]

09:55 PM on 03/24/2009

The Smiths - Stop Me If Think You've Heard the One Before

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1xu6j_the-smiths-stop-me-if-you-think_music

[underscore]

08:00 PM on 03/24/2009

I'm going to go ahead and say Black Mags should have been in the top 5, rather than a couple of those (see link below). Either way, cool list! Thanks for compiling it, and starting the discussion :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b34U3-CutuU

[Dave Burdick]

12:01 PM on 03/25/2009

Thanks! I'll add when I get a chance...

[GolfingDevil05]

05:50 PM on 03/24/2009

The Killers: "Read My Mind"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Oec8RuwVVs

[DAFS]

04:03 PM on 03/24/2009

how about "who could win a rabbit" by animal collective?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTbd0Ncsyus

[matthewtkn]

03:58 PM on 03/24/2009

this one is all bikes... from a great, under-the-radar portland band!

http://www.vimeo.com/3408258

[TedB]

12:11 PM on 03/24/2009

The original gangsta bike video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnkB1fWcxyY

(bike sequence at about 3:00)