Valero Commercial #FueledBy the Street | Valero Energy spot commercial 2024

VIDEO Valero #FueledBy the Street | Valero Energy TV commercial 2018 • Whether he’s climbing the hills of San Francisco or trekking across Europe, Chicago courier Nico Deportago-Cabrera is #FueledBy a lightweight carbon fiber fixed-gear bicycle and an innate passion to push himself around the world, one pedal at a time. 00:00 the spirit of adventure is manifested 00:03 perfectly in the bicycle I grew up on a 00:06 court like a big circle street 00:08 I knew all my neighbors and everyone's 00:10 house is kind of faced inwards 00:11 everything was kind of in that circle 00:13 one of my neighbors and I got it into 00:15 our heads that we should get out of the 00:17 court and ride out where the cars go 00:19 getting out of the protection of the 00:20 neighborhood out into the road was 00:22 really exciting and scary for me riding 00:25 in traffic is kind of my natural state 00:28 it's where I learned how to ride a bike 00:30 and so all my instincts come from riding 00:32 in the streets I would start going to 00:34 neighborhoods that I hadn't really 00:35 explored before parts of town that I've 00:37 never been to that's kind of what led me 00:40 into working as a bike messenger 00:42 I've ridden in different cities across 00:45 the country and on five of the seven 00:47 continents 00:48 there's like a rhythm and a timing that 00:51 happens as the result of traffic lights 00:53 changing and pedestrian crossways 00:56 opening up the flow of people moving 00:58 through a city really gives that city 01:00 its a particular energy underlying all 01:04 the cycling and everything I've done 01:05 with my life it's been in the pursuit of 01:08 an adventure I love that riding a 01:11 bicycle really allowed me to see the 01:13 world in a different way i'm nico de 01:16 portago Cabrera I'm a bike messenger and 01:18 an international bike racer and I'm 01:20 fueled by the road - advertisement spot 2018