How Keanu Reeves' Love for Riding Motorcycles Led to His New Series That Will 'Inspire People' and Pose 1 Big Question (Exclusive)

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07-03-2025

Keanu Reeves' passion for riding motorcycles led to an exciting new series.
The John Wick actor and Gard Hollinger exclusively tell PEOPLE about their new series, Visionaries, which grew from their shared love of motorcycles.
Reeves, 60, says that he met Hollinger in 2007 to design a motorcycle. "That motorcycle was built. I went, holy cow, we should make more of those." ARCH Motorcycles was then founded in 2011
"And what came across through that was Gard's vision, Gard's way [in which] he creatively uses form and function to the aesthetics, to the practicalities," Keanu says. "And as the years have gone by, we had this opportunity to share that, or go into a show, to look into creativity and form and function aesthetics and that's what visionary is, to me, through this ARCH lens, which is Gard's eye."
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"And we bring the audience along to meet these incredible artists, [and] people, and learn about their life journey." Reeves and Hollinger ask, where does creativity happen, exactly? What are these people doing?
"We hope that, hopefully, the show will inspire people," Reeves adds.
As for what Reeves and Hollinger love about motorcycles, they both agree that their physicality is attractive to them. "I love to ride them. I love looking at him," Reeves says. Hollinger adds, "There's a very visceral experience, it's, it's physical, the smells, it's dangerous."
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Reeves also calls the travel experience that a motorcycle offers as one travels "mechanically in nature." He enjoys the "physicality, openness, creativity" of motorcycling. "Getting into the flow of riding a motorcycle. It's a wonderful way to be transported, but also to spend time in your inner self."
Reeves and Hollinger's passion for motorcycling and how it inspires them creatively lends itself to Visionaries, their show on The Roku Channel. The show focuses on creators, inventors and innovators who are constantly creating and changing the world.
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An official synopsis for Visionaries reads: "Keanu Reeves and Gard Hollinger are kindred souls with a bond built on a love of motorcycles and an insatiable curiosity about the world around them. In 2011, they founded ARCH Motorcycle to reimagine what a motorcycle could be."
"To them, ARCH is a mindset, a lens through which to see the world. This is a journey of curiosity, to understand where human creativity comes from and to shine a light on the visionaries who are pushing the bounds of innovation and changing our world."
Visionaries premieres on The Roku Channel on Friday, March 7.
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