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American Fietser
United States
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 28 มิ.ย. 2019
"Fietser" (Dutch) 'feet-ser' Meaning: A Person Who Bikes For Transportation; Infrastructure, City Design, E-Cargo Bike Ambassador
Tatiana's First E-Bike Ride Up A Hill On A Tern Vektron
This was my wife's first experience on an ebike. We took the Tern Vektron to a steep alley a few blocks down from Perennial Cycle in Minneapolis and this was her reaction.
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Carmel Indiana: Sightings on Active Infrastructure
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Understanding Pogies: Uses, Benefits, and Key Companies
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Understanding Pogies: Uses, Benefits, and Key Companies
Beyond the Glitz: Carmel's Everyday Infrastructure
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Autumn Colors on the Monon Trail: A Scenic Ride
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Autumn Colors on the Monon Trail: A Scenic Ride
Cycling Through Carmel's Main St: Opinions on Design and Amenities
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Wednesday Night Vibes: Summer Concerts at Carmel's City Hall
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Wednesday Night Vibes: Summer Concerts at Carmel's City Hall
Christmas Lights on a Cargo Bike: How I Did It
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Testing the New Rode Wireless Go Microphone
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How To Ride A Bike In Carmel Indiana - To Urban Vines/Urban Farmer
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How To Ride A Bike In Carmel Indiana - To Market District Supermarket
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Straight from Amsterdam: The WorkCycles Fr8 with a Massive Rack
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A User Perspective Of Carmel's Double-Lane Roundabouts
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A User Perspective Of Carmel's Double-Lane Roundabouts
Snow Ride On The Monon Trail In Carmel Indiana
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Carmel's City App: Reporting Infrastructure Issues Made Easy
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How To Ride A Bike In Carmel Indiana - To Best Buy
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How To Ride A Bike In Carmel Indiana - To Best Buy
Carmel Indiana's 140th Roundabout After Dark
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Carmel Indiana's 140th Roundabout After Dark
How To Ride A Bike In Carmel Indiana - To Kroger
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How To Ride A Bike In Carmel Indiana - To Kroger
42:41 Speaks for itself that the person didn't enter the road surface until both lanes traffic stopped. Definitely afraid of being ignored/not seen and run over. That is horrible
27:20 from all roundabouts seen up to now only one roundabout really looked like it really needed 2 lanes. Everything else looks so low traffic 🥺 and the double lane roundabout has such a huge footprint thanks to smooth entrances and exits. Outrageous
25:40 If you had your wheel in the road that vehicle would have plowed through you while braking. The designers and road laws have really weird ideas on what risks pedestrians and cyclists and other people have to face to gain their rightful priority
Great video! Thanks!
Vicky's was the same on the R&M Tinker. "It's like cheating". 😂
How important it is to get some support when the going gets tough... Even from a small battery and motor..., really makes a huge difference!
Uphill in Indiana? In all other videos it looks like the flattest point on Earth.
Minneapolis Minnesota
Nice bike! 🙂
Inspiring to see this in the U.S. With good community leadership and long term vision it’s possible to renew our cities across the country!
Thank you for the great New Year's ride, even if it must have been bitterly cold for you. Just watching it made me cold. And I was lying on a sofa under a blanket. 🥶
This infrastructure would be heaven for many of us USA dwellers. I ride bike for utility and economic reasons in town where the roads lead to a stroad with no shoulder. The only bicycle infrastructure we get is a sign telling us to take the official bike route going out of town. Be grateful for what you have
You also use the metric system. Or did Bosch not give any other options?
I am metric for everything.
6:51 judging by the flow of traffic, why would you need 2 lane in each direction ? (A single lane can really handle a lot of traffic, the Dutch know that).
Carmel looks lovely on this bike tour! I especially like the ornamental iron lampposts. Even if they are aluminum replicas I appreciate not going with galvanized led cobra heads. Not the point of the video. I have a obsession with old time street lights.
I'm glad you enjoyed it. Sorry it ended abruptly by a battery that stopped functioning in the cold.
@AmericanFietser that battery held up for a good long time in the cold. I also liked that your rig could turn 180 so smoothly. Will admit I am big sucker for that style of outdoor winter market. You did a nice job navigating that cargo bike on the multi use path with all the foot traffic. Great video!!
I just got back from Italy and was fascinated by the death defying feats of cyclist and motorbike riders. But I also noticed how patient automobiles were with each other and the vespas that seemingly have no rules of the road other than a strong desire to move. Also no horn honking or yelling at cyclist like I experience here in Omaha.
The sheer scale of this solar plant is horrific. Why not solar on top of every building? A multi layer underground parking garage with a garden or solar on top? So many more, less intrusive, possibilities. This has become another urban desert. Spätzle is pronounced with the ä as ey/ay in hey or hay. Reíbekuchen (potato pancakes) are very easy to make yourself. Just rasp some potatoes, add salt, let it leak out, add some pepper and an egg, mix well, and bake in oil. You can add small cut onions to the mix and nutmeg to taste. Some flour or oatmeal if you are in a hurry and do not have time to let the shredded potatoes leak.
Might try to make some tomorrow. Dankjewel.
A lovely tour around Carmel. And to address the question from the introduction: Yes, I also think it’s mostly greenwashing. But honestly, it doesn’t matter, as long as it works. I know several companies that started with greenwashing, discovered the real benefits for themselves, and are now fierce advocates of sustainable energy policies.
One parking lot could be greenwashing. But if every typical US mega parking lot did this (I'm looking at you Houston, TX) then I would say no it isn't. In general though, take every win you can, even it is small.
I have a keychain that looks just like that with all the Abus tags hanging off 😂
There's dozens of us! 😂
@ 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@ an elite group 😆
A slightly different live stream than usual, but no less entertaining. Lots of input on cycling in winter, from someone who knows what winter really means. I'm looking forward to the next stream.👍
One of these days you have to do a toolbox tour. Is that general purpose or just for your bike?
Lol, that's just general tools. I'm not a bike mechanic by any means.
I missed the last two live streams because I didn't know they were happening. How can I get advanced notification 2 or 3 days ahead of time?
Well, I tend to plan these streams no more than a day in advance and sometimes, such as yesterday, just a few hours in advance. If you want to attempt to catch a live stream, you can hit the notification bell on the channel to get notified when I go live. Unfortunately, that's the best I can do. Trying to do these streams amongst regular day to day life, weather, etc is a bit hard to plan...for me anyway. 🙃
It’s a different setup as the bike I have a winter cover for uses a frame-integrated battery, but it loses roughly 25% range when it’s around or slightly below freezing. With the foamed neoprene sleeve wrapped around the frame and battery, it loses about 10%. I stop riding when it’s -15C so I don’t know how it works then.
22:10 Why aren't you running studded tires on the Urban Arrow this year?
The simple answer is that I don't have easy access to a shop that can swap them for me. I'd have to rent a U-Haul, haul it to a bike shop, and bring it home again. That's pretty much the whole of it.
@AmericanFietser that makes sense. I thought you did the swaps on your own. I'm in the same boat needing to rent a U-Haul whenever we need to service our Urban Arrow, with our dealer being about an hour away by car. You're absolutely right about the difficulties with riding in winter weather being an infrastructure or maintenance problem. They do okay here, but there is still way too much lag between when the plows have cleared the roadways before they get to clearing the pathways.
@DizzyDiddy an hour away?! Man, that's bad. Mine is about 10 minutes away, but their location is just such that riding there could easily turn deadly. The stroad their shop is on claimed the life of one of their mechanics a few years ago from a motorist.
@@AmericanFietser are tire swaps significantly harder on a cargo bike? I've done my own tires on my commuter and I didn't find it very mechanically complex
Messing with a rear tire is a pain and like many people, I'm not mechanically inclined on a bike.
We're heading there today from Chicago, to check out the Christmas market and just hang out.
That's cool! Enjoy it.
@@AmericanFietser Oh yeh man, we just got back today. We hit the Christkindlmarkt for a couple hrs both days...pretty damn cold, but I fortified myself with booze. Also drove down to Indy, walked around the canal, went to the historical and ate at Shapiro's Deli (Oh. My. God!!..delicious!). Man, I really like your area there, we're actually thinking semi-retirement in Carmel or northern Indy in like 10, 15 yrs.
Couldn't watch live as I'm in Europe and different time zone. We've had below freezing here but still cycle. I'm always amazed at how flat your town is and how ideal for cycling it would be.
Even though I couldn't be watching live all the time, it was great again. Thanks for the trip. At the cloudy sky I got cold just watching. However, I just came home from 3 degrees rainy weather. May have been because of it too.😁🥶👏👋
Just finished Thanksgiving dinner here. I'll be on the couch digesting for the foreseeable future.
@@AmericanFietser Lying on the sofa, petting the cat... right decision.😺
Terrific video. Weather Goods looks like the ticket for Omaha winters.
A great ride that you can also enjoy watching again afterward. The Christmas lights look fantastic. Overall, Carmel at night is really something special. Thank you for taking us along. 👏👏👏
Thank you for waking up to attend part of the ride. 😃
@ Always on duty 🥸 and Happy Birthday 🥳
Yea, Nice to finally have been able to see some of the stream
The city has really been built up a lot more now
For sure, and A LOT more is and will be happening to make the core more dense and vibrant.
Missed the live, looks like you are up & rolling again! And not made of sugar. Let's all not let the gloom get us down and shut in.
That poor tree
You'll have the same idiots that removed trees to make roads 'safer', thereby leading to increased speeds, claiming that if the tree hadn't been there, the crash wouldn't have happened.