You have a knack for pleasant commentary as we travel the backroads and by-ways with you. Enjoyed today’s journey immensely. Appreciate your generosity and inviting us along!
No one will ever get pre existing cities as well done as amsterdam did. The newer suburbs have that opportunity in the beginning to get it right. They should take notes on how Amsterdam got it right.
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I've just bought a Gazelle Primeur Three speed. Lovely comfortable bike with a great upright riding position. The three speed gears are just great and lovely and easy to shift. even when stopped and getting her into 1st ready to pull away at junctions. The bike is very similar in rider comfort to a Raleigh Trent Tourist I once rode.
Nice ride but you're braver than I am - I'd be pushing my bike along some of those roads as a pedestrian! Also it struck me the difference between the "smooth red asphalt" that @BicycleDutch constant mentions and the, er, "less smooth" grey tarmac we get on many roads in the UK. :-)
I tend to avoid major roads if I can, even if they have a "cycle lane" - these lanes often seem designed to endanger, sometimes are against the flow of traffic, and make you wonder if councils just slap them anywhere so they can say "We have x miles of cycle lane". I reckon the only people that should be allowed to design roads, should be people who actually use those roads on multiple forms of transport (including cycles). Enjoyed the vid, many familiar (and unfamiliar) sights in and around Blackpool centre.
That superior feeling of wafting past stationary traffic is grand,!! Your comments on cycleways rings down here in Dorset. Some are best avoided, cheers, keep safe
Nice bike! It must be nice to ride around on a 3 speed. Unfortunately where I live it's a bit hilly for that and I need my lowest gears. I choose my rides and my bike according to how steep the hills are going to be, also the wind speed and direction is a big factor, I've been caught out a few times. I guess I can be excused that, I'm 62 now. Luckily the roads are quiet and vehicle drivers are kind to cyclists, there are few cycle paths, but leisure cycling is popular and almost everybody has a bicycle. I have very similar handlebar grips on my old Raleigh, purchased from a well known Chinese website!
I have exactly the same bike (even the color), only the brakes are operated by rods instead of cables. And of course you have a nicer saddle and MUCH nicer handgrips. :-)
I hate merges onto the road like the one you pointed out, they are probably some of the worst parts of cycling"infrastructure" we have. How the designers think you can see over your shoulder whilst looking where you are going. Out of interest have you got a video / guide on changing the drum brake pads on a Dutch bike? I really need to replace the ones on my Union soon and the rear one in particular fills me with dread.
@@Velocipedium I have just watch the brakes section and that video is perfect. Especially the tip about pre 1980 asbestos pads, I'll removed and clean these and replace with modern ones I have the correct PPE from dismantling my old workshop. Thank you again
How do you record such smooth hand held video? Are you doing any post production software stabilization? My hand held recoding are shit :) And I don't think a fixed mound would make them any better.
You have a knack for pleasant commentary as we travel the backroads and by-ways with you. Enjoyed today’s journey immensely. Appreciate your generosity and inviting us along!
No one will ever get pre existing cities as well done as amsterdam did. The newer suburbs have that opportunity in the beginning to get it right. They should take notes on how Amsterdam got it right.
I love real life bike ride videos, thanks for sharing 👍
Somber city. Nice bike😊
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Please become a Velocipedian to thank him and allow him to continue sharing his knowledge and passion with us.
Not boring , nice bit of passing static traffic, very satisfying .
Not boring at all - I’ve enjoyed your recent series of ride videos. The Bob Jackson one to Preston was very good 👍🏻
Very nice to see you enjoying such a classic bike, here in holland these are still very common and you still see them everywhere,
Very nice video and a very nice bike.
What a lovely bike!
As a cyclist I end up reading the road on these urban ride videos. That cycle lane near the big roundabout actually made me feel tense!
I've just bought a Gazelle Primeur Three speed. Lovely comfortable bike with a great upright riding position. The three speed gears are just great and lovely and easy to shift. even when stopped and getting her into 1st ready to pull away at junctions. The bike is very similar in rider comfort to a Raleigh Trent Tourist I once rode.
Good choice! I’m always pleased to hear about other people enjoying classic dutch bikes.
Nice ride but you're braver than I am - I'd be pushing my bike along some of those roads as a pedestrian! Also it struck me the difference between the "smooth red asphalt" that @BicycleDutch constant mentions and the, er, "less smooth" grey tarmac we get on many roads in the UK. :-)
Great video, she’s a beauty.
Thanks for taking me through the town in a classic Dutch bike
Is it a rule there that buildings are to be painted in red?
Enjoyed thoroughly
I tend to avoid major roads if I can, even if they have a "cycle lane" - these lanes often seem designed to endanger, sometimes are against the flow of traffic, and make you wonder if councils just slap them anywhere so they can say "We have x miles of cycle lane". I reckon the only people that should be allowed to design roads, should be people who actually use those roads on multiple forms of transport (including cycles). Enjoyed the vid, many familiar (and unfamiliar) sights in and around Blackpool centre.
That superior feeling of wafting past stationary traffic is grand,!! Your comments on cycleways rings down here in Dorset. Some are best avoided, cheers, keep safe
Dorset is second on our list of retirement places. Raven is a Dorset girl.
You will find it quite hilly , I pick my routes carefully when on my classic 3-speeds. But it is rather lovely. Cheers, take care
Bought one of those new in1980.But mine had drumbrakes in the front and back.Heavy bike.Things have changed.
This has drum brakes.
@@Velocipedium
You are right.Mine had rods and not cables
So yours would have been a Sport Solide. Mine is the plain Solide. Only in NL an rod brakes denote Sports 😂
@@Velocipedium That's a long long time ago.My dad bought it for me when I went to university.
Thank you Rowan.
Nice bike! It must be nice to ride around on a 3 speed. Unfortunately where I live it's a bit hilly for that and I need my lowest gears. I choose my rides and my bike according to how steep the hills are going to be, also the wind speed and direction is a big factor, I've been caught out a few times. I guess I can be excused that, I'm 62 now. Luckily the roads are quiet and vehicle drivers are kind to cyclists, there are few cycle paths, but leisure cycling is popular and almost everybody has a bicycle. I have very similar handlebar grips on my old Raleigh, purchased from a well known Chinese website!
I have exactly the same bike (even the color), only the brakes are operated by rods instead of cables. And of course you have a nicer saddle and MUCH nicer handgrips. :-)
I hate merges onto the road like the one you pointed out, they are probably some of the worst parts of cycling"infrastructure" we have. How the designers think you can see over your shoulder whilst looking where you are going.
Out of interest have you got a video / guide on changing the drum brake pads on a Dutch bike? I really need to replace the ones on my Union soon and the rear one in particular fills me with dread.
Ok, it’s not difficult. I will do a video sometime soon
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There is this.
@@Velocipedium I will give that one a watch, thank you.
@@Velocipedium I have just watch the brakes section and that video is perfect. Especially the tip about pre 1980 asbestos pads, I'll removed and clean these and replace with modern ones I have the correct PPE from dismantling my old workshop.
Thank you again
Sweet bike
that's funny i build this bike exactly like your. . . wow what a coincidence
wind & rain.................................
I thought it was winter, then I saw the upload date, July. LOL. Maybe it was delayed tho.
Where do you get dutch bikes from around here? I'm in Preston, used to live in Blackpool so some of this was very familiar!
All my Dutch bikes come from their homeland. I bring them back.
Велосипед какого года выпуска
1985
@@Velocipedium thanks
Please be extra careful about your safety. Do it for us and do it for yourself. Thanks.
Is 3 gears all we need.
...that wind noise!
Like I said. Unplanned impromptu, no equipment except the phone
good
How do you record such smooth hand held video? Are you doing any post production software stabilization? My hand held recoding are shit :) And I don't think a fixed mound would make them any better.
I don’t use anything for this video. Sometimes I use a chest strap mount. I don’t do anything in production. Maybe im just good at it, I don’t know
Yours aren’t shit. I enjoy them very much
OK mais la route est dégueulasse