I love this video - I find cycling videos super soothing but the majority of them always end up with a crash or a close call so it’s nice to see a normal commute in full
I'm gonna be a new cyclist in a week all because of TFL's crappy service and instead of paying almost £200 a month for a zone 1-4 pass, it's better to buy a £400 bike and £200 of accessories and save though the months. Watching this video as a guide for me later on. Thanks for the upload.
@@kierannee528 Just upgraded to an ebike which makes cycling a lot of fun. I tend to cycle to work at 5am which is nice and quiet but the trip back is busy. I don't filter as much because I like to feel a bit safer lol
This is one of the main videos that makes me want to ride my bike around NYC, just because of the variety of cyclists and the bike setups they have. So interesting to me, hah.
Benjamin Scales most of the time drivers of busses are trained to be aware of bikes simply because of how small London’s streets are and those of us who are intimidated sometimes should know that busses and lorries will very rarely exceed 20-25 mph so you should be completely fine. 😄
In my country is a distant dream that kind of bike-friendly city, In my city there are few bike lanes and they are always occupied by disrespectful pedestrians (not to mention the poor condition of the streets, having some 700x25 tires is suicide). ... How beautiful it must be to pedal in London. Greetings from Argentina!
you call this a bike friendly city?? What you don't realise from this video is that the road surface, especially on bike paths, is always terrible. You can't go five metres without hitting a pothole or bad repairs after utilities work has been carried out, and the bike paths are never properly rollered like the road surface so they're never fully smooth. I love cycling in london, however. There are a lot of drivers and crazy pedestrians and cyclists rank last on the list of things for the council to think about, but there are big wide bus lanes everywhere which you can just cruise along nicely. Plus, thanks to the congestion charge, the centre of london is relatively traffic free on the weekend. Great to cycle in, just not what i would a consciously "cycle friendly" city
There are no cycling paths/lanes in my country. Drivers aren't used to cyclists either, you would wet your pants if you took the paths I take every time I go out if this little traffic scared you haha. (I'm from Algeria)
Its safer than it seems. Traffic is really slowed down and drivers are used to look out for pedestrians at every point. Also pedestrians are used to really focussing on crossing, so you don't have jaywalkers wondering in front of whizzing cars. There's a method to this madness, live there a month or 2 and you get used to it.
This looks so good! I can only imagine how fun it must be to cycle there with other cyclists like this. I'm in a suburb of Atlanta, they barely if at all cycle and the speed limit for cars is 45 miles per hour and they do 60 miles per hour.
I understand that. I’m from Houston. Our bike lanes are a joke. Also people are too obese here and get tired walking up 5 steps. The whole city is flat and there’s a bayou that stretches across the city yet it’s not a biking city
I never saw a bus be it a double decker or a single deckor with 3 entry/exit doors before in my life. Is the rear the exit point for those on the upper deck, the middle for exit for the lower deck and the front for entry? That's cool! I wish they had those buses over here in Ireland. It does get very crowded when there's a lot of people getting off the bus from the upper decks and lower decks and people who have paid their fare trying to get to their seats.
Nice road craft. It’s been a while since I road around London (30 years) and the bike lanes you have now are amazing. Think if everyone on a bike in this vid was in a car? Personally I fit a massive air horn to gee some of them pedestrians and cars up a bit.
I'd love to live in London I'm half British on my mom's side so I can get my passport, I've never seen so many cyclists before. Where I live I'm in the minority alot of the guys at work go "Holy shit you ride 11km one way?!" But they don't realize that it's not very far when you're going 16-20hm/hr
London existed before cars were built. It's much narrower compared to most US cities/towns because many American cities were designed later on, with cars in mind.
@@DatuSumakwel7 Also, despite not being designed from the ground up for cars (which is a tertible idea anyway) London still decided it wanted to accomodate cars as much as possible, leaving no space for the forms of transport most convenient to its commuters: bicycles and feet.
@@Quintinohthree which sucks by the way because they're are so many pedestrians in London, they don't get enough pavement space in my opinion. Cycling wasnt even considered though
Judge Shanti Mauger [who's ruling just landed a "calm and reasonable" cyclist with a £100k bill] needs to watch this video before making absurd statements like: "Mr Hazeldean knew his path was not entirely clear when he tried to ride through"
@@wysiwyg2006 jaywalking was an invention by the cartel of car manufacturers in the USA that was pressed to the government by private lobby groups because cars kept killing thousands of people a year - predominantly children - and it was a way to curtail public outcry by legislating a form of victim-blaming to create a new paradigm where cars had precedent on the road which until very recent years, had been there to be used by everyone. Which is why infrastructure in the USA is built for cars and basically nothing else.
Hey man, is wearing a helmet mandatory in UK? Because everyone is wearing one. Here in Germany, it´s not. So most people don´t, even it´s really life saving.
Here in the Netherlands nobody wears a helmet and wearing a helmet is in fact statistically more dangerous than not. Guess that's what good responsible infrastructure does.
@@Quintinohthree Congrats, that‘s the comment of the day. „Cycling with a helmet is more dangerous than without“. Facebook memes aren‘t a good source for actual statistics
@@Quintinohthree even if any real statistic says that, you might wanna look up other scientific approaches to that matter as well. And then you might look up the severity of injuries when people hit the floor/other vehicles with and without a helmet
@@soups8146 It's pretty simple: people wearing helmets are more likely to fall and fall hard, thus more likely to be injured, including on the head. Go to any Dutch city, record every person you see riding a bike, record whether they wear a helmet too. You will notice very quickly that people wearing helmets are very different people from people not wearing helmets. If you want to wear a helmet, it means you cycle for sport or cycling infrastructure is fundamentally unsafe where you are.
I could never do this😅. Too many people walking in front of you, some not even looking! Would feel far too vulnerable. Thanks for uploading though! Was fun to watch👍🏻
go to Amsterdam or Copenhagen to find out. I don´t see any kids riding bikes in NY, in the Netherlands all the time. See here to get an idea: th-cam.com/video/6rpORQ3C4SU/w-d-xo.html
Kutay because London is very diverse. Deal with it. By the way, it’s not a turban that women wear. Women wear different robes. Men wear turbans which may be where you’re confused from because you think only what you’d usually have on for yourself
It is common throughout Europe, the Arab / Hindi population are no longer minorities, at least in the big cities. Argentina is the last white nation !!!
Why? the road is for all people. Why should you get punished for crossing a road, yes people need to cross more safely but you dont HAVE to use crossings.
@@Mabaz jay walking isnt a thing in the UK the public (pedestrians) have every right to use the road infact they have more rights than cars sincw they need a license to use the road. obstructing traffic etc is about it.
its about time cyclists were made accountable for their actions, overtaking on the left, running red lights, passing traffic island on the wrong side, overtaking on zig zags, riding on footpaths and using the left lane to turn right to name a few, also why is it that when someone else does something wrong cyclists seem to just want to shout swear and give finger gestures to them??
Probably because when "someone else" does something wrong, it's while driving a few tons of steel that could kill somebody quickly & easily. The same reason you expect a piano to be hoisted with more care than a bag of groceries. If cyclists were just angry at the infractions of others, they'd be going off at pedestrians & cyclists all the time. It sounds like you just feel it's unfair that people get angry with you for putting people's lives in danger & I suggest you learn a few things about mass, physics in general, & grow up.
Pedestrians are the worst... No as a bike rider from Denmark you riders should keep to the kerb ( left side ). You are all over the place no wonder you gain no respect and no wonder people are getting killed! This is a mess!
its so good to see allot more cyclists in london. ive been riding london streets since the late 80's
@Guillermo Daxton hope she dumps you
@Gael Larry wow you got me, totally not the first person from another account
I love this video - I find cycling videos super soothing but the majority of them always end up with a crash or a close call so it’s nice to see a normal commute in full
I'm gonna be a new cyclist in a week all because of TFL's crappy service and instead of paying almost £200 a month for a zone 1-4 pass, it's better to buy a £400 bike and £200 of accessories and save though the months. Watching this video as a guide for me later on. Thanks for the upload.
good luck and stay safe out there bro
how did you get on?
@@kierannee528 Just upgraded to an ebike which makes cycling a lot of fun. I tend to cycle to work at 5am which is nice and quiet but the trip back is busy. I don't filter as much because I like to feel a bit safer lol
This brings back so many memories of cycling around London as a student! Done this very route in chunks probably a dozen times myself :)
I like how frequent these buses are. Also their super quiet. The Loudest part of your experience is people talking 😂
Ok, this video settles it..if I ever move to London my only transportation will be by bike..period..end of story
That was some crazy speed along Embankment. I always wondered who the guy was who was overtaking everyone else.
This is one of the main videos that makes me want to ride my bike around NYC, just because of the variety of cyclists and the bike setups they have. So interesting to me, hah.
Good video. Going to London soon to work for deliveroo for a few days and I was worried about traffic but this has put my worries at ease
Benjamin Scales most of the time drivers of busses are trained to be aware of bikes simply because of how small London’s streets are and those of us who are intimidated sometimes should know that busses and lorries will very rarely exceed 20-25 mph so you should be completely fine. 😄
In my country is a distant dream that kind of bike-friendly city, In my city there are few bike lanes and they are always occupied by disrespectful pedestrians (not to mention the poor condition of the streets, having some 700x25 tires is suicide). ... How beautiful it must be to pedal in London. Greetings from Argentina!
you call this a bike friendly city?? What you don't realise from this video is that the road surface, especially on bike paths, is always terrible. You can't go five metres without hitting a pothole or bad repairs after utilities work has been carried out, and the bike paths are never properly rollered like the road surface so they're never fully smooth. I love cycling in london, however. There are a lot of drivers and crazy pedestrians and cyclists rank last on the list of things for the council to think about, but there are big wide bus lanes everywhere which you can just cruise along nicely. Plus, thanks to the congestion charge, the centre of london is relatively traffic free on the weekend. Great to cycle in, just not what i would a consciously "cycle friendly" city
@@kierannee528his is cycle friendly compared to HIS city. Not your experiences.
Judging from this video it’s pedestrians that are the main potential hazard for road users. They seem very careless in this video
As a Dutch person, let me sum up my reaction:
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
Except 12:40 to 19:30, good cycle path
frisianmouve here cyclists don’t pay road tax so should be banned. Roads are surely for cars and delivery vehicles only
@@hymatwat9412 Are you kidding? Because cyclists in the Netherlands don't pay road tax either.
There are no cycling paths/lanes in my country. Drivers aren't used to cyclists either, you would wet your pants if you took the paths I take every time I go out if this little traffic scared you haha. (I'm from Algeria)
@@hymatwat9412 What if the cyclists also own a car and pay taxes? That's just ignorant of you to say.
@@hymatwat9412 the Brits dont pay road tax, they pay emissions tax, and thus cycles pay the correct amount which is zero.
I'm 3 minutes into the video and wondering how many padestrian-car accidents there are in london?
@A Real Londoner pedestrian never look the road !
You've obviously never been to Vietnam.
Its safer than it seems. Traffic is really slowed down and drivers are used to look out for pedestrians at every point. Also pedestrians are used to really focussing on crossing, so you don't have jaywalkers wondering in front of whizzing cars. There's a method to this madness, live there a month or 2 and you get used to it.
@@ten_tego_teges argree，I know this
London, what a crowd!
I feel like I'm in London!
4 minutes in and you have already committed 8 offences
Hey good day mate! Can you share the settings you used on this video? Thanks! This is awesome!
Wow this shows how stabilisation feature is so game changing.
ロンドンやアムステルダム、コペンハーゲンなどは本当に自転車先進国です！すばらしいシステムです！！ヨーロッパこそ真の先進国だと思います！！！
日本はまだまだかなり遅れているとあらためて知りました！
now i can say i've been to london too :)
Am about to do the exact same route now! What a coincidence!
This looks so good! I can only imagine how fun it must be to cycle there with other cyclists like this. I'm in a suburb of Atlanta, they barely if at all cycle and the speed limit for cars is 45 miles per hour and they do 60 miles per hour.
I understand that. I’m from Houston. Our bike lanes are a joke. Also people are too obese here and get tired walking up 5 steps. The whole city is flat and there’s a bayou that stretches across the city yet it’s not a biking city
Hey Roland, have you tried mounting it on your saddle? Looking to see if this will be good as a saddle camera for "insurance" purposes.
best way to get through london done a good job through Oxford Street through those big buses
I never saw a bus be it a double decker or a single deckor with 3 entry/exit doors before in my life. Is the rear the exit point for those on the upper deck, the middle for exit for the lower deck and the front for entry? That's cool! I wish they had those buses over here in Ireland. It does get very crowded when there's a lot of people getting off the bus from the upper decks and lower decks and people who have paid their fare trying to get to their seats.
Nice! Any chance you could share the route?
Great video! And love to see so many Bromptons out there :-) :-).
yes good quality
Nice road craft. It’s been a while since I road around London (30 years) and the bike lanes you have now are amazing. Think if everyone on a bike in this vid was in a car? Personally I fit a massive air horn to gee some of them pedestrians and cars up a bit.
He committed 8 offences in the first 4 minutes. One every 30 seconds
Good quality.
London is a beautiful city
Wow the video quality is awesome! Nice cycle :)
Was this mounted on your helmet?
So road bikes with 25mm tyres are okay for London?
I like the rumble strips on Duke St Hill road.
Great video mate! Can I ask what mount you are using for this? lovely smooth footage. Cheers
Sultans of Swing !!!
Can we just ban all cars & leave only electric converts & electric public transport?
The days of gimbals are numbered.
4GUESTS USA this guy uses a natural one, his head. Mounted on a chin strap
Good stuff mate, was it recorded at 1080p 30 fps?? Thanks!
Just before 16.03 minutes I thought there was going to be a massive car crash then realised the footage had been sped up 😂
nice bro - I also make bike videos in Hollywood, California
awesome!
It pretty much looks like my Hero 3 Black. I have never upgraded since, as there really is no need.
Great video!
I'd love to live in London I'm half British on my mom's side so I can get my passport, I've never seen so many cyclists before.
Where I live I'm in the minority alot of the guys at work go "Holy shit you ride 11km one way?!" But they don't realize that it's not very far when you're going 16-20hm/hr
Why london so narrow? As if everything had overlapped.
London existed before cars were built. It's much narrower compared to most US cities/towns because many American cities were designed later on, with cars in mind.
@@DatuSumakwel7 Also, despite not being designed from the ground up for cars (which is a tertible idea anyway) London still decided it wanted to accomodate cars as much as possible, leaving no space for the forms of transport most convenient to its commuters: bicycles and feet.
@@Quintinohthree which sucks by the way because they're are so many pedestrians in London, they don't get enough pavement space in my opinion. Cycling wasnt even considered though
great video
Great video dude
Watched the whole video to get a sense of how cyclist friendly London is, looks busy but alright.
Pre-corona seems like totally different world
This was really neat! Thanks!!!
what makes you think you can ride on the wrong side of traffic islands,
It's called 'being a cyclist'.
@@tooleyheadbang4239 or a twat lol
Wow Thank you for asmr
Judge Shanti Mauger [who's ruling just landed a "calm and reasonable" cyclist with a £100k bill] needs to watch this video before making absurd statements like: "Mr Hazeldean knew his path was not entirely clear when he tried to ride through"
The judgement was bizarre and sets a terrible precedent but the outrageous legal fees were perhaps even more shocking
looks like a dangerous ride weaving through traffic crossing lanes often, just No! lol, london needs alot more bike lanes
London looks chaotic. Car, bike, bus share a narrow road....and jaywalk pedestrian everywhere
jaywalking isnt illegal in the uk
@@wysiwyg2006 jaywalking was an invention by the cartel of car manufacturers in the USA that was pressed to the government by private lobby groups because cars kept killing thousands of people a year - predominantly children - and it was a way to curtail public outcry by legislating a form of victim-blaming to create a new paradigm where cars had precedent on the road which until very recent years, had been there to be used by everyone.
Which is why infrastructure in the USA is built for cars and basically nothing else.
where is the GoPro mounted
on the top of a giant strive aero road helmet
I notice that there isn't any zebra crossing in London, it might be hard to see pedestrians crossing the road.
there are, just not so much in central london
@@Venetan oh!
Hey man, is wearing a helmet mandatory in UK? Because everyone is wearing one. Here in Germany, it´s not. So most people don´t, even it´s really life saving.
Here in the Netherlands nobody wears a helmet and wearing a helmet is in fact statistically more dangerous than not. Guess that's what good responsible infrastructure does.
@@Quintinohthree Congrats, that‘s the comment of the day. „Cycling with a helmet is more dangerous than without“. Facebook memes aren‘t a good source for actual statistics
@@soups8146 Unfortunately for you, that's an actual statistic.
@@Quintinohthree even if any real statistic says that, you might wanna look up other scientific approaches to that matter as well. And then you might look up the severity of injuries when people hit the floor/other vehicles with and without a helmet
@@soups8146 It's pretty simple: people wearing helmets are more likely to fall and fall hard, thus more likely to be injured, including on the head. Go to any Dutch city, record every person you see riding a bike, record whether they wear a helmet too. You will notice very quickly that people wearing helmets are very different people from people not wearing helmets. If you want to wear a helmet, it means you cycle for sport or cycling infrastructure is fundamentally unsafe where you are.
I could never do this😅. Too many people walking in front of you, some not even looking! Would feel far too vulnerable. Thanks for uploading though! Was fun to watch👍🏻
12:33 the Eiffel Wheel.
I think you mean the London Eye?😂
Rory Denholm , The Royal Eiffel Wheel.
Marky Marco what??🤣
Rory Denholm , The Royal Wheel of Eiffel.
Marky Marco okay now ik ur taking the piss.🤣
Beautiful city very bike friendly
Facu Hale it really isn’t
@@ffi1001
but they have bike lanes, worse is having to drive between the vehicles, as in my city.
Bicycle traffic jams are here.
Why are the Dutch so scared, ya should try New York!
go to Amsterdam or Copenhagen to find out. I don´t see any kids riding bikes in NY, in the Netherlands all the time. See here to get an idea:
th-cam.com/video/6rpORQ3C4SU/w-d-xo.html
That street should be pedestrianized
I thought the signals painted on the street were an international standard, what the fuck is this zigzag marking the rows line omg
the pedestrian walk is too shy also
The street tour was great, but can see why cyclist are hated so much.
It seems, Delhi will be better choice for riding bike :)))
People in London love black clothing.
So many girls with turbans in London
Kutay because London is very diverse. Deal with it. By the way, it’s not a turban that women wear. Women wear different robes. Men wear turbans which may be where you’re confused from because you think only what you’d usually have on for yourself
It is common throughout Europe, the Arab / Hindi population are no longer minorities, at least in the big cities. Argentina is the last white nation !!!
Showing that London and the UK has a whole needs serious Jay-walking laws.
Why? the road is for all people. Why should you get punished for crossing a road, yes people need to cross more safely but you dont HAVE to use crossings.
For real. That whole "jay walking" thing is stupid.
@@ishmyboy jay walking is dangerous for everyone.
@@Mabaz jay walking isnt a thing in the UK the public (pedestrians) have every right to use the road infact they have more rights than cars sincw they need a license to use the road. obstructing traffic etc is about it.
@@ishmyboy I understood that, it's just that randomly crossing the street is very dangerous for both pedestrians and drivers/cyclists.
What is with you people on Bicycles?, you seem to think your the victim all the time.
its about time cyclists were made accountable for their actions, overtaking on the left, running red lights, passing traffic island on the wrong side, overtaking on zig zags, riding on footpaths and using the left lane to turn right to name a few, also why is it that when someone else does something wrong cyclists seem to just want to shout swear and give finger gestures to them??
Probably because when "someone else" does something wrong, it's while driving a few tons of steel that could kill somebody quickly & easily. The same reason you expect a piano to be hoisted with more care than a bag of groceries.
If cyclists were just angry at the infractions of others, they'd be going off at pedestrians & cyclists all the time.
It sounds like you just feel it's unfair that people get angry with you for putting people's lives in danger & I suggest you learn a few things about mass, physics in general, & grow up.
Pedestrians are the worst... No as a bike rider from Denmark you riders should keep to the kerb ( left side ). You are all over the place no wonder you gain no respect and no wonder people are getting killed! This is a mess!
rubish