My town, Eugene Oregon, has had a problem with organized bike theft for 100 years!!!

In addition to a mirror, a bike radar could be also an option to improve safety.

I own a single speed with a vintage road bike frame. It came with drop bars which is awesome to ride with. Mine is geared in 52x18, it's a bit of a slowpoke on the hills but an absolute monster once you get that gear going. Cheap as a hybrid bike and aerodynamic as a road bike. $300 for a bike that can easily cruise at 15mph with the legs for it, is insane.

You chnnale amd you! PERSONLY, is so wholsome and chill guy More like this

Until there are so many that we need new traffic rules. That’ll be a minor hiccup, except for the ones who get seriously hurt.

Most mtbs are aluminum

I love your videos as they're always so helpful. Do you happen to know what handlebar is on this bike?

i dont like the swoopy bars on cruisers, and ive always thought the frame shape looks weird. I prefer straight or drop bars, and simple framce designs.

If you think about when the bike was invented, nobody leaned forward in the way we have to do today with the downhill position being the major factor in design. So our posture has changed, looking behind you, is more physically demanding because of it. Also, bikes before MTB's, had pretty good ballance, but MTB's are much more unstable prefering to topple over easier either one way or another, so when you strain to look behind you for traffic, your almost guaranteed to get wobbly.

In New York, any bike will get stolen, even my beat up bike I got for $50. On the other hand it is a folding bike from Montague, not cheap when new. With new bike I go with u lock and a chain to lock frame wheel and saddle.

Super late to the video as I wasn't cycling a year ago😂 Something I have learned loading my bike in my time riding though is that a hair tie/rubberband around the front brake to keep the bike from wanting to pivot all the time is a HUUUUGE help in practicality I've found. I'm a "if it fits it ships" typa guy so stability in loading is key.

I live in hilly Hollywood; rim brakes are scary coming down the city hills. And mine were screechy too (not necessarily a bad thing - they do alert riders and motorists of my presence!). I originally (1970’s) rode with toe clips (or more commonly, rat traps). Not so much for power, which was actually considerable, but for keeping my feet stable on the pedals. My current bike does have clip-in pedals, but like you mentioned, those shoes are uncomfortable and noisy on the urban sidewalks and inside shops.

fantastic discussion here. I learned a lot.

Thanks to you and your book inspiring me, I now have winter tires on my bike and went for my first every winter ride yesterday. Thank you so much!

Two of these would be ideal

I started on basic child bikes, moved to a MTB but mostly used it for little jumps and urban commuting, and finally got a road bike as an adult. The road bike is for me, but I try not to have any sort of tribal mentality about it. All cyclists are my allies. That said, it's really hard not to judge reckless ebike riders and fixies. As someone who grew up in the mountains, I just can't fathom how a tiny reduction in cost and maintenance is worth more than gearing. Overall, I think we should celebrate the multitude of cycling cultures in the same way we celebrate the many genres of music.

Wouldn't the "worst bike lane," in a way, be one that doesn't exist at all? Which to be fair, would literally be my entire city...

Where is the helmet? Riding in the city. Must wear helmet.

The other issue with folding bike o. The plane is the battery some airlines won’t allow them on the plane

My biking mostly occurs on busy city streets, so I wear a helmet bc cars are big and they are always in my biking environment. I want to keep my brain intact.

Note on that top 90 of cycling cities, the Luko Global Bicycle Cities Index: the cities making the list seems to be rather random. For instance: there are only 2 Dutch cities on it. They are not the two biggest cities, and there is no way that no other Dutch city would score better than the number 90 on the list. So it's not really a top 90. It's almost more of a scale of how places roughly stack up to the global average.

Shorten the stem length you will to increase comfort you will feel.

hahahahaha looks like you never have seen EU but still keep it real cheers

Biggest mistake -> not wearing a helmet

I have tried all kinds of bikes and beach crusier are the best if you want to drive long way you will not be tired . Joy full ride big seat and big tire even in snow you can ride it they are like a motorcycle

You need fenders (mudguards UK), a comfortable seat, lights and preferably enclosed hub gears.

lol im just worried about road riding because im newer to the ebike, i only use a full face helmet and a satchel bag, and long sleeves.

In Surrey, British Columbia, nearly our entire city has been developed in a way that prevents cut-through traffic. However, unlike other cities, this happened accidentally due to the way land has been subdivided over the past 100 years-from 40-acre parcels to 5-acre parcels, and then further subdivided into single-family lots. When my parents moved to Surrey as teens in the 1960s, everyone owned a 5-acre lot. Today, very few of these 5-acre lots remain. As the 5-acre lots were transformed into subdivisions, developers found it most advantageous to build roads with many cul-de-sacs. The issue now is that there aren't enough connections between these cul-de-sacs for bicycles and pedestrians to move freely when they are off the main vehicle grid, so we end up riding on busy roads.

Wear helmet!

I live in West London and have had 4 bikes stolen over the last two years. 2 in the last 3 months. I got the last three back myself. Police were / are absolutely useless or worse. The last time I had to use force. Yesterday. Last bike I got back was last night, repeatedly warned the guy to get off as he tried to ride off, took him to the floor and held him there. Not a pleasant situation. I let him up after a while on the ground but held on to him. 5 cops turned up. He was claiming it was his bike and that I had assaulted him but changed his tune went the cops came. Basically he claims he brought the bike locally. I offered to go to the market with him to confront the seller and get his money back. But when he tried to ride off as I was speaking to police on the phone, and ignored my repeated warnings to wait for the police and not to ride off, I had to pull him off, detain him or ignore the theft. Irony is, I have every reason for never trusting the police to deliver justice, even though I can prove ownership. They could easily have areested me instead. Police are not fair in these areas. The bike is not expensive but we can't just let theives steal from us. Although that is exactly what the government does... The whole situation is fukked. Ah well. Just live by your wits and prayers.

I rode through 25 years of winter in the NE of England, 34 miles per day 5 days per week. I used to wear a thin motorbike helmet balaclava under my helmet. It stopped the worst of the weather ' hail ' from hurting my face and kept my head as warm as toast. Other than that neoprene overboots and gloves, goretex jacket but only Ron hill tracksters on my legs and a dry pair in my back pack along with clean dry clothes in plastic bags in my backpack also, for when I arrived at work after a shower and the dry tracksters for the return journey home. Because I was a racing sports cyclist, I rode fast and wore very little under my jacket, even on the coldest of days because of the heat I created. I always carried spare inner tubes and a spare foldable outer tyre, tools and a full size frame fit pump. I even put spare spokes inside my handlebars, for if a spoke ever broke.

I think for major intersections there should always be bike-accessible over- or under-passes -- like the overpass between Sandstone and Hidden Valley, or the underpass under Stoney connecting Evanston and Hidden Valley. There was a time not too long ago we were burying the underpasses and knocking down the overpasses.

The mindset of driving a bike or a car in winter is the same. It is not particularly difficult, and it doesn’t need special Viking genetics, just pretend your 115 year old great-great grandmother is sitting in/on the back on top of a raw egg that shouldn’t break, holding a 2 meter tall wedding cake with a newborn baby on top. You will have no problems!

Agree 100%. I am the owner of 20 bikes

What kind of bike do you have ? It looks like a Enerwatt Racer !

Its weird how in North America, the standard bikes for city or leisure riding are sports bikes...usually mountain style bikes but even hybrids have you bend forward. I put cruiser bars on my hybrid and it is 1000% better to sit upright. You do need some rear suspension for this tho....mine is in my seat rather than the bike...cheap and effective.

I cycle all year round, not much snow where I live but plenty of wind and rain. I have an e bike. I wear motor bike trousers for rain over my normal trousers. Seal skin gloves for the hands. Cape for the top half, with sleeves and is waterproof, large over shoes, over my own shoes . You can get only the clothing you need, as mentioned previously, you learn over the seasons what YOU need.

So you spend a lot of money on having that internal derailer, but your chain in still exposed? Why no ‘box’ around the chain to protect it from snow, salt & water? Also protect your pants from coming in contact with chain oil / lube. In Dutch it’s called a ‘kettingkast’ and it’s standard on all bikes here except racing bikes & mbt’s.

Most of my life I’ve ridden sans helmet (except when required by event organizers). But lately I run front and rear flashing lights, helmet, padded gloves. I know how to fall (years of martial arts training), but I’m getting older and healing from a fall isn’t as easy as it used to be. I’m even looking at knee and shin protection now, lol. First time I ever fell (50 years ago) I didn’t have gloves on. I learned that they are important. Last time I fell (a week ago) I was in shorts and skinned my left knee and abraded my outer calf. So there’s that. I still had to ride home, bleeding knee and all; it wasn’t fun

Any updates after 5 months of use?

I regret clicking on this ! Gah! If anything Bailey park was attached to the small town and it didn’t take but 2 extra minutes to get into town.. bag humbug .. taking your channel out of my algorithm.. yuck

I think distance of trip plays an important factor on what bike you are going to chose. If I was traveling over 10 miles or so I would be tempted to ride with drop bars. Casual bikes are better for shorter distances.

Dynamo lights are a must have. There is a guarantee that you will either forget to bring your clip on lights one day or more likely run out of batteries. Also disk breaks are vastly superior over rim breaks in the rain. Rim breaks lose a lot of their stopping power when wet. You will still get the maximum stopping power but it requires a much higher force. Which messes with your muscle memory. Also I had the water film suddenly rip in the past during breaking, which results in a sudden increase in break force. Can be a bit dangerous when using your front breaks :D Nowadays it isn't that much of a mark up on new bikes. So I would just go for it if you spend more than 700.

Every time you say you don't need a helmet due to the infrastructure I just facepalm. I lost consciousness, hit my head from a standing position and have lingering symptoms 9 months later 😂

If you’re serious about riding in snow and ice conditions studded tyres are a must. It makes no difference how good a rider you think you are-if your front tire hits a patch of ice leaned over or turning the ‘bars ,you’re going down.

This guy doesn’t even ride an e-bike. He is not a proper bike commuter, just another hippie cyclist, yaaaawn.

I've been a bike agency volunteer who does bike valets and tons of people that use them love the idea and are always grateful for their presence. Unfortunately, the city seems bike valets as a "experimental" concept that needs more testing before they want to fund for events like downtown baseball games. Yet the bike valet in downtown Portland near the aerial tram is also popular and works well for some downtown workers.

The most important element of biking in the winter is staying warm.

I got a recumbent bike. I won't have as far to fall. Better yet, is my recumbent tricycle which doesn't fall over on slippery ice. :-))

FYI, if you get yourself in a very operate position, a spring saddle goes a long way