Alexei Sayle’s Lockdown Bike Ride 2 - Kingsland Basin to Mount Pleasant

[@olavdale7968]

“I don’t like speed bumps. They just slow you down.” There’s an observation.

[@milobell5525]

Just stumbled across these in my quest to still my homesick heart. Truly the bees bollocks.

[@citruscycling5314]

Saw you on ITV4 today commentating on the tour de France. So thought I would check out your podcasts. Brilliant!

[@davemarshall-george1927]

Love the tours Alexie, be great if you could show us more of London’s lesser known highlights like the London Coast guard base or mountain rescue centre.

[@pegasus8978]

At the very start I felt like shouting "watch out for those rozzers, Alexei!"

[@jeevansingh6944]

Would love to see you do this kind of thing back in Liverpool. Thanks for sharing!

[@thelastpilot4582]

Good to see you again I loved the crazy cop in super grass (I think) the warm up man and the young ones. Always a favourite of mine glad to see you youngsters keeping fit.

[@sunilmajevadia3865]

Stay healthy and show us more of London on the bike thank you

[@AnonymousTwoPointO]

Love these tours! All the best to you and yours Alexei!

[@bertielegend7640]

A

[@michaelsaunders6923]

Watched both journeys,god they were relaxing ,really enjoyable,thank you 🙂

[@tokenspirit6140]

It's not boring At all! Just loved that. I'm an avid bike fan. Often say I grew up on a bike. My dad was a champ cyclist in Yorkshire. Here I am in a northern sub' of Toronto right now. You just might get me on the bike again .....maybe doing a podcast! Love darling Russell. Yes! I was at that cafe, when I made a whirlwind visit to London, after deciding to see the capital, for first time since I was a kid. I just wanted to go wherever I wished. I wanted to see the EastEnd and so I walked all about. It was fun and great exercise! A Spent a lovely afternoon with the kids at the New Era cafe, and I met and got chatting with a lass who had a bit part in an Episode of EastEnder! She's a big deal in the denim couture business now, I believe. How exciting is life, when you are open to travel and meeting complete strangers and enjoying them. It's my thing. So, yep thanks for the video. Loved it Alexei xxxooo.

[@torchist]

Glad to see you back on your bike - I bumped into you a couple of years ago on Grays Inn Road - you were walking and I was on my bike and I asked you where your bike was - you were very sociable. I'm a man of similar age and look and I've cycled these roads for over a decade.

[@isaacplaysbass8568]

A really enjoyable tour, thank you :)

[@equiliser]

i'm officially addicted to these vlogs.....i want a bike

[@venusexpress9188]

I really appreciate these little tours of london. thanks alexei from a little town called Adelaide.

[@bak2back]

For lonely people like me, this is really rewarding, it feels like your involved in a chat, even though it's just one way, thanks Alexei.

[@venusexpress2084]

Greetings from Australia. Great idea, more please.🚴🚲🚴

[@stylophobia]

The slopes and dips around Mount Pleasant are meant to be the gathered-up rubble from ye 1666 Fire of London .

[@Velobetty]

Really enjoyed this one. I used to live on Guilford Street where the new GOSH building is and I really miss the area. It's my favourite part of London. Thanks!

[@johnporter5173]

I listened with the CC on and the subtitles are utterly hilarious. I guess the person subtitling doesn't understand Alexei's Scouse accent or knows London at all. Exmouth Market was "Eczema Market", Anglo-Saxon car park was "Then go suction" car park, and Pret A Manger was "press emoji". I may watch all the vids again with the CC on to see how bad they are.

[@paulrobinson7881]

Thanks enjoyed that Alexei keep safe buddy

[@joolsclarke1864]

Been a fan since YoungOnes! Love yer posts and ride! Luv from Hollyweird, Cali!....😘

[@4-dman464]

It would be a good sight gag if at the end of a bike ride, Alexei turned a bend and - - "Bloodyell! It's Huskisson Street!" he's back in Liverpool. It would mean location filming just for one brief ending....but Alexei could turn it into a cliffhanger. The next bike ride follows Alexei Sayle's rediscovery of Liverpool, trying to find recognition points in a city that has eradicated even Beatles historic sites in order to erect Beatle memorials. Bloodyell! It's Huskisson Street! Hiya, Beryl! And so on.

[@firecleaner]

great stuff good to see you

[@esforward69]

Great video Alexei, it would be good to hear your history of London and how you’ve seen it change.

[@richardsmith4992]

Under those streets there is a long disused postal undergound railway from Mount Pleasant sorting office (formerly). It ran down the back of a printers I worked in for a few years, and though not in use by then that part of the building looked like an abandoned train platform. I think it's been converted into a tourist line for tiny people now. All Aboard - Mind The Plague Pits!

[@alexanderwooldridgesmith6629]

I am glad you know where you are going. I was lost half way through.

[@julianshepherd2038]

After lockdown people will love anything live.

[@alicejwho]

V interesting! I really enjoy your rides around the city

[@lukeadv]

Alexei don’t bemoan any lack of poetry,. Your observations seem to match my own inner monologue so perfectly, we humans really do have a shared experience, although I doubt I could voice it so well.

[@TesterAnimal1]

Heh. I do the “come through” elbow flick too! Always works on the club run!

[@nickedmunds1829]

Up and down the city road in and out the Eagle...

[@MartinJames389]

We must have been neighbours for a few years. I lived round there 1978-2003, but unlike someone else below never saw you in Grays Inn Road. Do you remember the Welsh shop? (Not quite, but nearly, opposite the London Welsh Centre -just the other side of the Calthorpe Street junction, which you said was always being dug up). Very nice people. And the Connolly Association bookshop a couple of doors away?

[@108bonsai]

Still so weird..empty London..as a bavarian expat I enjoy watching ya from one old ye olde lefty git to another.

[@JasonUmbrellabird]

11:42 on the left used to be an excellent pub called The Apple Tree home of 'Come Down & Meet the Folks.'

[@cncit]

I remember when Alexi had a beautiful blue Gazelle 😉

[@MINIMOTOMADNESS]

always wanted to meet you alexi,and when i did a nearly crapped my pants,it was a summer day in ladbroke grove 25yrs ago,you pulled up and lent on my vans passenger side door,i had the window undone,i looked up and asked are you alexi sayle?you replied yeah mate,i replied in total shock good for you......what a bellend of a thing to say!!

[@julianshepherd2038]

When I bumped into Tony Robinson I stared at him so long he looked intimidated and do a v fast walk away from the big crazy guy.

[@julianshepherd2038]

Did the same to Arthur mullard but I didn't like and he was a wrong un

[@MattScottMusic]

A work colleague told me he did exactly the same, but the guy told him he wasn’t Alexei Sayle but his twin bother. I bet Alexei Sayle’s twin brother must get really annoyed with that, because apparently they look and sound almost exactly the same.

[@stewstube70]

Is there life in Peckham? :)

[@Solaar_Punk]

Really liking the new channel

[@hexonatapeloop]

Is that walid jumblatt?

[@roderickwho1983]

Tried following your trip on Google maps. Its fun! Thanks Alexei, and happy newyear

[@davidchapman5938]

Nice videos Alexei - we must be neighbours, you went right past my house. Can I ask what camera/mic set-up you're using? Very smooth footage for a bike ride!

[@Talalaban]

I shot this! Two gopros mounted on bike. Tascam lav mic on his collar (u can see it).

[@davidchapman5938]

@@Talalaban Thanks! Which go pro, if you don’t mind me asking?

[@Talalaban]

Hero 7!

[@Talalaban]

Got amazing stabilisation

[@davidchapman5938]

@@Talalaban yeah I have the same one, but don’t seem to have as smooth results! Maybe it’s the bike 🤷🏻‍♂️ are you mounting with the standard go pro bike mount?

[@darrenspeed6854]

More please

[@andyb7339]

Do the Jack The Ripper tour by bike its been a long time since I been there 👍

[@paulronalddoe4548]

Nice one Comrade.

[@rivergladesgardenrailroad8834]

Alexei i would like you to have some reflect clothing and or flashing back LED. all black is not safe....

[@stepthirtynine]

My son pointed out that you and I are twins. Which is a lovely thing to hear knowing I'm not the only fat bald man with glasses and a white beard (excluding father Christmas ofc) Loving the podcasts and these bike tours however stick on a helmet sir 👌 x

[@gavinhackland8440]

I could listen to you waffle on all day

[@andyb7339]

Please take us on a tour of Brick Lane area

[@chrishill6715]

Allo John got a new motor ?

[@vaguemartin]

How do you get the shots of you cycling past the camera? I’m guessing you get off your bike and set up a camera then cycle past then get off then pack up the camera? Anyway, I admire the dedication to those one second clips!

[@johnd1466]

no he has a companion on red Jump hire bike, comes into shot every now & then.

[@mattiethemongoose3rd]

Great to see you introducing and ending the advert for Jeremy Corbyn's Project for Justice and Peace.

[@asuperpostie]

Lots of blocked off roads down there

[@matthewrikihana6818]

"So When your out on your bike tonight, where your helmet, all right?"

[@afitzsimons]

It's wear your hemet, or do you mean "where is your helmet?" Also you're.

[@amcleod3d]

marxist comedians on bicycles doing history tours getting coffee.

[@jonzeebollok2266]

It’s super CRINGE,

[@desbrittain9952]

Waiting for him to say something funny. I'm so disappointed....the bloke is a bore!

[@sprobablycancr4457]

@@jonzeebollok2266 How many have you watched? Admit it, it's nice.

[@jonzeebollok2266]

@@sprobablycancr4457 bore off

[@monkeytrousers6180]

I got myself an electric "fat" bike from the US with huge chunky tyres.. A lot of people use them for touring around off-road places..Bloody good fun and when you're legs are knackered you've got cycle-assist throttle..

[@jonzeebollok2266]

Roads Are for cars and lorries as well

[@paulthorpe766]

Liked it but not enough on Big Post Offices monopoly of the MP area!

[@julianshepherd2038]

Tattoo parlours are infamous cash washers.

[@RealBesty]

Temple of Mithras, eh? Who knew..? ;)

[@julianshepherd2038]

Imaginary furlough from the sandwich shop or deliveries. I don't understand.

[@mikeharvey9811]

Maybe Jeremy could take you round Islington? Barb

[@plunder23]

cafes and pilates haha

[@zacmorrison4314]

Jam butty cars everywhere.

[@pureshaw]

Some good towpath etiquette there.

[@147sterling6]

Back in 1986, i jumped out of your way as you were leaving gGlastonbury festival. I think it was a red Rover p6

[@gerrabath]

AS for PM!

[@hexonatapeloop]

You live in mecklenberg square?

[@foxee36]

Nothing wrong with coming from a family that don’t drive,I don’t,my parents don’t!,lucky my other half and daughter do!,love the joke about tattoos!!,ironically I got my first one late October 2020,5 November-lockdown number 2!!!,wonder if anyone will get “I survived the coronavirus “ tattoos?,fancy it mo @tatlab!!

[@nevem5010]

❤️

[@mikeowen2936]

On the Condor Lexi? Say hello to Grant if you see him.

[@darrengriffiths9737]

Ace

[@FordTransitvan]

Love these vids, shame about the scenery though. London is a godawful place, sorry for all those crammed in.

[@bonkeydollocks1879]

Hello John got a new mota Hello John gotta new mota Hello John gotta new mota The dogs made a mess on the carpet The dogs made a mess on the carpet Hello John gotta new mota Hello John gotta new mota

[@hamdinger7145]

Back in 15 minutes.

[@Justbehelpful]

"I don't like speed bumps, they just slow you down" 😂

[@0161pumaste]

Alright 'Lex....wouldn't you be better off with a nice little moped to get around on ;-)

[@billharris3650]

But is it a Morrison, a brand new 12 speed Morrison... let's see if you remember that.

[@ianwarren7438]

That is one ugly town. still enjoyed the vid Alexei.

[@ashyclaret]

That's how the Marxists like it.

[@comicsgatekeeper9746]

Ride,ride like the wind

[@niallmcdermott8188]

the chef from Sardine has taken up residence at that old left wing haunt the gay hussar on greek st Alexei

[@nobbilc]

Perhaps you shld wear a bike helmet...?