Winter vs summer cycling in Oulu (Finland)

[@OhTheUrbanity]

The winter/summer contrast shots were really nice.

[@BicycleDutch]

Thank you! Not the easiest stuff to obtain, almost 2,000km from home, and 6 months apart.

[@owosnake5413]

Oulu resident here. One thing about the one on-street cycle lane you mentioned at 2:31 (literally the only one in the whole city to my knowledge), is that people don't tend to use it that much. While it is used, it seems like a 50/50 split on using it vs just going on the sidewalk (this is my experience as someone who cycles regularly in Oulu for both transportation and recreation). Honestly, even I often use the normal sidewalk, as it feels far safer than having to cycle right next to cars.

[@arirahikkala]

I had to look up the location based on the storefronts because I couldn't place it, and... ... oh, it's Hallituskatu near the train station. I've gone down that sidewalk on a bike many times, but literally never realized there's a bike lane there. You live in Oulu for long enough, and you just get used to the idea that you're often sharing space with pedestrians, while the car roads are their own separate universe that you only worry about when crossing.

[@iketola]

Although cycling is very popular and traffic fluent here in Oulu, it’s quite amazing how ignorant we are of the basic traffic rules. Culture is still very rural.

[@mediataal]

Great before and after footage.

[@JustClaude13]

El Cajon, California also has sharks teeth. And we're converting to zebra crossings.

[@scootosan]

Thanks for your efforts to produce this video. I live in the states and dream of cycling over there. The winter riding conditions are unbelievably ideal. Bikes are like shoes one for each occasion....... oh Cinderella?

[@КостяЛопунов]

Mark, you are a true promoter of cycling, both winter and summer!:) Keep up the good work!

[@qualm43]

incredible video.

[@iketola]

Great video! Greetings from Oulu. ☺️

[@etbadaboum]

Great video! You put effort and time to do it, thanks a lot.

[@user-lz3ut8qp5j]

Regarding sharks teeth, they have them here in New York, but I'm not sure anybody knows what they mean

[@jesseallan3886]

Looks nice, I'm jealous. u should try cycling in summer in Adelaide Australia 45°c 🥵

[@leonardneamtu_]

Would you consider a video about Cambridge, UK?

[@krishna_pandey24]

I love bycycles it remindes me of my papa 😓❣️

[@PoserBallin]

Dream infrastructure + year round maintenance tbh

[@smarkasmc]

😊👍🌅

[@rich_edwards79]

* cries in UK * 😪😪😪

[@kevjn15]

**double cries in American**

[@Sivah_Akash]

​​@@kevjn15 * triple cries in Atlanta *

[@christill]

@@kevjn15 I’m not so sure honestly. From what I’ve seen, the US has more dedicated cycling lanes in more suburban and rural-ish areas because there’s more space. It’s easier to just put those things in. In the UK, space is more of a premium and so we really don’t have much at all anywhere. We have a hostile, anti-cycling media, anti-cycling government who starve the cycling department of funds. They also starve local councils of funds so cycling infrastructure is the last thing they think about. They don’t even fund the schools. Right now there’s a story about schools having to close because of risk of collapse because the Tories did nothing about a type of concrete that can suddenly collapse. I honestly think we have it far worse than you do. And that’s not to say the US is great for cycling. It sucks. But the UK is truly one of the worst countries in the world to cycle.

[@mikhaildavidenko3841]

* cries in Southern California * 😢😢😢

[@Sivah_Akash]

@@christill, I've only lived in the US for a few years but I've never seen cycle lanes in rural areas. Maybe in suburban areas in the outskirts of bike friendly cities but that's it.

[@dainiusm5436]

👍👍👍

[@songofyesterday]

Texans can only dream. Here we make more highways with 136 km/h instead of cycling paths.

[@jens_le_benz]

The secret: Europe does both because they can afford to. It’s amazing what can be funded when the oil barons and military industrial complex have less power.

[@vaevalex]

Such a boss at 2:49 cycling on the sidewalk! Or maybe he's a very quickly matured under 12 year old still allowed to do that :D

[@BicycleDutch]

You seem to think that cycling at that location is not allowed, but in Oulu that is exactly where people are supposed to cycle.

[@vaevalex]

Only if it is explicitly marked as a combined pedestrian and cycling lane. By default in Finnish traffic laws, sidewalks are pedestrian only with the exception of kids under 12 years old. People do pretty commonly and casually ignore these rules, though. edit: this particular piece of Hallituskatu street sidewalk is most certainly not a bicycle lane. Technically one should use the street for bicycling. Anyway, thanks for the video! Oulu is a very nice city for bicycling (I lived there a long time) and many other Finnish cities are still playing catch-up. Safe journeys friend!

[@joosefsana2649]

i had nice time in Oulu))))

[@dammitdan106]

In Texas, idiots in F250 diesel pickup trucks either "roll coal" or run over cyclists for fun. Civilization is a precious real estate.

[@Sivah_Akash]

Not specific to Texas (I've been 'coal rolled' in the outskirts of "bike-friendly" Portland). But agree it's a lot more likely in Texas! :(

[@rich_edwards79]

Same entitled male mentality here in the UK, only here it's SUVs, 'punishment passes' (where they swerve in front of you forcing you to brake) and torrents of abuse and aspersions on your sexuality, status etc hurled out of windows (often accompanied by whatever missiles happen to be to hand in the cabin.) Encouraged by everyone from Piers Morgan and 30p Lee (rabble-rousing, far-right MP) to local newspaper hacks, the only time I can recall anyone being seriously punished for the death of a cyclist was when a vulnerable disabled woman panicked when confronted by one on a footpath (she shouldn't have been there, but the adjacent road was a terrifying race track) and caused her to fall into traffic. A tragic accident and an easy target for the legal system that resulted in an extremely vulnerable woman being subjected to the horrors of our Victorian penal system, to the inevitable approval of the baying mob. But kill a cyclist with a car and leniency is the order of the day.

[@chow-chihuang4903]

Happens in the burbs of Ohio too. Either that or they slow down just to hurl a string of insults as they pass by. One driver stalled his lifted pickup in the middle of the street when he tried to roll coal on me as he passed me. He ended up taking off in embarrassment without rolling coal on me as other cars caught up to him. That was pretty funny.

[@alainterieur4837]

Roll coal may be specific to the US, but psychopathic drives are not. One purposefully tried to push me off my bike onto oncoming traffic and sprayed me with their rear window cleaning product. And then there were those who honked or insulted me for absolutely no reason. Plus those who overtake me way too close, and all those who knowingly broke traffic rules just to get ahead of me (and almost injure me in doing so). And all this happened in... Switzerland of all places! So driving sure seems to turn people into psychopaths worldwide. I've seen this happen to perfectly fine people who then turned into sociopaths when driving

[@jens_le_benz]

@@chow-chihuang4903ego makes funny people do funny things

[@personligassistent4308]

You saw the shark teeth in Malmö Sweden :)

[@BicycleDutch]

I don't think so. Not as yield signs.

[@torpmorp1324]

Maybe they were hidden in the smoke from all the grenades and bombs…

[@Peepopoopee]

The only things you see there are people named Muhammad Jamal Al'Kareem committing crimes

[@ashleyyoumans6298]

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