Ride in Oulu, Finland 1 (summer, partly vs winter)

[Ep. 1003] Cycling in Oulu (Finland) in August 2023, partly compared to a ride at the same location in February 2023. More information in the blog post: bicycledutch.w...

[@kookamunga2458]

Car-brained folks where I live complain that cyclists are stupid because they get wet in the rain . My answer to that is every human that there ever was spent nine months soaking wet in water and rarely did anyone complaine about it . Every human spent nine months in the womb as a fetus and the womb definitely has water in it so we all spent nine months in water so we shouldn't complain about cyclists getting wet .

[@hondaryder3779]

Wat een sombere, uitgestorven bedoeling daar, niemand zegt een woord.

[@carlosaffonso9213]

I’ve already done this trip, it was amazing !

[@dammitdan106]

Very nice and thanks for taking us along Mark.

[@judebrown4103]

That one looked a bit lumpy and soggy Mark, great stabilization on your camera. It was lovely to watch it from the comfort of my (dry!) bed.😄

[@dominikjakaj1999]

best finnish summer day

[@weetikissa]

The bike infrastructure, especially outside of the city center, is nice, but my god are the buildings ugly

[@peketee2278]

those aren't particularly ugly, houses from different eras can look ugly to today's eyes. Maybe the fact that you see houses from a certain era as ugly is just your lack of perspective? Don't worry youth is an affliction that fades with time..😉

[@herrakaarme]

Pretty much all town centers in Finland suffered from a disease, especially after the WW2, where beautiful, old buildings were razed and replaced with typically very simple, ugly buildings, where the only thing that mattered was to maximise the profit for the developer (I'd rather call it the degenerator). If I wasn't a dude, I'd cry when I browse galleries of what the cities used to look like, compared to what they look like now. Just outside of the city centers, the situation was made worse by massive amounts of people moving from the countryside to the towns (growth centers). They needed apartments as fast as possible, which created basically rows of copy-pasted, quickly built apartment buildings, with absolutely minimum amount of architectural involvement. I have actually heard these buildings from the 60's and 70's weren't meant to stand forever, but the planners assumed they would be razed after some decades, to be replaced with buildings of more insight and architectural value. However, a house/apartment is typically a person's most valuable possession in life, so of course the owners of the apartments aren't just going to whistle happily if the buildings were razed. So, ugly clone buildings are here to stay.

[@xKuukkelix]

Oulu has burned down multiple times throughout its history. It's pretty easy to tell which areas have burned when, from the style of the buildings. The "ugly" buildings were build in the 50s after big portions of the city burned down in soviet bombings.

[@ashleydavis3318]

the buildings are pretty ugly, but to be honest i'd rather have an ugly commie block with a lot of greenery than one of those huge glass skyscrapers

[@leenprael3583]

Ziet er niet heel erg vrolijk uit. Infra is top. Lekker fietsen in sovjet stad. Geef mij maar Amsterdam

[@Zooz.]

Niet opgelet bij geschiedenis? Finland heeft nooit bij de Sovjetunie of het Oostblok gehoord.

[@markopelaa]

were those painted crosswalks for bikes slippery? Lahti has had some problems recently with those when it rains. I think that they blamed whole red track, but crosswalks looked way more slippery :D

[@BicycleDutch]

No, they were only shiny from the rain.

[@alexikonan7433]

wow, Finland has pretty bad roads

[@xKuukkelix]

where do you see bad roads? XD

[@johnveerkamp1501]

ziet er goed uit Finland !