Amazing how it works out to sound stereo, although each mic is omnidirectional. But it adds spatiality, which does sound better the better the home audio set up is. I like it very much, mono audio is always a limitation to me. And on top of it Rode mics sounds better than DJI mics anyway (my opinion). Great Video Johnny with awesome audio!
The stereo audio is great, and it feels more immersive, although to that point, if I were to be picky...the immersion can get a little disorienting sometimes since the mics are mounted to your chest rather than the camera, so at times the direction of the sound doesn't match what i'd expect based on what i'm seeing in the video. e.g. if the camera is turned a different way than your chest, or like whenever your head turns while you're speaking, the effect is like as if your whole head is moving to the left or right of the camera :p
I find it ironic that the first thing you do is comment on someone going the wrong way on the bike path and how they are breaking the rules of the road and then you proceed to ride an e-scooter on the same path, because there is bylaw against e-scooters in Toronto and they are not allowed on any roads or side walks.
Even though the bike lanes seem disjointed, it makes sense from a financial standpoint. It is most financially effective to install bike lanes on sections of the road where you're doing repair work anyway. If a section of road is due for repair, or you're doing the finishing touches on construction such as rebuilding the road after performing the subway extension; these are the best times to install new bike lanes. The fact that there are some disjointed sections means that it is not yet time to work on those sections of road if they have a few more years of life left in them.
Driving in Toronto is infuriating. Cycling/using any other vehicle seems terrifying. Wouldn't want to share a lane with all those death tanks, er, SUVs.
Im sure glad I don't love living in toronto. this way when I leave there will be nothing to look back on. toronto is good memories but terrible presents.
We have a similar "patchwork" buildup of bike lanes and two-way protected bike paths in San Diego. 30th bike lanes just become sharrows after a few miles. They are almost done connecting downtown with a new extension of the Bayshore trail but still a mile short...they are almost done with a complete extension of a two way bike path between downtown and the eastern neighborhoods via Balboa Park too. Still it's progress for the better.
Okay, that stretch just west of Avenue Road was AWFUL! If I'm honest, I would not have done that scoot - far too dangerous, with the sudden merges, disappearing lanes, and delivery trucks. I *did* like the dedicated cycling light at Eglinton West, though.
Great ride thanks Johnny, stay safe on the roads! The audio is fantastic here - I can hear you clearly, is this the same mic you used for the recent Yellow Creek Ravine video? Many thanks and have a great Friday! ☺
Of course! Whenever government tries to improve the lives of the common slave it's never for them really but vanity project for the politician. The bike lanes on College pre Spadina are a mess too, being too thin and many bike lanes still have potholes.
6th generation Torontonian here: heard many stories of the past and lived 56 years of this city. I’ve never seen or heard of it being so screwed up and mismanaged both by city council and the police.
Still it's a terrifing, harrowing, nail-biting experience. Cycling in Halifax is just as bad if not worse than Toronto. Peak traffic hours are the scariest but a good knowledge of back streets and shortcuts can make commuting safer .
Honestly, from a Canadian living in Japan with bad traffic and narrow streets and a high number of aggressive drivers to deal with every day a--that looks like a cyclists heaven !! Maybe it’s not completed yet or that it’s piecemeal but at least you’ve got space to ride !!
Yes. The stereo audio was excellent. My God, I live in a much smaller town and don't think I would 'brave' this videos roads you were just on Johnny. The weather makes such a difference for the video experience. Stay safe out there.
No worries, now they're moved on and started the Ontario Line that after seven(?) years of construction hell, will add 5-10min to my current door to door commute from home to Yonge & King.
Johnny, I really enjoy your channel and thank you for sharing the great content. Every road and infrastructure in larger cities in Canada are being designed and engineered by people who are completely incompetent. Construction companies are also a complete failure, the quality of work is subpar.
This e-bike route is too scary for me to try. Full disclosure, I moved out of Toronto a decade ago and haven't driven on Eglinton Avenue since the light-rail transit construction began (long before the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns)
Hi Goodnite Johnny Strides! watz sup souljah it's been awile@ truly hoped adventure life going absolut also spring was full of xcitement, quiet and safe cause (2 more weeks left) until summer☀️☀️ kicks in! This was indeed a good e-bikey livestream you did starting from midtown westward along Eglinton to future cedarvale stn then good sunny ride back east on route to Redpath Ave thanks soo much for bringing us along for adventure sweeet
All bike should have poles. Drivers do not respect painted lines. Also I hope the city will repair some of the bike lanes. Some are so bad it rattles my old bones.
It's quite brave of you to be riding that bike "patch", and especially brave riding a suspension free ninebot max on such a horrible surface. I love riding escooter, and while ninebot max is a great starter scooter, after about 2 years and 1000km standing on it, I got the emove cruiser. There's day and night difference for the same rides and going much longer diatance is way less painful. I've never ridden in Toronto area though due to the regulations issues (I stick to york region), if you've been riding around without issues maybe I should head that way sometimes. BTW if you hear cars honking and yelling something unintelligible, it maybe someone shouting ridiculously misinformed slur "ride on the sidewalks". I've heard this around the quieter york region roads several times, about 5% of drivers engage in this behavior. They shout and speed away. Nothing I can do about it, so instead I've learned to develop deafness and thick skin to combat it 😂. If these people engaged in a conversation at the stop lights or something then I could help them, but they prefer acting cowardly instead. Lastly, after 1000km, I decided to get a seat (the ninebot suspension seat) and the scooter feels much more comfortable now. I use ninebot max now for just getting quick fresh air during WFH breaks, and emove cruiser for actual escooter commuting.
The Ninebot is a tank but your'e right, scooters with suspensions are much more comfortable. I have a couple of those, but like how light the Ninebot is.
Stereo recording really depends on mic placement. Not sure where you had the two mics placed for this video, but a worthwhile experiment if you're willing to look a little silly would be mounting the two mics over your ears to approximate a binaural recording.
Bike lanes are the stupidest thing the government ever came up with, how are cyclists on the streets safer than on the sidewalks?, as a driver, I’ve seen so many cyclists not following the rules of the road, they ride in groups but not in single file and yet they wonder why cyclists are getting hit by cars, it’s not the drivers fault, it’s the cyclists.
Just so you know. E-scooters are not legal on the roads, bike lanes or sidewalks in Toronto. Further, no electric vehicles are allowed in protected bike lanes unless they are being peddled. If the police actually enforced the law you would be ticketed, and if they wanted to, they could enforce the law. If you end up causing an accident you would almost certainly be liable. Because of the legal status of the vehicle i would expect insurance companies would have a good case not to pay out to you if you're injured. Be safe ✌️
The reasons the city gives to not join the province's pilot program also all apply to ebikes (and most to bikes) which are very legal. We we need to embrace more micro mobility, that is all the more reason to keep riding and pushing to the inevitable reality where they are accepted. The police already recognize this (I know a few who own them, including one who rides his to work). People who are opposed to them can go pound sand with their nonsense arguments, they're here to stay.
The Lanes, where they exist on Eglington, are nice lanes. The fact that they just disappear periodically is almost unbelievable.. The bike lanes are on Bloor are terrible, disjointed and forces you to weave around oddly parked cars. I am hoping the Eglington ones are just partially finished, and will be joined together.
F bike lanes cars pay to be on the rds bikes don’t trucks build the and maintain the city we live in bikes don’t take your bike to the lake front trial or to a off rd trial were there ment to be and fyi way safer
I feel like the green line along the bike lane needs to be on the right side (or maybe both) so pedestrians can tell where the bike lane and sidewalk separates. Even if we're not conscious about it, our brains need to have some sort of visual separator. Having it look and feel like part of the sidewalk won't work.
ive always wondered why the bike lanes on eglinton are patchwork abominations. Finch west isnt like this at all, the lanes are too narrow sure but finch west's lanes are continuous at least, and they even ripped up the southbound highway entrance near jane and finch just to install a prefab pedestrian tunnel underneath it, its awesome by toronto standards.
i don't think I would ride Eglinton...the road is too narrow for the amount of traffic...I also think a more appropriate protection for the bike lane would be concrete, or similar stanchions/barriers
dam so many quick changes im sure once the road is redone it will contain a bike path but bye bye parking even though parking garages provide a much better place for vehicle parking allowing more green spaces for sidewalks or bike lanes amongst trees also allowing for traffic flow not allowing stop and go temporary parking
Привет, Джонни, спасибо за прогулку! У нас в России огромные штрафы, если проезжаешь на самокате (велосипеде) пешеходный переходы 🙄, нужно спешиться и катить рядом самокат (велосипед), а вас смотрю все проезжают, класс. Почему у нас за это штрафуют, не пойму.. И велосипедные дорожки мне у вас нравятся, ещё раз спасибо за видео! 👍🏻
The by-law is fortunately not enforced as it's idiotic. Why not ban ebikes too since all of their same lame reasons would apply to them? And bikes while they're at it. We have idiots at the helm...
Although the cycling infrastructure is fair to poor here in Toronto it has a long way to go, especially as you mentioned the fractured nature of the infrastructure itself. Although the raised bike lanes are ok, I find the pedestrian side a problem because of no barriers or a clear indication of a live cycling lane leading to pedestrians wandering onto them without realizing the danger. I think far more energy needs to put into demanding much wider road space for alternative transport particularly in this day and age when auto traffic congestion is contributing to rapid climate change, auto driver entitlement needs to be tempered. It would be cool if you started another channel dedicated to alternative transport infrastructure by riding and commenting on them. Btw I have been riding in the DT area since 86 and have seen a significant amount of change. I usually take the lane if it gets dodgy, I don’t care about auto culture entitlement.
@@Jon20202 how would a bell make any difference there? she is literally standing in a spot where she can see oncoming cyclists and stands there like some sort of android. i would bet she wouldn't do that in the middle of a road with enormous SUVs and trucks barreling towards her. a bike path is okay though I guess she won't get killed so good enough?
@@kiwifruitguy I encounter this situation daily. Cities are now mixing sidewalks/cycletracks/bus stops due to limited area. They have the right to wait for the bus, and perhaps have an obstructed view. I ring my bell with 2-3 secs before interaction. 99% of time people move. I don't want an injury, and I'm sure neither do they.
@@AlCatSplat absolutely but for understanding human nature is part of it, for decades in Can/US you waited at the bus stop by the curb so the bus STOPPED. Now there is this buffer interrupting that, and thousands have to relearn social interactions ingrained. Which is why a simple bell ding avoids some much conflict.
It is so awesome that Toronto was able to spend millions to reduce these streets down to one lane in some cases, in order to make bike lanes that are only usable for 6 months by the 4 people who use them. This is how you run a city folks. Hopefully the people who brought this to fruition will be making decisions at a federal level soon.
Holland is flat, small, has city layouts that pre-date the automobile, and it’s in the same climate zone as northern Florida. We have nothing to learn from them.
It's an initiative they started during the pandemic. Because nothing is more pleasant than having coffee a foot away from four or five lanes of traffic...
the first bike, if someone comes to turn right, (can yourn on red light?) he will look left and 80% of the drivers will not look to the right before crossing the bike lane. 6:48 at this speed you should follow the car and make sure he sees you, its not 2 lanes , its 1 and a parking, a door can open anytime. YourE IN HIS BLINDSPOT , and you stay there, I would hate that. in this condition, take more space. after , the lane just disappear ! 2 times , one just in front of a shool.. yea .. not very smart. 11:20 cell + walk = dead lol near the
Funner fact: nobody has ever gotten a "very large ticket" for riding one. City council are out to lunch on this one and fortunately the police are on the side of sanity.
What a bad job! Not only for bikers but specially for us, drivers. It looks like a child or somebody that never been at Eglinton made this stupidity. From three lanes, it turns into one not considering TTC, delivery trucks and a lot of cars. Simply incompetence to do the job.
I'm a road cyclist, and I despise the separated bicycle tracks. They constrain your movement, it's hard for cyclists to pass each other, and you can't avoid hazards or debris on the ground. But the WORST design is on Bloor/Danforth. I've seen riders on club rides crash into pedestrians who walk between parked cars and into the bike lane. Bikes are hidden from view with parked cars on one side and poles/boxes/pedestrians on the other side. Nobody expects bikes to be between parked cars and the curb so when someone steps into the bike lane, a rider can't swerve left or right to avoid the pedestrian, and kaboom, everyone goes splat on the ground. Vehicles turning right into sidestreets also can't see you coming from behind the parked cars and you get right-hooked. Bloody dangerous design. Riding in York Region is so much more fun and safe.
Cyclists such as yourself are the minority in the core though... and you always have the option to keep riding with vehicles so this doesn't even affect you. Protected lanes save lives and encourage more cycling, we have a lack of enforcement and infrastructure problem but hopefully we'll get there.
Some cyclists are riding on the wrong side of the road. It's extremely dangerous, especially when at intersections., as drivers aren't expecting a fast moving object coming from their right.
Maybe she went the wrong way, but I personally don't like having cars coming behind my back too. What if some dumb or drunk idiot is coming behind my back and I can see him/her? That wrong way you are talking about should actually be the right way.
@@davidhughes6048 Considered as vehicles by whom? Are rollers considered vehicles then? Cars are hundred times heavier and at least 5 times faster than bicycles which gives 500 times bigger kinetic force on impact and bicycles are not easy to steer and quiet unwieldy.
@@gledatelj1979 well by the Highway Traffic Act, obviously. No idea about “rollers”. My bicycle is quite easy to steer and quite easily wielded. Not sure how it could be more so.
It's illegal to ride on the sidewalks in the Toronto. Sidewalks are for people on foot, not for people on 2 wheels. They belong on the roads or in bike lanes. The real question is, why do some (most) drivers think roads are for cars and nothing else?
There are hundred cars on road and zero bicycle on bike lane most of the time. The bike lane is a anti car and waste of resources. I are no bicycles on Midland Ave and Hungtinwood Road bike lanes 99.99999%. Tell me this is not a waste of resources
Not bad you don't seem to have crazies with pass you at 30 kph with there newe scooters, where inam they do & they don't care who they cut off, some even dare to use the bike path for there e-motor cycles wich is not allowed on the bike path. I work in the city & i am always walking from one end to the other of town, i have to keep a steel bar with me as self defense against these idiots on wheel's, they ram you knock you over beet the hell out of you then steal your wallet, we also have crazy elderly people who use there mobility scooters that reach 32 kph & they don't care who they hit just last week a mother with her two month old baby in the stroller was slammed into by some elderly nut case who refused to slow down or even stop after ramming the stroller. Thankfully the child wasn't hurt but the stroller is trashed, 🤬 city regulations are no longer applicable because the C.A.Q government gave all these motor freaks a all clear to use the bike paths in the province as they see fit. Hell just yesterday caught a dude with his freaking Harley bike on the bike path because he wanted to avoid all traffic lights & stop sings & just pushed the bike to full speed. Yes the cops where called but they never caught him. 😡 So it just goes to show you how inconsiderate people have become.
Did it not occur to you why they call them bike lanes? they need to prevent motorcycles and scooters from using them. You are a good example of why scooters should not be in bike lanes, you are riding way to close to parked cars and will get doored. That said they are terrible bike lanes because they are too narrow to pass another bike and they those raised sections.
Toronto traffic has become a nightmare - pure gridlock at times. Yes, a lot of it is construction, but bike lanes that get used less than 1/2 of the year don’t help. Especially when many cyclists seem to think the bike lanes are for other bikers, not them, so they use the now-much-narrower roads, tying up traffic. Just drive down the Bayview extension. Planning at its finest. Arghh.
That argument is pure nonsense. Bike lanes are far more utilized than "half of the year" and having a patchy, incomplete bike network along with virtually zero enforcement of all the shitty drivers out there (including cyclists) is what makes things less safe. What we need is a road diet, less lanes to get people onto transit and out of vehicles.
@@JohnnyStrides it’s not nonsense. Toronto now has the worst gridlock of any North American city. And bike lanes have absolutely contributed to it. I don’t know where you drive, but where I do the bike lanes are used about half the year, and many cyclists feel at liberty to stay off them and ride in the lanes reserved for cars. That’s a constant. Yes there are shitty drivers of cars - way too many - but most cyclists pay zero heed to the rules of the road, including not stopping at stop signs and weaving between cars on the road
@@masterdad-zf9po Umm... it is absolute nonsense and it's not backed by any statistics. We barely have any snow or ice on the roads in the winter and the bike lanes are still well utilized. As for cyclists not paying attention, have you ever taken a look at the way people drive in this city? We need actual enforcement... period. A cyclist treating a stop sign like a yield sign is not only safer for everyone, it speeds things up for cars as well so that's a pretty dumb thing to complain about. The city needs a road diet and to stop catering to vehicles. End of story.
@johnnyStrides It might be worth making a video about the illegality of E-scooters in Toronto. Technically they are 100% illegal. On the road, and on the sidewalks. If the powers that be ever did a crack down on these scooters, it might create chaos.
Going the wrong way is absolutely idiotic and selfish behaviour. It creates dangerous situations for cyclists riding correctly as well as drivers who aren't anticipating some idiot coming at them from the wrong side of the road.
The bike lane should be on the same grade as the road. If it is on the same grade as the pavement, it will be in-differentiable from the pavement and pedestrians will stand on them.
Some people celebrate the birth of a new child, kids graduations, romantic anniversaries, valentines day, family day, kids hockey and soccer game victories etc in the mid 40s. Johnny celebrates a freshly painted bike lane so that he can ride his e scooter in an infinite loop even though he is pushing 50 years old and humiliate any pedestrians who accidentally step foot anywhere on the fresh paint. 🤣
You've climbed out of your hole yet again to dissect another video and come to the defense of rude people while slinging wildly ignorant (and inaccurate) "facts" 🤣 If only we could all be as wise as you (and have this much time on our hands).
Thanks for watching, I'm curious to hear your thoughts on the new stereo audio setup I used on this one. Let me know!
Amazing how it works out to sound stereo, although each mic is omnidirectional. But it adds spatiality, which does sound better the better the home audio set up is. I like it very much, mono audio is always a limitation to me. And on top of it Rode mics sounds better than DJI mics anyway (my opinion). Great Video Johnny with awesome audio!
Привет, Джонни! Отличный звук! Прекрасное видео как всегда! 👍🏻Спасибо большое!
The new stereo audio is excellent! Wow that road is bad!😮Thank you so much Johnny!🤗
The stereo audio is great, and it feels more immersive, although to that point, if I were to be picky...the immersion can get a little disorienting sometimes since the mics are mounted to your chest rather than the camera, so at times the direction of the sound doesn't match what i'd expect based on what i'm seeing in the video. e.g. if the camera is turned a different way than your chest, or like whenever your head turns while you're speaking, the effect is like as if your whole head is moving to the left or right of the camera :p
I find it ironic that the first thing you do is comment on someone going the wrong way on the bike path and how they are breaking the rules of the road and then you proceed to ride an e-scooter on the same path, because there is bylaw against e-scooters in Toronto and they are not allowed on any roads or side walks.
18:18 With respect, I enjoyed hearing you comment about vehicles blocking the crosswalk and then watching you drive through a red on your e scooter!
Even though the bike lanes seem disjointed, it makes sense from a financial standpoint.
It is most financially effective to install bike lanes on sections of the road where you're doing repair work anyway. If a section of road is due for repair, or you're doing the finishing touches on construction such as rebuilding the road after performing the subway extension; these are the best times to install new bike lanes.
The fact that there are some disjointed sections means that it is not yet time to work on those sections of road if they have a few more years of life left in them.
Driving in Toronto is infuriating. Cycling/using any other vehicle seems terrifying. Wouldn't want to share a lane with all those death tanks, er, SUVs.
They drive in the bikes lanes too. People dont seem to give a *&^% anymore.
Trust me you should see drivers here in Brampton there so bad compared to T.O
Grow some balls.
@@andrewsneacker1256 💀💀💀💀it dangerous tho
Im sure glad I don't love living in toronto. this way when I leave there will be nothing to look back on. toronto is good memories but terrible presents.
The number of close passes was cringe. You seem so nonchalant but be careful in the door zone! Awesome vid.
We have a similar "patchwork" buildup of bike lanes and two-way protected bike paths in San Diego. 30th bike lanes just become sharrows after a few miles. They are almost done connecting downtown with a new extension of the Bayshore trail but still a mile short...they are almost done with a complete extension of a two way bike path between downtown and the eastern neighborhoods via Balboa Park too. Still it's progress for the better.
Good morning JStrides! Drinking my coffee and watching this ride! Life is good!
I could hear you very clearly over the traffic. Enjoy the beautiful weather before the ☔️ returns.
Okay, that stretch just west of Avenue Road was AWFUL! If I'm honest, I would not have done that scoot - far too dangerous, with the sudden merges, disappearing lanes, and delivery trucks. I *did* like the dedicated cycling light at Eglinton West, though.
Great scooter ride. No complaints about the audio. Sounded excellent.
Good video.
I can tell when you look over your shoulder, the stereo is really noticeable then. I like it! 😊
LRT in subway tunnels is crazy
Great ride thanks Johnny, stay safe on the roads! The audio is fantastic here - I can hear you clearly, is this the same mic you used for the recent Yellow Creek Ravine video? Many thanks and have a great Friday! ☺
Of course! Whenever government tries to improve the lives of the common slave it's never for them really but vanity project for the politician. The bike lanes on College pre Spadina are a mess too, being too thin and many bike lanes still have potholes.
6th generation Torontonian here: heard many stories of the past and lived 56 years of this city. I’ve never seen or heard of it being so screwed up and mismanaged both by city council and the police.
i was at that very intersection today wondering how many people unboarding the buses collide with bikes..
Still it's a terrifing, harrowing, nail-biting experience. Cycling in Halifax is just as bad if not worse than Toronto. Peak traffic hours are the scariest but a good knowledge of back streets and shortcuts can make commuting safer .
Absolutely another beautiful sharing ... Thanks Jhonny
Honestly, from a Canadian living in Japan with bad traffic and narrow streets and a high number of aggressive drivers to deal with every day a--that looks like a cyclists heaven !! Maybe it’s not completed yet or that it’s piecemeal but at least you’ve got space to ride !!
Yes. The stereo audio was excellent. My God, I live in a much smaller town and don't think I would 'brave' this videos roads you were just on Johnny. The weather makes such a difference for the video experience. Stay safe out there.
Eglinton Cross town is delayed indefinitely.
By the time they finish testing the vehicles, they will be worn out
No worries, now they're moved on and started the Ontario Line that after seven(?) years of construction hell, will add 5-10min to my current door to door commute from home to Yonge & King.
Johnny, I really enjoy your channel and thank you for sharing the great content. Every road and infrastructure in larger cities in Canada are being designed and engineered by people who are completely incompetent. Construction companies are also a complete failure, the quality of work is subpar.
love wrong way riders.....I have played chicken with them all and am currently undefeated lol
Atleast the bike lanes were finished and are usable compared to the Eglinton line...
You mean the soon to be walking trail? The one with the really low handrails.
Sound held up - good job, UA-camr.
This e-bike route is too scary for me to try.
Full disclosure, I moved out of Toronto a decade ago and haven't driven on Eglinton Avenue since the light-rail transit construction began (long before the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns)
That was hard to watch. I wouldn’t trust the traffic on that road
good morning everyone
Hi Goodnite Johnny Strides! watz sup souljah it's been awile@ truly hoped adventure life going absolut also spring was full of xcitement, quiet and safe cause (2 more weeks left) until summer☀️☀️ kicks in! This was indeed a good e-bikey livestream you did starting from midtown westward along Eglinton to future cedarvale stn then good sunny ride back east on route to Redpath Ave thanks soo much for bringing us along for adventure sweeet
I believe that the stations are designed to have towers built over them one day, whenever a developer has a proposal
Those bike lanes aren't terrible, but the in between parts are awful, good job, thanks
All bike should have poles. Drivers do not respect painted lines. Also I hope the city will repair some of the bike lanes. Some are so bad it rattles my old bones.
The poles are really ugly. Elevated bike lanes r the best. Looks good and gives u better line of sight.
It's quite brave of you to be riding that bike "patch", and especially brave riding a suspension free ninebot max on such a horrible surface. I love riding escooter, and while ninebot max is a great starter scooter, after about 2 years and 1000km standing on it, I got the emove cruiser. There's day and night difference for the same rides and going much longer diatance is way less painful. I've never ridden in Toronto area though due to the regulations issues (I stick to york region), if you've been riding around without issues maybe I should head that way sometimes.
BTW if you hear cars honking and yelling something unintelligible, it maybe someone shouting ridiculously misinformed slur "ride on the sidewalks". I've heard this around the quieter york region roads several times, about 5% of drivers engage in this behavior. They shout and speed away. Nothing I can do about it, so instead I've learned to develop deafness and thick skin to combat it 😂.
If these people engaged in a conversation at the stop lights or something then I could help them, but they prefer acting cowardly instead.
Lastly, after 1000km, I decided to get a seat (the ninebot suspension seat) and the scooter feels much more comfortable now. I use ninebot max now for just getting quick fresh air during WFH breaks, and emove cruiser for actual escooter commuting.
The Ninebot is a tank but your'e right, scooters with suspensions are much more comfortable. I have a couple of those, but like how light the Ninebot is.
Stereo recording really depends on mic placement. Not sure where you had the two mics placed for this video, but a worthwhile experiment if you're willing to look a little silly would be mounting the two mics over your ears to approximate a binaural recording.
How you survive cycling downtown?
Bike lanes are the stupidest thing the government ever came up with, how are cyclists on the streets safer than on the sidewalks?, as a driver, I’ve seen so many cyclists not following the rules of the road, they ride in groups but not in single file and yet they wonder why cyclists are getting hit by cars, it’s not the drivers fault, it’s the cyclists.
I hate bike riders who ride in the opposite direction in your lane. Can I do this with my car? NO. Don't do it even if you're a bike rider.
Good morning
The stereo microphone is nice, you can feel the cars zooming by you
you should check out eglington and weston. two way bike lane on south side.
I have!
Just so you know. E-scooters are not legal on the roads, bike lanes or sidewalks in Toronto. Further, no electric vehicles are allowed in protected bike lanes unless they are being peddled. If the police actually enforced the law you would be ticketed, and if they wanted to, they could enforce the law. If you end up causing an accident you would almost certainly be liable. Because of the legal status of the vehicle i would expect insurance companies would have a good case not to pay out to you if you're injured. Be safe ✌️
The reasons the city gives to not join the province's pilot program also all apply to ebikes (and most to bikes) which are very legal. We we need to embrace more micro mobility, that is all the more reason to keep riding and pushing to the inevitable reality where they are accepted. The police already recognize this (I know a few who own them, including one who rides his to work). People who are opposed to them can go pound sand with their nonsense arguments, they're here to stay.
Pretty nice design, especially compared to the paint lines on Eglinton East!
The city pays lip service to safety and laughingly claims in their own literature that "safety is our prime concern" Hah!
The Lanes, where they exist on Eglington, are nice lanes. The fact that they just disappear periodically is almost unbelievable.. The bike lanes are on Bloor are terrible, disjointed and forces you to weave around oddly parked cars. I am hoping the Eglington ones are just partially finished, and will be joined together.
F bike lanes cars pay to be on the rds bikes don’t trucks build the and maintain the city we live in bikes don’t take your bike to the lake front trial or to a off rd trial were there ment to be and fyi way safer
The bike lanes in Toronto are absolutely horrific!!
I’ve seen very few bike riders in Toronto who seem to be even aware that the rules of the road also apply to them, much less follow any!
Have you seen the way people drive in the city? You might be shocked... (but it's a lot, LOT worse than what you see from any cyclists).
Lol, remember when Eglinton didn't have ANY bike lanes? You risked your life every time you rode on Eglinton. Especially during rush hour.
Good video.Thanks.
I feel like the green line along the bike lane needs to be on the right side (or maybe both) so pedestrians can tell where the bike lane and sidewalk separates. Even if we're not conscious about it, our brains need to have some sort of visual separator. Having it look and feel like part of the sidewalk won't work.
You are very lucky to have great infostructure in Toronto
bro what 💀💀 this infrastructure sucks
@@AlCatSplat I mean the stuff that isn't bike related ain't terrible lol
ive always wondered why the bike lanes on eglinton are patchwork abominations. Finch west isnt like this at all, the lanes are too narrow sure but finch west's lanes are continuous at least, and they even ripped up the southbound highway entrance near jane and finch just to install a prefab pedestrian tunnel underneath it, its awesome by toronto standards.
The bike lane is playing hide and seek.😅
The sidewalk too is mostly narrow and non existent on some streets.
i don't think I would ride Eglinton...the road is too narrow for the amount of traffic...I also think a more appropriate protection for the bike lane would be concrete, or similar stanchions/barriers
21:05 actual NPC out in the wild.
You only have one life man, you can make your point without risking your life. Stay safe.
Johnny, take the belt line trail across Eglinton W next time. It's much safer.
dam so many quick changes im sure once the road is redone it will contain a bike path but bye bye parking even though parking garages provide a much better place for vehicle parking allowing more green spaces for sidewalks or bike lanes amongst trees also allowing for traffic flow not allowing stop and go temporary parking
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An e-scooter huh? Aren’t they illegal under a City Of Toronto by-law?
The by-law is fortunately not enforced as it's idiotic. Why not ban ebikes too since all of their same lame reasons would apply to them? And bikes while they're at it. We have idiots at the helm...
Although the cycling infrastructure is fair to poor here in Toronto it has a long way to go, especially as you mentioned the fractured nature of the infrastructure itself. Although the raised bike lanes are ok, I find the pedestrian side a problem because of no barriers or a clear indication of a live cycling lane leading to pedestrians wandering onto them without realizing the danger. I think far more energy needs to put into demanding much wider road space for alternative transport particularly in this day and age when auto traffic congestion is contributing to rapid climate change, auto driver entitlement needs to be tempered. It would be cool if you started another channel dedicated to alternative transport infrastructure by riding and commenting on them. Btw I have been riding in the DT area since 86 and have seen a significant amount of change. I usually take the lane if it gets dodgy, I don’t care about auto culture entitlement.
21:06 that person has no shame obstructing the bike lane and totally ignoring you
bells aren't complicated or costly devices
@@Jon20202 how would a bell make any difference there? she is literally standing in a spot where she can see oncoming cyclists and stands there like some sort of android. i would bet she wouldn't do that in the middle of a road with enormous SUVs and trucks barreling towards her. a bike path is okay though I guess she won't get killed so good enough?
@@kiwifruitguy I encounter this situation daily. Cities are now mixing sidewalks/cycletracks/bus stops due to limited area. They have the right to wait for the bus, and perhaps have an obstructed view.
I ring my bell with 2-3 secs before interaction. 99% of time people move. I don't want an injury, and I'm sure neither do they.
@@Jon20202 they can wait on the sidewalk
@@AlCatSplat absolutely but for understanding human nature is part of it, for decades in Can/US you waited at the bus stop by the curb so the bus STOPPED. Now there is this buffer interrupting that, and thousands have to relearn social interactions ingrained. Which is why a simple bell ding avoids some much conflict.
It is so awesome that Toronto was able to spend millions to reduce these streets down to one lane in some cases, in order to make bike lanes that are only usable for 6 months by the 4 people who use them. This is how you run a city folks. Hopefully the people who brought this to fruition will be making decisions at a federal level soon.
This is quite possibly the most braindead comment I've ready in a while, congrats.
All that way and your the only one using it for 45 min ???
A shame they are still operating buses on Eglinton!
Toronto City Council would be wise to just hire Dutch urban planners. Decade after decade we get it wrong.
Holland is flat, small, has city layouts that pre-date the automobile, and it’s in the same climate zone as northern Florida. We have nothing to learn from them.
7:37 why is there a cafe on the road?😅
It's an initiative they started during the pandemic. Because nothing is more pleasant than having coffee a foot away from four or five lanes of traffic...
@@Frostbiker The cars zooming by generate enough air flow to push covid particles away from your table
It's a fairly normal thing in many cities.
the first bike, if someone comes to turn right, (can yourn on red light?) he will look left and 80% of the drivers will not look to the right before crossing the bike lane. 6:48 at this speed you should follow the car and make sure he sees you, its not 2 lanes , its 1 and a parking, a door can open anytime. YourE IN HIS BLINDSPOT , and you stay there, I would hate that. in this condition, take more space. after , the lane just disappear ! 2 times , one just in front of a shool.. yea .. not very smart. 11:20 cell + walk = dead lol near the
Fun fact: e-scooters are illegal in Toronto and you can get a very large ticket for riding one anywhere.
Funner fact: nobody has ever gotten a "very large ticket" for riding one. City council are out to lunch on this one and fortunately the police are on the side of sanity.
Eglinton has been ruined by the horrible city planners in Toronto
U need good mirrors
the problem with e scooters is that the people that use them are generally inconsiderate and unsafe
The same applies to ebike users... so the real problem is improper infrastructure and lack of enforcement.
I'm so happy I'm now 4000km away from that shithole.
And I in turn, am also glad you live 4000km away ;)
It is time for bike purchases to have a tax that pay for the bike lanes.
What a bad job! Not only for bikers but specially for us, drivers. It looks like a child or somebody that never been at Eglinton made this stupidity. From three lanes, it turns into one not considering TTC, delivery trucks and a lot of cars. Simply incompetence to do the job.
I'm a road cyclist, and I despise the separated bicycle tracks. They constrain your movement, it's hard for cyclists to pass each other, and you can't avoid hazards or debris on the ground. But the WORST design is on Bloor/Danforth. I've seen riders on club rides crash into pedestrians who walk between parked cars and into the bike lane. Bikes are hidden from view with parked cars on one side and poles/boxes/pedestrians on the other side. Nobody expects bikes to be between parked cars and the curb so when someone steps into the bike lane, a rider can't swerve left or right to avoid the pedestrian, and kaboom, everyone goes splat on the ground. Vehicles turning right into sidestreets also can't see you coming from behind the parked cars and you get right-hooked. Bloody dangerous design. Riding in York Region is so much more fun and safe.
Cyclists such as yourself are the minority in the core though... and you always have the option to keep riding with vehicles so this doesn't even affect you. Protected lanes save lives and encourage more cycling, we have a lack of enforcement and infrastructure problem but hopefully we'll get there.
Some cyclists are riding on the wrong side of the road. It's extremely dangerous, especially when at intersections., as drivers aren't expecting a fast moving object coming from their right.
It's dangerous for other cyclists too.
Maybe she went the wrong way, but I personally don't like having cars coming behind my back too. What if some dumb or drunk idiot is coming behind my back and I can see him/her? That wrong way you are talking about should actually be the right way.
Umm... then EVERYONE has to go that way. One person riding in the bike lanes the wrong way is an a*shole no matter how you shake it.
All bike lanes on arterial roads do is drive traffic into residential neighborhoods. They are poorly conceived and badly executed.
Properly designed residential streets with modal filtering solves this completely non (and totally made up by you) issue.
Why do bikers want to drive with cars instead of a sidewalk?
Because bikes are considered vehicles, so they are not permitted on sidewalks.
@@davidhughes6048 Considered as vehicles by whom? Are rollers considered vehicles then? Cars are hundred times heavier and at least 5 times faster than bicycles which gives 500 times bigger kinetic force on impact and bicycles are not easy to steer and quiet unwieldy.
@@gledatelj1979 well by the Highway Traffic Act, obviously. No idea about “rollers”. My bicycle is quite easy to steer and quite easily wielded. Not sure how it could be more so.
@@gledatelj1979 By the law.
It's illegal to ride on the sidewalks in the Toronto. Sidewalks are for people on foot, not for people on 2 wheels. They belong on the roads or in bike lanes.
The real question is, why do some (most) drivers think roads are for cars and nothing else?
More footage of empty bike lanes…and e-scooters aren’t legal in Toronto. Lol
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Bike Lanes are dangerous everywhere so are the sidewalks lol
is there a point
31:50 Bruh
There are hundred cars on road and zero bicycle on bike lane most of the time. The bike lane is a anti car and waste of resources. I are no bicycles on Midland Ave and Hungtinwood Road bike lanes 99.99999%. Tell me this is not a waste of resources
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Not bad you don't seem to have crazies with pass you at 30 kph with there newe scooters, where inam they do & they don't care who they cut off, some even dare to use the bike path for there e-motor cycles wich is not allowed on the bike path. I work in the city & i am always walking from one end to the other of town, i have to keep a steel bar with me as self defense against these idiots on wheel's, they ram you knock you over beet the hell out of you then steal your wallet, we also have crazy elderly people who use there mobility scooters that reach 32 kph & they don't care who they hit just last week a mother with her two month old baby in the stroller was slammed into by some elderly nut case who refused to slow down or even stop after ramming the stroller. Thankfully the child wasn't hurt but the stroller is trashed, 🤬 city regulations are no longer applicable because the C.A.Q government gave all these motor freaks a all clear to use the bike paths in the province as they see fit. Hell just yesterday caught a dude with his freaking Harley bike on the bike path because he wanted to avoid all traffic lights & stop sings & just pushed the bike to full speed. Yes the cops where called but they never caught him. 😡 So it just goes to show you how inconsiderate people have become.
Look !!!!!! NO BIKES
Did it not occur to you why they call them bike lanes? they need to prevent motorcycles and scooters from using them. You are a good example of why scooters should not be in bike lanes, you are riding way to close to parked cars and will get doored. That said they are terrible bike lanes because they are too narrow to pass another bike and they those raised sections.
Did chatGPT write this comment after getting drunk? Because that’s how it sounds.
This might be the dumbest thing I've read in a very long time.
bicycles have no business using the same roads as cars and trucks.
This is quite daft, go read the HTA and get back to me.
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Toronto traffic has become a nightmare - pure gridlock at times. Yes, a lot of it is construction, but bike lanes that get used less than 1/2 of the year don’t help. Especially when many cyclists seem to think the bike lanes are for other bikers, not them, so they use the now-much-narrower roads, tying up traffic. Just drive down the Bayview extension. Planning at its finest. Arghh.
That argument is pure nonsense. Bike lanes are far more utilized than "half of the year" and having a patchy, incomplete bike network along with virtually zero enforcement of all the shitty drivers out there (including cyclists) is what makes things less safe. What we need is a road diet, less lanes to get people onto transit and out of vehicles.
@@JohnnyStrides it’s not nonsense. Toronto now has the worst gridlock of any North American city. And bike lanes have absolutely contributed to it. I don’t know where you drive, but where I do the bike lanes are used about half the year, and many cyclists feel at liberty to stay off them and ride in the lanes reserved for cars. That’s a constant. Yes there are shitty drivers of cars - way too many - but most cyclists pay zero heed to the rules of the road, including not stopping at stop signs and weaving between cars on the road
@@masterdad-zf9po Umm... it is absolute nonsense and it's not backed by any statistics. We barely have any snow or ice on the roads in the winter and the bike lanes are still well utilized. As for cyclists not paying attention, have you ever taken a look at the way people drive in this city? We need actual enforcement... period. A cyclist treating a stop sign like a yield sign is not only safer for everyone, it speeds things up for cars as well so that's a pretty dumb thing to complain about. The city needs a road diet and to stop catering to vehicles. End of story.
Absorbing.
@johnnyStrides It might be worth making a video about the illegality of E-scooters in Toronto. Technically they are 100% illegal. On the road, and on the sidewalks. If the powers that be ever did a crack down on these scooters, it might create chaos.
You think this is Amsterdam, what more do you want
Don't blame cyclists for goin the "wrong" way. It's the only way to prevent death from distracted drivers.
Going the wrong way is absolutely idiotic and selfish behaviour. It creates dangerous situations for cyclists riding correctly as well as drivers who aren't anticipating some idiot coming at them from the wrong side of the road.
The bike lane should be on the same grade as the road. If it is on the same grade as the pavement, it will be in-differentiable from the pavement and pedestrians will stand on them.
I would rather risk crashing with a pedestrian than with a pickup truck.
@@Frostbiker Bike lanes that are same grade as the road can still be protected using bollards etc.
New tax call bike taxes, city need more money
Some people celebrate the birth of a new child, kids graduations, romantic anniversaries, valentines day, family day, kids hockey and soccer game victories etc in the mid 40s. Johnny celebrates a freshly painted bike lane so that he can ride his e scooter in an infinite loop even though he is pushing 50 years old and humiliate any pedestrians who accidentally step foot anywhere on the fresh paint. 🤣
You've climbed out of your hole yet again to dissect another video and come to the defense of rude people while slinging wildly ignorant (and inaccurate) "facts" 🤣
If only we could all be as wise as you (and have this much time on our hands).