GHENT: An Active Towns View of the Velo-city 2024 Bike Parade
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- At long last, here's my take on the Velo-city Conference Parade of Velo-Citizens and Ghent community members cycling in one big rolling party for the joy and love of the ride.
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The world could be a totally different place. How wonderful to see all these amazing people embracing change. I hope to see more of these events worldwide in next few years. Congratulations to the organisers and those that took part well done.
Any day riding a bike is a good day… with 2,000+ friends, even better! 😀
Way to go 👍
Thanks! 🙏
Hey, it's my home city 😁.
Cycling has always be a big deal here but the last couple of years infrastructure has gotten much better.
It was such a pleasure visiting your fine home city! 🙏
Fabulous!
It was fab indeed! 😀
Wow so many big names :D
I remember seeing my first Ghent FIETSSTRAAT in a Street Film video.
@02:00 Very creative bridge at an unusual location
@03:40 Bikes on a freeway make no sound. Imagine that.
@07:21 Riding in old city centres, love it
@12:00 Such a nice variety of rider, so nice to see.
@13:00 I'm jealous of these gigantic bike parkings!
Thanks so much for watching! 😀
Nice contrast today with the Tour de Ghent, for all ages and abilities, and the Tour de France, where I saw no hand-propelled wheel-chair bikes.
Hehe, 🤣 Well, they are two completely different events. My motto is, if you're riding your bike you're doing it right. Just enjoy the ride.
@@ActiveTownsI've followed the Tour de France for decades. One of my students is the sister of a French champion. The Tour inspires me to do challenging rides. My gripe, at least with the French media coverage, which is superb in many ways, is that they fail to make the necessary connections that could make the Tour encourage average people to ride a bike. The good news is that Mayor Anne Hidalgo teamed up with Tour stage winner Peter Sagan, collaborating with him as Goodwill Ambassador for Cycling Cities. Tour organizers could have done this on their own but it didn't occur to them.
Meanwhile in the USA, the only bike parade I've heard of was in South Park.😆😂
lol 😂 I hear ya. Go for it! Host your own. Here’s one in Madison I filmed at a PeopleForBikes gathering: ua-cam.com/video/uygjbpoH9uw/v-deo.htmlsi=PJZZOBxY9WDrpdem