American Reacts to Why Nobody Cycles in London
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As an American I may not know how the public transportation works in London but I am very surprised to hear that no one uses bicycles. Today I am very interested in learning about why nobody cycles in London. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
I didn't understand the title of this video. London is full of cyclists. You can't travel anywhere in London without seeing many cyclists.
Tyler this is nonsense. There are cyclists everywhere in London. Cars are not practical for commuting parking costs are rediculous if you can even find a parking space . Even Boris Johnson rode a bike to Downing street. Plus the emission charges no average Joe can afford to drive a car in London any more.
The original video is now 6 years old, and was called "Why is cycling not normal in London" not "Why nobody cycles in London". If you actually watch it, it does chart the increase in cycle use in recent (at that point) years.
Really boomed since all 630+ sq. miles of Greater London has become a ULEZ and a car unless very new, an EV or over 40 years old and registered as Tax/MOT exempt costs £12 per day (any 24 consecutive hours from entry) to drive it inside the zone. The price of 80's and older cars is beginning to rise. Don't think we'll see many Model T Fords, Austin 7's or Bullnose Morris' on the roads though.
the number of cycling trips graph needed be plotted with respect to the numbers of population, which also declined), and also a match to Bus and Train trips - which increased and folk used to cycle to work at Ford and the Docklands and those works disappeared
There's a reason you never heard of this before. As a londonder, this is the dumbest take I've heard in a minute. There are literally bikes and pay as you go bikes littered on the streets lol.
In other words not being used?
@@vtbn53 moreso being used & then left on the floor afterwards, smart-ass.
@@vtbn53I have to be careful to avoid hoards of cyclists when crossing a local main road in central London each morning and evening. Definitely no shortage of cyclists (even though London's roads have not in general been best designed to accommodate them).
@@neiluk4109 Yeah it's pretty much the same here in Australia, most of the roads aren't built for cyclists so they become a severe nuisance to motorists.
@@vtbn53 In fairness, I think private motorists (commercial vehicles / public transport / black cabs aside) remain a much bigger issue here! I just have to be sure to look both ways multiple times before crossing as cyclists can be more difficult to spot, but that aside it's good to see all that pedal power. I just wish they'd all obey the law and stop at red lights... (Many do but so many don't and seem to think it's okay not to.)
If you’d watch longer clips at a time, you’d probably realise that this video is written as a comedy sketch - the narrator is from the “Map Men” team, who have been making very interesting, factual videos about London and the surrounding areas with a fantastic comic twist for years. Check out some of their videos, but realise that this is the British humour you say you like so much!
You've got to remember Britain isn't just London. Cycling is popular all over the Uk
Cycling is also popular in London 💀🤣
There are numerous cycling lanes in London ,why would anyway think no ones cycle.
The premis of this video is absurd. In 2023, an average of 1,230,000 cycle journeys were made EACH DAY in London. There were 226 miles of designated cycle lanes in London as of Nov 2023.
The base video is 6 Years old, the premise was reasonable, it was also the 1st of 2 parts
I'm 73 years old and have and still do cycle in London. I've been knocked off my bike three times, so yes there is danger
Come to London and you’ll quickly see that yes, there are plenty of cyclists on the street. The problem is the political agenda that makes them feel superior to drivers leading to an aggressive car hating attitude by an obnoxious minority. There needs to be respect on both sides.
To be fair (and I'm not a cyclist), they are much more vulnerable than a car driver. You might get a ding in your car if you make a mistake but they may end up dead. And if a cyclist has a few near accidents with stupid or aggressive car drivers then their attitude is going to be quite hostile towards all car drivers even if it is not warranted. And I know there are careless cyclists as well as suicidal courier cyclists as well.
Wherever you see a white bike chained, it's called a ghost bike as someone cycling died there, and the bike is a memorial to them.
Glad to say that I have never seen one.
Lol loads of people cycle in London I've seen it tons of times.
I mean, geez they do it every other city including London and most times. Cycling cheaper then the buses or the sub and depending on the line sometimes you can take your bike on the sub. There are rent a bikes and tons of bike racks outside the subs. All this evidence and someone makes post like this wtf.
I would be very scared to cycle in London but there are many cyclists now. Mr Belisha first seen at the beginning, invented the Belisha beacon for use on zebra crossings, hence his weird round head.
Cycling is a huge thing in London,
Especially with the rent and cycle bikes on every street corner.
In fact I'm considering starting to cycle to get about London.
How old is this video?
6 years, and its part 1 of a 2 parter.
That's Jay Foreman, Beardyman's brother, same quirky sense of humour.
It has got a lot more popular now
As a multigenerational Londoner and a wheelchair user I feel I can’t win. I have never learned to drive so the car fees don’t affect me but I can’t cycle because of my disability, my only way to get around is via bus or pushed in my wheelchair. The attention should be on smooth paving and slopes for us wheelchair users.
Has any able bodied person jumped into a wheelchair and taken a trip around London? It’s a flipping nightmare! Trees and there roots in the pavement, cars parked near slopes so I can’t get cross the road..etc
This video covering bikes was not helpful
Wasnt helpful to you, because thats a totally different issue? Just because you cant cycle doesnt mean other people dont face issues with the dangers presented
For those who are wondering, here is what is written in the LAW Books as of 14.Sept.2023.
What are the laws around cycling on pavements? (Sidewalks)
Both Section 72 of the Highway Act 1835 and the Highway Code suggest it’s not legal for a cyclist to ride their bike on the pavement.
Section 72 of the Highway Act 1835 prohibits “wilfully riding” on footpaths, which refers to the path at the side of a carriageway. Since bicycles weren't as widely used in England as they are today, the original law from 1835 doesn’t exactly mention cyclists or bicycles. It also didn't mention pavements because that word is more recent.
The Highway Code also states: “You must not cycle on a pavement.”(Sidewalk)
Is it an offence to ride a bike on the pavement?
The punishment for riding a bike on the pavement is an immediate £30 fixed penalty notice fine.
This is charged under Schedule 3 and Section 51 of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988.
Typically speaking, only a very small percentage of cyclists in the UK receive a fine for cycling on the pavement. When they observe a cyclist violating the law, the majority of police officers will inform them verbally that they are infringing the law and should stop using the pavement.
There are loads of cyclists in London,most things are delivered by cyclists.
Most small things are delivered by cyclists!
I think that it's remarkable how much things have improved in London since this video came out. Still interesting though
The Map Men channel (or Jay Foreman) has a lot of good and humorous videos. See the ones on British place name pronunciation, or the origins of county names.
I'm glad you were confused. It meant I wasn't the only one!!!
He didn't finish the video...I'm sure he was about to explain why it WASN'T a success.
Actually I think Tyler's editing got it about right.
Check out the rest of the original for yourself.
The rest of the video was advertisements and thanks to sponsors. There was also a promise of a part 2, which, it seems, failed to materialise.
@@charleshedley4381 but the guy ended saying something like "not quite" in terms of why it wasn't good. I got the impression he was about to say how it was blocking roads with cycle lanes that are now being rowed back on. I haven't seen it though, so I will bow to your superior knowledge if I am incorrect.
@@charleshedley4381 Part 2 does exist, it's called "Why driver's should want cycle lanes"
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😊"That guy" is from 'Map Men' - he's Jay Foreman & well-known as writing & presenting humourous / educational / entertaining videos about London etc.
He's done videos on the London Underground - "the Tube", "Old London Bridge", Why are there so few / no bridges across the Thames east of Tower Bridge" to name but s few. He has also written & sung a song which names all of the "Tube Stations' in / around London....so s smart, entertaining, amusing & educated guy...well worth anyone's time. 😊🏴❤️🙂🖖
@@brigidsingleton1596 He is amazing, I agree!
He hadn`t finished.
Actually, he had. The rest of that video is a sponsored advert. Having said that, Jay Foreman's adverts are worth watching in their own right, just as funny as the main feature.
@@ougadougou9 Yes but there was a part 2.
Hi, my apologies. Found part two. Guess i jumped the gun.
In the UK we have a love hate relationship with cars and cyclists.
I've seen a fair few people on bikes in London when I worked the season there back in 1995 my friend
It's a shame he never got to the part where all the traffic congestion that the cycle lanes were supposed to help has actually got ten times worse since now there isn't enough space on the roads for the actual cars. Now what used to be a 5 minute ride in a taxi can take over half an hour, especially if it means crossing the river.
not true check out london cycle routes on youtube.
Having a bike lane doesn't make it popular if there aren't any good
It's far from Holland but there's pure bikes in London😄🤔 our prime minister the plonker rods one.
I know lots of people who cycled in London (and still do) and I spent many years cycling into London when I went to Uni in South Kensington and working near Oxford Circus. This was in the 80's and 90's (before Boris bikes and cycle superhighways).
Sadly, for some reason, cyclists in London don't always think that red traffic lights means stop for them. Jay Foreman makes brilliant YT content
True, but having seen some videos about Dutch cycling rules and how well it works there, maybe those light should not always apply to bikes, similar to red lights not always applying if you are turning right in US.
Just a thought, from a car driver.
I'm from the North of England (near Liverpool), and you do see adults on bikes in the morning about 6 am, 1 pm and about 9 pm or slightly before the start of a shift pattern. Typically on a cheap bike, as our much cherished illegal immigrants tend to steal them before they can upgrade themselves to motorbikes. In London, I guess it's the well-off people who can spend £5,000 - £15,000 for a show bike before they also get nicked.
Why didn't you just say bike thieves? Scousers used to be a an archetypal ingredient of jokes involving petty theft. Did you approve of that? I've never had a bike stolen by illegal immigrants, but I have certainly had them stolen by my 'fellow countrymen!'
In Outer London, it's wonderful NOT!!! n my local Town Centre the traffic flowed for the first 30 years after I moved there from Inner London.THEN they put in a Cycle Lane and everything changed. TWO lanes going into the High Street in the same direction became one lane as the road was no longer wide enough to accommodate the cycle lane and 2 other lanes for buses and cars. Gridlock, sometimes, especially, in the Winter evening rush hour, and the pollution by these weekly thousands of cars and buses must be colossal, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of frustrating annual hours wasted sitting in the newly created traffic and for what benefit? About 20 cyclists over a 24-hour day, it seems. The last 10 years have been a nightmare...
There is (or at least used to be) an extremely stupid system in Stckholm, Sweden, where next to the sidewalk there's parking places, and next to them there's bike lanes, and then the lanes for cars
He is one of the "Map Men" who have a lot of very informative and entertaining videos, well worth looking at.
My 'home city' Peterborough invested a lot of funding into new road systems and coordinated cycle paths as it expanded in the 1970s-1990s. The road systems went round the city whilst the cycle ways were like straight spokes providing short routes for people going to work, shop, play, etc. In the city centre they found you could exclude cars but combine buses, delivery vehicles, bikes and people.
One thing pointed out in the video that are really disliked/dreaded, even by keen cyclists like myself, are BIG multi-lane roundabouts. They are not designed for cyclists who are travelling much slower than cars and don't have a ton of metal around them for protection.
11:41 in Newcastle (northeast england), instead of the hire bikes, we have bright orange electric scooters. Same idea, different vehicle.
The tube is the most popular transport method as its so quick. But loads cycle. I wouldnt want to as its so busy. FYI Boris bikes were the idea of the previous labour mayor ken livingstone
People do cycle but there are far too many people and cars so it is dangerous.
My son (just turned 30 last September) cycles to and from work (in a school just south of the Thames), & he lives in Camberwell...he says it keeps him fit, and its obviously cheaper than driving a car to & from work!😊🏴❤️🖖
I've cycled from the East to the west of London just using cycling lanes. We even have bikes to rent
In my local area in Scotland a lot of the disused railway tracks were turned into mixed paths for cycling, walking amnd horse riding. Some of the pavements are mixed use for pedestrians and bikes as well it's fairly popular but most people still have a car if they can afford it. I cycle a lot and to be honest busy country roads are more worrying than town centres as people drive so fast. Lots of cyclists are really inconsiderate sadly but some of us try to not be selfish
London has quite the cycling community these days. Indeed there's this one TikToker/UA-camr who cycles round the city with his cat in the basket, and there’s many other cyclists in his vids...
I think you may be missing the point, if cycling were normal in London, there would not be a 'community' of cyclists.
Its a bit like, there are many Trainspotters in London, quite a 'community', because Train spotting is not Normal (sorry Trainspotters).
When people doing something normal, they are identified as that, People on Buses or the Tube in London are not a community of 'Busists' or 'Tubists', they are just normal people who some time ride on buses or the Tube, when people who some time ride bikes in London are not identified as cyclist or a cycling community, then it is normal.
In many rural areas and small towns owning and using a bike is normal and does not make you a cyclist.
There’s so many cyclist, they’ve changed parts of the highways code to encourage cycling making it safer. There is and probably always will be a clash with cars but generally we live side by side now.
The Cooper Mini won the world championship 3 times in a row.
Where there's a will, there's a way! Watch (on YT) how major European cities adapt to more sensible and more ecological means of inter- and inner-city transportation: "How to (Quickly) Build a Cycling City - Paris" - Not Just Bikes
There is more to the video, as there are still problems with these schemes (not surprisingly, one of the issues is the posh bods in Kensington and Chelsea have said 'Not having poor people coming thru here on their velocipedes...' - and getting away with it, 'cos they have money and the government don't want to upset them).
Jay Foreman's series, particularly this one 'Unfinished London' are excellent, and I can fully recommend them as possible future reactions.
Tyler: "I have never heard this before."
He literally says this in every video.... Yesterday on his Canada channel he read a news story about a goose being killed by a dog in a park in a small town in Canada. His response:
"I haven't heard anything about this!!"
The guy has no common sense.
Yeah, and he just recently discovered electric kettles for at least the fifth time. "I've never heard of these before..."
There is cycling in London. I live in the south and we have cycle lane's every where which is a pain in the butt
Our nearest town has pay to go Scooters. They are such a hazard, in the hands of idiots who take them on the roads without any knowledge of the Highway Code. Many disreputable cyclists do not wear appropriate gear, reflective clothing, or have lights on said bicycles. Traffic lights don't apply to them. Please, Tyler, don't tell us what's best for the environment. People in glasshouses shouldn't throw stones.👵🏴🌹🌹
Non story here, he's reviewing a comedy show, London is crammed with bikes, you can't move for the bloody things😂😂
Britain is into cycling, it's just that it's more popular in some areas than others - not least because of the weather... Also, London has exceptional public transport alternatives, when compared to many other areas. It is being heavily promoted as an alternative to commuting by car in many other cities, with absolute megabucks being spent on creating new cycleways, at the cost of reduced road space and greater inconvenience for car drivers - and most forms of public transport. Cycling is usually the quickest means of getting around cities. In recent years, a long-distance cycle network has been established throughout the UK, too. While most people accept that petrol and diesel vehicles are damaging to the environment, public transport would need massive expansion and improvement before many people will consider switching mode. London should not be considered representative of the rest of the UK - it just isn't!
In Outer London, it's wonderful NOT!!! n my local Town Centre the traffic flowed for the first 30 years after I moved there from Inner London.THEN they put in a Cycle Lane and everything changed. TWO lanes going into the High Street in the same direction became one lane as the road was no longer wide enough to accommodate the cycle lane and 2 other lanes for buses and cars. Gridlock, sometimes, especially, in the Winter evening rush hour, and the pollution by these weekly thousands of cars and buses must be colossal, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of frustrating annual hours wasted sitting in the newly created traffic and for what benefit? About 20 cyclists over a 24-hour day, it seems. The last 10 years have been a nightmare...
Plus jay looks younger in that video
I assume that' because he was, it is 6 year old video.
Cycle lanes all over near me, they get more of the damn road than us who pay tax to use it.
"AAAAAH!" (quote from original, not linked, video.)
Tyler must know this, as he's chopped off the first minute and the end.
The original was intended to be viewed as satire...
I use to cycled in London when i lived there.
Cycling in NYC - It's not that safe (Satire take on cycling in NYC) ua-cam.com/video/bzE-IMaegzQ/v-deo.html&ab_channel=CaseyNeistat
Unfortunately there is huge hatred towards 2 wheeled transport in England.
Is this a joke video???
Nobody cycles in London....SERIOUSLY?
I went for a 25 miles cycle ride around central London...with over 1000 other people.
But there was a 'snag'...we were naked !
Literally naked ( the London naked bike ride ! ).
Tyler thinks that London only got a mayor in the year 2000? 😅
Many people cycle in London, too many.
50% correct. Many people do cycle in London. But not enough.
Lots of people cycle in London - I did so just about every working day for 14 year when I worked in London from 2006 onwards as did many of my colleagues and also in the 80's when I was at University in London. I also cycle everywhere in the town where Ilive. We have a cycle to work scheme, readily available bike hire, cycle super-highways, maps of quiet roads and cycle routes published by transport for London. I see thousands of cyclists every day in London. My niece lives and works in central London and cycles to work every day. Of course bad drivers don't like cyclists - but in my experience bus and taxi drivers and most delivery drivers are considerate and good drivers ..... his history may be like a crates' egg ( good in parts) but at best he is plain wrong, and at worst he is a bottom-feeding liar for claiming that nobody cycles in London - 10s; of 1000s did so and do so every day. Take what he says with a MASSIVE pinch of salt - cycling in London is nowhere near as dangerous in London as he claimed.
Loads of people cycle in London
This just shows how bad some motorists are one death is bad but TWELVE,!!!!! And in London especially because there are more traffic there than anywhere else in the uk it probably didn't work as well😢
Nobody in the US says "bicycling." Everyone says "cycling."
Every time Tyler begins a sentence with "Here in America..." you can bet that whatever he says next will be wrong.
You have bikes in the US,who know.
What is the man talking about,we have bike lane's you can also hire bike.has the man ever been to London.
Which is what the video says.....It goes through the history of it and the recent (at time of the video being made) improvements. The title of the video is misleading. Tyler has called it "Why nobody cycles in London" but the original video is "Why is cycling not normal in London". The difference is subtle, but is there. And the video is 6 years old.
Is this a joke,if you believe this you must nuts.
Nobody said "noone cycles in London". The title of this is nonsense.
This with a pinch of salt
Why does Tyler ask the audience questions but never bothers to read the comments??
Im confused by this video? Has anyone been to London? We cycle! There are are cyclists everywhere in London. It’s scary just as I imagine it would be cycling in New York. It’s not easy in London but life isn’t.
Ask people from Geneva what they think of cyclists and how crazy are the dedicated lanes to them.....
Please do not take everything he says as gospel. Bicycles and cyclists galore in London. I do not know what this gentleman is talking about. It is a thing in London.
Problem in England is the automotive owners are impatient and ignorant also lazy, they don't wanna share their road also in Amsterdam the roads are still heavily congested
Also, the cyclists here are clueless and constantly break road laws whilst attempting to end their lives with stupid decisions.
many cyclists are equally as impatient and ignorant, and in many cases put them selves at risk with their own dumb actions, because the law has always been feckless in protecting cyclists from themselves with feckless filter laws that allowed cyclist to put themselves in danger in city environments - if the filter laws were better constructed, then no one would ever be permitted to filter past any vehicles indicating to turn on the same side the cyclist is attempting to filter, as the very act of filtering has caused the conflict, if the filtering laws were more robust in their construction, it would be abundantly clear that are just some vehicles you must NEVER filter past, thus avoiding putting BOTH in needless conflict at junctions etc.
We are told some of those cyclists are training to be licensed taxi drivers and that’s how they acquire the knowledge, as it’s called.
Most trainee taxi drivers use a moped
Scooter or moped,surely.
Love seeing Americans being thrown by British humour 🤭
react to this. Funny. Grotesco - Bögarnas Fel (Swedish Satire)
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They would also lose all their extra income from charges aimed at drivers, and they won't want that,lol
This is probably the most painful to watch Tyler reaction yet. Jeez Louise. And fancy not watching a Jay Foreman video all the way to the end... sacrilegious! Although... also convenient, as it was just before Jay's end of video sponsor's advert. Mmmm. I wonder why that was? A coincidence? Don't tell me Tyler has already actually watched the whole video in advance and therefore knows exactly when to stop it (after cuttig to 30 seconds in as well) before it goes off topic... thus rendering his real-time "reaction" a complete fake. Nah, can't be! {cough}
Sorry what a loat of rot, people cycle all over london you can even rent bikes all over. I have crossed Tower Bridge during a London Cycle day, i must admit it freeked me and the taxi man out seeing tiny babys in the frount or being pulled behind was frightning but the worst was on the bridge which had a icecream van on it and reduced traffic, but cars were still crossing. I saw a family of 5 going passed the van dad was toutaly unawair and got his kids to slowly cycle around the van, mum had gone passesd and just gone. One of the kid must have been about 6!!! Dad was ok he was still on the pavment. The taxi driver did not talk or breath watching this, but yeh alot of people cycle in London and some of them REALY should not.
Tyler, I really like your focus and how you analyze the differences in England and the United States. How you approach it is not so much as one is better than the other. Your approach as a learner/reactor is excellent! Your approach creates interest and spark creative dialog. Thanks, I subscribed!
Used to be rare, cyclists, not now, everywhere in London. On the road, pavement, anywhere they fancy. Traffic lights ? Not applicable to many of them. The Bane of a pedestrian, me, do not drive. Cars are orderly, you know where they are. Cyclists can come at you from anywhere. Don’t like slowing down if they come across anyone crossing the road, cars do. Lights at night ? No way for some. In Earlsfield (London) yesterday, swarms of ‘em. Nothing against them of course 😁
i took this as a joke 😭😭😭😭
A big part of the trouble for cyclists is that through most of the 20th Century the UK had conservative (Tory) governments. The Tories have always been the party of 'big business' meaning industrialists who made money through things like car sales. This is exemplified by the fact that Thatcher privatised the bus networks and her successor (John Major) privatised the rail network.
I lived in London for years. Cyclists are EVERYWHERE. There is even a Transport for London cycling scheme with cycle parks all over the city. The idea that people don't cycle in London is ridiculous. Admittedly, I haven't watched this entire video yet (I am 1.5 minutes in) but I am already confused about where this is going. ua-cam.com/video/SSVDZ0MySk8/v-deo.html
Bikes are in the news in London. ua-cam.com/video/s91k3qgpkdQ/v-deo.html Incidentally, I think God takes care of the environment, I am just commenting on the myth that no-one uses bikes in London. EDIT: Having now watched the video he now admits that there are thousands of cyclists in London every day. So normally I like the "map men" videos (and he is one of them) but this time I think he was trying to make a story out of nothing. Yes, cycling is dangerous in a big city. Are there less cyclists in London than any other big city? I very much doubt it. Using Amsterdam as a comparison is a bit disingenuous. Amsterdam is KNOWN worldwide for cyclists. He should delete his video for misinformation lol. Up to him of course.
This is the equivalent of "why Americans don't eat junk food"
😅😅😅
You only got through half of the video and didn't watch the rest which probably have informed you that cycling wasn't a success. Also that video is most likely about 6 years old.
Iam a cyclist in England. We have bad drivers here
Come on Tyler Rumple, at least finish the video
Bikes everywhere in London
This is daft. Loads of people cycle across London
He will never learn he is always wrong as he never reads comments.
Also the video was only 2/3 played
Nowadays London culture is not British culture especialy inside London.
Yep, the title was a complete gotcha - making your title similarly nonsensical. I've cycled London for almost 15 years and it has always been full of cyclists. It was a more hostile environment until the last decade and certain roads and junctions are still a death trap, but many have been redesigned or are avoided via the superhighways.
Tyler don't you want to be important
There are thousands of cyclists in London every day. This video doesn't make sense.
If only nobody cycled in London. It should be illegal.