LIVE: Last Day of 2023 – Toronto’s Bloor and Yonge Street Bike Lanes

I rode from High Park to Yonge and St. Clair area on protected bike lanes on Bloor and Yonge Street.

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Uh depends on where we’re going we’re going you guys hello everyone it’s December 31st and this is my second live stream on the channel I actually can’t see what the if the GoPro is working if you are connected Can you let me know if you can see

Something ah there we go it’s December 31st and this is my second All right we’re on the go and I think we’re live what am I doing today today the last day of the year December 31st I am heading up to young and St Clair on separated by CLS currently I am on blor street I am going to be joining Young Street and going

North but that will take some time I made some adjustments to the live stream I learned some lessons from the last one and let’s see if it makes any difference I can see some messages happy New Year yes looking good sounding good excellent okay we’ve got a green let’s

Go I tested my network connection and it should be better I’m right in the Heart of the City so the network should technically speaking be good but let’s see what I can learn from this live stream I think I’m going to adjust the camera angle a little bit because who

Wants to see the handlebars I don’t okay let’s do that okay let’s see if this is better I think it should be a little bump little bump let’s go I learned a few lessons from my last the very first live stream I had and that is network connectivity I assumed it

Would be strong I have a subscription or I’m on the Bell network rather and I would I thought that was going to be a good Network to stream on but based on the research that I’ve done live streamers typically have multiple networks they connect to and that’s because there’s sometimes lag there’s sometimes

Questionable connectivity but I only have one and so instead of streaming in 1080P today I’m streaming in 720p to see if it makes any difference but once again happy New Year to you all I also learned that my external microphone doesn’t work when I live

Stream on the GoPro and that is how I’m live streaming from the GoPro using my network hotspot but you know what if I don’t try I don’t learn and so okay I’m going to clean the lens because it is raining yes ride with Reinhardt yes hello

Reinhardt dry dry it is not it is missing it is raining again today I think that it will be snowing a little bit later on which is great I’m really over this rain so for those of you who joined I am on BL Street BL street is a pretty Major

Street in Toronto it goes east west and I am riding all the way to Young and then I will take young North to St CLA and I just wanted you to see what the Toronto infrastructure is like for cyclists I am in separated by planes right now

One thing that I need to watch out for is drivers pedestrians because I know that whenever I’m riding on Flor things get interesting oh my gosh bumpiness with rain drops so I think the camera lens may be as well so I will just periodically clean the

Lens to make sure that you can see clearly let’s do that now and let’s go we’re low LS down and I am actually quite surprised for the amount of traffic today I was expecting this to be super light because it is the day of New Year’s

Eve oh we’ve got a cargo bike ahead of us nice nice on the topic of cargo bikes I rented a cargo bike yesterday from Happy Feats the cargo bike I rented was was the urban Arrow family which is a front basket type or front front bucket type cargo bike known as boach

Feets and that was the very first time I had ridden a cargo bike I did have human Cargo in the in the front area and it was a great experience wow so many cyclists okay ideally I’d like to pass this person but our bip Lanes on L are very very

Narrow so won’t be passing anybody the ride today for me is going to be about an hour length I don’t know if I will be taking you along for the entirety of the ride but let’s see how things go I am now at Lauren duffrin how is the lens let’s clean you up

Thank you wow it’s busy here today wow wow okay pedestrian come [Applause] on when I was getting ready for today’s ride I I put on my chest harness and my dog saw it and she thought I was putting on my backpack that I typically used to

Carry her on my bike rides she got very excited but Luna’s home today we are now at Dover Court heading to Young Street what’s the lens situation not too bad cargo bike would be awesome I see one of the comments coming in yeah it’s kind of like renting a car for me

When I need it I rent it when I don’t need it I don’t have the expense but wow riding the urban Arrow was fabulous yesterday I was a little bit worried because the bike the urban Aero cargo bike itself is uh very very heavy it’s over 100 lb

And I didn’t really know what the handling would be like but it was smooth even when I put my little human cargo at the front with all the bags Etc it was still very very smooth to ride so I recommend it something else I learned about streaming i l streaming oh he’s turning

He’s turning did he see me oh yes thank you thank you um something else I learned about streaming is that people on bikes who stream typically have these IRL backpacks with multiple network connections so that the connection doesn’t drop and that the live stream is smooth instead of jittery Jagged again I

Dropped the resolution to 720p today so the stream quality is not 1080p is not a high resolution but you know what we do what we can right okay I’m going to clean the lens okay I’m sorry I’m not interacting with the comments I really need to focus on what’s ahead of

Me let’s see let’s see let’s see what should we do I will go ahead not really oh my hands are on the brakes my my head is on the swivle I have to admit I get a little bit stressed out when I ride on bike Lanes here this is not where I typically

Ride but you know what if I want to get around the city this is how this is one of the ways I get around the city using the blure bike Lanes okay stopping on Palmerston blur and Palmer construction ahead single file I that driver didn’t get the message single

File never mind we’ll make do and we’re at Bathurst how is the AIO a can anyone let me know how the audio is again I’m unable to connect my external microphone for the live stream or rather the GoPro doesn’t pick up the external microphone when it’s in live stream mode

Why I don’t know trouble shooting with GoPro but they haven’t been very helpful thus far shout out to curbside cycle I just passed the bike shop curb site is where I bought my ebike which I am currently riding oh something medical emergency here oh my glasses are speckled with rain we’re approaching

Spadina Lauren spad a green light yes so there was a lot of construction here for some time again I don’t ride here often so I don’t know how long the construction was here for but last time I was here this was interesting this was interesting so this bike Lan very wide

It is raised separated from the sidewalk as well audio is perfect audio is fine thank you very much for letting me know who St George do You See Me Yes wonderful I like to make eye contact with drivers because that indicates what that one they’re looking and two they see [Applause]

Me I don’t know why I’m looking at the view here and I see that the image from the GoPro that’s streaming is a little bit crooked why is that something else to troubleshoot no if anyone who’s on the live stream can let me know if you live stream yourself how to

Make the Horizon straight on a GoPro live stream let me know because typically ghost GoPro just takes care of horizon leveling on its own okay Queen Street we are downtown ladies and gentlemen we are downtown okay I better clean my glasses maybe clean the lens oh and let’s go

This is where all the high-end shops are Gucci what else did I pass partier Prada oh and loud car loud exhaust why why is this needed do not do we not have enough noise pollution okay don’t complain aishka just ride and we’ve got cars in the bike lane oh yes watch

Out oh Boise Boise Boise what are they doing doing what are they doing perfect parking spot perfect they are turning I’m going straight let’s go and that in front of us is Young Street and so we’re going to hop on the young street bike

Lane how do we do this I think I’m going to cross the street on foot what’s the lens situation like maybe I’ll clean it anyway there okay young let’s go what I remember of these bike Lanes on Yang is that they are very rough in terms of

Surface I think this entire Road needs to be resurfaced but again let’s not Complain oo I see a lot of comments coming in did I switch to ebike that’s the one that I saw last I bought an ebike in March okay person are you seeing me what’s going on here yes so I bought an ebike in March after I came back from my Cross Canada

Tour if you watched those videos you would have heard me complain multiple times or heard me mentioned multiple times that I want a KN bike and that’s because I really dislike the wind that was my Prime reason for buying KN bike I missed a lot of good riding

Days because of the wind if it gets windy I don’t ride but now I ride whenever I need to and I just increase pedal assist as needed oh my gosh hot hole Heaven H hole Heaven you want to come F whole Heaven Young Street Ladies and Gentlemen also if you want to see

Drivers Running Red Lights also Young Street why even cycle in Toronto well I cycle in Toronto because I don’t own a car I sold it in 2017 no 2019 and really commuting by bike and Toronto is the easiest way to move around the city from where I

Am it’s the quickest way for me to get to work it’s the quickest way for me to go anywhere there is traffic in the city everywhere all the time same thing on the highways and really being stuck in traffic and dealing with road rage and dealing with the

Shenanigans all that happened on the roads it’s just not nice I’d rather ride my bike cycle niagar hello cycle niagar oh are you saying are you suggesting I cycle Niagara I mean yes I have cycled Niagara beautiful area to cycle I don’t cycle for pleasure I

Commute and I tour so this is not a pleasure ride this is a commute Uptown let’s go by the way thank you to all of you who are joining this live stream I really truly don’t ever expect or didn’t expect anyone to join the first one or this

One I am trying to test things out to see if if and how my network connection works if it’s feasible I like watching live streams but true live streaming are people who do it more consistently they just have a to a whole setup a couple of network connections they bond them so

That if Network drops in one with one network the other one picks up so I obviously don’t have that set up but you know if I don’t try it I will never know right hello from Estonia hello happy and healthy New Year to you all as

Well I have to say I am not very comfortable speaking seemingly to myself when I’m stopped at a light because people stare and I mean I totally get why they stare I’m just here talking to myself but no I’m speaking to you all so this way where I’m going up

Town it’s a pretty considerable uphill very happy to have my motor on the ebike also very happy to have suspension at the front of the bike and a suspension seat post because man oh man these potholes okay light change why are you Red there’s nobody on the other side come on

Are you kidding me it’s not going to change my ebike is a pedal assist I don’t have a throttle so I have to Pedal in order to get some assistance from the bike so stopping on an uphill is still not great if I had a throttle it would be a different

Experience because it would just jump start the ride okay not doing too badly Rose Hill young in Ros Hill Daniel Santos where is Snow Yeah good question where is snow it’s going to snow later on today and yes I will be riding in that today tonight I should

Say but I prefer that over this spitting rain it’s neither here or there if it’s you know I think that if it wants to rain let it rain don’t do this spinning business can someone let me know what’s the connection me know what’s the connection like lettering

It’s someone can let me know I would appreciate just cross St CLA oh and just like a as I say it I think the display has gone down on my screen okay I am very close to my to my final destination so need to across the street

And I will be ending that stream that stream this stream very soon I’m very interested to watch it back and see how the connection performed if the connectivity was better the streets are very clean good weather conditions yeah the streets Yeah clean that’s right they

Are and I think that because it has been so mild in terms of weather there’s been a lot more cyclists on the street which is great because you know many people say nobody rides a bike in the winter not so there are many many days that are perfectly fine to bike

Okay just crossing the street and this is where I will leave you guys let me see if I can get the camera Here We Go okie dos if you’re still online thank you very much for joining me in this live stream I am going to wish you all a

Very happy New Year hope uh I wish you all great health and hopefully 2024 is going to be a wonderful year for for us all and uh yeah thank you very much for following along for chatting for messaging for watching the video I appreciate all of that very much thank

You for watching the live stream and on that note Happy New Year