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I recorded my bicycle trip from Forth Crescent/ Dee Gardens, in Dundee to Lochee ( Dundee)
hello all I’m going to go up for a cycle it’s going to be one of my old um I suppose early well not childhood but uh yeah yeah childhood one of my Early Childhood cycles that I used to do back in the late 80s early 90s well was actually what would been 15 16 1991 it would have been 16 so early adult I suppose going back way back anyway but I could probably even go back further to the 80s when I had my other bike and I’m going to cycle a route that I used to cycle uh when I was a lot younger I used to Cy I used to make up my own cycle routes like that of conjunction of the bus routes cuz it was a bus spot like you know so I thought well I’m going to cycle some of the routes and make up some own cycle routs just like the buses bus rotge so it’s going to be a cycle route that I done one of them anyway that done as far back as 1991 1992 or not um so I was going back quite a bit it’s a Heritage cycle a lot I’ve cycled it before over the years but uh it’s just going to do it and going to record at this time and show you it’s from one part of minil to Loi basically starting from fourth Gres and minil to Loi which is on the other end of minell basically I’ll show you roughly on the Google Maps what it looks like there certainly wasn’t any Google Maps back in these days when I used to cyc of that in the early late 80s early 90s that’s for certain well when I say that I certainly wasn’t aware of any Google Maps back then to rephrase that because well I certainly wasn’t aware of it and go old school I’m going to show you on the paper map so yeah this is an old style way doing it so I’m going to start my cycle from fourth Cresent and C through fourth Cresent long Char and drive um up little bit on to Old Glam through the bur and place housing scheme and then down one of the paths that goes to the end of Southerland Cent and you’re going to cycle the route back basically as well we’ll do record it in two parts or two SE anyway if you’ve saw my cycle videos before you’ll know what my bike looks like this is just to show you what my bike looks like if you haven’t saw my previous cycling videos it’s a carara 20 in frame 24 speed original bought it back in January 2008 all the original parts upgraded the seat F Bill bars on um mud guards uh speed and lights I put all that on at the same time I bought it so it’s coming up for what it’s July 2 July 2024 now so that’ll be what’s that 18 year in it 17 come 16 and a half year old it is only thing I’ve changed is like tires brake cables gear cables actually that’s just the second set of tires to be fair we don’t do a great deal of cycling anyway but it’s all the original parts see gears and everything same brake pads same discs oh I got this as well added I bought that and added that one as well when I bought the bike so I’m taking off my jumper cuz it’s a bit warm when I say heritage cycle route I mean Heritage from my own Heritage reasons Heritage as in it’s an old route that I used to cycle not Heritage widely recognized by the by anyone else it’s just a term that I used in reference to the old cycle routs that I done so I’m calling it my Heritage cycle route in case you were confused about thinking it was a Heritage cycle route you know was widely recognized as part of a an official psycle it’s not an official psycle it was just only about schemes and I just going to record the anyway show you share with you that route that I used to do so that’s the bike filled up with juice F my juice boil up the juice and that will keep me rehydrated right that fourth con I’ll try that again that fourth CR let check get the camera set because it’s a bit awkward at the moment I think that’s right I’ve got it so cycle fourth Cresent three4 starting from the end of fourth C just that de we going to head through fourth CR started off in here second up fourth Cresent towards Char drive towards the uh IR Drive heading east there been a threes that comes from to and drive at each end oh got to reset the the my arm reset it no check it’s only half a qu just thought 22 mil places of the life so a deep Garden just basically coming off a d Gard on a fourth present now so really it was D Gard was now we on Fourth gression Head East towards Char and dve [Applause] slight up h g so my fourth Cent reach Char and drive at its East it East End s that Cress some Char and drive now start for a second breather St for a we breather something a to say to what say J typ you know what pavement they would cycle it was this side or the other side of it something’s very something didn’t mix it I’m going to mix it on this one ccle on this side Head East as far as I’m drive and cross over at the other side past the shops and continue East to elen ro one the second bus is from London it’s a V 400 Alexander Dennis you wonder what a model of bus was maybe the bus bar I like to know these things do on 1 wet field bus driving that rout the day before yesterday I’ve got a week off a long weekend break so to cycle on my bike die bues that are living it’s good to get the exercise when you can now this is where I would normally cross over to the other side sometimes I just oscillate change S 4 will be7 rle single de six that was good on let me cross thank you thank thank you so that’s the like Eclipse body single Decker Volvo B7 rle 7 L engine was actually a demonstrator 6 month old or something we’ had it ever since good go and bust the driver show it’s nipp one powerful one of the fastest in the pl that s 2415 number thought the singles are that’s 2 break engine c g 250 260 so just passing the shops charge and drive top bar Drive some said stop here for a breather 30 seconds or something just opposite the old Charlie bar probp on the left it’s no longer there blown off back in January 2022 I think sque some juice 30 second breather not even about 15c 10 15 second breather a cross and drive again to go up El mid Road just going to wait that now sometimes it cycle that all the way on the same side to here some it would s the other side I crossed over I in this case I crossed over get up element wood now I get for that bus stop I take a 10c breather I always did space it out and take it easy I always sit down with in cycling this well and never stand when I go up ra I was pedal while sitting down going to P in about here 5 Seconds 10 seconds breath oh D so let’s go again head el el Road when it meets Old glams Road El Road the other side crosses over Char and drive goes down it’s also formally known as station bre but it meet South Road that’s a s element this is the other bit between Char drive and Z stretch down it’s number six single D bus W V7 R right clipse what what it’s one I was talking about nice buses they’re fast powerful the only downside is the do that little bit too much a few other things but I not mentioned all that see open sleep in here sometimes it would cross over down this on the dle street past the shops this since just going to do what something done before just go right in the B there’s all slight variations in which as well wer all the same were slightly variations Just A variation one of the this is Aviation one to kind of like missing the lights down there but something’s going to go that way this case I’m just going to go over site just turn the left here this is old Glam very similar to what I’ve done before these hes R the bat with that time used to be St FL accommodations this is familiar to the other i’ done before I put video up we’re going to just miss out burning Cresent and just continue right along because I’ve already covered burning Cent In the last video so I’m just going to continue along Old glams Ro got to meet the side the locky Park West locky PK Jesus here always been there as my M starting to keep REM mind of me was back in 1993 recycling a fon Phantom R bike and buil the front breake on on eyes which is a bad idea I slipped I crashed into the tree and the B the handle bars will fell off as well a bloody S I still laughs at that I’ll show you where that happened just further up a little bit was own fault that was young there only 7 and a half so I still be D stick again show you where that happened in a minute just up there this bath the tree has now been removed has been put quite tight but it was just up a be bit M will always F this F cuz he saw the stay of the bike although he did help fix it he was glad the Tre was about here and it happened around about here I pulled the break on just as I was coming in this corner tree was just rolled up with the lamp post was and slid into it hit the tree came off the bike B all the handlebars on the wheel and there was an Agony and a hobble B with the bike and the mates were waiting on his they just happened to be there and saw the mess of the bike and wonder what the heck happened I told him and The Bu start laughing after the asked it was okay of course I see the funny side of it that was a long time ago but he felt fix for this so that lucky part on the right just heading down towards the the route goes towards Souther which is on the of so just heading walked to be is a g used to be a Pet Station the car SS right now CU I had my first car back in 1995 March I used to fill up it was 49.9 a liter of fourstar pet so that’s going back quite a bit years that garage I just passed there used to be a station so I used to cross over here and Crossing again stop here traffic coming it was wider there b more room but now we just do the one just crossed the one this is a tight path turn down is the cycle down here very tight path there was somebody there just stop obviously there’s nobody here today fing font of of that H got a big bike 10 Speedway so comfortable seat Big Springs the back the seat as well always like the comfortable seat in the bike I never did like C seats so this altic put a hard seat and it snapped in the back I didn’t last that I didn’t like it I know I was like theage but I was always very uncomfortable sitting a hard seat eventually it just shared Center but the bike was kind of stand over fled got the pocket FL my Christmas 1989 and uh that was a comfortable bike in comparison so this is on the side work [Music] much po you can tell much the end of tell the mail in a minute two this end of the Lan we just cut and we go back right that’s is it there the termin as I would call it done 1.89 mile although I did miss out 2 mile or something start probably 1.19 uh 1.91 or 1.92 miles or something uh so just under 4 Mile uh just under 2 m so be just under 4 m round trip and I’m going to record the footage going back I’m going to take a SL different route this time I’m going to go through the uh just the housing scheme that would have been on your left as it was going up old Glam there was a crossover went on that side it was where the old student accommodation Flats were on that side that was the side I cycled up well this time I’m going to cycle through the scheme that was on the left there uh like d Terrace and that that was another part of my uh cycle route so it’s a slight variation and I will feeling at a different point as well past the shops so slightly different route on the way back so that’s the distance anyway it’s 1.89 M and luy is just down there so I’m going to do this video in two parts this this is the end of part one uh the next part will be the return leg that’ll be part two okay so thanks for watching uh part one part one of two cheers