Biking to the new IKEA Store (Toronto) - Narrated Ride
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- This video shows my Monday May 30, 2022 bicycle ride from Toronto's Annex neighbourhood to the new IKEA store in downtown Toronto. The video begins in the school yard of Huron Street Junior Public School, and ends near the intersection of Yonge St & Gerrard St E.
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The bike I was riding is a non-folding Linear Limo Recumbent Bike. More info about this bike in the link above. I filmed this using my GoPro HERO 9 Black action camera mounted to the main frame tube of the bike at the front with a custom 3D printed plastic bracket. I recorded the audio with a Panasonic voice recorder and earpiece microphone.
No Strava link for this ride.
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Thanks for watching.
Thank you CJ. Toronto has amazing bicycle infrastructure. I once owned a Linear, Peter builds nice bikes.
Thanks! Toronto Bike Infrastructure has come a long way in the time since I moved here, but still has a long way to go (especially outside the downtown core).
Again a great bike tour combining sightseeing and the view on the traffic.
This time it shows quite a reasonable bike-infrastructure, looks way better than in the last one of your videos i've seen.
IKEA seems to be close to the city and looks more like a retail than a furniture shop.
Listening your Narration is fun. Regards from germany.
Glad you enjoyed it! I'm fortunate to live in a part of my city where I can bike to a lot of places using dedicated bike infrastructure.
Wow, it’s bigger than I thought!
Ya, me too!
Cool video. Yeah lots people got cold this Spring.
Thanks.
Terrific ride video CJ!!! The ride looks fabulous, a lot of fun and you are going at a good pace!! I'd love it is Vancouver had "The Door Is Open!!" It sounds really interesting and fun. I really like the idea of pre-mixing one month's worth of oatmeal for breakfast!! Thanks so much!! Cheers!! 🙂
Thanks! The city has come a long with it's bike infrastructure in my time here, but still has a long way left to go to make it safe for people living across the city to choose walking or cycling to get around.
@@cjhoyle Thanks so much CJ for explaining this. I hope Toronto continues to make the necessary improvements to make the city must more safe and accessible for cyclists!!
I haven't been to an IKEA yet. They don't have any anywhere near where I live. Looks like an interesting store to go to! That's a neat idea to have all of your overnight oats ready to go for a whole month. That's a big Silver Maple! Did you ever visit the Silver Maple tree in Toronto that inspired Alexander Muir to write his song "The Maple Leaf Forever"? I believe the tree fell down in 2013, but I've heard they still have a plaque there. Alexander Muir was my fourth cousin, my Grandmother's second cousin.
No, I had actually never heard of that tree. A Siver Maple that was considered impressive back in the 1800's must have been enormous by 2013! I will definitely swing by some time and check the plaque.
@@cjhoyle There are so many little spots around Toronto that I need to check out if I ever go there for a visit someday!
@@adventureswithjosie You should definitely make a list! The first time I visited NYC I had a very long list of the places I wanted to see. Also, wouldn't your Grandmother's second cousin be considered your second Cousin twice removed?
@@cjhoyle Yes perhaps you are right. I never thought of that. I was told fourth cousin but that's probably not correct. Might be fourth generation they were meaning.
Enjoyed the ride to IKEA.
Thanks!
man, you love overnight oats. why 27 more containers? are you going to portion it out to have enough for a month in advance?
Yup, that's the plan! Mix 30 servings all at the same time and then not need to worry about mixing more for a full month :)
@@cjhoyle Terrific idea CJ!!
are you going to the ride for heart tomorrow
No, I didn't participate this year because I was out of town that weekend.
what is that white bike on 2:34 ? another dead cyclist by killer toronto drivers ?
Yes. Unfortunately that white ghost bike marks the spot where Dalia Chako met her untimely death in 2018 while riding her bike.
6:34 I be so happy lo live at a place that has so many bikes on the road.
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It's a great joy each spring seeing all the bikes in the city coming out of hibernation ti fill up the streets :)
Vancouver does too!!
Haven't visited downtown IKEA. Thanks for the tour.
No problem, thanks for watching.
When you turned left on University and College, I worked at the glass building you waited by. I worked at Intact Insurance in the mailroom. If you go down the subway stairs there's a nice Tims, under that building is a decent food court and a Swiss Chalet, and if you had gone right instead of left and then hung a left on the street behind the building there's a Krispy Kreme
Nice! I'm familiar with that building. A member of my extended family once worked there.
great video cjhoyle nice to see your continuing updating your videos. im glad to see toronto got many bike lanes to make it safe for all to commute maybe with gas prices on the rise these bike lanes will become flooded .
Thanks. The bike lanes certainly carry a lot of people!
Pleasant ride.
GREAT camera placement. I like the mounting better than those twitchy videos that use a head-mounted camera.
Always interesting-thanks.
Thank you.
Love, love, love, university avenue!!
It's been my favourite bike lane in the city since it was installed!
@@cjhoyle So awesome!!
its always funny/infuriating to see how many cyclists blow through reds at every stop.
Believe it or not, I very rarely see people "blow through" red lights. What I see most commonly is people come to a complete stop, observe their surroundings, and then proceed through the intersection before the light turns green because they have deemed it safe to do so. There are actually some jurisdictions where that is completely legal for people riding bikes to do.
Another great video show casing downtown Toronto. As a longtime bike rider, but not often in the city core, I often open google maps and see exactly where you are.
Just searching again for your overnight oats recipe 👍😊
Thanks! It was nice that I was able to get to this store almost exclusively using bike lanes.
@@cjhoyle Seems like a terrific city for bikes. I visit TO often from Vancouver (big big loving city) but I have never cycled much in Toronto.