First London bike after my crash... Back on Santander Cycle Hire after 13 years...

This is my first time back on a Boris Bike, after a major crash that was so bad, all I remember is seeing the A&E ceiling. 13 years later, I go out with my son back on the Santander Cycle Hire bikes and this time the new E-bikes released for hire in London. We rent the cycles from a docking station in Waterloo, head over Westminster Bridge to turn right at Big Ben and the Houses Of Parliament onto Victoria Embankment, past Blackfriars and up to the Tower Of London at Tower Hill. This is a real time bike ride, with all the sights and sounds from my bike ride POV...

First London bike after my crash... Back on Santander Cycle Hire after 13 years...



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we go yeah sorry go for it hello welcome back to the channel and this is uh a slightly different video for this channel but it's a really big day for me because this is the first time that I'm getting back onto a Boris bike in London after a really terrible crash 13 years ago 

so this is the first uh footage the first time I've been back on a cycle hire cycle the santander Cycles and since since this terrible crash and I I went with my son and we decided to just grab a bike and ride around London and just see see where it takes us 

and it is... it... it was so epic 

I'm not sure it comes across 

this video is just going to be real time footage of that first bike ride after I completely smashed my face in and knocked myself unconscious for 3 hours 

I've literally no idea what happened in the time I was out and I have cycled since but I haven't been back on a Boris bike 

these are the blue bikes that you can hire from docking stations uh around London and uh they've now released electric bikes so you can now get an e-bike that you can just rent and cycle around and you you're charged for however long it is before you dock the bike again obviously 

um keep an eye out keep an eye out people opening their car doors cuz they're not looking and taxi doors are the worst we've hired electric bikes before and they've been really good value but the the value of santander bikes is incredible 

it's insane if you are visiting London I highly recommend just jumping on a bike but I did wear a helmet 

that's the only crucial difference we did come prepared with helmets uh because I don't want to be in a hospital Corridor ever again so come come ride along with us 

there's some weird chitchat along the way 

we are cycling from waterloo station over Westminster bridge and along Victoria embankment to Tower Hill and there'll be some other videos in this playlist where we talk a bit more and we travel to some other places in London but this is the first video to get us going thanks for coming along with us on this ride

thank you oh my god s SM the bridge and there big pain

go right

we did it there we are

uh so we're going to head down the embankment now I think there's some kind of process going on there trying to avoid this it's going to be busy later

just row out

oh there we

go it is mad busy today it's is uh August and it's a Saturday I know about 20 demonstrations today but none of these people look like demonstrators that's the time 

I'm well over my 20 minute limit 

so watch the um oncoming we're going to go right and then down that cycle Lane yeah they going to be mad cyclist as well

so is it I've got it on the camera they're doing them

first a don't we'll see that we'll get more it's not going to fall out of your pocket is it you can put it get my bank if you want okay here we

go thank you you okay

all right

Hey Joe come alongside can you see people just aren't looking what they're

doing all sorry crank you

you see people just aren't looking

you okay

it shows the speed and I think it's capped at 27 km per hour uh cuz it you just can't get any more power out of

it you okay

he

Lo

you're in third game

yeah thanks

Hey Joe I might change bikes so that I can um get another 30 minute period I think I've already gone over but we'll

see no they they see red light flashing yeah okay

I I think there's a thing under

here charging the dog

yeah yeah which is the advantage that they have over the line but they've always had those dock they Char yeah they must have um you know fitted

them I can't see it should show you how much long you've got left on your hire shouldn't it yeah

anyway should go to to of London okay

you want go in front

oh hold done see we're going under my school all

right screen for the traffic I think we wait for go now we could but yeah let's um yeah that which would not be a good thing I could really do with a drink we go to Tower Hill and get a drink Dr bikes and get a drink

yeah do you want let the super 73 have take here

yeah you pull forward I'll stay and then catch you

up he's going for it 

sound it he really used

that oh Joe oh okay

okay wasn't expecting this I think we should have gone right left

okay this is uh my dad's house lived over there it's all changed now I don't think uh my son has noticed that I'm not here okay

hi

yeah there's a hole of London a hole in London my series holes of London it's this London Bridge over there they gone quite away oh here we go green

all mind if I go in front uh for this next section and then we'll stop at uh town of London yeah what's

up you

okay oh is it all at 4K no okay tell me to put it in your bag

all right

I...

I'm looking for a docking station it's green now go go go I'm looking for a docking

station okay thanks

wow

right I need to find docking station

I think there's one over

there just going to turn around

say got to call it got to call

it yeah I need to sh said on your right but he didn't so we got to have 360 awareness so what happened there was some uh likely sped past me like really close but I didn't know he was there if I swerve to the right i' have no idea uh so always good to call it if you overtake someone you should know that if you got your own bike

so so f

and so we found the docking station it's time to dock the bikes and this ride only cost us about a tenner each incredibly good value so we made it to the Tower of London I'm calling this a dad delivers success thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the Subscribe button it really helps us to keep this channel going and right here is this playlist of all the other places that we've gone together this is crazy Jo this is so crazy I'm going to take a break in the recording there oh it's brilliant

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