Neil Mossey: REAL-TIME London bike ride: Waterloo to Barbican DJI OSMO NANO sample footage!

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Ride along with me in real-time on a cold, wet December morning as I cycle from Waterloo Station to Barbican. I’m testing out the DJI Nano Camera in challenging low-light conditions and the DJI Mic Mini microphone for wind noise. I avoid the busy IMAX roundabout, opting for the quieter route past the National Theatre, over Blackfriars Bridge, through Ludgate Circus, and into the historic Smithfield Market during the busy Christmas meat trade. I also share some personal moments on my cycle safety in London after a major accident 15 years ago. Whether you're interested in the route, the camera and microphone, or the sunrise views, join me for this sedate morning commute.

REAL-TIME London bike ride: Waterloo to Barbican DJI OSMO NANO sample footage!

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Good morning. We are at sunrise here at uh not so sunny Waterloo. It's uh it's about a week before Christmas. So, it's a cold December morning. Actually, it's quite mild, but uh it has been raining. So, the roads are looking pretty slippery this morning. That could make the ride really interesting. I'm going to head from Waterloo to Barbican in real time. and uh you can ride along with me. Here is my ride this morning. It's the 63283 electric bike. It's got fully charged. If I give it a kick, we're fully charged. Uh nice wet seat, so I'll be drying that as I go. And hopefully I've not done this since August, so hopefully we can do this without incidents. Undock the bike.

That's a good start. I've got a new mount for my DJI Nano.

Yeah, it's funny being on the Santander bikes at this time of year because it was the 12th of December uh 15 years ago that I managed to have a terrible crash on one of these. So terrible that I have no idea what happened. Literally, it's blanked for my for my brain. Uh, all I know is I woke up uh looking at a hospital ceiling. So, uh I think somewhere in my brain I've got I've got an urge to be very careful. And we've got some wet iron work on the road as well. So, we going to be careful on those. So, this could be quite a sedate ride. Now, I've got a choice. I can either I don't know. I can either go to down to upper ground, which is safer but longer, or I can fight it down Stamford Street. I think I'm going to go down upper ground cuz it's uh uh nice and secluded. Here we go.

They finished the building work here now as well, which is cool. Couldn't ride down here before.

It's down to concert hall approach and turn right onto upper ground. Check for traffic. Hooray.

Yes. So, this has seen a lot of building work recently, but that seems to have shut down for Christmas, which is nice. Um, if I were in a rush, I'd have gone over the dreaded Waterloo roundabout round the IMAX and down Stamford Street. Uh, which is much quicker. I do that when I've got a tight time uh pressure, but I've left lots of time for this morning, so that's good. Just past the National Theatre.

And this is I think my first bike ride on using the DJI Nano camera. So, I might put this on my uh on my camera channel or yeah, my YouTube channel about YouTube or I might put this out on both the travel channel and my and my how to make YouTube videos channel. Uh so, if you're watching on the Neil Mossey channel, hello. Uh this is what the DJI Nano looks like. And oh, sad site on the left hand side. I won't move the camera. Um, they've demolished LWT.

Got a car behind me. I want to let him go.

These wet um wet tiles are not fun to ride on.

My god. Got big puddles as well. So, it's good it's not raining, but everything is a bit slippery. Whoa. Got some love holes on the uh on the roads.

You can go.

Now, this is a weird cycle path cuz it looks like you're going the wrong way, but it's actually marked out on the road as I'm riding into head-on traffic on a oneway street. Ah, so we go around the BMW here.

Uh but the cycle lane is really faded. So uh

that's not good for the cars.

So, we'll turn left. This is where the Okay, this where the cycle lane meets the pavement. We got a nice join here. Level join onto the

cycle lane.

See if I can lift the camera off. Give you a better view. We said check it's still recording. Yeah, we're recording.

So, we're going over the rivers.

Got uh St. Paul's and Blackfriars over there. City of London lit up. All the city workers there already

trying to make that wealth divide bigger. Keep reaching for the skies, boys. Okay, back to

here. Now, I'm going to stop here. I get I take umbrage as there's no one to hear me saying this at the moment, but it really annoys me watching bikes go through this light cuz there are pedestrians and it's pedestrian crossing. Uh, let's see how many go through. There's number one forest point.

There's another one.

Okay.

It annoys me because when I had the accident, we didn't have any of this infrastructure at all. And now we've got it. People just ignore it. It's a shame.

On to I think this is called New Bridge Street.

Got slippery iron work here. So I've got to pull out, but I've got people overtaking me.

Coming up to Ludgate Circus and Farringdon. I can never remember if it's Farringdon Street or Farringdon Road. I think it's Farringdon Road.

See if we can make the green light. Ah, okay. I'll give you a view of Ludgate Circus and uh Fleet Street.

I don't understand. I'll tell you in a minute.

Heat. Heat.

Seems I'm not here.

Heat.

Yeah, what I was going to say was I was going too fast to stop that poor guy on the zebra crossing. What? I don't understand the mentality of going through the red lights when pedestrians are crossing. That's really not good. But I'm not here to judge. I'm just here to get to my destination safely. Oh, by the way, I'm using the DJI Mic Mini this morning. Again, first time uh on a bike, so be interesting to see if you can hear any of this. I've got it really quite close to my mouth on my shirt, but I've got to do a right turn here. People overtaking.

Shucks.

This the uh London Museum being built in the old Smithfield Market. Keep hearing different titles where it's Museum of London. Museum for London. And over there it's called the London Museum. London Museum would be a lot more sense.

So we're going to go through Smithfield and weave our way through uh to get to the Barbican or just Aldersgate street.

Can't believe I'm here before sunset. I suppose uh these are the shortest stays at the moment. Got three more days of this.

I guess he couldn't wait.

It's not just because I'm wearing a camera that I'm reading carefully. Is because of my really bad accident.

Got them. I wonder if I can show you've got um Holborn Viaduct on the right there. It just went under that. Oh, here we go.

Look at this. Free parking. What's that about?

Oh, okay. So, there's free parking for Smithfield customers trying to help Smithfield out while they're demolishing. Yep. Wow.

All right.

Slow down.

check both ways. Wow. So, usually when I come in, it's not nearly this busy, but they're still loading up meat. And this is Christmas meat. The uh this is the it's stitching in there, mate. This is the most important meat of the year coming through. This is confusing. Got a stop line here with the lights over there.

Pull to the left pass.

Okay,

that's sensible.

Okay, and then the final street. So, we've gone around Smithfield into I can't see the road name. Oh, here we go. Charterhouse Street.

So, what do you think of the camera footage? It is it coping with the dark lighting conditions? It's not light, but uh the sun's not up yet. Be interesting to watch this back and see see the footage. Oh, I'll let him go. Always

good with a fan driving head on. There we go. Now I'm going to cross over. I love this docking station. Give him a nod. I love this docking station. It's always got a bike free. It's one of the most underrated bike docking stations in London, I think. So, I'm just going to cross over. Probably going to walk across now.

There we go.

There we go. We're docked. Let's take the camera off. It looks like we're still rolling.

So, thank you for coming on this ride with me. That was a nice short uneventful one. Always good. Um, and this is weird. I only came up with the idea of having the uh running this on two channels while I was riding. So, if you're watching this on my Neil Mossey channel, uh these are the transport videos that I have over on my other uh channel, Neil's Travel, Trains and Stops. And um if you're watching on the travel channel, this is where I try out new cameras. But uh if uh if you've reached this point in the video, thank you for hitting the thumbs up or hit the microphone or the subscribe button. I'm going to get a coffee over here now. And right here on screen is what YouTube knows you want to be watching next. Made it.

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