55km commute by VELOMOBILE (english version)

Join me on my 55km long commute to work through the cities of Wiesbaden and Ruesselsheim in a velomobile.
Enjoy the thrill of road traffic, having the same angle of view like a sports car driver. 😉

English Version of https://youtu.be/Jent1A4Na8w

MUSIC:
Infraction – Almost Evil [No Copyright Cyberpunk Music]
https://inaudio.org/track/almost-evil/https://soundcloud.com/infraction-ivan/infraction-almost-evil-no-copyright-cyberpunk-music

CAMERA:
Insta 360 ONE X2
VIDEOEDITING: Blackmagic Davinci Resolve 18 Studio
PHOTOEDITING: Adobe Photoshop 2023

Hello everyone and welcome to a new video this time not a bike trip but a video about commuting to work by Will mobile I’ve been commuting by bike for several years now and started using my vobile about 4 years ago I’m doing that not every day but when the weather

Working hours in my motivation fit I ride my vobile that’s more or less mostly flat 55 km to get there and 42 km on the return I could do that five to six times in a row without being completely exhausted why is there a 13 km difference in driving distance you

Might ask well I’ll get to that later just for now reason is to bypass a very unpleasant part of Main Road why am I doing this because it’s fun and I saved myself the fee for the gym and the tedious pedaling on an ergometer by doing regular Sports my colleagues were

Already shaking their heads in disbelief during normal bike times now with the vobile the shaking of heads has become even more intense and there is also a warning about danger of driving a carbon condom in roach traffic especially in big cities like vpart I explain that it

Is not more dangerous but in my opinion less dangerous than participating in road traffic with a normal bicycle besides I can talk to sports car drivers on an equal footing some viewers will shake their heads in disbelief due to the fact that I make a white birth

Around the usual lousy bike paths in the urban area and ride on the roadway with the car which then comes along with a little speed difference to the car on roads with two oneway lanes I allow myself to take up a lane for myself this way I stand out and overtaking too

Closely is mostly prevented here I’m already on Vis Barton’s second ring over time you learn the peculiarities of your route you know where the lower manhold covers are you know every pothole by name and you know which lane to drive on to avoid bad pavement traffic lights at least red

Ones are the natural enemy of the vom mobilists say the velona not here we have my favorite intersection a masterpiece of identitarian neoexpression street art with a little luck in a pulse of 160 beats per minute I can make the next Green phas and roll I can roll without

Having to start again here’s a slide uphill slope which makes starting even less fun on roads with two lanes I have little to no bad conscience about driving on the roadway during rush hour in the morning or evening my conscience May occasionally pinch me but uh during

These times the average speed is also lower so I can swim better in the flowing traffic Let It Roll have I already mentioned that vmobile riding is pure energy management the ENT out here and now weighs around 130 kilos with me and my entire staff will work in it so you

Don’t like to accelerate from zero to cruising speed too often on many occasions it’s better to roll slowly and even take a little detour to avoid having to break and come to a full stop the only catch with this workaround in this special case are the many parked cars three

Intersections here right of way applies so approaching the intersection carefully and always check the mirrors of the parked cars for movement inside the car and still be prepared for a suddenly opening car door okay intersection number one be prepared to break and we have intersection number two um little better view of what’s

Coming from the left and from the right and number three if everything goes well I’ll hit the red phase of the traffic coming from these B exactly and can turn onto the B Al without breaking or stopping and then Rush down towards bbr yeah that worked let it

Roll now I have to draw my attention to this delivery when the driver can’t see me I can’t see him even in the mirrors I I don’t see him so this would be a classic blind spot exent ENT slow down let him go the next intersection has a very long

Green face for me because it’s the official DeTour for bypassing the zbar tar Bridge a quick word about these protective lanes and cycle Lanes in the bike lane no motor vehicle traffic should take place of course you find those random warning light Parkers using the lane for

A stop because of the missing car traffic in this Lane all the trash from the road can be found here chipped glass shards pointed small stones screws and so on I believe most of the sweepers in be SP are broken I have never found that strip clean without dirt for drivers all

These different funny Lanes with their different lines on the road are extreme weird stuff depending on the kind of bike lane or protection strip they have to keep a distance of at least 1 M and 50 when overtaking this appears to be quantum physics for some of them let it roll Energy

Management if it weren’t for this inner city speed limits of 50 km per hour and if I knew the traffic light faces exactly then I would be able to fly across this upcoming intersection at speed of 60 or faster using the momentum for the slight climb up to our munib

Book unfortunately it didn’t work out this time I have to stop and then accelerate again once again a nice wide cycle Lane this time even including a buffer area for protection to the ding area very nice Road surface is good and I can easily navigate around the lowered manhole

Covers time to accelerate and Rush down the mountain towards M’s Castel the cycle pass here on the right is uh not really suitable for my speed range I prefer to drive with almost 50 kilomet in the moving traffic on the road he’s not really sure whether he

Should overtake me at a speed faster than 50 km hour or just stay behind me with a little less than 50 km an hour ah okay now here he goes ah I like the color very much here to the right is a typical example of a cycle pass subject to use

Small pavement Stones plenty of root cracks and other bumps beautiful is different so now we arrive in mines cost time it says mines on the outside but its VB on the inside the ER the recommendation to construction of cycling facilities recommends a minimum width of cycle

Lanes ah I’m not sure but my wheelbase is 86 1 12 CM that looks pretty tight actually according to the rule for me as a cyclist I’m not allowed to cross the bike Lanes solid line but when I stick to this rule with the vobile I’ll take pretty much any lower drain with

The right wheel and would probably need three new struts per year this is a good example for one of the more creative bike lane layouts along the entire route it will most probably be in line with ra recommendations but in my eyes produces an unnecessary accident risk especially

When the ever existing smalles get off the bus staggering across the the bike lane without even noticing it exactly my sense of humor crossing the river mine near Gustav’s BG the mailman here Parks this car 75% on the sidewalk and blocks off 25% of the protective strip his colleagues on the

Other side of the street closes the protective strip completely doesn’t bother me actually how should the poor delivery people otherwise get rid of all the stuff ordered online by the shopping addicts between 10: p.m. and 6 a.m. a speed limit of 30 km per hour applies

For noise reduction on this road as I’m producing no noise does it apply to me as a cyclist as well yes sadly it does okay stop these are definitely no one m and 50 with quite a bit of Goodwill this might be maybe a meter unfortunately I turned off the camera

Too too early yet he could have just waited another 5 m before overtaking until having completely passed the traffic Island nowadays the general rule in road traffic seems to be when everyone thinks of themselves everyone is thought of now I have to use this torture route

For a few meters in order to get to the mine cycle path following the river well a few Euros for a new road surface might be well invested here dear City fathers at the side of this I immediately get button back pain ah it’s so comfortable inside my velomobile come to the lights

That was close see you for a few kilometers I follow the bike track along the river mine it’s pretty well developed and the plan is to follow it all the way to Frankfurt someday okay now continue to drive carefully towards the junction the fields have now been harvested and you can even spot

Cyclists until two weeks ago with a little luck you were able to spot a moving helmet above the era field great caution had to be used every now and then you encounter nice drivers who are simply happy and wave when you pass I love it after having

Passed by the opal Factory or now Drive Through The Pedestrian Zone towards the train station use the underpass to get to the south side of the train station precise driving is highly recommended in this part to not scratch rally Stripes into your pain yeah this guy on the left the driver of

This SUV is also such a figure of light first Full Throttle then full braks 20 M later because a pedestrian completely unexpected crosses the street so from here I’m happy to use the bicycle protection strip again however since we are back within door opening range always keep one eye on the car

Mirrors paying attention to movement inside the cars nevertheless be prepared for suddenly opening doors the cycle pass now disappears here to the right behind these parked cars and further down the road behind the parking lot thereafter it makes some 90° bends offering very poor overview of what is coming up behind the

Turn I’d rather stay on the street we now have left whistle time on the other side of this bridge which crosses the highway a67 vobile country begins I hopefully take the momentum from the ramp with me and hope to hold between four 40 and 45 km an hour to

Meldon roughly the next 6 km in fact there actually is a very nice bike path hidden behind these trees due to these occasional exits however you will be relatively abrupt Shak and awake because of cars coming out of the Forest parking lots steered by drivers who seldomly look for

Cyclists this leads to occasional emergency braking which is highly inefficient and has to be averted by all means an upcoming bicycle with child trailer will also rise the overall excitement level it might get very close therefore I prefer to relax on the main road especially as the road is

Quite wide here so that overtaking is even possible with oncoming traffic from here on the main road Narrows a bit and it’s by far not as wide as it was for the last 4 km for demonstration purposes I’m going to continue on the bike path

Now you can see there’s not really a lot of space the three oncoming cyclists were just like me riding on the extreme right hand side of the cycle path and we barely passed each other without leaving the path into the grass those were three relatively safe cyclists with a good

Command of their bikes from time to time you encounter the one or the other unsafe cyclist where you can’t predict where they will be steering to in the next few seconds now we briefly ride through meldon and then we continue our relaxed Cruise in vow mobile country

A quick side note having my camera mounted on top of the vobile I clearly noticed the increased drag there must have been at least 5 km an hour missing in top speed in direct comparison when riding without it now I have to pass through two more

Little towns and uh then I go to experience the number one Hessian Lighthouse project on cycling infrastructure from here I continue to ride on the cycle path because behind this bridge across the highway A5 is a crossroad forcing me to convert kinetic into thermal energy not good once again as

The fields now have been harvested I can see what’s coming until a few weeks ago I had to approach those little Junctions here with Maximum Care as I had no chance of seeing something and was more or less Flying Blind the angle of view out of the

Willow mobile was so restricted uh that I merely had a chance to see even upright bikers these old little tiny Mini Coopers the original ones no chance here it is the cycle Highway linking damad with Frankfurt okay that’s still a bit music of the future but first of all

Government have been Planning and Building it over a very long period of time spending a lot of money for these s kilometers local and state politicians celebrated themselves EX extensively petted themselves on the shoulder to the point of breaking each other’s collarbone yes of course I have to admit

The bike path is pretty awesome the lighting along the path switches on and off automatically in segments to light the way of the cyclist riding by night that’s a pretty clever idea reducing light pollution the track is very wide and the surface is one of the finest no

Bumps no drains as now and then they already had to fix certain spots where it apparently wasn’t possible to create an even level afterwards compared to the average German bike path this is the gold Deluxe solution at this point on the track I’d wish to see a hint whether I can

Continue staying fast or whether I have to start bleeding of the speed because the railway barrier is uh open at 000 the next Village to come in case it’s open I have to expect Crossing traffic and randomly have to stop but hey okay that would be the maximum looks serious

Solution in order to remind the cyclists that they are on a cycle Highway uh they painted these wonderful green signs in intervals onto the track so no one forgets the effort of the politicians that this one was sponsored by the government well more or less the taxpayers and once again the harvested

Fields being very beneficial in this uh improving overview of the now following 90° right turn once in a while you pass one of these roofed pit stops like this one here where you can fix your bike or simply have a brake covered against rain and sun those were the fast four kilometers

Of the cycling Expressway the rest of the already completed cycle Highway routes through settlement areas in total there are I think seven kilometers which they LED labeled as cycle Expressway when taking a closer look at the suggested further routings from Lan onto Frankfurt respectively the relatively short strip onwards to norenburg you’ll

Notice that those proposes are not worth the label cycle Expressway it must be routed through every village along the Route resulting in timeconsuming passes through villages with many 90° left 90° right turns I don’t know but the ability of reflection among the planners obviously vanish during the planning phase of those root

Segments at this point I’m joining the main road B 486 again the stretch of road I mentioned earlier lies behind me now you really can’t use this 2 and A2 kilm long stretch of Bund Str during daytime without making many new waving honking and gesticulating Friends yourself will develop T red relatively quick

Almost there reduce the pace and roll out slowly mentally saying goodbye to cycling and getting the right mindset for work I hope I could give you a little inside view into how it feels to take part in road traffic as a vom mobilists say velon not whether a vmobile can replace a car

For commuting is as you learned dependent on what the commuter route and its infrastructure looks like as you’ve seen long intersection free well developed roads are what the vmobile is made for riding a vmobile in the city is by far not as much fun as what you’ve

Seen during the last 15 to 20 minutes if you liked what you see I’d be very happy to get a thumbs up for the video and uh would like to welcome you as a new subscriber to my channel thanks for watching stay healthy take care and see you the next time bye-bye