Cycling in Finland at Sub-Zero Temperatures

Most of the European countries have good cycling lanes but in very few countries people bike in winter as the snow makes it very difficult to bike. In Finland, however, winter cycling is very common and you can see a lot of people using bikes at sub-zero temperatures. In this video, I show you the cycling/biking paths in the city of Oulu and what it is like to bike in the winter wonderland.

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Uh Hi everyone this is avishek i live in olu finland and i thought of making a video to show how it feels like to bike in winter with temperatures around minus 10 minus 15 degrees celsius as you can see there’s a lot of snow today but it’s quite good weather actually I can show you the bike that i use here this is a merida hybrid bike as you can see the tires are quite narrow i would not suggest you to use those in winter because they are very slippery better to use some wider tyre or winter tires i use them because

In olu the roads are quite well maintained and i will actually show you why it’s so good to bike here even in winter and why olu is known as the winter cycling capital of the world the thing that makes it very easy to buy is there is hardy ice

At the bottom and there is a thin layer of snow on top of it which gives very good friction for the tires and you don’t slip and you can bike very easily even with summer tires and the second thing is that the paths here the cycling parts

Or the cycling lanes they are very wide they are made wide enough so that the vehicles that clean the snow can go through them and then they clean it very well you might have seen in the video there were two or three snow plowing vehicles in the video previously and the sun is

About to set so maybe i should head back home So i came to the nalikari beach in hulu well you cannot see anything because it’s very foggy today and this is the beach here and after that it’s all sea baltic sea and well meet my friends [Applause] I