Why Oslo is becoming the Cycle Capital of Europe! 

if only you knew how hated cycelists are in this country, narrow roads and you guys congest them and create more polution because everyone have to slow down an harshly accellerate to get past, grinding traffic to a halt in the morning when everyone has to get to work in the morning/day and the same when people are going home. lorries have to stop and overtake aswell. despite how fast it feels on the bice, you rarely cycle faster than 12-20km/h on roads intended for 80km/h, if there was room for everyone there wouldn't be a problem. but by law we have to treat you guys like you are cars, and we have to give way, even the buss had to be slowed down because of you guys, slowing down public transport wich is already slow. just hope you understand how much of a burden your hobby is on everyone else in society. i understand you office workers need exercise, but please go to the gym instead, or swap to a manual job. everything here is so far away that almost everyone have to drive long distances to get to work. and having your daily commute made longer by about 5-15mins every day because some inconsiderate cycleist is slowing everyone down by congesting all the roads realy generates allot of hate. i just wish you guys could understand it. or that you would even read this.

Amazing film - catching the atmosphere!

I'm impressed how many other things Norway has to offer besides skiing😃cycling in Oslo, Chess in Stavanger...

That,s just awesome well organized in a beautiful city great Vlog simon would love to go on this next time i visit 🇧🇻🚴👍

Awesome video. Beautiful scenery. Loved it!

Great video. Thank you for covering the ride. We'll be in Oslo the end of this month and I'm thinking about joining the ride that day. What a memory of Norway to take home.

It's beautiful to see so many bicyclists in our city!

Amazing video! Thanks for sharing this great story about Oslo Dawn Patrol!

Thanks for the ride, Matthew!

Great video!

that looks like a lovely route to ride!

Thanks for being part of ODP, Matthew 👍😊🙌

Im from middle America! I have to confess, your country is Beautiful 😍

cant think of a better way to start the day. super video btw. surprised you don't drink coffee.

Loved Not Just Bikes' take on Oslo recently, too. But didn't know the city had such huge dedicated groups of exercise cyclists!

Thank you for this, Will be interesting to see your take on this city.

Yep, the tea problem😂 At best lukewarm water in a coffee cup and a teabag of ‘Four fruits’… Just keep trying and/or have a tea bag with you. My mum managed to influence her favourite local restaurant: they now have ‘Bestemor Stewart’s Yorkshire tea’ on the menu. Served in mugs. With boiling water! And regular milk on demand. Yay!

Nice to meet you in Person Matthew 👍☝️🤙👌✌️🙌

Great video👍👌... Great contrey

I never travel without Earl Grey teabags.

All coffee! No tea. Norway just keeps getting better! This Canadian needs to get there!

On the tea...it's wise to take your own brand of tea bag (assuming you're not using loose tea) no matter where you travel. They'll have hot water and milk as long as you have the tea. As a Brit/Cdn, even when I'm in the US, I take tea bags with me. You can get tea in the US, but not industrial strength tea like Brits and Cdns drink. I'm curious as to the use of English to address the group by the ride captains. Was that due to a preponderance of English speakers there for the event?

Hi. I have a question, are similar bicycle trips organized in the afternoon?

Love it! How on earth did you manage to both get drone shots and keep up? Impressive!

I'm an Englishman in Norway actually rolls off the tongue nicely haha. Such beautiful country. Thanks for sharing :) Also were there only men on the ride or some women I just didn't see?

Looks amazing 😻

Great to see! #bikeep

Hope to see you 5.40 tomorrow :)

Is it truly that bright in Norway at 4:43AM or is this a edited alarm sequence?

Did you say this was all year round, is it not dangerous in the winter, with the ice?

Enjoyed a ride, upset some car owners. Win win

Let us out of the fridge ....please 😂 Take your own t-bags😊

Love Oslo ❤ but……🙂 ever been to the Netherlands ? 😉 that’s still in Europe 😅

Hi Matthew, fantastic video and the fact that you were able to keep up was even more commending. But that is where my criticism is as well. When we call a city as cycling capital, it is supposed to be inclusive for all - not just a small percentage of fast paced cyclists. That way, Denmark (not just Copenhagen has much to teach its Nordic neighbours). I live in Oslo, and one reason I've never joined ODP is that most ride at 25-29 kph on average on a route that includes climbs (and it'salways the same route?). Which made sense why anyone on mtb or City bike needs to be identified in the beginning. While such restrictions are there, we cannot exactly call it a cycling capital (sorry!). Note - it is not a criticism of Oslo Dawn Patrol, but of the caption. To elaborate further, we did have to build a club from grassroots in Kolkata (India) where people had the same thought that we ride too fast (at 24-25 kph), so we had to create programs to make it more inclusive. Now CNG has more than 500 members in a city with almost no cycling infra. I don't see any such effort in Oslo, though these cyclists are not left out in Denmark. The other concern is how little space some groups leave for the cars. The cars usually give respect (and ODP by definition happens in morning, so does not cause any problem), but there are many who are forever embittered towards cyclists not giving space. I have heard some say of the feeling to roll over (again, something heard from people living in Sweden & Norway). But it is also troublesome for some cyclists as well, especially if the group is not maintaining decent pace & still wants to ride 3 abreast - maybe switch to 2 or 1 in a row if it is a large group.

Does cyclists have to pay for road registration in Norway?

What would be nice on some of these videos would be a graphic of the route elevation, and the speed the cyclists are travelling at. The Dawn patrol seems to be an elite group mostly, so it would be nice to show if those of us that are a bit more regular or below if we can actually keep up. (I KNOW I wouldn't be able to keep up... Tea is an issue. I never drink coffee, and even after 3 decades in my job, people never seem to remember that I drink tea so there's never any tea at the conference rooms. During meetings at hotels I've not only had to ask the staff for hot water and teabags, but I've several times had to send the water back because they've used a thermo mug that has held coffee before. Most cafes have a limited selection(Liptons Yellow label, some sort of Early Grey, some trash called Four Red Fruits, and possibly some Green tea. ) The hipster type places have pretentious teas, and Rooibos. Rooibos isn't a tea, it's a weed. Most gas stations range from limited to a somewhat decent supply. Tomorrow I'll be driving most of the day. I'll be bringing my 450ml thermo cup, probably with Yorkshire Gold, and a 1L thermos with Earl Grey. I also have my emergency stash of Lady Grey, English Breakfast, sugar packets, and even drinking buillon.(That's a real picker-upper. Also available in single cup servings) So... Are you going to do 'Styrkeprøven' (Trondheim - Oslo) this year? Or the Birkebeiner?

with summers being "not so long" I wonder if many of these cyclists are xc skiers in the winter?

groningen, utrecht, amsterdam, nijmegen, even ugly eindhoven... i know a few cities wich have a bigger cycling population.

What day of the week was this ride? You’ve been in Norway a long time - you need to improve your pronunciation. 😊

I agree with the Norwegians tea is horrendous

Didn’t see a single reason why Oslo would become the bike capital of Europe….

Its good to see that some people enjoy cycling, I`m all for it. But many people don`t enjoy it, and I wish the cyclist enthusiasts could accept that and stop saying that we all need to start cycling. Oslo is small and we can walk everywhere. And in the winter we need our cars.

Copenhagen is the Cycle Capital of Europe, only 11% in Oslo is cycling, it is 19% Copenhagen, and in winter only 5% in Oslo is cycling. But noway is for sure a nice country😉

Why do most wear black the colour of death😮

Ha Ha your so funny. Just drink the bloody coffee and get over with it. Assimilate! ;-)

Cycle capital....hahaha. Infrastructure is horrible, come on.

They speak in English??? Why??

I’m surprised Norwegians are good at speaking English. I thought they would prefer their mother tongue to English in their normal discourse. Unless of course the cycling participants are from other nations.

lol cycle capital of europe.

Where are all the female cyclists? Would love to see them and hear their voices.

This is a lie. Yes it has been used a lot of taxpayers money, but bike use has not gone down or up.

It is not safe to use bicycle in Oslo. The city has to many hills and the statement that Oslo is a cycle city is wrong!!