It's on flat ground it's like I'm not easy it's like I'm not even pedaling
The reason I almost fell right there
Was because I was trying to
drive with one hand
It's a gorgeous day today
Okay, so today was supposed to be the start of my
line bike door - promotion, and I was supposed to get 40 free rides, and I signed up and they
you know they they got me the the door -
Courier bag and all that good stuff, but the promo code never worked for me
I've called line bike door - the customer service is so bad. You know the guys overseas? They don't even know what I'm talking about
It's really really frustrating
My line bike said that the promo code had some sort of error the engineers are working on it or something like that
I don't know
They gave me a bunch of $1 off coupons, but it's like $1 per ride
And if I do the e bikes for an hour, that's like nine dollars
It would be ten dollars, so I'll get the dollar off and I gotta pay nine dollars, so
yeah, you know I
Don't even know if I'll make any money today doing this, but I said I would do this vlog
I've been this is the only sunny day here in Seattle this week, so I'm about to head downtown
I'm gonna rent one of these alike electrical bicycles
And I'm gonna do some dashing uh
Maybe for free I don't know maybe I'll lose money or maybe I'll gain just a little bit of money
but if I really like this
Because I see some
Some guys on boosted boards
doing door - and
Post mates and stuff like that and if I could get away with doing this without
Driving I would love that
I'm gonna see how this ebike thing goes if I like it cuz I don't really know how to skateboard that well
you know I don't want to like die and
If I really like this bike thing, I'll give it a go, I'll buy an e bike I see them going on
Amazon for like seven hundred bucks and stuff like that so I
Don't know let's see what happens. I'm oh I'm headed downtown and just bashing
So this pilot program was supposed to be
For us - errs to let door - know
if we like the idea of ebikes and
So my preliminary thoughts are well lit there's no gas
There's no maintenance, I mean there might be a little maintenance if you own a bike, but you know
No, you don't have to worry about your vehicle car depreciates
You know the relay any of that so the money makes should theoretically be profit
Now one interesting thing that I'm thinking about right now
As I Drive into downtown Seattle is um well I?
Need to find a place to park
And argue is not free in downtown Seattle
So I think I'm gonna head over to Chinatown and give my ebike from Chinatown
so I'm in Pioneer Square, and there's a few line bikes right there, and there's one over there, but
It's pay for parking here so in order for this to even be like remotely
Feasible I need to find a place that I
Don't have to pay for parking, so I'm looking at the map here right now, and uh?
I
think
It might make more sense
For me to just drive further down and to park on a side street think
that there should be a line bike right over here and
this Krispy Kreme
Par this Krispy Kreme area somewhere. I don't know where it is
Now Krispy Kreme and Key Bank has parking
Well, I know that if I try to park in that Key Bank parking, lot. I'm gonna end up getting towed because
Banks are lonely like even though. They have all those empty space spaces banks are just assholes, but I think I found parking
Semi nearby
myself then I'm on Walker and Occidental
So just just so I can play this back and not get lost that's how I'm gonna record myself today
I'm gonna put my GoPro on this chest harness
And it'll give it like a first-person point of view
type of a deal
and
For the audio so the audio is gonna start sounding better and different because I am gonna use
the
Zoom one handycam with a
Really good
Lavaliere blank
But now the level ear mic has this little foam cushion that loves to pop off it literally pops off all the time
I'm gonna put this on and hopefully
This can withstand the wind so we'll see
okay, so I'm gonna take this bag out this door -
courier bag
And let's see let's
See what this ends up looking like let's see oh this is the bag
It's
And it's like a book bag kind of a thing okay, gotcha, and then there's another zipper on the side
Seems kind of hefty -
Might be heavy my GoPro battery is gonna run down at some point. I have a spare battery. I'm gonna keep with me
okay, so this is the
this is the lime bike right here and
I've never done this before
Okay, so this is a the line bike here now
I've never used this thing before
So what I'm going to try to do
Is hop on the amp real quick?
The line bike app okay
yeah, I thought that this was the one so that says oh follow I
Don't think this is the right bike for some reason
Okay, well, okay, so I finally made it to these line bikes here, and uh?
Let's see okay right now my screen is recording
Okay, so I finally made it to these line bikes here, and I believe?
this bike number is eight five four so I'm glad I didn't try messing with the
Okay, eight five four I can't tell
Which bike to choose I?
Don't know if they're both the line. I don't even know what an electric bike looks like to me
I I would assume that it would have more
These look like regular bikes to me for some reason
Let's try this again shall we this is an e bike there we go
GPS tracked the whole you can see the battery pack all right clearly this is
the
Bike that I should have been going for
Okay, so this is my first ebike right and I am quite
quite far for downtown right now
So
This should be interesting
so yeah, hopefully this now that the microphone is working the sound quality would be better and
Also, I need to figure out and I know I should know this already
But I don't
I'm trying to figure out like how do you make?
The e part of the e assist worked, or is it working automatically I don't get it
So I probably should have figured that out before I started writing, okay, so
I've been riding this thing a little bit, and I think I can fill the electric assist I
Think that it's pretty easy to suraíh
I
Don't like the way this camera, but I think I think it's pretty easy to write
Like I'm really cold because even though it's a sunny day. It's about 45 degrees in Seattle, and I'm really cold already
See the wind I don't know if the mic is picking up a lot of this way
It's pretty windy right now, and I'm like really far from downtown Seattle as far. As that made the way this is Safeco Field I?
Love it. I am gonna go to a bunch of Mariners games in the summer for sure
So if you're not in Seattle and you've never seen Safeco Field or now you have
That CenturyLink Field I
Think the ebike is assisting me
But I can't tell
it does seem a lot easier to ride than a
lot of bicycles
That is Occidental Park now, this is Pioneer Square
Oh
Okay, that was a little scarier than the must look on camera hold on
So it's fun doing this but since I've been doing this for about 20 minutes
And it's at 15 cents a minute or whatever I think I don't know I can't do the math but
Probably already lost like five bucks
Or whatever and the foam being down there isn't gonna work as it gets flipping over. Oh?
Oh this has a handy little phone thing. I didn't see that
Okay, so I think you can put your phone
I don't know how to
I
Don't know how to work that thing though, I think you're supposed to be able to just slide your phone right in there
But I don't know how to do that
Maybe someone else does
Probably should have I probably should have read the instructions on that, huh?
Okay, and if I twist
If I twist this thing I think it's giving me
I can Iike prop my phone could probably fit in there if I took the case on. Okay. Let's try
Without breaking my fucking
Yeah it might fit
I don't know how to tighten the screw it. That's that's horrible
I don't know how to tighten or loosen it or what it's terrible and it's hurting my hands, so
huh
Okay, I gotta be honest
I'm not quite. Enjoying my first line bike experience, but it's probably more my fault for
Being new and never riding one of these things before
But I won't lie no I'm not
You know for an out-of-shape guy like myself, it's not the easiest thing to do
Okay, so yeah that wasn't great
Okay now
Alright now let's take a look at this hill here
That's a pretty steep hill
I'm gonna try to use
The ESS bike to go up it
And see how that does okay, maybe I?
Could drive this thing okay
Here we go up the hill
Yeah
No
I'm gonna give that a fail I
Can't I can't ride up that thing
so
the whole point of an e-bike
In downtown Seattle, I would think
Especially with that full assist mold and some ebikes has is to be able to tackle a hill like this and so
Since I mean I can do it, but it's gonna hurt a lot in order for me to actually get this bike up there
and the whole point of an e assisted bike you would think
Would be to handle a hill like this
Because
If you can't go up these hills you can't do deliveries in downtown Seattle. What did you bike?
so
I'm gonna give it a shot. Maybe the the ESS thing didn't kick in or something. We give it one more shot
But if it's that difficult I
Won't be able to use lime bike
to do these deliveries oh
Yeah, no too difficult, so I gave it the college try
ESS fails
So I have noticed that it's really easy to peddle
When you're not going up a hill
But then again, that's the whole point I could just ride a regular
Line bike bicycle. I'm not too ebike
and pay all this money, so
Honestly
I'm gonna head over to Chinatown
And since I haven't gotten a delivery yet
And it's been about 20 minutes
I'm not going to accept in the deliveries downtown on this
Because this can't tackle the hills and if they can't tackle the hills then it's worthless
Although it does feel really fun to be able to go downhill like this. I haven't ridden a bicycle in a long time
I just wanted to do that. This is really I will say this though
This is really really fun like
Like if this thing actually worked
Going up those steep hills. I would so use this the door - made it free
But yeah, I don't think it works unfortunately
Let me check my phone no it still no orders
Still no orders for the boy
And this thing is very complicated. I mean it makes it look you know maybe you guys gonna be like
Dante is so simple all you had to do was
ABCD but
No, it's not it's not working for me
Ah so if I could put my phone there, it would be very helpful
and
I'm definitely not gonna do it without the case because I don't trust that thing
So I'd probably had to buy my own like phone holder thing for if I was doing this all the time
And a helmet for sure
Because I see other people on those
On those mountain bikes driving through traffic
And I would drive to traffic
If I had like a real ebike, so I'm gonna go ahead and stall this not a real ebike for folks
Oh, there's only yes, sis
and I can't monitor when it's the system so I
Gotta give it up
But it's super fun like driving through Chinatown like this. I kind of felt like I'm in
Like I'm in a foreign country or something
Chinatown sugoku the Middle Kingdom
The metal ping
My strap came undone for a second here
See what I did was in order to
Have it come higher. I put it on upside down, so I've been actually riding with the GoPro mount upside down this whole time
I love that entranceway oh
I gotta go over. I got a delivery I
Got a delivery oh
my god, that's impossible to do on this bike I
Can't go. I can't do that
No, no it's impossible I wouldn't be able to
three point eight miles
yeah, so I got to decline it and drop my percentage rating and I'm gonna go ahead and log off because
This is impossible to do
Okay, so my Dash for today is zero dollars on zero trips
Zero dollars on zero trips - but uh
But at least I got to see Chinatown and oh by the way, I need to stop by, Washington
In a park look it's very pretty sometimes people play chess here to do occasional
Yeah, I need to stop over here wash it in federal and handle some business anyway
Pull up right here park the bike
Okay, so
And it's really hard to sync these two things up okay
It's really hard to sync the mic and the GoPro up because the GoPro lags after you press record
but okay my business is complete and
Even and it took like five or ten minutes, which cost me like fifteen cents a minute on this thing
Which it should be free and I'm gonna try to get refunded back for this. I don't think I'll be successful
Because the door - promotion said all these rides were free
So I don't know we'll see
I'm not gonna be happy even if I have to pay for this ride but
Yeah now I'm gonna head back. I'm gonna drive through Chinatown a bit just just for fun
All right, this is hip so now I'm going to head back towards the stadium over here
This traffic light is really confusing almost started to go and have no idea if I could or not
And I kind of wanted to try it right then and get run over by a bus for no reason
The bus driver the budget the budget ivory was making fun of me, hope I got that on camera
The brother was like nope don't try it buddy. Oh
That was so funny. I so hope I got that on camera
Go ahead and press these sixes
I know somebody's waiting here
I'm gonna go anyway
Tempt fate a little bit
Always like looking over these things these overpasses and stuff
Just seeing what's there it's just like some cool views all right. Let's go
Fifteen cents a minute Dante cancel and keep stopping. I will say this though
though when the
Line bike is on flat ground
It's totally fine like
I
Think the eAssist is working. I can't tell but
Like when it's on flat ground. It's like. I'm not when it's on flat ground. It's like
I'm not easy just like I'm not even pedaling
The reason I almost fell right there
Was because I was trying to
drive with one hand
and cover the wind because
Because the wind it was really windy and almost fell but
uh
When it's on flat ground it's like I'm hardly pedaling
But when he goes up a hill
The eAssist is a one big fail oh
My gosh I need to relearn how to ride a bike obviously
I love this guy's walking stick it looks so cool
And yeah, I just realized something troubling for myself. I don't know how to get back where I came from
I really don't actually I have no idea where I came from
Let's see
First Avenue, Occidental
It was all over the okay yeah, I was over there by
They lay right there
So
Okay sobs go go up, and then I'm gonna make a right on Holgate. I know where I am
Go off and make it right on ho oh, I can't that was the directions for
Okay, well let's see if this ramp will take us up
That's where we need to go, you know, I think the eAssist can handle small Hills like this
It seems like small Hills work perfectly fine for it
it's only the it's only the big Hills that are like a
massive fail
But small Hills small Hills work perfectly fine
And I have to admit
that
You know I'm not in the war shape in the world
I'm not in the best and
My calves are I know my thighs are like Bernie. They're like they're like on fire right now
So
If you're out of shape, this is this is not for you
Hello pigeons
Oh my god
Ah
This hurts so much. Oh yes, this what button do, I press
He assists my ass
Ah
So fuckin tired
As an aside and I know off with a little railroad tracks that looks fucking dope it looks amazing
Wow looks so cool
Saeko Fiat excetera except, I'm so tired oh my gosh
And this whole experience is going to cost me at least $9 possibly like 10 or 11 or $12
For joy, right
Because that the one delivery request I got
For seven dollars and fifty five cents for the three point eight miles on this thing
Is impossible now if I had a fully electrical bike?
that I could just like turn on and
they could do a lot of the work for me I
Can do three point eight miles? I'm sure
But riding this
So piroshky piroshky which is on Third Avenue, and then I would have had to drive all the way to Beacon Hill
No
Now I could do it
But I wouldn't want to
Because I could do it doesn't mean I would want to do that no way and that's the key bank so
My car is is down here oh?
my goodness
Ah
Ah
Fuck
Jesus Christ
Mother Mary, okay
All right, I want to park this thing right here and
I think I'll walk it by pressing down on this
like that
That walks it
And I think I got a message from
line bike and
the message said I
was on the bike
Let's see
3.1 miles 54 minutes 13 seconds
1261 carbon and 88 calories burned I fly I bard more than the ATA calories I
Burn to least 3,000 calories on that on that trip because uh-oh I'm exhausted
Share my ride
Okay, I'll share my ride here. I'll share I'll copy and I'll save the image. Oh my goodness
Okay, I'm here back finally
Oh
My god, I'm so tired you can see I'm sweating look like oh, it was not easy to do
Okay so uh
Let me get my bearings about me
okay, so what did I think of that and let me let the top now because I am so hot oh you have a
With my convertible here, I went down this partitioner right like that
Press that button there
So
my nose is running because it was really cold like I know I'm hot, but I'm sweating and I'm cold at the same time because
But it got up. I mean it's probably like fifty five sixty degrees now
But the wind was so heavy and intense
that oh
oh
That you were sweating, but you were cold at the same time. It's very weird
Okay, so what are my thoughts?
on that I
Felt like I'm an athlete getting interviewed after after a basketball game or something well
uh, you know the coach called plays and made the decisions but
Okay
What am I thoughts okay one?
Door - and Weinbach had a promotion
And I was supposed to get 40 free rides to try it out and let them know what I thought
Unfortunately, I felt a lot of pressure because I didn't get those 44 your eyes. I didn't get anything free. I got a dollar haul
Which was not what the promotion said is not fair so
So the whole time I'm thinking like all of this has costing me money. I'm calculating computing some stuff added a little pressure
But you know it would have all been worth it if the electrical, but if the ebike was fully
Electrical it wasn't it would just be assist and you can't tell when the eAssist is working or not
but one thing is for sure the eAssist is not enough to handle the steep hills in seattle and
in order to do this particular
These these door - deliveries in downtown seattle, and that's the only place that's available for
And I'm being blown up by somebody right now for some reason I was being blown up by
Line bike
Saying great job and all that
okay, so
the only way to make
Doing that in downtown Seattle feasible as you had to have a fully electric bicycle you can't I can't do it
Maybe other people can this is my desk set up
I have I have my laptop right here to do some stuff, and I usually edit on resolve
over here and
So I use my 42 inch television as a monitor my desktop down there
And I use this wireless keyboard
Yep, so you this is what I do when it's time to edit my stuff, this is my set
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