Münster Trilogy

[Skybird]

Completed!

This is, after some problems, the third and last Münster movie (not counting the night camera test I also posted).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9l8Xt8BRUo

After the river Werse in the East and the Aasee in the South-West, its now the arc from West to North. We again travel into the Kreuzviertel and then see the city castle, which is home to parts of the university, and the castle garden; next through one of the university districts, before we leave the centre city behind and enter the green belt surroundign the city and separating it from several satellite settlements that form a ring around Münster. Parks and garden landscape this belt often is, at least in the West. These are of younger age and slowly growing, over the coming decades they probably will connect to and melt into the city of Münster at their centre. Here we travel through the nice area of very green Gievenbeck, then come close to and almost to Roxel (where my parents live), turning north then and pass through Nienberge, and then in the final stage touch Kinderhaus and Coerde, the latter of which borders the area where I live, the Rumphorst quartier. My own quartier is right on the North-Eastern rim of the main town, which is ideal: I am quickly out of the city and in the green, if I want, but also quickly in the old town and city centre, can be there within 5 minutes (shortest track to the centre place is less than 2 km, usually I take one of several possible greener tracks, making it 4km). Infratdurtcure and variosu shopping opporutnties and supply optiisn are ideal. I live in my place since 21 years, and I think I scored it very well and luckily. Thats why I bought it after the first four years. I wanted it, the former owner was willign to sell, and we made the deal, fast and uncomplicated as I like it.

There is, with the exception of the castle garden, little touristic attraction to be seen, but while the first videos had that, and the romantic idyll of the river Werse, this video shows pretty much the real and typical face of the surrounding Münsterland region, which in the endn was and is a farming ground in the main. Its mostly flat and can be a bit boring, dull. I prefer the region south of Osnabrück, the Teutoburger forest and Wiehengebirge, therefore, which is more hilly, but way more idyllic. The first film with the Werse is beautiful, yes, but it is not typical for the Münsterland, really it is not. Typical is what you see in this film. What I jkiss here, is a bigger forest area. I am a forest man. Others love beaches and the sea, others prefer the mountains. I need a forest. Preferrably with no humans in it. Well, not in or around Münster, that is the only real setback here.

Still you can live well and quite green here, the charm of the city is that it is not only offering nice infrastructure for bicycles in a pragmatic meaning (good surface quality of tarmac, and plenty of bicycle tracks and roads), but that the city also is offering many, many parks and green corridors, if you know these well you can get around almost everywhere without needing to travel grey and boring main traffic streets, but can bike along trees and meadows, almost everywhere. Its a very green city. I almost exclusively use these "green tracks", it is good for the eye and good for the soul and I have no timetables to meet, so i can afford easily to take some minutes longer to get from A to B.

Münster has 1.6x as many bicycles than inhabitans (500,000 bikes for 310,000 people. Even Dutch tourists not knowing it and being here for the first time are stunned by how many bicycles we have here, the density is very high, leaving even the Dutch metropoles behind, and that means something (for foreigners: the Dutch have the reputation of being Europe'S most fanatical bicycle users :) ). Its the most used means of transportation, before cars and busses. Over 40% of traffic here is done by bicycles. Münster was seen as and maybe still is Germany's bicycle capital.

I have two heavy locks with me when biking. Thats the dark side of things. When I use the ebike, I always take battery, saddle and spring mount for the saddle with me. I also have a good, versatile flat-bed :) trailer. But I have no car. You don't need one here. You need good bicycles, and cloathing for every weather. I have a normal bike for city distances and short trips, and an ebike for long tours and heavy shopping duty. :D I never use busses. I HATE bus driving, and I hate it with a passion. For some reason, however, i liked the subway in Berlin. But you will never see me in a bus, no matter what. I find it absolutely disgusting. Yes, thats a bit queer maybe, but thats how I tick. Push me towards a bus, and I have my fangs at your throat immediately.

Anyway, hope you enjoy this last film, the tour has 32 km, making it the longest of the three. Maybe its the most sober of the three, but then: it is what it is and it shows how it looks here, without faking reality. :D It was early morning.

This map provides a quick overview.

https://i.postimg.cc/q7WmwqvM/M-nsterkarte-mit-rputen.png (https://postimages.org/)

For the sake of having it all completely in one place, I link the other two videos here again, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1-qnff2iqA
https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=250596


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxATruq0NMc
https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=250748

[Reece]

Hi Sky, been so busy for the last few days, quite tired (weary), have only been able to watch to the 19mn mark so far.
Started off not looking as good as the other 2 tracks, graffiti and all but soon came into some very nice areas, parks etc.
If I ever got over there I would have to contact you, maybe you could take the wife and I on a bus tour!! :03::D
Will continue with the video tour when I get the chance, but very nice so far, thanks. :up:

[Skybird]

Glad you enjoy it! :)

[Onkel Neal]

Wow, great video. That is a lovely town, so many green spaces and really nice bike trails and roads. I would definitely bike everywhere if we had a town infrastructure like that, Sky.

I'm wondering, if I replay the video on Youtube and change the replay speed to .75, will that slow it down to closer to normal speed?

Great job! :Kaleun_Thumbs_Up:

[Skybird]

Glad you like it. Two of the three video are shot in constant 2x Timewarp, one video uses both 2x and 5x, because in the pedestrian zone I did not drive but walked and pushed the bike: slower speed, but 5x acceleration. Thats why you almost do not relaise the differnce between driving and walking: 2x 15km/h= 30 km/h virtual speed, 5x 5.5 km/h= 27.5 km/h virtual speed.

Yes, you can deccelerate the videos via Google, and 0.75 still works fine, the frames will become a bit unsmooth, but not enough to be seriously cruel to the eye. However, the music will distort accordingly.



Technically, Timewarp is GoPro's name for a special mode of their cameras that works extremely well and is a bit different from normal Timelap. It does not film in nomal speed and then accelerate the recorded file like timelap would do, but it films, accelerates and stabilises the image - and just then saves it to the SD card (thats also the reason why you have no soudn recording in this mode, it makes no sense). That does not sound like a big difference, but two years ago I filmed with normal modes and then accelearted it in postprocessing 2x, and also filmed in Timelap mode - and the quality is really inferior, there is more nervousness and instability in the images, and it becomes more stressing for the eye. The selling argument for GoPro cameras for me is their superior Timewarp mode, and their as good image stabiliser. I use nothing else but this Timewarp mode.


"Essen holen" is the most idyllic place to the East, along the river Werse. i think that video is the most pleasant of the three, and I had a lucky hand with the music choice.

"Aasee" is about a central city district of beauty and wealth, the green ring named Promendae aroudn the town, the central city lake, and the shopping centre, pedestrian zones and many churches.

"Herbstfahrt" shows the castle garden and how the landscape looks if you leave the city westwards. Its less urban and more landscape focussed.

Yes, many gardens, parks, and "green bicycle corridors". Münster is famous for that.

No, you do not need a car here, you really just do not need it, it only costs you money. You need one or two good bicycles, and good clothing for every weather, maybe a good trailer, it certainly helps. Public transportation/bus grid is said to be good. I do not need nor use it. You have good train connections, too.

Check the map above. Enjoy!

[Reece]

Just finished the tour Sky, very nice, the parks and the trails are amazing, looks like you'd never run out of areas to ride in, though you did seem to know every turn off by heart.:yep:

Many thanks.:yeah:

[Skybird]

Just finished the tour Sky, very nice, the parks and the trails are amazing, looks like you'd never run out of areas to ride in, though you did seem to know every turn off by heart.:yep:

Well, I live here since 21 years...

I know the long hauls from Münster to Osnabrück very well, too. Thats where i lived before, 50km northeast of münster. I do tours of 120-150 km length back and forth, through the most beautiful Teutoburger Forest region. Getting an ebike in 2017 opened up these distances for me, despite age and health limitations. I did many videos on those tours. My longest day tour was on the Emsradweg, I logged 185km on that day.



Many thanks.:yeah:youre welcome.

[Reece]

My longest day tour was on the Emsradweg, I logged 185km on that day. :o
New electric motor needed soon!! :D

[Skybird]

Actually I had to replace it early this year, at 12,000 km driven.



It is not talked about much, but ebikes are not cheap to run, and friction on chain and gear is monumental, as hardware-killing as pro racing bikes. If I would go by the book, I would need to replace the chain every 1200 km, several times a year, that is.

[Skybird]

Return to the Werse river. Last Sunday came with a wonderful weather, and autumn showed itself from its best side. Golden light everywhere, the tree's coloured leafs drunk of sunlight.



The driving direction is reversed to the first Werse video, and the track in parts is a different one. You may recognize some thigs, but most should look new. And now off and away, dance with the colours and the beams of sunlight! The woods are beautiful at this time of the year.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBbe6E27c1M

[Jimbuna]

I enjoyed that but I must ask, are you wearing an overcoat or a Batman-like cape when cycling? :)

[Skybird]

I enjoyed that but I must ask, are you wearing an overcoat or a Batman-like cape when cycling? :)

Eh - what you mean?

The movies here are filmed at 2x speed, if speed is what you ask about.

The Timewarp, Timelap and Hyperlaps explained:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47_KOjvA3d8

Timewarp was introduced in the Hero 7, which was my first actioncam in 2019. The potential was obvious, but they had limited the picture quality to preset schemes with too high contrast, too oversatured colours and thus the mode was more or less useless. In the Hero 8 they made Timewarp mode open to all the usual ways to alter quality of the images, like saturation contrast, exposure, colour temperature and so forth. Since then it is THE killer feature of GoPro cameras, and it is the reason why just one year after the Hero 7 I also bought a Hero 8. The 8 also had better battery life, lower working temperature, and an even improved digital image stabilisation - you do not need gimbles with these cameras, you just do not need them. Since then, I exclusively film in Timewarp 2x and 5x. It gives, with bicycle speeds around 20-25km/h, virtual speeds in the film of either 40-50 km/h, or 100-120 km/h. In other words: it looks as if being filmed from a car.

Meanwhile there are the Hero 9 and 10, but I am not interested. They use new battery, are bigger, and in the main just add a front colour monitor for selfies and youtube streamers, which i have n o use for, and even further imroved Timewarp and image staiblisaiton, now even neutralising dipping horizons". I do not need that either, and the asking price imo is way to high now, 500-600 coins. Thats much money. I strongly recommend to get an 8 for reduced price now.

The Hero 8 battery lasts for me around 80 minutes, and a 64 GB SD card records two hours of timewarped film material, that is either 4 or 10 hours of real tour time. I can use batterieds form the 7 in it, too, with just 10-15 minutes less lasting time.

Its some fantastic piece of hardware kit. Very, very good. And so small.

[Jimbuna]

Eh - what you mean?



Your shadow gives me the impression you were wearing an overcoat or a Batman-like cape :)

[Skybird]

Öh - nahooo... Actually I am bald, but have a huge head (to store the football offside and handplay rules), though without horns. :D

[Reece]

Once again very picturesque though I had to put the volume right down, there is some sort of clicking sound in the background that is quite off putting! :hmmm:

[Skybird]

Once again very picturesque though I had to put the volume right down, there is some sort of clicking sound in the background that is quite off putting! :hmmm:
There is, but I think it is intentional. Its seems to be chaotic and random, but more and more falls into line with the rythm of the musical composition. I am not certain, but thats my impression.

I have done my last long range tour yesterday. Sunny day, great weather, and off too Osnabrück I was, 120 km back and forth, 8 hours. Busy but relaxed day in their pedestrian zone, I had Asian noodles in the midst of it, and enjoyed a wonderful day, visiting some old familiar places, I lived there for ten years. I luckily escaped a police control because people warned me that it was ahead, behind a turning bend, and driving was forbidden (construction site). I did not only stop and walked, but made sure I quickly dismounted the camera... That was close! Less than 60 meters, to be precise. When I got there and passed, they already had pulled half a dozen bicycles to the sides. Lucky lucky dog I was.

I will save the video of this and my second-last longer trip of this year . But I do it differently and not with intention to adress an audience with it. Who wants to watch it, can do it, but know what you get:


In the first season I did the "On Tour" videos. They were normally fimed at 1x speed and with sound. In post-processing I accelerated it to 2x, the sound got distorted, I cut pieces out to shorten the films, it was plenty of work, and I had some royalty-free music inserted, but mostly it was the distorted whining of the engine that was to be heard. The image is a bit nervous, and Bit-compresison was not great.

Next season i started with the "Warp Drive" series. It was the new Timewarp mode, it had way better image quality, the smoothness was improved greatly, and speed was accelerated to 5x, which allowed me to skip the plenty of editing and cutting to bring it down to a film of endurable length. Thes filmns thus show the complete tours, back and forth, in movies of 60-80 minutes length. I like the results, the virtual speeds are around 100-120 km/h: a car on a highway. It sdjustg that the closer to any of the two cities you are, the more repetivie it becomes. The variations lie in the centre sections.

What you guys have seen here in this thread, is the same principle, but again at just 2x acceleration.

I have four main corridors of traveling to Osnabrück, the centre parts of the tracks are where it varies dramatically. I want to shoot them all again in this Timewarp 2x mode, and at both directions, which means it is 8 tracks, so to speak, and I have completed 4 of these in recent two weeks, and in interesting autumn weather, from foggy mornings to golden noontimes. I will glue the pieces together and make one trip direciion one film, leaving it free of any further editing, which means it is quite a longer film then. Its a library for myself, so to speak, when i am old and grey and cannot do these trips anymore, I can get a VR helmet and then retravel the trips again, and at modest speed. :D There will also be no music, so one can pick ones own favourite tunes. I will only provide time stamps for places and tour sections.

Its not for everybody, I know, but especially the tour to Osnabrück and then the vicinity of it, north of the Teutoburger forest, that is so idyllic a landscape and different a mood, I want to conserve that for me (and my parents as well), and if you guys fancy such rides in the driver's cabin, well, I will not stop you then. Personally I occasionally like to watch videos like this on train locomotives, just watchign the track ahead and landscape while I have lunch or dinner. I did these tours before, but as I said: at 5x speed, and in summer's dark green vegetation. I will also prepare a map for overview, so that you know what it is about and how the tracks differ.


Four of eight sectiosn are done. The other four will follow next late spring.

[Skybird]

I have four main routes to use to tour between Münster and Osnabrück. There are more options, but these are the ones that are most pretty for bicycles.
I videographed them all many times now, but I plan to do so a last time with the latest method or technique that proved to be the most pleasant one to the eye: timewarp at 2x. The other, older videos all are 5x. For myself I want to do every route in both directions, and to not cut or edit it much. Its an archive for myself, once I am not capable anymore to do these day-long tours, I can watch these when feelign melancholic then. :D

Since the distance per lag is 50-70km, I end up with quite long videos this way, short of up to 2 hours. Thats why I think almost nobody will be interested in watching these. But since some guys here seem to have liked the Münster videos or the video for the idea of them, I set up the link, and if you are not interested, simply dont watch it. I know that most people will not, and that is okay.

I did not cut in this stuff, and added no sound file. Its just an archive. But this has one advantage: by choosing your own music background before playing the video, you are free to alter the playing speed without being affected from musical or accoustic distortions. I recommend to try out Youtube speed settings of 0.75, 1.0, 1.25 and 1.5, they all work well. The original speed of the video is 2x the real driving speed. 0.75 gives you 1.5x the real driving speed, so almost like doing the real trip in real time. 1.25x gives you 2.5x real driving speed, and 1.5x gives you 3x the real driving speed.

Going slower or faster than these means to invite stuttering.

What do you see? A shooting "from the cockpit", all tour long, without any cuts or expections. Can be relaxing, though I admit probably not 2 hours in a row. May be fine to watch when sitting on a home trainer. Or while having lunch. Please understand, this is more a sober video-documentation of the driven tracks, not so much sophisticated entertainment film. Every film is only one leg, the way there and the way back home are separated. And it will take time to post the other three films, and the other two legs, four movies will be done next year anyway (if I post them all at all, that is...)

All videos are no public, can only be played via a direct link. All videos are as usual fullHD: 1920x1080, 60 frames.

[Skybird]

Fahrtenbuch 01:

From Münster

via Ladbergen, Tecklenburg, Exterheide to Rubbenruchsee and Katharinenviertel in
Osnabrück

1h 49m

One of my two favourite routes and being the most Western track I use to get to Osnabrück. Being there, I drive through parts of regions where I lived in my beginning years in Osnabrück, even through the street were I lived first for three years, under the roof (the house to the right at 1:48:56 :D ). The film was done this Octobre (not September as the opening says), I started almost at dawn (camera lightens the picture up), it was hazy and fog was hovering over the meadows and the water of the channel. Later in the day it became warmer, clear, blue sky, sunny, colourful, and a wonderful and real fantastic day. I enjoyed this trip tremendously, and had a fine okay lunch at an okay-price at a cafe at the Rubbenbruchsee (who have a really good, not-so-sweet cheese-cake). One of the best days I had this year, everythign was perfect, including the grey moody start. The Katharinenviertel at the end of the movie is one of the coziest living areas in Osnabrück, and back in my years there it was almost completely occupied by students.

If you want to skip the transit, i recommend to start with the start, and then when you get drowsy jump to "Hasbergen". From there on its old familiar tracks that I use an awesome lot 25 years back.

I add the time stamps to the video comments in a few minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0kcgYhCtzU

[Reece]

I finally had the chance to finish this rather long video, I can understand why you ride a lot, the scenery is stunning. We have nothing like that over here, if you go to Leighton South Australia using Google maps and place the man on any road you will get the picture!! The government has broken down the railroad system here by about 80% so the roads are full of trucks hauling 2 to 3 trailers pounding up the roads, the council can't keep up with the repairs, very sad!! :doh:
Back to your video, I liked when you had to take a lunch break at the cafe, looked yummy!! :yep: I wonder if they sold pumpkins? :D
Thanks for the tour.

[Skybird]

Really...? Wowh, I admire your patience! :) I had not expected that anyone ever would.

In the first four years when I lived in Osnabrück, I lived close to that lake and cafe, but I never visited the cafe. This year, after over 30 years, was the first time ever I sat there and ordered something. The food was well in taste and fair in pricing.

I love that region very much, i miss it.

In a straighr line its 40 km from here to there, but the whole day's tours back and forth are 130, 140 km.

[Skybird]

For the few who may enjoy these kind of videos:


Fahrtenbuch 03

This is the second of four main tracks I ride most between Münster and Osnabrück. It lies, for the most, severla kilometers east of the track in the first video. In Fahrtenbuch 01, Osnabrück was approached from the West, this time the entrance route leads into the centre form the South.

97 minutes. The real beautiful part tarts with the crossing of the hills at Lengerich, somewhere at around 01:00:00, from there on I'm always in heaven. The area around Hagen and Hüggelschlucht is the most beautiful one. I call that part of the track "the magical 16", since I love it so much and it is around 16km long.

The other two approach routes I will reshoot in the style of these two videos this autumn. I never filmed in autumn before, and found it to be so rewarding to the eye: the gentler light, the colours... Should have done it this way already earlier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjHK0pf7ers

[Reece]

Hi Sky, Very nice and relaxing to watch, I am up to the 45mn mark, just passed 3 women with prams coming head on, looked funny!! :yep:
I notice that most of the roads are bitumen and very narrow, no center white lines, are they all one way? :hmmm:
We have nothing like these roads here in Australia and likely not over in the US either.

[Skybird]

Many, most of those narrow roads you mean are a local speciality here, in Münster's slang they are called "Pettken". These are mostly agricultural and operating routes origioanlly for the farmers, sometimes even in private possession by the farms but allowed to be used by the public. Its what the Münster region is famous for, they are smooth (mostly), and almost free of car traffic, or tourism. Do not think of them as public roads for mass traffic - these we have between Münster and Osnabrück, too, but I mostly avoid them. "Pettkenfahren" means to drive a bicycle tour on these kind of small roads. The word comes from Low German and Dutch language. This infrastructure gets specially cared for in the Münster region, is kept in very good shape, and that is one of the reasons why Münster is a very, very famous bicycle region in Germany. For bicycles, it is ideal grounds.

Münster also has its own regional dialect, or better, it had, because it is almost not spoken anymore: Masematte. It is a slang originally of the lowest working class, and consisted of only a few hundred words and had roots both in Jiddish and in medieval dialects typical for the so-called Fahrendes Volk (=didicoy?). Some of its terms found entrance into common modern German: a Schickermann is a drunk, schickern means to drink for getting drunk, Leeze instead of Rad is still a bicycle, plömpsen means to go swimming, and eine Knierfte vertusemantuckeln is the same like in modern German ein Butterbrot essen: eating a buttered bread.

But to 99% that is just folcloristic jargon to please the expectations of tourists. In the wild, I never have heard anyone ever using for example "Leeze" for Fahrrad, although TV series mercilessly keep this clichée alive that Münster people only say "Leeze". It simply is not true. And I know this place since my childhood.

The Teutoburger Wald region northeast of Münster's Pettken, becomes more idyllic, but also much more hilly. I know some tours there that really are hefty to ride, I never see ordinary bicycle tourists there (well, only very rarely, and then they are pushing their bikes and walk :) ) , only race drivers training who want to sweat and bleed, and mountainbikers for similar purposes, motorbikers, very rarely an e-biker like myself. It can be exhausting, but the sights and landscapes are worth it. We have one famous serpentine track here were in May huge "gangs" of motorbikes use to haunt the road which is winding up and down and very steeply on that track. Frequent police controls there, too. For bicycle its not complety free or risks, its steep, hairpin follows after hairpin, and the car traffic has drivers who stare at the wonderful forest, I once almost flew off the road in an hairpin there, too, got carried out of the corner since I was too fast and brakes almost did not cut it. I brought a long column of cars from both directions to a standstill. To my displeasure the drivers were grinning. :arrgh!: Its easy to forget the road because one only has eyes for the sights and the landsacape. And it looks so harmless!

My favourite part of that video is from around 1:00:00 on. I know that track from university times, and love it since then. Its partially a part of the so-called Cherry Road, a bicycle tour track, at Hagen which is home to a genetic arch for cherry seeds, and almost every garden at every house seem to have one or more cherry trees, unfortunately not the pink Japanese kind of blossom, but sober, small, white ones only. I have made a video of that track two years ago, its stabilised and smooth, but it runs at 5x speed. Back then I used to shoot videos a bit different in style.

[Reece]

Well I finally got to finish the tour, was very nice, and I see what you meant about the 1hr 1mn mark, the woods were stunning, then came across cows and horses grazing near the road, no fences that I could see!! :)
I must assume that the high pitched roofs on most constructions are for snow to slide off. :hmmm:
I notice you seem to change gears on the right hand grip or is it a clutch engagement?
This trip ends in quite a metropolis, I assume Osnabrück, would have taken in real time quite some time (4hrs at a guess) I bet a cafe was in order!!!. :D
All up you are a lucky man living there, so peaceful and picturesque. :up:

Cheers,
Reece.

[Skybird]

Its an e-bike. On the left handle I switch the engine's gears (4 of them) that decide on the level of motor support, on the right handle is the classical changer for the mechanical gears that you have with any traditonal bicycle as well (8 gears, I use an internal gear hub, not an external derailleur (chain) gear (less dirt causing wear and tear). If you have never driven an ebike, I only recommend: try it. The engine you do not change often, usually just once an hour or so, depenbing on weather, wind, conditions. The changing of gears for stop and go in the city is almost exclusively with the right handle, like on a normal bike. Getting there and back home usually costs around one and a half battery's charge (I always have a second with me on these tours). thats is around 130-145 km. The longest I did with two batteries was around 180km, and then I had 30% of their loads left, because I was far away from home (no round track, but by train to the starting point more than twice as far away than Osnabrück) and did not know the places and route and so drove very economically and energy-preserving, to be prepared for any surprises that still might lay ahead. I usually set the engine so that the pedal'S resistence feels like an ordinary bicycle on a normal day in even terrain. The physical effort thus is mostly the same. At hills and against strong wind, I call for more support, of course, thats what the engine is there for. All in all it feels like an ordinary bicycle ride, just that the bike is twice as heavy, thats why you need the engine even under ideal conditions (if not going downhill).

I love e-biking, I would not miss e-bikes, even more so since I have no car, and of course become older). I would not do these tours with a classical bike anymore, I did in some distant past and know how it feels - no more for me, thanks. My right knee also would not like it, especially at hillclimbs.

These "Fahrtenbuch" ("log book") films are shot in 2x speed, so multiply times by 2, then you have the real duration. Older films of the "Warp Drive" series were shot at 5x speed.

The roofs, well, they have this effect on snow, but I do not know whether they were build with this feature on mind. In many regions of germany houses traditionally were built with such roofs. Flat roofs are a relatively new thing of the modern present.

Osnabrück actually is a bit smaller and has a smaller population, than Münster. I consider to cut some scenes from my many other films and glue them together, where I have made some touring through the old town. It has some beautiful spots, but mostly is a working class town, and you see that it is poorer than Münster. The real star is not the city, but the surrounding landscape and stunning nature. The city itself has the old town, yes - but thats it. And it is not too big either.

Most of the woods that you admired, if not all, are doomed to die. In two or three decades, there will be no more Teutoburger Forest as we know it today. Three years of droughts and then bark beetles have overwhelmed the forests of the Teutoburger Wald. Today the forest is made mostly of spruce, which is non-local (the Teutoburger Forest originally was an oak forest), and this mono-culture now needs to get cut down. Many light places you may have noticed at that 1 hour mark - these are freshly cut places, just three years ago it all was dense, dark thick forest from beginning to end. In the coming years, practically 70-85% of the forests you have seen, will be cut and in the following decades replaced with mixed trees. But the change will need decades before the trees can be home and food-producers for small animals again. My heart cries, because I know how dramatically the look at the horizon is around that area, you do not see that so much in the video. Everywhere are these many empty, brown spots in the forest, the sights have changed dramatically in the past five years since I do these tours. Its a catastrophe in slow motion, and most Germans are still not aware of it. For European red squirrels, who - different to their many American cousins - prefer prefer conifers to broadleaf trees, its an armageddon. I only hope that as many as possible will find their ways into the cities and towns and adapt to them, their protection from predators (but for that: cars and traffic), and much better food opportunities. The situation of red squirrels in germany since two years is dramatically worstening, every squirrel rehab station across all Germany knows that. The only ones who claim to not know it, are the state rangers and bureaucrats, but it is them the media refer to. They better should ask the real experts: the wildlife rehabbers.

[Reece]

The problem is the world is overpopulated, not nice to say but need a WW3, but with nukes that would be the end!! :k_confused:
Thanks again for the video's. :up:

[Skybird]

;)

Two more in coming autumn.

[Reece]

Excellent! :up:

[Skybird]

I have finally done the videos of the return trips from the two Osnabrück trips posted above. Fahrtenbuch 2 is the return trip of outward journey Fahrtenbuch 1, and in two days or so I will also post the Fahrtenbuch 4 which is the return trip from Fahrtenbuch 3 outward journey, I have not yet uploaded it.

The trips back home on autumn afternoons means I have to drive agaiust the low sfun,which causes some costs on brightness quality of the images. I tried to slightly edit it a bit by artifically raising the exposure value in post processing, but that works only so far and not further. I cannot help help it, it is like it is.

No sounds, play your own music.

Enjoy if you are interested, if not, thats very okay, too. The way out there is always nicier than the way back home. 4 will be visually nicier than 2 now, it was some week slater when the colours of autumn were more accentuated, and it was sunnier.


Fahrtenbuch 2 (trip back home to Fahrtenbuch 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBObJJ6pY0M

[Rockstar]

Crickey you almost crash into a pretty blonde and get run over by a red car, all within the first minute of recording. :haha: One hour and twenty five minutes too go! Can’t wait :salute:

[Skybird]

I had the right of way both times...! :Kaleun_Mad:



You may want to consider watching just the first half, it then gets a bit - monotonous. Or not. Feel free. The wetaher on the trip there was better than on the way home.


The film 4 I am about to post in the near future, is better again. I post these trips back home for the sake of completeness.

[Rockstar]

@11:27 you almost run over a squirrel! :D

[Rockstar]

I had the right of way both times...! :Kaleun_Mad:



You may want to consider watching just the first half, it then gets a bit - monotonous. Or not. Feel free. The wetaher on the trip there was better than on the way home.


The film 4 I am about to post in the near future, is better again. I post these trips back home for the sake of completeness.

Women drivers are a well known hazard to many of us.

[Rockstar]

30 minutes into it and I’m taking a break until tomorrow. Beautiful trails and countryside.

[Jimbuna]

Crickey you almost crash into a pretty blonde and get run over by a red car, all within the first minute of recording. :haha: One hour and twenty five minutes too go! Can’t wait :salute:

:haha:

[Skybird]

@11:27 you almost run over a squirrel! :D
Sharp eyes!

[Skybird]

And here now the missing trip home from tour Fahrtenbuch 3. It was golden weather and the film looks nice, is a beauitiful trail. It was October and afternoon and I had to drive against the low sun, I could not help it, still, the film looks nice.

Around the 10th minute you may notice that there is a cut, and the film misses around 150m. That is because the couple you see there told me they had just been fined for having driven their biycycles, 50m ahead and behind the turn there was a police control. When I passed it later, they had four or five bikers pulled out already, man, i was so lucky. I had to get rid of the camera on the bicylce frame, as told before its illegal in Germany to film this way, and if I would have run into them with the camera on the bike, it would have meant trouble and loss of hardware. I was saved by just a few seconds! That the films on youtube are not publicly available, but are hidden, does not make a difference. - You miss just 150m.

Those who might be interested: enjoy. It was a nice trail and on a perfect day.

NO SOUND. Play your own music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afE46ZE-MWk


With these two videos, the tours done in last autumn are now complete.

[Skybird]

Nothing special, a ~35km tour to Greven to a supermarket there, I sometimes buy there only to have a destination for a not too long bicycle tour. Greven is a small town 12km north of Münster and my position, and since I live on the north-north-eastern outskirts of Münster, I am getting there without needing to pass through Münster, can drive all in the green countryside.

Parts of the way there is through the Rieselfelder which is a big natural reserve and EU protected habitat for birds and waterfowl, also Heck cattle and a few goats and more sheep live there, grazing largely free and keeping the grass and bushes short.

Originally this video was shot for my mother who knows the place and supermarket, but did not know the route back home as I described it, she only knew other routes.

The baker in that supermarket, when one day I bought a nougat croissant there and said I came from Münster and only to buy a nougat croissant, answered he now feels as if he were living in the Outback. :haha:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxK8-QLUA_4





THIS FOLLOWING VIDEO IS NOT BY ME. Just to illustrate the Rieselfelder. In good weather its a beautiful place withg many birds, in bad weather it can be a catalyst for depressionsand suicidal thoughts because then the mood is - well, it reminds me of Greek mythology. Hades and the underworld, misty, grey, darkness and all that... Fair weather or the autumn sun is much better there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZaQmoSNkgY

Years ago, many years now, I had my inline skater parcours there, three laps with 9 km each, plus 12 km getting there and back. Today that would not be a good idea anymore, since the tarmac was fresh back then and smooth and even as ice, today much of it has turned over the years in a mogul slope and driving there on itsy titsy tiny miniwheels is a terrible idea producing terrible results...

[Gerald]

Great how far is this from "City core"?👍

[Skybird]

Great how far is this from "City core"?👍


https://i.postimg.cc/CxBT7SjS/Unbenannt.png (https://postimg.cc/VJ8VLyGV)

[Skybird]

I invite you to another ride through Münster's southeast. It's not a sightseeing trip to tourist attractions, but simply a drive through small forests and over harvested fields, through suburban districts and part of Münster's industrial areas. In keeping with the autumn weather, sometimes it is sunny and colorful, sometimes the sky is rather grayish and the world seems cool. Let's go for a ride! It's off to the Werse again, but this time much further south than before, to Angelmodde, then toward Osttor on the canal, and back along the party mile at the city center harbor. Relax. Enjoy. Dream to be there and doing the ride yourself.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8CVhgRCJic

[Shady Bill]

I bought an Oculus Quest 2 last year. Wanted to see what that was all about. One year later, I have one thing installed on it; Wanderer. It is pretty much Google Earth VR. You can do things as shown in your video.

You can even join locals or other weirdos on "hikes". Where someone will tell you about the sights. I avoid this kind of thing but enjoy seeing all the different places.

[Shady Bill]

Sorry I was watching your videos, not reading...this is you riding? In reality?


Even more impressive :up:

[Skybird]

All videos in this thread are by me, except the one on the Rieselfelder where I say it is not by me.

One tip for VR. I now have a G2, but had the Oculus Rift from late 2017 until one yera ago. Get Virtual Desktop (very useful anyway), and in it a mod named Highmaxx Cinema, and here the so-called "Dark Theme". That means the audience hall and seat rows are a bit darker whrn the moviescreen lights up. Then run your PC desktop on the big movie screen, start any film you want to see, and watch it
"in cinema". This is the best way I have so far found to watch movies, though I do not know how the resolution of the Quest 2 is, but in the G2 I not rarely watch my movies this way, its great, and the screen is the biggest and really giant, the biggest I know in VR. I mimic a cinema at Sidney Harbour that they have destroyed meanwhile.

There are many other movie themes available for Virtual Desktop. Ofdten the yhave more detialed audience halls, but the screen always are smaller.

I have watched many movie DVD this way. it works wonders. My films also look nice. :)


VR also is fantastic for racing simulations. It does not get any more ideal, than here. Certain 2D titles also benefit from playing them on the big movie screen. Works fantastic with Wreckfest, for exmaple.


Next tip: in Viortual desktop, you can use it for watchign 360° videos. You find them at youtube, and mostly people shoot these kind of videos tpo do city sightseeing. I have sat on sightseeing touriost busses in the upper, open deck, and did full reglar tours in London, Paris, new York, and the likes. Its fantastic (with the resolution of the G2). Try it! I have one guy in berlin who shoots his videos with a helmet camera, 360° - while riding a bike. Its as if you siot ont je bicycle, looking left and right. This is what VR is made for, one of those "ideal" purposes that are not possible to do without VR.


Unfortunately ion the Quest 2 I think you cannot run Google arth VR and Streetview VR, whcih I also use extremely often. Check it to be sure. Its a must have. Its what VR was made fore.


Due to the idiotic legal situation in germany I must hide my videos shot from bike a bit and do not run them under a public profile at youtube. Germany is retarded in more than just one thing, I tell you. Shooting such videos or posting them at youtube in principle always is criminal in Germany, by a number of laws. No, not just a misdemeanor if you think that - but a felony.

Die Deutschen spinnen total. :down:



Check Google Streetview, Europe. And then look at what you see in in for Germany. Just 20 cities, the rest is a white map.Germany regulated Google to death until Google said they do not care for Germany anymore, they are out.

[Shady Bill]

Thank you for those VR tips. "The goggles" as I refer to the oculus Q2 are pretty nice, but they feel much like a toy, not a real tool, to me. The resolution is decent enough to enjoy doing some things but I wouldn't call it "life-like".

It is not good enough to read books on for example.

It has a chess game where you can sit in front of a board and play other people in virtual space. I considered buying it but I find the thought of playing chess with human avatars terrifying.

Have you tried the chess VR? is it fun?


Thank you for those videos. They are beautiful routes you took.

[Skybird]

Have tried two VR chess apps, dont remember the name. I was not impressed.

My experiences with VR. Some things it is great for. Some things not. One needs to know what to use it with, than it is fantastic.

https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=235363&page=5


Jim,

would you mind to put the latest posts, VR related, into that linked thread?



After all, I wanted to post a new video only.

[Skybird]

Fahrtenbuch 05

Again, from Münster to Osnabrück.

This tour probably is a bit monotonous to view in the first 45 minutes, since in that time its over 20 minutes just following the Dortmund-Ems-Channel, and then another 15 minutes in a region where the corn was standing high and blocked the view, even more so since I have installed the camera quite low to avoid unwanted attention. Also, the film is quite long. So I recommend, if you are even interested at all, to not just quit when you got bored, but jump either to around 47. minute when the small town of Lengerich was reached, or jump to 1 hour 17 minutes when Hellern was reached, the outskirt of Osnabrück, or some minutes later the centre of Osnabrück.

In any case make sure, at least if you are even interested, that you watch from 1 hour 25 minute on. On that tour I spent much time in the old town and centre, drove circles and zig-zagged to cover the touristic hotspots and the better part of the old town, walked the pedestrian zone, so one really can see that the small old town of Osnabrück may be small, but is really beautiful and attractive. That part of the film is the entire remaining 20 minutes, and its the reason why I even cared to post this.

Not all of Osnabrück is as beautiful like seen here, many parts are not, the town is a worker city, and is quite poor, too. But it has some more nice spots, and the real beauty is the surrounding landscape anyway.

The way from the ice cream parlor (I lived near to that place in the first three years) into the old town was my daily tour most of the week's days when I studied there. I never stopped enjoying that ride and tour, 5km. I always avoided the main streets, since they were ugly, and traffic heavy.

The way back home will follow later, again there were a few sequences showing the beautiful landscape of the Osnabrücker Land.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5T28KtUYso

[Skybird]

The fourth and last tour variant for the way "there". It is the furthest east and longest tour and makes a wide hook in the direction of Bad Iburg. As it is just unavoidable, the individual routes close to the origin and destination places are close together and overlap, that can not be avoided.

At some point, No. 6 and 8 with the two return trips für Nr. 5 and 7 will follow, and then this "documentation project" will be completed.
:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqs8txKap8o

[Skybird]

Sechs. Dies ist das Anschlussvideo zu Film 05 mit der Rückfahrt.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nuCy7tXWLw


Eins noch (Rückfahrt zu Film 7), dann ist es nach zwei Jahren geschafft. :)

[Skybird]

It's done, this is the return trip to Fahrtenbuch 07, so all four "transit routes" I drive between Münster and Osnabrück are "documented", each route once in each direction of travel, makes eight movies. :Kaleun_Cheers:
https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=2779898&postcount=17


5-8 have musictracks. The first four had not since I had no royalty-free source of music of according length, but meanwhile I found some material at youtube I could use, its royalty-free.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFkQ-0S8ALY

[Skybird]

Cruising just for killing time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJS1nnA9IKU

Oh dear, I messed up German grammar in the title :haha:, and at ~ 00:07:00ff I forgot to make a cut. The pause lasts just seconds, I changed bike battery then, then drove back a bit and turned again so to have a loop that would allow me to edit a good, "invisible" cut. But i just forgot to do it in post-processing. No biggie, however, just a few seconds.

[Reece]

You obviously got your kwiggel back on the road again, can't hold a good man back! :up:
A shame to see all the graffiti.