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Bike-O-Vision Cycling DVD #18 Victoria & British Columbia
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By Show more by Rockstone Productions
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 (5 Reviews)
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Rockstone Productions
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December 31, 1969 |
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Travel the green valleys and hills of arguably one of the top most beautiful regions in the world here. An instant Bike-O-Vision classic. You'll experience a sunrise ride in Squamish, pass unbridled rapids on the Chilliwack River, see the backdrop of snow capped mountains while pedaling along Lake Harrison, and push determinedly uphill to new vistas over the mighty Fraser River. Anglophiles will appreciate the cycling tour through Victoria as much as naturalists will the alpine beauty around Hope.
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 bike o vision, July 14, 2009
By procare
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if u dont have time or u have small childern so u cant get out to ride right know. get these tapes it a great ride. and a fun way to see the country side or misc. thank you so much
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Another Great Virtual Ride from Bike-O-Vision!, November 3, 2008
By 24theroad (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
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This is how you can enjoy a day of cycling when the weather is bad. I put a dvd in my player and all of a sudden I'm outside in a beautiful place like British Columbia. Awesome! I love riding through Victoria - a little British looking township on an island and also through British Columbia's incredible countryside. I've most of the Bike-O-Vision rides over the years. I also like that the rides are all scenery and road and don't have on-screen instructions, pop-up graphics or riders in front of the great views. After all, I'm not paying money to see the rear ends of other riders as in some of the other cycling dvds! ;-) Seriously, this is a great virtual ride.
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 Poor DVD for Armchair Traveller!!!, August 14, 2009
By Keith N. Merritt (detroit,mi. usa)
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This DVD was really designed for stationary biking but as an armchair traveller I found this to be very poor.The music as mentioned by others had no flow to it and was rather cheesy at times.The imagery was not bad but a little unsteady at times.I actually found it quite boring and had to speed-play thru most of it.
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One of my husband's favorites!, March 28, 2012
By bascelflt (Tallahassee, FL USA)
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My husband and I switched off using our elliptical with this Bike O Vision "trip". He would do his time then I backed up to where I left off the day before so we wouldn't miss anything. Our DVD player saves our place so it is easy to start again.
The film quality was excellent on our 19" flat screen - I have no idea what the other reviewer was using. If one is a biker in real life sometimes one DOES turn down a road that ends up a dead end so I have no problems with that either. I would rather the stop signs faded to something to keep going just as Bike O Vision does - what? did the other reviewer want to run the stop signs or sit there and wait for traffic???
We have visited British Columbia twice before in real life. We enjoyed the DVD trip through the residential areas and really enjoyed the old buildings in Victoria that we haven't seen in real life. The totem poles made by Canadian natives are shown and brought back memories. We like looking off to the side and seeing the area just like if we really WERE riding along and found absolutely no problem with the "perspectives". Makes me wonder what cycling/exercising DVD the other reviewer would recommond if not Bike O Vision. For the money and the time on each DVD Bike O Vision can't be beat! We loved Victoria/British Columbia. We haven't found a Bike O Vision DVD we didn't like yet and kind of don't think we will.
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 NOT for Bike trainers or spinners, December 30, 2011
By PAQM
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This DVD, while created by "Bike-O-Vision" is not recommended for anyone on a bike trainer who is looking for sense of road cycling.
- The quality of the video photography is rather poor (certainly not HD). Do you like both blurry and grainy?...I don't.
- The filming cuts abruptly from a forward view to a sideways view.
- There are stationary zoom-in-to-feature shots.
- In urban areas (i.e.,Victoria), the filming cuts out every time the camera vehicle approaches a stop sign and magically restarts from somewhere else which really destroys any sense of flow. There are not more than 15 seconds of continuous filming before it cuts to another view.
- There are numerous examples of where the photographer is oblivious to light and contrast and while the sky appears blue, the urban landscape appears as a near-black silhouette with no visible scenery.
- In rural areas the apparent road speed (for a road bike) is unrealistically fast, as evident by the blurry side imagery.
- Some of the filming is from the perspective of a cyclist (i.e., off to the side of the road), but much of it is from a clearly roof-mounted camera on a vehicle so the perspective is both too high, and in the centre of the road lane.
- Some of the filming appears that the filming vehicle driver inadvertently tuned into a dead end road, thus requiring a new scene to start, which really breaks up any sense of flow.
Overall, if you are looking for bike scenery to train with indoors, stay away from this DVD (and perhaps series of DVDs). Hope this saves you the $16 I wasted.
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