so i'm just out for a ride on the harley-davidson fat boy um and there's two reasons for doing this
video one to get out on the fat boy again because we've got it for a couple of weeks and it's going
back next week and two to test out some new equipment and we've got a basically a new mic
uh which is inside the helmet which we've not done before and now i can talk to you while i'm riding
along which is great um the other thing is darcy's got a brand new gopro he's got a gopro hero
9 with the same mic as i've got here i'm using the old gopro hero4 and we're going to basically just
see how it goes with the mic in the helmet and you should hear the motorbike as well as me talking
also it gives me the opportunity to hopefully let rip a bit with the bike because normally
when we film with the gopro once we get above 20 miles an hour the wind noise is
so bad we can't really use the footage unless it's uh silent in the background
over some other talking so now with any luck i'll be able to give it some stick
and uh we'll hear what the bike's like obviously this has got the standard pipes so you can't
really hear it very well you can hear the engine but it doesn't make a lot of noise from behind
now the fat boy has done a review and a sort of second vlog style review and
one of the things that people do worry about with the fat boy is whether it's any good in
the corners and uh it is it's fine as we can see now it's got a characteristic of its own
and you have to manhandle it quite a bit in the corners
but it will corner perfectly nicely and it's a lot of fun to ride as you can see definitely all right
another biker there
hopefully a subscriber now this is uh a village in leicestershire called hamilton
and if you're ever out for a ride in the leicestershire area definitely come here
it's a beautiful village got lots of old historic buildings and it's very beautiful and there's a
couple of really nice pubs here i'll just get past one in a minute i'll show you one here
obviously they've all been closed because of lockdown here we are the buick arms free house
lovely place definitely go there nice food uh very good service very nice there now let's go this way
scared the lady with the prime
mind
as you can see the beautiful old uh village
and uh leicestershire and rutland counties in the center of england are really very nice indeed um
rutland's kind of well known for being beautiful but leicestershire is less known but just as nice
and if we come up here here we have the second pub which i've never been to called the fox inn
one thing you need to watch with the fat boy perhaps more than
some other motorcycles is when you get this stones like
you know debris and stones in the middle of the road you've got to be a bit more careful
because of the wide tyres it kind of skids over them more than you'd get with narrower tyres
now this thing's got so much torque i'm at 2200 rpm in fourth gear this is a bit of a hill
and obviously quite slow down for the bend but the bike just goes uphills like they're not
there at all it's truly remarkable if you open it up i mean it's got so much it's fantastic
now in the countryside of course you have to ride ever carefully because you have lots of hazards
and people come to the countryside to ride their bikes at the weekend which is fine but just be
aware around every corner you can't see around could be heard of sheep walking down the road
someone on a horse a tractor coming out of a field and there's a lot of hazards that you just really
just have to be aware of so don't go crazy around corners unless you can see all the way around
even then of course ride safely or as the racing drivers say safety fast
oh this bike's lovely
when we do our reviews um we're never gonna sacrifice or compromise on that
uh position where we always make sure we can hear the bikes because it's nice to hear the engine
you wanna hear the engine you want to hear it revving so we're always going to include that
so it's not just going to be me talking looking at the handlebars unless we're doing a vlog like this
and we do have a mic set up where i can actually stick the mic towards the back of the bike so we
can just hear the engine so we definitely will be doing that when we have a bike that sounds
appropriate and obviously this one doesn't with the standard pipes
so i'm just weaving for the fun of it that's our defender showing that they've
stopped making the old defender there's uh the new one now of course which is really a footballers
wives car isn't it it's not for farmers and builders and country people a bit of a shame
oh that pretty little village called alexton just off the a-47 lovely house
and uh i'm gonna take it somewhere nice now in rutland the county of
rutland smallest county in the uk margaret factory was from their ex-prime minister
not that that matters
another nice old english country village belton in rutland beautiful look at those lovely old
properties
see the sheep in the fields there a couple of nice pretty brown sheep
now you might look back on some of our earliest videos we used to have a flogger sheep
and i've just actually ordered six new baby lambs not to eat to keep in the field
a big steep hill here and short shifting just to show you the torque of this thing still
accelerates even at really low rpm so uh most of the time you do burble around on a harley
uh just get around the corner 1 650 rpm i'm on there's just so much torque 2000 rpm
you don't need to rev these things and that's what i love about harley's and that actually is
one thing that actually makes me feel a little bit unhappy about the panamera because it's a
vetoing but it's a very high revving very high power uh v-twin and that's just not gonna be
suitable for a cruiser at all i hope that's not gonna be the new engine that takes over from this
i don't know if that's even talked about but if it is that would prevent me buying another harley
this is a place we come to a lot for our videos it's absolutely beautiful here
this is uh land abbey in rutland and you've got this open parkland here
with sheep grazing and the cows very beautiful place um i don't know the history of it it's an
old abbey but it's currently a christian center where i don't know people go and
do christian things i'm not a christian but um there's a car coming to go this way
but nevertheless it seems nice and a great spot for our videos as you've seen many of them here
um there is a channel one of the bigger channels actually who did a
review of the bmw r18 and they didn't come here but they went to a very beautiful location
in rutland to do their review and their talking and they're surrounded by this most beautiful
countryside yet they still manage to park the bike by a metal fence with rubbish on the floor so
you won't see that with us nice sheep now i love sheep
let's go this way
as i said um before we are getting six sheep i've ordered six monks locked and rare breed sheep and
uh all will be revealed about that and also where we're putting them i'm looking forward to that
now again one of these big hills
and with the talk of the harley third gear fourth gear opened up 1700 rpm and it just pulls up
absolutely fabulous that's what torquay engines are all about low down grunt
and when you're exploring the world and the countryside and the lovely places
that is nice i'm not into revvy bikes i must say um my background in motorcycles is um honda st70
when i was a youngster when i was seven actually then i just did some riding around farm tracks
and uh trail riding trail bikes and then i did motocross so i've never been a road
bike kind of guy until when i started riding the harleys i suppose about 10-15 years ago
oh can't
let's go this way