we're driving cars tonight we're passing up to the stars tonight we wanna
all right are you ready
oh this makes me so excited look look at the mango it is so good so i got up stupidly early to go
to new smithfield market which is basically just like loads of wholesale fruit and veg
and they have really good mangoes they have really good papayas and i bought i bought mango
papayas and watermelons a few people had asked actually when i did the lung i did that long
ride and i got back and i was like i'm so excited for mangoes i'm like why did you get good mangoes
not like the green and red bullets like that you buy from regular supermarkets you got to go
to wholesale so so good the gym i have started back at the gym and i've not been for so long
but i feel like i need to because it's more about like injury prevention than like
getting swole i just want to not get injured doing long bike rides so i use train heroic and it's set
by scott pearson who you've seen if you watched a gym video that i did a few years ago that's
pretty much how long ago that it's been since i've done anything in the gym and he that's that's how
he sends me what stuff i need to do in the gym he used to work at british cycling sales sharks and
now he's he's basically his business is focusing specifically on cyclists and gym workouts so i
guess gym workouts for cyclists at the top you can see there's like a little video that you can
click on and it'll show you that that's scott himself showing you how to actually do do the
the move that's what i've done this morning and i've actually just been doing some other work and
planning some exciting stuff for later this year it'll take a lot of planning though um
so i've started that and then now i'm gonna get changed i think i'm gonna head out on the bike
and we're back with squeaky chair again
basically i don't really know in november i had a really bad crash a guy in front of me
hit a pothole i fell we were going pretty fast and my head took the brunt of the of the impact
and thank god i had a helmet on this is a laser genesis phenomenal and yeah that took
so much of the impact but when i got back from it and this is my confession is i didn't i used to
wear helmets but i didn't really understand how they worked or how they protected your head i
just thought oh that hits the floor rather than your head however they expand the polystyrene
and maybe i'm helping you understand how this works the expanded polystyrene can you see there
compared to that side it um it like um compacted together and that's
what it's meant to do it's meant to take the force and the impact so that your head and your
brain don't take that and thankfully it did its job and laser have been working on a new kind of
protection for their helmets for i think it's for about 10 years so this is called kinetico
and basically what it's based on is crumple zone so basically in a car like racing cars like
regular cars they have like specific areas that are meant to crumple so they take the force of
any impact and they've transferred that idea and put it into a helmet they are the crumple zone so
they are designed and integrated actually into the helmet so that if you fall and you hit your head
they are going to take an impact so when they were designing this helmet and creating it they were
getting frustrated it took them years because they just couldn't get the type of protection
that they wanted and it took them years and years and years and they tested over 5 000 different um
helmets and this is the one that they came up with and this is five star rated by virginia
tech virginia tech is an independent um body that rates all different brands of helmets
and this has got a five-star rating so it it protects in the same way that mips does but
because it's integrated actually into the helmet itself so it's not an add-on it saves weight it
saves plastic and there's more ventilation and my only thing with mips like this i'll show you
the mips helmets this is the one that actually crashed in it and it worked and it did its job
i don't know what you can see actually obviously that's like a plastic shell that goes into it
it'll clip things my hair gets stuck in that every time like you'll see there's loads of hair in it
and but i just put up with it for um just for the safety of it but this new version um hasn't
got that because it's integrated actually into the helmet so it's comfier not only does it look nice
i think my thing now with helmets is they have to be they have to protect you and they have to
have the highest already like one thing i would say to any of you after having that crash is get
the most or the best helmet that you can possibly afford don't worry about all the fan stuff on your
bike the most important thing is your helmet like i know that now from having a crash
good on laser proud to be um supported by them because they're just doing
awesome things very very well done it is a really nice helmet so i'm gonna head out see on the bike
i'm my favorite little loop cold though it's like really icy wind in my face we've got the
tailwind that feeling when you turn that corner you just get a lovely cowl and it's beautiful
this is also one of the reasons why i love this route there's like sheets all along it beautiful
hill and llamas or alpacas someone will correct me hello and then you get these beautiful views
and i know that someone's gonna forgot my um headphones in a couple of people ask me
what podcast i listen to and i especially on long rides i'm a bit boring because sorry it's
quite windy a repeat of a few and one of them is this mark season abdullah zenab abdullah is
an insane ultra distant cyclist and i like listening to that just because it just
gets me in like a good mindset for doing long distance stuff and then another one that i like
is mark beaumont so obviously he's got the record for around the world and he has loads of
great people on his um podcast as well helmet's good it's almost this is like the aero helmet and
it is very well ventilated and i was feeling that when it was like a really cold icy
breeze i was like oh we should put a hat on because it is it's almost a bit too ventilated for
today's weather without a hat so yeah if you want a an aero helmet that's got really good protection
in it um kinetico so yeah i'll leave a link to them below and i'll leave a link to the podcast
below what else have i talked about oh and scott's and jim scott i've practiced a lot into this video
i'm just loving lighter evenings i mean it's darker mornings but not for long i'm just
i just we're just on the cusp of having like beautiful days aren't we i mean this is a really
nice day although it was pretty chilly a bit breezy when i set off also i paused my podcast
and these gloves i love these gloves which ones are they they're my favorite they are my absolute
favorite colors the endura but the the touch stuff on the end of it that makes you be able to use
touchscreen doesn't work so now i'm gonna have to turn this on with my nose all right see you later
i'm molting like a dog does that do it that way steven it's always still