today is a good day today i'm moving into my brand new studio
we're in business i have the new keys it's official i have a new studio
right in the middle of the city it's um kind of like being in the room in the matrix where they
load the weapons in but soon it will be full of stuff it's nine meters long i can basically
run in here nice big window with some natural light which is very pleasing when i'll be working
in here doing some editing there is a construction site outside at the moment but it won't be forever
and to be honest can't really hear it that much especially i mean it's in full swing right now
there's big machines can you hear anything some would call it atmosphere there is also
a hole in my ceiling i wonder what's up there and there's uh one more secret thing i wanted to show
you listen to the beautiful sounds of the city
from the rooftop this is welcome admittedly probably nicer
come to hang out at the bike shop and i put my helmet in the corner here while
i was fiddling around at the studio look what's happened look at this that'll teach
me for putting it next to the bin james trying to send you a message zero respect
you're not welcome here i said yeah but the new card
i've spent uh quite a few hours walking around newcastle trying to find an office chair
it's very difficult to find an office chair that you can just buy and take somewhere always
they're all out of stock they wouldn't let me buy the one that's right there like it was ready
built i offered to take it full price john lewis wasn't having any of it you need one of these man
move around you don't have to work all day long i'll get one of those as well as a nice
comfortable office chair james's dad voted for me for christmas we're particularly bored of
paying for christmas but obviously whoever said the most training gets to use it so uh
for me you don't want to just buy two of them i mean that'd be logical
winter magic juice we're going through bottles like james and i bought like
a whole box of it and we're like this is too much and then nothing nothing nothing now all
of a sudden it's just everything's rusted the northeast is terrible for white it's just salt
you can taste the salt as you ride in the northeast
so this is old faithful the bicycle that i rode across vietnam it has had a broken
grx shifter for quite a while i'm sure some of you guys will remember haven't been able
to get hold of a new one these are all the parts shortages and stuff because everyone bought them
in that first lockdown but i'd temporarily bring it into the studio and free up a little bit of
space at home this is the problem it was my fault i crashed on it and uh it's leaking
fluid from somewhere didn't get my hands on a office chair i did get some blue tap and
a tape measure try and find a good desk that i can have all the way across this nice window uh
as much work area surface as possible that was the wrong order of words but you get the idea
also brought with me something that i bought the other day after seeing dave arthur use one he has
a youtube channel too reviews bikes and it's a transparent piece of plastic but it does this
it works invisible bike stand it's called a
shadow stand do not use the shadow stand in windy conditions because your bike will blow away
look at that beautiful sunset there were a couple of other bigger spaces available
further in this building but they didn't have windows facing out so they were like facing
into the central gap that's in the middle of the building it's not quite as nice it's nice
even though it's a building site i did not get nearly as much stuff as i wanted to get done today
at all but at least i'm in so happy days there is also a wow it looks pretty amazing
i'm gonna check out the roof one more time before i leave
this is very cool northeast sky we don't get very much daylight here in winter
less than london 45 minutes less than london some of the sunsets
pretty stunning it has been a long time coming but we have finally chosen the winners for both
the sun god competition and the pro standard grill mount competition we've even got them on a
piece of paper right here if your name is on this list i will be in touch with you via instagram dm
to either get your email address because that's what you'll need for the sango competition your
address and other details for the pro standard competition come and show people what they've won
you look like an asos model am i allowed to say that the winners of the sun god competition are
oscar and jake if your name is on the screen right now i'll be in touch with you you'll probably see
the instagram message anyway and the winners of the pro standard grill mount competition i will
flash up on the screen because there is eight of you and i don't want i'll probably mess up
your names anyway let's face it all of you have won one grill mount so check your instagram dms
if you're on the screen right now right now that's done what are we going to do
i don't know francis does this he sets alarms for stuff
and forgets what's he belongs because i don't know it's a reminder for me but i don't know
what the reminder is for so all i all it all it does is cause anxiety that i have forgotten
to do something well i did 6.2 kilometers today you did 6.2k congratulations everybody