now i wanted to take this opportunity this morning before today's vlog gets going to talk about some
big changes that are happening in terms of the sponsorship of this youtube channel and some
of the content that i'm going to be posting in the future long story short as i speak to the
camera right now i am no longer sponsored by villia who have been my fantastic bike sponsor
for the last three years hands down the best three years of my life
now i realize this is happening a bit of a strange time especially considering i've just posted a
video of a new bike that they've given me but that's what life is like things just happen at
strange times don't they i was approached with an offer from a different bike brand about three
weeks ago and i'll be very honest the last three weeks has been difficult to say the least there's
been a whole lot to think about weighing up the pros and cons of the new deal versus the old deal
negotiation back and forth and yeah frankly it's just been very stressful but also i can appreciate
a fantastic position to be in i'm pleased to say the whole situation has been very
amicable from both sides both myself the guys at villia and i'm sure you guys will have seen
how successful the relationship between me and the bike brand has been over the last few years they
picked me up when this channel was a lot smaller than it is now back when i was on about 30 000
subscribers so the fact that they saw what i was doing appreciated the work that was going into it
and trusted me to make some content around their bikes was amazing an incredible opportunity and
i will always be thankful for that they've been really cool about this transition process and very
understanding of the situation that i'm in now in terms of changes to the content on this channel
as some of you guys might have noticed on new year's day i posted a bike check
style video on asato going forwards i can now feature loads of bikes on my channel not just
mine because i'm fairly ingrained in the world of cycling i am around some quite nice bikes
quite a lot of the time i'm now excited to be able to really highlight them on this channel
particularly the slightly less usual stuff like seventeen thousand pounds custom bikes um
i've been walking talking to this camera for quite a while now and where am i so anyway that was
actually surprisingly hard to talk about i think i'm not um vlog fit at the moment because i've
just been posting other sorts of videos over the last few weeks stay tuned because i'm very excited
to reveal my new bike partner going forwards as well as certainly being market leaders in
what they do the opportunities that are going to come with it i'm very very excited about
and i hope you guys will be beautiful morning heading home now to meet my friend joe who's
going to be staying with us for a couple of days joey's been in the videos before you recognize it
hello joe hello how are you last time i saw you we were both southerners i know
i know you're even more northern than me edinburgh you guys might remember joe from
previous episodes of these videos for example doing all the studio photography for atticus
years and years ago and then jimmy bought his own stuff so he doesn't need you anymore uh-oh
are you tubeless yeah it's fine
if we do ever get rolling again i'm taking joy to see the new studio in town and maybe
head to backyard as well can you steal my pump yes because it's very cold and i don't want to
freeze to death uh gummed up that's why joe why couldn't you have got the puncher there just there
onwards to the studio i'm wearing my bib shorts and leg warmers underneath my trousers it feels
like i guess this is why people wear long johns yeah it's very warm it's quite nice
every chair that has a cushion on it every chair now has a cushion
it's good because i couldn't tell when it was just you one video because you're quite small
thank you it was actually like a reasonable size you could ride a bike in here you could ride a
bike in there you've just made a bike shop in this studio yeah exactly yeah nothing's for sale though
sorry so there's this big camera that i kind of don't use enough this is a c70 basically a cinema
camera it's what i used to shoot the inside the car stuff at the tour of britain but i haven't
been using it as much as i want to so we're going to head out now the light is getting nice and low
and make the most of it because uh joe does some photography as well i'm trying to bank some uh
city shots because i'm going to be here a lot and for these videos it's handy
having a library of like different nice urban longer shots i can use to
set the scene it's a sunny day and it is a sunny day and it's not always that sunny here
so
so to conclude there's not going to be any drastic changes to the things that you see on this channel
there'll be some more bike check stuff the plans in terms of all the mountain bike races
that we were looking at doing can still go ahead everything's just a little bit up in the air at
the moment i need to have some discussions to like plan the year ahead but they're certainly already
some very cool stuff that's coming up overall this is really a positive thing although of course it's
going to feel slightly bittersweet just so you guys know there's going to be a kind of transition
period when i'm still riding my current bikes and then getting new ones but hopefully the transition
will be as seamless as possible i want to say a big thank you to you guys for continuing to
support this channel please put in the comments if you have any questions about this and i'll
do my best to answer them and i'll see you guys soon for a few bike rides this week bye for now