good morning where is summer gone why am i wearing a shoelace
out on the road bike which i've worn out again so i'm on my way to the bike shop
you even fried chicken for breakfast yeah one of my job roles is uh quality control you know
so like all the vendors you know try the food in the morning so make sure that it's right
johnson i'm all right thanks metal or resin how many do you need two pairs how have you
actually got brake pads richest man alive look at that you haven't quoted me a price yet 500 quid
successful mission got some brake pads that's what i went there for
it's now raining slightly and i've got a ride uphill into this headwind all the way home still
nice to kick off the day out on the road bike for a bit plan when i get home meet up with ben and
head over to amsterdam which hopefully won't be really really muddy i've been spending a
lot of time at hampshire recently i feel like i'm making some real good progression on the mountain
bike and to be honest it's helping my skills on the road by too feeling very confident and
at one with the bike not gonna lie it's pretty grim it's spitting you know that fine rain
fine rain it gets you really wet never actually ridden my road bike into newcastle before so
managed to get completely lost on the way home where am i now who knows
so i'm in the car with ben we're on the way to hampstead but i've sat down's telling us
41 minutes to get there dude two roads away it doesn't make sense
you look like you're driving very on edge i've got stuck behind every vehicle today
maybe google knows does that matter that's why it's going to take us 45 minutes
so we made it didn't get stuck behind any weird traffic ben seems uh
seems to be making up for lost time though why are we riding so hot i don't know where are we
i think we might be uh off course yeah we went down that real steep bond from the other day
where tony was reading the sign that said steep technical descent river crossing i thought i
knew where i was but that's why we went down it because now i definitely know where we are
but i definitely don't know where we are it's just christmas trees just keep going and the
odds are we'll end up uh did you bring a foil blanket it says beehives yeah i could do some
some energy some honey so we quite of course don't really want to ride through the bees i'm gonna go
back the other way he found the trails again that was a dark times back there he's been so miserable
things are taking a slight turn i thought we'd come up and do one more rep of the uh
the best trails here in my opinion my favorite one ben's uh he's had it
luckily it's all downhill from here so you're gonna make it mate i don't think we've ridden
very far but we've definitely ridden very far up and down elevation will be huge distance
will be tiny while he's having a little rest on the floor i'd like to know your opinion on the
gopro footage in today's video from my chest mount i've updated the gopro last night which
was well out of date and now i can enable a boost feature hyper smooth boost uh which crops the
image in very slightly so it's not as wide as usual so you probably can't see my handlebars
and stuff as much as other videos but it should be smoother i don't know what it's going to look like
you are the guys who are going to be watching it so let me know in a comment nice who's up who's up
i think i hit that log
what was it
this make half your pedal still on that rock
i've gone from there to there yeah i stay connected where your bike is yeah
stay connected you're smiling still got a sense of humor
it's a good sign we should just take it easy down the next bit
that's the end of that
well of all the damage that could have happened i think that's pretty good that's pretty good
at least we've proved what i hit
show me
oh
we ride bikes we crash sit
someone else crashed wait i've got to ask what is that
this here yeah what is that so in the 80s when i rode a bike there was this thing called a dcd
dave's chain device it stops your chain from rattling about when you're on trails
so today this is a prototype which i made because the ones on ebay are
like vintage expensive because they're dcds so i made this one out of an old um
reflector it's just a prototype mind don't go crazy in the comments i mean it works
it works it stops the chain from bouncing up and down is that what a dcd looked like
no the dcd was a lot bigger and it had a wheel in it yeah but yeah dave's strength i imagine that's
going to cause quite a lot of friction but that means mountain biking who cares well i'm to dave
i don't know what i'm today dave's chain device dcd they were all the rage and they were anodised