back to your regular scheduled programming i'm in london
it's raining on me i'm stuck behind a line of cars and today's video is a vlog i've been in
town four days now and every single video has been a bike fit tuesday so i thought
i'd come into town spin around have a few meetings catch up with some people first one
is ben and i'm late i wasn't accounting for cars because you know there isn't any up north
did you get rained on i got rained on a
lot
before we were going to have a nice ride in the rain together and now it's just beautiful and
sunny yeah i put my below toes yeah you're wearing your rain rain jackets bellow toes
below toes below toes is that how you say it where are we going uh oh uh we could go to
well i don't know i want to find a place where we can talk about the secret thing that you told
me about which isn't a secret because we can talk about it on video ben sent me a message the other
day saying do you want to be on my team and he wouldn't take no for an answer so i said yes i
mean it was hardly i asked twice and you just said yes in fact actually i didn't even have to
ask twice i just said do you want to be on my team and you said what what team and i said do you want
to be on it you said yes that's asking twice that is asking twice we've basically achieved nothing
that we intended to achieve well that's why i've got the camera out it's happening at this cafe
for a while but let's um so for people who don't know ben runs a charity called the new normal uh
abbreviated to tnn because the new normal is used too much these days and it's really annoying yeah
basically so tnn uh we've done a separate video on it which i'll put in the description down below
so we won't go into it here but essentially you have got a special idea in mind of how to raise
some money for the charity and i want to know more about it can i ask you a question before i
talk about it are you going to admit to people how many times you just tried to say that no that was
one take new normal are looking at ways to try and fundraise money we're a charity that so far
has managed to survive on absolutely nothing everything that we've done up
to this point has been um you know done with a really small amount of money essentially
about 1500 pounds in three years the new normal is a charity that helps connect young adults who
are going through life's difficult moments so it effectively brings people together to speak about
grief speak about mental health loss bereavement and we put people in a room but we do it
completely free of charge these services cost nothing we run 24 groups a month but up to this
point we've done it with no money um and so we've been looking at creative and fun ways to raise
money rather than just turning around to people saying give us money so what is the creative and
fun way that you have decided on we're doing uh throughout the month of august a race to nowhere
a race to nowhere is 10 teams of 10 riders riding collectively 10 000 kilometers each
between the team you are one of my team members along with some other
better bike riders you're aware that i now ride mountain bikes so actually
i don't really ride very far the top three teams win a prize and i've intentionally brought you in
as a ringer who doesn't ride very far so that my team doesn't win anything because how bad would
it look if we set up an event for the charity and then my team won that would be really really bad
i'm going to put some more information down below uh details on how to enter if you want to start
your own team and a bit about the prizes as well so if you want to head there find out some more
information if you want to get a team involved um if you want to if you want to find out more
information get in touch with me directly for now we're going to start talking about this properly
on socials in the coming weeks um francis will be talking lots more about it i'm sure
riding your mountain bike 40k every couple of days brilliant yeah but get in touch bye see you
i'm gonna go meet a man about a broken arm and some jewelry i'm gonna see you next friday
see you next friday friday surf no sir come come
yeah he deserves to be in the video for what he's just done
and then went through a red light and then over a pedestrian crossing with pedestrians crossing
that was terrible welcome back to london yeah this next meeting i'm actually getting an uber too so
i need to ditch my bike because over in essex bit too far to ride on the mountain bike luckily
i've got some mates over at fettel who are going to look after it for me
it's hard worth this probably should have brought my road bike
this is justin hey we were supposed to be doing this meeting on bikes weren't we
yeah unfortunately there was a few things that happened i was expecting you
to be wearing a sling but you're not i'm not no so we're gonna have to sub in the picture of
what happened yeah we'll show you what happened i mean you might be able to see a little bit of the
remnants we're gonna have to censor it now my scar i'm lucky that i've got a well i say like
i've got a massive plate in my arm now um fell off my road bike five in the morning
broke my hemorrhage straight in half managed to shoot a piece of bone that came out of
my forearm which was pretty horrible that's about five weeks ago lucky because i've had
a big metal plate and i don't have to have a sling and i was actually told i can ride a bike
as of yesterday so although i can't reach straight enough to ride a bike yet i'm working on it physio
well you've got a uh perfectly good xc bike here so i'm expecting my first ride some travels next
week yeah yeah it would be all right my first ride i did on that because i went full suspension
eight kilometers that's what i managed for my first ride baby steps i said i'll be back
together i'm not just here to look at bikes though i'm going to show you what he's got
upstairs as well that sounds a bit weird doesn't it what it is it's not it's not anything bad
see fine i'm quiet so who recognizes this this isn't liam's one no so liam yates did a giveaway
with you of some cycling specific jewelry and it was basically one of these that's a tiny
little physique that's the one we gave away in essence the same sort of finish liam owns one
personally that he's been wearing every time he rides which is a yellow gold and black version
yeah and we can do any different types so rose gold black gold yellow gold
and mix them together it's just one of the first things we've made so far that's really cool out
of all the cycling related things i think a saddle is um it's probably one of the best
in this nice shape we've got a few other ideas for equally cool things but that's the first
product that we've come up with like a modern age of a jeweller i suppose um which is quite
strange because if people ask me if you gave me some tools and a piece of gold i couldn't make
anything with it so it's completely done on a computer in a piece of software everything's
down to every single diamond or stone or finish everything you do is done on there
and then they we send that file to the goldsmith and the goldsmith 3d print it so 3d printing has
come to the point where it's so advanced that down to a micro another millimeter you can 3d print
in the wax and then they turn the wax into the gold and then i send the gold to
a diamond setter so i have family friends in antwerp which is like a big diamond district
they i give them a map so i literally will show them what size stone goes in what hole on like
pretty much like a paint by numbers and then they put all the stones in for me send it back and then
that's how we get finished products so a lot of traditional jewellers are probably sort of this
the whole industry is changing so really like an old-school jeweler would almost dislike me because
it's like a new generation of jewelers that do it on a computer and we don't know the rules and
things you're allowed to do and it's one of those things so yeah we're like the new gen of jewellers
i know one for one exactly like if i show you a render of what i've done on the computer versus
the finished product they're identical in every way there's not a single change so it makes it a
lot easier to work with customers who want to make changes and go back and forward this is actually a
design from a tattooist and it's a mixture of rose gold white gold black rhodium it's my wife's name
so it's one of that was actually the first piece of jewelry i made this is probably the most
expensive piece that we have so this is 11 gia certified big stones so they're a carrot each and
this is 2.5 carats in the middle how much is that 80 000 wow this is the whoop heart rate sensor
that i actually wear i added diamonds to it today so that's the first time that's ever been done
what tofu was trying to say there was link down link down below all dreams real
third meeting of today with daisy at dinner with a friend that we haven't seen for a while as well
you turned up without a bike now i've got a ride home on my own really tired oh little reunion
with pool dog hey how have you been i'm good last time i saw you we shaved you going back a
bit grayer hair still air rug you're definitely going to get home before i enjoy the training
so that marks the end of an exhausting day i'm absolutely knackered fantastic day though great
to catch up with ben really good to meet justin it goes to show uh one of the massive benefits
of running a youtube channel like this is that you meet really interesting people i don't know much
about jewelry but he's got into cycling recently and that's why he got in touch uh and i think
we're gonna be doing a giveaway similar to the one that liam yates did we're gonna discuss plans
in the next few weeks and work out how it will be structured but if you've got this far in the video
let us know in the comment section what part of a bicycle would you like to see made into jewelry
according to him absolutely anything is possible but saddle's already been done all the links are
going to be down in the description down below if you wanted to give him and his new cycling
specific page of follow uh equally all the tnn links and links to ben's instagram if you want to
give him a follow or get in touch with him about fundraising teams as always thank you so much for
watching these videos i'm gonna take a day off edit on the laptop all day tomorrow and recover
see you guys soon for what will be a very big week because i'm filming the internationals trying to
break a world record from lands end to journal growth stay tuned for that see you guys soon