where are the bikes
first ride back with ben's in switzerland we're at hampsteady it's an absolutely scorching day
and you know i think i think you're going to be really hot
really hot you are wearing trousers why because last time i came off and cut all my knees open
and next week i'm in majorca and i don't want to cut my knees open cause i'm on a photo shoot
you're modeling a bit of blue steel so hamsterly forest first little trail done says black
isn't really a black we're doing most of the red loop try and keep it to all the best trails
hopefully avoid the flies i'm already out of breath ben wait for me
oh it's just every time i hit anything here
on my rear i just kept flunking the air hotel hit your rear tire think you have to upgrade your bike
hi scott my name's ben
downhill does this drop i'll just tell him ben about at the start of this trail called polti's
last blast and it's taken me like a year to work out the courage to ride it and today i finally
did it happy days looking at it now it is a lot smaller than i thought so maybe it's not much of
an accomplishment but it is for me how's life been since the end of switzerland for you you
know i like this lull and i got sad a little bit you know did you yeah i was like i need to book
something else like i was fully aware that it was your job and you were planning fun stuff and i was
back to work so yeah i need to get something else sorted a week off to recover off the bike and then
went back to riding felt strong yeah after a little bit of rest yeah lawrence swears the
best he's ever gone on a bike is off the back of the usa trip one month of uh riding through the
desert and then did like a few hard hard efforts when he got home absolutely flying after that
because it's just basically perfect well as long as you eat enough i'm gonna get stranded
or lost in the jungle basically the best kind of base miles you can do loads and loads of
zone too polish it off with some hard effort you're good to go these sort of hard efforts
what's up trusty mini dropper post you've got a dropper yeah i bought one got one
so if you just cut that bit no never know easy
what are you doing so hot it's so rocky there my garmin thought i'd fallen off the star floated
what took my top off and a star floated and landed on my nipple bit weird really cute wow
hey
i think you suit flat pedals ben this is the fastest i've seen you ride
bear in mind he's doing it with uh with no dropper well kind of dropper and a hard tail i think what
this means is we should get ben a full-size bike and we would have lots and lots of dangerous fun
do you want lunch i still haven't been sponsored by pringles really no after all that pringles i'd
like an affiliation i'll take tubes of pringles monthly if this guy is in the office somewhere so
i swear he probably does look like this i'd like an affiliation sponsorship with pringles please
just for bike rides so i want to be able to give my followers 25 off wow yeah it's quite good yeah
yeah any tube from any shop imagine the logistics in that i'd actually follow you if that was good
i can't be asked to ride bikes anymore do you feel the same what are options
you can ride back down that road again all the way to the end and up a massive climb
does he play with him all the time i said to him today i was like oh i'm going to take the robot
to see francis he started he's like no no i mean i'll bring it back stephen carl's going to keep
if you stop playing with it i said it i'd end up in france this is a
studio so he plays with it every day francis left his phone in the sun in view of thieves
i'm getting hot now should we shut down maybe if i turn myself off the thieves won't see me
francis does not care about us and then we took this from the sandwiches and it went oh he's back
it's like a spa we're in a spot one of the first ever big video projects that i filmed was filming
the transcontinental race some of you have stuck around long enough to remember that i'm sure
this is like tcr number four which was quite a few years ago and it was the first time i was
working alongside a very very good professional photographer and able to see how they operate now
one of the photographers was called james james robertson and amongst other events he's been the
photographer for tcr all of those years in between then and now and he's just put everything into a
book and he sent me a copy of the book and i thought i'd show you guys because it's pretty
cool and it's a nice summary of what the race entails now the version of the race that i filmed
was from gerard's bergen to chanakali in turkey so just a short bike race i think the win of kristoff
took about nine days to complete it without very much sleep at all the roots then varied slightly
from that james inside of this book has captured exactly what the race was like for a lot of people
matt falconer is zero the racers have to complete the course completely unsupported so
they need to figure out where to stop for food there's no feed stations or anything like that
it's completely one point to another james hayden doing a kit wash with a couple of
set routes that you have to follow but a lot of it is left up to the riders naked bjorn
if you would like to grab a copy i'll put a link in the description down below it's a great way
to support james and what he's doing without a doubt one of the best cycling photographers
out there so i definitely recommend you check out his website at the very least now i'm gonna rest
recover i hope you enjoyed today's video stay tuned for more this week where i'm
finally upgrading the ebay mountain bike from the 90s thank you for watching see you guys soon
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