beautiful morning today's mission gets the new forest which is
pretty far south from here two trains one change over in london
all i've got to do is survive newcastle rush hour which i don't think it'll be as bad as i'm used to
i'm not sure what i was expecting newcastle what rush hour is definitely less busy than london in
the middle of the day got half an hour to switch trains warlord bridge best bridge in london
and i think they're building a big bike lane in it
i realized i didn't explain exactly what i'm going down to have this morning basically i'm
going to meet up with the guys from garmin take a look around their offices and they're hosting an
event this evening with i think a charity partner action medical research a ride in turbo trains
obviously they've got a lot of turbo trainers at their office so um we're gonna check them out
and meet the people behind garmin newcastle i've been on trains for way too many hours
today is quite serious we we've got to wear these yeah because we've got four clips we've
got everything going wrong we're inside garmin this is harley and this is jack we've got
yellow jackets on oh you are here i thought you managed to do it she think she'd get away with
like think how big an edge is and then multiply by space big room big room we are 24 7 cctv's in
here we are the biggest um dispatched in europe as you can see we just extend in the warehouse
this used to be the mezzanine in here do you want to go up and see the cmc machine yeah the
whole thing yeah yeah basically what happened so this isn't big enough and that's kind of for a
few reasons so what cost saying we're expanding it but also we used to sell lots of watches and
edges which come in little boxes whereas now we've got lots of big boxes big boxes means
bigger warehouses and you'll see here lots of big boxes so extended we haven't got enough room
you can see we've got a stacking on top of each other you're going to post this and someone should
be like oh there's a trainer two weeks ago where the hell is that look at that i mean like yeah
that's literally pallets of like terrible it's cool huh i don't think the camera is going to do
it justice but this room is huge we're like bigger than a football pitch yeah way bigger easily
makes lots of things including non-cycling things infusion is basically speakers for
cool boats we obviously like to have like a history and marine stuff and fusion is like
a sub round of garmin like tax infusion makes speakers for party boats basically
which is useful if you're ever in the office and it's quiet and you want to put some sick
tunes on i think that might be a cover story for being the arc of the covenant
so what does it do so the cmc machine is packing the boxes for us so we send the product that way
and he meets there with the cardboard so makes perfect box and slaving for us is sending down
ready to be shipped out this is the box closing at the end place the label with the customer address
how many boxes come through here in the day i think the maximum we've done is three thousands
so like the mission vision values is like painted all over like the office i know it's a very like
i don't know what's the word it's a very silicon valley thing could be that um always going that
way um it's dangerous it is to be like oh you know have your eyes on the wall but it is like
this we think about this a lot because i think i set you on the car on the way here
it is literally about making superior products essential part of our customers live that we are
such a product company like much is like i'm passionate about the marketing the branding
we don't make the best products it doesn't matter does it so like it's kind of cool that stuff like
this is up there even in like the warehouse right it brings it together this is all attacks these
are tax bikes no this isn't this is it what's a forced trolling motor that getting into the real
niche the force trolling motor you're testing my knowledge is a product which basically is a super
quiet outboard motor for like a fishing boat so if you don't want to disturb the fish you turn
the big motor off i think this is right and you use a forced trolling motor to like get your boat
in position for your fishing not used for cycling garmin makes some really weird stuff really weird
you haven't driven one of the forklifts no there's not yet there's at times there's a time now though
right it feels quite in here yeah with camera evidence definitely they're never gonna let me
do it but i really want to bring a skateboard in here and skate like look at this floor super
smooth like this is like the perfect skating like it's like a tony hawk's level this is literally
like a tony hawk's level i've been here four years and i've never asked what on earth is this thing
i mean now i'm now i'm looking at it and thinking about it i'm guessing that this is
air conditioning is that it no there's the instructor first from the kitchen it's the heating
regular workhorse the heating for the warehouse this is a massive radiator basically
make sure to get in it that's that's probably better it's begging to be like
it's a fluke did you know what this is is this what the sign says
yeah fire almost sinks boat from j4 movie but gps map 550 survives and it still works
if it's got battery life that's a pretty old-school edge right there i remember this one
that's what i used to use really yeah yeah that's the one everybody had
when we were all it's a pretty inspiring bike races it's not that long a time right in the
ground scheme of things gone from like that four on a like series there to like that like it's
pretty cool technological advancement that's the first gps watch wait you'd wear that on your wrist
somehow they convinced me to ride bikes indoors if there's an attempt to make us feel guilty about
inviting you to ride a bike it's not right there you go if you're not for riding bikes this
friendship is it's gonna be short-lived it's gonna be a bit of a story you're mouthed out of this
but basically as you know we're in the new forest that's where our european office is based every
year for the last five years maybe longer we put on a local ride out in the new forest to
raise money for action medical research who are an awesome charity partner of ours that basically
use sport to raise money for children that have a manner of horrible diseases and situations
it's a really good cause and so for the kind of last five years or so we put on a local sporty
to a raise money for them give our local kind of community a cool ride to join in with and also to
get our some of our pro riders and some of the riders that we work with down and it's a really
cool event because we all ride around the new forest and everybody locally gets to ride with
riders from the pro tour and esteemed guests of youtube such as yourself however 2021 being
the year that keeps on giving we've got a fuel crisis so unfortunately we can't do the ride
because we can't guarantee the safety of riders because of ambulances and
support cars etc but we still want to do something to support the charity
cue the three of us here on zwift somehow harley's right up there in 45th probably because she's not
talking but yeah this is basically we've got simon from ef here leading the ride
and it's all just to raise the money for a really good cause you're going to need to edit that down
why are you so out of breath that's what it's like when you're in 117th whereas when you're
back in 118th there just sitting on the wheel francis it's easy going you know