[knocking on Door]
- Who's that?
Oh it's you.
Do you want to come into my garage?
I'll give you a bit of a tour.
Show you my toys.
Some of my tools and all the cool bits and bobs
I've got.
Or at least I think they're cool.
(upbeat electronic music)
So shall we start with the bikes?
I guess one of the bonuses of working for GMBN
is I get to ride lots of different bikes.
They're not mine to keep,
let's just say it's a perk of the job.
So here I've got my Scott Genius,
it's running 27/5 wheels at the moment.
There's a set of 29 wheels
that I've got to try out for a video.
Can't wait to try that out, it's a very nice bike.
This corner at the moment is sort of cross-country corner.
Got a Canyon Exceed hard tail at the back.
Got the Lux full suspension cross-country bike.
That's something I ride a lot in winter actually,
for training, from my house I ride out do a couple of hours
big epic rides, I love that bike for doing that.
I've got a Giant Anthem hanging up there.
That's the bike that I was supposed to race in
off road Finnmark in Norway until I broke myself
on my road bike, two weeks before.
So I'm saving that for something else at the moment.
There's my road bike that I use for training.
I'll show you my training set up in a bit.
Behind you we've got my e-Bike.
So that is my specialised Kenevo.
Down here I've got another little specialised.
That is my little man's specialised Hot Walk.
Pretty cool little bike.
Up here, retro corner.
That is my first ever mountain bike
that I got in 1995.
It was actually old when I got it.
It was 1990.
It's a Kona Lava Dome, speckled paint, lovely.
I lost the original project two forks unfortunately.
So I just built it back up with a mix of parts,
and I use that as my pub bike for getting around on.
It's got the child's seat mount on there at the moment.
It's got that retro bottle cage.
I can't remember who made them, but that's quite
expensive back in the day.
But yeah it's kind of
a bit of a mismatch of bits but I love it.
I've got a few random bits and bobs in my garage.
This is a 50 cc engine that bolts onto a push bike.
I've not decided what bike I'll put that on yet,
so I'll save that for a rainy day.
Then I've got an actual motorbike,
no, not the e-Bike.
This is a 1978
Yamaha SI500
that I bought don't know,
probably 10 years ago.
It was just a rolling chassis
and then five buckets of bits.
And I spent a winter putting it back together.
I love this bike.
I've painted it.
It sort of looks good from afar,
but far from good.
It's a bit tatty.
But I love riding it around in summertime.
I also nicknamed it the "Bastard"
because it always breaks down on me.
There's a problem with the gearbox.
I've had the engine out of this bike probably
half a dozen times now and I can't fix it.
The gears fine, the clutch is fine,
I think there's a spacing problem in the gearbox.
So for all those motorbike nerds,
leave some comments down below,
you might be able to help me out.
'Cause I'm pretty much giving up on this bike.
Just fifth gear doesn't work.
Up here I've got various helmets,
I've also got some snowboard boots there.
This is a helmet that I broke in Whistler,
two years ago,
I smashed my head and separated my shoulder.
So I don't know why I've kept hold of that really
I might as well throw that away.
Then I've got a Poc full face
and then I've got motorbike helmets.
So I've got an open face helmet
if I want to pull off the Wallace and Gromit look.
Motocross helmet and then I've got
a full face motorbike helmet as well.
(relaxed electronic music)
So that is my specialised Kenevo
I'm loving this thing at the moment.
It's the UK, it's winter,
so all the trails are really deep in mud round by me,
and on a normal bike it's really hard work,
your average speed is nothing.
So I love jumping on this bike
and going and drifting around,
having a proper ride in an hour and a half
when I don't have much time,
it feels like a downhill bike.
So over in this corner is sort of spares corner.
I've got a motocross tyre for a bike that I no longer have,
sat up there.
I've got various bits and bobs down here.
Grips, I've got a saddlebag,
I've got a little stash full of pedals.
So if I'm swapping around,
depending what I'm running that day,
what bike I'm riding.
Various cranks lots of pedals.
Some of those sticky little patches you know
when you drop on seats posts, they're really good.
CO2 cartridges.
Set of retro pedals, I can't ever remember what bike
they've come off actually.
Bottle cages,
rack my helmets up there.
And then down here, this is one the best purchases
I've ever made.
I bought a couple of big boxes of Shimano cables,
so inner and outer,
so they're actually custom ones,
they say "Don" on them.
But it just saves me going to the bike shop
every time I want to change my gear cable.
Got an old turbo trainer,
I don't use that one anymore actually
I've got rollers,
and I've got a proper smart set up I'll show you
in a minute actually.
Spare tyres, I'm always swapping tyres for
conditions, obviously different bikes so it's nice to have
a stash of tyres there.
Spare wheels, they've come off my Scott those ones,
they're Gravity 29-ers.
A few more secondhand tyres up there.
Got a snowboard, brand new one,
look at that.
Not come out yet.
Got my old one, really old snowboard up there
that I use in the UK, 'cause I don't mind
damaging it when there's not that much snow.
Saving that one for going somewhere nice.
(relaxed electronic music)
My least favourite thing in the garage
is pretty much just this area it's full of messy stuff.
Underneath here I've got like motorbike oils,
filter oils, funnels, everything's covered in oil,
it's horrible and needs clearing up.
And my toolbox is a right mess at the moment,
I don't know where anything is,
and there's loads of cool bits and bobs in here.
I've got offset bushings,
loads of stickers, mud guards,
What's that?
An OS map
of Glencoe.
But it's just a mess.
I need to clear it all up.
Moving over to the work area.
Just here.
I've got a really cool workbench here,
it's secured to the floor, so it's really stable.
Got a nice new vice put on that,
so that's great for hammering things.
Don't know, like getting bearings out of things or whatever.
Or generally motorbike stuff
generally takes a lot of hammer.
Got loads of spares up here.
Spare grips live there for some reason.
I should have somewhere better to put them really.
Underneath the bench what have I got?
I've got a spare clutch
from an SR500.
And then I inherited this box actually,
this is really useful.
Loads of really old tools that are great
for working on motorbikes.
So loads of random things.
(relaxed electronic music)
The oldest thing has got to be my Yamaha SR500.
It's 1978 so that's even older than me.
I think on the logbook when I bought this bike
it had 17 previous owners, so,
it's been around the block.
It's seen a few things.
So on the workbench I've got a little Bose speaker,
I love that thing, it lives in here pretty much.
I've got this little Camelbac tool pouch.
Got one of those Topeak little ratchet sets, really good.
Various bits,
so also ratchet bits working on bikes.
Assorted Allen Keys, very useful.
A spare battery for my e-Bike.
I've got a very posh little RockShox tool set.
Check that out.
That is cool isn't it?
Made by Abbey Tool.
I don't actually use those to be honest
they just sit there and look nice.
Got my spanners hung up.
That is really useful.
I'm so glad I made that thing,
just so you can find a spanner really easily.
I've never really been a big one for keeping number plates
but I've got a few.
I've got my number one from the Trans Savoie.
I only rode that one for a day
because I then separated my other shoulder.
That's a cool one number 18 from Andes Pacifico last year.
I really like that.
A couple of British ones,
just from various EWS races and yeah
British rounds of Enduro.
Head torches, great for working on bikes.
I've got my medal from the Superbike Dolomite last year.
It's very hard work that one,
where Si beat me.
And this is cool I think.
So I've got a few of these boxes that's full of
random old bits.
So if I have a break apart,
what I do is I just strip them for sort of nuts and bolts
and you'd be surprised how often I have to dip into this
for various bits and bobs so,
yeah saved my life a few times.
Got my stash of various sorts of
lubes and things up here.
Got a couple of those really cool grease guns.
A lot of zip ties I keep in an old Kool-Aid box.
Gets topped up occasionally.
What else have we got?
A surfboard up there.
A Santa Cruz surfboard that's not been used
in a little while.
Old stereo I don't use that at all.
I've got a piston
from an SR500.
Actually doesn't look too bad that one.
I'll keep that.
And loads of various bits and bobs on my shelf.
I've actually got some of those box component bits
sat up here.
I've got a mech that's a bit bent.
Obviously I'll keep that just for spares as well.
Then I've got more ratchets down here.
A nice little one,
I love that.
That's a great little tool.
So what's interesting over here?
I've got a DI2 charging kit that I keep safely in a bag.
I've also got a bag full of tapes;
parcel tape, electrical tape,
some of that Scotch 3M tape,
that's really good for putting on your chain stays
to stop any noise.
Never know when you're going to need some tape.
A hacksaw, good for cutting any bars.
To my toolbox, where for years I used to put stickers
all over it.
So all sorts.
I've got Motocross of Nations 2006 Winchester,
went to that.
Cable ends, cables for all, cable ends.
Got some wax for my surfboard.
Not sure why that lives there.
Various bits and bobs.
Messy top drawer.
That's the motorbike tools so,
if you ever need a tyre changing on your motorbike
you need a massive tyre lever.
Probably one of my favourite tools.
That is a set of Park Tool cable cutters,
that I must have had 20 years,
15 years? I don't know.
And it just still works really well so I love that.
Needleman pliers.
Chain whip.
Mould grips.
Adjustable spanner.
Side cutters, pliers, they all live in that drawer.
Bottom drawer is sort of smaller spares.
So,
nuts, stuff nuts whatever you call them nowadays,
can't remember what you call them.
Valves, tubeless valves.
Stickers.
All sorts of little nuts and bolts in there.
What else have I got?
Got some spare stickers for a bike that I had in 2004,
2005, so I better keep hold of those.
You never know when you need those either.
Got various electrical bits and bobs over here.
I've got a wifi extender if I ever need to work
in the garage.
I've got a work light.
I've got my Park Tool digital scale.
I've got a compressor over here.
(hisses)
Nice for doing tubeless tyres,
motorbike tyres, things like that.
I've got my riding packs hanging up over here.
So I've got a big, medium, and then a bumbag,
the Camelbaks because I've been using the bumbag actually
quite a lot.
For my cross-country bike strapping that on,
stick your water in there.
Stick various tools and stuff.
Boxes, that's where I keep my riding shoes.
They're a bit wet at the moment.
But I've got some nice dry ones sat in there.
There's my e-Bike charger.
There's my massive Topeak super Joeblow booster pump,
great for seating tubeless tyres.
Motocross boots for a motocross bike that
I no longer have, but I keep them as well.
(relaxed electronic music)
My newest thing in the garage is my training set-up.
I've always used the garage for sort of winter
interval training for racing,
using my old turbo and my rollers.
But now I've got a smart trainer.
That hooks up to Zwift,
so if you don't know anything about it,
basically you ride online,
or on the screen
and it basically adjusts the resistance on your trainer.
So if you ride up a hill on there,
it actually gets harder down here,
so you have to change gears.
This measures my power, my cadence.
I've also got an amp plus dongle on my computer
so that picks up my heart rate.
So it's actually really easy to ride here
for an hour and a half and do some proper training.
Get the tunes going,
get the fan going,
it's not a bad way to do it in winter.
Right now you've seen my garage
I think it's about time you got out of here.
But if you want to see some more videos
click over there for one featuring
my Scott Genius.
Or one over there featuring my Canyon Exceed.
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