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Hey stream wait a minute better two minutes good gosh actually completely forgot I was streaming uh or rather I forgot stream but I’m here I’m ready do I need a towel I think I might need a towel tow yeah I got a tow how long have I got how long am

I a minute okay tell tell tell I’m back I’m back I’m back all right 45 seconds got everything everything’s connected yes connect connect connect and the chat’s up hey chat long time actually yeah it has been a long time I was Ill wasn’t I last time you’ve probably seen me on a live

Stream was um doing uh what was it called what did I do a all race it was a while ago I felt like a while ago get to the front no it’s because the mic is turned away probably for w w for oh finally how was the mic now is it okay

Now got a couple of verified uh riders in this group I don’t think I saw Pro do I sorry chat I can only just about um the chat was half covered that’s why I couldn’t couldn’t say anything no Tron bike no I tell you what I’ve done I switched

Bikes the other day just for a a change I can’t remember what I was doing and uh I obviously just jumped on zift at the very last minute and obviously that was the same bike I was using so there a moral of story always check what bike you got if I fancy a

Trip to Newport was it on Swift want who evented Chris tiny Rebel what’s Tiny Rebel is it um something in car uh in Newport if you’re getting I live really far west Wells we’re quite far removed from the rest of Wheels oh tiny Rebel Brewery I’ve never he of

It Wednesday night it’s a bit late notice to be honest I haven’t seen any publicity about it but haven’t seen any uh PST and stuff but oh here we go got different saddle on this bike and it’s not oh someone’s saying congrats on the engagement huh that’s kind of good feels a bit

Weird that like an online platform people are wishing me happy engagement but ah James jams jams last uh when was it last last Tuesday nearly a week ago uh we did a back tail group ride where we did the mccy 40 and I think it was an hour and a half

We did it with the elastic band on and we we came up 300 M short of doing the full loop in the 90 minutes cuz I don’t know if any of you have used the elastic ban for a group ride but it tends to like slow the group

Down to keep everybody together and things so yeah we might we might do it in sub one hour today well yeah we probably will easily ah certainly G certainly well what what FL was that ah small businesses it’s always sad just signed up to uh Discovery plus today I was

Uh yeah I was a little bit hesitant you know when GCM plus sort of folded I was like you know cuz I only watch it for the racing and I was like and uh obviously I love I love watching the early season races particularly the classics but I really like

Uh you know to down under and it’s mad actually like long a hill all the talk in a minute about the stra K it seems to be on everybody’s lips and uh Ser G they put in a bit of a performance on it the other day and

Obviously the men haven’t done it yet but it’s uh apparently there’s a hill climb on it Richie port and Sarah gante are both going to do it Richie Port obviously retired but yeah pretty uh pretty cool shame was so far away around the world uh I would have definitely been

There and then did it not sure what the cost of flight AIA a minute H Squan you know do not going anywhere I have a look guys scun here there’s Gabriel shout out Gabriel you made yourself known to the chat 1400 P so can’t be 1, 1400 quid not really that

Much more like uh I I takeing a guess oh always always business class well yeah to be honest I have said that you know if I ever fly back to that part of the world either I take a sleeping tablet and knocks me up for the whole flight if I’m in economy

Class uh all I pay to go business small change you know the real truth guys you know the real truth there’s a reason why it’s not my job no no no like you can always rely on me to make content that will get sort of consistent uh average

Views but uh but you can you can check out a lot of YouTube channels out there now that are pumping out like some really highend content and uh like m is it Mitch Boya I think Mitch is his name from the US is one off the top of my head you know making

Some big storytelling videos and uh yeah that like cool I don’t think I don’t think I’d be able to uh live comfortably at all off YouTube it’s why I uh spin many plates spinning many plates and also the biggest plate I’m spinning is obviously trying to do extraordinary things on a bike rather

Than sort of uh naturally regressing is that word regressing in cycling and putting more effort into content I’m still not there yet I’m not putting more effort into content I’m still putting more weon into my C no gar not the I think I know what my it’s uh it’s definitely anything to do

With climbing or highend performance um is what is what pops off on my channel um think there a bike packing people would see my name on it and they would know that it’s not high performance it doesn’t have the angle if I could angle it to be somewhat high performance

Then I think people will be interested like personally I think that’s what people when they see my name I hope they they think Tai km uh yeah of course obviously a factor but thing is with the taian km is uh just like like the Everest in it’s one of the things that people

Want to see me do and that’s why I feel like I know suits me the most but in terms of YouTube as well I know that’s what people want to see you know they’ve been waiting long enough like it’s that type of attitude that I sense when people mention it it’s almost

Like they’re impatient to see it but it’s uh the thing is with the Taiwan km for example that’s that means I can’t do the British Hill Championship so it’s one of those uh at some point you know the British hill climbs will have to be come a thing of the

Past kind of you know what I mean like uh you know dedicated two months well you could say three months really the I call like August the third month cuz I just end up focusing on my training on hill climbing but August September October obviously is very uh

Is very much heavily wasted towards British Hill Climb championships so I would have to knock it out the head to do the time on km uh and I think uh I think between me and the people are watching the stream live you know like I’m I’m still uh probably mentally recovering from uh

The the loss of the brsh Hill G championships last year um like that that affected me more than I ever thought it would um And yeah I don’t know what to say about really U but but yeah it’s it’s effectively more than I I thought I mean that’s that’s what I can say about it but it’s uh it’s one of those things that’s left me with this uh feeling now of you know of

You know do I even bother you know doing the doing the hill climbs it’s like you know it’s maybe question that whole uh that whole participation uh it’s uh yeah I don’t know what I’m going to do it’s uh it’s one of those things where you know it’s you keep beating the

Same what do you call it beating a dead horse or whatever you know it’s like this year’s British hillc Championship is 3 minutes long you know do I even bother uh or do I just go and do something else um do I uh you know do I do I travel around the

UK for two months doing those Hill time races it’s it’s uh you know the thing is it’s not my identity um the internet has kind of maybe taken it and run with it the um that I’m a hill climber but you know you know you follow the

Channel I’m a hill climber in certain months of the year and then the rest of the time I do fun fun sheet on my bike uh whatever that may be uh obviously it can still climb but what does hill climber mean you know it’s like um and uh yeah I’m so uh I’m

So I’m so uh I’m so tor really the I mean the good thing is that I’ve I’ve spoken to verz factor band of climbers all of the brands that support what I do and uh they’ve um yeah they’ve been they’ve totally agreed with me well not agreed

To me but they understand where I’m coming from uh or at least they understand that I I can’t I don’t have a Clear Vision with that like it’s uh you know I have a strength that we obviously know is going uphill um but does does does doing that in the

UK for two months a year warrant a 10year period of My Life um or can I can I or should I do more with it than that you know I’m in a different position to to others and this is what we’ve been talking about recently myself

Charlie and uh you some of the brands is that the reason why I I called it quits on the reason why I called it quits on some Racing for teams or being in that rack race is because it took me so long to get to the top

Of the level I was at racing at so that I could say this is the race I want to do this is the event I want to do it took me so long to get to that point that when things went and fell apart for for when things fell

Apart I’d have to rebuild again but at that point I’d had a YouTube channel I had other options and so we chose this route but what I’ve ended up doing in not so many words is Pigeon hauling myself to certain events or certain disciplines or times of the

Year and not doing anything else so brsh climb season would be a a good example of that because I almost feel like trapped by it you know I’ve invested so much in it and I’ve given the community I feel maybe I’m just being selfish or whatever I

Feel I’ve given a lot to that Community like maybe even helped get the British Hill clim Championship to level is in terms of participation I don’t know like I can’t help but think that in some respects but in doing that I feel like I’m trapped within it and I can’t do

Anything else but that’s the reason why I chose this path in the first place like I feel like I’m supposed to not supposed to I feel like with things with things I have been doing I’m going to wake up in 5 years time and be like I still haven’t done

What I wanted to do because I’ve been focused too much on the things that other people want me to do or not so much what other people want me to do but what is already set up and in place for me to follow off you know a

Hill climber should do the British Hill Climb series you know if he doesn’t what makes him a hill climber you know that type of that type of attitude what do you mean it was with the Wahoo I should have brought a water on here gagging in general so I feel like something has

Happened with zft racing in general um I don’t know um well I know for one thing I know when we first started racing and stuff on Swift it was less serious than what it is now I think it it sort of as soon as it started going down the

Route of uh being like the outdoor racing I was like ah this is like this is not what I want or like it it didn’t interest me as much I enjoyed it early in the early days and then uh I think uh I think as it got more and more serious I didn’t

Know I mean uh the zrl racing as you say there like you have to be in a team which is doing zrl and of course backpedal isn’t well but uh the zrl you know those races you know it’s like the zift games it speaks to me because it’s it’s something completely entirely different

The same as the FR frr series zrl like I understand the level on the quality of rer is huge uh but the racing this crap uh especially for someone like me I can’t do half as what I could do come on Emma you and Charlie are in similar boat all right

Huh well no it’s a group road which is also a race probably um how was I saying you know at the end of the day zift and everything and zrl it’s uh it’s an Enterprise isn’t it really and there they’re trying to make the racing and stuff as inter as

Possible interesting as possible and um but sadly it doesn’t it doesn’t work for the Riders then you Al so only some Riders I’m probably in a very small minority you know I think there’s a lot of riders that obviously love it um but I mean you’re you’re 100% right on

Nails like uh you haven’t seen me doing a lot of zift racing at a substantial level like higher CTIC age um you know I’d love to do uh the zift grand fondos or like uh well to be fair the frr did did have some decent competition but

I I there’s it’s almost been like a the last year particularly things have always uh got in the way of that that like um Fitness for One Fitness for one uh the timing uh where it falls the thing the thing with the um what was it saying just had a water

Application that’s throwing my flipping swed off um I certain things have happened as well in the community that is uh you know like I always feel like well oh hang on F been going hard do it yeah the thing is as well the weirdly though I’ve seen nothing but massive

Numbers when it comes to live streaming or like when I’ve done live streaming like the community has still been well it’s been bigger than ever and when I jump on zft it always feels like there’s someone there that that knows of the channel or

Knows of me or knows it so it’s uh I have also noticed that I’ve not always had to do races for people to not so much see me but you know like you said you’ve seen less of me but I I obviously know how YouTube and stuff works and obviously the less Swift

Racing I do the less it’ll probably get pushed to you uh and maybe those people on Swift maybe they consume the content a bit more and that’s why that’s you know there’s lots of different so yeah it’s uh I was RI racing changed the last couple years good

Question I think it’s got more professional over every level am I using a fan yes I am Nick yeah yeah I mean to be honest this is a good example today um you know this was very last minute live stream and you’re all CH talking chatting about stuff

Who’s the person with the podcas in their name oh this coffee break’s a joke I know it’s just a group ride but like obviously group rides in with to races don’t be was a copyright button use it as a chance to push yourself and then if you do get dropped you know next

Time How would you do it differently anyway um to be honest Emma to be honest uh Emma if I was I’ve seen a lot of you know people who make YouTube videos and well in this case YouTube YouTube videos people would just stop making those videos you know like the cycle

Cross videos and the gravel videos don’t do very well at all on my channel um unless I was to do like a gravel Everest or if I was to do like a Gravel Hill Climb or so I don’t know like again going back to that performance like obviously it gets views

But it doesn’t get like views views or maybe I’m just coming out from the wrong angle I don’t know you know at the end of the day I film everything and uh see what sticks um but sometimes it’s not as simple as like it’s not as simple as just saying

Like oh I’ve had 40,000 views on the pidcock uh K video I’ll just do another one maybe it would work but like at some point it would it would dry up um but yeah I’ve seen a lot of people get disheartened you know I know a lot

Of people as well personally they get disheartened by that and I do as well but I don’t stop making those videos because they add to you know like a thousand of you that watch it you enjoy it obviously cuz you’ve watched it or like a thousand of you have clicked

On it you know just because only a thousand of you watched it and 40,000 of you have watched a pidcock one k for example you know it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t mean that nobody’s going to watch the gravel so like you still got to you know that’s my attitude and I

Think you know I don’t like it when when we assume that people don’t want to watch it I’m I’m kind of in some ways I’m I’m going back on what I said earlier because like what I said earlier was like the opposite of what I’m saying now but it it’s a

Diff you know such a it’s such a weird thing I just don’t over think it too much I just oh needed that ah no I don’t need it no way I don’t need it no charl I’ve already got like five minutes left well not quite five minutes

But oh that group’s going to get back on am I discussing audience makeup uh I guess so well s i me we’re just we’re just talking about different content and why I still think there’s in there can hardly talk it oh people what are you doing with this coffee breaking’s me e chose

Go I thought it was just a group R Brian is there another have we got another climb coming up or what Ah that’s a good observation the end so like people that either do like similar things or are interested in doing similar things rather than people

Who like are just sort of not armchair cyclist but like they just consume the content or something I guess gcn they get so many viewers just as an example not I mean you could talk about lots of channels but gcn not everybody is a is a cyclist

Even if that’s what you mean I don’t know maybe I’m jumping to conclusions there I agree am I yeah it’s a shame those two they jumped across and then didn’t really push as hard as well unless they’re extremely strong over shortterm power and they got across and then couldn’t

Do anything cuz of the FTP but that was a shame needed to keep riding like six to S well at least seven watts per Kil as a group iny I don’t know I kind of understand it I mean if they get across to me maybe they

Think that I am just going to go into like Ed more than just drag but 800 I love a go poos and Giggles but is the power is it is the power up predetermined All what I didn’t quite have the the raw numbers a Tim whatever I didn’t quite have that maybe but it was close to the end apart from from the guy that like came from nowhere and uh showed us showed us that little bit of a little bit of Sprint there and

Was it was it Kim there was it Kim what was it was it you oh my back side ah oh sorry I thought I’m got have a little spin for about 15 minutes now just actually I’ll have a look let’s just have a quick look see what that

Uh let have a look at that um half for there at the end I mean I can’t imagine it was I I I feared that my gears would jump I’ve got a little bit of a uh issue I need to just sort out with the way the gears are moving but I

Didn’t go like I could well I thought the gears were going to slip so I didn’t stamp no but I mean nearly 550 for 50 seconds but uh oh good I have to say I do enjoy I I do enjoy uh I’ve said this a million times I do

Enjoy if I’ve got like an hour and a half or two hours to do um and it requires some endurance or high level zone two or high zone two maybe even I do enjoy Jing into a race um especially one like this that well I mean it’s pretty flat really

Isn’t it but it’s uh sometimes motivation this time of year um it ain’t the best so yeah nice to jump on and uh I’m wearing ankle socks on the turbo maybe that’s why I I lack that bit of punch at the end so what’s everybody else doing today doing

A to Rift group ride or training session or day off or yeah it makes your legs look quite nice actually do can’t stop looking now um oh I don’t like this little heart that’s on the live stream is it on there for everybody else it’s like you can press

It and it gives you like emojis and you can like send a heart to the chat I don’t like it and like gets in the way of some of your comments or the the most recent comment how do I get rid of that who’s pressed it stop pressing it ah nice as me

Nice Mad Monday race nice what time is that on is that on later this evening is that I suppose it’s going to be a good field for that as a a mad field everyone’s pressing it now for goodness sake I shouldn’t have mentioned it that’s what Ed right tojust the one

Kid got yeah yeah yeah yeah it wasn’t my uh it wasn’t my shoe well SP did the real crap yeah I wasn’t I wasn’t doing my shoes yet I was uh oh my word can you just press it and then limited times a thereit cuz they’re just flying all over the place

Now I’m going to try one of those reels I see like the guy do there’s a guy on Instagram can’t remember what his name is I have to find it though there it is vul Voit vul vo lives in Frankfurt he does a lot of zift

Stuff I’m going to see if I can copy one of his reals cuz they tend to get like a lot of boew let’s have a look I don’t think people I don’t I don’t look as handsome as him so maybe I’m not going to I need to put my boobs away first

Instagram oh no my hairy chest well it’s not hairy it looks more like po to be honest but I don’t know why I can grow a full beard but I can’t grow a chest hair what do I say I’ve got uh I I got camera show um to is with group

Rid oh no I need to do that don’t I Tois with group rides always turn into a r i don’t know try that and then only need to like take a fourth door of my that and now I have no idea what I’m doing well bik right I think I’m riding

A cannon deal you know I think I know someone’s already pointed out that I’m not on a I’m not on the Tron uh I was messing around with bikes the other day I think I was looking at bikes to buy and then oh it won’t show now will

It yeah I think it what why am I even doing that I could just change the camera angle yeah so I know 10 minutes 5 minutes 10 minutes I’ll jump off in oh for I think my real that I post is going to have like mad comments because I’m

Wearing a long sleeving do so I don’t have to worry about the bucket hat is only good for one thing I do like the ghost thing I like the segment uh ghosts I like those they’re cool oh blow my who joined for a sec I still need to buy a long sleeve jersey

Emma did I see just now you said you might not be a battle on the beach I thought level 60 was quite High I’ve probably been uh I’ve probably been in the level 50s for at least a year and a half no maybe I’m mind maybe I don’t

Know there no stress I mean if we see we see I mean maybe you see the dragon ride anyway I’m uh probably going to do you know the dragon rid so last year I did the obviously the big one the the devil which is uh like 295

Here I think I’m going to do the grand Fondo this year so uh it’ll be a little bit shorter but almost as hiler for those of you that don’t know it um so basically you miss out like the top Loop so it’s going to be it’s going to be just as hard really

But what it’ll allow me to do is because I won’t be out there for like 9 hours for the long the the devil I’ll be out there for like 6 and 1 half 7 hours or something so I’ll be able to go harder so it’ll allow me to

I’ll be able to put more Focus this year on intensity rather than duration like last year it was important that I had the ability to go long obviously for the for the triang right but also the totem on Blanc right so you have to come and say hi Emma

Because uh introduce you to the um the gravel Trio myself obviously uh Emir who will do all your bike maintenance here and uh young Brin young Brin is off to the Atlas mountain race um in a couple of weeks in February so uh we’re going out for a

Ride on Thursday or Friday I think and uh yeah so interestingly enough he’s doing a lot of uh riding recently in the cold which is preparing him for the massive heat of the desert in Morocco all right that’s me done that is me done that’s been good it’s been uh I know it

Was a little bit last minute the um I set up the stream like an hour or so before or hour and a half two hours before um but it was nice to jump on and and uh see see and chat to a lot of you that have joined me this evening or this

Afternoon uh so I appreciate that hope you have a good day and a good rest of your week and uh uh yeah I’ll um I’ll catch you in a video or live stream soon cheers guys