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C your legs you know what to do hit the like button subscribe to the channel thanks we got lots of stuff coming up yes sir yes sir what’s up once again it’s a Friday it’s cycling talk and um I’ve been missing Mia I haven’t done my uh little Friday live streams for a
Minute been a bit busy a lot of stuff going on a lot of big news coming and I’m going to drop that uh soon soon but not right now but right now we got somebody I’ve been uh trying to get a hold of uh his name is rashan bahadi
He’s uh been Racing for quite some time he has a resume if I read the the resume that’ll be the whole show we wouldn’t even you know that would take up all its time but anyway just thank ran for being here it’s a busy man he’s in La um and
Um yeah he’s he’s going to correct me on something because I said something about something and I was completely wrong about it but anyway we’ll get into that we’ll get into that until a minute but um thanks for joining us rashan what’s up what up what up enus so there you go
And um what’s going on you hear me all right I can hear you loud and clear what’s going on man everything man I uh I’m I’m I apologize right now in front of everyone about my uh not being able to connect with you we’ve been trying to connect for a
Minute but you know Stars didn’t align until now you hit me up and I was like yeah I could do it at this this window so I’m here man everything’s good um just plugging away in LA man and doing my thing so you’ve had quite a few
Things going on man I mean cuz now I’m at a distance so I don’t get stuff firstand like you know so when I found out you had like an injury and stuff and I’m assuming that you’re good from that now and then um then the other little
Thing we we’ll talk about that after those but yeah talk to me about that man I don’t know uh injury wise I feel like I reached a certain age and just like crashing is inevitable in bike racing especially if you’re racing yeah uh hard and going for the wind and
Stuff like that um I feel like after a certain age like injuries are inevitable man um I’ve definitely had my fair share of injuries something you know happens like at least every year and I hate to put that in the universe but just my track record has always been something
Either from an injury from actually like uh something that happened on the bike back injury uh I’ve been dealing with back issues for a long time ever since I was like 27 uh 26 years old um and also you know if it’s not that it’s it’s uh having an operation because you’ve been
Putting off an injury or putting off something that’s been nagging you so you finally get to the point where it’s like all right now I’m G bite the bullet and I’m gon get it done so you have the operation and then that sets you back for however long you know four five six
Weeks sometimes longer so yeah man you know it’s always something but that’s that’s that’s life man you got to figure out how to keep going yeah that’s that’s that’s that’s what I would actually was ask meant to ask about like the back injury because I didn’t know anything
About that so and that’s what you you talk about so but that’s that’s getting better now just from it’s from racing bikes man you know I think uh any anyone with in their right mind would tell you that the sport that we do yes we love it
A lot but when it comes to like the posture that we sit in mhm it’s not it’s not good for you you know we’re bending over we’re looking up we’re falling on our tailbones or we’re sliding on our hips um it’s grueling you know we’re we’re we’re pulling every muscle at
Times in a Sprint or to get over a climb you know it’s just as much as we love it you know you you break it down uh it could actually if we don’t take care of our body off the bike you know uh on the bike could be very detrimental so
Dealing with the bik back injury haven’t had surgery they definitely want to do surgery haven’t even had an epidural any sort of shot so I just been um stretching doing atic uh atic aquatic therapy so basically exercises in the water um and see a chiropractor acupuncturist um and those are probably
The main things that that helps me um stay healthy and then the next big thing is orthotics for your shoes and making sure you have a really nice mattress that you sleep on that’s crazy that you say all that because I constantly tell people that like a cycling is not a natural activity
For the body it’s something your bud has to learn to do so yeah that part everything was Sean said just Rel loses to that part so let’s get into Mr badi and like what’s going on with the race with the race career and the RAC scene
What’s going on with that I career is over man yeah I thought you retired retire I’m definitely retired I’m just doing the Old Man category now because I can I’m 40 plus um I you know when you look at my career I started I started
Cycling at 11 I started racing at 13 I did it pretty much fulltime all the way up until I was about 30 34 um so the last 10 years Bas I haven’t been a professional I’ve dabbled in some professional uh races um but yeah I’m I’m completely retired I
I ride and train and and race because I enjoy it it’s a part of my personality um it’s a it’s what makes me feel whole you know so that’s why I still compete and I compete at like I said at a master’s level and in United States the
Master’s level is actually pretty high quality racing so uh you can’t take it too lightly but also either you know I still enjoy myself do the things that I didn’t do when I was a pro like stay up late have dessert drink beers while land in the
Bed stuff like that I do that now and there’s no I don’t feel bad about it you know because I’m just racing Masters so who cares yeah definitely so dude I mean for those people who really don’t know who rashan bahi and everything that he’s
Done I’m going to just tell you go into like the Google and stuff and sear the guy’s 10 time National Champion I mean he’s got a lot of accolades and I’m not like glossing over it or ignoring that but what I do want to talk with him
About because I know he has his programs that he’s like working with young people and stuff so I wanted to just tap like how’s how’s that going like with the young people and stuff yeah so uh next month will be 14 years that um I’ve had the foundation
And our mission is to help inter city youth rise above their circles ances and we do that through education music and sports three things that I’m passionate about um and yes we have a program with the Los Angeles Unified School District we also have programs with Boys and
Girls Clubs uh we have independent uh groups um like for instance like um children that have been victims of violent crimes and that’s through Los Angeles Police Department um we work with smaller uh organizations and private schools Out of Compton where I grew up and yeah we uh we like like I
Said we just encour we’re trying to encourage them to rise above their circumstances and not let where where they grow up uh Define the outcome of their life and I could say that because that’s where I grew up and I could have very easily fallen into the Trap of St
In Compton and doing what uh a majority of my peers was doing when I was growing up but luckily for me I found cycling and it changed everything so what’s what’s what like what do you see like for these kids like what would you like to see happen for some of these kids
That you that get to pass through and you actually get to touch or help out uh just just to bust the bubble that they live in you know we’re not trying to find the next greatest cyclist um we just want them to realize that there’s
Things out in the out in the world that can open up doors for you cycling opened up doors for me if I would have been a professional or not right um we donate bikes to to to some of our students every December and we actually expanded
That to New York and we do it at the Harlem Sky skyscraper crit over Father’s Day and so m is just a tool to help them identify who they are and who they can become you know what I mean it’s like using that bike as a tool to get out of their
Neighborhood to use it for transportation for exercise um even if it’s uh for utility purposes like going to the store all those things as you grow up change your perspective on life you know what I mean uh you realize that you can ride a bike faster than a New
York bus maybe can get you four or five blocks um or maybe even the train at times you know what I mean so it’s just really just trying to just you know open open their minds uh to let them know that the sky is not the limit you know
Well beyond the sky and and the bike is a tool to help them achieve that definitely definitely so what was your so so far like like what’s been the biggest um uh takeaway or most inspirational moment like helping these kids like what what moment stands out the most
Oh man that’s a good question um I would say now that we’re entering our 14th year you know there’s kids that we first started working with 14 years ago and they were 13 14 15 years old and now they’re full on adults and you see them doing great in life um and
Also uh it reciprocates right it’s now they may not have a foundation but they’re doing doing things in their Community they’re more willing to help the next person they’re going out of their way to do things they may be a cyclist um this is a perfect example is
A young man he got into he got he came through our program he rides bikes he’s a full-on cyclist now not a bike racer but loves cycling as his Hobby and now he sees the youth that’s struggling to have the bike that’s you know that’s uh compatible or comparable
To his is uh the the kids that he has to race so what does he do he goes out and buys a bike so this kid can compete at a high level on a on a fair plan uh playing Ground so like I think those are the type of examples that is
Created when they come through a system where people show them that they care and people show them that there’s a you know there’s a big world ahead of you that that care too but let’s start here so that’s that’s dope that I all I can
See is like so instead of a tree just growing up it’s a tree that’s actually growing branches you know some trees that not fruitful so that that’s that’s dope that’s dope and I’m pretty sure the kids appreciate it so like um where where you at where you at and where you
Live like I was there for four years La so I’m going to segue into like you know just just the the culture of LA and just the culture of white riding in La what is the what are some of the things that like stand out for you or yeah what I’m
Going to ask that question what are the things that stand out for you like when just riding bikes around La uh there’s of course good and bad right uh the the good is that La has some of the most diverse writing in the world and I’ve been all over the world
Right there’s not a lot of places where you could ride absolutely flat for hours and not see a hill like be in a desert for instance um and in this and in the same vicinity you can make a left turn change directions and start going up a you know
A 2,000 meter climb and being in the snow all within like four hours right um or you go to completely opposite direction and you’re riding along Famous Pacific Co Highway through Malibu into Ventura with the ocean on your left and the mountains on your right and you
Could hit a mountain that’s a climb that’s 30 minutes long or you get a climb that’s an hour long you know or you can mix it up and get and make a climb that’s an hour and a half long so just the diversity of writing here I think is
Some of the best seriously in the world on the on the flip side of that the negative and part of the reason I ride mountain bikes now more often and also train indoors is just the disconnect between cars and pedestrians and cyclists alike yeah there’s not a lot of
Love there you know what I mean and as as I get older with with a family you know as a youngster I it wasn’t that long ago 2007 when I was on Rock racing I was riding training without a helmet and no one frowned no one frowned on
That it it was like part of the culture right no one wore a helmet back then we we would be on PC going down some of these descents 40 50 miles an hour with no helmet on and I look back like man how crazy was that I could have ended my
Life just a slip of sand or you know going through some gravel or something like that um so there’s just a huge disconnect between uh civilians and cars and pedestrians and cyclist so uh like I said as as I’m growing up at with my family you know I don’t I don’t know how
I’m gonna go but that’s not how I Envision going and I’m gonna do what I can to make sure I don’t go that way you know definitely so you talk you just mentioned family so I’m telling you people going to look at this guy this
Guy is not old enough like he not old enough to have a family what do you know about family anyway I’m old he did he did disclose his age earlier in in the in the live stream but like your kids like do when you you know the
Kids were coming up and stuff you doing all the eracing and everything were you thinking of them in the sport or were did you like like what was your mindset did you like want them to get in the sport or like you know you want them to do something
Else yeah so I had uh my wife and I had kids pretty young um I was was we cuz we were the same age uh we were 23 um and so that was like a really scary time in life because I was I was racing still trying to be a professional
But I was also in school at Indiana University and I was kind of at this Crossroads where I didn’t know if I was g go into corporate world or follow my passion and my dream to be a bike racer and then boom we’re having a child and seas in California I’m in Indiana
In hindsight honestly it was the best you know she’s in her third year college um she’s doing great in school she’s an athlete and she’s almost done with a fouryear university you know um and and we’re still young and we have a lot of life ahead of us so that that’s I guess
That’s the blessing if you could figure it out and get over the hump of having kids young the blessing is that you know you could be empty nessers uh sooner uh with the earlier years of your life um and then yeah so when my first daughter
Was born man I was full gas buying all the bikes up for all the little baby gloves the helmets um you know I bought the little carrier for the back taking her own bike rides with me and honestly putting her in the carrier in the little trailer was probably some of the best
Train in my life you know you have a trailer that’s probably about 20 pounds and then you put a kid back there that’s probably another 40 to 60 PBS so you’re carrying around 80 pound pound 90 PBS and I would go train I would never go in
The Hills but I would ride Flats all day long do four or five hours with her in the back you know um that was some of the best she like in the back what was she like the whole time like was she she
Was cool no no no not at all man not at all and remember this is before any iPads any any Apple phones kids just enjoyed being outdoors you know what I mean like riding along the beach uh and she used to read a lot back there you put a book back there put
A couple juicy cups and and you were straight man you know you had to stop maybe a couple times use the restroom and maybe get a bite to eat but it it was it was so easy you didn’t have the influence uh I would ride like probably
Max five hours but average I would say I would ride about three and a half hours yeah wow with the kids in the back five hours damn yeah and then I did two kids and I got really hard doing two kids and and all my bikes were carbon I was
Starting to put a lot of stress on the frame yeah and then that’s when I stopped as my oldest daughter got bigger and they got heavier I was like all right it’s time for y’all to start riding yeah yeah yeah because I I think the longest ride I did with my daughter
Was probably about two hours her mom was just like her mom wasn’t having it so even though I was doing all the safety stuff yeah she was whatever but that’s what I was asking I pushed my I was I sort of didn’t push my kids into like uh
The cycling because I I only asked that because I know what the life is like and you know so and I see other parents push their kids to be the football stars to be basketball or baseball and stuff so I generally like like to ask parents
Of I mean yeah cyclists that are parents like you know do they have that same intuition to try to push their kids into into the sport as well well I’ll say that my parents excuse me my parents never pushed me in cycling all they did was support me like from top to bottom
Like never told me to go train never told me how to eat how to sleep like nothing they just supported me if I had a race that was at 7 in the morning and it was an hour and a half away all only thing my dad would always say is we need
To be in the car leaving at X time as long as I was in the car at that time everything was everything was cool there were a couple times you know I woke up late and I I got a I got a lashing you
Know a tongue for that but it was just I those were things that taught me just to be on time and and respect time you know that’s something that we deal with in our household is just our kids not respecting time in other people’s time you know I think as you when you’re
Young you don’t really think about like others people’s time like yeah you could be late to school like my kids like I could be late it doesn’t matter yeah you could be late but you being late affects what I have to do you know what I mean
So you’re not respecting my time so those were those were good lessons that I learned from my parents just and support So as I started a family I never push my kids I’m I’m the most quietest guy at my kids track meet you know they
Run track I I I record them I support them I don’t tell them when to warm up how to warm up you know I may suggest like maybe not eating certain things a couple hours before your race or you know make sure they set themselves up
Properly that way but um I I told my kids a while ago I was like I can’t want it more than you if you say want to go to the Olympics as a track and field star then you’re not going to let four or five days go by without exercising we
Got a treadmill right here there’s no excuse you know so I always tell them I I can’t want it more than you and I’m just here to support you and so I think a lot of those lessons that I learned as a kid transcends to my kids I mean I
Have a a senior in high school and she wakes up at 5:30 to go to the gym before school wow you know and so that’s that’s that’s dedication and I think that that stems from my parents teaching me and then me teaching them that’s dope that’s
Dope so man this is I’m just dude dude I’m just over the moment did you even hear you’re having a conversation you you probably can’t see the picture that’s in the background behind us can you it’s it’s it’s I saw it before we went live but I only saw my half yeah
You remember that you remember that day that’s uh that that’s the uh that’s George’s ride that’s the the wood ride he coming back oh okay yeah yeah yeah yeah and and it was one of the one of the few times that I actually did the the wood ride
The morning wood with you that you came out so but um yeah so funny thing about this picture why I always like this picture is because when we were coming back I think you guys railed us going out like it just spread all apart and
Like guys got out to out to um what’s it what’s it called uh Cross Creek Cross Creek got out to Cross Creek and uh you know eventually took the picture but when we were coming back for some some reason I got on the front with you and
Then you started tempering and I was like okay party just go easy on me but you just was tempering more and more and more and and the whole time it’s like come on man you can’t let this guy see you steal a man you steal a man I was
Suffering like a bass because you we stayed on there for about maybe two to three miles and then everyone else was changing like for a mile or so but it was a really long track back I mean before we came off the front and I was
Like I’m not not I’m going to let bti I’m going to let bti say come he needs to come off he needs but I eventually I had to tell you like yo man hey it happens to everyone man I’ve been in your position too so don’t don’t
Don’t don’t feel bad about it I mean it’s you know it’s levels to it right so there’s always someone else that’s that’s going to be able to hold an endurance Pace a little harder and longer than you and but that’s what makes it fun too and uh every time I
Ride I try to make sure I’m maximizing my ride so that I was probably training for something at that point so I I just didn’t want to sit on the back and I’m sure I had in my mind that I wanted to ride Tempo all the way back into LA and
And then cruise home so um I’m always every time I get on the bike it’s for a reason is I’m just I’m not really just out there to be out there you know what I mean yeah from forless technique and the funny thing is I actually wanted to
Be on the front and I wanted to like because I was actually trying to get myself back some decent shape but sometimes you just bite off a bit more than you can chew and you just it is what it is but yeah so those those are there are some iconic
Rides that are in La a lot of people don’t know about so the morning W I don’t know if that’s still going George Shop’s not there it’s it’s not okay so then um then then you got the does Elijah still have his donut ride on Friday you guys still do that yeah yeah
Yeah the dut ride is still there it’s pretty strong I think it’s a it’s a really good ride for the community uh cuz it’s for the most part it’s chill and you get to see a little quick different part of La without getting too far going up in the Palisades across
Sunset and stuff like that um I think it’s I think it’s a cool ride for the community I definitely think it’s a dope ride it like you said it’s chill and you can like socialize and like yeah it’s definitely though so shout out to Elijah you know because he Elijah’s the man but
Anyway so then you he ain’t I didn’t say it I was I don’t want to say it but Elijah what’s up man peace out I’m um the other thing is like the the NPR ride I tell people like a lot about like some of the rides that happen
In uh in La like so like you got the NPR ride and I think the daddy of the ride for me is um on Saturday mornings it’s the what is it the Saturday morning ride that goes down to the one down PCH down PC yeah uh now
Ride Now ride and I tell people what’s your description like if if someone says they wanted to come to a ride what what would you tell them they should what they require to actually do the now ride yeah I’d love the now ride and now is just an acrm uh for no opportunity
Wasted and um it’s early so for me I I absolutely hate getting in my car to go for a ride yeah it’s something about leaving your house clicking the garage door rolling out clicking it you know closing it and just leaving um so this is a ride I had to leave pretty early
For about 6:15 in the morning so that makes for a really early morning get up get your coffee in get your routine um but I would say the now ride it’s changed a little bit since she left enus I’ll tell you that so let me
Tell you how it used to be for the listeners it used to be we had about a mile and a half warmup until you hit Pacific Coast Highway and you came off of a hill as soon as you hit the coast remember this is about 7:40 7:35 in the
Morning as soon as you hit the coast it is absolute chaos 50 60 KS an hour easy and I’m not exaggerating yep and you can correct me if I’m wrong and we would go on and off on and off and the pelaton would be upwards of a hundred Riders sometimes
More all right it’s completely dead flat for about I don’t know 15 15 miles maybe and then you get to this part of PCH where there’s a heill where there’s a a prestigious university pepperine university and then the little guys can Sprint over it the fast guys can get
Over it the strong guys I should say and then if you show any flaws on Pepperdine Hill you’re not going to make it to the next to the turnaround which is by time about 20 minutes that’s how fast we’re going about 20 25 minutes I remember
Getting from PCH to the turnaround in 45 minutes one day which is absolutely nuts we average like 28 miles an hour or something like that 29 miles an hour um so yeah I love it because it’s early it’s a good group and then if you want
To once you get the speed work done you’re out in the middle of PCH now you’re out in the middle of the Santa Monica Mountains right you could just go right and go up a climb get some climbing on for the next couple hours and then Cruise back Cruise back home so
I do it and and and can come straight home and be home by 10 o’clock at in the morning and already have 65 miles yeah right so I’ve got 100K in my legs and it’s not even 11:00 in the morning yet or I could do a little more and still be
Back by noon and have like 120k 130k or something like that maybe even 1 15ks in my legs um so that’s why I like the ride so it’s different now they do two by two all the way to Pepperdine and it reminds me of this of
Your story about the bridge that are the picture even though we’re 2 by two it’s a very fast 2 by two and the reason they did that we started to have a bunch of accidents on PCH okay because you know everybody’s everywhere people are overlapping wheels and you know on
Pacifical Highway cars can travel 60 mil 100 miles an hour if they wanted to yeah the speed limit is like 65 so people are going 80 90 so I think it was a conscious decision just to make the group ride two by two but we’re still going like you know 40ks
An hour it’s just two by two and it actually makes people hon with their pull so if you can pull short you pull short if you can pull long you pull long um and then when they get the pepper Dy all he’ll breaks loose and you’re on your own yeah definitely yeah because
When I first got there and someone said go do the ride and I went to do it and they would just like you said they cruise down the hill and then they get to the coast and I’m like you know the lights changing I’m like still LOL doll
Yeah man breakfast was good and then the next thing I know dude what’s going on you it’s like someone dropped the bomb and then like the next thing you’re like going to try to catch up I just I once I experienced that I was like damn that
Was hard but that was dope you know like I just couldn’t believe the speed is just nonstop and it just doesn’t go below 30 miles per hour or like 60k or 50 yeah it’s so early in the morning that most of the time the wind is dead
So wind doesn’t play a factor and then by the time you’re coming back heading South heading back home you got a Tailwind so it’s pretty it’s pretty cool that you know you get like a slight Tailwind on the way out and then it kind of turns around after about 10:30 and
You get a tail in to go back home so it’s it’s it’s one of my favorite rides out of all the big rides that we have in Southern California okay so now now now we just wanted to segue into like just like some some help or teack tips or or
Anything any advice what advice would you give to like New Riders that uh like because the the Market’s going crazy like the bikes cost so much the gear is expensive all of that stuff so what what advice would you give to New Riders getting into the sport in the SC like
Man look that bike’s 10 grand you know or that’s that’s 15 grand gotta have this braks gotta have um when it comes to equipment I mean it’s not much you can do either you you pay it or you’re not right um but I would say that if you surround yourself around the
Right people that’s not going to take advantage of you uh get get with a club that is not going to take advantage of you um a lot of people you know um like for me for instance I’ll give you a perfect example I got a house full of
Bikes you would never see my bikes online for sale but if you said hey Ran I’m looking for a TCR with kadex wheels and blah blah blah and it’s one that I’m not riding anymore I could talk to you about selling you a bike because you’re my friend I know
Um so I think there are people out there like that like me that that hold on to equipment for the these exact situations you know what I mean um because for instance I could put the bike online for $8,000 but I would rather sell it to you
For $5,000 or $4,000 you know because I know you’re getting a great bike it’s going into a it’s going to a friend of mine you’re and I’m helping you at the same time so you don’t have to spend uh the a grand and also I was highly suggest just taking your time often
Times you know uh the New Riders they come out and they see everyone with the flashy bikes but these are people one that have been in the game for a long time they’ve accumulated a lot of equipment they could flip equipment to buy certain things you know what I mean
And so I think new new people want that flashy bike right away so they may go out and drop 10K on a bike and then a year later not even in the cycling anymore so I would just highly suggest taking your time yeah that’s true and
The thing is like like to elaborate on your story if you sold a bike to me the other thing that you know is you know that someone that actually is going to use the bike that’s into cycling so you know it’s going to be used as opposed to
Just be sold and sit up and you know just like catch so yeah so that was my little question I had just like I just wanted to like send something out there to like just to inspire try to inspire some of the newer cyclist cuz what I’m getting is I’m finding a
Bit of a a a Gap or a divide between the cyclist who probably started after 2018 just before the pandemic and you know people like yourself that we’ve been riding since the 90s and there there’s I see there’s like there’s a bit of friction between those two groups of
People like um how how do you like uh interact in that space how do you interact with those like new cyclist man I I love it um I love the pandemic writer um here in the US all across the US specifically like big cities like Chicago all through the
DMV which is um DC Maryland Virginia you got Philly Southern California here so many black people got into the sport of cycling during the pandemic you got to remember I was racing at a time where there was absolutely no black people around no officials no Racers no directors no
Swan no no spectators nothing it was just it was just me I was the Raisin in milk at almost every event that I went to yeah so for for me to see so many people that look like me into the sport I don’t even care if they race or not we
Every group right now has a handful of black people yeah and that may not seem like a big deal but for a long time I was the only one you know what I mean and so it’s helping actually the bigger scope is that it’s helping break down
Barriers you know what I mean um within our sport because now you get to intermingle with people that you normally wouldn’t have because you thought they was a part of this group and they was a part of that group and you all know it don’t matter what you
Look like either you got it on the bike or you don’t you know what I’m saying so when we come together lie on you we come together it’s all good yeah you can’t you can’t hide or lie on the bike it’s just like it is what it is yeah so I to
Answer your question directly I absolutely love it man um and I I I haven’t seen much of a drop off which is which is pretty cool people uh they’re they’re still hanging in there and they’re embracing the sport and actually starting their own lane you know starting their own clubs uh
Starting their own Brands clothing brands you know making events it’s it’s dope and it’s funny you say that about being the raising in the milk basically which is what I am doing like trying to do here in Europe with like say with your’s media because like next Friday
I’m off to Belgium uh forloop and then uh Kern russels Kern so I’ll be there for the weekend then I’m back here and then I’m going to go for a month I’m just going to stay in Brussels for the month and just cover all the cereses and
Whatever like you know big races there are so I did Dublin and it was sort of like a little bit of friction e to people like who is this guy you know but then when people saw my accreditation and like saw I was here to do what they
Were doing then it sort of eased off and and that’s that’s all I’m trying to do is just trying to like let the cycling world and the media World in cycling know that there are folks that love cycling and they want to report on cycling I want to report on
The bennies I want to report on the the ran um the the Bro the Bros ride bikes I want to report on those guys I want to you know just bring a different perspective because like you know sometimes I’m listening to the commentating and sometimes I’m like dude
That’s not what that’s not that that is not what’s happening right now can’t you see what’s happening you know and sometimes you just shout it at the screen so I mean I feel that so I’m just trying to make that change from like where where I’m at like you know not
Necessarily A Change just bring some of our flavor and our style and the way we do things yeah some variety man yeah so so that’s why I’m reaching out to folks like you like you know like yo just just just blast me out there put me out there
Trust me and I’m here to save the world one bike at a time you know get it done so I don’t know if there’s anything else you want to um to touch one I missed one I mean I have a lot of stuff like I mean
Just that just just on top of my head that I’m thinking about like you know just you know cuz Kelly was was amazing to me I mean it was it was a great time like you guys coming by ride on bike shop to do your to do the bike the bike
Builds and the giveaways and stuff that was that was amazing um yeah it’s just so much stuff man so I mean like Nelson veils like you know you guys with major Taylor what you guys do with major Taylor and um stuff like yeah but anyway
But you yeah you go ahead you go ahead like you know I know I’m just rambling but you go ahead I know I I I’m following your lead man I I got nothing man I’m just uh happy we got a chance to actually break bread I know it’s been a long time in
The making so um yeah just it’s all good so what made you decide to like I okay I have I I have an idea what you’re gonna answer what made you come to ride on bike shop to to to like me and a day to to do your bike
Drive man we always try to incorporate um our community that’s all it is you know um when we decided that we were going to give away bikes like innately it was like we should do it in Lam mer park that’s where I live why wouldn’t we
Do it in L mer Park you know what I mean um unfortunately it it’s not as easy as it may sound we had to jump through so many Hoops to give away bikes in lamur park and you would think the CD would Embrace that you know um I remember sitting in a
Meeting uh with the with the board of the city or the little Board of lam mer Park and one of the questions was what makes you think you could just come into our community and give stuff away and I said uh excuse me how long have you lived in lamur
Park and he answered eight years I’ve been in when he answered eight years I’ve been in lamur park for 20 years yeah so you know what I mean that just goes to show you the ignorance and the and the and the attitude that some of these
People walk around and even if I wasn’t from the area why is it a problem that I want to come in and give young black and brown kids four 500 $600 bikes courtesy of giant and live bicycles why is that a problem so uh it’s part of the reason we
Don’t do it a l mer park anywhere we do it at um Dignity Health where the LA Galaxy plays soccer football soccer I saw um yeah we do it there it’s it’s a great partnership with with with them and we have ample space and we we hope
To continue to do it there because as as it starts to grow back then when we did it at your shop in Lam mert I think we gave away 60 bikes we’re up past 200 now and so as this continues to grow yeah we you know I mean and I’m not talking
Negative about Lam mer I still live in Lam mer that’s where I’m sitting right now it’s just that at at at that time I thought it was the best place to do it and after a couple years we outgrew it you know and and maybe one day we’ll
Outgrow Dignity Health as well which will be amazing yeah that’s that’s so dope That’s So Dope I feel everything you just said because like obviously like having the shop there you you don’t you know you’re preaching to the choir and and actually no need to even go into
It and we just leave it at that and um and I’m I’m just glad to see that you guys are growing and things are like prospering and you know you’re you know so how’s how’s so tell me like I saw something that said you said I’m not leaving methods to
Winning finish the sentence I I thought you was writing going to R for someone else yeah you said butcher box man that’s a pro team I’m not riding for butcher box you couldn’t pay me enough to go join a pro team right now uh especially crits um I have absolutely no
Desire to race as a pro or not that I don’t love racing yeah like if if if time wasn’t an issue if um money wasn’t an issue and and some of the other goals I have in life wasn’t in front of me yeah sure why not I’ll be the 40 plus
Year old guy on a pro team probably you know not being too cocky but probably better than most of the guys on the team I’m just I’ve I’ve I’ve yeah um anyway so yeah no I’m um so method to Winning is a is a for-profit business that was started with Kenneth vinon Justin
Williams shiron Smith and myself um Justin has since you know done what he’s doing amazing things and so he’s not as involved as he was in the beginning um but Ken kind of heads up the organization along with shiron and I and we put on the Eldorado crit series
We put on the grand Fondo which you know about um circle of Doom yeah uh we have all Club rides um we have all sorts of stuff that fall under me to winning um and so when I say I’m not leaving methods to winning I’m not leaving the
Business we also had a masters team is pay as you play you know or play as you pay whatever it is uh we don’t have any we don’t have any dollar sponsors or nothing like that um we just a group of guys that love to race bikes and pretty
Dominant team uh especially uh on in the Southern California region but we had a bunch of success to uh domestically um and so just my part I’m at a point in my life where I wanted to achieve some other things and I had some opportunities on the table so it’s the
Reason why I left the race team yeah methis to race team um to join uh Texas Roadhouse Masters team which is one of the longest running Masters team in the US uh I think 20 something 20 plus years or something like that so um I’ll be doing some endurance events this year
I’ll be doing some mountain bike events this year doing some longer uh fundraiser rides for instance like the turle Rouge which goes from Houston to New Orleans six days I think it’s close to 700 miles um so just stepping outside the box and then the end of the year the
Goal is to race Master’s worlds in Rue Bay that’s uh in October so I got all these things kind of lined up but the real big goal is at the end of the year racing the track so Ru France yeah yeah fron fron so that’s crazy because by I’m
Trying not to put my I’m trying to keep it secretive so my my my longterm play is actually to move to Belgium basically so the thing is I might be there when you if you know if you if you actually you know you know get to that I actually
Might be there at the time come take some pictures and stuff yeah I I see no reason why I wouldn’t get there um I’ve been riding on the track now for the last I don’t know two and a half months um I know it’s a long way away so I’m
Not trying to burn myself out on the track yet I’m usually Road heavy and then about two months out I’ll really really start focusing on the track right now I’m just getting those track legs which is it’s been a while so um I’m I’m going out about twice a week uh getting
Getting some good riding in and once I start beefing up my road program and then transition get the summer racing and all that stuff out of the way and then transition in in the track I I should be good to go and give give it a
Good shot at a world at a world stage uh level for for Masters that’ be so dope man I’m gonna like wish you the best and and hopefully we get to see you man you know um um what’s your time like because it’s 40 going on 45 minutes what your
What your check in yeah I gotta wrap up pretty soon because I got some work to do I got a call coming up I need to be ready for in 15 minutes but um yeah man this was great and um yeah if I when I
Get to Europe man quite a bit actually I was just in bath uh right before the new year and I should be coming back to going back to Bath pretty soon so I hit you up maybe we can do this live definitely man that would be dope I I
Like the studio things my things tend to come out a whole lot better when I when I you know had the studio set up and everything so but yeah yeah for sure I definitely appreciate you man yeah no problem man you know you guys you guys
Got to stop with the jokes on me man I’m sensitive so you know what I’m saying so just just go easy on me yeah somebody crack somebody cracking on you n man buy you know how you stay don’t even try that don’t even try that but anyway man I really really
Appreciate you folks um this has been rashan bhar it’s been a pleasure having him on talking he’s going to be out I’m G to be on here for a little bit so I mean I might even still be here by the time you I’m on finish your meeting and
Stuff so I’m just gonna talk to myself for a little while talk about going in cycling so anyway folks go ahead sorry later man all right peace And so that was um a little conversation with Johan bid really appreciate that I should have um someone else coming through in a little bit um let me see let me find out who where is he is um buddy if that’s you watching Big up
Yourself and if you have if you are like locked on please hit the like button before you um um log in and log off so I’m not saying anything right now so if you just um log off I understand I think Marty Marty Marty blunt said he might uh
Pass through but he said he does his thing with uh his buddies he does a little barbecue thing today so I’m not quite sure about Marty uh who is it sha sea Sean so sea is supposed to be uh I didn’t send in the link so that’s probably why he hasn’t um tapped
In so let me send Sean the link real now really quickly um so and uh we did a interview earlier with uh thank you for hitting the like button I appreciate you we did an interview early with red uh Walters and uh you got to check him out on Instagram
The guy is the guy his his um um his Instagram is popping he’s not just a good cyclist but he’s uh he’s like he’s pretty uh funny on the Instagram so his name red Walters and I’m going to be dropping his interview on Thursday but on T Tuesday we’re going to be
Dropping Aisha mgan so we got an interview of Aisha mgan so we’re going to drop an interview with so on Tuesday will be Aisha mgan and then on uh Thursday will be uh red Walters he’s from Grenada and he’s um he’s a pro cyclist he lives here he he spent most
Of his life here in the UK and he got into cycling through his dad and like you’re going to hear his whole story It’s pretty dope and stuff and everything um what else so those oh and the big thing I was trying to keep it to myself
But next weekend I’m going to be in Belgium uh for two big races first is going to be amlo newsp and that’s like literally the yeah there’s been a bunch of races that they happening already happening already but this is like the race that opens the season and and like
All the cobbles and the burgs and all of that stuff so yeah it’s that’s that’s on next Friday and then on Sunday is Curr Brussels KR which is pretty much like in around the same Hills in the same area so I’ll get to uh cover both of those
Races and bring you as much live content and as I can like you know after the race interviews I’m not going to just try and talk to the superstars I’m going to try and talk to some of like the more domestic type writers the guys that do a
Whole part of work that you don’t really hear from and stuff so I’m going to try to highlight them I’m not sure if binnie is going to be at either of those races but even if he is it’s probably going to be pretty difficult to try and talk to
Him because he’s he’s pretty much a celebrity in the cycling world now but if I can uh like then you got mahawi CIS and you got n fion and these are the other African riders that are riding in the prop paleton so I’m going to try and
You know get these guys attention and like get some um like you know after the race uh type uh interviews and stuff so those going to be two big races but the big thing is that I’m going to come back to the UK after the weekend which will be on the 26th
And then it’s about four or five days until the 1st of March and I’m pretty much going to head right back to Belgium and I’m just going to do the whole month of that whole month of um March in Belgium a lot of races in Belgium and
I’m just going to do as much as I can and like you know see see how many interviews and Riders I can talk to and whatnot and just try to invade this face with um my presence so you don’t see there are no reporters that look like me
Inside of the pro paleton there are none so I’m going to be going in there and I’m trying to like just like yo you know just bring some attention and like letting people see that yo we got we got skills too you know we we could do this
Too so so yeah uh let’s see just adjusting that mic so I just hit uh Sean I just sent Sean the so who is Shan Shan is uh a gentleman he’s about my age um I think he’s here he’s here from the UK but he he has a a connection to
The like Caribbean cyclist he he works with a lot of Caribbean cyclist and and everything so that’s what we’re going to shoot the breeze about like what’s going on inside of the excuse me inside of the Caribbean because the Caribbean they it’s it’s tough it’s tough and the associations don’t really
Support and push they don’t really it’s They Don’t Really support and push the sport itself cycling in the Caribbean if you think cycling anywhere else is tough cycling in the Caribbean is hard and it’s even harder if you’re talented if you’re a talented cyclist um his name is Sandy Sidell I
Talked to him he’s from Guyana and he’s a young man he’s got a you know frite you know who told me like how is biker uh he he had his bike and it had a little bit of an issue and stuff and I’m thinking okay it’s
Probably uh you know I put together bike but then when I saw the bikes that he has he has he has really nice bikes he has really nice bikes and the hard thing for him and Guyana is that he can’t he doesn’t have access like there are like bike shops that
Where he can go and get get what you know get the stuff go he can’t go and get the things that he needs for his uh sorry for his uh for his bike so he could keep his bike going so Sandy did 10 races last year or or the junior was
Scheduled for 10 races he was only able to do seven because of the two bikes like in the for the last three races he wasn’t able to race because he wasn’t able to get parts for the bike and it sort of messed up that he you know he
Didn’t didn’t win the junior series because uh mechanical issues and it’s stuff that we take for granted because we have a local bike shop or somebody that we know that we could just take our bikes to and we could get it sorted out so part of what I’m doing is so I can
Actually help uh like kids like this once my channel is monetized Once I’m in Europe and I’m getting interviews and I’m getting the watch hours and people are tuning in and logging in and listening and then the the Monet monetization is actually working for the channel then the the channel should start
Bringing in money and then I can um start like helping these kids out especially the ones that are talented it’s sort of a shame that the kids that are talented don’t aren’t able to actually uh fulfill their full potential that’s I think that’s a that’s a shame
And it may take maybe a year or two but I intend doing like reaching out and being able to help these kids so that they can um you know give it a go like you know have a a proper shot at uh going after the girls
And their dreams so we talked to red and he was talking about um like doing the Commonwealth Games and how you know massive an experience that was and I’m not going to talk too much about that and him because what we don’t want to do
Is I ruin the interview so but um for those of the cycling folks I don’t know if folks saw about today uh Walt vanard got his first win he got his first win in for the season yeah he got his first pro in for the season it was a Sprint
Actually I was watching it before I started the Stream So I haven’t even I got I did didn’t even finish watching it so that that sucks so I got to go back and at some point watch the so I have it paused let me see um why is it it should
Uh okay so you’re not going to because usually when I do like especially with um especially with Eurosport if I pause it somewhere it’ll usually hold up in that spot until I’m ready to to to watch it but it didn’t looks like it didn’t do
That so I tried to pause it because I wanted to see the finish of um wal vanard and that was a bit of a surprise that was like a long drag out Sprint as well too that was a really long drag out Sprint um let’s see I’m going to go To because you got to be careful with this stuff man um I could probably just pull it up uh share screen I’m not going to share screen yeah let’s go to okay that’s that um I’m just going to pull up in a minute let’s get this up and I’m going to put
It in a box I shouldn’t get FL if hopefully if I get flag for this it’ll be a shame it is what it is it’ll suck where we go Euro sport so that’s how I watch all the races there are so much races and um what I’m I’m I’m hoping that on on
Sunday for not this Sunday but Sunday the 25th I’m hoping like because I don’t see it it’s not scheduled for to be sharing on EUR Eurosport as a matter of fact let me just look right now let me just check uh a live schedule um Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday the
20 oh man it’s only giving me up until the 23rd well I don’t I don’t I don’t know but I I don’t see so I’m guessing that Ken Russell current is not going to be on Eurosport and the main reason it is I’m saying that is because when I go to
Procycling Stats I don’t see it as like a highlighted race so it could be it could be on but I don’t think it I don’t think it will be so if that’s the case what I might be able to do is just uh like lock into like a
Local lock into a local um um uh TV station and probably you know some somehow I I will see but that at the end of the day I’m going to be talking to the officials as well too so I might be able to like you
Know I’m I’m GNA see I’m gonna see what what they’re gonna let me do I’m reaching right now I don’t I don’t know I’m trying to think of ways I can be able to I’ll be able to sort of like bring you a stream of K Kern
Brussels KR because that’s a really good race that’s a tough race and with uh vult we not winning like the uh aarv RTO agar today winning the stage that’s just massive so he’s definitely going to be fired up for next week and uh yeah the V visma Lisa boys that’s I
Mean it it’s it’s it’s looking really really good I like the way the season is like um the season is panning out like while the season is starting um so yesterday Remco you know everyone was saying Remco is going to blast off blast off and Destroy everybody but last year when
Remco did this race he didn’t have the same people that racing against he didn’t have a seus um uh what is his name oh my goodness the the leader of the race I I remember his name find his name but they didn’t have uh wow my my memory is just
Like I can’t remember his name not s orita why why is s or’s name coming to my head and let me see that is 5K to go so let’s see if I do this and and yesterday I was a little disappointed because uh Isaac Isaac deloro he he got dropped
Man he got dropped like just on the going up on the on the last climb what is that um I heard something somebody oh that’s that’s the comments and I don’t have them on I’m sorry so people’s probably been commenting Danny Martinez thank you dude for that Danny Martinez yes Danny Martinez was
The one that Danny Martinez he outsprinted uh ramco and the funny thing is like the the whole time the announcers are saying ramco ramco he’s just going to take off into space and I’m like dude like ramco didn’t have sap Kus ramco didn’t have Danny Martinez ramco didn’t have vault rard verm Crow
Didn’t have Isa Isa Isaac deloro you know there’s like he didn’t have pitock he didn’t have um what’s his name um picku former teammate is on track little now man my my brain I’m trying to remember all their names but they didn’t have all of these they didn’t have all
These big guns in in the um in in the field and they just kept talking like rco is just going to destroy all these guys rco is a is an awesome time tralers yes I I definitely agree with that he can time tral like a like a like a muo
But it’s a little bit different when you have quality in in the field so you saw that when he did the tour last year he just was he he was nothing compared to when he had to go up against jonis and and aacha so they didn’t have the yis
And Pacha yesterday but you still you still ta ta gagut yes thank you thank you um that fit fit fit the coach I appreciate you brother my brother so they didn’t have um yeah it just didn’t have the quality that was there and I just like no I’m just saying to
Myself are these guys do these guys you you know the Riders you know the players in the game and I’m I’m saying to myself how can you just dismiss the talent that’s around rco just like that I just I just thought it was so dismissive of
The of the other like the talent that was there that’s that’s that was my biggest takeaway I just thought it was so so dismissive and I’m like you’re not talking about anybody else it’s just ramco is gonna just take off and and and uh and just just just destroy everybody so but
Anyway as you saw like uh Denny Martinez what he did he they went from a long way they probably went from three no it was about no three I say 250 250 to 200 and Uphill 200 on a flat Sprint is long but 200 on a uphill
That’s a long Sprint and rco was just like he just like nah he just wasn’t he just didn’t he he didn’t have that and Denny Martinez came in a sap cous and I watched sap when Denny and rco went Sap’s looking around like behind are you guys going to go instead of just
Following the damn wheel CU sap would have probably been a little closer wouldn’t have lost any time and he probably would have been in with a shot of actually taking the leader Jersey or even winning the stage but you if you actually go back and watch when Denny
And ramco take off sap sees them Sap’s probably the only one that can probably keep up with them like you know mono mono and he looks back to see are you gonna chase or you know you know some just dude just ride your bike and I was
Screaming at the damn at the damn TV like sep ride your bike so he ended up getting that that that big gap losing a bunch of seconds and I I’m just hoping that like if if zapus is going to ride for one or two uh smaller races because
I don’t think he’s going to like go for any of the bigger tours because that’s not you know you know that’s not his makeup he did the the vter he liked it and um I think more he’s going to do what he normally does and he’s just
Going to ride hard set temp set Tempo and just destroy guys and it’s beautiful to see when he does that so I’m looking forward to that but um yeah that was I think I think that was just the thing of not him not having that um that like that GC type uh
Killer Instinct to go for to go for it so that’s that’s all that was so that was pretty pretty um that was pretty dope to see and then Walt rard so let’s let’s see let’s like see if we can I’m gonna bring this up on the
Screen and then if if the if the TV disapp I mean if the the the Stream disappears it’s because it’s because Eurosport took me down so I don’t need need no more copyright strikes I’m getting close to getting close to my uh required 4,000
Hours so I’m going to make this big in a second so I’m just like dialing in the screen so this is like the last 3K I’m going to do my best to talk through the last uh FK and what it’s hard like right now is because I it’s it’s my own fault
For not staying on top of the sport and I keep in track of who the different Riders are so now there are lots of new riders coming through in the sport so now he’s learning who the the writers are what what what you know the name and
The team and and and whatnot so yeah um okay so we are at let’s see I think I can um I have to play from this side there we go there we go so this is when um this is where sorry for the little the choppiness and that that’s only
Because it’s like it’s it’s streaming through the stream so it’s going to be and fair use so I was told by someone to say fair use or whatnot so here we are we are like four 4K to go they caught the the young man from uh Uno ax and I was hoping
That the the youngster from Uno X would have been able to stay on and uh win the stage so this is the stage I was talking about yesterday so you can see uh Teo he’s right there with uh pic on his whe actually didn’t mean to to pull this one
Up because this is yesterday’s stage but this is good to see you see sep cous and then what I was talking about you’re going to get to see it in the second so I should just fast forward to to that bit and I was really surprised as Isaac
Del Toto so uh I don’t know like I’m not quite sure what type of Rider he is as yet because when he won that stage in the tour down under he literally just uh man that was just so so uh powerful and just so amazing and just to see what he
Done but right now he’s he’s near the back of the group or has he been no he’s like he’s he’s at the back of the group so I saw I sort of knew that was like a sign that wasn’t good that he was like sitting in the back of the group and and
I was like yo come on D Toro you know I’m in your corner buddy I’m I’m here for you I’m here for it and I want to see you see you do well but he’s obviously new he’s young he’s learning so there’s rro boys at the front and
Ramro there and if if you hear the commentator or you would think that ramco is the only person in the race which which like I’m like yo come on man there’s like like I said earlier there’s so much more Talent there that you’re you know not talking about there’s
There’s too many big hit hitters there to think that ramco is just gonna walk away and just walk over everybody I and I only say this because of watching him in the tour last year and ramco was in a pretty good form for the tour last year and yunice and poacha
Just just destroyed him um like plain and simple they they destroyed him so here you can see uh and I keep thinking that’s Teo in the inos and I have to get used to that Teo is into track little now so it’s just all this change of uniforms is you know so when
Uh when um Primo shows up in the Bor in his in the borrow kit that’s going to be like you know it’s just got to get something you just got to get used to it and just really quickly I don’t like the borrow kits I love DSM kits the that
Orange and that white and that blue dope I love that but I’m not a fan of the Bor kits not a fan of the Bor kits at all I just don’t like the yellow it’s just the yellow really dollish so like yeah so and here you see this is Del Toro he’s
He’s on the back right now like no that’s not Del Toro sorry that’s I believe that’s AGA um he’s got a similar style similar rocking style but the Toro is a bit more all over the place I’m going to fast forward this because I didn’t really want to do this race
Uh I ran too far forward and oh this is where that’s the big attack zpus follows look how easily zpus follows he does is he’s not even like breathing and ramco the commentator kept saying how cool rco look but I I I don’t know that
Doesn’t look cool to me like to me if if I’m racing against rco I’m looking at rco’s face and I look at Sap’s face Sap’s face looks like I’ll be concerned but rco’s face I can see rco’s on the rivet you know I don’t care and then then directly behind rampo everyone else
Is on the rivit but here’s where I was a bit surprised that um what we not he like his his mouth is open wide open wide open there’s pitock bubbling up and down he’s staying in there and uh there’s uh Teo he’s also like what fifth wheel or sixth wheel and
Doing really well to stay in there and everyone like right now the it’s it’s it’s it’s every man for himself no one is drafting anyone no one is helping anyone if you don’t got it you are not here you know this is a selection so we see another another little
Uh the the CT is breaking so it’s breaking in two parts and here you see Danny Martinez he’s coming around and he’s realizing there something’s going on because Walt’s not closing the Gap and everyone’s coming around Walt and wult was the one that caused it you know
The Gap so pockock comes around Walt’s dripping back further Theo is on a pockock wheel uh Danny Martinez is right there and uh there you have sap cus and ramco and you have rco’s guy on the front just doing his thing and just just just pulling
Setting the tempo I mean it’s it’s a massive Tempo it’s a massive Tempo so man has left pogacha to go and set tempo for ramco which I think is really weird that he he left somebody or on a team that he knows is has a better
Chance of winning the tour or the jro than than ramco does but anyway it is what it is so he’s uh on h s our Quick Step now and he’s on the front leading out SE crus and sap is just sitting there sat sap is just sitting there so now we’re going to
See I’m going to try and pause it and I’m going to I want you to see right where where sep like just takes this big look around like and you know I love se but he looks like a big dummy like when he when he does what he does but it as
Many years as he’s been racing and I would still say it’s inexperienced but it’s inexperienced as being like the GC guy so so we coming so like now it’s going to happen because now they filed to the back we’re 500 we do this 500k so so like like look you see Danny
And ramco they’re going now you see sep he actually comes over like he’s goingon to jump into either Danny’s slipstream or ramco now watch watch SAP watch what sap C does he’s definitely there he’s definitely in with a chance and watch what he does he’s not getting dropped watch what he
Does he looks he looks back and he just like he’s like dude what are you don’t worry about those guys and this is where sap literally put himself out of the race and this is also where ramco got a rude awakening I mean he got a rude
Awakening he thought that you know he was going to come and ramp up and ramp these boys up but then Denny martinus was like no sorry buddy we doing something different today and then Here Comes sep cus that just that little look around and if if
You don’t believe me let me just play it back if you don’t believe me wh watch let’s let’s let’s see if we can see it I’m G to let it play in real time watch watch zpus watch zpus so good Danny this Grandpa look at sap Sapp is like dude
Why do you don’t and by the time he decides that okay no one else is going to go after these guys it’s just it’s the you know anyway that’s that that part so let’s um see if I could get today’s race this is what I meant to pull
Up and the classic VAR highlights that was a pretty interesting race I probably talk about that in my um so that’s what I did I I hit the um previous day that’s why that I didn’t I should have hit view earlier so let’s fair use fair use fair use so we
It hopefully I don’t get flagged um where are we to stage three so we like with the Euro star you can see there’s like the two you have to choose the one has the commercials in it and it’s usually the second one that doesn’t have the commercials in it so
We’re going to go to do I need to no you don’t need to do that noop we don’t want to do that so yeah we don’t want to do that I’m going to go full screen but we don’t want full screen cuz if we do full screen that it just messes up the
Whole okay let’s we’re just going to go right to the [Applause] finish the front definitely no sound because if you put the sound up you definitely get a get a copyright strike um so where are we at so it’s at 20K to go that’s too far out
So um Danny Martinez team is obviously coming to the front trying to keep him safe they got 20K to go and as you can see uh yumbo is um massing at the front and he also got sudow quick that massing at the front and this is another thing um here as well it
Was so the the Breakaway today the crazy thing the breakway was about eight or nine guys and they were all Portuguese so no there were no pro pro teams inside of the uh Breakaway so which is pretty cool to see like you know the domestic teams uh getting their getting their
Ride on so but eventually they did bring them back they did you know they were out there they did their thing but they did bring him back and you had uh one young man he just stayed out there for the longest time but the emphases was the same thing was being done again
Today and it’s obviously like the commentators pick a team or pick a favorite team I’m not I’m not here to pick a favorite team or to play that game I’m here to tell you what it is and and what it looks like and to me Yambo V I mean not Yambo Vima Lisa
Bike always looked to be the team that was going to like do the damage and uh yeah so someone just so where are we at we at 11k to go group is still together going to go up to 6K to go and I’m trying to recall who the
Commentators were like just putting all the emphasis on I’m not quite sure if it was sudow because sudow doesn’t really have any spreads in there but it’s going to be a late one tonight because hopefully I have some folks coming through just waiting for the to
Ring so at 2K to go let’s let’s let’s just join it with 2K to go so two kilometers to go can’t quite see what’s going on because the pitcher is like because they they from the helicopter I think that white jersey is who is that white jersey not inter Mar
Like the white who is that it is inter Mar so inter Mar is on the front and they are getting the lead outgoing and that’s pretty much it for inter Mar I mean they’re all their so he started his Sprint really early W is sitting in the slip string it’s obviously too long
A Sprint also inter marhe have the uh the green jersey so that’s why inter Mar was doing so I lost the green jersey sorry I apologies didn’t realize that they had the green jersey so it’s a really long Sprint and W comes around just just comes around at the last
Minute he just sat on the wheel he just sat on the wheel for the longest time until he was able to come around and that was so sweet to see so I mean everyone’s over the top and celebrating the fact that Walt Bernard has won a stage of uh agav and he’s like
Open up his uh open up his season with the win so it’s going to be an interesting season so the next thing is so Walt vard got his first win so when will when the people get his first win and like you know when all of the big guns start winning so
Um what I need to so that’s that’s that that was the Sprint finish they’re probably going to show the little slow-mo in a second so you can see who so I mean everyone’s going crazy around what went out right now because like yes yes indeed so you’re telling me I’m showing this
This footage and it ain’t nobody watching so I get a copy strike it’s it’s uh you know my own fault it’s my own fault it’s um 9:19 so mind you folks I’m usually in bed by now uh what happened to short let me let me just move this mic a second
Oops need to charge put the phone on charge and let me see it’s Late yeah W for not that was pretty he just he just sat and he just waited he just waited and today was just a matter a day of just strength he wasn’t the fastest he’s just the strongest oh my goodness and so what we’re gonna get rid of that
Yep I wanted to see who show the results H hurry up thing going to fast forward because I don’t want to skip past it just going for his interview just looking look for the results I just wanted to see the results oh my goodness I am Ying like crazy man
Come on thought I picked the one of our commercials I was thinking of staying up lat and watching a TV show yeah right or after I’ve done this yeah all right okay that’s that’s that so they’re not going to show the okay so so showing is not coming through so
I’m I’m going to be here for a little while so what I want to do is first let’s look at which race um Loop second Loop uh I’m Loop let’s go To start list teams on the start list for Loop wow so those are the teams on the the start list forloop so we got team uh vimma Lisa bike aarik to our Quick Step into Mar AA BNB hotels EST Kazakhstan B Victor victorious Bain Bain Victorious sorry B hens confidence Theon hr2
Llf education easy post group Rama fdj inos squ little track movie star team uh Team DSM firch post NL team Jaco alula UAA team Emirates alotto Destiny team fanders team Flanders bise okay H bingo so that’s the local teams that the team Flanders below is a bingo WB that’s the local team ISO
Premier attack uh Q35 q36.5 toor pro toor pro and Uno X Mobility let’s see so and then they also put like who’s the teams let me see Tennison and petit so doesn’t look like uh uh Benny’s going to be at current Brussels I mean at um loop
It’s a good race for him as well too but as you can see the race that’s the course and you can see the mouse is here so that’s the Finish that’s where I’m going to hang around the airport is uh pretty much over here somewhere
And I am gonna take my bike but I’m not gonna like because I get there on Friday so I drop it to to the to the hotel drop the bike and then literally take the bus from about here it’s pretty close to the Finish area and um just wait for the
Riters to come through and see who I’ll be able to talk to and like get a quick interview with and I like just you know get some you know go I guess I’ll go live at the Finish you know with the different riters and stuff and just like
Each drop on different uh conversations and what’s going on but on the Saturday what I am going to do is I will be because yeah so let’s let’s pull up car Brussels there we go why ises it do that so let’s look at the start lless so it’s a it’s a definitely a
Harder race and it’s into Mar so Tennison and so some of the same Riders are probably going to be doing so van ‘s going to be at K Brussels so this going to be a good race as well so I’m I’m so glad that I’m going to be there for both
Races sud little B AA the Caton bahain inter Mar alers kurup UA e aana team DSM inios uh lot of C toal jco movie star flenders is Premier attack Uno X Bingle Q35 to the pro cycling team so basically all the same teams that raced on Friday are going to
Be racing on Sunday so and that’s pretty that’s pretty cool so whoever I don’t get a chance to see but what I am going to do on a Saturday is I’m going to go and uh ride this route so I’m definitely going to go and ride the route well I’m not going to
Ride the whole route it’s just it’s too much to ride the day before I mean that’s a lot that’s a long day I mean if if I would have to start like at like maybe 5 or six in the morning so I can finish by a decent time in the afternoon
That would leave me nothing be able to do you know no editing no upload anything I’ll be just to rers so what I am G to do is is the arrow still did I did I leave the arrow in here no the arrow is go the arrow is
Gone the arrow is gone so this is um a k brussel’s k and what I I’m probably going to do like I get my bike I probably like just go let me just go back to this so you can see the mouse so I probably like because
The hotel is here somewhere so I probably just ride to maybe here and just because there’s as you can see all of these little Hills some are cobbled and some are not the the thing is going to to do is to go and like feel on these
Hills so you can see how tough and how steep they are and um these some of these are like little climbs ain’t no joke and these are the climbs that like make the race when it gets down to the last few climbs they’re not as um high
As but they are still just as hard so I I believe these were the couble climbs at in this area so I I will find out right now I’m just uh shooting shooting from the hip and guessing but I’m looking forward to actually going and reconning like the last few um last few
Hills of the race and like yeah going and Recon in the last few Hills of the race and just talking about it so I’ll probably you know providing the service I should still have service for my service provider and sorry I still have I should still have a
Service for my provider and I should be able to like I just bring you you know just footage from from the the climbs and stuff so I’m really looking forward to that so these are the teams that are going to be at Cur Brussels Curr so basically it’s the same teams that’s
Going to be amalu has news bowl and this is like the beginning of the season this is how the season will start and kick off and let me see it’s getting up to like that I may be here for like another 30 minutes because I was waiting for
Someone else to like finish work there’s couple more guys that probably I got got to finish work I’m not quite sure if they’re going to to do join me if they’re going to be able to join me I’m not what time is it in New York let me
Look and see what time it is in New York firstly before I say if I’m going to sit around it’s 4:30 he said he gets off at 7 so I’m not going to be here for three hours hacking though cuz I am tired my dinner is sitting like right
There like I started it because rashan like are you ready I was like oh man we supposed be starting to five minutes I thought I have five minutes to like just get a couple bites in but n so but that’s the big news people your boy is
Going to be moving to Belgium I’m move I’m moving to Belgium I have to I I sort of this is this is what I want to do in order to cover like what’s going on and bring you what’s going on inside of the prop paleton but at the same time I’m going
To make sure I stay connected and stay in touch with uh my guys like in the US the Caribbean and and in Africa as well and I just make sure I I bring you what they’re doing and how they’re getting on because there is a lot of stuff going on
So that’s a look at what’s going on with the uh next weekend I’m not quite I need to look I don’t know what’s going on in that why do but I haven’t looked that far because right now I don’t want to put the car before the horse I have to
Take care next weekend then I have to take care of getting myself in into belum for the month of March so that I can um so that I can uh like set myself up and bring you all the the races and stuff so now my news information my news
Guy with my news guy let’s see let’s let’s see what’s going on in cycling this is pretty this is pretty good so this is like Apple news is it Apple news but I think it is Apple news and they have all types of news as well as they have a
Special like little sports section so my thing is highlight cycling so let’s see what’s going on in cycling right now and we are taking a long time to load we are still connected internet’s good but we are taking our time to load so it it does that
Sometimes and where are we so sir um oh my goodness chriso has got cancer wow I actually met chriso I have a picture with him I didn’t know he have cancer but um oh man I don’t wish that on nobody’s I hope he battles through that and get gets through that pretty
Good guy um you know he tried to do his thing for like the the bike industry here in the UK you know bringing uh some some comfort to like I would call try he tried to bring some comfort to like the the commuters and stuff and the
Dress and the style and he Tred to put his um his flavor and style on it um let’s see upgrades you don’t need let’s what do you want to what do you want to go look at upgrades you don’t need um what that looks like an interesting
Story so upgrade you don’t need what else is there experience a cycle through UK delivering pizzas on a pany father that’s that looks pretty interesting in um we’re not going to do that one definitely um recipes two energy pack breakfast is to keep you full and firing for longer that
Looks like that looks interesting um what else what else let me see pick one pick one pick one pick one clothing overpriced expensive new bike is the brumpton Bear Grills ready for adventure here’s our love letter to the folding Marvel now everyone knows that brumpton bikes is
Like as far as folding bikes it’s it’s nothing on par with bmon bikes you just can’t yeah there’s nothing on par with brumpton bikes um I do I do like the the upgrades what I do think we’re going to do that one Let’s uh let’s let’s go back to the top that’s
Crazy so that looks interesting said this may be the worst early celebration that has ever cost a ride at the win so that’s going to come afterwards where are we too I missed it come on oh was the top one it’s the headline wasn’t
It so I was going to do the story about UK bike sales but CR this may be the worst celebration and protein here we go brought to you by basically magazine uh the upgrades that you don’t need so let’s some like let trim this box down that sounded
Wild I hope I don’t get flaged for that let’s trim this box down and I said it again so the upgrade you don’t need in the EP in this episode of uh gabes bike shop so yeah so let’s like give props to Gabe bicyc and magazine as well so making it bake
Because my glasses suck and I want to read this to you says this episode of gabes bike shop we look at some of the best cleaning products then Rolls by to remind us of upgrades we don’t need and we and we act uh electronic or mechanical so is it just a oh goodness
Sorry is it just a video I hope it’s not a video because I’m not playing someone’s video says hey everyone in this episode of gabes bike shop we answer um M Kathy Meadow’s questions what cleaning products do you all recommend then test editor then then test editor then Tre RS
Through the bike through the shop to remind us up the upgrade you don’t need lastly we had two of the same bikes in for review a year apart and I could not decide between the two so we ask which you prefer in the electronic GT grade uh
Electronic uh GT I don’t say upgrade with a 11p speed grx or the new mechanical GT grade with a 12sp speed grx so that’s for you to decide which one you think is it just a video so how do you fix um electronic re der then we dove into some of the the
Stuff favorite ways to so this is just talking about the video so I I apologize for that so looks like it’s not going to be that type type of party so I thought it’ll be something I can read to you and the other thing that I saw that was
Interesting was about the food but yeah let me see what this is what’s what’s what’s what’s on with this one this may be the worst early celebration that’s ever cost a ride of the wi by Matt Hansen and February the 16 2024 11:51 is not the first premature
Celebration and AD dou not the last but boy oh boy Tobias Holland Johansson finish finish is something else kup fdj Lenny Martinez sto the win from the rider in the final meters it took took the Norwegian the look on the norwegian’s face uh said it all utter
Disbelief did I say that is this the 184 km route started in h St is that rafhael that’s situated between canes and St topz St Tropez and headed Westward the first categorized climb a cat 3 reached his Peak with 44 KMS to go following that
The cat to Ascent with the co the corpse and the guard another manageable climb crested 12.7 km before the Finish Line ultimately ultimately the significant battles unfolded on the cat one monk Faron monk faren spanning 5.7 kilometers with an average graded of 8.5% it says as well as Johansson and Martinez
Six Riders would contest the final including Israel Premier attack Michael Woods the other three would be David G D David gdo sorry from grp Pama fdj and what’s that Roman B Team DSM firch uh post and L man these names are long and and aelian
Per sorry of the cathal AG team onl with one kilometer to go the Canadian launched a launch following by followed by a Counterattack from Johansson with 500 meters to go to to uh gadu to go with 500 me to go gadu went for it followed by and moved by
By it was Johansson it it was Daniel Johanson came around him and thinking he had the race thrown up began to celebrate but unbeknown to him Martinez was coming in fast behind and will ultimately come around him so I didn’t see this race Sal me say should be able to play
The Let’s see we so that was pretty W that sound was awful as well too sorry about that uh let’s see if we can play it again come on oh it’s not finished so there we go that’s wild he’s celebrating he’s cruising and he just that is wild oh my goodness let’s
Let’s look at that again he’s just sitting there and need puts his hand up he’s like oh my goodness really dude that’s that is the worst way to to like because that goes on your pomares is a second place and you definitely had the race one You
Definitely had the race one but that sucks that really really sucks oh my goodness so it says um the incredible Mistake by Tobias Holland Johanson at the finish of the classic VAR a top the the mon faren which uh which benefits uh Lenny Martinez so that’s just
Wow man the cycling season is starting off amazing I think the cycling season is going to be the ball I’m really looking forward to what’s everything that’s coming for the cycling season I can’t wait I have a whole week to wait but what’s crazy is a lot’s going on so
The whole of next week will be me packing up everything that’s like here so my little studio and everything and uh putting it in storage before I go to uh Belgium to do what I need to do dude so that’s what all next week’s going to be just getting all of
This stuff getting uh my green screen all of my uh um should I if I move it then it’s going to be hard to get the thing I gotta get all of this stuff it’s all of my my little cuz sometimes I use that as
A backdrop but so I got the green screen up but that’s my backdrop at the minute and it’s just so much stuff to do so I gotta get all that stuff taken down and uh just get ready to so make sure you hit the like button when you
Coming make sure you hit the like button if you haven’t please subscribe to the channel I appreciate you like this is this is I’m in SL is the save with your legs of media and you know I’m here trying to save the world one bike at a
Time so right now I’m just here just talking and just like just talking about whatever’s going on it’s cycling we see you wal when went today stage you missed the interview with rashan badii that was at the beginning of the show we talked to rashan Bahar really good interview we
Just had like a really wide discussion because I we could probably sit here and just chop it off for hours I mean really good guy he’s got some great stuff going on inside of um LA and like a lot of stuff that he’s doing for kids he’s
Going to race for a team in Taxas what he say the Taxas Roadhouse team or something like that and I need to play it back I’m I’m butcher box I’m butchering it up again apologies so big up to all of those guys over there and then we talked about like the different
Rides and stuff that everything that’s going on inside of uh like a lot of the stuff that’s going on inside of LA and how he came to um I’m going to chop it up anyway and repost it and how he came to the bike shop that I was at and he
Did his bike giveaway so that was great and how L mer Park shut L mer Park shut themselves in the foot so it’s just crazy it is it is crazy it’s wild um what else is going on inside of cycling trying to think what’s going on I
Haven’t read my bike at all this week and I’m probably I don’t know how much R I’m G get in next week because it’s going to be a busy week like literally hopefully my boxes come tomorrow and once my boxes come tomorrow then I’ll just start packing everything just get
Everything ready and uh so I can move everything out on on Wednesday and be out of here by Friday so I’ll be out Wednesday everything will be out and gone so how is that going to work so I got to figure out I I could figure out
Something with so everything will be out and gone and then I’ll be to the airport Thursday evening I’m going to go to the because after the flight is at 6 so the way the trains run so it doesn’t make any sense so get on the flight flight six o’clock
We land in Belgium at about 9 or something like that the race starts at about 10 or 11 so that means I could uh get my bike get my bike together properly or just take it to uh take it to the the hotel put it in the hotel then we
Go um probably to the start finish go up and down the start finish who we could talk to see if it’s any uh any other team set up maybe talk to so some yours some uh you know anybody you know some coaches or mechanics that be will to
Talk and just got some information and I just live stream from the finish for a little bit and just see Belgium for a little bit and then um after we do that obviously we’ll wait till the guys come through to the finish and see who we could talk to bring you
Some uh live interviews and then on Saturday we’re out on the road and we’re going to go hit some of the burgs and just video some of the burgs live stream from some of the burgs so you can see see them I’m really excited looking forward to that and just
Bringing bringing you along with me on that journey to like check out some of the burgs and what else and then Sunday I didn’t know Sunday was uh Curr Russells Cur so basically most of the all of the teams that raced on that will be racing on the Friday will be racing
On the Sunday so we get to see all of them again so for current Brussels current and the race is pretty much you know looping in the same area which is so cool and then we come back here uh I don’t know how I’m going to facilitate that but we come back here
And I I’m going to be homeless yeah I’m going to be homeless for a minute and then uh the plan is to go back to to Belgium for the month and just uh sort myself out so I got to try to find anyway I’m going to I’m I’m part
Of some groups on uh WhatsApp I’ve been like liaising and stuff and like reaching out and stuff to to folks in Belgium and stuff so I’m going to start reaching out and see if I can like you know secure something for a month I just need to secure something for a month
Uh yeah so that’s what I need I need folks to if you can and you hit the like button and you hit the Subscribe share share the stream or if you if you see a video that you like that I’ve done then share share that share that so that you
Know help help me get the the channel to be monetized so then you know I just need to get S with your leg media inside Europe I’m not going to be gcn just yet but we’re going to get there we’re going to be that uh we got some work to do but it’s
Possible it’s very very possible and we’re going to get to that place where you know people like people are going to be mentioning us like you know when they talk about media people uh either he got it wrong or he got it right that’s the
Guy to go to so that’s that’s what we’re working on we’re working on being becoming like just a known like media house inside of cycling and my whole thing is basically working towards being able to raise enough money and awareness to help uh kids that want to get into
Cycling and we could get rid of you guy and what else what else I got it’s coming up on uh so 10 more minutes I’m going to be out in 10 minutes if you was like if you’ve been um chilling and hanging out with me I definitely appreciate
You uh big up bahti the respect bti fought for in The Paton is something a lot of brothers are benefiting from um here we go so this is some of the comments from earlier so this is Melvin Johnson thank you Melvin for checking in he said my coworker does hardcore
Cycling Offroad uh bikes cost as much as a used car you are so correct melv Vin and I gotta figure out how To put the comment into the stream without oh just like that okay uh plain Sim says big up bti the respect B and the respect Bahar fought for in the pator is something a lot of brothers are benefiting from today so that’s rashan Bahar on the right and that’s me on the
Left and um definitely regretted that no I didn’t regret it I I that’s like one of those things like you know just like yo you sometimes you gotta put yourself there so it hurt but I definitely definitely enjoyed that uh oh and then yeah then uh fit the coach for like
Dropping me the info like like I was like trying to remember who was the guy that out sprinted ramco and it was Denny Martinez that was yesterday Denny Martinez won the stage to take over the leaders jersey yesterday and I wonder I’ll be crazy if I have to
Do and then I was saying like I was I couldn’t i t ta Gard ta gut so fit the coach fif the coach just came through fifth fifth is it is that is it Fifth how do you pronounce that F I F the the coach man it’s I think it’s going
Now so it was just telling me no wor so I’m just trying to kill this last eight minutes trying to kill this last eight minutes can we be out of here we’re GNA be out of here so if you join me today thank you so much for joining
Thank you for so much for like giving me the the watch hours right now that is so important to me right now just getting the watch hours just just having people like tune in and um it’s helping me to get the channel monetized I’m looking forward to seeing what the watch hours
Look like after the weekend so we we’re working on some things so and got a couple people helping as as well so we can get the watch hours up hopefully we can get the watch hours to where I need to be by next Friday when I’m ready to
Leave so when I’m in um Belgium uh for that whole month hopefully we are monetized so if I’m monetized before I get to uh Belgium that means at the end of Bel at the end of March then I should get my first uh little check from
YouTube you yeah it’ll be a little check as well too it’ll definitely be a little Jack um what else we got what else we got you know about the the oh oh my goodness how could I forget those are come over there so that’s what showing over there that this thing is
Crazy it’s wild yeah so his name is all over that’s crazy hopefully at some point point I’ll be riding with lots of people and they be riding my kids like with my name all over them that’s what’s up so check out the check out the merch so as you can
See the young lady she’s uh rocking the white t and all of the t’s come with this little logo on the back so I got the little logo on the back and then uh so right now I’m just doing the White and the black and I can’t remember his name he
Emailed me about a hoodie and stuff so if I order the hoodies and like if I get a bunch of hoodies to send over to the US it’s it’s sort of expensive so I need to figure out a way to get a bunch of hoodies over to someone and then they
Can so just like ship a bunch of them and like so that they can just hold on to them and they can they can sell them from the US so they don’t have to pay the shipping so send everything over one time cover the shipping so that’ll be
Part of my cost but this is what I’m going to do I’ve got I got a hoodie and I’ve got t-shirts so I’m going to go into a couple groups and basically so to ship a t-shirt to the US it costs me1 pounds now you let me know how this
Sounds if you want a t-shirt what I’m going to do is ask you to give me your email I will email you an invoice for the postage okay so I will email you a invoice for the postage just the postage so that it’s not costing me anything
Else so the postage plus the like the packaging so the postage is12 and then plus the little um mail that it goes into is like a pound pound two so 12 13 pounds for the T-shirt now what I am going to say to you that from there it’s Player’s Choice so if I
Send you an invoice and it’s 13 so that includes the postage and then the little plastic like envelope that it goes in then that’s all you pay but then I’m also asking because it obviously cost me a little bit to get stuff but at the same time I I’m I’m understanding that no
Promotion oh hold on I gotta man hold on on people Well people I’m about to be out it’s been good so we’ve been here for a few hours there’s five people log doing and I’m not sharing anything that’s that’s W maybe they’re watching it back from the beginning so I’m about to be out and uh make sure you hit the like button
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