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About me.
Left school at 15, worked on Farm, then worked up to production manager at concrete factory, before starting Landscape gardening business. Then Mountain biking grabbed me. 37 plus years as a bicycle mechanic and wheel builder, frame designer, rider, shop owner, owner of Smokestone bikes, event organiser and trail builder. And it would appear now, I’m also a youtuber. Oh and planet lover!
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hi okay something a little bit different again I know I’ve said this a few times but this one is is slightly different this um it’s quite an important one for me [Music] um I’ve made the decision that I’m no longer going to run well not run I’m no longer going to have smoke Stone bikes smoke Stone bikes um is coming to a close reason being mainly it’s nothing Financial it’s just basically if you’ve seen my Facebook page I did put a post on Facebook and I’ve also put a little notice on the website um it’s basically just age time I don’t have time to give it to do it justice um life’s got a bit complicated I’ve got I know I’m retired but I seem to have so much to do now it’s it’s giving giving enough time to each thing um it’s a real tough one I’ve been I’m in on about this since Christmas this year so last three or four months and um I just thought that the weekend I just thought okay 1 of May which is a couple of days time uh that will be the end of um trading a smoke Stone bikes uh I’m going to carry on with what I’m doing now YouTube I love doing it it frees up more time it’s not you know I haven’t got to worry about orders and checking this and checking that um and also my events business I’ve got an events business now called G gfbl events limited um and it’s running two events this year at the moment there’s a a bite packing event in June uh June 15 16th called The Surly 100 and as the as the name suggests we’ve been sponsored by Surly and that’s two days of cycling um I I’ll put a link to uh the details I’ve probably mentioned this before but it’s two days of cycling with a campsite and food laid on halfway so it’s 100 Mil 50 m a day starts and finishes in Gloucester at glester the brewery in the keys and um full details are on the website gfbl events. co.uk gfbl events. co.uk and there’s another event on that website as well called fat Fest which I run I’ve run a fatbike event I run well one run every year have done for quite a long time uh aimed at fat bikers obviously and um it used to it started out as fat fod because we used to run it in The Forest of Dean and then it sort of spread out and came over to gluster Shure so we thought well we can’t keep calling it fat fod cuz it’s not in The Forest of Dean anymore so I wanted to make it so it’s a bit more it can move around so we’ve just changed it to Fat Fest so it’s fat bite festival and um this year could be a little bit bigger normally we get around 35 to 40 people come along and it’s over a weekend we have it’s basically a social you turn up there’s about a 20 mile 15 to 20 mile Rod each day and then campsite Chile barbecue blah blah blah um this year it’s quite funny because I’ve got the Surly 100 which I’ve mentioned on the 15th and 16th the following weekend I’ve got fat Fest in the same location and then the following weekend I’ve got another thing going on in the same location and it’s actually the 30th anniversary of the bike club I started um Bigfoot mountain bikes and the guys that run it because obviously I don’t run in but run that now I’ve basically gone around gone out of their way to make sure that I can attend and so can a few others obviously we’re trying to get as many old members to come along um for a a I think it’s a Sunday and um that’s the following weekend after the fat Fest so it’s quite weird it’s all these three weekends running I’m going to be in the same field um but anyway so that’s that that’s that’s coming up so it’s quite a lot to do I’ve got some other event ideas that I want to run as well but it just means I’m a little bit more flexible because obviously I want to ride my bike I’m desperate and also we going to be doing some hiking um this video uh I normally film everything on a GoPro but as you’ll see here’s the GoPro I’m now filming on this uh I’ve had this this camera a long long time but I need to learn how to use it so um uh it’s a it’s a really nice camera for I bought it for for vlogging basically to sit like I’m doing now but I want to be able to take it out and use it I it’s great for photographs um it just gives me another option when it comes to video uh go GoPro is fine but it’s got its limitations um what else I think that’s basically I mean there there’s a owner page for smokestone bite owners on Facebook that will stay um I’m not sure what to do about the actual Facebook page the smok stone bikes Facebook page um I don’t want to confuse people and think that they can still um get bikes but also what I want to be able to do is offer still offer warranty still offer any technical advice if you’ve got a frame a lot of people buy and sell and they often contact me if they’re looking for a fat bik or even uh we do a gravel bikes obviously as well um so if there’s anything I can help out with I’ll probably keep that page going but the website’s going as of three or 4 days time that’ll come down and um that’ll be that bit sad really cuz I spent a lot of time um spent quite a bit of money on securing the name and the logo um but you know got to be real got to be realistic about these things you can only do so much um the actual all the designs and everything else is all still with me uh should somebody want to take it on um I would be it would be quite nice to see it carry on somewhere with somebody um my great friend Andy de who’s helped me out since the day I started I did think about doing it but obviously he’s got young children now so he’s a little bit tall tied up with time bit of a something like me really but obviously if anybody did want to consider taking it on um we can talk but um there you go so anyway that’s it that’s it really just a quick one just to let you know what’s going on I just wanted to do an update um there is one other thing regarding YouTube um I’m going to be starting a new section of my YouTube channel uh about health and diet and all the rest of it uh I’ve touched on it quite a bit of time cuz it has affected me um but I feel sort of qualified um in the real world if you know what I mean I can give real world advice on food Health Fitness and all the rest of it because I’m now 69 and I live with a woman who’s extremely healthy and fit and has been all her life um she’s living proof of what you need to do to stay fit and healthy so look out for that it’s going to be coming I’m going to have a separate I was going to set up a new web a new YouTube channel but it seems a bit silly I just have a uh a playlist um to do with it I haven’t got a name for it yet although there is a there is a Sheila and Graham playlist I think on there but anyway we we will be doing that so look out for that if you are interested in health tips Health advice I’m not going to tell you what to do I’m going to show you what we do and the benefits and how it’s paid off for us um in every way and touch on certain things but I’m going to I’m trying not to preach I’m trying not to insult it’s quite tricky cuz you know what it’s like you go in the pub and you start talking about stuff and before you know you said something you shouldn’t have done so I have to be super careful obviously I do edit my videos um but I’m not looking to be controversial I’m not I’m looking to help I’m looking to offer advice I’m looking to Open Eyes to things that they may not know I’m not some people don’t give them monkeys they’re happy they want to live their life the way they do which is fine absolutely fine but there’s little things you need to understand cuz obviously I’m older and when I was when I was 30 40 actually when I was in my 30s I was a beer drinking smoking like the odd spliff um so you couldn’t you know I would not have listened um I would not have listened at all but like everything as you get older things come into your mind time starts to get oh my goodness me clock’s ticking you know so you start to think how can I prolong this I don’t want to end this I’m enjoying life I really am enjoying life um my medication me personally my medication is lowering now and I’m really hoping I’m getting close to getting down to where it started to really affect me last time so I’m hoping now with this super lifestyle I’m leaving I’m I’m leading that things are going to be better so anyway that was it that’s the news that’s what I wanted to get across I hope you um watch this right the way through because I’m hope the last section was actually quite important to me so I hope you watched it all Please Subscribe um I’ve oh there’s another thing I’ve got a coffee page a coffee page it’s um you can donate on it you can join it you can be a member there will be benefits to being a member I haven’t sused that out yet but it’s a great little thing there will be a link in the description I’ve got that on there already but I have never mentioned it in my videos so look look out for the Kofi link uh go on there see what you think I will be doing you can actually communicate with me on it as well there will be special things on there for members so um it’s looking good actually because what I’m trying to do is to keep my video channel I don’t I don’t make M money off YouTube um I don’t want to I want to keep it ad free uh YouTube don’t like it I don’t think so I’m not sure how it’s going to work but um there’s no I don’t think there’s any ads if there are any ads let me know but there shouldn’t be any ads on my videos on YouTube because it’s not monetized um I’ve took it off so um I’m not really interested in that if you want to buy me a coffee on the Cofe page that’s up to you you know by all means if you want to donate something that’s up to you it’d be very nice of you if you did but um anyway that’s it I love doing this stuff that’s why I do it okay I don’t do it for money if it’s it’s a bonus obviously we I’ve got to live on a pensioner now pensioner right okay that’s it thank you for watching take care look after yourselves the Sun is going to shine take it easy [Music]