Waching daily Feb 2 2019

- In our weekly Ask GMBN Tech show,

we get hundreds an hundreds of questions from you lot.

Now, there's always a pattern

of certain questions coming up quite frequently,

and in the past, we've done some commonly asked questions,

so here are five more commonly asked

mountain bike tech questions.

Okay, so a really common question actually,

and it's a strange question to be a common one,

is does it matter which way up my rear shock is?

Now of course there is a typical way

that you would have a shock on a bike,

but quite often you do see bikes

with shocks flipped, or the abnormal way.

So, technically on a bit of paper,

it will not affect the performance of the shock,

which ultimately is what a lot of you are worried about.

But, you've only gotta think

that some manufacturers actually spec their bikes

with the shocks in a different position

to what you would determine as normal.

And what I mean by that is,

if your shock is in a vertical position on the bike,

you would assume that this is the logical position.

The main reason for that is you got the adjusters

at the top, which means they're easier to reach

whilst you're riding.

But some bikes like Scott Genius, for example,

the shock actually comes flipped like that, or inverted.

Now, one of the concerns might be

that you'll get mud, and the water, and dirt and stuff,

on the top of what's effectively the stanchion tube.

But it's effectively just the same

as a suspension fork, that's in the same position.

And if anything, and there's far less to worry about

with the shock than there is with the suspension fork.

Suspension forks operate at low pressures.

The seals on them are quite simple

in comparison to these.

These actually have two rows of seals.

They're very tight fitting,

and the lubrication sits just on the inside here.

So actually, you get far less of a problem

with a shock inverted from that respect,

than you would with an equivalent suspension fork,

and of course, all suspension forks really,

apart from some inverted downhill options,

and the odd single crown,

are of course this way up.

So, that is not a problem, and,

in case you're wondering why Scott chose

to mount theirs this way up,

it's because they have a lockout system on their shock,

but it's operated by a remote and the handlebars,

and otherwise you would have the cables poking out

into the middle of the bike,

and it'd be a right odd mess.

So they route them down through the downtube,

and up to the bars, so it's very neat and simple,

and of course, you don't actually need

to access this part of the bike.

Once you've setup your air pressure, it's all in place.

So it actually makes no difference,

physically when you're riding the bike.

The difference it makes is just

in order to facilitate getting to the actual adjusters.

Now that is something that is worth talking about.

If you fancied flipping the shock on your bike,

there are a number of factors you need to take into account.

The first one is that there is adequate clearance,

depending on how the shock is mounted at either end,

because you could, under compression,

shocks move, and they alter their positions,

depending if it's a floating mount, front and rear,

or if it's a single pivot,

it moves pretty much just from the rear,

and will pivot slightly at the front there.

Now, you gotta make sure that there's no chance

it can foul on any part of your frame,

because it will damage your frame,

and it will damage the shock itself.

So there's usually a reason why manufacturers

put the shocks in that position.

Another thing to factor in is,

if your shock design has a piggyback reservoir on it.

This particular one doesn't,

but piggybacks sit down here,

and sometimes manufacturers have to flip the shock

into a different position,

in order to allow enough room

for where the piggyback sits in the frame.

For example, if they wanted to have a water bottle

in the frame, or if another particular part

of the frame design would clash with it.

That's the only reason you see them flipped around.

Really, it's all about the convenience

of accessing your adjusters.

Okay, another question that does come up,

which actually I'm surprised a lot of people ask this,

is does it matter which gear you store your bike in?

Well there's a few schools of thought on this,

and the logical one really,

would suggest that you store your bike

in the highest gear possible.

Certainly, if you got a one-by setup,

the highest gear meaning you're int he smallest sprocket,

so the derailleur is under the least amount

of tension possible.

And also, the cable is under the least tension.

However, I don't believe that storing a bike

in say mid, or one of the higher gears,

will actually affect cable tension,

because you use way more cable tension

when you're actively changing gear,

than when the bike is just stored in that setting.

And, I know for a fact

that I've got several bikes in storage

that have been, some of them since 2011,

literally have not been ridden,

and they'll be stored in any random gear.

And I'm even tempted to go and get one to prove it,

the fact that I can take it out of my loft,

I could pump the tires up,

which of course over time do deflate themselves,

and prove the fact that the gears still work fine.

Now, the spring itself though,

that's an interesting point to consider.

So the spring, yeah, I guess you could, in time,

given how much a spring has to actually stretch,

each time you change gear,

if you stored it in that setting,

arguably it could be fractionally stretching that spring.

But really, with a derailleur on a mountain bike,

I would say this is not a concern at all,

because you're gonna wear out the jockey wheels,

you're gonna bend the jockey cage,

and probably smash the rear mech off,

long before that ever happens.

It might, however, be a consideration

on an urban bike, commuter bike, a road bike,

something like that.

But you'd have to be storing the bike

for a pretty long time, I would think,

to have that effect.

Okay, now here's a classic one.

Does storing your bike upright,

like in the vertical position,

let air into your brake system?

No, this is a myth.

If you have air in your brakes,

this might help expose that fact,

but it certainly won't introduce air into your system.

Especially if your brakes have been bled correctly

in the first place.

I store all of my bikes vertically at home.

Some nose up, some tail up,

and in our lockup downstairs, and in the workshop,

we also store our bikes vertically.

There is no problem with this.

Now, some brakes are more prone to developing air bubbles

in the system than others.

There are some problematic brakes on the market.

Over time, certain types of brake oil, like DOT oil,

can absorb microscopic amounts of water into the system,

which can affect things.

And over time, you might find

that you do need to bleed your brakes,

just because of seals perishing,

and air getting into the system.

Now when you store your bike upright,

what you're actually effectively doing,

is allowing that air to migrate to the top,

to your lever end.

So, if you have got air in your system,

and you've been storing your bike upright,

chances are, get your bike down on the floor,

go to feel your brakes,

and they might sort of pu-

you need to pump them a couple of times

before you get to use them,

and that's because the air is at that top.

Now if that's something that you have

with your own brakes, then really,

the best thing to do is give them a full system bleed.

Bleeding brakes will always remedy this problem.

However, if you want a quick, lazy way around this,

something that is quite cool,

and quite easy to do, is basically pull your brake lever,

and use a toe strap, or something similar, cable tie,

to hold your brake lever in the locked position.

Store your bike upright overnight,

and those air bubbles will migrate

straight to the top there,

and at which point, you can undo your master cylinder cap

on the top, and basically get those air bubbles

out the system.

Now I've heard of some people doing this before,

and actually loosening off the bolts there

on the top of the lever, on the reservoir there,

in order for those air bubbles

to migrate out by themselves.

And if necessary, you can top up with a bit of fluid

in there and replace the cap.

That's quite a cool way around things,

but nothing will beat doing a full system re-bleed.

Now it might sound like a daunting thing to do,

but it's really, really quite simple.

You just need a few specific tools.

You're gonna need the oil that's suitable for your brakes.

Of course some brakes have mineral oil,

and some have DOT oil, and you cannot mix them.

Just get a new fresh one.

And also, when you're buying DOT fluid,

because of the nature of DOT fluid,

over time it can absorb moisture into the fluid itself.

It's best to only get enough

that you need per bleed, really,

because if you have a big container of it,

it might cost you less to buy the container per bleed,

but it will actually go off in time.

Mineral fluid, however, you can buy a big one of those,

and nothing happens to it.

It will not absorb water into the system in the same way.

So really, don't be afraid if there's air in your system.

Get yourself a bleed kit.

There's plenty of places you can get them online.

They don't cost a lot of money,

and really it's a fairly simple process to follow.

Only a few steps up from bleeding a radiator in a house.

Nice and simple,

and your brakes will feel fantastic afterwards.

Now this is a classic.

Do chains actually stretch?

Yes and no.

So, they don't stretch in the sense

that you would actually think these links

become longer and stretch.

That just doesn't happen.

However, what does happen,

is the pitch of the chain will stretch slightly,

and what happens when that does occur,

is the fact that your chain,

not only is it worn and become sloppy,

it actually wears other components in your transmission.

Like the chainring teeth, the troughs,

and the actual shape of the teeth profile themselves,

and the cassette out back.

And of course, when that happens,

it means you have to replace them as well as the chain,

which is why it's so important

to get yourself, even a basic version of one of these,

a chain checker.

Now the reason for that,

is you can check, you can monitor the wear,

and the stretch on your chain, and the pitch itself.

So, as soon as your chain is starting

to show signs of wear, you wanna be replacing it,

because then you won't need to replace

the sprockets, or the chainring up front.

Now let me just explain the process of this,

and how it works.

So, a chain is made up of a few components.

So you've got the main links,

so these are the outer links,

and you've got the inner links.

Then you have the pins that run through the middle,

holding them together,

and then you have the rollers.

So, these are the pins.

These are the rollers in the links.

And the outer links.

Now, as part of those inner links,

there is actually a bit of bush system here,

so the roller can actually rotate around it.

And then the pin goes through the middle,

basically holding the whole system together.

Now what happens over time with your chain,

especially under high load, or lots of miles,

or really bad weather conditions when you're riding,

is the rollers actually develop play,

as the bush that they rotate on slowly become baggy.

And effectively, everything starts moving internally.

So the plates themselves will not grow,

but you will get stretch of the chain pitch.

Now, chain pitch refers to the length

between the two pins.

Now the pins is half inch between them.

So, basically when you have a chain tool,

it will tell you measurements,

like this one, for example here,

says new chain is .25 to .5,

and replace it at .75.

So, I would actually go as far as changing it

when it's just over .5, really.

But it does vary on how much money you have,

and how often you ride in bad conditions,

how strong your legs are,

a whole number of different factors.

But the point is, when your chain starts getting baggy,

it's not gonna connect well with the transmission.

It's gonna wear out the other components

in your transmission.

It's not gonna shift very well either.

This one here has some sort of movement to it,

but that gets really accentuated

the more worn the chain gets.

So, technically yes, a chain does stretch,

but no, the links do not actually physically get longer.

Now this one makes me laugh, actually,

because this is such an obvious question.

It is, why is dry lube actually wet?

Yeah, okay, so lubes a lube, really, are they?

No, not so.

So you get two main types of lube.

Of course there are loads on the market.

You get ceramic lube, suspension lubes, Teflon lubes, etc.,

but fundamentally when it comes to chain lubes,

you'll get a wet lube, and you'll get a dry lube.

Ultimately, with dry lube,

the wet bit of it is just a solvent.

So, this is effectively a carrier

for the lubricating particles,

in order, when you lube your chain,

to make sure that those particles get

into the inside of the rollers.

That is what you need to lube on a chain.

Don't need to lube the plates.

Don't need to lube anything else, just the rollers.

They're the bit that need the lubrication.

So, ergo, with a dry type lube,

you need a solvent in order to soak into there,

and then the solvent dries up,

hence the dry lubricant.

Now, dry lube actually is very, very good,

despite the dry name.

But the only downside really,

is the fact that you do need to apply it more frequently,

because it doesn't have the kind

of viscous sort of stickiness to it, to keep it in place.

Very good for hot, dry conditions.

Not so good for wet British conditions,

although I actually favor a dry lubricant all year round,

on most of my bikes,

just because I'm always cleaning my bikes,

I'm always maintaining the transmission.

But of course, that is not the case

with a lot of riders.

Now wet lubes clearly are designed for use

in wet conditions, and the way it differs

to a dry lubricant itself is,

it has the same lubricating particles,

except it's in a really thick, viscous liquid.

Now the idea for this, is you can put it on,

and it stays on a lot longer.

It's quite waterproof.

Some are more waterproof than others,

which can mean cleaning your chain

with wet lubes on.

Bit more of a task.

And of course it will draw a sticky, horrible mess to it.

If you use this in summer conditions,

you'll have dirt and grit all over your transmission.

It quickly turns into horrible black sludgy stuff.

However, as far as an actual lubricant goes,

wet lube is fantastic.

So there you go, there's effectively two types

of lubricant for different conditions.

But if you wanna know a bit more

about the other types of lubricants out there,

and in fact, any sort of assembly compounds,

greases, threadlocks, and stuff like that,

check out the video I'm gonna put

in the link below this one.

I've got a whole video that tells you exactly

where you should be using this sort of stuff,

the conditions you should use it,

and where you should apply it.

So there we go.

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How To Build The Ultimate Bike Path | GCN Meets Sustrans - Duration: 15:09.

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- Every cyclist knows a bad bike path

when they see one, or worst case scenario

when you ride into a lamp post on one.

But a good bike path, well you hardly

notice that because it's just smooth

easy riding and most importantly you feel safe.

But what is it that makes the difference

between a good bike path and a bad bike path?

Well there's more to it than one might imagine.

In the UK we are really lucky to have

the charity Sustrans which works on our

behalves to help deliver great cycling infrastructure.

So we thought we'd come to London

to speak to them to find out a little more.

(upbeat music)

So, a bit of background, Sustrans has recently

celebrated it's 40th birthday.

It started out in 1977 as a charity called Cyclebag

and their very first bike path

was the Bristol, Bath cycle way

built on a disused railway.

These guys, they really are the experts on bike paths.

Matt Winfield, Sustrans London director,

thank you very much for inviting us.

Could you tell us a little bit about

your current projects?

- So we cover a range of things

but we do infrastructure works,

that's building bike routes across London

and changing spaces across London.

We have behavior change works, so we work

with people to encourage them to cycle and walk

and we have a policy piece of work

where we try to influence the decision makers

in London to do a better job in making London

a more livable city.

So the National Cycling Network is Sustrans

biggest project, so we've got 16,000 miles of route

across the UK touching every part of the UK,

163 miles of those are in London.

This is a network that has millions

and millions of trips annually,

cycling and walking, but we know that the quality

of the network isn't quite where it needs to be.

So over the last 18 months we have walked

or cycled the entire network, we have all that

data and we're going to publish that

and tell people about how we're going

to improve the network.

I can tell you a lot more about that

but there are priorities for us.

There are many barriers on the network,

we need to remove all of those

and we need to bring the poor quality routes

up to standard meaning a good quality service

and the kind of a consistent experience

for that people are using that network.

We've got a long term plan here,

this goes to 2040 where we want everything

to be of a good or very good standard.

But the key thing for us is that

the network should be usable by

an unaccompanied 12 year old and for that to happen

it needs to be as strong as it's weakest link.

So we're really looking at those points

like dangerous junctions where there might be

steps on the route, where there might be

a muddy track and we're going to upgrade those.

If we can't do that then we need to

realign the network to a more appropriate space.

In London, the National Cycle Network is about

taking car trips off the road, relieving congestion

because of our growing population.

Elsewhere in the UK, a lot of revenue

is generated through the National Cycle Network

where there are tourist trips, particularly

in Scotland where small businesses are

growing up along the network.

So local authorities in those spaces

need to recognize that benefit and get behind the network.

- [Emma] Fewer cars on the road and more tea houses

on the way sounds great to me.

Thank you very much.

Would you might if I chat to some

of your engineers about the details?

- No please do.

(gentle music)

- Well we've come to find Becca Jones

who is a senior engineer at Sustrans.

Becca, what makes the perfect bike path?

- Well I'm going to have to stop you there

initially because in the UK we don't use

the term bike path so much.

That's right.

So just to give you a complicated answer

we kind of work under the umbrella of

cycle infrastructure, so we have...

And that means all sort of things,

so that can mean like cycling on the road

just with general traffic, on a quieter road

or that can mean the segregated track on a road

or a cycle lane or even a cycle path

that's totally separate from the road.

- [Emma] That's a good point that I hadn't really

thought about that obviously I say cycle path

but that means different things to different people

depending on where they live and what their

local infrastructure is.

Is there one that you would say is best?

- It really depends.

So in some situations like a segregated cycle track

is really good and really effective

and in other situations that would be too much.

So on, say, a quiet residential street

you wouldn't need segregation, it's not needed.

- [Emma] So it turns out that bike paths are a lot more

complicated than I thought and it's actually

cycling infrastructure.

So how do you decide what is the best

kind of cycling infrastructure

for a given street or maybe a given suburb

or a whole city?

- Two of the most useful things are

site visits, so actually having a look

because we are blessed with street view,

thank goodness for street view,

but we need to actually go on site

and see what the situation is and see how

people are using the space.

Is it working at the moment?

What isn't working?

Things like that.

And another part of that is when you're designing

for cyclists or trying to design cycle

infrastructure, it's really important that you

ride the route yourself.

This sounds obvious but a lot of people that do

work in street design and are looking to

design for cycles, don't actually ride much

themselves, if at all.

So obviously working for a travel organization

we naturally cycle to check out sites.

So we'll ride the route through,

often ride through junctions a few times

and see how it feels.

And another thing that we do, and it's something

that we love doing here at Sustrans

is that we speak to the users.

So we do a lot of co-design and consultation

and engagement events with people that

actually use the streets.

Within the kind of cycle design sphere

we have, under cycle design standards,

we have six kind of principles I suppose

for good cycle infrastructure design.

So we want a route to be safe,

we want it to be direct, we want it to be coherent,

we want it to be comfortable to ride

and we want it to be attractive and we need

it to be adaptable.

And there are lots of sort of things

that sit under those I suppose but

a key one to pick up on, I think, is safety.

So a big barrier to people choosing

to cycle is they're scared, they're worried

about traffic, you know, and in London

obviously it's a very busy city,

we've got all sorts of different demands

on streets and that is a legitimate reason

to be worried about cycling.

So as a designer, we have to look to address that

and, I mean, there are all sorts of ways

you can do that but if you think about

a cycle route with those six principles

then you should start to form something

that is fit for purpose and good to ride.

When we're doing cycle infrastructure design,

one of the things that we touch on

is the hierarchy of provision.

So what we start with is, how can we

make a place better for walking and cycling?

And the top two things you can do

is to reduce the speed and the volume of traffic

and anything else below that is another option

like say, having a segregated track

but it's perhaps not as good.

So I think we need to move more towards that

and with that in mind, I think that

at Sustrans we're always trying to sort of

create those streets that are sort of holistic

and work for all users but still enable

people to make the choice to travel sustainably,

you know, whether that's walking, cycling

or maybe taking a bus.

Perhaps less of a cycle infrastructure

and more of a people infrastructure.

- Ollie.

I'm Emma.

Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you.

- Thanks for your time.

So Becca told me that you would be able to

inform me about the nitty gritty of cycle route design.

What are you going to show me today?

- So I'm going to show you some software

we use which is AutoCAD.

So basically we get what we call an OS map

or map base, we put it onto the program

and then we can design over that.

So on this design for this location

cyclists traveling this way will actually

be with traffic which isn't ideal

but the restrictions of London streets,

like some are narrow, some not as wide

as the Dutch streets or the German streets

so you have to try and fit in the best you can

in these locations.

- Do you know much about the sign posting?

So when the cyclist pops out of that bike path

onto that shared use area, presumably

you need to put some warnings in place

so that people know that they might encounter a pedestrian.

- Yeah definitely, there'll be signing up there

so there'll be a sign which is, in the UK,

it's a blue sign with a figure of a cycle

and figure of a pedestrian.

So when they approach they'll see that.

Also, the change in materials should be

a visual clue that's not the same as

where they were before.

- So Becca told us that part of designing

a really good cycling route is to

ride it yourself, but now you've got these

really detailed plans, can you tell

what's going to be safe for a cyclist?

Or how do you design junctions and so on?

- So, when we're designing a junction

we obviously, Becca said before, we look at

the volumes, the capacity and type of vehicles

that come through the junctions.

We aim to reduce the volumes and also

especially heavy vehicles,

heavy good vehicles, reduce those.

So if we find there's a junction that

has, say, a lot of heavy good vehicles in,

we want to have complete segregation from traffic.

So we'll look at all that and then

when we go to the town, obviously

we want to go to the onsite as much as possible

so go there in peak hours, feel what it's like

so, as a cyclist, as a pedestrian,

you can see what the location feels like.

We often use a tracking software

so we can get a bus or an HGV and we can

use that to sort of go round the corners

to see if they can make it or if it's going to be

in conflict with the cyclist or anything like that.

So that's like another high safety measure.

We also have another bit of software

which we can use to look at junctions

and it tells us the recent accidents,

so that uses police statistics.

So basically that's on a big database

so we can choose a bit on the map,

we can choose that location and we can look

at if there's been previous accidents

and also find out what type of accidents there's been.

So from that we can also gage the type

of design that we want to do.

So from this location we can see

the accidents involving peddle cycles is 83%

so that was 10 of the accidents

involved peddle cycles at this location.

We can also look at when the accidents happened,

the light, the adverse weather,

the road surface conditions.

- [Emma] So Becca talked to us about the hierarchy

of provision and she mentioned cycle

super highways and quiet ways in London.

Can you talk us through what those are?

- Yeah so the cycle super highways

are predominantly sort of segregated tracks

that go along usually busy routes that are quite direct.

Quiet ways are as direct as we can

possibly make them but the routes,

predominantly, go through quiet streets.

So we try and find the best routes

and the quietest streets so that

it's comfortable for people to cycle.

There's reduced volume in traffic,

there's an attractiveness to them

so through parks or along canals.

We also want to create this sort of

space where people feel safe cycling,

so people that might not usually cycle

to work or don't cycle that often.

The quiet ways also intercept the super highways

so it's all about connectivity and networks.

So essentially London is trying to build

a cycle network that's all connected.

So at the moment it's kind of half way there,

there's bits that are connected really well

but there's others that are a work in progress.

- So cycle quiet ways in some ways

you could say are prioritizing the experience

over directness but I find that sometimes

those back roads, although they might not

be the shortest way to get somewhere

on bike, they are actually sometimes quicker

because you don't have to go through

so many traffic lights or junctions.

- Yeah sometimes you have to sacrifice

a little bit of directness if there's a

big road that's severance to the route.

So actually it can be a lot quicker

going the back routes and not on a main road

where you're constantly hitting signals.

- [Emma] So with the quiet ways, you don't really

change that much about the roads

necessarily or the paths that people are riding on.

So what makes it?

How do people know that it's a quiet way?

- Yeah well we obviously we sign post it

very well, so we've got a certain type

of signage that we use, quiet way signage.

We also use it on highway paint markings,

so we'll have it say "Quiet Way 5"

it'll be on the carriage way with a cycle symbol.

Then there'll also be signs on posts,

there's also maps that are available as well.

But yeah, like I say, usually because of the way

the quiet ways are built, you can sort of

see visually there might be change

in materials or a sort of visual route

through the path or through the street.

- [Emma] And that's where it's really obvious

to someone using that route that you guys

at Sustrans, that you ride yourselves

because you know how to signpost

and what a cyclist can see because there's nothing

worse than a route being signed in the wrong way

and you miss a sign and then you're suddenly

off the route and you don't know how to get back onto it.

- Yeah, definitely, you want to stay

on the right route and you don't want to be

sort of stopping and looking at your phone constantly

and looking at Google Maps, because you want

to be fully concentrated on where you're going.

So yeah, the more coherent the signing is

obviously the better the route is

and yeah, makes for better cycling all in all.

- [Emma] Yeah and it's great having designers

who also ride their bikes.

Thank you.

- Thank you, thank you very much.

(gentle music)

- James, Senior Project Officer for Heathrow

Cycling Partnership and your area of expertise

is in behavioral change and that's really important

because it's all very well building

cycling infrastructure but if no one uses it

what's the point?

So tell me a little bit about what you work in.

- The project and the areas that I work in are,

as you say, getting people to use the infrastructure,

getting people out and getting them cycling.

So it's all about things like incentivizing

in showing people how to use the infrastructure

and in helping people to get to good facilities

in their work places and where they live,

be that a train station, it's showing people

generally how they could make the switch

from another mode.

- Yeah that's really important because

as a cyclist, you know I love cycling

and I don't just love it for the sport

and for the fun but also I think

in principal it's a great way to get around the city.

You know it's less congestion, less pollution,

you get a bit of exercise, so I think that

everyone should be trying, if they can,

to cycle but of course some people

are scared of the traffic.

How do you help people who are maybe

reluctant to get out on bikes?

- There's a variety of ways we can do that.

So some of the things that we do are

training so we might jump people onto

bikes and get them riding because quite often

it's just that first step of getting onto

the bike and giving it a go and we can

get them to do that.

And once they realize they get the joy of

cycling again, they're back out and riding

and they start to do it more confidently.

So that's one of the ways, other ways is through

things like groups and clubs, we might

take people out and do a lunch time ride

and again, people who are confident,

they can get out and ride and we'll have

buddies and there's lots of different

ways of doing it.

- That's wonderful because you know we always

think about teaching kids to learn to ride

but if you're an adult and you need to

learn to ride a bike, it's really hard

to get started so it's great that you guys

are working with that.

- Yeah and it is one of the most satisfying

things that you can do is to teach

someone else to ride a bike, it's a wonderful

feeling once they start riding,

it really is like nothing else.

- Thank you very much James and thank you

to everyone at Sustrans for this fascinating

insight into the science behind cycling

infrastructure design.

I really hope this helps our viewers

to understand why sometimes, for city planners

it is quite tough retrofitting bike paths into a city.

If you live in a city and you'd like to

let us know what it's like riding

where you live, let us know down in the comments.

We would love to hear from you.

And of course, give us a thumbs up,

share with your friends and if you'd like

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YouTube Creator Trap. Hooked, addicted and burned out YouTube Creators? - Duration: 18:09.

A very good day ladies and gentlemen my name is Callum from DX Commander by the

way these little guy points for the DX commander expedition make rather

excellent coasters okay so a very good day by the way I wanted to talk about

the YouTube algorithm and why creators feel that they want to create more so

when you start creating on YouTube I mean nothing really happens for a start

your content is pretty crappy it just is you know and then you get a bit

better and then you might get some positive comments and oh that was

interesting what you said because the content itself was quite good it's just

the production was crap okay and that's what happened with me to start with I

didn't have a camera what I used to do is record my screen and show people

things and in fact I used to use where is it

it was the Heil goldline mic on the studio setting but listening back the bandwidth

was a bit crappy and those videos still exist and I still get comments on them

and for ten years my channel went from zero to 300 subscribers okay and then I

sort of formally launched the DX Commander all band vertical and then I thought what

I do because I had one nice camera I think that one there which is a very

nice camera it's the Canon 5d Mark 3 and this lens

which is a couple of thousand quid together we had it for a project at work

and I had a couple of other lenses as well but I realized that the audio was a

bit crud so I bought a decent microphone one

of these clip on so my early ones quite often I started using the clip-on but

with then I found out that with the little dead kitten - they call it that

bit - the fluffy thing you put over the top to stop the wind with dulling my

voice and so on and I was using moviemaker

you know the thing that just comes with Windows anyway it's got a long story

short I thought I just up my production a bit better and I bought the 60d which

is over there and I'm not plugged in I didn't have all the focus this has

autofocus and ok which is really cool and and then I invested in Adobe

Premiere I was terrified of course cuz then I had to learn how it all worked

but then very quickly we went from you know three four five six seven eight

nine and then got to a thousand which I thought was amazing like a small village

thousand people had subscribed to my banana content all about technical

baloney and ham radio and microphones and stuff and aerials I'm sure I used it

as part of my sales tool you know to get DX Commander launched but then you start

getting emails from YouTube congratulating you and reminding you to

keep your schedule up in not so many words and then there's all these tools

out there to measure yourself against and then a post oh you know one video my

get 10,000 views and you log into creator studio the backend of YouTube

congratulations you want to tell people about this you know share this with me

it's got funny really and I got certainly six months ago I was

in a whirlwind of creating content you know how to schedule stuff and I still

take do I have 100 well.. I keep 10 to 20 videos in.. in I've got to

do you know to keep the world out people get you guys happy as well because now

cards you know you can say four weeks time we'll hit 10,000 subscribers which

is to be honest pretty bloody scary for me I mean I don't get 10,000 views on

every video to thank goodness I get about 2,000 where between 2,000 and

4,000 although it depends how many people

share.. I try actually not to be contentious on

this channel I try and actually be factual I did half wide load of people

up with this Zelo PTT voice-over-ip app thing as a few of them I had to mute

them in the end they would go away that was the highest shared video it was a

lot of people who were sorry I'm telling me basically disagreeing with me and

telling me that this voice-over-ip Zelo PTT apps whatever you wanna call it was

ham radio and how you know it encourages people to get into ham radio yeah well

so does the email so does YouTube so does a club.. it's not the be-all and

end-all and I did make it absolutely clear and said that it's "probably great"

okay that's fine it's just not science as difference between technical signs I

remember my mother of my mother bless her when she was still alive

I taught how to program the VCR now if you're under at 36 years old

you won't know where that is but that was a technical challenge wasn't science

er anyway I'm just talking about this YouTube schedule and I was doing on

average 3 between 3 & 4 videos a week for a year that's quite incredible so I

certainly did 200 videos last year and then I did one every day from the 22nd

before Christmas Day er.. 22nd of December through to about the 2nd

..one guy I thought I was just creating content for the hell of it - I was

down the workshop it's that one where I just had a bit of a rant and that talk

about my school report but I was making stuff I was plumbing in what was it now

the ladder-line though one wasn't it anyway whatever so now that we're about to

reach 10,000 because I had this little goal in my mind wouldn't 10,000 and

a stop I'm not gonna stop you know I actually enjoy the whole YouTube process

the .. it's technical not science the technical challenge of making a video

good enough for publication - I find very interesting

because after I've gone through the grind of recording it which I don't

particularly like doing I much prefer editing it - topping and

tailing - it chopping out all the ers and umms and the bananas and creating

something that will last you see and but I was getting a little bit like you know

am I gonna keep doing this hammer idea thing ever you know twice three four

times a week no I'm not what I'm gonna do because I've kind of missed my drums

the last twelve months and it's been creeping into the channel and our

thoughts myself well can I do a bit of drums and ham radio or the same channel

now to be honest that's very confusing some of you might like that but if

you're a drummer a gentler content you're gonna go what the hell is this

going on right if you're a ham radio guy you definitely but maybe you might want

some drumming I don't know but let's face it it's not a drumming channel okay

and I said I was thinking of starting this other channel I did I did some test

videos which some of the hilarious stories I mean almost unpublishable

about mine I use and as I was a young businessman and one that the hills I did

some of the crooked stuff I got odds wasn't really crooked but you know and

some of the really embarrassing things if I tell the story to you and you're in

the room I can guarantee it's hilarious I'll get a love when I try and be you

know I'm in this sealed room here trying to tell you that story er I don't even

have your eyebrows lifting up which makes me respond I got the body language

and a comedian if you like responds in a comedy club because he's got the

laughter or the the backlash of the other people in the room I didn't have

that he won't work I can't tell stories to make your eyebrows you know explode

in here now sometimes funny things come out but it's not intentional

so I've been that idea unless I can get someone who's never heard my stories

before to sit there and I could tell them and then it would be funny but can

I make a whole channel out of that no that's ridiculous

but I really enjoy my drumming as you know and so I created this drumming

channel and I've got two three videos up there now which I've reviewed this

morning and I've decided to scrap it all and start again because I'm going to

well I'll put a stock of like five videos in they've got to be quite good

you know like stick perfect for my first five and then I can chat to my drummer

audience and wouldn't be fun to grow that's ten thousand now then then I

start falling right into the YouTube trap this is way I could maybe get a

hundred thousand subscriber channel now that's a big tick of the box you get a

hundred thousand subscribers they send you a little plaque yeah it's really cool

and it's about the only thing I can't buy - I've bought Porsche Porsche 911

sports cars I've I've had an amazing life their own I've got a run out of how

many businesses I've started a three of them are still going very successfully

but there's something you can't buy which is a silver play button from

YouTube I mean I could have one made but you know it's not the same so but I love

my ham radio okay don't get me wrong but the audience is extremely small for the

amount of effort I put in so we'll have this drumming Channel and if you want to

come along on that ride with me then that's fine

you publicize it here but the are not comfortable with the quality yet and

exactly I'm not comfortable with how much drumming and how much talking this

should be here we are but I can do all my headphone reviews again but this time

from a drummers perspective things like that so there we are

there I've said it so I'm gonna reduce the amount of DX

Commander output to maybe every Friday night something like that the 500 poles

cuz I've been out of stock since December haven't I

so I've got people asking to place backorders - I'm not taking any money people going oh can

I backorder no you can't i'll just announce it and you can order and the

whole DX Commander concept's great just spoke to a guy called Mike this

morning he's had it up at his back yard garden whatever for six months now he's

made a couple of improvements really nothing particular he's just come up

with some ideas and it works for him it's fundamentally exactly the same

aerials I shit it was just a way of stopping the bass moving around cuz he's

got it on a chamois leather with some sand on the base that was all so it was

Wiggly wobbling in the wind he's had it storms thick and thin so that's great

I've had some lovely eHam review so the old dears come all of these fun fact

I've got nose dog I could launch the expedition model but the grounds frozen

solid at the moment I can't even get the guy steaks in the man from Canada if you

remember he's bought DX commander classy he wants it all built you spend a lot of

money six hundred and fifty pounds it's all done I can't test it as part of my

deal is I've gotta test it but I just I mean it's three inches just snowing

outside at the moment so there we are five hundred poles arrived redo the

workshop a bit so my Fridays are more productive because it's a complete tip

at the moment Stuart's gonna have to have his circular saw back because I'm

just not gonna have the room for it the roof next door there on the farm they

took it all off if put a new roof on they need to get into my workshop

apparently next Wednesday to do something something about the mezzanine

floor next door they're gonna drop a leg it's just the way the building is they

just couldn't drop it inside and he said is that all right and I said that's fine

and I've got the two bars that stick out with my two meter pole the moment I

always felt we're never far apart so go down this morning they cut

it off and weld it shows about by feet doubt so I having a T and K bracket five

feet apart they were like three for your part before I just saw one day they're

gonna rip off finally and there we are and then unbelievably next Sunday I on

the 10th of February I am 60 years old 60 I feel like I've had about three

lives it's been amazing it's fantastic ride best best life I've had so

apparently I got some new toys coming one of them is say another HDMI to USB

capture card so when our live streams said are using this little thing here we

can use the big camera which is nice and that's it for those of you interested I

own my other two companies are an IT recruitment business which is absolutely

stormy at the moment I've got some amazing people who work for the business

Wendy and I are in every day Monday to Thursday and they're very responsive to

us and we've got to write it all up but we've promised them some ownership so

that I can spend less time there and gradually sell the company to the team

you see so that's what we're gonna do and then James and I run Berkeley James

Dok ruk which is a web business you see now that's fairly quiet that pulls off

maybe three or four quite big deals a year we used to do sort of five hundred

thousand pound websites we don't do that anymore and two and a half three

thousand for a basic web site because that's what it costs weirdly enough for

all the meetings at the time and effort it's not the technical it's the it's

what's in here that you're buying know what I can do so that story of a man he

was big shit big expensive shit they couldn't could get the engine started or

something but old Tommy up the road he used to work on this engine and they

in down and he came out he said what's the problem and he looked round the

engine and he got a hammer and he tapped it in a certain place and it all worked

and sent the bill down it was like twenty thousand dollars or something

said oh my god you're only here for ten minutes he said yeah that's 20 years of

experience of course it's not a real story it's just for fun but it's ER

it's proves the point what are you buying you know a bit of a rant today

was a great movie or Lewis rossmann he repairs Apple Macs and stuff on YouTube

and it was the other guy I saw SuperSpeed a Robbie's it he was sat down

I watched him yesterday in fact I didn't have my headphones to him aside to read

it on the subtitles talking about why people go to school why they go to

college why they get a university why they when they come out of university

five years later with 30 40 50 thousand quids worth of debt they're really angry

cuz nobody wants to give them a job because they got no experience and

they're fundamentally assholes or American and they would say assholes and

they're angry because I thought I was buying into you know if I went to school

and I started now I got my grades I would just automatically end up on the

gravy train and I just I'll put a link to the film actually it's really it's

how I feel there's a lot of kids around here that want to be employed by me

they're having a bloomin clue and I wouldn't employ them to matter how

bright they are yet the last two best guys I've had didn't have any

qualifications one dug holes basically in a building company and then worked in

a shop and the other guy is just the extremely polite be extremely motivated

individual I don't need doctors and engineers to do the job sorry I have

done for me I wanted to be respectful I wanted to be able to shake somebody's

hand properly I want to be able to attend a meeting and turn up on time

that is a good human being not a guy with a first class honours degree in

bullshit my name is Callum from DX Commander have a jolly good day thanks

for tuning and if you like my stuff don't forget to hit the subscribe button

because I'll come up with some more real normal technical things

- and if I've made a complete balls-up of this one by all means give me a

thumbs down otherwise give me a thumbs up either way doesn't matter because

thumbs up or the thumbs down all goes to the algorithm in the Big Brother in the sky

a very good day!

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5 Words & Phrases You Must AVOID in Your Relationship (Animated Video) - Duration: 7:07.

5 WORDS/PHRASES TO AVOID IN YOUR RELATIONSHIP

Someone said, "Words are not hurtful, unless they come from those who mean a lot to you."

Invariably, it implies that within the bounds of a relationship, the words uttered have

immense effect on the person that received them, for good or for bad.

It is incredible that what people always hold close to their hearts are those things that

made them feel somehow.

Any other word of less impact isn't remembered.

Relationships have become broken in strange and unpleasant manners over words spoken,

albeit innocuously.

Ironically, those words were not in complex sentences or in flamboyant vocabularies.

In this video, we'll be sharing with you, 5 words or phrases to avoid in a relationship.If

you're new here, consider subscribing so that you won't miss other interesting videos

like this.

1.

"Shut up!"

That's right.

Shut up: the phrase that is common in most unhealthy arguments.

Not knowing when talks have become very much heated, and the need to apply some levels

of restraint, it is easy to drop the bombshell that literally means "keep quiet" but

is translated as "your words are irritable and mean nothing".

Rather than saying shut up, it is reasonable to use lighter sentences like, "Can you

hear me out?"

"Can you please, keep quiet?"

After such requests have being made, give him or her time to react by staying quiet

yourself.

Fights are part of a relationship; shut up should not complicate issues.

2.

I don't care Well, whether you mean it or not, saying "I

don't care" to your significant other is not only annoying; it is also calamitous.

Even when you don't feel like being supportive, do not voice out such, especially when your

partner's nerves are frayed already.

I don't care means a lot of things, chief being you owe your partner no respect for

their feelings.

Others are: • They are on their own.

• Whatever they do is not your problem.

• They are good without you.

• They should not involve you further in that pressing issue.

• You have nothing you wish to contribute to them.

• You have abandoned them to their fate.

By and large, promising someone your commitment in a relationship does not entertain any form

of rejection from you.

I don't care is the condensed form of rejection.

And resentment.

3.

I want a break up Making a pervasive habit of saying you would

break up with your partner anytime you have issues between the both of you, may eventually

see you heading in different directions.

At first, it is terrifying to your partner especially at the thought of living without

you.

But with time, they will make up their minds to go on with their lives when you make good

your threat.

Many at times, the plan to shake a partner up a bit results in irreparable damages.

Some people have taken the threat too far, and left without any chance of an explanation

from the giver.

If you do not mean to break up, don't bring it up.

Let it be where it has been lying, far away from your relationship.

Unless you mean it.

4.

Do whatever Anyway, we hope you will be pleased with the

outcome.

Saying the above clearly shows another form of abandonment of your partner.

They could have asked for your contribution or suggestion concerning something dear to

them.

Instead of actively being involved, and letting them know what you think of it, you dismiss

them by saying, "Do whatever."

The very sensitive ones could hurt for days unending, and may not carry on with their

plans.

For those who are stronger, it is their time to go solo with the plans and the outcomes.

Already, you must have lost a companion and a loyal friend in them.

5.

You are stupid!

The freedom you share with a significant other is not a leeway to belittle them.

When annoyed by your partner, it lies on you to be careful with that which you say to them,

regardless of the size of the annoyance.

"You are stupid!"

"You are pathetic!"

"You are useless!"

"You are wicked!" have trailed many relationship breakups.

What is most painful is the feeling that words spoken are reflections of what the mind/heart

bears.

The impression you are giving your partner, so to say, is that they are not worth anything

to you, and are hated by the one who claimed to love them.

At that moment when anger must have ebbed away, reality of the damage done in less than

ten minutes will keep being real after the relationship must have ended.

If you did not mean to say it, or you did mean to say it, there has never being a time

words said during heated arguments ever solved problems.

No matter how pressing an issue is, there is nothing as important as keeping your relationship

stronger and better.

A good percentage of homes and unions have become history as a result of words said to

one another in times when emotions were left unguarded.

Mentally screening words that jump into your thoughts, pausing before speaking, listening

thoroughly to understand where a talk is headed toward, biting your tongue when bad words

are threatening to be pushed out, or simply walking away when an atmosphere is becoming

argumentative, will save you the stresses of apologising endlessly, while leaving your

partner with a broken spirit.

Indeed, words are arts in marbles.

They provoke feelings that are inexplicable, yet, long-lasting.

Words have put people to war, and have ended wars.

Avoid saying shut up, I don't care, I want a break up, Do whatever, and You are stupid!

in your relationship.

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He announced his engagement to girlfriend Katherine Schwarzenegger two weeks ago.But it seemed that Chris Pratt's fiancée Katherine Schwarzenegger held a candle for him years before they met, as he was stunned to hear she had a crush on him in a resurfaced clip

 The Guardian's Of The Galaxy star, 39, admitted he was 'touched' that Katherine, 29, ranked him top of Hollywood's 'most famous Chris'' after she was shown the clip in a press junket with Access Hollywood

In the 2017 interview, Katherine is asked by the interviewer which of Hollywood's biggest Chris' - Evans, Hemsworth or Pratt

Share this article Share 41 shares The author and son of Terminator actor Arnold Schwarzenegger then replied: 'Chris Evnas, actually Chris Pratt

Chris Pratt's been looking good lately.'Chris was shown the clip along with his Lego Movie 2 co-star Elizabeth who immediately laughed saying: 'Wow! Did you know about this?'The Jurassic World star then added: 'When she said Chris Evans my heart sank and then she rescued it,' before saying to the interviewer 'you guys just made that!'As the interviewer confirmed Katherine made the response two years earlier, Chris said: 'She's on a book tour talking about Maverick and Me, I literally never seen that before, so thank you I'm really moved

'Chris and Katherine announced their engagement two weeks ago, about seven-months after they were first spotted together on a date

'Sweet Katherine, so happy you said yes! I'm thrilled to be marrying you. Proud to live boldly in faith with you,' the actor shared on Instagram about their pending nuptials

Chris shares his six-year old son Jack with ex-wife, actress Anna Faris, 42; they split in August 2017 after eight years of marriage

But the couple have remained on good terms, with Anna even congratulating Chris on his news

Commenting on their engagement post she wrote: 'I'm so happy for you both!! Congratulations!'