YouTube Channel Trailer

I have had a trailer video for my youtube channel created. Thought I would try and attract more people to my YouTube channel so I could have a wider audience for my words of wisdom.

What do you think?

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I haven't posted anything new for a while but that is all about to change. Stay tuned for a lot more uploads.

Random words while riding

Went for a ride today with "She who must be obeyed" on the back.

It was a fantastic day for a ride so I took one of my favourite routes out through the Pohangina Valley to Apiti, coffee at Kimbolton and home via Colyton.

Came back feeling hyper as usual and then spent an hour editing all my go pro video to make another extravaganza. I am going to learn how to use iMovie properly and work on my editing to make a more professional looking video blog. I also need to find a mic that can block out the wind as the wind noise is quite intrusive.

I do quite enjoy having a conversation with myself while riding along. I do notice that I stop talking when I need to concentrate and start straight back up where I left off when I am through the tricky bit. I don't consciously know I am doing it. The brain is a wonderful thing.

The extravaganza can be found here on youtube.

Padded Bra Test

I went for a ride today and tested out some bra padding.

No, I wasn't wearing a bra to contain my man boobs, although I probably need to. I was testing out using bra padding as a wind filter for the microphone I use when I am moto-vlogging. This was suggested by ++AccidentalBroadcast so I thought I would see how it worked.

Take a look at my latest video and let me know what you think of the sound. Is the wind noise reduced? Is it acceptable to watch/listen to?

Video can be found here on the you tubes,

Riding without Teeth

Oh No, Quelle Horreur, only 3 days of my holiday left ......

Where on earth did those three weeks go!

Back to work on Monday so I thought I would take the opportunity this morning to go for a little ride. I fancied some twisty bits, so took the following route:

• Palmerston North to Balance Valley Road via Pahiatua Track
• Balance Valley Road to Ashhurst via the Manawatu Gorge
• Ashhurst to Bunnythorpe
• Home to Palmy

Had a great ride, and as always, I came back feeling full of energy.

Here is some footage of the ride with some commentary from me. Forgive the wind noise as I am still trying to find the ideal position for the mic inside my helmet.

Vlogging

I am now a Vlogger.

Now before you jump to conclusions about me embracing medieval masochism of some kind, a Vlogger is a Video Blogger.

I have now just lost ⅔ of my audience, who had tuned in expecting something completely different. Oh well, c'est la vie. It's just my sister and some person from the Ukraine who doesn't speak English left now.

Anyway, I digress, back to the topic.

I bought a microphone for my GoPro. I followed the youtube instructions which showed me how to drill a hole in the side of the GoPro case (here is a link). I actually managed to do this without destroying the case, so yeehaa (I have my teeth in and the hillbilly still comes out in me), $65 saved. I have a helmet mount for my GoPro and run the microphone cable down into my helmet, under the cheek pads inside the helmet, clip the cheek pads back into place, and Voila .... I am ready to Vlog.

Went out today and recorded my first video with voice. It is not as easy as it seems and the odd swear word did get into the video, I will have to find out how to edit swear words out, but for now, block your ears kiddies.

After some basic editing, the result can be found here on my YouTube channel.

Happy Watching.