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I'm increasingly watching more and more You Tube. The quality of some of the channels seems to me to have increased markedly. So what are you watching? Bikey or not.
Retropowercars, Laura Kampf, Simone Giertz, Fitter food, AthleanX, Andy Mumford, MotoGP, Racer Tv, GMBN, Buff Dudes are all getting a watch just now.
Carwow, seriously I’m still watching that. The presenter is really good at simplifying complex machines right down to the basic needs of getting in/out, boot space, fuel consumption (actual/claimed) and how they drive over the UKs Godly Woeful road network.
Sade, I love Sade.. the live 2011 are on constant repeats.
Surfing, some are shit, some are over produced Brand placement training schemes.. but the POV ones are neat (normally)
Flamenco Guitar, some astronomically proficient and passionate players out there..
Theres no real need to give he site names, just search for stuff.
One main issue I have with YouTube is thier “next up”. It rarely follows the profile page you are watching at the time and often includes all sorts of random crap .. which I hate.
I like the travel type stuff;
SV Delos (sailing adventure)
Kombi Life (VW travel series) (loosing its charm as they keep pulling the heart-strings for Patreon support and its no longer a happy-go-lucky 'mobilecouchsurfing' adventure)
Beard Brothers (traditional touring/wildcamping trips) (nice change from all the superlightweight bikepacking videos)
Brave Dave (no nonsense adventures, camping in caves and illegal trainhopping across USA)
Sampson Boat Co (traditional boatbuilder rebuilding a massive old wooden sailing boat) (like proper, pull it to bits, make new keel type stuff)
The Indie Projects (campervan stuff)
Project binky
Crafsman. Regardless of whether he's telling you anything you need to know its just nice listening to a kind voice.
Then as a palette cleanser - Dr Steve Brule
Phoenix nights.
It's a twenty foot cock and balls man.
Oh, no particular channel, but a lot of the Fred Dibnah steeplejack stuff is on there 🙂
As I'm currently on a fortnight's holiday,I'm mainly watching stuff about renovating a bathroom or laying a patio...
As a motorcycle race fan there's some good stuff on there.Have a look at Josh Brookes on board from last years Classic TT practice,search for Wiz Norton TT. a couple of documentaries are; Isle of man TT The peoples race & Isle of man TT A dangerous addiction.There's also a lot of BSB footage on Youtube.
There are also a lot of episodes of Still Game on there.
Iohan Gueorguiev for brilliant cycling travels
Thomas Heaton for some landscape photography
Your mum's house for the chuckles
Bigclivedotcom for electrical widgets being pulled apart by a bearded Scotsman. Very dry sense of humour. The Butt plug episode is funny. Fanny Flambeaux is hilarious.
Retro power and the Gordon Murray escort is a thing of beauty.
Primitive Technology.
Makes everything from scratch, bootstraps one thing from another.
Awesome.
You've got to watch the 2InchOfGnar! 😉😉
Thomas Nagy, London Electrician Extrordinaire
Luke Vernon, makes truck driving look appealing.
Ben Cathro and Ali Clarkson. Usually separately.
Matt Jones
Sebastian Keep
Bike shed motorcycle club
Old Empire motorcycles
For the bold
Old Roadkill stuff before it ran out of ideas, the alaska trips are a good place to start.
Just watched my first Goblin Works Garage which is growing on me- it suffers a bit from reality TV bullshit and they don't always show the interesting bits but it's basically solid. And they made a pretty nice Capri with a stupid engine in, which I Approve.
If you want an insight into American paranoid gun culture....have a watch of Active Self Protection.
i actually find the presenter guy quite likable, but hus perception of risk is so skewed its unreal.
Just a normal bloke restoring a 911 in his shed. He's now also doing a datsun 240z.
Maybe the best car show on youtube?
Short video "explainers" on current affairs - useful for stuff that you would like to understand a bit better, but don't want to spend hours reading about.
Low-res, slow-fi, and great:
HOOKS
Stephen Pern walks 3000 miles across Britain's uplands with the mission of supplying each bothy with hooks on which to dry clothing and gear.
Also some old skool hardasnails rigid MTB shenags:
And haptic feedback gloves/VR demo
Hooks is a masterpiece. Watched it twice now, clear an evening and settle in, brilliant. I want to be him when I grow up.
AvE.
Numberphile (helps if you're drunk, maths makes more sense drunk I find).
A compilation of Bob Mortimer appearances on would I lie to you had me in stitches for 30 minutes.
I like Mighty Car Mods- especially how if you go back to early episodes they had no idea what they were doing. "This is how you basically smash a cheap stereo into your girlfriend's car all squint and then wire it wrong", to "We stuck a 3.6 boxer 6 in this grandad car then wedged a turbo on it and now when we drag race it it shits out driveshafts". Also I kind of like that Moog is a pure fanny.
We just need a show of turbo yoda talking to camera about whatever he wants to talk about today, I'd watch that.
Scotty Cranmer, old bits of 8 out of 10 cats does countdown, and weird agricultural machines.
GCN, NHL hockey, and bushcraft videos at Haus von SaxonRider.
Pithy BIkes for a guy who took up framebuilding as a hobby in his garage, learning as he goes.
Skills With Phil and Seth's Bike Hacks for some US based MTB stuff.
Mike Boyd - the videos of leaning to wheelie and manual are great but so is everything else.
Cars: Tom's Turbo Garage - his V8 MX5 build is worth watching, then there's plenty of other stuff. Mike Finnegan (of Roadkill) has his own channel. [url= https://www.youtube.com/user/TheeKookTube/ ]George Karellas' Soup series[/url] is ace too, he's restoring a Range Rover, an Esprit and a VW T2, nice stop-motion filming and interspersed with interesting inteviews. Deserves way more subs than it has. Carfection have been putting out some great stuff particularly since Henry Catchpole joined. Fully Charged for all things EV and Bjorn Nyland for all things EV in the cold. Johnny Smith has been putting out some great stuff on his own channel recently too.
Motorbikes: ARiemann1 for incredibly shot off-road stuff, Motogeo for great travelogue stuff, 44teeth for cocking about.
Makers: Jackson Works, Kyle Toth, Ishitani Furniture, Frank Howarth, Four Eyes Furniture, Tim Sway, Paul Sellers, Matt Cremona, Matthias Wandel, Peter Millard, Sandra Powell, WM Walker, April Wilkerson, ILTMS, Diresta, Evan and Katelyn, Jon Peters, way more I've forgotten about but those I'll pretty much watch anything new of theirs.
Also some old skool hardasnails rigid MTB shenags:
The only thing cooler than that Bell Image is the bum bag.
Matt Guthmiller, he flies a single engined Beechcraft Banshee plane around the US and eats food....he also joined two others to fly a light aircraft across the Atlantic from Boston to Salzburg ( includes how to go to the loo in a tiny plane while wearing an artic ocean survival suit...)
Bikes and computer stuff
bkxc
singletracksampler
mtbscotland
mctrailrider
ben cathro
trail features
Average mtb guy
B1ker
gamersnexus
jayztwocents
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Thomas Nagy, London Electrician Extrordinaire
Luke Vernon, makes truck driving look appealing.[/i]
Good shout 🙂
If you want another 'truck driving looks appealing', watch Allie Knight:
And a completely left field 'why did Youtube suggest this?' is Tisha Unarmed, who shows how she leads an independent life without a shed load of special adaptations to her house or a fleet of carers attending to her every want. Quite inspirational...
https://www.youtube.com/user/tishaunarmed/videos
The only thing cooler than that Bell Image is the bum bag.
I just pronounced that 'emarge'. In my head. To quote the neo-renaissance philosopher Karl Pilkington:
am I in control of me head, or is me head in control of me?
The quality of some of the channels seems to me to have increased markedly.
Agree. The production quality has increased with content at the same quality as a lot of TV stuff. Mainly down to the fact that you can get good revenue if you run a channel that get millions of views a months.
I mostly watch stuff that includes bass guitar, synths, cars, bikes, photography
I been following J Mantzel since he started to build a 'giant robot' in 2007/8?
Also watching Wintergatan build the second incarnation of the Marble Machine which was a viral video a couple years back. The new one looks to be 1000x better.
Other than that the usual mtb stuff.
Sciency Stuff
Kurzgesagt
CGP Grey
William Osman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vl8-5udtII
Fitness
AthleanX (try this abs workout)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB8Iom51fdA
Alan Thrall
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRLOLGZl3-QTaJfLmAKgoAw
Random stuff
Primitive technology
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA
I like watching the CGI Annimated short films, of all genres not just sci-fi..
The Slow Mo Guys basically blow stuff up and film it at a ridiculous number of frames per second.
It's fun.
Ebike vs Lycra
inside the chieftains hatch (tall bloke in small spaces 🙂 )
lindybeige (french hating dancing "historian")
Can't believe no-one has posted applied science. Brilliant.
As above, AVE, this old Toney, kieth fenner, diresta, welding tricks and tips, some of Seth's bike hacks, anything front brake related BMX.
Ben Cathro
Joe Rogan Experience
Bert Kreischer
wandering the stranger parts of youtube I came across this, be aware it is a body, but I found it fascinating.