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Let’s talk to it another this is myself filming I’m filming here with the GoPro 7 and a GoPro 10 10860 uh this is Norton Summit ad Australia T and under 2024 Andrew tidswell to my left just did a frame there um Adelaide man that is the host city of the tando since

1999 and I’ve seen every edition of the TDU uh since 1999 it’s an amazing race and it’s been amazing to see Riders careers start and finish guys like you know Sagan aady contador you know pogar Lance Armstrong a lot of careers started at the TDU and

Also finished at the TDU cookie man and ended his career in 2019 here um you know it’s it’s is the city man banter it’s B banade you know we love the magic cookies here um especially up Norton Summit new Norton Summit time today 11 minutes flat local Rider Chris Harper

Incredible time and I was just talking to Chris before then he said he did it solo and it’s quite a hot day today so Chris is in some serious form to be able to ride that quick up nor summer fantastic time there fantastic time um so yeah so basically doing some filming

Here just filming some sort of riders just looking at we’re talking about bike food we’re talking about nutrition we’re just about a lot of things cycling related you know me I’m I’m a big cycling nut never had a driver’s license age 46 but let’s talk about

Um adelade man and why Adela makes the two so special ask any PR Rider or any or person who involved with procycling and they all agree that Adelaide is the only city on Earth you could have a race like this you know it’s just a special City the climate the population density

The network of Roads the safety you know so I’m clly on the right we going to jump on his wheel get some get some heart rate up ad is just a special place all the Riders who come here have a really good experience with the training

Etc right they just like wow this such variety it’s you know obviously the flight from Europe’s not the best it’s better than sitting in a boat for 3 months but you know ad Adelaide as a city is it’s the only place you could hold a race like this because of the

Logistics you know it’s got that purpose balance of population density so you have the amenities the services and the population to support you know spectatorship and stuff like that but you don’t have the population like Sydney or Melbourne or you know New York City or whatever where it’s just it’s

Too hectic you know Adelaide is just a very very special City and I’ve traveled around the world a lot and I I’m going to put my hand up and say adade is the best city in the world not just cuz I live here not just cuz you know I work

For South Australian tourism Comm not not not none of that all right honestly man I I generally believe if you took away all your friends and all your family and all your obligations all right and if you could live anywhere in the world where would you live you that

That’s that’s that’s how you find the place to live in life take away all your friends and family okay hypothetically your kids everything you know the the ego of like well I got to live in Sydney cuz that’s where successful people live and no that’s where stress people live stress

Kidney Sydney okay so if we took away all the ego all the obligations the family the friends all that stuff and you had to ask yourself a criteria of a city to live in for your best life quality your best health nature safety air quality all the things that we need

For human health you’re going to come come up with adelay now I if ad didn’t exist I wouldn’t live in Australia there’s no way I’d live in Australia now don’t don’t get me wrong I’m I’m grateful super super grateful and I understand my privilege of having an Australian passport so I ain’t I

Ain’t complaining here I’m just saying if ad didn’t exist I wouldn’t live in Australia you know or if I did live in Australia I’d just be homeless bike touring I could do that I could just ride around Australia perpetually as a homeless bro that’s that I could do that

Or I’d be living in Asia you know cuz Asia the culture there the setup it’s just amazing the the unfortunate thing about Asia is the pollution you know the traffic density it is uh is hectic you know the air quality Etc so it’s you know um but otherwise Asia is amazing

Like Thailand I mean the people in Asia you know like you just it’s a different vibe man and it’s not just how they treat tourists it’s like how they treat each other okay you know you I could go to a slum in the Phil I’ve been to slums

In the Philippines you know the poorest slums in Southeast Asia with the when I’ve taken the Tasha I’m wearing my Rolex I’ve got my brand new iPhone in my hand not a single problem okay deep into the slums where it’s open sewers people are like who where you lost your Jo there

Everyone’s super friendly and the ones who aren’t super friendly are just super surprised like what what are these guys doing here imagine that now imagine if you’re an Asian tourist from the Philippines and you went to some of the you know qu unquote slums of Australia you’re not going to get the same

Hospitality she she kind of get mugged bro right wearing a Rolex and a brand new phone and the youth see you you’re going to have some problems unfortunately you know I would have some problems unfortunately so it’s just and I’m a I’m a local Aussie Bogen redneck

So that’s why adade is just a special place it is amazing Place overall adade ticks the most boxes ring the St a BMC here and remember gang sugar makes you fat and cycling makes your legs massive okay I love that one doesn’t cycling make your legs very bulky and don’t they say

Suar makes you f oh we did a bike change look at that went from the St of BMC to team on that was a cool transition I’ll leave that one in team inos AK team Sky now we’re filming with the GoPro 10 you know like people like

Hy go get some footage of the pros go and jump on your 20-year-old bicycle with your rabbit sugar food diet and go and ride with the best Riders on the Planet up nor Summit and film it can you keep up on your 20y old bike I can keep

Up as long as I’m not going to Berserker you know that that’s that’s adelay man and this is like this is a couple of kilometers from my one of my one of my places that I I run all right the other day I was looking at my

Balcony on another place I have and I saw a freaking uh one of the team’s riding pass you know like I’ve I’ve G to check the mailbox you know and one of my places and the pro team rids past you know like World Tour team just ride past you know

Just check in the mail or check in the balcony for the pigeons and world to a team Riders ride past you you’re just a Serendipity of that adelade man that’s adelade all right that’s ad I’m sitting literally I’m sitting here a couple hundred meters away from the Hilton

Hotel where all the Riders are based I’m sitting here in my my my studio just editing This inos SUV there full drive coming past I do like the team Ki for anyos this year it’s a lot safer in terms of visibility you can see this

Guys coming from a mile away so I think that’s fantastic visibility for the athletes has to be in primary consideration some of these teams out there got such dark kit I’m like man what he’s doing what he’s doing I was talking with a uh an owner of a very

Very large cycling apparel brand one of the one of the one of the most well-known ones today and I was saying you should do some uh do some Quicksilver some Hot Tuna style stuff from back in the ‘ 80s big big bring back the color let’s bring back the

Color to cycling man let’s bring back the 80s let’s bring about the 90s let’s bring back some neon let’s make it safer for cyclist out there a lot of people don’t ride bikes because they fear the danger someone gets hit a friend and 99% of the time that person’s wearing dark

Clothing all right yeah I run lights at day yeah Daylights are great but they’re not as good as some neon socks or neon helmet are they I saw I see people in the city with neon helmets man they stand out out they s like stand out like

Cat balls this aan Kit’s pretty visible you know um who’s on my team who’s on my uh chopping block this year in terms of bad colors of teams they’re pretty good most of them they’re getting better um but yeah team sky with the black kit back in the day

That was good for racing but uh and good for you know cleaning but wasn’t good for visibility was it so it’s good to see that inos employing some marginal gains there in terms of safety visibility is important ride to return gang atas is the amazing City it’s the cheapest city

In Australia to live yes Australia has a massive it’s insane it’s it’s quite surreal to talk about it it’s a crazy reality but there’s a massive shortage of rentals right now in Australia a massive shortage of properties and the the prices are absolutely insan it’s a it’s crazy man and the

Reason that is is cu we’ have allowed so many immigrants into Australia the competition is just at an all time high you know was in my lifetime anyway you know so the immigration we’ve just let you know hundreds and hundreds of thousands in the last few years and it’s

Just it’s just they scooped up all the uh not all but majority of the uh rentals and property this has boomed it so good if you real real estate like me but if you’re looking to rent or buy and now then yeah it’s pretty hectic it’s very hectic so that was never an

Issue before like ADL like it’s just adade was this it is rad but before the rental crisis hit man you could just it’s just so cheap here man it was so cheap to get a room or get a rental it was just people just you know it’s crazy and it’s still the

Cheapest in Australia but for what it was compared to it’s pretty crazy man and it’s I I feel for people out there I I have very low anxiety levels for myself yeah I I have a amazing life my life is so amazing my anxiety is

For other people I’m like man I’m like I concerned about other people like you know like so I’m always out there giving people advice and helping them make the right step forward you know and if you’re hang around me long enough you I’ll be on your back and pushing you

Along in the right direction that’s all I’m doing but I I don’t have anxiety for myself I an have anxiety for other people it’s getting hardcore out there and Adelaide is sort of in a bit of a bubble Le with the lockdowns we had recently in the last

Few years so the coercion all that Adela was just very the most LAX it was the most LAX even the police here a bit more LAX about it and be like yes Adel it’s all good but there’s this ego isn’t there like if you live in Sydney or

Melbourne or Brisbane it’s like I’m going to Adel what are you going to Adel for Adela so there’s this massive ego cuz Adelaide’s seen us like this Adelaide oh Adelaide that’s just full NPCs just whenever someone bags you know they just they’re just living

Life on hard mode man I was going to say they’re loser now they’re losing in life in terms of they’re living life on loser mode hard mode okay not everyone’s been to Adel not everyone’s seen what I’ve seen Adel so I can relate that you know people people you don’t want be missing

Until you actually lived here any that’s the deal if you want a western city in the world to live in or city over roll I let me know Bel people what’s a better city in the world overall to live yes in France you have bigger mountains we’re

Talking cities not you know city city not you know what what do you have out there I don’t know any other city and I’m a World Travel please let me know down below which city in the world is better than Adelaide and let’s have a little friendly debate thanks for watching and

See you at the TDU come and watch TDU the best race in the world in terms of uh proximity and Logistics is unbelievable He