Aberystwyth bigs itself up!
Hello and welcome to the Great British Biking Adventures Coast Series. In this series we are travelling around the coast on our motorcycle, a Honda VFR1200X Crosstourer.
A lot of our viewers are bike enthusiasts but this series will appeal to a wider audience. Why? Because there’s so much more to the Coast series than motorcycles. There’s the challenges, the journey, geography, history and people. You get to travel the entire coast of England and Wales with us, see how we did it, share our ups and downs, experience English culture, the history and hear about the people that made Britain ‘Great’!
What’s also good about the coast series is it doesn’t matter when you start watching, it’s like one of those open top bus tours – you can get on at any point and just keep going until you arrive back where you started.
Who are we? We’re a husband & wife living in an unremarkable coastal town in England. We’ve been married 35 years and were brought together by motorcycles. One day, Esther’s Honda Melody broke down and she brought it to Jarrod’s motorcycle shop – the rest (as they say) is history.
One cold February day, we started riding along the seafront and just kept going. We wanted to record the experience to have something to watch in the future – the YouTube channel was an afterthought. Take a look at those first few episodes to see just how novice we were, cobbling together what little phone footage we had to try to make a story. To make up for our amateur recording and shyness we added information in the editing. This set the tone and style of our videos, we hope you like it. We like to think we’ve improved and hopefully you’ll agree, take a look, compare our earlier videos with the later ones and let us know in the comments.
There’s also the filming and production journey. When we started we knew nothing about filming, video and audio production, editing, YouTube and the like. We’ve learnt loads and spent loads in time and money along the way but it’s been almost as enjoyable as the journey itself. You’ll hopefully appreciate how far we’ve come.
But what’s with all those bible verses we hear you say. We know some of you don’t appreciate this aspect, one or two have told us in the comments! That’s fine – it really is. All are equally welcome here, believers and unbelievers. It would be a pity if you enjoyed everything else but just stopped watching because of the Christian references but we completely accept you’re free to do as you please.
Our faith has prompted us to include a bible verse in our videos and sometimes a Christian perspective on the things we talk about. The channel is not about Christianity but our faith cannot be separated from it. We hope and pray that it will make you think, inquire and even bring you into a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ.
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You really put a massive effort into fact finding and editing!! i hope other viewers appricate all that effort as much as i do. Thank you both again for my Friday motorcyle adventure fix. TTFN and enjoy your weekend.
That looks a great place to stay, we would have liked it there, Just sitting out there with a morning coffee would be shear bliss. Oops looks like next weeks going to be interesting in not a good way.
I stumbled across your channel and have been binge watching ever since, its amusing for me as a native welsh motorcyclist who has travelled many of the roads and visited the towns you have so diligently researched, which is the source of my amusement as you know far more about them than I, so thank you both for educating me lol. I may be biased but Wales has it all for motorcyclists to enjoy so thank you for sharing your experiences with your growing You Tube Community …… roll on Episode 66
That’s put me in a good mood for the weekend. Here in Leeds tomorrow is showing sun and 18c. Thank goodness.
It’s been a wetter than wet first quarter of the year. He’s hoping for some dry warm days. Keep up the good work. Still wondering where your next epic tour will be?? 👍👍
Watched all your vids on my husbands channel very enjoyable and going to have some adventures myself soon on my Himalayan 😊❤
Another great video😎😎
Another thoroughly enjoyable vlog. West Wales south of Aberystwyth is my favourite part of the Welsh coastline. Look forward to the next installment.🙂👍
Fascinating story to the ex-hotel. I wonder what happened to all the people who ran & owned it pre-war? That bungalow/hotel was a right win, such a shame the weather was bad and you 'had' to stay another night 🤣 Yikes, the next episode looks a little stressful 🙈
Thankyou for this. It’s really ensconcing. My daughter went to uni in Aber and became a lovely ride to place. Its really endearing when you get to know it, but if uni ever closes it will decay to a slum
Always good to see your offerings, but thanks for this one in particular, especially with the Gwbert connection; that hotel was my base with the coach during the 2008 season, and I have pleasant memories of that little tour, especially playing with the dolphins in my kayak on my days off! Thanks for reigniting my interest in Wales. 👍