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good morning welcome back to the videos we Alexandra Palace and we are out of breath which is awfully stick we are riding out of London up North for 2024 edition of North London dirt hopefully bit of a sunnier Affair this year flash back to last year good people at orle we’ve got us along to shoot some content for them we figured we take you kind of behind the scenes just go out for a nice bike ride really good 7 hours 8 hours bike riding route is super interesting about 110 km and it’s basically all of the easily accessible gravel sections around North London which You’ be surprised to find there is quite a lot of what we got a little handlebar do youit you know how this goes this go on the bike let’s do this on put only 200 in yeah Dr me to come over and help put it on this is how we protect our lenses that’s right I’ll edit it to make it look super smooth and easy what’s most likely to get stolen if we leave this act natural Alice that a sticker nice tattoo then stick it on cing come back and do those don’t worry we won’t really we should we need a little friendship bracelets friendship wait wait let me get a PO trying to get friends hang on hang on look at my filthy gloves going to keep falling off my bike oh my a friend feel like you’re a little princess and I’m putting on your shoe hey Alice long time no chat I take eyes B now I told you I’m putting in my Instagram by it said like 3 minutes good morning Street day 258 I’m not with everyone watching cuz I can’t do it you got stage right now and we have the sheet pack QR so basically we release this sin strap here and then release these bits here just pops off wo that’s pretty neat all this Hardware is made at lead in Germany on then basically we just pop on here and then straight back on seamless did you just edit that bit out there we go no and then we just cinch these are why is it not going on there you go no cuz it actually does go on proper easy it is partly still the fact this saddle position is a bit oh no look oh seamless look at that easy [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] very much there’s quite a few of us coming to give you a heads up thank you very much thank you and you [Music] [Music] supposed to be a mud done North London mud you’re getting close to halfway actually I think yeah yeah maybe [Music] no [Music] woohoo through theid Doo is it worth stopping there for a minute [Music] send it come [Music] on can’t do that careful I hope you got that absolutely need that it’s a video Don’t You Worry perfect place to land it’s here especially people are going to say that stay he should have landed in that that was amazing thank you guys you going to put that uh it’ll be on Instagram I’m sure as long as this what’s your name I’m not saying so thought everyone’s falling off by this part send it no I’ll do it again fix nice yeah man that’s how to do it good job good job keep BR that better than anyone with gears has of course [Applause] that was close I think this is officially like a swamp this is like a mattress for landing on the people from the houses were shouting like you’re sign up yeah so maybe they put this mattress here for us you descend super fast and then you come into like roted bogginess and it’s a really deep rut like it’s an ankle deep rut they com in hide in the bush oh oh no no we’re not here we’re not oh no way running I know I was like that was really [Music] creepy woo woo [Music] great time to go the C out why [Music] are you on North Landon D no okay cool [Music] sorry just got stuck in on his bike well moving thanks to the all I can do is just put it in TI of best on the bik that’s where it came from so this to the D rappers oh my Lord my feet are soaked any not something to be precious [Music] about you doing drin [Music] I’m glad didn’t go there there little bit [Music] oh we got a log there that actually all [Music] right sorry sorry guys we’re coming up to halfway now we’ve not really had much time to like nice noise making M for noises not had much time to talk to the camera cuz it’s doing pretty intense I feel like when we’re on the move and it’s like not visually interesting or entertaining or whatever we just try to like to it through them parts so we go from like above threshold to like stop dead like get the cameras out get the GoPros out get the Drone out piss off some drivers bit of chaos bit of mud bit slippering slipp bit slipping bit slipping around might be a bit of a mish mash of footage at the moment uh because that’s kind of what it is in real life um but coming into the halfway stop now I have a breather have a kind of monster hopefully that Alice has got us and it’s all I can think about uh I then go again for the second half this is L hosen we’ve got a little shirt why why why it’s all Le’s German isn’t it and know right we’re at the Midway stop drones up drones going off to get the or Leaf [Music] tent pretend I’m not here is this getting filmed uh no thank you you got to pull that out and grab this come [Music] out seamless that’s amazing there back I just need a bit of space you’re doing that sport what is that sport yeah that one [Laughter] nice I expect just like bib shorts it looks kind of hot kind of doing it for me oh my God where did he go yeah I video crash this is why you should hire us to film your events we’ll do all the extracurricular activities as well I’m putting stuff in the leaf R do you want to see another orle rapper wrap for me wrap for me you’ve got a wrap didn’t get the joke plan plan failed successfully why in the be that’s the level of [Music] [Applause] the nice flat roll vegan chicken nice and simple carbs it’s almost like a is that yeah like a solidified but it’s really it’s really good actually it is surprisingly good um we just got the join up here not lost it so far there’s not much to crash into here apart from the pylons oh the water oh my gosh [Music] my heart is so full look how soft they look good good good protect yeah you’re going to get your ankles [Applause] bit hey excuse me that was so gnly so if you remember our your dog should ride a bike video this is where we shot it one of our winter moing areas this point last year I think we’ve been rained G soak through the camera stopped working couldn’t hear anything on the GoPro how do you think it comp pass thank you we in eing now that’s like the steepest the sun in Z from that direction very muddy and I was like I was going all right and then and then you start getting no attaction and you’re like this is a waste of energy that I’m going to desperately need for the remaining 3 hours maybe four of today we got off from walk I think the route takes a lot of the main path Bo eping and the main gravel paths which are really lovely a lot more chilled than how we just entered we just went past filmed the gravine video Yeah speaking of which these tires are sick I’m having like I just think these are so perfect for what we’re doing I feel like quick but safe and secure and like what I’m rolling over it’s good good tires would you say yeah great really great I just feel quite lucky that we have such appropriate tires cuz there has been such a mix of gravel and mud and literally every kind of surface these are the most appropriate British gravel [Music] cars mhm no one’s coming Theo’s there with the Drone in his hand with his little butt oh three hi we got I think it’s a nice shot if we wait for the next hey i’ got completely the handle EAS saf so we’re hiding in bushes again hopefully get some cool shots of people coming down coming through eing we’ve done about 2/3 of it maybe now we’re having a hard time cuz we don’t know when Riders are going to come whether we’re better off going ahead have we missed a big clump of riders and we should be going on because the next roide is going to be half an hour or are they going to be two minutes and they’re going to come down and skid their way down here and we’re going to get the best footage ever like we don’t know we think we’ve got some decent footage are you happy with what you got yeah I think so I we’ve definitely got enough to make like a good video already but we just want like good coverage of the route and good coverage of all the Riders the only problem is we we we’d like to get to the Finish ahead of a good amount of riders as well oh someone’s coming come on Ruby come on Ruby we were waiting we be waiting for rages come back again into it come on yes never in [Music] down oh thank you she was just holding a massive cat squash face cat oh really big one of those the really fancy ones yeah in own how’s your ride been today good having a good day great day I feel like if I’m not super fast in the next cross season for having done this one ride like it’s I’m quitting this is it this is one I reckon [Music] I we’re back in London just came in through onead Flats which is a really cool place we’ve never been to before 14k left on our route so maybe 10K left until we’re back the start finish start to get a nice drone shot that we kind of had in mind that we planned yesterday Ral show there it is [Music] and we were kind of waiting for Riders before Theo had the Epiphany that like there’s two of us yeah wouldn’t be nice if a rider came along underneath the shot I was like get on your bike we really heavily curated it and then as the shot was happening two Riders turned up which made it perfect anyway so it worked out in the end good result but it has cost us time a little bit of time and now we’re kind of try to chase to the Finish just going to try and rattle this out get back get some of the Vib to the Finish if anyone’s still there if anyone’s still there my bike didn’t sound like this when I started you’re good thank you see you take care a natural natural that is any do you want to tell me how your day was absolutely cracking all right [Music] it the a kit is just so durable I personally think you’re looking for that reliability dur like you’ll do well to break it and if you do everything we have it’s [Laughter] like that’s making it in the final how was your ride it was lovely you know like much better than last year last year I lost my sense of humor and the legs left the chat it was Carnage I came out in May thinking it’ be good and it was so wet it was so wet it was still wet today after a week of sun no but I take it the temperature is at least right in the right Direction my man down here and I enjoyed it we did enjoy it big game I just felt big bits of mud in mine rout was actually pretty good actually be surprised it is surprising isn’t it for So within London kind of in and around the M25 that’s it weaving in and out you weren’t expecting amazing stuff but at the same time you actually got you don’t want to be quite good stuff carried a few caterpillars of me though did you oh yeah that’s quite the passenger it’s pretty pretty crazy that was our North London uh thanks for watching the video massive thank you to orle for having us along um we’ll probably check in the edit of what we got up to just after this so definitely watch that definitely like the video subscribe to the channel and see you [Music] soon get that halfway around get all the good stuff good [Music] day under the sadle rail and hook home [Music] I hope you got [Music] that good times [Music] you bettering cross Kitt [Music] it’s been way muddier than it expected I was hoping to not clean my bike this evening B last year though yeah no but last year it was like obviously going to be muddy [Applause] [Music] oh oh hello little [Music] go on to the top to the top yeah that’s it [Music] was expecting a bit more dry but enjoyed the muddy section as you can see funny story I even like landed on my [Music] bomb definitely earn that pizza and beer absolutely cracking