Isn’t it amazing how relatively small gestures can mean so much. Does anyone know who these great guys are?
Hear about Whitehaven’s fascinating but chequered history. Beautiful St Bees and a railway station no one uses!
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.
So, why do we do it then? As Christians, we look to the bible to guide our lives. Believe it or not, the bible is not full of onerous tasks and rituals that we have to complete to get to heaven. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. There’s plenty you can do to prevent yourself going to heaven but nothing you can do to earn your way in. There are dozens of bible verses that confirm this up but I’ll just quote one – For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast – Ephesians 2:8-9.
The more well versed among you may be retorting with what the Bible says about faith without works. We’re not going to get all theological here but it’s wonderfully explained in the book of James chapter 2 verses 14-26.
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.
Now, we know our channel is not going to appeal to everyone and that’s fine, take a look and decide for yourselves. If it’s not your cup of tea, thanks for getting this far and giving us your time.
3 Comments
Another good video. I liked that you covered Whitehaven, the last time I went there was 18 + years ago and it did look run down. but I had heard that to port / dock area had been upgraded and yes it does look a lot better now.
Regarding riding in a T shirt and no gloves, I believe we all have the right to choose what we wear, but over 20 years of me being a volunteer instructor and preaching about dressing for the slide and not the ride.
Its plain to see you are a very experienced rider but you may have more faith in other road users than I have, seen riders knocked off their bike below 30mph and needed skin grafts.
I love your channel and would hate to see you or your wife injured.
From a purely selfish view if anything happened we miss out on your interesting video's.
This is not in any way a criticism just an instructors view and concern.
Made me chuckle that you addressed the jacket/gloves thing straightaway, hopefully that will keep the keyboard warriors quiet 🤞🏻 Loved the “why aren’t we stopping” image 🤣. In other news you’ve inspired me to create the Bristol Biker YouTube channel, just need to take some video now. I’ve been playing with iMovie & intro’s today, it’s very powerful.
That looked to be a very nice campsite, lucky encounters just happen sometimes. On the other subject, good on you for exercising your right to wear whatever you wish to (except the helmet) when riding a motorcycle. At some point I am sure there will be legislation brought in to take these rights away from us. Although I would not personally ride without a jacket and gloves I do appreciate the fact that I can wear a very lightweight airflow item. I would hate to have clothing restrictions forced upon us and take away that liberty. Keep safe, Mike.