
Originally Posted by
tigertim20
Im curious though, what do you have to say thats so interesting that people will wanna sit in front of a laptop and watch you ride and ramble? - why not just go ride the fucking thing, do a trackday, go on a big touring ride. Ive never understood the need to snapchat, facetime, facebook, selfie, twitter, vlog every meaningless moment of ones life. Id rather just enjoy most of it as it happens
There are one or two genuinely entertaining or interesting ones. Even then, to keep things fresh is difficult. Roadcraft Nottingham is good, as he's got a fairly unique viewpoint (he's a riding instructor), owns/rides/reviews a bunch of different bikes, and has a bunch of cameras.
Most of them are just annoying extroverts who drop $500 on a GoPro, chuck it on their bike, swear for the sake of swearing, have no idea what they're going to talk about before they go out, and spend 15 minutes saying sweet fuck all (when they're not blasting along at 100mph with enough wind noise to blow your speakers).
Questions to ask yourself
- Go for a ride, pretend you have a camera and you're going to talk about something, are you good enough a rider that you can talk about something intelligently while still riding?
- Will you shoot footage along different routes or do you just commute the same route every day? Do you go touring and do trackdays? Will you be prepared to spend hours faffing about with cameras and memory cards during them?
- Are you prepared to spend hours upon hours editing the footage, cutting down a half hour rambling mess into 5-10 minutes that is actually interesting?
- Do you regularly spend money on things that you can review?
"It's hard to keep an open mind, when so many people are trying to put things in it"
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