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Got a goofy question for ya
For a bunch of reasons, I have wound up learning a lot about training and nutrition. I've been vaguely considering starting a Youtube channel, it would be called Fat Man on a Bike.
However, I am not a techy. When my router stopped working because software was fighting other software, I haven't called Spectrum to get it working again, and that was a couple months ago. It made the apps on my phone disappear.
Not interested in making money, doubt many would even watch. I like sharing, but even a brief look tells me I'd have to learn strange new software, and I doubt my cheap cellphone has a good enough camera, so I'd prob have to get a Gopro or something.
I may have just talked myself out of it.
However, I am not a techy. When my router stopped working because software was fighting other software, I haven't called Spectrum to get it working again, and that was a couple months ago. It made the apps on my phone disappear.
Not interested in making money, doubt many would even watch. I like sharing, but even a brief look tells me I'd have to learn strange new software, and I doubt my cheap cellphone has a good enough camera, so I'd prob have to get a Gopro or something.
I may have just talked myself out of it.
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For a bunch of reasons, I have wound up learning a lot about training and nutrition. I've been vaguely considering starting a Youtube channel, it would be called Fat Man on a Bike.
However, I am not a techy. When my router stopped working because software was fighting other software, I haven't called Spectrum to get it working again, and that was a couple months ago. It made the apps on my phone disappear.
Not interested in making money, doubt many would even watch. I like sharing, but even a brief look tells me I'd have to learn strange new software, and I doubt my cheap cellphone has a good enough camera, so I'd prob have to get a Gopro or something.
I may have just talked myself out of it.
However, I am not a techy. When my router stopped working because software was fighting other software, I haven't called Spectrum to get it working again, and that was a couple months ago. It made the apps on my phone disappear.
Not interested in making money, doubt many would even watch. I like sharing, but even a brief look tells me I'd have to learn strange new software, and I doubt my cheap cellphone has a good enough camera, so I'd prob have to get a Gopro or something.
I may have just talked myself out of it.
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Search on the web as I'm pretty sure there was a BBC series called 'Fat Man On A Bicycle' that was shown here in the USA on PBS stations back in the 1980's/1990s. IT focused on a 'big' guy bicycling around different areas of European countries.
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Yup, I used to watch it. I liked it, but they didn't try very hard to hide the cheating.
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For a bunch of reasons, I have wound up learning a lot about training and nutrition. I've been vaguely considering starting a Youtube channel, it would be called Fat Man on a Bike.
However, I am not a techy. When my router stopped working because software was fighting other software, I haven't called Spectrum to get it working again, and that was a couple months ago. It made the apps on my phone disappear.
Not interested in making money, doubt many would even watch. I like sharing, but even a brief look tells me I'd have to learn strange new software, and I doubt my cheap cellphone has a good enough camera, so I'd prob have to get a Gopro or something.
I may have just talked myself out of it.
However, I am not a techy. When my router stopped working because software was fighting other software, I haven't called Spectrum to get it working again, and that was a couple months ago. It made the apps on my phone disappear.
Not interested in making money, doubt many would even watch. I like sharing, but even a brief look tells me I'd have to learn strange new software, and I doubt my cheap cellphone has a good enough camera, so I'd prob have to get a Gopro or something.
I may have just talked myself out of it.
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Change the title to appeal to more than cycling folk. Start cheap. If you enjoy - continue as you please. But to develop a following you must update regularly and inspire. Not a half hearted commitment, but also easily abandoned.
Change the title to appeal to more than cycling folk. Start cheap. If you enjoy - continue as you please. But to develop a following you must update regularly and inspire. Not a half hearted commitment, but also easily abandoned.
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Projects like this are a nice way to document important life events, but I think the proper context is to think of them as something you do for yourself, and offer to share with anybody who wants to see. Pretty rare to find anything in them that provides more than just entertainment and motivation.
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Exactly. Any blogs, YouTube channels, and Facebook pages I've started have been primarily for myself. I think it's a form of "thinking out loud" --
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I thought maybe I knew of this BBC series mentioned above, so I looked it up (Fat man on a bicycle) but I must have been thinking of something else. His name was Tom Vernon and he was a BBC journalist that wrote books on his cycling adventures and then created the videos. He did numerous other journalist positions for the broadcast and died in 2013 riding his bike.
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There was also a USA based "fat guy" on the internet. He was supposedly riding across the US but turned out to be a scammer. He would reel in the sponsors, then always had an excuse for not riding. It's been several years, can't remember his actual moniker.
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Googled it. The presumed scammer was Eric Hites, "Fat Guy Across America." Apparently he has given up cycling and now weighs in at 700#. https://www.drphil.com/shows/what-ev...cross-america/