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Old 10-16-21, 09:55 AM
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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.
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Originally Posted by late
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.
you're right. It is a goofy question. Not a single question mark can I find.
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Old 10-16-21, 04:15 PM
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Its ok. We're all allowed to be goofy once/while
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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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Originally Posted by skidder

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.
Yup, I used to watch it. I liked it, but they didn't try very hard to hide the cheating.
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Old 10-17-21, 05:23 AM
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Originally Posted by late
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.
The first two bolds seem mutually exclusive. Third is the charm.
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Old 10-17-21, 05:39 AM
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Originally Posted by shelbyfv

The first two bolds seem mutually exclusive.
Only if you think with the adipose tissue located in your posterior.
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Originally Posted by late
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.
There was another guy who used to post in here with a similar title for his product on whatever platform he was using. He was from Nevada and he was riding across the country a few days at a time... so he went from Los Angeles to Bakersfield one week, flew back home, flew back to Bakersfield and rode to Vegas a few weeks later... took him almost a year. He got interviewed by radio stations in small towns and such. It was mildly interesting.

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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Old 10-17-21, 10:12 PM
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. . . . but I think the proper context is to think of them as something you do for yourself . . . . .
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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Old 10-19-21, 12:54 PM
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Originally Posted by skidder
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.
Jake and the fat man!
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Old 10-19-21, 02:43 PM
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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/
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