This was first time in year I didn't go to Taiteiden Yö with intention to shoot videos. Few years ago there were many events out doors to shoot. Last years there have been more events but almost everything has been indoors. I made this choice after trying to figure out what to shoot and finding only one which would work as video. Next year I probably just go there to enjoy the events and forget video and stills. This is what I got this year.
I found cycling again this summer. I raced on road at the turn of the millennium. I didn't stop cycling after I stopped racing. It just didn't feel fun and I rode too hard remembering how fast I rode when I raced. After few weeks I was too tired to continue or pushed through over training symptoms until I hated cycling and didn't want to ride any more.
Something happened this summer. I didn't feel I had to ride faster. I felt I could ride fast enough and it was fun again. I am riding slowly but it doesn't feel too slow. I could ride correct speed based on my current form. This may not sound like big thing but it is. It has made riding bike fun again. So fun that I bought new bike.
When I saw fat bike first time I wondered why anyone would want one. Now when I have one I can under stand. It is fun. It is not harder to ride than mountain bike with cross country tyre pressures. Bigger tyres make it easier to ride over roots and provide enough suspension even without suspension forks.
Original plan wasn't to buy fat bike. I just wanted mountain bike without suspension fork. Fat bikes were only ones fitting the specification. There are full suspension fat bikes but most are still without suspension forks. When I learnt you should be able to ride on almost any terrain I knew I had to get one.
Only down side is that pedals are wider apart than in other bikes because of bigger tires. It takes bit getting used to if you ride other bikes too. It takes few kilometers to get used to when I ride fat bike after riding cyclo-cross bike and vice versa. Other than that I am happy with the bike.
I spent way too much time watching Tour de France. It was too hot to do anything other than ride bikes and watch Tour. Next video will be about something else. Not sure about what yet. I have idea for one video but it has to wait for when it gets darker. I will make something before that.
I really hate how Youtube compression messes these faster videos. It looked better on rendered video but Youtube had to mess it even though video had settings Youtube should prefer. I have one idea how ti fix it but it waits for paid version of DaVinci Resolve 15 to be available. It is in paid Resolve 14 but I won't buy it because 15 is coming soon.
We would have had long lunar eclipse if it didn't happen behind clouds. Here are some shots I took instead of lunar eclipse. To be honest I had wrong camera gear with me to shoot moon so it wasn't such a loss for me. I only missed the experience.
My short Tour de France preview. Footage is shot around Helsinki because my video production budget doesn't allow me to go shooting footage to France. If this gets lot of views and likes I might do another one after the race reviewing the race.
I have been away for a while but I am coming back. I took break from almost all content creation when I took break from Youtube. It wasn't my original plan but I didn't feel like doing anything and it just happened. More reasons for it in the video above. This site will be more active from now on.