The speedway awakens: building a backyard mountain bike course

I've been in New Hampshire for several months. Living with my Mother!

What better way to keep busy during the global pandemic than home improvement? Soon after I arrived in April, my brother Hive account@jhimmel and I began work on a backyard mountain bike course.

My new documentary tells the rest of the story:

This course is known for its multiple elements including the "drop of death" whose surface consists of 33 locally-sourced beams of despair.

Thanks Hive account@jhimmel, Hive account@trang, Hive account@hirschey, and Hive account@gourmetcellist for the help making the course. I'm redirecting 32% of the post rewards to your accounts as a way of showing my appreciation.

Here's a bonus photo that's not part of the video. A Hive exclusive:

Notice the Ostrich Ferns on the right. They make for delicious eating in their younger fiddlehead stage. Just make sure not to harvest more than half of the fiddleheads per crown for sustainability.

Background music

The background sound (played twice) is called Oppression For Your Dignity, which I found on the audiohub royalty-free music page and is released under a CC BY 4.0 License.

Side note

I was looking for a way to post the video on a Hive-based site. But I wasn't able to get Hive account@threespeak working. First, I deplore having to provide any of my private keys to an untrusted site. And Hive account@threespeak doesn't support Hive Keychain. Second, even when I tried to provide my Posting Key, it didn't work. I was never able to attach my Hive account with my 3speak login.

And if it did work, is Hive account@threespeak materially any different than embedding a YouTube link? Both methods are using a centralized video hosting service to store the video and only using Hive for rewards and commenting.

Any advice on decentralized video platforms?