Hey everyone! It's been a little bit quiet this week in the cycling community, maybe 
I was also not posting as much as I usually do and I didn't even spend a lot of lot of time playing Splinterlands because I had something else to direct my time and energy to, learning how to create video's now I have a cool camera 😆 because with sharing pictures on my posts lately, I created anticipation in moving content instead of just some pretty pictures.
The original plan was that my daughter was going to start her YouTube channel and I would just use the camera when she wasn't with me on the rides and I would create some video's on my own to get some feeling and experience so I could help her with her plans...
HOWEVER... a teenager can be a bit... fickle sometimes, let alone a female teenager... 😇
So in the end, she don't want to commit the time and effort it needs to learn everything and speaking not in her native language in front of the camera was very much out of her comfort zone and honestly I totally agree on that last part, for years now I am using English on a daily basis here on hive but TALKING is something else so I definitely need some time to get better at that. 😅
Setting up my channel and optimizing everything required watching a lot of video's how this is done in the best way, and this now my own YouTube MTB / Cycling channel: Mountainbiking - The Dutch Way.
We have a saying in Dutch, 'met de billen bloot' which translates to "bare all" and it feels a bit like that honestly 😆 well, promised expectations needs to be kept.
soooo... TADUM TADUM TADUM.... here is my first video!
When you're going to watch, please be so kind to not stop watching in the first minute to let the YouTube almighty algorithm know it doesn't suck 😅 thank you!
It's my second actually but the first one was really just testing things out and I'm learning as I go and it turns out there's a whole new world for me to discover how everything works on the backside of a video, with tags, descriptions, end screens, playlists and more...
To be fair... it's not even a mountain biking video 😅 but you can find my first video on my channel as well, that was filmed on the trail.
You can also select subtitles in different languages I have added, so far I'm adding Dutch, German, Portugese, Spanish, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Thai and French so hopefully my reach can be pretty much global, a man can have big dreams, right 🤣 do it good or don't do it at all...
For now, a new video will be released every Sunday morning in Europe (GMT)
With all these new things going, eating up my free time I have not neglected cycling and this week I'm over my 100km weekly goal.
This week, the bikes went to the local bike shop for their yearly maintenance which was the first time for my bike. It's almost been a year ago (next month) when I started cycling, crazy how much I learned and got stronger, I remember my first 18km ride and I couldn't walk for four days because my back hurts so bad. 😅
No Sunday Cycling Chit Chat prompt today without our fearless leader, but I figured we didn't need that to keep things going. 😃
The weather in The Netherlands today is great, I love Spring 😊 so in about one and a half hour, we'll be heading off to the trail again.