YouTube - what are your favorite and hated bike channels?

[VladTepes]

I HATE Delboy's garage - he's a tool. Passing on BAD techniques and spending all his time of 'production' but with increasingly cliche and predictably schilling bullshittery.

I LOVE Dirty Garage Guy (Matt). He's an engineer by trade, largely does know what he's talking about AND has a series of videos taking the absolute PISS out of Del.  The latest one about Del painting triple trees' is a cracker. The best ever was his commentary on one where Del changed the coolant in a bike while it was boiling hot. But not just post-ride boiling hot, deliberately heated up as the 'correct' way to do it.       

I like FortNine (esp cinematography with is 'Top Gear' quality), For the Bold, Bike EXIF, Dan Dan the Fireman (good riding safety tips and post accident reviews)  and several other smaller channels of people I know in the UK an USA.

Dickhead list also includes The Missenden Flyer, Chase on Two Wheels, MaxWrist, Jake the Garden Snake, and LOTS of others.

[grog]

Dont watch a lot but Delboy, Bearded and Missenden are just the pits. Millyard my favourite. Love his inventions, his videos come across as if hes just made coffee not a V8 Kawa 900.

[Tony Nitrous]

Fortnine just annoys me in trying too hard to be funny or put on a show and just like the GSX1400 review posted elsewhere, if you actually own a bike that he does a review on he's really not that good.  His clips are a bit more professional but he often misses the mark on accuracy. He's been called out a few times for posting misinformation on bikes and riding.

Of the ones I find hard to fault is anything with Johnny Mac in it. He knows his stuff, is down the earth and doesn't need to try and be a comedian or preach.  He used to work for Performance Bikes but I think he's now independent and does stuff for the new Fast Bikes Magazine.

He's one of the presenters on this...

[Tony Nitrous]

There was a guy in the US who bought himself a H2 SX SE and started posting up reviews and How-To clips.

The first one he mentioned how the SX uses more aluminium in the frame than the sports model...
(It's a steel frame!)

He then posted up how the SX has a stronger engine than the sports model and is much tougher...
(It's not and several have grenaded trying to make sports H2 numbers)

He did a review on how to fit the luggage and it's mountings.
(Not realising he was missing the lower mounts completely that stop the box's flapping about) 


Never let the fact you don't know your subject stop you being a You Tuber! 

[VladTepes]

Never let the fact you don't know your subject stop you being a You Tuber! 

Yep, And apparently tik-tok is MUCH worse. But I refuse to look.

[froudy]

Delboy=Useless
Millyard=Genius

[Hooli]

I've hardly never watched any. I gave my TV away in 1997 & I'm not going to start boring myself with the same crap via a difference device now.

[Batkwaka]

How Triumph built the Rocket 3 is the most amazing piece of motorcycle development you will ever see!


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[Notty]

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Dickhead list also includes The Missenden Flyer, Chase on Two Wheels, MaxWrist, Jake the Garden Snake, and LOTS of others.

The Missenden Flyer may be a Dick but his YouTube channel earns him £100k a year and he rides all the latest bikes- I could be a Dick quite happily 

[Jeykey]

Favourites: MC Garage from Motorcyclist magazine, for tyres, suspension,... definitely Dave Moss Tunning, for entertainment Fortnine, safety MotoJitsu, MC Rider, DanDan, UK police channels; Bennets BikeSocial,..
Hate: a lot of shit on YT!

[Tony Nitrous]

A little off topic, but the "Customer states..." series are worth a watch.

Some are quite funny, many are quite a worry that these folk are out there !

[Kiwifruit]

Another vote for Millyard......clever bugger 

[Yetiman]

This one's interesting..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi-AnoxUQgU&t=2s

[Tony Nitrous]

Another vote for Millyard......clever bugger 

As I've mentioned before, I met him in 2015 and had a chat with him. He had his 5000cc V-twin and his 8000cc V10 bikes with him.  I knew of his builds and had followed his work for quite a while, the thing that struck me wasn't how good his bikes and work is, or what he achieves from home, it was what a nice, modest guy he is.  For someone with such amazing skills and the ability to design and problem solve he comes across as quite a humble guy.

[Tony Nitrous]

This one's interesting..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi-AnoxUQgU&t=2s

So why use engine flush?

It's no secret how much old oil you leave in the motor and oilcooler when you do an oil change, the amount of oil going into a dry build is very noticeably more than an oil or oil and filter change, and if (as he said) the bike had just been ridden in and was up to temperature, isn't there a danger of leaving flush in the oil cooler etc ?

Personally the money wasted on flush is better spent on closer together oil changes.