Bespoken Word: Blowing my own trumpet

By Guy Kesteven
published

Guy has decided to give your eyes a rest and let your ears take a hammering instead as he goes live on the Downtime Podcast this week to put the spoken into Bespoken Word

Bespoken Word
(Image credit: Guy Kesteven)

I regularly come up on YouTube subtitles as 'Gas Turbine' which according to Wikipedia has a “characteristic whine that can be hard to suppress”. Apparently, they don’t like ‘idling’ either which you’ll probably work out is pretty accurate too as you listen to Chris Hall trying to keep me vaguely on line with the story of how I started biking, how I started testing and how teenage tank geeking, archaeology, component algorithms, a plastic light up chameleon and electrocuting grannies in Las Vegas buffets from the discomfort of a hijacked wheelchair all play a part in the story so far.

Guy Kesteven
Guy Kesteven
Technical-Editor-at-Large

Guy Kesteven is Bike Perfect's technical editor-at-large. Hatched in Yorkshire he's been hardened by riding round it in all weathers since he was a kid. He spent a few years working in bike shops and warehouses before starting writing and testing for bike mags in 1996. Since then he’s written several million words about several thousand test bikes and a ridiculous amount of riding gear. To make sure he rarely sleeps and to fund his custom tandem habit, he’s also penned a handful of bike-related books and talks to a GoPro for YouTube, too.


Rides: Pace RC295, Cotic FlareMax, Specialized Chisel, Vielo V+1 gravel bike, Nicolai FS Enduro, Landescape custom gravel tandem

Height: 180cm

Weight: 69kg