Bespoken Word: Blowing my own trumpet
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
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.
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Guy Kesteven has been working on Bike Perfect since its launch in 2019. He started 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. He’s also penned a handful of bike-related books and he reviews MTBs over on YouTube.
Current rides: Cervelo ZFS-5, Specialized Chisel, custom Nicolai enduro tandem, Landescape/Swallow custom gravel tandem
Height: 180cm
Weight: 69kg
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