Tuscany Trail Bikepacking: problematic start

[@DavideTravelli]

🇬🇧🇮🇹🇪🇸 🇬🇧If you find the videos entertaining or useful and want to "buy me a coffee or drink", consider making a donation to support the channel and my round the world adventure: contact me or simply www.paypal.me/davidetravelli or revolut.me/davidetravelli (please write your email address so I can send you a thank you note). 🇮🇹Se la visione ti è piaciuta, valuta la possibilità di fare una donazione, "offrirmi da bere o un caffe" a supporto del canale e del giro del mondo: contattatemi o semplicemente www.paypal.me/davidetravelli o revolut.me/davidetravelli (per favore scrivi il tuo indirizzo email così posso inviarti una nota di ringraziamento). 🇪🇸Si te ha gustado verlo, considera hacer una donación "ofrecerme una bebida o un café" para apoyar el canal y en la vuelta al mundo en bici: contácteme o simplemente www.paypal.me/davidetravelli o revolut.me/davidetravelli (Por favor escribe tu dirección de correo electrónico para poder enviarte una nota de agradecimiento)

[@bikepackingg]

How beautiful are single track roads.

[@DavideTravelli]

Indeed 👊

[@Hootyhoo-jq9vq]

I love the videos.

[@DavideTravelli]

Cheers!

[@impecuneous]

Thanks!

[@DavideTravelli]

Thank you so much for the support!

[@georgezip3628]

Lovely route again. A lot more friendly than the last one you attempted. Hopefully you managed to sort your brakes out. Looks like you need good brakes doing your routes.

[@DavideTravelli]

Eventually I did...cheers!

[@cowymtber]

I replaced my BB7s on my touring bike with TRP Spyre mechanical brakes. Much stronger, more reliable. But more expensive, unfortunately.

[@DavideTravelli]

Yeah I would like to have a look at them. I like the fact that bb7 are very easy to take apart and put back together.

[@ferruccio4531]

Talking about reliability, my BB7 have clocked more than 100,000km with no servicing and no issues and they are still going strong. I have now a second bike that I only keep for long tours and I have switched to regular shimano deore 180mm disk brakes to enjoy good braking with little effort on the levers. The switch was more a whim than anything.

[@ferruccio4531]

Hi Davide, did you sort out the issue you had some time ago with PayPal? I'd like to make a donation, but I want to make sure you'll actually get it. By the way did you lose the spring that holds the pads apart on your BB7 front brake? ciao

[@DavideTravelli]

Hi Ferruccio! Paypal is restored and also revolut and iban. I didnt lose the spring, I lost the the spreader. It's a little metal part that fits between the two sides of the brakes where the point of the pads and the spring fit. If you google Avid BB7 spreader you will see it www.bike24.com/p2212462.html

[@carbon12atom]

Davide my man, I really think you need to work on your storytelling! If you would dedicate just a few minutes of a video to the subject, e.g. in this case your brake problem, and show some gratitude, in this case for the 50,000 km of good use (50,000 km is about 10,000 km more than the circumference of the earth!) and if you would explain the technical problem of the mechanism that broke, you would have a nice story and you would engage a lot of people who would be curious and some of them would probably want to help you, and I am sure that even the company that makes those brakes would send you completely new ones, front and back, (if only you would mention their brand name of course!) because, they would be proud of their achievement and of course that of yours, which all together would be a very interesting episode and advertisement for them and for you! You probably think (and you have said it a few times) that people should watch your old videos, well, until now you could have noticed that people just don't! People always watch the latest video and that's it, if they get bored or don't like what they see they just scroll for something else! Being able to tell a good story is essential to keep people's attention (you're basically selling your adventure stories!) a good and engaging story is what keeps people's attention and makes them come back and what also makes the difference between 300, 3.000, 30.000 or 300.000 viewers!

[@DavideTravelli]

@@carbon12atom yes, you’re right I suck at story telling 🤦‍♂️

[@catwildsafari]

@@DavideTravelli Yes and no. There are KZbinrs who don't say a single word and in this way build a million-strong audience around them. Example: www.youtube.com/@go4x4media/videos

[@DavideTravelli]

@@catwildsafari I think Bogdan didnt mean talking, story telling could be even mute. He is right my story telling is very poor.

[@ferruccio4531]

@@DavideTravelli Yes, you suck, but in a very interesting way, at least 16,000 subscribers think so. To just be oneself I think is the best way to make videos.

[@DavideTravelli]

@@ferruccio4531 😊

[@roberto5602]

I think your ex girlfriend blocked you because you don't close the gates when you cross them.

[@DavideTravelli]

But I do as well as toilet seat in the proper position 🤷‍♂️