Who am I?

'The Limey Rider' is a British motorcycle content creator on TikTok and YouTube. From comedy shorts to full length videos on biker bars, reviews of gear/bikes and much more.

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I found my way into motovlogging as a bit of a distraction from the stresses of life. It all started when I bought my first motorcycle - a Yamaha YBR Custom 125cc. This was my first taste of life on 2 wheels and I fell in love with it instantly.

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I began commuting to work on my little 125 and getting to grips with the basics of riding a bike. Throughout my commutes I'd pass people on much bigger bikes, who didn't have L plates on and all had really impressive looking gear.. But I noticed something, a lot of them were doing a little head tilt to the side every time I passed them. Slightly confused I researched exactly what this meant - was I doing something wrong and they were trying to alert me to it? No, as you all know it was a "Hey brother, ride safe" sort of gesture. Am I one of them now? I thought to myself, have they accepted me into their amazing world of 2 wheels even though I'm on this tiny little 125 with L plates on?

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Yes was the answer, every where I went the nods continued and I began to feel a part of the bike family. Now this is where my motovlog journey began. I ordered the cheapest action camera I could find and just stuck it on the side of my helmet. I wanted to capture all these riders nodding so I could show it off to my wife and be like "look how friendly they all are".

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Of course once I had a camera I began almost narrating my rides, documenting them for myself to watch when ever I wanted, so I showed my wife some of the footage and she said to me "that's actually quite entertaining, you should make some videos for people to watch".

After some internal debating I took the leap, I set out to record my first ever motovlog, in the depths of December on iced over roads in minus temperatures with a £100 action camera, a £10 microphone and a beat up old Yamaha YBR 125!

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Now, as expected the very first video I made was done on the fly - no pre thought up idea of what I was going to talk about, no real clue of how to protect my mic from the wind, I honestly had no idea what I was doing! But I loved it, and I found a true sense of enjoyment from it.

Fast forward 2 days and I had finally finished editing together my first video for YouTube and released it. Watching it back now it shows I didn't have any idea what was going on or what I was doing but it is a video that marks the start of my journey and for that, I love it.

No matter how badly edited it is, how much wind noise there is and how bad my riding is, I love it for that reason alone, I'll always be able to look back onto that cold bleak December morning and think "That's where it all began"

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Fast forward again and now we are here, with a few thousand followers across multiple platforms, full bike licence on a suzuki SV650 and an affiliate of Muc-Off and Chin Mounts. Maybe going out that cold winter morning wasn't such a bad idea after all! 

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Be sure to check out all the social media platforms to explore the full extent of the content I make, and as always thank you for dropping by and showing support!

You're all so appreciated!

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Cheers,

Limey