Comments on: Semanal Week 19: Bike Cleaning

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Make Your Own Video » VloMo Day 30: Vlomo ‘08 — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 07:03:37 +0000

[...] the start of VloMo ‘08 I honestly did not think I would make it. Now I am really “chuffed” to have got to the [...]

By: Frank

Frank — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:21:31 +0000

Thanks for the encouraging comments, guys.

As for the bike tips, they are down to my friend Sam. He is a great source of knowledge on all things bike. I have been trying to get him to post some of his own video tips for months, but he’s not yet made it over the hump of imagining perfection.

Maybe your nice words here will help!

By: kath

kath — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 11:50:34 +0000

yeah you can do it! I did it last year. only got to about week 7 on semanal. had a couple of friends pass away and didn’t feel like making anything after that for a while. I did maybe 1 per month but forgot to post to the semanal site, & shot short clips now & then & uploaded to flickr. vlomo is good cos it’s end of year and once you’ve finished then it’s almost time for holiday season.

I like your video as it’s educational – good for any time of the year! I’d love to get a bike again one day. just have to stay in one place long enough first

By: Rupert

Rupert — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 06:29:54 +0000

COME ON FRANK! YOU CAN DO IT!
(I managed one week of Semanal, and I was the one telling everybody to do it)
It’s tough. Though I have a feeling that VloMo will be easier to sustain than VBWeek or Semanal. Because it’s weekly, Semanal seems to demand a higher level of effort. VBWeek is not long enough. VloMo is long enough to make everybody feel OK about posting a simple short clip. (See Zadi’s first video, for instance). And it’s long enough for a real sense of community and support to grow up around it, with everybody watching and commenting and encouraging each other.
The key is not to be ambitious, or feel that you have to up the ante.

Anyway, about the video… I have a beautiful bike – a red Schwinn cruiser – and I don’t look after it properly. This was a nice guilt-tripping reminder that I should give it some love. It’s under cover, but the winters here are so wet that it’ll rust anyway. So thanks…