Harry's Garage - YouTube

[tombar]

M4SER said:

We had a cottage close to Ruthin when I was growing up and I used to go there almost every weekend as a kid. I even used to cycle there from my school in Birkenhead, then back again on a Sunday night! Can't believe it now..

Ruthin is a great market town and there are some fab roads around there too. I did do some clips of the SLR on the roads around Ruthin but the vid would have ended up being over an hour long, so I cut it all out in the end. Shame..

My wife and I 'emigrated' from next-to- Birkenhead to Ruthin 25 years ago. It is as you say a great little place to live and the roads are sublime. My favorite slice of road, Clawddnewydd to Ruthin, even in a sub £1000 Puma a few years ago.

Cycling to the Wirral and back is pretty hardcore!

[Pistom]

Mars said:

Hugely happy to see the Arctic Roller getting some love.

I love the pragmatic approach to it. That really is the way to keep a car like that on the road.

[waynecyclist]

Pistom said:

Mars said:

Hugely happy to see the Arctic Roller getting some love.

I love the pragmatic approach to it. That really is the way to keep a car like that on the road.

Agreed, not worth going over the top with it

[Mars]

waynecyclist said:

Pistom said:

Mars said:

Hugely happy to see the Arctic Roller getting some love.

I love the pragmatic approach to it. That really is the way to keep a car like that on the road.

Agreed, not worth going over the top with it

Having said that, I was a bit (perhaps unfairly) disappointed with the standard of welding. Perhaps I've been watching Soup Classic Motoring too much. Although an amateur, he's a bit of a perfectionist.

[outnumbered]

Mars said:

Having said that, I was a bit (perhaps unfairly) disappointed with the standard of welding. Perhaps I've been watching Soup Classic Motoring too much. Although an amateur, he's a bit of a perfectionist.

It’s just in some local garage in Witney, so it’s always likely to be more of a basic repair than what you’d get at some specialist place.

[Muzzer79]

Mars said:

waynecyclist said:

Pistom said:

Mars said:

Hugely happy to see the Arctic Roller getting some love.

I love the pragmatic approach to it. That really is the way to keep a car like that on the road.

Agreed, not worth going over the top with it

Having said that, I was a bit (perhaps unfairly) disappointed with the standard of welding. Perhaps I've been watching Soup Classic Motoring too much. Although an amateur, he's a bit of a perfectionist.

I think it has to be remembered that we're seeing a work in progress aswell.

Unfair to judge when we're being given an overview of something that isn't finished.

[monthefish]

V1nce Fox said:

Can i put in a request for some classic superbike content please?

Can I put in a request for not...

(Plenty of other bike channels on YouTube!!)

[monthefish]

RSTurboPaul said:

M4SER said:

You have to remember on these road-trip videos, you're basically joining us on a private trip away and I hadn't been to the Lake District for 40 odd years, while Mrs.M had never been at all, so we had no knowledge of what the roads were going to be like until we got there.

I had planned on taking the Espada on this trip but then the offer came in from MSO, which seemed like a great opportunity to revisit the SLR and see what it was really like to live with over a few days on a decent road trip.

As for the Hardknott Pass, I had no idea how tight the approach road was going to be and you saw what happened as we attempted it in real time. From what I've learnt since, I'm very glad we aborted when we did.

And therein lies the adventure and joy of a roadtrip somewhere new

'Driving' a route beforehand on GoogleMaps is all well and good, but it's nice to be surprised sometimes

Great video, really enjoyed it from start to finish, but can't help but question the point of the SLR upgrades (especially as Harry mentioned they were developing a new glass roof for the coupe!! )

I know the point of supercars is their craziness, but I just can't see anyone buying this MSO'd SLR, and feel that the engineers behind it have been completely wasting their time. The SLR was a very good car in its day, but wasn't stand-out enough to warrant this kind of attention nearly 20 years later.

Made for good content though.
Love a 'Harrys Garage' road trip - thanks for bringing us along!

[V1nce Fox]

monthefish said:

V1nce Fox said:

Can i put in a request for some classic superbike content please?

Can I put in a request for not...

(Plenty of other bike channels on YouTube!!)

That’s true, but Harry’s style of presenting is specific.

[PurpleTurtle]

M4SER said:

V1nce Fox said:

Can i put in a request for some classic superbike content please?

I'm really struggling with the sound on bike videos, it was just okay doing the Dakar bikes off-road as speeds were slower than on road reviews but once I get to 60mph, the sounds distorts too much. Also, despite being well received the views were terrible on the Dakar bike videos, so I'm in no hurry to do any more at the moment!

That's a shame Harry, because I really enjoyed the Dakar bike series, found them all absolutely fascinating, and totally loved you giving it the beans across the field, especially on the 900 Cagiva. That said, your audience is predominantly car folk, so I guess always likely to appeal to a smaller audience.

I'm intrigued as to where you've managed to acquire such exclusive off road bikes from, if you don't mind me asking? Have these come up just on general sale, or are you part of a secretive Dakar bike fraternity that trades them amongst the inner circle?

Loving the Harry's Farm content too; as a townie living on the edge of the countryside I've learned more about farming from your videos than I ever did at school.

[monthefish]

M4SER said:

V1nce Fox said:

Can i put in a request for some classic superbike content please?

I'm really struggling with the sound on bike videos, it was just okay doing the Dakar bikes off-road as speeds were slower than on road reviews but once I get to 60mph, the sounds distorts too much. Also, despite being well received the views were terrible on the Dakar bike videos, so I'm in no hurry to do any more at the moment!

That's interesting; when I saw the Dakar bike comparison video pop up, I started to watch it, but then when I realised it was the first in a series of 5(?), I switched off (and didn't bother with the subsequent videos).
I think if it had been just one video - with a couple of minutes covering each bike - I would have been a lot more keen.

[Pistom]

Muzzer79 said:

Mars said:

waynecyclist said:

Pistom said:

Mars said:

Hugely happy to see the Arctic Roller getting some love.

I love the pragmatic approach to it. That really is the way to keep a car like that on the road.

Agreed, not worth going over the top with it

Having said that, I was a bit (perhaps unfairly) disappointed with the standard of welding. Perhaps I've been watching Soup Classic Motoring too much. Although an amateur, he's a bit of a perfectionist.

I think it has to be remembered that we're seeing a work in progress aswell.

Unfair to judge when we're being given an overview of something that isn't finished.

Any job requires a deal of compromise and what I particularly like about what we've seen so far is that all the work has been GETMO (good enough to move on). The work is nothing like the standard achieved with the other "restorations" but the end goal is at a different level. Many would take on the RR with intentions of best standards but would end up bogged down and the project unfinished. As it is, it is in effect a rolling repair of the most basic things needing to be done. There is a skill in being able to assess that in itself. I am so far really impressed with all the work that HM has had done to his cars - all really well thought out and executed to an appropriate level. Some would argue he's throwing too much at the XJC but I think it is worth doing.

[V1nce Fox]

Also i just found the rolls royce resto video. Love it!

[Camelot1971]

0a said:

£56k for paint and £46k for an interior retrim :0

Those prices were +VAT too!

[ChocolateFrog]

Camelot1971 said:

0a said:

£56k for paint and £46k for an interior retrim :0

Those prices were +VAT too!

A top notch independent body shop could no doubt do as good a job for half the price, likewise the interior retrim.

But then I'm sure the price is part of the appeal to the potential purchasers.

[ChocolateFrog]

It's a shame the bike vids didn't do well.

A niche within a niche I assume.

Sent them to my biking mate and he wasn't interested as Dakar bikes just were not his thing.

[Doofus]

ChocolateFrog said:

It's a shame the bike vids didn't do well.

A niche within a niche I assume.

Sent them to my biking mate and he wasn't interested as Dakar bikes just were not his thing.

As you say; a niche within a niche. There are one or two car vids that Harry does which don't interest me. The SLR, the Jaguar Project 7 and 8 and Toyota Yaris spring to mind, but I watch most of them. I don't watch any bike stuff, though.

I suspect those who do want bike stuff don't subscribe to HG, because most of it's cars.

Harry's Garage
Harry's Farm
Harry's Bikes, perhaps? (share of revenue required, of course - after the channel has earned enough to buy a decent microphone )

[The Mad Monk]

Decent length article about harry in the Telegraph today.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/features/wild-har...

[The Mad Monk]

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[RichB]

The Mad Monk said:

Decent length article about harry in the Telegraph today.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/features/wild-har...

Behind a paywall. They used to let you read a couple of articles free but obviously not any longer.