Beautiful little film here – I say ‘little’, after making my own Youtube channel I now know how much work goes into these – about mechanic Ian Downing, who opened Bike Revive Tumut in New South Wales after wondering just what to do with his life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Great that he did too. Bike Revive Tumut is a bike shop that has moved away from new bikes to focusing mainly on taking old bikes and making them as good as new again – a philosophy I personally love (and one that Alec Gates of Taipei Bike Works embraces too, see this early video on my channel<\/a>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n ‘I’m enamoured by bicycles,” he says at one point, and that’ll get you a little teary eyed (if you’re an old romantic like me anyway). <\/p>\n\n\n\n I could get all philosophical about the bicycle, and I often do, but I’ll leave it to Ian, who has a fine way with words:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cRide your bike, don\u2019t just romance the idea. Ride.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n