Brendog the rule breaker ?

Content creators play an important role in this pandemic when we are all stuck at home with nothing better to do. Brendan’s view count may be relatively low but 50k views is still equivalent to up to 12500 hours of viewing time. When taken together with other content creators (including TV shows which are still being filmed at greater than 0 risk) you have many viewers that may have otherwise taken more covid-risks if they didn’t have this entertainment value.

I would argue that in many cases the entertainment benefit from both streaming and TV often outweights the risks of spreading the virus during filming. I don’t know how you anyone can argue that a McDonald’s worker should go to work but a professional athelete should not. Neither are essential but both bring social and economical benefits, and both are equally permissible by law (AFAIK).

@greeny30
In brendogs case, if Scott had demanded that he chase podiums he probably would’ve quit riding professionally a decade ago.
However what we see is a fairly unique rider who generated more excitement as a “freeracer” at rampage than ever on the DH WC circuit (but still manages significant brand exposure at DH events particularly on new bike day than most other riders can)
Being there’s no rampage right now, making his own “gnarly sender” seems pretty reasonable.

Fail to see why professional mountain bikers (or amateur ones for that matter) meeting up for a ride is any worse than all the professional footballers who obviously don’t cut their own hair and hug each other when a goal is scored. The rules/laws are not being followed by a lot of the population and very little is done to enforce said rules by the police from what I’ve seen over the last few months, the working classes have by and large carried on working as normal while a lot of the educated middle class, who CAN work from home, don’t see the rules being ignored on a daily basis in far more blatant ways than Brendan Fairclough may or may not have done

He can create content without breaking the rules. I know plenty of other youtubers that don’t break the law.

It isn’t the first time he had warner et al down.

A professional athletes can travel for training not for pissing about in the woods with friends.

Fail to see why professional mountain bikers (or amateur ones for that matter) meeting up for a ride is any worse than all the professional footballers who obviously don’t cut their own hair and hug each other when a goal is scored.

Pro footballers are tested twice a week but outside of their training are subjected to the same rules we are.

One untracked side affect of the pandemic seems to be raging uncontrolable jealously.

Pro footballers are tested twice a week

A mate of mines wife is also tested twice a week, she works in admin at a care home and has had both vaccinations already despite having little contact with residents. She’s told me that quite a few of the care staff that ARE in daily contact with elderly high risk people are regularly boasting about going to house parties and several have refused to take the vaccine when offered it. Its this type of behaviour that has got us into the situation we are in, not people riding bikes in the open air

A professional athletes can travel for training not for pissing about in the woods with friends.

this plus calling rob Warner a professional athlete would be stretching the term somewhat. Brilliant commentator but athlete?

this plus calling rob Warner a professional athlete would be stretching the term somewhat. Brilliant commentator but athlete?

But then Rob’s still paid by Giant (or was last time I saw anything) to ride their bikes and appear in videos, do magazine interviews etc.

Arguably he’s doing his job very well if you can’t tell the difference between a marketing video and one of him messing about with mates in the woods.

But then Rob’s still paid by Giant

Vitus these days

And YT before Vitus.

And Commencal before YT……

this plus calling rob Warner a professional athlete would be stretching the term somewhat. Brilliant commentator but athlete?

He was the first guy from UK to win a downhill world cup.

AND he was on You Bet. Cant get more pro then that.

https://www.pinkbike.com/video/402958/

plus calling rob Warner a professional athlete would be stretching the term somewhat. Brilliant commentator but athlete?

but he is a paid performer, and is allowed to make telly

He was the first guy from UK to win a downhill world cup.

Bobby Charlton won the world cup. He’s also still on the payroll at MU. Does that make him still a professional footballer?

AND he was on You Bet. Cant get more pro then that.

And he was in Dirt so will always be a hero. I have no idea who brendog is.

not people riding bikes in the open air

Yeah but they are not just riding their bikes in the open air, they are stopping to buy fuel on the way.

Bernard Kerr walked in to a petrol station near where I live on camera without a mask, he travelled to 2 different parts of the country in that day and obviously doesn’t give a f@k about who he is potentially infecting

Also if they are doing it as part of their paid work, why do they not follow industry guidelines?

Bunch of cowboy operators ?

The likes of Sam Pilgrim and Tom Cardy are more entertaining and playing by the rules

but he is a paid performer, and is allowed to make telly

but he’s not making telly. He is dicking about in the woods with his mates

He is dicking about in the woods with his mates

The cast of Eastenders are playing dress up, the football league are organising kickabouts.

Has anyone reported him to the police yet?

He is dicking about in the woods with his mates

How do you know that?

Its this type of behaviour that has got us into the situation we are in, not people riding bikes in the open air

Well actually it’s the government’s shockingly bad handling of the crisis that has killed 117,000 of my fellow citizens, but let’s be distracted by a guy riding bikes who MAY not have followed all the required precautions when doing a job he can’t do from home

Has anyone reported him to the police yet?

If they haven’t, they should shut up about it.

And yet Cranked still manage to turn out a magazine without breaking the rules.

One untracked side affect of the pandemic seems to be raging uncontrolable jealously.

Aye that’s exactly it. Ya fanny.

I was watching on the news, hundreds of people sledging in the snow the other day, no social distancing. Parents with their young children, mum, dad and kids, mixed families and friends together no masks or social distancing. I see families mixing making excuses about child care, flexible bubbles to suit whatever circumstance they have at that time. Smoke and mirrors all of it. This is his job, it’s what he gets paid to do. Could he have done more regarding social distancing, who knows. I think we have bigger priorities to sort out first than a guy on YouTube who may or may not have followed social distance protocols to the satisfaction of a group of judgemental and by their view probably irrelevant sector of the MTB community.

I was watching on the news, hundreds of people sledging in the snow the other day, no social distancing.

There’s almost no risk of outdoor transmission

Once again your daily reminder that this govt are desperate to divert attention away from the idea that they’ve ballsed this up, warnings about beach trips by Matt Hancock last summer when it’s been revealed that they knew and understood that less than 10% of ALL transmissions have come like this. Same here, by all means bicker about a couple of folks making a video in the woods,  it exactly what this bunch of useless idiots want you to do…Either by promoting the idea that they’re breaking the rules or being selfish…by their propaganda outlets, or making the rules so vague, you’re left with no option other than to waffle on about the “spirit” rather than point to any actual directions or instructions.

less than 10% of ALL transmissions

Still some though, so still not the brightest idea if you can help it. That’s not knocking him in this instance, but more knocking your comment that it doesn’t matter, when clearly it can.

Are we now pardoning Cummings?

There may be no transmission on beaches, but all those people don’t exist in a beach bubble. I thought it was understood that the issue was more about the extra visits to petrol stations, shops, risk of accidents putting people in A&E etc rather than the sunbathing itself. For the same reasons, we’re not supposed to drive to Llandegla.

Anyway, we’ve steered off topic. Let’s get back to vilifying Brendog.

Let’s get back to vilifying Brendog.

yes, it’s what Matt Hancock wants after all

it’s been revealed that they knew and understood that less than 10% of ALL transmissions have come like this

Hasn’t the point always been that you are very unlikely to catch it at the beach but if you go to the beach you will stop for fuel, stop for some lunch, buy an ice cream, go to the toilet, trip on the rocks and need minor injuries, need the AA man etc.

All of those have more than a 10% chance of transmission and you are then carrying the infection to other parts of the country.

I’m not having a pop at brendog (sick) about riding outdoors with his mates.
The initial moan was about going indoors to a business to paint his bike.
If we are going moan let’s keep it on topic 😂🤣😂

Still some though, so still not the brightest idea if you can help it.

You clearly didn’t read the article.

Here’s the words of Prof Mark Woolhouse; “There were no outbreaks linked to public beaches. There’s never been a Covid-19 outbreak linked to a beach, ever, anywhere in the world, to the best of my knowledge.”

The vast majority of transmissions happen indoors and at workplaces.

Which leads neatly onto….

The various videos of Brendog and nd Ollie and so on doing silly things in the woods or sheds or wherever, are EXACTLY the same as…

This,  in that they are both staged for your entertainment, and are both wholly within the loosey-goosey set of rules that this govt has imposed on paid performers. I didn’t hear that Mumsnet was full of outrage about the cast of Bridgerton were ignoring the “spirit” of the rules. You’ll have noticed (no doubt) the lack of face coverings, look how close they are dancing together…won’t some-one think of the children etc etc…

Them’s the rules. Any other interpretations you’ve assigned to any YouTube made by Rob or Brendog or anyone else is going on entirely within your own petty imagined manufactured outrage and has nothing to do with reality. You are projecting. When my lad was about 6 or 7 we had to have a chat about the difference between the made-up world of telly and real life, it would appear that some of you need to sit down and have a chat with yourselves about it…

Are we now pardoning Cummings?

Too late, he already pardoned himself.

He was the only one who could, what with holding the title of ‘Controller of The Blonde Meat Puppet’.

The rest of us don’t get that option.

Which leads neatly onto….

irrelevant when the rules tell you not too.

Kids can socialise outside of school but inside school they have to wear masks and be kept apart. Is it stupid, kinda, but them are the rules and we have to follow them.

The initial moan was about going indoors to a business to paint his bike.

Are you saying the spray booth wasn’t well ventilated? It’s probably a damn sight better than the air conditioned office I’ve been in 5 days a week for the last 4 weeks, with more than 5 or 6 others. (They’ve given me a laptop now, so only expected in 3 days a week). Admittedly I’m not doing anything fun or YouTube worthy, so not much for people to be envious/complain about.

Tom Howard were you not wearing a mask?

The idea is you should wear a mask indoors with others about

Only if social distancing cant be maintained. If the office is big enough to allow this, no need to wear a mask

@nickc spot on👍

Are you saying the spray booth wasn’t well ventilated?

By chance I film a bit in a spray booth (vids to teach kids). Extraction and filming are not good bedfellows. I’d be amazed if it was on and def not for the fiddling around talking about it videos.

It’s actually been interesting looking at FC’s extraction setup. You’d normally setup about a metre in front of the filters and spray towards them. Good for pulling the pollutants away from you and good a for top finish. They appear to have the extraction over in the corner of the room. Most of the spraying was being done in a bit of the room that looks like it would normally be used to leave frames to dry/cure. Perhaps they moved stuff around for the filming. Lovely clean room though for a spray bay.

OK, can we please knock this thread on the head.

By the time some of you stop arguing we will all have been vaccinated.

The initial moan was about going indoors to a business to paint his bike.

I see far more blatant rule breaking on a daily basis and have done throughout the whole pandemic (not isolated to my place of work but pretty much standard practice across the industry I work in from speaking to former colleagues) – agency workers coming and going with no testing, no attempt at social distancing or masks worn by many people who genuinely believe it’s all a hoax, people going a full day (including using the toilet) without washing their hands, colleagues refusing a vaccine because ‘I don’t believe it’s safe’ despite spending most weekends ingesting random drugs bought on the dark web etc etc etc. ANYONE going into shops and petrol stations etc without a mask deserves any criticism that comes their way but again I see worse on a daily basis (delivery drivers in and out of various factories not wearing masks and laughing at you if challenged about it being one example, management more concerned with getting jobs finished than enforcing their own covid safe rules another). I generally follow the rules as far as possible and have done from the first lockdown but anyone being outraged by Brendan Fairclough painting a bike frame indoors would have a full on meltdown if they spent a day in my shoes. I’m in no way trying to defend any of the above and have had several arguments with lads I’ve got on well with for years over the last few months

OK, can we please knock this thread on the head.

^^^^ agreed, off to ride my bike now (alone)