 This is a new low innit? Is it? Or is it a new high? I'm saying high. Hello, welcome to another video. I don't know what this one is really. It's basically just me trying to crowbar in this bike. And also trying to give some entertainment along the way. You'll have seen me using these bikes before. Get in the background there look. Hold on. There we are. Not very professional but whatever. A scoot. And it's the electric bikes from a scoot. I've been getting into me electric bikes recently. A mountain bike UK magazine reached out to me and I went off with them on to Dartmoor at the end of summer. Q summit. I spent a couple of days with the guys from mountain bike UK magazine. They hooked me up with an electric bike to use for a couple of days which was amazing. We spent some time pootling around Dartmoor foraging. We checked out the stone circle, the fern worthy stone circle before being chased off by midges. We had some beautiful skies, we filtered our own water and then we set up camp using rab taps and our bikes and then we just drank a bit of wine. The sky was on form, the milky way was on show. We wild swam the next day. I drove past what looked like a cafe being towed by a tractor. There it is. And then later as we were driving through the car park we saw said tractor which was selling coffees and buddies which were a welcome end to an amazing adventure. I hung out with them lads and they put me in the magazine and they let me use a really high end electric bike and they are amazing but they're very very expensive and some of that I can't afford. I think the one I was riding was maybe eight grand or something like that which is mad. But if you're looking for an entry level budget sort of electric bike these SQ do some really good ones. Now full transparency, I've spoke about these before on the channel and I bought one off my own back similar to this. It was the older version of this. And I really liked it so I reached out to them and they've sent me this one which is sort of the updated version and I've been putling around on it and I really like it. But the reason I can't, I haven't got any drone footage or GoPro footage or anything of this because I recently went to Scotland with Fern. Why? Fern was invited to the west coast of Scotland to do some PR work for Visit Scotland and I was kindly invited along as a plus one. See all this, all along here, it's an invasive species. Japanese knotweed, it's like the Chuck Norris of plants. It is inedible but it'll grow through concrete, it'll grow through anything and you have to treat it over weeks and weeks because normal roundup or whatever just won't kill it off. It'll just suck it up and keep going. It's the hardest plant I know of and it's a pain in the ass but it's edible and delicious but it's a little bit too woody at the moment. Look at it, woody house. Yeah, that's what I wanted. Got it, that's the shot. We were also invited to a brewery tour which was one of the highlights for me. The plan was that they were going to become a beef farm but these Belgians were obviously kind of lying obsolete because they'd went away from dairy. So this is that elderflower? Yeah, it is, it's elderflower sour. I love a very sour beer. Yeah, I don't think I've tried a very sour beer. It's a little bit kind of acidic so... Latching locks, here we go, look. It'll be right as rain in the morning. On a brewery tour, it was an amazing tour actually, it was really fun and we've just been with the guy called Stuart on his little buggy up into the fields, fed the deer and then he hooked us up with an antler. Put this in the back with a dead goose. Antler and Declare. It's a massive eight point stag horn, like stag antler and he's giving his it for now and he's a legend. If you're watching this Stuart which you definitely won't be respect. Right, going in here, there's a little island out there so I'm going to swim over. Like the branch that is coming out of it it's got its own, it's got its own little ecosystem on top of that and then a tree which would be classed as a big tree anywhere else growing out of the side of it. That is an absolute beef. It's a dam built by beavers. Mark tells me they're beavers around here. Yeah? Yep, yep, there is. I have seen them. There you go, I've seen them. How big do they get? Kind of a spaniel 20-25 kilos. Really? Decent like that? Decent size. Yeah, good feed. Bye bye beavers, thanks for your time. Right, so here we are with Mark Pickering who is a professional woodsman and he's just gone to get me a beaver stick out of the lock there and you can tell it's a beaver stick because there's a bark on it. There's a bark on it and you can see how they've just shumped the edge off with the teeth. That would be a good little tool that I like a little digging tool. That's the beaver stick. Thank you. You can see there guys, look. It's been nibbled by a beaver. There you go. They'll be waiting. They're eating it, aren't they? They're eating it, yeah. Wow, look at their little beaver teeth marks. No. We'll drive round here. So what do they do? So they're trying to get that bit of wood off? They're just trying to get rid of the tree and get the tall branches. They're trying to get the branches and then they pull it down into the wall. The tide's changed. I've missed my tide so it's a rising tide. I don't know these waters particularly well so I'm only going to stick around the shore, maybe head over to the island and I'm against the clock so I'll best chuck my gear on. Get in, hopefully we'll bring you some scallops and we'll have a little cook up. So this was a bit of a disaster. I geared up ready to go get some scallops and see what I could find. I entered the water and as I swam down my band snapped, there you can see it snapped. I shot myself and that was the end of my spearfishing journey. I also tried to change my battery on my GoPro and dropped my GoPro so that is now broken. Not only am I now GoPro-less, I'm now drone-less because I was flying the drone around this beautiful old castle. I lost track of it and the next thing you knew, the next thing I knew, it hit a tree. We tried to get it down. I even paid a tree surgeon a few days later to go and he couldn't find it, he said it was getting dark and then he ghosted me. Never heard from him again and so luckily I got the footage from the app but this is the last thing I ever saw of my drone. I've had it for a long time because I'm gutted that it's gone so that's that. Look at it, that's the last thing the drone ever saw. Absolutely wounded. So this is just... I can't get any onboard footage on my bike or drone footage. So what I did do is I went foraging yesterday for some... my quarry was Hedgehog Mushrooms so let's take you back to that. My quarry for today is these which I've just stumbled across which are Hedgehog Mushrooms. Delicious edible mushroom. This is a lovely specimen, nice and clean and you can see in there is why it's called a Hedgehog Mushroom. It doesn't have gills like your typical mushroom as these little spines that if you brush they will just come off like that. They are edible and we'll pop that in the basket. There's a few here. So I've spent a bit of time foraging some of these selected mushrooms. And there we go. It didn't take much time and as you can see a lot of Hedgehogs in there. Yes! Awesome, sir. Smells so good. Top three mushroom for me this as far as sort of edibility it's just so nice. Holds together really well when cooked and really easy to identify. So I've got some Hedgehog Mushrooms. I've just come out today into my permission woodland that I've got and I haven't even biked here. I've just sort of parked on the outskirts of the wood and got this out the van and just brought it into the woods just to show you. These are my own panniers the Altura. These are really good. I am going to do a full bikepacking video on this where I take my panniers I'll show you what I take with me and cover some miles and do a couple of nights wild camping but I just haven't had the time of late things have been a bit busy in real life so this is what I'm doing for now. But stick around and we will be going out and taking this for a full wild camp but I just want to show you. So it's pedal assist so once you start pedalling the motor kicks in it's got a mid motor there that kicks in getting up hills and going into the wind really easy. It's got a really good charge on it. I'll do a voice over now and just let you know a few of the stats. This is the Peluna pro commute bike which is perfect for holding panniers it's got a top speed of 15.5 miles per hour it's a 250 watt mid drive motor up to 80 miles estimated distance per charge it's got nine speeds and 10 kilograms. I'll leave a link below for the bike and a scooter doing a black sail which starts on the 1st of October so check that out as well. Cheers. That's the bike. Now let's get them hedgehog mushrooms cooked up and we'll have a bacon and mushroom sarnie make a little fire, I've got the bushbox because I'm hungry. So we'll have that, sit and appreciate the woodland for a bit and then bounce. Knife of choice custom SE3 Shout out Luke York Knife York Knife should I say. Right I've got some it's just dried grass it's super dry so I don't need a a lot of it or I don't need to fluff it up or anything it should be fine and we're going to use some flint and steel ignore that my daughter did that, shout out Kaya and some char cloth to make this it's just use some 100% cotton cut it up into strips bang it in your tin any old tin if it's airtight you'll want to put a little oil in it put it on your fire and then once the smoke stops coming out you've got your char cloth I use this which is an old Altoids tin I've had it for years you don't need to put a hole in these because of the hinges I hope it's falling to pieces no no can't lose my drone my GoPro and my Altoids tin I won't be a cop alright we've lost one of the hinges but it's still still going strong and this stuff is great it's so dry and so flammable it just takes a spark really well should catch, come on once it does catch it only needs to take one little spark and there it is look you see it's only small but that won't go out pop it in my tinder bundle at the bottom so when it lights it'll go up and be reaped have it gone out get me dry wood ready if it's a windy day you can just sort of do it in wind there we go that wind did that into there go and catch your beast there we go we have fire out out out on with sticks and sorted pan of choice is my lodge cast iron pan I love this I'll leave a link for this below get thwatter usually I clean all the spines off but I had too precious about that make sure you get all big bits of detritus off there and that is perfect a perfect specimen look at that beauty what I'm using beach smoked rapeseed oil garlic infused extra virgin gives a nice woody I've had some already gives a lovely smoky taste do you know what I'm going to sack baking off don't need it I just want mushrooms mushroom sandwich get after it don't even need to use a knife really you can just pull them apart bit more oil a few of these around just crumble them up and put them around the wood just because I don't see any in these woods might encourage them the rogue spatula don't tell spoon fest oh my god that smells great what more do you need I don't need much more than this I was thinking what can I do with them can I make out special and elaborate but no when there's so many flavours so good keep it simple that's what I'm just doing now not lazy it's simple I'm having too I'm hungry I'm having double dropping going to hit that with a little bit a little bit of sea salt a little bit of pepper they will release a lot of moisture so what you want to do is just cook them until all them juices come out and then just keep cooking it until them juices just evaporate and you're left with the cooked mushroom oh my god that smells so good I've also been tucking into this by to be told morning glory don't forget to put your glove on though because cast iron cast ayas look at them come on mouse watering you having it of course you're having it haven't you blue-assed fly is what I've become let's try one without really taste the smoke from the oil that's nice you don't need out else I'll be just happy yamming them from pan if I'm honest because it only comes around once a year don't it mushroom season so you really want to take advantage of the mushroom flavour and don't do too much with it unless you've got an abundance of them and you've got more time than I have I'm sorry this week's video isn't very good there's no hiking or camping or anything but it's the season isn't it it's the season I did feel a bit rushed I felt a bit of pressure on this one so sorry if that comes across I'm going out with Fern next week we're going to do some filming and I've got some longer hikes planned and I had planned to go on a longer hike in winter quite a big one but when I was thinking about it I was thinking I like to put long days in when I'm on my own hiking because it'll get dark at like 5 o'clock I'll just be stuck in my tent with nogging me and nogging for hours on end each day no no no I won't wish that upon anybody so I don't think I'm going to do that maybe some shorter ones but it's about I think winter and I'm feeling it this year it's about slowing down maybe just heading into the woods doing some cooking and taking things a little bit slower and easier so that's what's going to be coming up there's going to be a lot more bushcrafty stuff coming up from me going in on the second one Noah was bad and the fact that I knew where these came out of the ground just yesterday I picked them makes it even better there you go jobs are good I don't know what this video has been but thanks for watching if you have watched it and I will be back soon with some wild camping and bushcraft and make up reviews and all the other wonderful things that you've become accustomed to in the future as always I send you nothing but love I hope you're all doing okay and still fighting the good fight stay tuned for more I'm going to do some bikepacking on this iron donkey more videos people ask me to review certain things I wouldn't really want to put on this main channel like what hiking boots do you use or what bag are you using so I do have a second channel which I will link here and I'll put downstairs that you can check out I'm going to be putting some more reviews on that hopefully one a week so if you're into watching reviews check it out over and out take care of yourselves sorry I haven't been I ain't even biked in see you later I just pushed it top of the side at wood anyway I'm not even biked in just done it to show off bike sorry but I do love you and goodbye bye bye bye