HOW I CREATED MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL !

rolling into 600 000 subscribers still can't believe it just want to thank all of you legends who've been a part of my youtube story from the beginning if you've just arrived don't you dare hit that subscribe button until you've watched this [Music] [Applause] i was born in the 70s an earth child raised in the dirt feral and happy then our parents broke up so our guard went up and the only thing keeping us on track were our bikes my brother was a bmx gun i could put it on the box but my mind always wandered i lived inside my own imagination and school showed me that i was a little different to everyone else by age 15 i'd left home and lived with friends the system funneled me into the arts but i broke away and swung off the back of a garbage truck to make money i kept my friends close and my bike closer dad would show up on timely occasions to see how i was i was doing fine i was making money friends always by my side i'd found someone to love we partied hard i'd become a dirt bike racer and a mechanic life was good racing was tough the parties got bigger my bikes got faster then a switch flicked inside me i needed to travel i was going to ride around australia and write stories for the bike magazines but they were like nah mate we're not interested whatever i'm going anyway my friends bid me farewell and i was gone alone into the nothing could have been instagram famous but that wouldn't exist for another 12 years made it to the eastern states painted a logo on a pub they let me stay but i was lonely i wanted to get back to my people so i rode up to new south wales and raced our national four-day enduro that's where i met the master of our game he gave me a job taught me about life and how to make my bike go faster so i bought a van did some more races then headed north got my girl back and we were living the australian dream then i had the wild idea to ride to the northern tip of australia it was brutal but we rescued an orphan and became a traveling family i've actually just now launched an ebook about the story i'll tell you all about it at the end of the video so keep watching we made it back to western australia i bought another bike kept racing then a local legend altered the course of my life he wrote an article about how i'd ridden around australia and raced the same bike then told the magazine that i should be the one who takes over his monthly column wow really i'd love to write for australia's biggest dirt bike mag and now i had a public voice published monthly reporting on the best riders in our state i had some fun shot my mouth off once or twice was riding and racing more than ever i cracked the top five in our state enduro got some support pushed harder still drawing still feral honing my craft then we broke up i was now a bachelor a little lost a little loose training hard crashing harder but determined to focus only on chasing a dream [Music] i won my first outright state championship as a struggling artist couldn't have done it without the support of my friends backed up my second state championship and moved to sydney with only 700 bucks started racing the nationals started full time at the magazine sending it for the camera so they put me on cover after cover after cover after cover testing bike after bike after bike i became friends with the best entered the world of desert racing won a class wrote a story about it then landed my first gig overseas was the only aussie in that part of austria at the time and managed to finish 31st outright in the world's gnarliest heart enduro then wrote a story about it i've actually still got a copy of every article i ever wrote so hang around there's plenty of stories to tell we're just getting started here i'd learned to put myself in the path of opportunity and scored a guest ride on the ktm team for our country's biggest desert race the australian safari also known as the dakar down under nine days five and a half thousand kilometers of high speed navigation through the outback i rode the wheels off my bike learnt the race on the fly cracked the top ten pushed on to win the 450 production class and finish fourth outright and then it finally happened i made it onto a factory team i was being paid to race a dirt bike and make my dreams materialise and then the magazine made me redundant desperate times desperate measures i started my own brand as an industry outcast surviving week to week on freelance scraps i needed more i needed a place to continue my stories and i discovered youtube my face and voice was now online and i hated it i was awkward and uncomfortable in front of the camera until i put my helmet on i persisted with it year in year out with zero financial gain but the manufacturers kept giving me bikes then i tried something different i made a dirt bike movie with my dad then i started making videos with my mates things started happening youtube was showing my stories to the world [Music] and just like it always had my spirit of adventure pushed me to do something big to pull off something truly unique on a motorcycle i asked a friend to attempt an almost impossible ride with me from austria to egypt we did it and i made a movie about it like an actual movie filled up a cinema with the help of a new lady in my life i was [ __ ] myself but the boys helped me through it youtube channel was clicking gears now but i wanted to go again another movie 9 000 kilometers across kazakhstan russia and mongolia for my next big feature film and then it was time to go the boys gave me a parting gift and just as i'd arrived 11 years before i left sydney exactly the same way but i was taking my own little family home we made it just in time for the birth of our first child my youtube was starting to pull the big numbers and then cancer took my dad away exactly the day after dad's funeral we moved down south i'd somehow convinced the bank to loan me some money and i bought a property with nothing on it i didn't know how i was going to do it but once you bring a child into this world your body clicks beast mode and becomes your most powerful tool i was breaking myself then like a godsend my neighbour showed up and bought me some time i was now over 40 years old and still winging it i've known no other way but i knew i had geographically found my place in the world my youtube was ticking over behind the scenes my family was healthy but renting a nearby house paying bills and a mortgage plus trying to build my own house all at once was proving almost impossible to sustain i needed help i needed to throw more wood onto my digital fire and so the boys stepped in two of my close friends chris hollis and mark portbury everything was in place to make another feature film we just needed to pull off the adventure of a lifetime again [Music] uh [Music] so [Music] i'm still living my story one page one chapter at a time we don't get to choose the words that will be spoken about us when we're gone we only get to paint a picture that the world can remember us by i know right there's probably easier ways to make a life but this is me this is how i've come to this point and i'm going to let you guys into my new creative space so stay tuned for plenty more vlogs to come like i said i've just released an hit the link in the description you'll find that you'll find the link to every moto nomad movie i've done in there too uh oh one thing i want a prize why don't i unbox it for you guys i've been a bit hopeless with youtube interacting with my audience just you know so here it is a little spiel from the tube presented to a riemann one for passing 100 000 subscribers uh that was about five years ago i only just worked out now that i had to actually claim my prize i did it and it just showed up like that so thanks youtube this is the first physical acknowledgement from you guys that i do exist outside of the internet so yeah if you think it's worthy hit the subscribe button like this video and ring the notification bell so you know when my new vlogs go live the first of which will be a pretty hardcore inside into helmets the most important aspect of motorcycling thanks again

Channel: ARiemann1

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Keywords: Raised in the 70's, Earthchild, Artist, BMX, Motocross, Dirtbikes, Travel Australia, Mechanic, Dirt bike Magazine, Adam Riemann, Love, State Champion, Photographer, Riding the High, Power of Sound, Life of a Drifter, Motonomad, Youtube, Western Australia, Southwest, Bought the property, Build the house, Owner Builder, Neighbours

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Length: 11min 25sec (685 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 21 2021