You’re a bold man Freddie Dobbs. For all your latte swilling, scone eating, sitting in a precious café habits it’s a rare biker would be willing to leave the house after a 7 hour drive across England knowing he had an 90 minute ride in late December fog and rain awaiting him. I know I wouldn’t.
That made me smile Fred. I used to have a little place in the heart of Greenwich around 15 years ago, and rode my black '07 Bonneville around there wearing my Barbour Continental and black Arai thinking I had made it! I used to scoot up to Blackheath and down through the park to the market to get my lunch and sit by the Thames to eat with my then Mrs. Its almost as if you are retracing my steps! My Bonnie is gathering dust right now, sitting it out in the garage and staying dry. We are selling up and moving to Bordeaux in 2025 and the Bonnie is coming with us. Like you said, they are the perfect balance. Just enough electronics to make them work well without the nonsense of all the over engineered built in obsolescence and pretty reliable. I think your Bonnie is literally the backbone of this channel, and exactly what makes it tick, particularly since Joe brought her back from the dead... Keep up the good work mate.
Roland Brown is more than just an excellent motorcycle journalist. TT racer, ( I think) I've read his articles since the 80's and still do. One of the best journalists from the golden days of motorcycle journalism. Bike magazine in particular. He he has the inside track on interviews with racers of the top level,. I'm assuming it's the same gent, but he is one of the main reasons I got so into bikes. Thanks for a great years viewing. Ride safe 👍
Same here, I remember reading his stuff in Bike magazine back when I was first getting into bikes. It would be great if Freddie could get him on the channel, now that they have a connection.
Well done Freddie and Monika your easy going style is very watchable. The pressure to keep the content rolling out must be considerable but I think we all need to see more of Monika who shouldn’t always be hiding behind the camera. In my humble opinion to include Monika on camera with you is a sure fire way to grow the channel quickly and easily so try sharing the camera duties?
Sunday's morning coffee with a Freddy's video, they go together as tea&biscuits 😊 Happy new year to you and Monika, keep us delighted with your wonderful "bits of life"!
Freddie & Monica, I often watch out for your videos and get excited whenever there is a new one to watch. You both always seem to capture on film and music how one would feel while you narrate the sights and scents of places you visit. I love how Monica pans the camera to capture candid moments of dogs, people and trees. Thank you!! More of these please!
I lived in Greenwich for 3 years. 1972, 73, 74. It was great then! I lived at 44 Greenwich Church st upstairs from Pratt's Motorcycle Company where I worked. Right next to the Spanish Galleon Pub that we frequented every evening about 6:00pm. The Greenwich Market was a wholesale product exchange during those times.
Happy New Year to you both when it comes. I love your enthusiasm for day to day life. I picked up my brand new Bonny T120 Black ten days ago so am super stoked for 2025.
Having a bird poo on you for good luck.!! That's a new one for me. Lol. Wishing you and Monika well in the new year and looking forward to the 2025 adventures of Freddie, and occasionally Monika. I love the old style songs you mix into the videos. My kind of relaxing music. 👍👍
Thanks Freddie! Wishing you and Monica a prosperous and joyous 2025! Continue making our biker lives that much more fulfilling with all your content! Safe miles, see you on the other side!
Thank you Freddie and Monika for all of the ‘24 videos and for the tour of Greenwich Market. Looks like a great place to eat and enjoy the ambience . Wishing you both a happy and healthy 2025 and much success with the channel. Cheers and ride safe.Dan 🏍✌️🇨🇦
absolutely agree, was losing my mind a bit with that one particular song that kept cropping up hahah but one can’t complain too much, sure its hard to find the right copyright free songs etc for every video
Happy New Year Freddie and Monika! Here's to 250k subscribers by 2026! Following your adventures all year and catching up on all your old material has been so much fun. This is my first year of biking and your channel has helped inspire me so much. Thanks, Phil, North Wales.
Thanks for all the great videos in 2024 Freddie and Monika, and a lovely snapshot of the Greenwich market. I used to live down the road, my old stomping ground. Thanks again for the nostalgia hit! Happy new year
What a lovely video to finish of the year do miss the big city at times but got a good read at the min lost biker story’s limiting myself to 10 mins a day reading 😂 hav a good new years don’t get too drunk
Although I've been subscribed to your channel, liking the video for long time, first Comment for your videos, Happy New Year from Far East, Seoul. So peaceful and charming video of Year-End mood. I hope you all the best in 2025. 🙏
Freddie & Monika, thank you for all the wonderful glimpses of fascinating places and your kindness & compassion to all you meet! You never fail to brighten my day! Best wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year!
Monica, thankyou for looking after Freddie during the last year. Here's wishing you both a fantastic 2025 even without the bird poo. Absolutely love what you do. ❤
No, thank you ! Freddie and Monica for keep us all entertained for another year. Can't wait to see where you both go next trip for some holiday ideas. The Goa trip was a brilliant nudge for me and the wife to try Southern India this year, loved it. Keep the contents coming, and have a great 2025.
No one does this type of video better than you Freddie; looking forward to more of the same in 2025 along with everything else you’ve got in store for us. Roland Brown was a bit of a hero for me back in the 80’s on account of the fact he managed to get hold of the very first incarnation of the GSXR750, a bike that as a newly qualified 17 year old I wanted more than life itself, and took it racing. He was pretty good at it too although I think he managed to bin it big at the Bol d’or. He was also the brilliant editor of Bike magazine and along with great articles from Brecon Quaddy. Honorary mention as well to Colin Schiller (Beak Speak @ Which Bike) if anyone remembers him. The article he wrote called ‘In praise of private sales’ highlighting the obvious pitfalls of selling your bike to a dealer has probably saved me tens of thousands over the years. It’s amazing the stuff you remember 😀👍
I only live up the road in Kidbrooke & I haven’t been to Greenwich mkt in about 4yrs? Seeing this video I think are take a trip down there! Good to see the Bonny out & about guys! Happy New Year 👍🏻😎
Great vid as usual! 2 points: When you start your bike (ice cold) You should either use the choke to keep the idle a little higher RPM or you should play the throttle so you are running the engine about 500 RPM more than idle. This allows the oil a chance to reach the top end of the engine before it is under load. My trick on my V65 Sabre was to run full choke (runs too rich but only temporarily) get the bike to half choke (I see you have a detent on your choke, use that). Anyway, I would “play the choke” slowly and match the decrease with increased throttle, keeping RPM steady whilst transferring warm up responsibility to the throttle. My winter warm ups were typically 3-5 minutes. Second: I was prepared to purchase one of your tool rolls. I think they are amazing and it makes sense to you oil cloth. When I looked at them, chose one and put it in my cart…$126.00!!! Wow, gulp, OK, might still be worth it. . .deep breath. Then I saw the shipping to the US. $50!!!. I’m sorry Freddie but that is just too much of a total cost to swallow. I ended up purchasing a clearly inferior but perfectly adequate tool roll on Amazon for $25! I know those are costs that you have no control over. It just sucks I couldn’t / wouldn’t get what i wanted. Anyway, have a great New Year as well. My last year was made better by you and Monica.
@@neilurquhart8622 Ha! The last comment (one of my very few) I did I got yelled at for being too brief and therefore confusing! I get it though and after reading-reading, I agree! Happy New Year!
Thanks for this video Freddie this year is the first time in 20 years we haven't been to Greenwich and Market we relocated to Hampshire earlier this year and you brought some good memories back for us thank you. Hope you and Monica have wonderful new year
Happy New Year from Brazil to you and Monika and all viewers, me and my wife love your channel, I recently bought a Bonneville and we are so excited with this stunning motorcycle, congratulations for your channel Freddie wish you the best 🎉🎉🎉
Great video ,next time you are there ,try the ideal espresso coffee stand ! To me one of the smoothest coffees around . Little stall just inside.where I always head to on the bike
Hi Freedie have watched your video's a few times and enjoy them so after watching this Greenwich one i have subscribed, as you live local to me (i live in Riverdale Road Erith), i will keep my eyes open when im out on my motorcycle (kawasaki vn900 custom) im also in a bike club U.T.W.G, keep up the good video's and hopefully see you on the road .Alan aka Ming.
A Happy and prosperous new year Freddie and Monica 🎉.. Thank you for all the hard work you’ve put into your videos through out 2024 !! I’ve loved them all, especially your trip to North Yorkshire on the Transalp back in February, in-fact I bought one on the strength of your videos.. love it, it’s everything you said it was. Thank you again.
Takes me back to the 90's Freddie, I used to have a Donut trailer there on a Sunday. There was a car park near the main market that was used for all sorts of brickerbrack. Had such a great vibe.
Happy new year Freddy and Monika and to both of your families. You've done fantastically well this year man, the elevation in content quality couple with your travels. It's been fantastic. Thankyou for giving us new riders or non riders the confidence to ride or the courage to start
Freddie, thanks to both you and Monica for the great videos you have delivered throughout the year. I am looking froward to watching some new material in 2025. Happy New Year from Mike.
Happy new year to Freddy , Monika and all of your viewers!
Happy New Year!
Happy new year to you.
Lovely watch … brilliant channel … thanks for all of your work through 2024… so many great vids and vibes 🙏🏻🤗
You’re a bold man Freddie Dobbs. For all your latte swilling, scone eating, sitting in a precious café habits it’s a rare biker would be willing to leave the house after a 7 hour drive across England knowing he had an 90 minute ride in late December fog and rain awaiting him. I know I wouldn’t.
"Even rode my motorcycle in the rain
And you told me not to drive
But I made it home alive
So you said that only proves that I'm insane"
That made me smile Fred. I used to have a little place in the heart of Greenwich around 15 years ago, and rode my black '07 Bonneville around there wearing my Barbour Continental and black Arai thinking I had made it! I used to scoot up to Blackheath and down through the park to the market to get my lunch and sit by the Thames to eat with my then Mrs. Its almost as if you are retracing my steps!
My Bonnie is gathering dust right now, sitting it out in the garage and staying dry. We are selling up and moving to Bordeaux in 2025 and the Bonnie is coming with us. Like you said, they are the perfect balance. Just enough electronics to make them work well without the nonsense of all the over engineered built in obsolescence and pretty reliable. I think your Bonnie is literally the backbone of this channel, and exactly what makes it tick, particularly since Joe brought her back from the dead... Keep up the good work mate.
Beautiful video. The music is fantastic
Roland Brown is more than just an excellent motorcycle journalist.
TT racer, ( I think)
I've read his articles since the 80's and still do. One of the best journalists from the golden days of motorcycle journalism. Bike magazine in particular.
He he has the inside track on interviews with racers of the top level,.
I'm assuming it's the same gent, but he is one of the main reasons I got so into bikes.
Thanks for a great years viewing.
Ride safe 👍
Excellent comment, thank you.
Same here, I remember reading his stuff in Bike magazine back when I was first getting into bikes. It would be great if Freddie could get him on the channel, now that they have a connection.
i'm sure Roland won a TT on a 250cc bike, late 1980's perhaps ?
Freddie your Jeep and Triumph Bonneville are awesome bro ❤️🌹
A happy and prosperous 2025 Freddie,Monica and all the others watching this beautiful videos.
See you in the New Year.
Well done Freddie and Monika your easy going style is very watchable. The pressure to keep the content rolling out must be considerable but I think we all need to see more of Monika who shouldn’t always be hiding behind the camera. In my humble opinion to include Monika on camera with you is a sure fire way to grow the channel quickly and easily so try sharing the camera duties?
We used to see more of Monika. The first Tenerife holiday rings a bell.
Awww thankyou Freddie & Monika , what an absolute joy being part of this community. Happy 2025 All !!
Thankyou Freddie...videos are works of art.
Dobbo!! My wife is seriously impressed with your tree ❤
Where did 2024 go 😅 amazing how time flys.
Another great year for you guys, thanks Freddie & Monica ❤
Sunday's morning coffee with a Freddy's video, they go together as tea&biscuits 😊
Happy new year to you and Monika, keep us delighted with your wonderful "bits of life"!
Forgetting your boots then keys is a such a Freddie moment. HAHA
Freddie & Monica, I often watch out for your videos and get excited whenever there is a new one to watch. You both always seem to capture on film and music how one would feel while you narrate the sights and scents of places you visit. I love how Monica pans the camera to capture candid moments of dogs, people and trees. Thank you!! More of these please!
I hope you and Monika had a wonderful Christmas and you both have an incredible new year.
Thoroughly enjoy your videos, just good vibes; thank you Freddie and Monika, wishing you a healthy and prosperous 2025. ❤
Happy new your to both of you. Can't wait to see more of your Videos.
I lived in Greenwich for 3 years. 1972, 73, 74. It was great then! I lived at 44 Greenwich Church st upstairs from Pratt's Motorcycle Company where I worked. Right next to the Spanish Galleon Pub that we frequented every evening about 6:00pm.
The Greenwich Market was a wholesale product exchange during those times.
Merry Christmas and a happy new year .
Looking forward to the DGR
Graham and Carolanne
Happy New Year to you both when it comes. I love your enthusiasm for day to day life. I picked up my brand new Bonny T120 Black ten days ago so am super stoked for 2025.
Ooh that rain ☔️ 😂 glad you liked the Gozleme Freddie, my wife is from Istanbul, so I get this allot 😂 you know where to stop if your ever north 👍
Having a bird poo on you for good luck.!! That's a new one for me. Lol. Wishing you and Monika well in the new year and looking forward to the 2025 adventures of Freddie, and occasionally Monika. I love the old style songs you mix into the videos. My kind of relaxing music. 👍👍
Fortunately it wasn’t a swan eh?
A Happy New Year to you and Monika Great to see you still riding this time of the year . Love the vid .
Really glad you enjoyed it, happy new year!
Good onya Freddie and Monika, nice video
Thanks Freddie! Wishing you and Monica a prosperous and joyous 2025! Continue making our biker lives that much more fulfilling with all your content! Safe miles, see you on the other side!
Love the trip to Greenwhich, all the best for 2025.
With that hat, Freddie your new nickname could be 'Woody'! 😂
Roland Brown is a legend!
Thank you both so much for keeping me entertained as I travel vicariously with you!
Thank you Freddie and Monika for all of the ‘24 videos and for the tour of Greenwich Market. Looks like a great place to eat and enjoy the ambience . Wishing you both a happy and healthy 2025 and much success with the channel. Cheers and ride safe.Dan 🏍✌️🇨🇦
Dear Freddie and Monica, thank You very much for entertaining us so well! Happy New Year!
Great Sunday morning watch as always Freddie. I wish you and yours a Happy New year. Keep on keeping on in 25 🎉😊
happy new year to freddy,monika and all of your viewers.congratulations to here in brazil.😘😛
Good onya Freddie.Great that you share your Xmas with us youtubers. Happy New Year mate,& many of 'em.
Happy New Year Freddie and Monika . Let’s have a fantastic 2025!
Really enjoyed the fresh background music on this one, cheers Freddie
Thanks Louis🎶
absolutely agree, was losing my mind a bit with that one particular song that kept cropping up hahah
but one can’t complain too much, sure its hard to find the right copyright free songs etc for every video
You should have kept the cowboy hat, would good on you driving the jeep with it on haha. Nice video, enjoy your new year brother
Happy new year Fredy and Monika thanks for the posting all your great videos, started following you this year enjoying them greatly thank you
Happy New Year Freddie and Monika! Here's to 250k subscribers by 2026! Following your adventures all year and catching up on all your old material has been so much fun. This is my first year of biking and your channel has helped inspire me so much. Thanks, Phil, North Wales.
Pure class
Happy new year Freddie & Monika may your 2025 be happy and healthy with many miles under your wheels 🏍️
Thanks Reinman, happy new year!:)
I frequent Greenwich quite often ! X
One of my favourite areas of London❤️
Freddie have a great new year 🎉and I will look forward to seeing you in the next one 😊😊
Thank you for generating my interest in motorcycles in 2024. I am now on the path to getting my full licence, and am excited for 2025....
Thanks for all the great videos in 2024 Freddie and Monika, and a lovely snapshot of the Greenwich market. I used to live down the road, my old stomping ground. Thanks again for the nostalgia hit! Happy new year
Vlogs on the Bonneville touring & exploring never gets old ❤ olso can't believe the next vlog will be on new year's! This year just flew by
It’s flown by hasn’t it! Happy New Year🎉
What a lovely video to finish of the year do miss the big city at times but got a good read at the min lost biker story’s limiting myself to 10 mins a day reading 😂 hav a good new years don’t get too drunk
Thank you Freddie, I always look forward to your videos. Happy New Year!
Although I've been subscribed to your channel, liking the video for long time, first Comment for your videos, Happy New Year from Far East, Seoul. So peaceful and charming video of Year-End mood. I hope you all the best in 2025. 🙏
Happy New Year, Freddie & Monica 🎉. Can’t wait for more exiting adventures in 2025.
Freddie & Monika, thank you for all the wonderful glimpses of fascinating places and your kindness & compassion to all you meet! You never fail to brighten my day! Best wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year!
Monica, thankyou for looking after Freddie during the last year. Here's wishing you both a fantastic 2025 even without the bird poo. Absolutely love what you do. ❤
lol.... you look like Woody with the cowboy hat on :-) You gotta friend in me ...........nice video.
I’m now humming that away in my head- it’s been a while since I heard that😆🎶
I really enjoyed this, great work ! That food at the market has me drooling 😂
Cheers & Happy New Year !
Great vid Freddie & Monica .. love Greenwich … Happy New Year ! 🏍️……👊
Happy Christmas from Hong Kong - a lot sunnier here than Greenwich - haha
Fantastic! All my best to you over in HK, and Happy New Year:)
No, thank you !
Freddie and Monica for keep us all entertained for another year.
Can't wait to see where you both go next trip for some holiday ideas.
The Goa trip was a brilliant nudge for me and the wife to try Southern India this year, loved it.
Keep the contents coming, and have a great 2025.
My hometown! Great episode both, Greenwich Market is spectacular isn't it. There's certainly many hidden gems in & around Greenwich & Blackheath.
I remember Roland Brown. Greenich is a great place. Happy NY. Nick
Let the good times roll! Have a blessed New Year to the wonderful staff over at Dobbs Inc.!
Thank you Freddie & Monika. Happy New Year.
All the best Freddie & Monica 🙏🏍️👑🍺⭐️
No one does this type of video better than you Freddie; looking forward to more of the same in 2025 along with everything else you’ve got in store for us. Roland Brown was a bit of a hero for me back in the 80’s on account of the fact he managed to get hold of the very first incarnation of the GSXR750, a bike that as a newly qualified 17 year old I wanted more than life itself, and took it racing. He was pretty good at it too although I think he managed to bin it big at the Bol d’or. He was also the brilliant editor of Bike magazine and along with great articles from Brecon Quaddy. Honorary mention as well to Colin Schiller (Beak Speak @ Which Bike) if anyone remembers him. The article he wrote called ‘In praise of private sales’ highlighting the obvious pitfalls of selling your bike to a dealer has probably saved me tens of thousands over the years. It’s amazing the stuff you remember 😀👍
Thanks for a great year of videos, Freddie and Monika. Happy New Year to you both.
I only live up the road in Kidbrooke & I haven’t been to Greenwich mkt in about 4yrs? Seeing this video I think are take a trip down there! Good to see the Bonny out & about guys! Happy New Year 👍🏻😎
🏍HNY to you and thank you for all of your efforts! Never change!
Great vid as usual! 2 points: When you start your bike (ice cold) You should either use the choke to keep the idle a little higher RPM or you should play the throttle so you are running the engine about 500 RPM more than idle. This allows the oil a chance to reach the top end of the engine before it is under load. My trick on my V65 Sabre was to run full choke (runs too rich but only temporarily) get the bike to half choke (I see you have a detent on your choke, use that). Anyway, I would “play the choke” slowly and match the decrease with increased throttle, keeping RPM steady whilst transferring warm up responsibility to the throttle. My winter warm ups were typically 3-5 minutes.
Second: I was prepared to purchase one of your tool rolls. I think they are amazing and it makes sense to you oil cloth. When I looked at them, chose one and put it in my cart…$126.00!!! Wow, gulp, OK, might still be worth it. . .deep breath. Then I saw the shipping to the US. $50!!!. I’m sorry Freddie but that is just too much of a total cost to swallow. I ended up purchasing a clearly inferior but perfectly adequate tool roll on Amazon for $25! I know those are costs that you have no control over. It just sucks I couldn’t / wouldn’t get what i wanted. Anyway, have a great New Year as well. My last year was made better by you and Monica.
You could have said all your choke advice in far less words!🥸
@@neilurquhart8622 Ha! The last comment (one of my very few) I did I got yelled at for being too brief and therefore confusing! I get it though and after reading-reading, I agree! Happy New Year!
as a former Londoner now living in Mississippi USA I love watching your channel Cheers Freddie Happy New Year
I wish you Freddie a Happy and a Good New Year.
Happy New Year Freddie & Monika. Thanks for taking us along for the ride.
Excellent content again , happy new year Freddie & Monika , I hope it's healthy and happy for you both
Thanks for this video Freddie this year is the first time in 20 years we haven't been to Greenwich and Market we relocated to Hampshire earlier this year and you brought some good memories back for us thank you. Hope you and Monica have wonderful new year
I've enjoyed all of your videos here in 2024. Thanks and have a great new year!!👍🎄😎
Happy new year, thank you
Happy new year to all from Slovenia!
Happy new year!🇸🇮
Happy New Year from Brazil to you and Monika and all viewers, me and my wife love your channel, I recently bought a Bonneville and we are so excited with this stunning motorcycle, congratulations for your channel Freddie wish you the best 🎉🎉🎉
Wish you a very happy and prosperous new year.
Happy new year!
Great video to end the year. It makes the espresso taste even better. Thank you and a happy new year to everyone.
Great video ,next time you are there ,try the ideal espresso coffee stand ! To me one of the smoothest coffees around . Little stall just inside.where I always head to on the bike
I’ll find this, thank you👌🏻👌🏻
Happy new year everyone
Good video to end the year. All the best for the next one
Brilliant year,looking forward to the next,Happy New Year!
Travel is always good 🎉
Hi Freedie have watched your video's a few times and enjoy them so after watching this Greenwich one i have subscribed, as you live local to me (i live in Riverdale Road Erith), i will keep my eyes open when im out on my motorcycle (kawasaki vn900 custom) im also in a bike club U.T.W.G, keep up the good video's and hopefully see you on the road .Alan aka Ming.
A reflective vest is quite good to wear in the dark ;) Happy new year!
Happy new year freddy and Monika
A Happy and prosperous new year Freddie and Monica 🎉..
Thank you for all the hard work you’ve put into your videos through out 2024 !! I’ve loved them all, especially your trip to North Yorkshire on the Transalp back in February, in-fact I bought one on the strength of your videos.. love it, it’s everything you said it was.
Thank you again.
Takes me back to the 90's Freddie, I used to have a Donut trailer there on a Sunday. There was a car park near the main market that was used for all sorts of brickerbrack. Had such a great vibe.
Happy and a prosperous new year Monika, Freddie and everybody else
Happy new year Freddy and Monika and to both of your families. You've done fantastically well this year man, the elevation in content quality couple with your travels. It's been fantastic. Thankyou for giving us new riders or non riders the confidence to ride or the courage to start
Great video Freddie, I hope you Monika and the entire family had a great Christmas.
Happy new year all🎉
Happy New Year to you both...what a year it's been....Bravo!
Happy new year Monika and Freddie, wishing you a happy and an adventurous 2025. Thanks for all your content over the past year.
Freddie, thanks to both you and Monica for the great videos you have delivered throughout the year. I am looking froward to watching some new material in 2025. Happy New Year from Mike.
Love that the eating was cut out 😂 those can be a bit messy to eat.
I love watching your videos Freddie. Wishing you and Monica a very happy new year.
Happy New Year to you Freddie 🎉🥳🍻
happy new year freddie and monika and too those who are watching ps i got your book and love it