Like most, Nathan Whatton former stunt man turned technology start up founder, didn’t really have a clear plan early on.
After leaving school, Nathan moved between jobs, figuring things out as he went. It was only when he met a professional stuntman at his local gym that something clicked. Until that point, it hadn’t even crossed his mind that it was a real career path.
Getting into that world wasn’t quick. It took years of training across different disciplines, building up the right qualifications, and staying consistent when progress felt slow. It was roughly three to four years before he could even step onto a professional set . And even then, that was just the beginning. Nathan progressed and went on to work on many well known action movies over the next decade.
From the outside, stunt work can look chaotic, but in reality it’s the opposite. Everything is controlled, repeated, and calculated. Nathan describes it as being completely switched on at all times, aware of the people around him, the camera positions, the timing of every movement. When the moment comes, there’s no hesitation. You just commit and do it.
Over time, that environment builds a certain mindset. You learn how to stay calm under pressure, how to trust preparation, and how to deal with risk properly. Not avoiding it, but understanding it and working with it.
Away from film sets, Nathan has always been part of the biker world.
Not in a curated or polished way, but in the way most riders are. Riding to switch off, building and customising bikes, and picking up recommendations from other riders along the way. Conversations at petrol stations, quick stops at cafés, passing comments about a road or a viewpoint that’s worth the ride, that’s where most of the good information actually lives.
And the same question kept coming up: where are the places that are genuinely worth going to?
Not the obvious ones, not the overcrowded spots, but the real ones. The problem was that those places never stayed in one place. They got lost between messages, screenshots, or just memory.
Nathan started building something for himself, just as a way to keep track of the places he’d found and the rides he wanted to do. But the more time he put into it, the more it became clear that this wasn’t just a personal tool. It was something other riders would use as well.
That’s where Routero came from. Something simple in principle, but rooted in real riding experience, built by someone who actually spends time on the road, and shaped around how riders naturally share information.
Building it wasn’t a big, visible process. There was no team behind it and no structured environment like on a film set. It was done in the background, over time. For more than two years, Nathan worked on it after everything else was finished, usually starting in the evening and going through to the early hours of the morning, often until around 3am . It was a case of learning what was needed, solving problems as they came up, and steadily moving things forward.
The same consistency that carried him through stunt work carried into this. Just applied differently.
Routero reflects the kind of biker community Nathan knows. It’s not just about big groups or highly visible riders. A lot of people ride in their own way. Some prefer social rides, others prefer heading out alone and keeping things quieter. The common ground is the experience itself, the roads, the stops, the places you come across along the way.
What Routero does is make that easier to navigate. It gives riders a way to keep track of where they’ve been, find places they might not have discovered otherwise, and tap into recommendations that come from other riders rather than generic listings.
Looking ahead, Nathan wants to build something that genuinely supports that world. Something that grows with the community, helps smaller places get noticed, and over time creates a financial ecosystem that supports the community.
But for now, the focus is simple. Keep building it properly. Keep improving it. Let it grow in a way that stays true to where it came from.
If you ride, it’ll make sense straight away.
The BMIC thanks Nathan for sharing his inspirational story and wishes him and the folk at Routero huge success.
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