Great footage guys. What variety of sim or esim do you guys use on your travels. I’m doing a wee ride from Copenhagen to Vienna this August and I’ve been looking at the various SIM/esim options. Safe travels.
Not to burst your bubble but I did this a longgg time.... not fun at all ... very dangerous... here's why ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-l89h8milAi4.html
I appreciate your videos as I learn more about touring and the Rohloff setup. Is having to remove the back fender for a flat repair typical of Rohloff setups, this type of fender, or how the Rohloff is adapted into the Ogre frame?
The rohloff needs some way to tension the chain, so it's a problem that all bicycles that achieve rohloff compatibility via a sliding rear dropout will have. Other bicycle frames use an eccentric bottom bracket or some other method to allow for chain tensioning and they won't have the same problem.
I'm sure you probably already figured it out, but most or all the bike path through Daegu is part of the sidewalks, although some are incredibly narrow. Lived there for a year, some of the best bike riding around.
@@RollingExistence I have found their website, thanks! Here in Spain we have to wear a helmet by law. But I guess skin cancer is a much bigger risk than head injury due to an accident. So it looks like this Da Brim offers the perfect solution.
hey there guys I just found your channel after looking for videos to relive my Loire Valley cycle tour, and am enjoying them! I was there in 2022 as well, June to be exact. This video about Les Alpes looks so fun!! Go Bike Tourism!!!!
Nicely filmed and endured! Its easy to get caught out by the weather in the highlands and i live here! Weather forecasts can be wildly inaccurate.... ive set out in what should have been a lovely spring day...and had rain/hale/sleet and snow, i actually turned into a cycling snowman on the hills. came home and was so frozen i could hardly get the key in the door. It is beautiful but always have good gear to combat the worst of the weather- which you sensibly did. 😁
If you're frame bag is collecting water you can actually cut a little hole in the bottom and that will let it drain. If you want to be fancy you can use a grommet system. Which you can get at almost any hardware store
We ended up stabbing a hole in both to get them to drain. Ideally, frame bags would be waterproof considering they are meant to be used on bikepacking trips outdoors, but that doesn't seem to be a priority for most manufacturers. Ortlieb and Rockgeist now both make frame bags that are waterproof but we haven't tried them.
The wind and the rain is bearable... But the fckin MIDGIES!! Respect to you both for tolerating wee bstards for so long! There's a theory that the midgies are what's stopping people moving back into the Highlands 😂 Great video, huge respect for dealing with the horrible weather for so long 🙏🏻
Our friend Marcus was only with us for the first two months of the trip. He rejoins us for our ride across Korea in Episode 42, but the rest of the time it's just the two of us.
@@RollingExistence ah thanks for letting me know. I'm not far off Episode 42, i'm up to where you were cycling through Vietnam. Was just curious how you got to France from America as there seemed to be a bit of a gap n the videos. Have been enjoyable to watch though as a keen tourist myself.
As far as cycling goes, definitely Shikoku. The coastline was spectacular and there was relatively low traffic. It's more rural though, we would definitely recommend seeing Tokyo and Kyoto as well. We'd like to ride more of Hokkaido at some point as well, we barely scratched the surface of the island and we've heard the northern areas are fantastic.
Beautiful video as usual with no noise. So your Rohloffs have caught up to mine at 20,750. Just broken in now, like a teenager. I rode my 73 lb tour bike 100 miles yesterday, 11 hours. I just watched a video of a girl who just switched her Surly from defaileurs to a Rohloff14. She got it from an idiot who only rode it 200 miles and gave up, so stupid. Damn smoke season is fully underway now, got choked out Saturday and Sunday in Edmonton. It is raining enough to halt the fires some now. Last summer was the worst ever. In 2018 I rode a 3,900 mile loop to Oregon, that was damn smoky as well. Don't be afraid to ride almost anywhere thru Edmonton. The river valley MUPs are fantastic. But more likely is you do the Jasper/ Banff highway to Calgary. Western Ontario is a very difficult slog with few towns, narrow shoulders and busy traffic. I drove thru there in 2019.
Always very nice to see some footage from you, it is very inspiring and takes you along for the ride. I was wondering: the rain gear you ride in, is is fully waterproof? You use it extensively in this video, also when it is dry, suggesting it is also breathable
We're both using Montbell Peak Dry shells, which are Montbell's version of the Goretex shake dry technology. The waterproof layer is on the outside meaning you aren't supposed to wear backpacks with the shells, but they absolutely never wet out and are quite breathable compared to other 2.5 and 3 layer rain gear. We highly recommend them for bicycle touring. They are discontinued sadly, but the new Super Dry version might be a similar material. The Montbell JP site ships all over the world and is much cheaper than the US site. We bought ours at a physical Montbell store in Fukuoka.
When we got to Fairbanks we purchase spray on deet and coated our clothes in permethrin, both of which helped a noticeable amount. Admittedly the bugs were never as bad once we were south of Fairbanks.
Thank you so much for your great videos! Always a joy to watch! 2 questions: 1) you rarely say anything about technical issues or maintenance. Would be really interesting! 2) Are you like going back and forth to home and touring? Or more like on a world tour? Trying to understand.
1) We built our bicycles with the goal of having bombproof transportation that we could depend on. In 2.5 years and 25,000 miles on the road, the only maintenance we did was Rohloff oil changes every 3,000 miles, new chains every 6,000 miles, and new brake pads when needed. We had one technical issue when a rock broke two spokes on Jenny's rear wheel, but we fixed that ourselves on the road with spare spokes that we carried with us. 2) We were on a continuous bicycle tour, 2.5 years with our longest break being 40 days in Croatia while we waited for our Schengen visa to reset. We flew several times to get to new destinations. We are now done with the tour for the near future. We're slowly editing footage but we're quite behind, this video was filmed in June 2023.
Yes, we've decided that it's time to get back to work to rebuild our savings and stay stationary for the foreseeable future. We've still got quite a few videos coming though, our trip ended in October 2023 so we've got four months of footage to work through.
