Thanks very much. Yeah, it was a very enjoyable couple of days with my cycling buddies. Just watched your NC500 video - excellent, especially the advice section, as I'm bikepacking this route in early September. I've subscribed to your channel and gonna have a look at your back catalogue. All the best, Dave.
Thanks Paul, it was a tough ride that one with 3 big climbs but we all had a lot of fun. Thanks for watching and commenting. All the best, Dave...🚴🏻♂️
Hi Steven, yeah it was a great little adventure. The cafe at the farm does great home cooked food at very reasonable prices and it's a wonderful setting. Thanks for watching and commenting. Happy cycling...🚴🏻♂️
Hi Paul, as you saw, we had a real belly laugh making this one, with all the mayhem at the camp. It was a bit like "Carry on Camping". I was Kenneth Williams, Thomo was Sid James, Rob was Terry Scott and Martin was Bernard Bresslaw. All the best, Dave
That's brilliant, I'm so glad we entertained you with this one. Before the trip we set up a WhatsApp group and called it "Carry on Camping". It turned out to be very apt...🤣 Thanks for watching and commenting. All the best from Kenneth Williams (Thomo was Sid James, Rob was Terry Scott and Martin was Bernard Bresslaw)
Thanks a lot for watching and commenting, I'm glad you enjoyed this one. It was fun making the video. All the best from the Old Bloke on a Bike...🚴🏻♂️
Hi Matt, thanks for watching my channel. I hope you liked this latest video with all the shenanigans at the camp...🤣 Yeah, Josh is a good guy and produces some great videos. All the best, Dave...🚴🏻♂️
Brilliant, I'm so glad we entertained you with all the mayhem of the camp. They are a great bunch of friends and I feel privileged to share these experiences with them. Thanks for watching and your kind comments...👍🏻
Thanks a lot for watching and commenting. Yeah, it was such a funny evening, I still laugh now when I think about it. I'm glad you enjoyed all the mayhem. All the best, Dave
I'm sorry but I don't think it is possible to put any attachments on RU-vid. You can look at the route on my Strava account listed under David Benson, Warrington. I hope that helps. Thanks for watching the video...👍🏻
My tent has to be 2 man so I've got room to put some stuff in next to me, self supporting so I don't need to bother with pegs most nights and side opening so (don't tell anyone) I can roll over and have a pee at night.
Hi Randel, I've seen your tent on your bikepacking videos, and I remember thinking it looked pretty good, especially as you don't have to peg it in. Here in the UK it would blow away without pegging it in, as I'm sure you know we have pretty poor weather a lot of the time, not the settled stuff you have over there. Bye the way, your secret about peeing out the side of the tent is safe with me, I won't tell anyone...🤣 Thanks very much for watching and commenting. Happy cycling 🚴🏻♂️
I really enjoyed all the clowning around at the campsite. Your mates are a lot of fun, and good sports. Thanks so much for finding that wall! Made my day. Thank you, friend!
Hi Josh, I'm glad you enjoyed all the fun of our little bikepacking trip. Yeah, the guys are a great bunch to ride with and camp with. A very enjoyable trip and we were blessed with decent weather. All the best, Dave
Thanks a lot. Yeah, it's a nice little place. Not an official campsite, mainly an outdoor cafe. Good food at reasonable prices. Perfect...👍🏻 Thanks for watching and commenting.
Good lad! I did it on my Ribble 90’s steely from East to West over Wrynose Pass and down into Whitehaven..all the way from Leeds…I’ll take the carbon next time 👍
Ha ha, I can't get the vision out of my head of you peddling up a steep climb in lycra...😂 Glad you enjoy the videos and good to hear from you Gary. All the best, Dave
@garyworthington4580 Not today unfortunately, but I would have liked to have been there. Beautiful place to ride. I was cycling along the Cheshire country lanes today, which was nice also.
Okay,only I held the gate open for a gentleman on a gravel bike that looked like you. It was on a bridleway near grinton.Hope there’s a video coming soon.
@@markwoods6342 Thanks, it's a Pinnacle Arkose 4 from Evans Cycles. Aluminium frame, carbon forks, with SRAM Rival gearing 42 tooth chainring and 11-42 cassette. Tyres are WTB Riddler 37mm wide with tubes. Thanks for watching and commenting 👍
Thanks very much for watching and commenting. I'm glad you enjoy my videos. Yeah, it's a great place to ride. As you will have seen in the video there are lots of hills, but you can avoid a lot of them by sticking to the old railway trails. All the best...🚴🏻♂️
In April, I set off on the Lincoln Imp Audax and 2.5 miles in likewise realised I'd left my water and tools in the car. Did the ride of shame back. Won't make that mistake again 😅!!
Thank you Michael, that's really kind of you to say. I try to make my videos interesting for non-cyclists as well as for us cyclists. Glad you enjoyed the Leeds Liverpool Canal section that you did. I've done some of it around Wigan, and that is really scenic, but not the complete journey, maybe one day...🤔 Thanks again for watching my videos and commenting. Happy cycling...🚴🏻♂️
Always enjoy your videos Dave. Great countryside around there, looked lovely. Looks like you had a few "senior moments" there, forgetting your tools and drink and not locking your bike up🤣😁 we all do stuff like that at times though..... Glad it's not only me!! Great stuff. Keep it up mate. Well done 👍
@WitmeisterYT Thanks a lot for your kind comments, as always 👍 Yeah, muppet moments I call them. Hopefully, they won't get any more frequent when I become an "official" muppet (OAP) this year...🤣 All the best, Dave
Nice vid Dave. 👌 I've got the "Lost Lanes" series of guidebooks, some good routes around there in "Lost Lanes Central" that we've mixed and matched a few years back. Nice scenery 👍🏻
@PuddledPete Thanks a lot Pete. I'm glad you enjoyed the video. Yeah, my second days ride was loosely based on no.4 in that book. They are beautifully illustrated guidebooks and I've often got my head in them when I'm not out riding. All the best and happy cycling...🚲
Hi there, to get on the climb at Bakewell I came out of the old station car park and crossed back over the Monsal Trail heading NE. This is Station Lane and goes up to a sharp right bend and then climbs through woods onto Handley Lane heading for Pilsley. There's a sign at the start saying unsuitable for motors, but the road isn't too bad, all tarmac, if a little broken in places. Thanks for watching the video...👍
Right let me say it's the first time I've seen your vids. Absolutely brilliant. Fantastic music. I'm into wild camping vids. But to combine what you do with camping is pure bliss. If only I had the balls to do it.😅
Thank you very much for your kind comments, and thanks for watching my videos. I'm glad you enjoy them. It gives me inspiration to do more of this sort of stuff when I get nice comments like yours. Thanks again...👍🚲
@@davidbenson735 thanks great commentary and great vidioes I'm 74 done some of high peak and heanor to Carsington water so have some of your outlooks on life but it's great to ride in the countryside
Thanks again. Good to hear you are still enjoying your cycling, especially in the beautiful countryside we have here in the UK. I'm a mere 66 and hope I'm still cycling at 74 and beyond. I have met a lady cyclist at a local cafe recently who is still riding there every week at the grand old age of 92. Amazing...! All the best and happy cycling...🚴🏻♂️
Hi Lucas, thanks for watching my videos and commenting. I'm glad you enjoy them. The main camera that I use is a Sony SteadyShot, which I can easily pull out of my jersey pocket whilst riding, switch on, and cradle in my "closed" hand. The camera mounted on the bars is an older (now discontinued) TCL SVC200 which I use for extra footage, for example when it's not safe to ride holding the Sony in my hand. All the best, Dave
That was so good, I'll probably never get back to the UK but if you ever decide to add gpx files for your rides I can dream and add them to my bucket list. Thanks for sharing your rides, they are a real treat.
Thank you so much for watching the video and your lovely comments...👍🏻 I wouldn't know how to add gpx files and from past experience RU-vid seems to block any added links. However, if you wanted to see my rides they are all on my Strava account, and you are very welcome to use them whenever. All the best and happy cycling...🚴🏼😀
Thanks for watching and commenting Ali. Yeah, I was spoilt for choice again in Derbyshire, it's such a lovely place to ride a bike. The hostel was very relaxed. It almost felt like my own country mansion at times...😂 All the best and happy cycling and walking in beautiful Pembrokeshire.
Thanks very much Josh. Not much dry stone wall action in this one, I'm afraid, but the scenery is stunning in Derbyshire, none the less. Yeah, I love the colour of my Pinnacle, even if it's not very stealthy 😂 It's such a comfy ride too, probably 'cos of the longish wheelbase. Thanks for watching and commenting. All the best, Dave
@@davidbenson735 oh, I thought there was plenty of stone. Way more than I’m used to seeing around here anyway. I’m almost done with my studies for awhile… and you have inspired me to set out on some adventures before the weather turns cold. Looking forward to your next adventure.
That's great Josh, I'm so pleased I've inspired you to venture out on more adventures. When I set up my channel a few years back, it was just to record my rides for myself and a couple of mates who sometimes joined me. To now know that people like yourself are getting inspiration from the videos gives me a great deal of pleasure. I too, am looking forward to your next adventure on your bike. All the best. Take care, Dave
Love it round that area, you missed a really nice cafe in Hartington though, it's just opposite the pay and display car park as you enter Hartington, they do some lovely cakes 😁 Coffee is rxc there too, we used to go there at the end of a ride for a treat. Another great video, really enjoyed it as usual 👍👍
Thanks very much for watching and commenting. I'm glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks also for the tip about the cafe in Hartington, I'll have to give it a try next time I'm that way. All the best, Dave and happy cycling 🚲
'The observer book of quarries' made me laugh. Took me back to the 70's 😅. We've all done that with the water bottle and toolkit. You did right going back when you aren't local. Another great vid 👍
Thanks for watching, commenting and enjoying my "humour". As for the bottles, I've always been told "better to have and not need, rather than the opposite". All the best and happy cycling...🚲
Another great video! I did the same trails last year with my son. That hill on the way up to the high peaks trail was hard! We dubbed it “Horror Show hill”. Once you get to the top that ride to Parsley hay is great. 👍🏼
Cheers for watching the video and commenting, I'm pleased that you enjoyed it. The hills are an ever-present feature away from the railway trails, and like you say, some are "horror shows". All the best and happy cycling...🚲
That was a very nice video Dave, i know a lot of that area quite well, i was in Hartington area in 2019, and Longnor area 2018, great pubs and stayed on a campsite right beside the village with firepit hire lovely! It is frustrating when you forget something or two, it's maybe an age thing but regardless of age it's mostly because you just want to get going and the inevitable happens! I have been enjoying your videos which are new to me for short while now and look forward to seeing more as i like you sense of humour and your bike touring thanks for sharing Dave !
Thank you for watching my videos and your very kind comments. I try to exercise my "chuckle muscles" as well as my leg muscles when I'm making these videos...😂 I'm glad you are enjoying the videos. All the best, Dave...👍
Good vid, I used to do a lot of riding around there. Not surprised you didn't stick around in Hartington, it's a beautiful village completely filled (ruined...) with cars
