Thank goodness for your friendly neighborhood logger for directions through such beautiful surroundings. Thank you two for sharing another Henrywildeberry epic route, I thoroughly enjoy them.
Aways love when you and Ms. Cools goes on an adventures ride love the route, ruff but Beautiful. The background music was great,it fit the video. Thanks again guys.
That was badass! I applaud you. Thanks for the very inspirational video. Best Regards, -Jeff P.S. Your channel is unique to the cycling community - great content, thanks again.
@@Henrywildeberry I will be doing the Boone Gran Fondo on Aug. 1st. I can honestly say that the N. Carolina mountain climbs appear a whole lot less daunting to me now.
Henry was pretty upbeat in his narration, whimsical even. Made an already fun video even better! So much climbing! Those long climbs really test your mental metal.
Great video. Because of your channel I've already got the roads of North Western California on my bucket list and videos like this one just confirm my intentions. Thanks!
Thanks Alistair! There's a lot to explore around here and I'm still finding new routes all the time. Trying to avoid narrow and busy highways adds a lot to the challenge.
Thanks for the video. Your video was a nice Easter morning breakfast viewing. I’m enjoying learning about Bay Area cycling routes. I’m hoping to improve my climbing ability so I can ride some of them.
Henry, Thank you for sharing another great cycling adventure !! I appreciate you adding the route details on the map - it really helps to orientate the areas where you were riding :-)
Hiker tip: get a CNOC raw water bag to use with your Sawyer filter. And don’t forget to back flush. Practice before ride on your outdoor faucet. Adventure happens when plans unspool. Nice video. Good to see your new kit in practice.
I liked that sherwood? Road to willits. With all the samisen cover i was disappointed ms cools didn't break out a komono. A couple of days ago me and a buddy did our first ride on the valley trail here, sans snow. 60+ degrees and we were sweating. Thanks for taking me along. I like the look of that area for riding. Know folks in Potter Valley but i never get down that way.
What a great adventure all packed into an overnight! Such good filming and choreography, another perfect video! Very interesting narration that holds onto your attention. Amazing that you were able to do all that in an overnight with so little being carried on the bike. I guess an important point is having a good sized handlebar bag and compact seatpost packing arrangement.
Excellent video! Diggin' these overnighter tours. Loved the water bottle refill with the Sawyer Squeeze :-) You guys can rack up the miles in 24 hours given the elevation gain. Thanks for vid, happy Easter.
Great video. How did you you folks "stealth Camp" in that camp ground ? Good planning on that water clarification bottle . Did the compass break ? No GPS back up ? Thats what I call and adventure, and we got to enjoy . Thanks again, for the great video . KB.
Y'all lost me with the background music played using a Chinese musical instrument called "Gu Qin". I couldn't stop laughing...for a while I thought instead of a backpacking adventure, I was watching "Farewell My Concubine" lol.
Was the dirt road with the creek crossings a Forest Service road or did people actually live on it? You worked the filter good but I'd recommend going with the Sawyer Mini instead as its smaller and easier to pack, IMO. Enjoyed this video - love when you two do overnight videos! But I got to say, as much as I myself love coffee and I really do love it, if I drank it as much as you two do, I'd always be in the bathroom LOL. What's your secret?! haha Another good one!
The road with the creek crossings is a rural road North of Redwood Valley. It goes from gravel to pavement as we showed on the final descent. It's a neat road, but a few of the crossings were pretty deep this time of year. The nice part is it keeps the traffic to a minimum. We saw one truck and two motorcycles, but the motorcycles turned around at the first crossing. I didn't know there was a Sawyer mini. You mean we could have saved a few more grams!
Ah leave it to Ms Cools to bring the cool factor again. 5 out of 5 on the cools meter very "cool" bike adventure Yes you were more or less using the water filter right HWB. I would recommend looking into options of bladders that take up little room when empty, but they hold lots of water if you need them. MSR for instance has one that I have used in several sizes. You could also get an ultra light backpacking oriented tent to save some weight. You guys are so smart though in shaking this all down before going into a long distance ride which I sense is in the works. Keep the head cool and coffee warm my friends
I was wondering how effective these filters really are in eliminating bacteria? The water out there was pretty clean, but you never know. Thanks for all tips and suggestions!
@@Henrywildeberry they are very effective, and we cannot judge the quality of water by looking at it. I am sure that you understand this. safe journeys to you both.
You guys were in Ukiah! I recognize the local coffee roaster Black Oak...have only been on my campus 3 times since COVID. Hope to be back there in the Fall! LOL, Ukiah is small enough, but the largest city in Mendocino/Lake County at 40k people!
40k is a small village by California standards! Missing your IG feed at campus and with the flowers in bloom I hope you can get back up there soon! Black Oak is producing some fine coffee!
Henry. I’m prejudiced in favor of using rear panniers, being more convenient I think. What do you think? The weight of the rear rack? Does that really matter? In your previous video you clamped a cage to the fork of Miss Cools’ bike. Wouldn’t it be better if the fork had three mounts installed on it?
Hi Dave! I've used a rear rack on tour in the past, but this bike is too flexy to carry weight that way. Ms. Cools fork has quite a large for rake, so I'm not sure if it would be possible to align three rack mounts in row. They would definitely need to be placed higher up where the fork is straight. The clamps are a work around, and so far they seem to work pretty well.
John brazed two sets of "bottle" braze-ons on my Fitz for me, so I may try fork-based luggage one of these days. Are those bags on the forks regular dry bags, or were they bike-specific bags? There is a Buddhist monastery (Abhayagiri) right on Tomki road about 6 miles from the Tomki/East/West roads intersection. It's probably closed because of Covid, but it's usually the end point for the Buddhist Bicycle Pilgrimage that I helped organize quite a few times. It's an awesome place!
I hope the The Buddhist Bike Pilgrimage starts up again. Would love to join if I'm allowed. The bags are dry compressions sacks. We used a combination of Voile and some cheapo velcro straps. The dry bag I packed the tent into came with the rear saddle bag. I like it because it has an air valve so you can get a really good compression on the tent. With the xtra saddle bag space I was able to use it for overflow once I started taking off layers.
We brought them along and they worked well. They are actually aluminum, just like the previous set. You can get fiberglass or carbon fiber poles to save a little more weight, but they are about twice the price.
@@Henrywildeberry I see. I though the long grey case (4:18) was the tent poles and they seemed longer than in the previous video, so that's why I was asking.
Bonjour Henri Je viens de poser la même question=, mais cette vidéo étant plus récente, elle a plus de chance d'être lue. Quel rétroviseur utilisez-vous ? Est-il efficace ? Encore bravo pour vos publications vidéos ; c'est toujours un régal. Cordiales salutations à tous les deux. Serge
Hello Serge, The mirror is by Gilles Berthoud. It's a nicely made compact mirror. It's small but it gives you just enough field of view to see cars coming. I wouldn't mind if it were a little larger, but I appreciate the small size. All the best! HWB
I just finished a bike tour with my son and we realized during and after that we carried way too much stuff. I too will be reducing the gear list for our next ride. As always, your adventures are inspiring! Did you mount your camera to your helmet?
It's very easy to overpack! I've been slowly training myself to only bring the most basic essentials. I do mount the camera to my helmet once in awhile, but on this trip it was all handheld.
I use warm soapy water and green kitchen scrub pads. That seems to get them pretty clean without a lot of work. If you look close you will still see some stains, but I think they look good enough.
Henry Wildeberry Please put on your helmet I say this because I was hit back in 2015 the doctors told me if I had not have my helmet on I would not be here today part of my back got broken but I'm ok here now! I would hate to hear something happen to you because you did not have a helmet on just saying.I look forward to watch all the videos you two put out here.If I had an e-mail I would love to ask you so many ? here I don't want a lot of people to read all of the things I need to know.It's on bicycle parts I know a lot of things about them but some of the new stuff I'm a little lost on.We don't have any real good bicycle shops here in Caribou Maine sure wish we did.I had them back in Arkansas.
