A Very Muddy and Epic Bike Packing Adventure. "The Fosbury Loop". Planet X Bootzipper, Wiltshire Man 

Love the dirt, gravel, water, and mud adventure. Thanks for the great video.

That route looks lovely

Looked like a great afternoon for your ride, I’ve walked around all three main locations with the dog and you’re right this is a great country to live in👍

Good on you Sandy , no matter the weather adventure awaits.👏

I admire you for getting out on the bike in this weather. It’s been so wet hasn’t it. Not a day passes without rain it seems. I was in the New Forest last weekend & it was a giant bog. Thank you for sharing the adventures Sandy.

Watched it. Great filming and music. I’ve gone back and watched all your videos. The standard now is worthy of an Oscar!

That was a very interesting adventure for the viewers of this video but a very challenging and difficult trek for you Sandy. The weather and road conditions were definitely not very pleasant for a bike ride and camp, that is for certain. You are one determined and resilient man my friend. I hope that you managed to get worthy enjoyment from this "adventure." Thank you for sharing your time with us my friend and I will surely see you on the next one.

I have ridden along the muddy canal banks and with the ruts have nearly ended up taking 'dip'. I always had mudguards as I couldn't stand the mud and water soaking all my gear and clothes. You certainly lap up the harsh conditions to entertain Sandy. Best wishes.😊👍

Not to be confused with the Fosbury Flop: a high jumping technique made popular in the 1970s. You are hardcore Sandy! You don't quit no matter the conditions. Great adventure!

Watching this I told my wife ‘we’re just making excuses, too cold, too windy, too hot, too wet.’ Thanks for the great videos and encouragement to get out and ride.

Very well done Sandy on making the video in conditions that were absolutely miserable. Thanks for showing lots of local history..you mentioned Jack Hargreaves...I used to rush home from school to watch his TV programme Out Of Town. Many thanks and best wishes.

A great epic muddy journey and wonderful to see how much you and your dogs love each other Sandy.

Remember that weather well used to live in Wiltshire chiseldon village also gloucestshire good memories miss it! Now living in az USA miss the seasons and family.

Luckily you didn't fall into the canal. That was close! The landscape, the mist and the sound of the birds made it so beautiful. Well done! Thanks for sharing

Luscious rainy bickepacking adventure, thanks for sharing the beauty of England, wow!

Great video Sandy. You certainly know how to suffer😊 I think you will find cleats a real pain in the butt for your kind of touring. I suggest old school rat trap cages, without the straps. Stops you feet slipping and no need for special fittings on your cycling shoes. Try them and good luck with your coming journeys

Keep inspiring us all globally, fellow avid cyclist!

Top marks for you Sandy, a ride and a half. Thanks for the entertainment.

Thanks for taking us along, Sandy! Weather here (eastern Tennessee) has been sopping wet as well. Hoping to get out next week for an overnight cycling trip, the first of the year for me.

What a legend Jack Hargreaves was !! 🤣🤣. Great video Sandy really enjoyed watching looks like your drive could do with weeding off. 🤣🤣😂😂. Take care and stay safe.

Thank you Sandy, your videos are a inspiration to me. I look forward to each one.

Now, that’s a dawn chorus!

Great vid Sandy your a great inspiration for us older folk 👏I am a fair weather rider, and looking forward to the Devon C2C in June for a few days 😀

Ah Combe Gibbet I know well as it’s one of the many great Thames Valley hang gliding and paragliding sites - on a busy day you can get 50+ gliders there .. and if it’s a nice thermic day you can make the beach in Brighton if you’re lucky.. nice ride Sandy.

So much editing for you Sandy in extreme conditions Great footage...loved it

Thanks for sharing another adventure and showing more of your beautiful country, Sandy.

What a great film Sandy.. Loved it.. Your hardcore bud..I’d of gone into the Sun Inn at Coate Water… In the dry….. and drank beer….🍺😄.. Looking forward to having a ride out with you and Dave on the bicycles this summer..🙂👍

That was very enjoyable from the comfort of my armchair.😀

Great adventure, Sandy 👍

A really interesting episode ! A lovely old previously coppiced area where you camped ! I'd forgotten all about 'toe -clips ', something I had on a 'racing' bicycle in the late 1950s! Thank you Mr Wiltshire Man!

You certainly like a challenge Sandy, the canal was very scary 😱 thanks for taking the time to take us along showing us again how beautiful the countryside is around where you live.

Thanks for the adventure, really enjoyed this one. 👍

Hi Sandy ..you are resilient boy I’ll give you that 😆👍.. I was expecting to see some underwater footage as you were riding through those puddles.. Twin Tunnels ( Bath) are still closed. Take care

Just an idea for your bottle that is getting covered in muk what about putting a small plastic bag over the top of it and securing it with an elastic band just a thought for you

That is beautiful forest, and a lovely video I am glad I caught this one. You are braver than me riding on a very muddy towpath. Thankyou for another relaxing video apart from the canal that is, I was sure you were going to fall in.

A challenging adventure that, but super rewarding to complete it and get a good welcome from the dogs next day! Especially loved the dawn chorus. Pheasants have the most comical cry and sound so incongruous against the music of the other birds.

Great watch again. Bravo for sticking with it, in that weather.

You deserve a medal going out in all that rain and mud...well done for braving the elements.i think most of us wouldn't even have considered going out. Love your vlogs, you're an inspiration xx

I used cleats (spds) for years but I'm much happier without them now.

A brave trip out in the wet, well done for filming it all and the beautiful dawn chorus. The warm welcome home from your dogs 😊👍👍

I need to get back out on my bike it's a E bike so easy on the hill's with a full load that looked like a wet and muddy adventure Sandy but you never give up goog o ya mate atvb Jimmy 😎😎👍👍

That was a tough adventure, put many youngsters to shame. Well done.

When I saw you pushing your bike up that Hill I thought you were going to say "hovis as good for you to day as it's always been"😁

That was a cracking video Sandy, and a bloody good effort in that manky weather and muck. Top marks for perseverance mate that's for sure. Keep the Videos coming bud, I always really enjoy them. Big thumbs up. Regards to one and all in the house of the Wiltshire man. Moose

Yes we have had such awful weather this year - our village is flooded and long lines of tankers are being used to ship water out from the flooded sewers . A very good point about the combustion engine v the bike . The water contamination is a challenge- if you boil water it dies not remove toxins - it just kills bacteria etc - sometimes it’s better to stop and buy food from shops along the way like at Hungerfird - it serves to minimise storage and ensure you get clean water ?

Nice to see you back out on your bike camping looked very wet wet wet and muddy long you enjoyed it that's the main thing stay safe and stay healthy one life enjoy blessed be

Great, sorry not been on, Sandy not in best of health last three weeks but hopefully holding , my own now .. Er you are a brave man better wx soon

Blimey Sandy that was hair raising on the canal bank. When is the blooming sun coming out. May your trousers always be dry 😁👍

Wow better get the Himalayan out ❤my best wishes to you from the Philippines 💭🤔👍😀😉😁🏁🏍️🛺🐑🇵🇭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Brilliant WW, stunning views along the way too.

Ten seconds in to video…he’s bloody mad! I’ve been walking up Hackpen and around Coate Water. It’s awful , you’re cycling and camping! You put us all to shame. Now I will watch the video 👍

Great stuff Sandy. Will have to try that route. Savernake is right on my doorstep so just start the loop from there I think. Spent a lot of time at Crofton Beam engines as a kid, and been just about everywhere a boy can get in that building, on the roof, down the well even in one of the boiler fire boxes haha😄

Nice ride, thanks for taking us along with you. At least the wet weather did not dampen your spirit of adventure (ha ha). Tried to access your Komoot but it is marked as private but I think I can piece it together somewhat. I'm in the industrial North West of England so have to ride some distance to clear civilisation before my adventures begins as I like to start and finish on the bike from my door. All the best.

Thankyou sandy, tough one that, beutifull great route and very rewarding.

Hi Sandy, You probably already know, but you can buy MTB specific water-bottles which have a large hinged cap, which protects the nozzle from dirt. They are literally only pennies more than a standard bottle, and a great upgrade! All the best! 👍

Excellent...

Wow Sandy that was not an easy loop by any standard. It would be a great loop when it gets drier the countryside looks amazing along those of road tracks. The home run going down hill when nearly home would be a blessing. A great adventure all the same one to remember. Thanks for taking us along.

was waiting for you to end up in the canal

That canal path was dodgy, I was holding my breath for you 😂

What an EPIC adventure Sandy ! Always a pleasure to watch

Sandy, your life clock is in reverse, you are getting younger!! That would have been too much for these old bones; I think cleats and a gravel bike is the way to go for you, although, I am unsure about titanium. It sounds expensive!!

Ahhhh…English gravel 😂 Well done Sandy- hope you dried out! Good test for all your gear though 😁 thank you for taking the time to film your journeys - it must be so much harder in those conditions!

Brilliant video Sandy. You did well in those mucky old conditions. Your bike deserves a good clean up after that one. Thanks for making it.

Enjoyed this outing bro so thanks for letting us tag along. Safe travels. Ken.

No matter what Sandy you just get on with it and really enjoy being outdoors,Always very interesting videos and to go along with you.

G'day from Australia. I am 66 years old and also riding a bootzipper. You inspire me to get out in our Autumn weather, which does not look as bad as your spring weather, to maintain my fitness for the later years of my life. I however do not have the talent or ambition to produce quality such as yours. Keep riding I love the content.

Nothing like a scotch egg (or two) to keep you going 😁

Why not just cover the water bottle in a plastic bag?

Tip use fuel bottle on the bottom of the frame if get dirty it dont matter

Great adventure, rather you than me in all that mud. Downhill on the way home makes it all worthwhile.

Great video Sandy ⛺️⛺️⛺️⛺️⛺️⛺️

Nice overnighter bikepacking loop in one of he wettest winters/springs I ever remember. I have ‘mudhuggers’ mudguards on mine, in wet Cymru, they stay on all year ! Good authentic informative video as usual thank you/ diolch.

Thanks for the video, beautiful country ....

Ace loop Sandy .... Really you have a pretty fine bike there which technically would fall in the "gravel" category being fully rigid ... if you want it to roll faster in the summer months all you really need to do is change your tyres ... of course one should always get a new bike whenever possible by law but honestly if I had the funds I'd have a Bootzipper at the drop of a hat ... steel is real and all that .... honestly it's a real trailblazer ... as for cleats if they suit you then there are pedals with them incorporated giving you both options at all times ... for me personally you can't beat DMR V8s or V12s but then I'm way too chicken to be attached to the bike offroad 😁.... yet another inspiring video though chap and some wonderful country there ... cheers 🙂

The obvious advantage to adventuring in crappy weather- you won't have to worry about crowds.

Thought Mandy would be waiting with a pressure washer for you and the bike sandy 👍 that was a rather wet adventure but looks like you had fun. The hounds really seemed to have missed you, Carmen is a proper daddies dog ❤️❤️👍👍😉😉☺️☺️

Great job on the video

great adventure !, many thanks for sharing 👍👍👍👍

Another totally enjoyable adventure-Thank you Sandy !

You looked a little wet but seemed to be enjoying yourself ,keep it up .

You must have been desperate to get out of the house t suffer those conditions, well done.

Another great video I admire your determination not to be beaten by the weather and terrain thankyou

I have been looking forward to this one!

Warbury hill is the highest peak in the south east of England.

Brave man in those conditions Sandy 😂 , thought you were gan in the canal at one stage. Sun will shine again soon…. I hope atb Dave

Nice camp spot

Bravo and well done!

Great video Sandy. Not sure some of those mud baths actually qualify as tow paths. But it's the same in most places. Not sure about the cleats either. Dangerous things. Decent, grippy, flat pedals might be better - certainly easier to handle in the wet and mud of England.

Jack Hargreaves - Legend R.I.P. Top video thanks for sharing

Oh Sandy…this brings back memories. I’m from Yorkshire and was in your neck of the woods doing the Mercian Way over the Easter weekend. The conditions were just like yours. I rode from Salisbury on the Thursday before Good Friday, and bailed at Pewsey. Couldn’t feel my hands and feet. Horizontal rain. Weather improved marginally over subsequent days to Chester, but did lots of squelchy hike-a- bike. Definitely type 2 fun.

Brilliant video sandy we really enjoyed it now been to savanak woods for ages keep up the good work we love your videos

Great video, thanks. If you are thinking of getting cleats, my suggestion would be Shimano 324's. they are reversible, cleat on one side and normal pedal on the other.

That was a real endurance test, Sandy, for both you and the bike! Beautiful route to tackle in the summer when it's warm and dry . . . . assuming we get a summer this year.

You've got no idea what an inspiration your videos are to me buddy. Despite the wind and rain, you still got out there and as tough as it was, you still made the very best of it. And that dawn chorus...nothing like it. Jack Hargreaves...Man About Town...loved watching his shows on tv as a kid. I'm not sure about what he said there...I think everything has it's place. Must admit...driving a horse is fun though and bike packing is a godsend. What a lovely greeting to come home to. I was at the farm for 9 days and the winds and rain were ferocious...with 2 mares in foal and due to drop within 2 weeks from when I arrived. I wasn't silly...as soon as the rain stopped, I sent the drone up, rather than get stuck, or even worse fall. From treating ducks, geese and chickens to scrap bread, to turning 39 goose eggs and 19 ducks half a turn daily in the incubators...plus the 4 dogs and 2 cats...as much fun as it was, I'm glad to be home again and the dry weather will soon be here for a few nights out locally. ATB and thanks again for sharing this one 👍

Well done Sandy! Great effort there for our benefit, I remember Combe Gibbet from some years ago.

Brillian video that sandy.

I curtailed my bike trip last weekend,the wind was dangerously strong in my view. Heading straight into 50mph gusts in the pennines. nah. The mud on your route looked grim, I enjoyed your video and picked up a couple of tips. Thank you.

Brilliant video as always Sandy, doing what id like to do ,but im too lazy 😁

Fair play to you Sandy! I definitely would have diverted to a road route instead and then camped out. Toooo..muddy

Anyone else think he was taking a pee when he was actually opening his second scotch egg?