Hi Mike, another outstanding video - Part 2 - of your Divide Trail. You're a man after my own heart of picking out all those great chocolate snacks, etc. :)
It is so great that you are back with new videos - and I was pleased to see that you just keep improving the quality of your content. Good work, keep calm, keep pedalling, and sharing your adventures with us. I also like that you were cycling across Finnish Lapland. One of the best places for bikepacking, scenary, campings spots, clean water, etc. - assuming that you can deal with the mosquitoes ...
I really love cycling through Lapland, both in Finland and Sweden. If you want to get away from the stress of everyday life there's no better place than Lapland.
As much as I love as a bikepacking destination, Finland is also up there. I you want to get away from everything and just be by yourself for a while there's hardly any better place than Lapland.
I'm road and cyclocross cyclist from southern Finland and your trip seems nice. Even with road cycle with 6 bar tyres those tarmac bits seems interesting. Have been there with cross country skiing in winter but never in summer. Must do summer cycling trip to Lapland sometimes..
That Ortlieb frame bag is great, I have same one in 4L size. The roll top makes it so much easier to get to the gear inside, and it it waterproof👍 Enjoying the new series, Mike. Takes me to places I may never get the opportunity to travel to.
For some reason after the flight he reassembled the whole fork backwards. It is turned around 180 degrees, as the discbrake appears on the wrong side which is patadoxly „right“. I wonder how the bike handles with that change of geometry…?
I'm loving these adventures. Imagine my surprise when your video popped up... and I thought hang on a minute...is this Mike from the Ryan Van Dusters Swedish adventure?? The trip looks amazing and Finland does too... maybe one day I'll do something like this.
I got bitten to blazes at about the same latitude in Norway. It was mid June and the mosquitos were nowhere near their worst, but plenty enough to be troublesome.
Those lakes are so clean that some People drink that water directly from lakes. But only in North Lappland! (not for instance around Rovaniemi) of cource if possible, drink from flowing rivers, its More safe
Hi, great video! As a fellow unit owner I would love to know which rack you are using and maybe see a dedicated video on your setup, greetings from Spain!
Mike, do you eat enough during that trip? If I did 130km/day one of these ready to eat packages would not be enough.... And in a finish supermarkets I would not only head for fazer chocolate but also for the many fish dishes they have. As a Swede it is probably nothing special for you, but for us from Centraleurope (Austria) it is just amazing! Thank you for the great video. Kiitos/Tack sa mycket. Hope to be in Inari this winter.
The mosquitos don't really enjoy themselves on a sandy pine tree forest like that next to a big lake. There's not much standing water for them to lay their eggs because the terrain soaks all the water and the big lake is waving constantly. You're pretty guaranteed to have a great time at that spot anytime in summer.
No, just realized that when I got home and started editing the videos. I will have to live with the embarrasment for the next couple of weeks ;-) I guess my only explanation, is that I assembled the bike at around 10PM after been traveling all day. You live, you learn I guess...
I know some people who live just outside Inari. They are unable to leave their house because the mosquito situation is even worse than usual. So you made a good decision.
Yes a lot of mosquitos there up in north, though I've heard the Dala-river in Central-Sweden can be even worse. There they have used biological control agent, spread from the helicopters
I really, really hope you wore some bright clothes while cycling here in Finland. I can’t tell you how bad it is when cyclists come here wearing black in the summer cycling against a black tree line on the edge of the road 🙈 Honestly it’s just mind-boggling how these people think? As car drivers we cannot see you until it’s quite late. That’s if we have good eyesight! Lots of older drivers here in Inari don’t have good eyesight! 😆 Edit: I see you were wearing dark clothes against shadowy tree lines…..🙈 There’s really no hope is there…..