Our World Tour Bicycles after ONE YEAR on the road - REVIEW 

Sound solidly built fixable. Have touring mountain bike Reynolds 653 tubing XT mostly. But have Grip shift with Magura Tomac brakes. Went from cantilever to hydraulics....WoW fully loaded fast as possible downhill, Awesome power. Never needed any work on brakes in five years of use. 😊

This is my dream for the past 30 years. After retirement, my son and I will pick up backpacks and travel around the world on bicycles. Because we also like travelling and cycling. Thank you for sharing the excellent travel experience when travelling through saharra.

First time i am seeing your video i am a 23 years old , we have only one life and enjoying the life along with the life partner with same mindset is a precious thing, not everyone gets like this. Lovely couple ever don't worry god is with you

Very nice bikes. It is fun to see how Matilda caught the Indian accent. Bon voyage!

I loved watching your video. The first gear review I’ve watched all the way through and felt like I learned a lot from it.

Ya'll crazy, but for some strange reason I love you both!

Great overview of your bikes! Thanks!

Awesome stuff! We are pulling for you guys from Phoenix Arizona! This series is fantastic and my whole family is watching and you have inspired me to get the Surly Disc Trucker and train for a long ride. Stay safe you two!!!

I am a new sub from this video. Of all the bikes I have seen on RU-vid this is the most practical one ever. Great work. Looking forward to seeing more from your family. Thumbs up from Kentucky mountains U.S.A

Great tips, love it, thank you guys!

Fantastic choices. Well done! Enjoy your trip.

Very inspiring people. I love the way you engage with the local population wherever you travel. Wonderful videos. Best of luck on your travels. Xx

You guys fantastic! And your tips, tricks are worth of gold!😊

Hello you just popped into my feed I'm very happy about that. I look forward to following your adventures.

Awesome job guys , love the tips with your set up on your bikes, happy travels be safe and enjoy. 👍

really like this video, the thoughtfulness behind using every single component... thank you for taking the time to share!

Peyman and Matilda, wow, very impressive creativity and knowledge went into the selection of your framesets, components, and accessories to meet the needs of your grueling touring! Thank you for this excellent information!

Incredible detail- Thanks to both! Best wishes for a supreme journey ~

That's so awesome. You both are so knowledgeable... Kudos.. Have an awesome journey

Inspiration!! Love the positive attitudes even in the rough times. Keep going!!

Thank you for this video! It's very nice to listen to you explaining why you choose this or that choice you've made about your gear. I have a bicycle and I'm planning to adjust it for longer trips and your DIY attitude is a great inspiration!

You have got all the practical knowledge of your bicycles. Wish you a safe and happy cycling.

Great video folks, thanks for sharing your experiences with those of us who are still are looking to get out there and travel the world by bicycle. Be safe!

These guys clearly know what it is to have a passion. You're both awesome.

Wow. Super-informative, very impressive and inspirational. Thank you and best of luck with your adventures. Subscribed.

Wow amazing video, I’ve just finished building a surly disc trucker, you Teo are so luck to have each other to travel with, looks amazing 😉 nice set ups to

Salute! Admire your energy and determination, may you both have many more wonderful experiences and safe journeys

Nice Video guys. It's nice to see that you enjoy yourselfs.

Fantastic review...I am really looking forward to watching your new videos

Accounts like this are the best part of RU-vid. Thanks so much for the information, but more so the inspiration. Like him I’m kind of a big boy (at ~93kg) and had reservations about building up a touring bike. Happy to report that after watching this among other vids and researching, I’m happily on an all-purpose ride and on the road! Love from Vermont, USA

Thank you for the detailed description :)

Very, very informative, I like it, very professionnal presentation...you go directly to the point. Best!

All of your videos interesting, wow, I'm mesmerized!

Big thanks to you Peyman and Matilda. This video guides me to collect my bike for making a long trip insha-allah.

Thanks very much for sharing the specs of your bike and ideas why you choose those parts, regards and God Bless on your rides👍👍👍👍👍

Great job you guys done with custom work. Keep cycling and have a safe trip

Really interesting, thanks for sharing 👍

This is the best video about bicycle spec on RU-vid. Your component choices are affordable and practical and I don't feel that you're pushing the latest and the greatest. Excellent rationale for all your component recommendations.

I really appreciate your choice and creativity.

Thanks for the detailed info on each part. I love that you built the bikes yourselves. And, I’m hopeful that 9 years from now I’m watching your video about how the bikes have endured!

i love both... so much... because both are enjoying their life

You guys are no joke..... Wow... thanks for sharing.

Thank you very much for this detailed video

I am so impressed with your knowledge of bikes and its components. Necessity is the mother of all inventions. Learnt a lot and was frantically writing all the names of components so I can get them also.

As always an excellent & informative video. You guys are great!

Thank you for the run down on all your gear God bless you on your journey

"Know thyself." And your bike. Great video! I still don't know how to repair a spoke so these kind of videos are very helpful, thanks

Fantastic review and breakdown. Thank you. 👍👍👍👍

Thanks for both of you. You r so inspiring me.

I simply just fell in love with your bicycles ❣️❣️

Thank you for the post card, I've received it today! Love you guys, good health and back wind!

I love watching your biking adventure's bco'z it makes me feel that i can go also on that places, watching from Philippines.

Excellent video. I have just found your channel. You both are delightful to watch and do an excellent job describing your touring bikes and the setup you have. I look forward to your adventures.

Great video! Have fun touring the world for 10+ years!

I just discovered you channel and I am in the process of bindge watching. Thank you for sharing your travels and adventures. Best of luck and well wishes on your travels.

I don't know why I am watching this video. This is crazy. Love you both

Thanks man; alright, I'm motivated now! The east coast beach or bust on my next weekend off>>>

You guys are AMAZING 👍👍

Your videos motivate me to do things instead of wait for the right time! Keep going 🤍🦋

It is an inspiritional story of both of you. Loved to watch your video. Keep it up.

I'm impressed you know so much about the compatbility and durability of parts. I just subscribed. Safe travels.

I’m loving this! I just found you guys. I chose a surly troll and am starting to use it quite a bit!

I just caught your video..n immediately subscribed..both of u are good in bike mechanics..so that certainly helps a lot..Happy touring n keep us informed..

Nicely done. Like your personal modifications. Impressive adventure and (especially) chronicling. Be safe.

I can't even ride a bike, but I love watching both of you and your wonderful travels. I applaud your knowledge of all the components of your bikes. You are both brilliant!! Thank you for sharing your life with me. I am disabled (spine) so I don't get around too good. I know what titanium is....I have artificial joints, a titanium cage in my spine. Body hardware I can tell you stories about. LOL I have a titanium internal pain pump in my left lower abdomen and a titanium battery in my left hip that runs my internal spinal cord stimulator. Those to components help me with my daily pain. Take good care of your spine and joints. Blessings from above!! ❤😀

I'm a distance biker - and I really appreciated the information that you provided. Well done :)

I'm a beginner in touring bikes and your vids helps me a lot. Will try to travel all around my country the Philippines after I payed my school debt and have a budget for 2 years adventure. 😁

Great video and inspirational solutions. Thx for sharing. Ride safe....

I am now revisiting this video! This was the first one I saw! I’m now back after watching them in order! I love you guys! I do! Please let me know if you come to Alaska!

A great description of all parts of touring bike. Really like it. Definitely useful for everybody who want to tour long distance. As said any bike will do for small trips.

That is so nice to see! Thanks for that Video! I have been on many Tours throughout my life but the longest has been for 4 weeks, sleeping unders the stars, snow, clouds or rain, every night. My bike looked used after a couple of days but i could not reach that very very cool "MadMax-Look" in this relatively short period of time. Your Solutions are easy and impressing. I wish you all the best! PS: You asked for the Opionion and I agree with you! Especially the shifting: Frictionshifters are so universal and fitting on all things you can find if you have to replace something in emergency without beeing able to buy top of the range stuff. The racks are not the easyest but its more important to set on reliability and I think the more stuff you carry on the bike the less important it gets if the bike weighs 1 or 2 kilogram more. The only thing i never coped with were Butterflybars. I often went on my journeys with dropbar and wehen i chose a flatbar I always used Ergongrips and in the middle extra horns to have alternative grips but that is a matter of taste and personal prefernce. Brakes with cables are easy to repair as well! No hydraulic brakes abroad!....

I love these guys. That bike looks alot like home!

U ppl r awesome. All the best for every ride

Wow - just stumbled onto your channel and I am impressed! It's rare that bike touring channels geek out so much on bike details. You both seem very knowledagble. Love it! I'm mashing the subscribe button! 😀

Hello from the Basque Country! Top 10 touring channel. Amazing.

Just got reason to live 9 more year. You guys are invited to my house when you reach Delhi India.

Great video. Thanks for posting.

WOW I LOVE YOU GUYS!!! WAITING FOR MORE VIDEOS TO COME ^_^

It's funny to see how there are comments that give such importance to the price of the components. I love your way of understanding cycling!

very good bicycle adventure tour

You guys are so awesome. Love the videos

This channel is an absolute gem.

Best bike touring and couple i ever seen,

Absolutely amazing video and info. 👍

This is fantastic well done guys!!!!

Wow, some rugged hard working bikes you got there. Love your attitude.

You guys are awesome thank you for the info.

Great info.. nice couple too..

Great vídeo. Regards from Chile 🙌🏾🌱

Your Favorite word is "Adorable" !!! Great guys...keep going. Safe journey 🙏👍❤️

Thanks for those quality information. It will help me on building my own bike. Im also planning a long term Biking trip on the western african route like you did.

You guys are awesome! Subscribed!

Really well inform. Blessed both of you. Love from karimunjawa islands

Hello Nomad's Trails: Thank you for this great video about good touring bicycle equipment. Good rides for another 9 years!:-) I'm riding up to 30'000 kilometers a year alldays and touring on a regular bike. I've had more or less all components/group sets from Shimano. Tourney, Altus, Acera, Alivio, Deore, LX, XT and XTR. Also: Sora, Claris, Tiagra, 105, Ultegra and Dura-Ace. Only the "Revoshifter" fell apart, but besides of that no issues. If one is passionate about bicycle parts, one has to have Shimano XTR. It is very, very good. But for example the rear derailleur costs 10 times more as the Altus one - and is not 10 times better. If one wants to do many, many kilometers: the more steel is on the parts, the longer it lasts. Crank sets: Especially the cheap ones from Shimano (Altus, Acera, Alivio and so on) with steel chainrings last forever. Bottom brackets: SKF 600 series is great, but costs around EURO 150,-, but I've never had an issuse with the shimano ones: BB-UN55, 26 and 100, which are way less expensive. Do I have the choice, I don't put Octalink or Hollowtech II. Or Hollowtech II with a bottom bracket from Chris King, Hope etc.. But the standard ones, the 4 edge bottom bracket, are just great compared to the price. Hubs: Shimano hubs are fine, from the cheapest to the highest. I ride the cheap ones. Inside the hubs is more or less the same. Once there are well greased and adjusted, they roll and roll and.... Brakes: V-Brakes are the best. Everything counted: price, brake power, reliability, durability and maintenance. Cantilevers work good too, but the adjustment can be complicated. The brake power of disc brakes is super, but in general too many issues. Derailleurs rear and front : From the cheapest to the most expensive all Shimano one work fine. I prefer 7 or 8 speed (cassette, chainrings, chain..), because it lasts way longer than 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 speed. It is more durable. I swear on Shimanos HG 40 7/8 speed chain. Enough grease and oil on parts like the chain, the cassette, the chainrings, the wheels of the rear derailleur are very important. Motorex is the best grease and oil that I know. Rims: Ryde Sputnik or Andra 30 or 40 are the best ones. The tyre Schwalbe Marathon Plus is all in all the best for me. But: The good old normal Marathon made almost 20'000 kilometer, the new Marathon Plus ones wear out at about 3'000 kilometers. Schwalbe might have found out that the most of the customers do the 3'00 kilometers in years. So it works for the majority of the customers. Schwalbe tubes are the best in my opinion. Rohloff and Pinon are fantastic! But who really needs it? Shimanos derailleur systems work great. For one Rohloff or Pinion one can buy many, many, many Shimano parts. If you wanna go uphill, you need the right gear, for example 22 teeth chain ring front, 34 teeth rear. Or 32 t. front, 52 t. rear. The right gear (22x34, 32x52 t.) is very important, the group set is not so important. Cycling is not about group sets and parts, the most important thing is that you pedal as much as you can. It doesn't matter if you have Tourney or Dura-Ace on your bicycle as long as you go cycling. The whole discussion about bicycle parts is extremely overrated. One can experience good tours and rides on a bicycle for EURO 600,- with Shimano Acera on it, no problem. If you wanna do something good for your body and soul, if you wanna lose weight, burn fat, get muscles and a good strong heart and see the beauty of the world, then go cycling. It is one of the best activities and sports that you can do. Avoid E-Bikes, because no body training on a E-Bike. You just betray yourself. Stay away from it. And you don't safe the energy and the resources of the world. You just create new problems with the batteries, the recycling and the exploiting of the resources. If you wanna do an effective-efficient training, then cycle uphill on a normal bicycle. You breath, you sweat, your pulse goes higher - all very good for your body. And: You get mentally fit. Nomad' Trails, you are a very great inspiration!

I fucking love this video. I love seeing and hearing about all the details, I love seeing how you've both customized your bikes to your needs and preferences. I love seeing your bikes worn and dirty, just the way they look like when they are actually being used.

Thank you for your good info. Im trying to custom fix my touring bike for 2020.

Hey guys just found your channel. Very interesting video. Wish I had put as much thought into my bike as you have into yours when I went travelling. Just subscibed so I guess I better go back and watch your videos from the start!

Love your positive energy!! Simplicity is king, I've had V-brakes, canti-brakes and last years hydraulic disc brakes. My experience has been V-brakes = no fuzz. Canti = medium-fuzz and the modern hydraulic is just requiring lots of maintenance. Same thing with the wheels. My old 26" stayed true. Same can't be said for any of the 28" on my cyclocross bikes. You made me want to go bikepacking :-)

Well done you both. This is hardcore bikepacking! Pls do vlogs as it would let everyone to understand how fun and adventurous what you doing is. You deserve sponsors as you'd be using the stuff they send through rigorous conditions.

Thumbs up for your choice of bikes and components, all good practical economical with decent performance. With a disc brake bikes you are carrying significantly more weight, more to go wrong.