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Hi Mickey! thanks for writing! glad you enjoy the films. About the small chair, it's a Helinox Zero chair. I bought a couple of years ago. LOVE it. Not cheap! but omg to me it has been totally worth its weight and price, I use it all the time, so lovely to get somewhere and flip out a comfy chair and sit back and relax. I have also got a Decathlon chair, similar, much cheaper. It is bulky and heavy in comparison to the Helinox, but I have it to loan to friends when we go for a ride together esp day ride etc. OK esp for just a day ride whhen not carrying too much other clobber. Hope you enjoy some great camping trips! Took me a bit of fiddling to get a good set up sorted, cos you gotta go minimal with everything, as there's less luggage capacity on a Brompton than on a "normal" bike, but it works really well - and you can still make camping really comfy and enjoyable with chairs and whatnot haha

thanks for watching! and for writing! yes easy to get lost, even in a small wood! disorienting, all looks kind of the same... actually your comment reminded me that I also got lost in a holiday bungalow camp in the Netherlands, similar kind of vortex, very disorienting!

aw thanks Mick, glad you are enjoying the films! more coming soon!

nice pic Krzysiek Cichy! looks like you have a great set up there!

@@susannathornton oh yes brompton is the best :)

Oh that is great. About buses, I found these brilliant maps, that highlight frequent buses on radial routes, it is a non-commercial website, and super helpful info, best thing I have found www.globestudios.co.uk/busatlas/index.html anyway just in case that is helpful! it is for the UK

Thanks for writing Albert. Glad you got home OK after your experience. I learn something every time I am out really. Making mistakes... then trying to make fewer mistakes next time... Good to share and learn from each other too. I appreciate everyone's tips and comments

Hello! thanks for writing! Arkelstorp, yes that was where I was trying to get to before I got myself stuck going in circles! it was so lovely at the Skåne Blekinge border, the lakes and everything - when I finally got there...

it was alarming! and I felt so silly as well 😖 lots of avoidable mistakes that day!

Oh I am sorry to hear that. Too many of us 😔 I feel v lucky in the UK to have good treatment through the NHS. Best wishes to you and yours

Glad I am not the only one! thanks for writing!

hello John! aw thanks for the lovely comment. I also love that film haha. I also rewatch it and it makes me happy. I love that Life in the Fast Lane track. Anyway, about my overshoes well actually they were cheap like literally £5, unknown brand, made in China, got them on amazon 7 years ago, not knowing what to expect really, but I wanted something simple, properly waterproof ie just bog standard plastic, and looser than some of the pukka cycling overshoes I had seen, cos I was gonna be putting them on over clompy shoes. They have been fantastic. I just stick them together again with duct tape whenever they rip. I have cut holes in the bottom to use them with SPDs. I looked on amazon just now and there are kind of similar things you could try, if really cheapo is your thing haha. Hope that helps! thanks for watching!

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Thanks for the info. Perhaps you do not realise how inspirational you are. I have had cancer four times most recent soft tissue sarcoma in 2021 and still on regularly surveillance, so have a good idea how you must have been feeling at times. In two weeks time I am cycling down to Dover across to Dunkirk and then cycling unsupported up the French, Belgium coast across the Netherlands to Germany on my Thorn Bike. I have a small bag of fairy dust and on reaching Germany will empty it into the wind to see what magic the rest of my journey brings. During my planning was watching your Sweden films that always inspire me. I am raising funds for Sarcoma UK from friends and family for my journey on a Just Giving Page, just goes to show the benefits your films have for others. Sometimes a bit of additional inspiration helps as I am 73 years old.

@@johnburson5695 aw John I'm sorry to hear you've been through so much. Glad you're out and about again and setting off on a fantastic adventure. Yeah this is the club you don't want to be in isn't it. Under surveillance me too and pills and whatnot, and it's kind of always on my mind more or less but it's okay! I'm alive! and it's just brilliant to be able to do these things I want to do. The cycle journey you're embarking on sounds terrific. Yay!! And massive bravo you for raising funds, and awareness. Wishing you tailwinds, and smooth quiet roads, and gorgeous coffee stops sitting in the sun, and friendly people all along the way! X

aw thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it! silver lining is sitting here next to me

Hi Darren! it's a 3 speed C line. 6 speed are also good, also ridden 6 speed. But I chose 3 speed because this bike has gotta deal with all sorts of dust, dirt, sticks getting tangled in, banging on things etc I want things simple, less to go wrong and need sorting out on the road. I lowered all 3 gears by putting on a 38T chainring. Sometimes I spin out or cant get on top of a gear. But no big deal, I am not racing. I got one gear low enough to stay on the bike and climb pretty much anything, one for steady riding, and one for downhill with the wind on smooth tarmac. ANyway, there you go! bla bla! hope that helps!

@@susannathornton thank you that’s really helpful. I’m 63 and about to purchase a Brompton for the first time. Like yourself I want to get out and about, do some multi day trips with no time pressure.

@@DarrenSpill Aw thats very cool. Hope you love it all!

Houses on the Hill / World Goes By. It is lovely isnt it, I really like it too

oh it is kind of comforting to know that other people have done this sort of thing too. glad you got out like that, sounds like you did it really well

@@susannathornton I also lost a sock that I had drying on my panniers. I found it after making many passes retracing where I had been wheeling my bike through the forest. I camped in the forest as it was the august bank holiday, but the beach there overlooking Snowdonia would be a superb wild camp spot.

Hi Jason! yeah you're right actually, it would have been awful to have been in there with darkness coming on and not enough water and things like that... lesson learned definitely re must download maps every time, and taking a basic compass too maybe, which people have suggested. It'd have been tricky to use a compass really on those windy tracks that didnt all go through etc, but at least I would have known the basic directions... Anyway! Thanks for watching!

I think it is the non stick version. And I really need to replace it actually, cos despite my having been really careful with it, the non stick has got damaged. One job I need to do is research which type of trangia frying pan to get next... any thouhgts welcome!

@@susannathornton thanks for the reply! All trangia version seem to have pluses and minuses. Doussel the top fry pan. Its bonded stainless and aluminium. I have used a stanley brand frypan on the trangia and it fits well and cooks very evenly. But weighs over 500grams. Not bike packing friendly.

@@grahamramsay3402 Thanks!!

thanks arkivlogi! glad you liked it 🎵🚲😎

not really good tons of mistakes but anyway, never mind! greetings to you there in Denmark!

Thanks Betty! glad you like them! 😎🚲

Aw dunno, maybe! But no use if no maps downloaded and no signal right! that was the mistake I made. I use Komoot sometimes, and Bikemaps too, and a few others eg OsmAnd. I havent done like a massive research comparing them or anything but just from general use of these and some other apps eg the OS app for the UK, I find the different systems each have some good features and some features I dont like... Re Komoot, I liked some aspects of it but I really didnt like that I couldnt access the base maps I like and I am familiar with eg OpenStreetMap or the Swedish national mapping agency maps. Maybe that was because I didnt subscribe or something? I just used the free Komoot version, so perhaps I didnt get some premium features... sounds like you like it and prob know miles more than me about it! The thing is in Sweden, the Swedish national mapping agency maps are free, so I am not keen to pay for things that I can get for nothing... All I needed to do really on this ride in sweden was to have downloaded the map onto their app! that was the mistake I made...

I'll try not to do it again!! Yeh me too, I normally download maps... sods law isnt it! yeh that camp was so lovely, the sun slanting across, frying up some food, swimming at sunset, then lean back in a deckchair ahhhh. hope you are having a great summer

Hello! glad you enjoy the channel! about the app, oh yes that was the app I was using actually, yeh fantastic detail, all the little paths etc

thanks Colin! glad you enjoyed it and like the music 🎶🎵🎺

Hej Anders! tack för din kommentar! vad gäller min stol, det är an Helinox Chair Zero, en jätte bra grej, köpte det på Naturkompaniet faktikst

Thanks Micksoden! glad you enjoy the films! wow yeah, this one was a while ago now!

thanks Bob!

hello Keith! thanks for watching! hope you're doing OK there

@@susannathornton hi yes not doing to bad I'm a bit naughty because I got myself a Brompton A line but still not been out on it yet because I have two other bikes as well .

oh that is great about the Brompton. And three bikes sounds v reasonable to me...

oh that is great that my channel is your fave, glad you enjoy it!

Hi Veronica! thanks for watching! yeah well small wheels are a bit bumpy on gravel, and hopeless if you come across thick newly laid gravel, but otherwise I find the Brompton v comfortable for short or long distance travel, eg 3 weeks. Nice riding position. Handles really well. On a normal road tarmac etc you dont really feel any difference between the Brompton and a big-wheel touring bike. The only thing is that on a really long distance journey, several months etc, I would probably want to carry more gear eg clothes for different season, spare shoes, maybe a laptop, a whole bag of pills and medication (for me!!), and on a Brompton (or prob most small wheelers) there is limited luggage space. On the Brompton, I just have two pannier bags, plus a fairly small saddle bag, so I need to pare my gear down to the bare bones. On a standard touring bike, I'd have loads more room, four panniers, stuff on top of a rear rack, plus a front bar bag. See my set up for riding Hong Kong to London, under the "longer journeys" section of my channel! I used a converted cyclo cross bike for that journey, was pretty much perfect. ANyway, long answer! thank you for watching! Best wishes!

aw thanks for writing Anniesbikes! yeh the rest of the day I was just so glad! just to be on a smooth road, and to know where I was!

Sounds v scary! that was an incredible adventure you did in Patagonia!

aw that sounds so similar! poor you. I felt so annoyed with myself, cos I knew I had been silly. Glad you found your pack. Thanks for writing!

even without a compass, it's about mid day, so keeping the sun on your back helps you going aprox north, at the very least keeps you from going around in circles ;-)

Hi Sally! thanks for watching! ah that yellow rain cape was made by my husband, copying a worn out one that I had loved. The old one was made by Raleigh, bought online and cheap as chips, but great. I think they dont make them anymore. I have another cape, from a brand called Didriksons, which is great, really light and dries v fast but I just looked and cant see it on their website now... so that is a pity. It seems quite hard to find a good cycling cape. glad you like watching the films. Sorry the cape side of things not much help!!

Hi Amy! I think I might try it, I have a tiny keyring compass actually, just that would be good as a back up... I really learned my lesson here! I'll always download maps now. But then I could lose my phone... or I guess the phone battery and all power banks run out, or the phone could just break etc... so youre right it is still good to have back ups!

oh that sounds terrifying, especially with a child and everything... About wild camping in Sweden, yes they have a thing called allemansrätten Right of Public Access according to which you can wild camp responsibly, kind of anywhere, in line with the rules eg not near a house and of course not around farmers' crops or animals and of course not damaging anything etc etc. At some public swimming spots, like the one I was at in this film, the local authorities allow camping, and at some they dont allow it. There is more about it all here in case you want it visitsweden.com/what-to-do/nature-outdoors/nature/sustainable-and-rural-tourism/the-right-of-public-access/

thanks Rick!

Haha yeh it felt a bit like that at times! finally I was back in the Shire

only just catching up myself here...! thanks for watching Merlin!

oh just looked that up, looks great, thank you for the tip!!

oh that is very cool that you did a first wild camp by bike. I wonder where you went and what was it like?

@@susannathornton whatthisbikeneeds.blogspot.com/2024/08/a-little-bit-of-wild-camping-in.html

@@susannathornton I was sure I'd answered this but it seems not - anyway, blog post written now (in 2 parts) on this trip! whatthisbikeneeds.blogspot.com/2024/08/a-little-bit-of-wild-camping-in.html