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I created this channel as a way to save and share some of the pleasant adventures I have had in recent years.
Producing videos has given me a chance to relive the experiences, understand them better, and recover happy memories I was forgetting. I have shared for friends and in the hope that others may enjoy them, but their audience is mainly.... me!
I hope that explains why many of these videos are just slideshows of photos: I undertook my adventures for the experience, not to produce a video!
Comments are open on most videos and I would welcome any discussion of the adventure and will try to answer any questions about it. It would be lovely if I could help others to enjoy their own adventures! If you don't like my videos then please just go and watch something else - there's no need to criticise!
My adventures aren't special and are easy to do. Setting off is often the hardest part but is more important than all the planning, training and preparing you may feel you should do!
Producing videos has given me a chance to relive the experiences, understand them better, and recover happy memories I was forgetting. I have shared for friends and in the hope that others may enjoy them, but their audience is mainly.... me!
I hope that explains why many of these videos are just slideshows of photos: I undertook my adventures for the experience, not to produce a video!
Comments are open on most videos and I would welcome any discussion of the adventure and will try to answer any questions about it. It would be lovely if I could help others to enjoy their own adventures! If you don't like my videos then please just go and watch something else - there's no need to criticise!
My adventures aren't special and are easy to do. Setting off is often the hardest part but is more important than all the planning, training and preparing you may feel you should do!
Cycle camping from Stevenage to Bristol
September 2024. My brother had 4 days free and the weather forecast looked good so we decided to go cycle camping together. We wanted to get off our local patches, but we didn't have time to travel far so a train to Stevenage would set us up for a trip westward to Bristol. Alas, the weather forecast looked rather different when our start day arrived!
Cycle.travel planned a course following good cycle routes to the Thames and the Kennet and Avon Canal but our first campsite would have been noisy with planes and busy roads, and a lot of the cycle paths were in large towns. We adjusted it to traverse the Chilterns and cross the Thames at Pangbourne before entering the North Wessex Downs and following the Kennet and Avon from Thatcham to Bath. It was a good route that took us through lovely quiet green countryside and woodlands in and beyond the greenbelt. It also took us up a lot of hills - and some of them were steep!
Our first campsite at Orchard View Farm near Princes Risborough (£19 for us both) meant we dropped down from the hills to camp and climbed back up them next day. The second night was at Oakley Farm Caravan Park just South of Newborough (£12 for us both). I'd recommend both sites. I'd also very highly recommend the community cafe at Pewsey for its cakes and the friendly community atmosphere. Our 3rd night was in Bath Youth Hostel, where we partook of a hearty "unlimited" breakfast in the dry before we ventured out into moderate but persistent rain.
Cycle.travel planned a course following good cycle routes to the Thames and the Kennet and Avon Canal but our first campsite would have been noisy with planes and busy roads, and a lot of the cycle paths were in large towns. We adjusted it to traverse the Chilterns and cross the Thames at Pangbourne before entering the North Wessex Downs and following the Kennet and Avon from Thatcham to Bath. It was a good route that took us through lovely quiet green countryside and woodlands in and beyond the greenbelt. It also took us up a lot of hills - and some of them were steep!
Our first campsite at Orchard View Farm near Princes Risborough (£19 for us both) meant we dropped down from the hills to camp and climbed back up them next day. The second night was at Oakley Farm Caravan Park just South of Newborough (£12 for us both). I'd recommend both sites. I'd also very highly recommend the community cafe at Pewsey for its cakes and the friendly community atmosphere. Our 3rd night was in Bath Youth Hostel, where we partook of a hearty "unlimited" breakfast in the dry before we ventured out into moderate but persistent rain.
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SLOTHO Day 8: cycling from Edmundbyers to Newcastle
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This is the final day of a tour I planned and executed from Swanage on the south coast to Newcastle. I intended that the tour would take 8 days but good weather came in small packets this spring and I had to split the tour and make some diversions with 2 extra days riding and this stage became the tenth day of cycling. My plan for the tour centered around the idea of using YHA hostels - the ide...
SLOTHO Day 7: cycling from Grinton to Edmundbyers
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I planned my SLeep Out To Help Out (SLOTHO) tour from Swanage to Newcastle to give me 8 days of cycling while supporting the YHA by staying in their hostels. The YHA had a difficult time in the aftermath of COVID and I thought it would be good to support the organization. That support had benefits for me too - I have rediscovered the joys of Hostelling! I have numbered this as day 7 of the tour...
SLOTHO Day 6: cycling from York to Grinton Lodge
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My SLOTHO (SLeep Out To Help Out) tour from Swanage to Newcastle was intended to take 8 days, spending every night in YHA Youth Hostels - thereby helping the YHA to recover from the financial impact of COVID. The weather was less than kind and I had to split the tour into 3 parts, adding 2 extra days and spending 2 nights at home (since it was conveniently placed). Although this was my 8th day ...
SLOTHO Day 5b: cycling from Boston to York 112_miles
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Gosh... that was a long one: I mean the editing, which seems to have taken longer than the ride! I embarked on SLOTHO in order to have a good challenging winter(ish) tour and to support the YHA in its recovery from COVID. SLOTHO means SLeep Out To Help Out! My SLOTHO tour went from Swanage to Newcastle staying in Youth Hostels on order to support the YHA. They were nice places to stay! A number...
SLOTHO Day 5a: cycling from Hartington to Boston
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SLOTHO was a tour I planned from Swanage to Newcastle staying in YHA Youth Hostels. SLOTHO stands for SLeep Out To Help Out. I planned to help the YHA recover from the ravages of COVID by the enjoyable strategy of paying to stay in their hostels. My fees may not actually be enough to make a big difference, but if... SLOTHO was meant to take 8 days, but the weather has not been cooperative! I st...
SLOTHO Day 4b: cycling from Nottingham to Hartington Hall
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SLOTHO is a tour I planned from Swanage to Newcastle staying at YHA Youth Hostels on the way. My idea was that I would be supporting the YHA in its post-COVID recovery by staying at the hostels. SLOTHO means SLeep Out To Help Out. This ride became the 5th day of my SLOTHO tour, but I have numbered it 4b as (by adding it to day 4a in my previous video) it completed the stage I had planned for da...
SLOTHO Day 4a: cycling from Stratford-upon-Avon to Nottingham
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SLOTHO was intended to be an 8 day tour from Swanage to Newcastle staying in YHA youth hostels on the way. SLOTHO means SLeep Out To Help Out - helping out the YHA which has been facing tough times since COVID and has been forced it to sell off many smaller hostels. When I planned SLOTHO there had been some hopes that a "blocking high" would give respite from the endless series of meteorologica...
SLOTHO Day 3: cycling from Wye Valley to Stratford upon Avon
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The 3rd full day of my SLOTHO (SLeep Out To Help Out) tour from Swanage to Newcastle, helping out the YHA by enjoying myself staying in their Youth Hostels. I enjoyed the hostels very much! On day 2 I had consulted the weather forecasts and they all agreed that day 5 would be horrible (I would have to ride a hilly 90 miles into a gale and driving rain) and days 6 and 7 would be little better. A...
SLOTHO Day 2: cycling from Bath to Wye Valley
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First, I made a mistake in the video captions. I broke the tour on Saturday night, not Sunday night: Sunday was the day with horrendous weather forecast for a really hard section of the tour - the day I most needed to miss! As the title suggests, this records the 2nd day of my SLOTHO tour. SLOTHO stands for SLeep Out To Help Out. The idea was to help out the YHA which has faced financial pressu...
SLOTHO Day 1: Cycling from Swanage to Bath
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This was the first day of a youth-hostelling cycle tour from Swanage to Newcastle. I decided to use youth hostels partly in order to support the YHA which, like so much of the hospitality sector, has taken a big hit due to COVID; I thought it would help if I started using hostels again (after a 45 year gap) rather than just lamenting how things have changed and so many hostels have closed since...
SLOTHO Day 0 (zero): cycling from Wareham to Swanage and "the Plan"
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This video is about the start of a cycle tour in March 2024 which I have called my SLOTHO tour. I'll explain the name later! In the winter months I rarely ride outside my local area, so this tour aimed to take me to unfamiliar parts of the UK. I planned to ride from Swanage to Newcastle, almost the length of England (and visiting Wales), staying every night in YHA Youth Hostels. I recently enjo...
LEJOG 7 by SUSTRANS route: Part 7: Day 26-31: Orkney & Shetland (version 2 with improved puffins!)
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I have modified this video slightly to incorporate better pictures of the puffins which I took on a different camera and couldn't find when I produced the original version: it was bugging me! Part 7 of our 2022 LEJOG ride in which we followed the SUSTRANS route but also included Cape Wrath, Orkney and Shetland. If you are doing LEJOG it is worth thinking about carrying on to see Orkney and Shet...
Peak District Youth Hostelling Cycle Trip - 2nd day
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This is a video of the second day of my 2 day cycling and hostelling trip to the Peak District. I deliberately kept the mileage low because I was uncertain how my body, still recovering from illness, would cope with the terrain. That gave me plenty of time for filming, which was fun and gave me an excuse for frequent breaks. The forecast was for rain to begin about 2pm though, so I didn't want ...
Peak District Youth Hostelling Cycle Trip - 1st day
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This was the first day of a 2 day trip. The Peak district is within range for a day's ride for me, but it's hard to avoid busy roads on the way there, and the forecast gave rain on the first morning and second evening so it seemed good to me to let the train take the rain and enjoy the scenery and cycling in the better weather. I planned the route using the OS maps route planner following mainl...
Barnsdale ride - "the one with the Peacocks"
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Barnsdale ride - "the one with the Peacocks"
National Floody Cycle Route 1 to somewhere that isn't quite Lincoln
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National Floody Cycle Route 1 to somewhere that isn't quite Lincoln
Cathedral of the Fens (Walpole) cycle ride.
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Cathedral of the Fens (Walpole) cycle ride.
LEJOG 1 by SUSTRANS route: - Part 1- Days 1-7 New shorter version
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LEJOG 1 by SUSTRANS route: - Part 1- Days 1-7 New shorter version
LEJOG 7 by SUSTRANS route: Part 7: Day 26-31: Orkney & Shetland
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LEJOG 7 by SUSTRANS route: Part 7: Day 26-31: Orkney & Shetland
LEJOG 6 by SUSTRANS route: Part 6: Days 22-25: North Coast and Capes.
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LEJOG 6 by SUSTRANS route: Part 6: Days 22-25: North Coast and Capes.
LEJOG 5 by SUSTRANS route: Part 5: Day 18-21: Scottish Highlands.
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LEJOG 5 by SUSTRANS route: Part 5: Day 18-21: Scottish Highlands.
LEJOG 4 by SUSTRANS route: Part 4: Days 15-17: Southern Scotland
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LEJOG 4 by SUSTRANS route: Part 4: Days 15-17: Southern Scotland
Walton Backwaters Dinghy Cruise - very old video
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Walton Backwaters Dinghy Cruise - very old video
LEJOG 3 by SUSTRANS route: Part 3: Day 12 - 14: The North West
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LEJOG 3 by SUSTRANS route: Part 3: Day 12 - 14: The North West
LEJOG 2 by SUSTRANS route: Part 2: Days 8-11
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LEJOG 2 by SUSTRANS route: Part 2: Days 8-11
LEJOG 1 by SUSTRANS route: - Part 1- Days 1-7 Original, longer version.
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LEJOG 1 by SUSTRANS route: - Part 1- Days 1-7 Original, longer version.
LEJOG+: Lands End to John O' Groats cycling including Cape Wrath, Orkney & Shetland: A presentation.
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LEJOG : Lands End to John O' Groats cycling including Cape Wrath, Orkney & Shetland: A presentation.
Slideshow: Europe cycle tour of the Meuse, Rhône and Canal des Deux Mers, Sep/Oct 23
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Slideshow: Europe cycle tour of the Meuse, Rhône and Canal des Deux Mers, Sep/Oct 23
Day ride from Boston to Brant Broughton taking in Stragglethorpe and Caythorpe churches.
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Day ride from Boston to Brant Broughton taking in Stragglethorpe and Caythorpe churches.
Really enjoyed following along…. Thanks for the time and effort to publish
Thanks for the nice comment. It did take a surprising amount of time to produce, but I enjoyed reviewing and sharing the trip and I am really glad you enjoyed the video! Thanks for the feedback!
Very enjoyable, thanks for sharing. I've cycled in Ireland and Scotland, but not in England so far.
Glad you enjoyed it. It was a nice little trip in countryside that was much nicer and quieter than I had expected.
Great trip....well narrated...food for thought...
Thank you!
Very jealous
those moorland roads on the tops are always worth the hard ascent
Yes, worth every bit of it!
nice route!
Thats great 👍 i always fancied staying in a YH very nice tour Glyn
Thanks. I'm glad you liked it and thanks for commenting. One of my big takeaways from this trip was how enjoyable it is staying in Youth Hostels. And you don't have to be youthful and hardy these days which is good as I am no longer either of those things! I hope to be doing more Hostelling in future!
That was another great video. It got so busy along the cycle routes and you came close to a head on collision with the guy in blue who wasn't looking. A super series, thanks for sharing and I shall look out for future adventures and look back on past ones.All the best.
Thanks for all your supportive comments through this series. I hope I shall be able to bring you some more videos soon. In the meantime, happy cycling and walking!
What a fabulous adventure, I loved the SLOTHO tour and consider myself now thoroughly educated! Hope you have another cycle adventure soon, looking forward to watching it.
Thank you so much for that nice comment! I'll do my best to oblige before too long! Thank you for watching all the way through and for your supportive comments!
Loved your SLOTHO journey wish the weather would pick up every time i go cycling it seems to rain, maybe i should buy a canoe instead.
"The good weather is just over the horizon", and there it has stayed for most of the winter and spring! We can but hope! I'm glad you liked the series. Thanks for commenting! Enjoy your cycling, or canoeing!
Well done on completing the ride, particularly in view of the disruption caused by the weather. You've shown that it is still possible to plan a long-distance trip around YHA accommodation, despite the closures in recent years, and also that a bike is the perfect machine for exploring the countryside. 'The horse that needs no hay', as someone once referred to the bicycle! Apart from the near head-on with the chap in the blue jacket near the waggonway, I wonder whether you had any other close shaves on the trip? Also, how was the back by the time you got to Newcastle? I find that a bike ride usually irons out such aches and pains.
Alas, this time cycling didn't cure my back - but it doesn't seem to make it any worse either and time seems to be the best healer on this occasion. There weren't really any close shaves on the tour - apart from the blue-jacket guy and we just laughed about that. There were one or two ( and probably no more than that) close passes on roads (mainly when I was not riding far enough from the kerb to occupy my lane) but on the whole drivers were very considerate and seemed to be responding to the structures of the latest highway code, and I always try to make it easy for drivers who politely hang back to get past when the opportunity arises. Thanks for watching the series! I'm hoping to produce some more videos before too long, but first I need to go for a bike ride or two!
38 mph is quite fast on a laden touring bike in the rain - you're not such a sloth after all! I wonder whether you had chance to visit St. Edmund's Church, 12th century apparently- it would be just your thing. Edmundbyers YHA looks very cosy; I must visit some time. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.
I guess even sloths can go fast with gravity - by the bottom of the hill I had forgotten what the pedals were for! No, sorry - no church visit in Edmundbyers; to be honest the thought of a nice hot shower was eclipsing thoughts of anything more adventurous, and the only sign I was looking for was the one that said "Youth Hostel"! It was a very nice hostel - I recommend it highly! Thanks for continuing to watch; I really appreciate your nice, thoughtful comments.
Brougham Castle 😀Penrith castle is in the town.
Thank you! I did not know that!
Thank you for sharing your adventure. I’ve watched them all and thoroughly enjoyed each one.
Thank you. I'm really glad you've enjoyed them. Thanks for letting me know - they did take a long time to edit so it's really nice to receive feedback like yours. Thanks!
Super, peaceful film, beautifully filmed, edited & great soundtrack, looks like a great ride, how did you navigate? Paper or electric?
It was a great ride. For navigation I used a Garmin. My route planning tends to begin on the OS app, identifying the SUSTRANS routes, then a mix of Komoot (which is usually great for finding cycle routes in towns and others that OS doesn't show) and also OS which is good for identifying roads I want to keep off and paths I particularly want to follow, including rights of way. Sometimes I am lazy and only use Komoot, but I don't always agree with its choices and its maps are so unclear that I often don't realize what it's done! I like paper maps, but I would need a trailer to put them all in on a long tour! Thanks for your kind comment. It's nice to hear that you've enjoyed them.
@@RAsadventures-zr1ge thank you , yes a lifetime of touring and I still feel happiest with paper maps, these days we don’t mail them home after we come to the end of the sheet …. Maps and post charges have certainly risen since 1970!
@@ianseddon9347 My inspiration usually comes from a paper map - even now they still have a place. You can see both a large area and a useful scale for routing on a paper map. Using a Garmin you can ride right past something you'd like to visit that's just one street away, because you see only your route and not your surroundings.
Congratulations on completing your journey and thanks for sharing. I'll be looking out for your next adventure.... I'd be very interested in seeing. a gear review from you. For instance are those Carradice Super C front panniers you are using? I live in Switzerland and am thinking of getting a pair, put I can only buy online, so I can't check then out from myself to know if they are good quality and who much you can actually get into them....
Thanks. I am not really much of a gear expert. I bought Carradice panniers for 2 reasons - the durability of the cotton duck and the rear pockets on the rear panniers which are great for milk/water etc which you buy for your evening camp (I bought them to replace 40 year old Karrimor ones which had similar pockets which I used a lot). But the Carradice rear panniers are huge which means easy to overload, and I really feel the windage! I have had more use recently from the front ones used on the rear of various bikes - but now I have nowhere for all those extra bottles to go (I've just bought some fabric bottle carriers from Decathlon to try this year). They are reasonably good at keeping out water but I pack a lot of my stuff in dry-bags because they aren't completely waterproof in hours-long rainstorms - unlike some Ortlieb models. I was amused last year when I was in France and another cyclist came up and without hesitation spoke to me in English - he could see my surprise and said "Carradice, so I knew you were British!" I also use saddlebags to keep waterproofs, lunch, tools etc in so I don't end up opening a pannier in a thunderstorm! My saddlebags are by Carradice too - I still have a synthetic one from 50 years ago! Size-wise, the front bags are perfect for hostelling or minimalist camping, but now I have a bike with a strong rear carrier I may start using the proper rear panniers on very long trips.
@@RAsadventures-zr1ge Thanks! That is exactly the kind of feedback I needed. At 60 I still tour on my Dawes Super Galaxy that I bought here in Switzerland over 30 years ago!!! I'm Irish by birth and Swiss by choice ;-)
Thank you, and well done. Very enjoyable videos.
Thanks. I'm glad you enjoyed them. Thanks for the feedback - I appreciate it!
Thanks for sharing your journey. I rode the Hadrian's wall route last year so that part brought back lovely memories. I really like the hostel tour idea. Might try similar. Thanks for the inspiration.
The Hadrian's Way part of the route was really nice - especially considering how industrial the area used to be. I never got to the Wall this time but I've ridden and walked along it in the past and it's quite an experience! And I'm so glad I have rediscovered Hostelling - yes, do give it a go! On my first hostelling overnight this year I took my sheet sleeping bag, just in case, but things are much more luxurious and convenient now! But the YHA network has some big gaps because of the cut-backs.
Loved watching this Sloth adventure, particularly enjoyed the music you chose making the experience even more serene and peaceful ❤
Thank you! That's nice. I find that going on a bike ride, seeing and experiencing things on the way, is a mentally soothing experience - it would be nice if the videos have captured some of that. Thanks for your nice comment!
Well done!
Thank you!
Lovely video, music , scenery, great commentary. What make is your bike please and how long have you owned it ? Welldone for finally finishing your adventure and Thank you for sharing 👏 👋
Thank you for your nice comment! I am glad you liked the video - I can take no credit for the scenery but I enjoyed it at least as much as you did! My bike is a Thorn Nomad Mk2. I think it's quite an early one, around 2008 vintage but with very low mileage. I bought it early this year. It's heavy, but I think it would have been ideal for some of the tours I did last year, being strong, easy to service and able to carry a good load. I think SLOTHO was a good try out for us both on lots of different terrain, and we got on ok, albeit a bit slowly!
Wow! Fantastic scenery, what a beautiful day, rain and all!
Absolutely! It just wouldn't have been a complete experience without the rain!
Best day yet for scenery. Great bit of filming as usual. Thank you.
Thank you! It was a fantastic day for scenery. It sort of helped that the weather tried a bit of everything (except snow) as well.
Absolutely lovely relaxing video again . I will miss this when you finish the route. Did you use a Garmin or similar for the route? I am riding from near Frankfurt to Bordeaux in August and experimenting with Komoot at the moment.
Yes, I used a Garmin, and also Komoot for route planning. I recently installed the Komoot app for Garmin on the device which speeds up transfer of GPX courses to it, although I always used Garmin navigation on it because I am used to that. I did 2 tours in Europe last year: I ended up paying for all the extras on Komoot in order to be able to see the open cycle map routes as well as the Komoot route planning map (I felt that was a rip-off, but necessary as Komoot routing would often plan to take me off the Eurovelo routes I wanted to follow). If you're experimenting, the cycle.travel app may be worth a look and appears to be cheaper. They may also have some of the routes you want. I needed to economise on power consumption on my European tour as I was mostly camping there; my Garmin uses far less power than my phone when navigating even though it needs recharging on a long ride. I switched the phone to airplane mode most of the time which also saves a lot of power and data. I used phone navigation (with Google maps) for important stuff like finding a nearby shop or cafe and I usually have a phone holder on the handlebar for convenience on those occasions.
@RAsadventures-zr1ge wow thanks for all the info much appreciated. You are approaching it similar to how I am thinking so very happy not to be going in the wrong direction ( sorry about the navi pun). Like your bike set up too, also very similar to the one I am trying to build. I will look forward to seeing your trips in the future and thanks again. Off back to the UK for a few days on business. I think I will take the bike this time and try some routes from the Mother in laws 😊
I should just say that I'm no expert on this - other people must have far more knowledge and experience than me! I was a reluctant and late convert to electronic navigation - mainly due to the large number of maps I would have otherwise needed - but it saves loads of time too!
@RAsadventures-zr1ge perfectly understand. I sent my wife an SOS message from the Garmin last week without knowing. She was about to call the police. I am not also so the technical guy and still prefer the older methods but it is so convenient and gives you so many options. Kicking and screaming into the world of modern gadgets on an old steel bike😁
I Will get there soon. Thanks for the visit.❤😊
Edmundbyers was a really nice small hostel. It is now privately owned but can still be booked through the YHA. The locals were having a get- together in the "Baa" and snug with home baked food and they included me without hesitation. Apparently it's a regular Friday night event for them - in case that helps you plan your visit! I'd go back again to any of the hostels I visited, but the ones out in the countryside were most to my taste - just as they were when I hostelled as a teenager. There were quite a few other cyclists at Edmundbyers too.
Mr ras do you have thorn comfort handlebars?
I am not sure! I bought my Thorn Nomad (2008) 2nd hand and I don't have the specification. They look like the comfort bar to me but the only markings I can see are "Thorn" and "aluminium double butted". I don't think that is enough to identify the particular model. Sorry I can't be more helpful!
Thankyou for checking. I'm looking at these thorn mk2 comfort handlebars with 65mm rise online to solve my height issue .
@@mofmanp8874 I see! There has been some discussion of them on the Thorn forum, but I'm not an expert on bike parts or fitting so I'm not really the person to help you I'm afraid. I just know that what I have suits me OK, but that doesn't really help you, does it!
It aint half hilly up north tha nows. well done another great video.
Ah nows nah! Thank you!
Brilliant well done 👍
Thank you! Thanks for your comment!
Thanks for sharing
My pleasure! Thanks for commenting!
Love your videos wish I could have done this with you
I'm really glad you are enjoying these videos and it's good of you to take the trouble to say so. Thanks for your encouraging comment!
Really nice simple video and mesmerising! Super!
I'm really glad you liked it. Thank you for letting me know!
I shall be sorry when you get to Newcastle and the series ends. I am sure that you will look back on these videos in future years and be reminded of all the (literal) ups and downs. Thank you.
I shall be glad when I've finished the editing of them! But this has been a wonderful way of extracting even more pleasure from the rides too - triggering dozens of little memories of a wonderful tour. Hopefully there will be more videos to come in future, but for that to happen I will have to get out on the bike! Thanks for commenting!
Lovely ride.
Yes, it was! Thank you!
A nice day's cycling and very scenic, especially Ripon and beyond. Full credit for continuing the filming when weary and wet towards the end; it must have been tempting to push on for the sanctuary of Grinton Lodge. A good tally of bridge crossings- I think I counted five over the Ouse/Ure/Burn, the first one a Forth Bridge in miniature! Aldborough sounds interesting - it has some excellent Roman mosaics, apparently, though I'm guessing that cake was a higher priority!
Thank you! Yes... at that point cake was definitely one of my 5 a day! As often happens on my rides, especially when I use a routing app, I discover what I have missed after I have missed it, and I didn't realize how significant Aldborough was until I reviewed the ride for this video. I probably wouldn't have stopped there though as I was a bit concerned about the end of the ride with rain and the last hill - neither of which was as bad as feared. Thanks for your nice comment, and thank you for watching my videos!
Thank you for going to the trouble of making this lovely video. Greatly enjoyed.
I'm very glad that you liked it. Thank you for your nice comment which I appreciate greatly!
If you'd gone into visit Beningbrough Hall, you could have arrived at Grinton YHA in the dark!
Yes. That's something I seem to make a habit of isn't it? But I'm glad I crossed the moors in daylight - that was too good to miss! Thanks for watching and for your comment!
Nice trip and a nice hostel to overnight in.
Thank you!
Another great record of your journey. 112 miles! I bet you slept well in the York YHA. Thanks for this series.
Yes, I certainly did! Thank you for watching, and for your nice comment!
You are a proper cyclist! 🙂👍🏻
Thank you. That is praise indeed!
Beautiful countryside tour
I'm glad you liked it. Thank you for commenting!
Amazing 😮
Thank you!
Great ride, loved watching. 102 miles in a day beats my best by about 30 miles. Well done. On to 5b.
Thank you. Although I am a bit slow, I do quite a few long rides (just under 100 miles) but they are fairly flat and I wasn't sure I would cope with the distance AND the hills. I did... but only just! I am glad you liked the video. Thanks for the nice comment!
Lovely ride and impressive distance. I'm more of a 30 miler. Did 25 on my Brompton today and my knees are complaining.
My knees complain a lot. Trouble is I've learned that it's best NOT to ignore them. Still it was lovely to be out on a bike this morning here - I hope you had nice weather too.
@@RAsadventures-zr1ge I have EDS so all the bits and bobs hurt. Spent 10 years as a wheelchair user but now the knees can shush. Windy and a bit cold today but sunny. Perfect weather.
@@bobalinga It sounds like what you are doing is incredibly courageous. Well done, and take care of yourself! My aches and pains pale into insignificance, but it's great to know that the bike is permitting you to do so much! I hope you have sunshine and following winds on your travels... but I am guessing you'll make the best of the British summer weather anyway!
Thanks for bringing some engineering marvels to our attention on your ride. Such an ingenious sliding rail bridge over the canal; just a shame we can't even mend a pothole nowadays. Distance-wise, a big shift - well done. Any bike ride that spans the solar system is a serious outing! I wonder which day you consider to have been the toughest so far? I think your use of text instead of spoken word works well; I watched one of your earlier videos (My favourite ride from Boston) which contained neither - that was quite spartan!
Thanks for that. Alas, I can't quite claim to have spanned the solar system due to my failure to visit Pluto! I agree with you about the Barnsdale ride video's bareness without text; there was a lot of historical detail I could have included (I mentioned some things briefly in the description) and without that it must feel a bit slow and hard to follow, especially as I included the crossing of the fens at both ends! I like the video, but it could definitely have been improved! The toughest day so far was 5a: 102 miles plus hills and also rather a warm day. That was the only time I felt I had reached my limit, although day 1 came close with its unwelcome steep climb at the end! 5b was not tiring and I deliberately kept my output down all day, knowing the next few days would have strenuous climbs. Nevertheless, my legs did feel very heavy the next day! Thanks for watching, and for your kind and encouraging comments!
That was a great video to watch, nice relaxing music too 🚲🙂👍
I'm so glad you liked it! Thanks for telling me so!
Great to see the York-Selby solar system. And those 2 fantastic bridges. Have you thought about doing a voiceover which will mean we don't have to read and we can enjoy the scenery even more?
Yes, I have thought about voice-over, and I decided not to for various odd personal reasons but also because I think it would intrude and dominate too much. I would like watching the video to feel like going on a bike ride (which is a subjective experience) rather than being told about someone else's bike ride (which is objective and rather limiting). I try to make the videos nice to watch irrespective of the text - with the text just providing, I hope, an extra layer that is there if you want it. I appreciate that different people watch in different ways and what I have done suits some people better than others; when I watch other cycling videos I often keep stopping them to refer to maps or look things up, and I guess that is what suits me and may suit my videos too. I'm certainly still developing what I do with the videos and have done a lot of things I later see as wrong so maybe my approach will change! This video does have rather a lot of text in it, and that is something I am reflecting on. And I appreciate both the feedback and the kindly made suggestion! I am glad you liked the bridges! I was afraid my inner engineer had gone a bit over the top about them! Thank you!
@@RAsadventures-zr1ge no, thank *you* for going to the effort of putting your rides on UA-cam, they are very relaxing....and if I can cycle half the distance you can when I get to your age I will be a very happy chap. 😊
Not quite pitch black when you got to York, but nearly!
Yes, it seems much darker when there are lights around too!
I enjoy your outings, however…you MUST…rest on the stills longer, so we can read and take in the visuals. Piano accompaniment is superb. 😊
Sorry about the stills. I try to keep things moving; I worry about losing the pace, and just getting too long as well! Thanks for the feedback - I'll try and take it into account in the next one.
once again some impressive miles wish i had your fitness. 👍
I wish I had the fitness you probably think I have! I am very slow. But I do have the ability to keep plodding slowly on. When I came back from my first very long tour I thought I would be really fit; I took all the bags off my bike and went to do my usual circuit: I was 3mph slower than before. And every year I get slower still! But thanks for your very nice comment!
@@RAsadventures-zr1ge I'm also slow but 50 to 60 miles in a day is my limit and no matter how often i ride i can not get any better. And to be honest the hills in the peak district where i ride are getting steeper i swear.
@@johnm-wv6bo 50-60 miles is a good ride in those Peak District hills! You'll see in later videos how much the hills cut my distances down. But the downhills are nice!
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Wow! I hope you enjoy the video!
@@RAsadventures-zr1ge Thanks