Cycling the Length of England in a Completely Straight Line!
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
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Following a few successful years of straight line missioning inspired by Geowizard, we decided to branch out into an all new field of the sport: Straight Line Cycling!
We were aiming for a factor of 100 of a walking Straight Line Mission. That might sound like a lot but it turned out to be extremely challenging as you'll see!
Next video: swimming across the Atlantic ocean in a straight line.
Why wouldn't you do it in a straight line
Nah, doing a roly poly across Westminster...in a straight line
@@hsjshdhsjshsh958 Currents make it more difficult to go in a straight line
Impossible due to currents.
@@ZenPossum Good point
Imagine being a fan, watching this video and realising that the houses they called “skanky” is a house you live in right there 🤦🏼♀️😐🫢🤣
They come across like a right pair of twats tbh
Yep, wasn’t a fan of them saying that either, or referring to Ambleside as ‘quite a rough area’. Just screams privileged.
Excellent idea. My wife and I created our own F2F (Fishguard to Felixstowe) route which runs West East through our home. All minor roads, cycle routes etc.
@@SteRumbelow that was definitely a joke aha
@@SteRumbelowagree about the houses but think the rough area comment was blatantly a joke, just looking at the town on google it’s clearly quite old and not rough at all.
Adam please never stop wearing a button-down shirt, it's so impractical but so funny 😂
Strong boarding school vibe running through all these videos
Yeh - Free spirited and don’t care what people think, wanting to push themselves through difficult challenges, creating interesting content that aren’t the day in the life of, or eating videos, that’s how everyone should be like I feel.
whats funny is they went past Dallam boarding house at 7:46 which is where i spent 8 years at :D
Referring to people’s homes as “skanky” isn’t really on guys. Long time viewer and subscriber here, you guys come across as very well spoken and educated - possibly from quite an affluent background. Not everyone is as fortunate. Stay humble guys. Much love
Totally agree, I think we have found your blind spot. The houses you label as skanky are pretty typical of many houses your viewers live in. Really tone deaf comments, do better
I was about to comment something very similar, I'm fairly well off in my life at the moment but I grew up poor, single mum, not a very nice house etc... It's not a choice haha
It's really not on pissing on people because they happened to born to the right family.
Proper Tory behaviour 🤷🏻♂️
Totally agreed. I enjoy your content, but found the skanky house comment a tad offensive. Not everyone was born with a silver spoon in their mouth! I have just purchased my housing association house and it wasn't easy working hard for years saving as much as I could for a better life. Just a little thought for those less fortunate.
Yes. Agree. Archie, you are out of order on this comment. Ride humbly guys.
A few minutes in and this is hilarious. The mispronunciation of Silloth and Keswick (I'm local) and the fact they're on cheap, ill-prepared and ill-suited bikes. Genius! I'm sure they could make longer episodes though! I was wondering only few days ago if/when they might upload again...
Can't believe how crap the bikes are! Would be a difficult challenge on decent gravel or xc bikes!
You've broken barriers here, smashed into new straight-line territory no other has attempted yet!
Feels somewhat harsh to ride past peoples houses shouting about how skanky they are, even if they were quite rough.
If they didn't want to live in that house they should just ask daddy to buy them a bigger, nicer one.
The irony is that I'm fairly sure that was Burton-in-Kendal or Milnthorpe (there's not many villages it could have been and they show a satellite image of Burton straight after)
Both are pretty desirable villages - not necessarily loaded but far from the worst places in Cumbria let alone the country...
@@patrickchampion8179 That was the joke... they were being ironic.
@@Dan200 Didn't notice that.
Suggestion to not go to go to a convenience store for lunches, but eat a local eateries, not for your sake just for the viewing experience. If we are stopping in a random town on challenges, I want to know what they have to offer.
I'd second that for the accomodation options too - that first stop looked interesting
You think they have time for that? This is a challenge video, not a culinary programme. Plus I hate the word "eatery"!
Maybe in the less touristy places
Nah, they're keeping it cheap and can't stop for a sit down meal in each town to show the ambience.
It's the lake district. It'd be like £10 a sandwich anywhere else!
5km band for platinum? Setting it nice and easy for yourselves. Pity you're not leaving much space for improvement. Seems like a bit of a cop out guys.
much harder than on foot
@@bomoosesure, but 5km is basically free, and that is for platinum. Plat should have been 2km at most
@@BrawlLegendLink agreed.
agreed. 5km band should be silver or bronze tbh.
You try riding a bike through a hedge.
You lads are coming up with absolute gold once again. One of my favorite channels!
I'm from a place of relative privilege myself but have lived on both sides of the bread line. The part where you commented on the "skanky" houses did rub me up the wrong way a little. It's one thing to say it subtly amongst mates, but to shout it loudly as you go past and then upload it to UA-cam for the world to see isn't really on.
I laughed. At this.
spot on
@@TheKaluNaamame too some people have a serious lack of humour unfortunately.
2:54 Jeremy Clarkson energy
Top gear's code of hono😂r
Doesn't feel like a Straight Line. Just mapped out the best possible and set the "limits" afterwards.
No clue why you wouldn’t use mountain bikes! Absurd lads. Good on you.
Good luck Team Archie! What an epic challenge.
Sensational content lads. Truly sensational
I like how woefully prepared they are
Grew up in Cumbria and can confirm it rains every day.
you guys are just very fun to watch. I will follow you forever.
Give us a bit more detail about how much deviation is allowed etc lads
They said under 2500 meters deviation for platinum so I'd assume 2500 - 5000 for gold, 5000 - 7500 for silver and 7500 - 10000 for bronze
@Initial80fficial I must of missed that I'm unsure why thank you
absolutely amazing as always but you have to think I through again if 2.5km is really worthy of the title platinum
You guys are the best at these challenges. Ignore the inverted snobs in the comments as they probably think and say the same thing.
Pretty sure most people don't think and say that, or if they do at least they think and say it privately instead of going around filming someone's home and put the footage online saying it's skanky to an audience of 37k.
2500 metres seems a bit too big to be considered platinum. I'd say a mile max would be platinum
Starting off by covering your bike in salt water
Slow down and tell a story. A 5K across line really gives you a lot of leeway and this does not feel like much of a challenge. Maybe narrow it down. It would also be interesting to have some challenges or competition in this format.
Please do longer videos, these 10 min videos are way too short fellas
Weird seeing roads ive cycled on my whole life
Great to see you guys on adventure again.......at least there should be no wonky forests or hedgerows to bike through....USA here....good luck.......
I have done a lot of bike touring and can attest whatever the route this is a big test, especially on those bikes so kudos.
Always enjoyed your videos but that was some completely unnecessary snobbery when you went past those houses
Get a grip
thats a lot of cycling my mates
2:44 The guys obviously learnt from Top Gear challanges
Posh boy calls people houses 'skanky' - what a top bloke
2.5k sounds like a big corridor but probably isn’t. I wonder how narrow you could go. I hope you go into a little more detail!
It's 5k actually, isn't it? 2.5k on either side
@@PyroPattieAh yes, you are right. 5k it is
Thoroughly enjoyed this boys! Looking forward to part 2. Keep up the good work!
Fantastic stuff chaps. Cant wait to join this adventure
Great, interesting, crazy with "unpreparation".
Interesting twist on things boys. Good video.
Now THIS is the spirit of gravel!
Great start lads 👍 very ambitious
You're allowed to play by more casual rules, and it seems like you're having the proper amount of fun with it, but be up front about it in post.
Great video, please be safe!!! This video proves how much drivers can be utter arseholes to cyclists. Your biggest danger is them, not the terrain!
08:20 - Katy Price off-roading be like...
😆😆
Very good!
Looks like a fun bike trip but how in the world is this a "straight line"?
I love your attitude and enthusiasm.
Cool, now do the entire coastline of Britain from Land's End to John O'Groats and back
For some reason this video defaulted to 144p to me, and you know what? I felt like I was back in the good ol' days of wacky UA-cam hyjinks.
Absolutely fantastic. Really tightly edited too
I don't know about this one. It seems you guys get to make up how many thousands of yards is a perfect run. Seems like that might be based on whatever course you found to be the best.
Seems like it's not a regulated competition, and they're just putting personal challenges on to make for a fun adventure
Yes lads I love this👌👌
don't think the wheel's going to make it!
Gwan lads!
Great adventure. Nylock nuts should help with not loostening from vibration.
I'm sure he could just magic some up from somewhere!
@@royfontaine5526 There is a specialist touring bike shop in Ambleside, which they passed through.
Corrected title: Attempting to Cycle the Length of England while staying within a 5km wide corridor.
Not really the same thing, is it lads?
awesome new adventure guys
You fellas needed to get mountain bikes for this. They work fine on roads too
Imagine this as an official cycle race. The classics and cyclocross riders in a 3 stage kinda race
What an adventure!
Good stuff! You've reminded me of Nick Crane's book two degrees west, which is the same concept except that he walks south through England following his longitude without deviating more than 0.5 degrees.
3 minutes in and I'm on ebay looking at bike horns
What a stupid idea, can't wait for the next episode
.. but it says ATB on the frame?! .. hilarious!!
at this rate we're expecting straight line across England on a ship by next year.
I actually just completed a cycling tour through the whole of Switzerland today, sadly not in a straight line at all, wanted to visit all the most beautiful cities haha
450km in 2 1/2 days
Straight line in Switzerland would certainly be a challenge 🤣
One night few years ago after good evening at bar I walked almost 10 meters straight line.
Good adventuring, 2500M seems like an achievable platinum deviation, you are usually much tighter on your definitions.
This is the longest I've seen you guys manage without getting a McDonalds delivered to you lol
2.5km width for platinum?
Turns out Russell Cook was the first to run length of Africa in a perfectly straight line (+-250 miles for platinum run)
no its actually only 2500 meters
@@Sumonebody 2500 meters is 2.5km you melon 🍉
@@Pete_YT I can run the world's fastest 100m (-/+10 seconds)
@@Sumonebody 2.5km = 2500 meters 🍉
The King's of straight line missions have upped the bar!
You never came close to even thinking about diverging from the platinum zone. So should 5000m really be platinum?
Next video: We swam the length of England by rivers.
Top gear vibes
In 2016 Polish dude completed straight line from south to north of Poland using bicycle
Interesting new challenge, and with bikes, you definitifely wont be having a 25m boundry for platinum^^
9:11 Hahaa. Laughed out loud at that
I do hope this isn't going to be a thing with this series, only 10 minute videos.
There’s no ‘y’ in Silloth, turned off straight away 🤣.
Nice!
Might as well start calling yourselves the new, posh, slightly underfunded Top Gear if you carry on like this.
cycling 600km on a carrera, that's a bold choice
My only complaint is that the video is way too short!
Walking through ikea in a straight line
Are you guys gonna be doing a straight line mission to Mars next?
If you ever happen to be doing this again in Ireland/Northern Ireland. Hit me up at McCabes Cycles. I'll kit you both out with bikes for free if you give me a shout out haha
Wild
nice try and lots of effort for sure, but it doesn't feel like a straight line mission with that big zone. I get it, how else would you do it with a bike, but still. sorry, going by foot is cooler.
no this is too much xD
Be amazed if you all get through this on those bikes etc. Any of it on strava?
Lol, road bikes trying to do off-roading but it makes for good viewing 😅. A good mtn bike would be a better all rounder to use from roads to trails or a fat bike, you can average up to 35 km/hr or more depending on gearing and weight of bike and your fitness.
0:45 not a straight line.
Failed
😛
Is getting off and pushing really cycling?
Seeing as your travelling the whole of England 10min clip to quick 😢 ha
Hey dudes, really enjoying all the missions. I make music and I wrote you a little track that might work on a future vid. Let me know where to send it :)
Thanks Jonny, find my email address on the channel and we'll give it a listen!
Good
Guys, you're doing great adventures but the videos have lackluster storytelling and feel rushed. Maybe try to get someone involved with an editing/storytelling background
Can't watch. Video is too rushed unfortunately. Could have been a lot longer
Saw them fail the mission within the first 100 meters.
Nothing about this is a straight line.
2500 metres... Well I guess in today's straight line interpretation that's fairly strict 😅