Bikepacking Across Norway
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- Опубліковано 9 вер 2024
- An amazing bikepacking ride from Bergen to Oslo across roads, gravel, fjords, and mountains. Norway is a remarkable place with some amazing routes for cycling - lots of cyclocross - off-road - and mountain bikeways. Norway is a bikepacking paradise and we explored every fjord, gravel road, hiking trail, and mountain pass we could get our hands on. Some of the featured sections we're the Rallervegen from Geilo to Flam - Sognefjellet riding above the Sognefjord - Tindervegen pass - Hardengerfjord - Eidfjord - Vindehellavegen - and many more amazing spots.
We we're on solid gravel bikes (Rondo Ruut AL and a custom Oleka), running SRAM's 1x groupsets (Force and Apex). I personally road the SRAM Force CX1 with a set of Zipp 303 wheels. Brigitte's Rondo was amazing with the Apex 1x setup and she topped it off with the full Rapha Bikepacking front and back bag.
Bikepacking in Norway is amazing and Bergen to Oslo is an amazing route. After arriving in Bergen we rode to Oslo covering around 1000km. In Oslo we rode a few days with friends and rented a car to drive back to Bergen. Along the way we stopped at spots that we wanted to visit and road.
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Best I have ever seen of my whole life since the day I was born and very first I post back a comment. Thanks
Thank you for the video. Beautiful country Norway.
nice!
Beautiful
Great video with inspiring shots. Thanks
simply beautiful!
Holy moly, what a beauty!
Beautiful!
Great tour and super video. Greatings from Bremen/Germany
Well, now I wanna go do the route I made through norway.. Hope to be able to do it end of May next year! Thanks for hyping me up before bedtime :D
TobiBoy 1312 Hey mind if i see your route compared to mine?
Great video! Wow.....
Stunning
Unreal
Amazing
Wow, amazing video. The framing, the editing, the dronework, I like it all! I remember being at some of the places seen here when riding Zagreb-North-cape two years ago. But I had much worse weather at some of them, you're very lucky! Brings back such fond memories! And the goats at the bottom of Rallarvegen are still there! :)
increible !!felicidades!!
Magnificent route and cinematography !
Thank you from Greece. You made my day :)
Stunning video
I live in Southern Norway and have been wanting to go bikepacking for a long time. I have usually been thinking that ergometer bikes are useless boring exercise machines that doesnt allow me to see the scenery that i see when im riding my regular bike - and so i never really wanted one. But i got one for free yesterday, and now i see how practical it is. With my regular bike, i usually just go out when im ready for a good workout - which means that i only exercise on the days that i feel extra geared up and ready (which is not that often anymore)... Now that i have the ergometer bike readily available right beside me, it is very quick and easy to just get on and do a quick 5-20minute exercise while watching UA-cam. I also really like that i can set the tension, so i can choose if i want to train cardio or strength or somewhere in between. And it is of course also really nice for getting some exercise in the winter and on rainy days.
By the time i have paid all my debt, and saved up for a touring bike and travel insurance (maybe 3 years from now), i should be more than ready for a 6-12 month bikepacking adventure around in Europe, and maybe into Asia. As im getting a disability check, i dont need to save up for the actual trip =)
I'm so jealous. Good for you, mate!
Amazing video, really inspiring. What a landscape.
Awesome Movie !
Beautiful journey 😍
Bucket list for sure!!!! :-)
Great video - thank you !
What a wonderful riding~
Beyond beautiful, hopefully one day I get to ride there
Great video! Can you share the track of the road? Can you tell me what time of year is it? I'm planning sth similar but I don't have no idea what time of year is the best for that type of trip.
+1
Idk the track but I know that this is a trip from southern Norway, to northern-western Norway via “Rallarvegen”
I’ve done the trip myself and hope you will too.
from june, thats when it gets warmer
That looks incredible
Fantastic! Well Done
Amazing stuff. You biked just past our cabin in the mountains, south of Geilo in the direction of Kongsberg, a place called Uvdal.
so dope
very cool shared to my facebook bikepacking page really like it
beautiful!
I was about to comment that you were Using Rapha bike packing bags which are often the shop of the millennial hipster with more money than sense however after a quick search of the Rapha site their frame bags are actually favourably priced and closer to the budget end. Who knew? Hope the held up ok! Lovely scenery, thank you for sharing.
Yeah they are ok. These are the old ones my wife owned. I had a full combo of Revelate + Specialized stuff which was good. I actually started off with the ortlieb front bag leaving bergan and it fell to pieces in the first 20 minutes of the trip! The glue on the bag seam I guess went bad. I had to buy a new Speicialized system at a shop in Bergan (paying Norway prices) to even start the trip...
@@johnbraynard6130 ooh, Norway priced bike packing bags! I hope my Ortlieb bags fare better!
Epic!
A really good looking Biketour. Is it possible to see your driving activities on a map? I'd be interested to see those because I'm planing a toor in norge.
Norway :)
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Great work, congrats !!
Wow, 3 sets of jersey on a bikepacking tour? Pure luxury!
Funny! She had 2 for most of the trip and bought one at Sorenson Syklery when we arrived in Oslo. Really nice jersey btw!
Great! I Planning that for next the next year (Oslo-Bergen-Trondheim-Oslo), It was great, when u could post the track (gpx) for inspiration.
Dirk Pollmann your route sounds great too. Could you post your GPX files or direct where they may be posted? Thx
ridewithgps.com/users/1329132/routes
Here you go - Day 1 is rough though. I would stick to roads to Nordheimsund.
Thank you a lot!
@@johnbraynard6130 hey thats where i live
Great work! I loved your pictures on Instagram!
Beautiful countryside and a great vid. All that Rapha nonsense is a bit naff though? Thank you
😍👏👏👏👍😊
No cars, awesome!
Hey John,
Really nice video, I will be doing Bergen to Stavenger this summer and wanted to know if you could share your route as it might be a bit similar on the beginning?
Have you got a blog as well where you details a bit more how you managed everything? Where did you sleep, what did you packed... any tips :)
Thanks,
Geoffrey
3:45 Bergen 2017 UCI, remember that corner
Wow , beautiful tracks. Where in Norway?
Thanks for this inspiring video. I’m planning on visiting Norway to either bike or hike but am finding the language a barrier to research online. Did you wild camp or stay at their huts or other accommodation along the way?
Wow, this is an amazing video, very nice work! The 8th of July until July 22 I'll cycle the same route from Oslo to Bergen! How were the sleeping accommodations during this route? I normally bring my tent and go wildcamping, but if there are a lot accommodations along the route I'll consider that to save some space and kilograms. - Bart
3:40 it's from Bergen? I think it's corner from UCI WC 2017
correct! www.google.com/maps/@60.394878,5.3346623,3a,75y,258.35h,80.27t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sV_G2QxZAz7LLesXeJoyCHQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Looks like an amazing route. Did you upload the GPX file anywhere?
kind of this: ridewithgps.com/users/1329132/routes
We did ride a few extra bits on our drive back to Oslo...
I wanna do the route next june with 2 friends, and we did see other video's they need to cycle busy roads and tunnels, are they in your route too?? Great video work!!!
Amazing stuff John! Am considering doing this this summer, do you have the GPX on your komoot or Strava? Cheers!
Hello ... fantastic movie .. congrats... would it be possible to know your exact route ?
Hi John. Great adventure and awesome video. By any chance do you have the gpx file of the route? thank you. Greeting from Colombia
Beautiful scenery and video! What drone did you use?
What was the weather like both night and day? Did it rain a lot? And was it hard to find camping spots?
Did you have cell service all the way? Where did you resupply during the trip? I'd like to do a similar trip, might be exploring Jutenheim as well. Providing Covid-19 is under control of course.
Have also considered this route; cycle one way and get the train back.
Would also very much appreciate a GPX.
ridewithgps.com/users/1329132/routes
Yup we also thought about the train - but the car way on the way back gave us the option to see some amazing spots.
Thank-you
Would you do again the top loop of the ride?
How many days riding?
100% would of done the top loop (that was the best part). I would of not gone to Oslo and instead ridden north of Ardel over to Alesund somehow. Then taken boat or something back to bergen. We took about a week.
John Braynard,
What time of year did you go?
Was there any issue getting food on the route?
2:48 the major problem of every short cyclist for bikepacking. 😂😭 A customized framebag would be better.
The landscape and video are great.
@Justget Onwithit sometimes even choosing the bike frame can be a problem (aesthetics vs frame size). I'm 1,62m
Awesome Video! What music did you use? May I see the credits?
Not much "packing" on the bike :) Great images nonetheless
It is indeed a very impressive video, but so many are doing these arty cinematic films now with lots of drone footage that such films are becoming well pretty predictable. Yes I now Norway is a visual feast but nevertheless. At the end I am still none the wiser what it is actually like to ride the route. Drone footage can make any natural environment look stunning from the air. For me a cycling vlog of the route would have told me a lot more about riding the route, concentrating on filming from the ground with some but less drone shots.
Did you camp, stay in cabins, hostels, BnB, AirBnBs, hotels? What did you do for food? What was the weather like when you went and when? I would have liked to have known this information in preference to being told that your partner had full Rapha Bikepacking front and back bag or that your bike had Zipp 303 wheels! Who cares except bicycle snobs. Just my 2ps worth.
did you see vlog written anywhere on this video title - description?
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How long did it take you to complete the route from Bergen to Oslo?
How do you bikepack across a country with only 2 small packs on your bike? I have more than this for an overnighter lol
We stayed at huts and hotels. So no camping 👍👍
How many kilometers have that route?
0:15 and 1:37 what points/roads are that? Anyone Knows? looks amazing!
0:15 is old road to Voringfossen, and 1:37 is south of Eidfiord, on the way to Voringfossen (main road goes into tunnel there, and there's the old road just by the lake - that's the one you see at 1:37.
may I get the gpx of the route please? thanks in advance
How did you get to Bergen? By plane?
Hi,
Inspired by this video I plan on riding the route next year.
Plan so far is to fly from London Heathrow to Oslo Gardermoen, then Oslo Airport Express to Oslo Central railway station, then Oslo to Bergen by train. Cycle back to Oslo airport, fly home.
Beautiful, would still rather ride a horse.
Ashley Williams im sure you would. Liberty and... hell I can’t remember. ✌️
Stay in Hotels?
Beautiful
I'm so jealous. Good for you, mate!