Bikepacking Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan - "The Americans" Episode 2 of 2
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- In the summer of 2018 our team of two rode our bicycles for 1 month self supported through the Tian Shan mountains of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. (full description below gear list)
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It seems incredible but local people often seemed very surprised but incredibly happy to meet Americans traveling in their countries. We were always told that the only foreigners they meet are European. I cannot say enough to the generous hospitality we received along the entire route.
All but 4 nights of our trip were spent wild camping, and we encountered many difficult points along the way. We managed to keep spirits up through a lighthearted approach. We rode portions of the Tian Shan Traverse mountain bike route and at other points we forged our own way. This meant for some gnarly hike-a-bikes that made ride-able portions feel that much better.
We were amazed by the incredible scenery these countries have to offer and hope that with this video we can inspire more people to travel to this wonderful region self supported.
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What a trip!!! And Well Done for saving the little goat! 👍
I was by the lake Isikul too 😎💪👍
Good job , man!
I from in Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬, my name is Kairat.
Just wow!!! Extremely inspiring. Just the right amount of dialog, and the silence is actually how a lot of it was. Watched 1 and 2.
Thank you guys for sharing your emotions, that faces and breathtaking landscapes! Motivates me to look around and stick my nose out of my apartment
Great video! I hope you keep them comming! Thanks!
Thank you for sharing this wonderful video. And thank you for not overnarrating it with "Bro, Let's Do This!" stuff.
Super trip, congratulations - and thank you for sharing all that beauty
The switchbacked climb after the stove almost blew up looks amazing
amazing, great video , great adventure, and great narrators. I NEED TO GO ON AN ADVENTURE !!!!! very inspiring :)
The goat was extremely lucky thank you for it !!!!
So far and so good! Nice video!
Absolute bikepacking!!! Damn good!🚴♂️🚴♂️🚴♂️🍺🍺🍻🇵🇭
Very well made! Looks like a lot of fun. Next you should bike pack Kekistan ;)
Love it and I can't wait to see more of you 👍
Bike packing gold right here!!! Great cinematography. My only wish would be more episodes of this amazing trip. I feel like at least 10 are needed. Also more commentary during or post ride. Ok that’s 2 wishes. I am looking forward to see your next trip. Safe travels.
awesome trip sir ..
Guys, good video, great landscapes.. thank You:)
Great job guys!!
I miss this kind of adventure videos on youtube. Honestly, like Carlos Costa and the others. Just simple and pure documentation of the trip with some added details to broaden or complete the story. Most travel videos now are too vanity-focused, and bandwagon type of travel video, with unnecessary EDM and other music. Honesty, this types of videos with all the raw wind, bike, river, ocean, and other ambient sounds with subtle music gives so much more sense of the place and the adventure rather than too much fancy editing that isn't even good and just trying to look like everybody else. The problem is too many travel / adventure videos are now like vlog which is more talk and less show. Whereas this video and the other good and old ones practice the rule or guide in filmmaking which is; SHOW DON'T TELL. Yes, I am annoyed by too much "HEY GUYS, WASSUP GUYS, THIS IS BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH" with few footages other than their faces. But in this video as shown tells more of the story rather than recording a vanity-fueled travel video. This is inspiring. Thanks for sharing your trip! I am excited to do mine in the near future.
Cheers!
Fantastic guys!, thanks I well enjoyed these vids ✌️.
I enjoyed your journey. Hope to do this one day and get back to where my ancestors "Turks" came from.
Insane trip! Very beautiful region. Well done going through with such a hardcore trip.
Brilliant video thanks for showing us lovely scenery.
Your two though guys well done.🇬🇧👍🍻
Beautiful filming Karl! Very inspiring :). Where were the hot springs located? I would love to drop in there.
In the Naryn? valley. a couple days out of naryn. They were almost unbearably hot, so might be some with a more reasonable temperature somewhere in the area
Hey Guys really respect your gut in travelling to this remote area. Luckily your whole trip is safe and sound. I heard some other people have bad encounters with the locals. Take care guys . I love your adventure.
perfect!
Can't wait to your Norway episode. Hope my fellow countrymen treated you well and that the weather were great for the most part of your visit :)
Well done lads. Great views, almost regret leaving I'd bet.
These are gorgeous videos, inspiring and so well-made. Congrats on your trip!
Great video. Now I have one more thing to add to my bucket list.
Would love to know more about your bike and gear.
Love the bikepacking and the video editing. Keep it up guys. Stoked to ride that part of the world.
Extemely lucky goat. Probably nappped and all the blood swelled up making movement impossible. Happened to me as a kid,no pun, when I climbed a tree, rest my leg in the crotch and had to have firefighters use the jaws of life to pry the damn brnach.
Yikes!
...moc pěkné chlapci 👉 👍👍✊🙋
What a great video ! What a great trip !!! Cheers!!
Fantastic trip and videos Karl. It gave a great insight into the countryside and way of life in these countries.
Very nice Trip and a beautiful Video. Love the landscape.
Wow.. Grt Job..You came like an angel for a goat..Gob bless.
Perfect
Awesome filming guys, bad news your kit got stolen though, but glad you got sorted out, you should try and get a biolite stove 2 for cooking and charging your kit .. question what did you use to charge up your drone ... I have a mavic air and just got a Jackery power bank that will take a plug for my drone batteries plus I've got the anker solar system...
As far as recharging the drone we needed an outlet. That just meant really conserving battery when we did fly. Which jackery power bank are you using? The biolite stove also looks interestiing, how efficient is the charge you get off of cooking?
@@KarlKroll if you use wood pellets that are used for cat litter they burn for a while , fill the biolite stove 3/4 full that will get you 45 to 50mins burn time, just using wood burns quicker, but you'll get a full charge on the power bank built into the stove 2 in about 2hrs as it charges the hotter it gets.. check it out on UA-cam.. the jackery power bank has an outlet for a combination off plugs, you could charge that via solar powered on your bikes whilst riding ... get the jackery on Amazon 👍
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That poor goat! Glad you two were able to free it. Safe travels always!
Congrats, guys! Great trip! One question: where did you store those bike boxes while you were travelling ? Or did you just went after other boxes after the trip was over ?
just searched for new ones later, kindof a pain but in Almaty there were a decent number of bike shops. Still it did take us most of the day to acquire new ones. I've had trouble getting boxes before and just ended up taping together cardboard to make something work which isn't terrible
Want to go here. Thanks guys!
I have Watched this many times and like it more each time! Thank you for sharing this with everyone!
assalamualaikum may peace be upon you brother
Great video and travel, many thanks
You’ve managed to create a nice balance between the amount of information, while not making it borung. Nice job!
Krásná příroda nádherný ale náročný bike super 👍👍👍🌞🌞🌞🚵♂️🏕🚵♂️🏔❤️
thank for your vidio
did you guys know noah's ark is in the turkish mountains? mount ararat i think?
Trip of a life Time! Thanks for sharing!!
The goat! That is why you were meant to be there!
How lucky was that goat?! It should buy a lottery ticket.....
Awesome videos and breathtaking scenery. Did you guys stop and let yourself to be absorbed by the sheer beauty of the landscape before you, or keep moving as planned?
merci pour ce beau film qui est largement plus intéressant que les film d'hollywood !!!!
Very Cool!
Absolutely beautiful adventures! But, if saving a goat is a good deed, then what is eating animals?
Great job lads,
very, very good job, and incredible trip!
Thanks Piotr!
Great trip! Helmets for the bikes and baseball cap for the wild horse ride!
Another question about gear. What bikes are you 2 riding?
I am riding as salsa El mariachi and John is riding a salsa Fargo, both bikes handled the trip pretty well but I think John would have liked a lower gear/"granny gear" on his 1 by 11 setup
@@KarlKroll Would you happen to know which combo chainring/cassette he was using? I take it the derailleur is a SRAM GX1?
It seems you used wide tyres, what tyres did you use?
good)))
which month
So, do you planning this trip one more time or it's more interesting another country?
Great videos. How did you find the paths to follow?
Epic!
...oh, those mushrooms you found. Delicious stuff!
Thank you for a very well made and inspiring film. Have you got a map with your route or a GPS-track of the trip?
I do have gps tracks for most days but have yet to organize them all, I will do it!
эпикалық саяхат!!
For future referrence... don't put out fuel/gas fires with water, use soil to bury the fire.
What about mosquitos ?
What an great adventure!
Pretty FN rad!
like 703
I can't believe there was no fighting.
Nice video! More of a tech question: what was John's gear setup (1x11?) and did he feel comfortable on steep climbs? He was once pushing up his bike in part1 and did you run tubeless?
I was 3x10 and felt great, John was 1x11 and suffered but is going to a 42 tooth for the biggest gear when he joins me in the Puna de Atacama in a few weeks.. with a 1 by setup i guess anything is comfortable as long as you have a big enough granny gear
And yes to tubeless, 3/4 tires made it the entire trip without problems. I now have been running tubeless in the Atacama desert and can't imagine how many flats I would have without it
@@KarlKroll I am still sceptical on tubeless for those long tours, though running them on my all mountain bike :D
This has been a spectacular tour... And the goat simply made my day. Thank you for sharing this experiencing this. Unfortunately, my first tour has been delayed. I have a recumbent e-trike with a solar recharge trailer and plan to ride the rails-to-trails when it is open again. This awful virus has to go.
Wow man, that place looks so incredibly awesome.
Congrats guys, what a great accomplishment that was.
I kept wishing you guys had coca leaf. That would have blessed your trip quite a bit in those mountains. I pray in the name of Jesus that these foolish laws will be done away or.
Do I hear BT
What tyers you are on ?
парни добро пожаловать в узбекистан !!! тоже есть знаковые места )
Super voyage !
Hellofromparis
kumis trip)
Incredible!!!!
Nádherná příroda na ježdění hoši si to tam museli poradně užit mají můj velký obdiv jako vždy co se tyče MTB je to moje srdcová záležitost ❤️👍👍👍
why you came to kyrgystan is small and mountain country
Respect to the dude who mows all that lawn
🤣🤣🤣
5:10 Did you just clean your chain in your stoves fuel bottle? ^^
Lol yes, but the stove had been stolen in episode 1 of this series so it was just a container full of fuel at this point
@@KarlKroll 😂👌
Nice trip and video btw :)
@@schwarzzelter7161 cheers! 🍻
Any fish of edible size caught?
Nah just the small ones unfortunately
Кыргызстан супер
great editing
Thanks David!
Just wondering if you have the route you took on this amazing trip that others could follow? As I am interested in it myself
There is a maps.me link in my channel page! Cheers
There is a link in my page profile, cheers!
@@KarlKroll Thanks a million!!!!
Türk yurdu işte 😏.
That goat would have made a fantastic meal. It could have fed you for a week.
God saved the goat. If these guys were not there, that poor kid would have died in that rock
Free an innocent helpless animal and make it a joyful occasion , but normally eat innocent helpless animals and think nothing of it.....
Lifestock is still lifestock.
@@RedGollum No, they are living sentient beings that feel pain, emotions, they are NOT objects. Plants are for eating by humans, same as apes and other herbivores.
@@johnnyveganite9141 So what would you do if grass was sentient huh? Or do you think if lions could eat us they wouldn't? Are they bad because of that?
@@RedGollum Same old nonsense. Plants are not sentient, lions eat meat out of necessity or else they would die, humans don't eat meat out of necessity. Humans are herbivorous/frugivores by nature and biological design. Eating meat was survival food only when plants were not available (humans migrating into unsuitable areas of the planet).
@@johnnyveganite9141 Who are you though to tell people not to eat meat? From your name it's obvious you're one of those vegans pushing your own values onto others giving all vegans a bad rep. I'm fine if you don't want to eat meat but don't force others to do that.
We eat meat because we can. Because we like it. If you don't like it that's all on yourself.