I just wanted to tell you what a great encouragement you have been to me. In 2020 I weighed 130kg and had to have cardiac bypass surgery. Afterwards I lost down to 74kg. 4 years later I was diagnosed with stage 3 rectal cancer. My well improved physical condition has helped me greatly in this your love of cycling has been the kindling to keep the passion of my own love of the sport alive and today I will be attempting the longest ride that I have taken since my diagnosis. 59km to commemorate my 59th birthday last month. Please keep doing what you are doing. I receive energy from you and your kind heart from every video I see. Love you man! Much love to you and your family.
@@hughbrown1258 That disease makes me so angry. Human beings spend billions every year trying to kill other human beings. Spend many millions trying to make human beings hate some other human beings that are ever so slightly different. Imagine taking all of that money and putting it towards curing this _______ horrible disease. I wish, I wish. Fight on, sir. Fight on and pedal that bike whenever you can.
Not gonna lie, Ben, the tears were flowing at the end of this one. What an epic ride. Thanks for taking us along. I’ve really enjoyed watching the trip on all four channels, and your love for each other is inspiring. Can’t wait for the next one.
Great job,Ben,and,the guys.Project India 🇮🇳 was great to watch,and,the journey was awesome despite all the setbacks you guys experienced.Congratulations to you all.Can’t wait for the next adventure you guys ride. 😁👍
I loved watching the four of you support each other throughout this trip. Each day brought a huge smile to my face! Thank you for all the effort you put in to document and share your experiences. Now go rest up!
Yet another great trip, thank you for more passion more energy, taking us along this epic adventure and introducing Boom Boom Ben to us, brilliant can’t wait for the next adventure lads
wow what can I say.... followed your Indian journey from the start ben and looked forward to each episode. What a experience. Well done everyone! great coverage and journey.....chapeau! 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Very emotional ending to a challenging journey. Hats off to you and the rest for persevering through fatigue, illness and cows! Benny was a gem, as are you with your upbeat attitude. Well done on the trip and raising money 💰 for charity. Have a safe trip home.
Every great story should end on a beach, loved watching your adventure and chuffed to find out your based in Gateshead, not far from me. Looking forward to the next one 👍🏻
Loved watching the trip with you all Ben. Looking forward to hopefully meeting you and the team from Team Cycles on the Mallorca trip in April. You are going right?
Wow. Just wow. Thank you. I moved to north italy and taken up cycling and just bought a Triban like what France’s has for my first bike and can wait to take it on its first bike packing trip. You have really done something amazing here. I know time away from family is hard. But when they look at what you have done the change other people lives. It will feel all well worth it.
@@allisonjslehtinen9517 this reminds me of Ben's (coffee/cake) tag-line, except, "I'm riding half the length of India for a little bit of heaven, little bit of hell."
Hands down the most amazing series to date! I have thoroughly enjoyed this and I appreciate you guys bringing us along. I haven't road biked in a decade, but this is making me feel like a gravel bike is in the near future!
You guys have made such an entertaining and joyful set of videos!! I have been waiting with bated breath for each new upload on this Kerala to Goa ride. I live in Goa, and this has inspired me to ride longer. Great adventure and all the best
Just catching up after a week away, absolutely brilliant and great to highlight the mental health benefits of cycling. Donation made to Mind, a charity close to my heart. Chapeau
Amazing Ben and a very emotional ending. You are all superheroes and an inspiration. A fantastic though challenging adventure. Thanks for all your hard work filming and editing so we could all experience it with you.
Absolutely brilliant series you’ve made here Ben I’ve been to India myself and agree it’s a fantastic place to visit Never thought of riding there though But seeing you guys has given me a great idea for myself Once again thanks for the entertainment and look after yourself 👍
Ben what an amazing adventure you’ve had, I actually felt emotional at the end and sad your trip has ended. Congratulations on completing the ride and thank you for the amazing content it’s been some journey. You guys are simply the best.
You are a good man, Ben! Your expression of appreciation for your mates was very touching, you are very blessed! Thanks for all the effort you put in to these videos and sharing glimpses of your life with us, I always look forward to the next one! CHEERS!
It's been an absolute pleasure experiencing INDIA through the eyes of 4 TROOPERS. Well done on this achievement BEN! Wishing you future success in abundance! Solid trip boys!
Thanks Ben. It's been great to watch you and the lads on your trip. You've encouraged me to book my bike on a plane to Lesvos where my Dad lives for a cycle across the Greek mountains to see him. (Now how to figure out how I store a cardboard box at the airport for a week! 😂)
It's been a fantastic watch each day. Can see how much you've all enjoyed and sown that seed of watching to do a ride just like that myself! Safe trip home and rest up..
Well done mate. Thoroughly enjoyed watching this. Netflix need to pick you boys up and Trek need to be sorting upgradings! Love that you did it on an ALR and not a 10k bike though. Kudos.
Just curious, did all of you ride spd pedals & cleats to make it easier to walk around when you stopped or did some of you ride regular road pedals & cleats (look keo or spd-sl) ?
Chaps!!! This trip ended far too soon. Still, Ben, did I hear you say the four of you might next bikepack in Nigeria? 😮😮😅 Now, that would prove the ultimate adventure (and challenge). C'mon lads, bring it on!!!!!!😂😂😂
I just wanted to tell you what a great encouragement you have been to me. In 2020 I weighed 130kg and had to have cardiac bypass surgery. Afterwards I lost down to 74kg. 4 years later I was diagnosed with stage 3 rectal cancer. My well improved physical condition has helped me greatly in this your love of cycling has been the kindling to keep the passion of my own love of the sport alive and today I will be attempting the longest ride that I have taken since my diagnosis. 59km to commemorate my 59th birthday last month. Please keep doing what you are doing. I receive energy from you and your kind heart from every video I see. Love you man! Much love to you and your family.
Thank you so much. You brave human.
Keep turning the peddles 🫡❤️
Dude. Sad to hear the news. But glad to hear things are going in the right direction. Bikes are greatphysically and mentally.
Cheers
@@hughbrown1258 That disease makes me so angry. Human beings spend billions every year trying to kill other human beings. Spend many millions trying to make human beings hate some other human beings that are ever so slightly different. Imagine taking all of that money and putting it towards curing this _______ horrible disease.
I wish, I wish.
Fight on, sir. Fight on and pedal that bike whenever you can.
An incredible trip , I loved watching you all
Make sure you get plenty of rest when you get back
Not gonna lie, Ben, the tears were flowing at the end of this one. What an epic ride. Thanks for taking us along. I’ve really enjoyed watching the trip on all four channels, and your love for each other is inspiring. Can’t wait for the next one.
Thanks Peter.
It’s been a pleasure
❤️
Thank you for sharing these videos. It must not be easy riding all day, filming when you can, edit at night and uploading for us to watch. Thank you.
It really isn’t easy but worth it 👊🏽
Thank you, so very much. Your good humour and character have uplifted me this trip of yours. Safe remainder of your journey. 😊
Thank you 🙏🏽
Brilliant series Ben and really lovely sign off at the end. Loved it. Safe home and lots of love 💖💖💖
Great video Ben! Thanks for bringing us along
Great job,Ben,and,the guys.Project India 🇮🇳 was great to watch,and,the journey was awesome despite all the setbacks you guys experienced.Congratulations to you all.Can’t wait for the next adventure you guys ride. 😁👍
Thanks for watching ❤️
Ben (and team India) thank you for sharing your ride with us. Love your brotherhood of caring, pranking, encouraging, loving.
Until next time, 😉😍
I loved watching the four of you support each other throughout this trip. Each day brought a huge smile to my face! Thank you for all the effort you put in to document and share your experiences. Now go rest up!
Glad you enjoyed it!
We will rest 🙌🏾🙌🏾
What a wonderful adventure. Thanks guys! I’m glad you all made it safely to the end. Get some well deserved rest. Much respect.
Thanks Ben! Love your videos and cannot wait for your next adventure. Thank you for sharing your amazing journey with us! Rest well.
Your welcome. Lots of rest incoming
What a ride! Great time with great peoples! And also great work for the charity
Big up @teamcycles 🙌🏾
Yet another great trip, thank you for more passion more energy, taking us along this epic adventure and introducing Boom Boom Ben to us, brilliant can’t wait for the next adventure lads
Our pleasure!
more passion more energy wait the next country 😃
It’s coming 👀
Fantastic Ben. Love you guys. Can't wait for your next adventure. Thank you so much.
Thanks Clive
wow what can I say.... followed your Indian journey from the start ben and looked forward to each episode. What a experience. Well done everyone! great coverage and journey.....chapeau! 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Thanks for watching. 🙌🏾
Very emotional ending to a challenging journey. Hats off to you and the rest for persevering through fatigue, illness and cows! Benny was a gem, as are you with your upbeat attitude.
Well done on the trip and raising money 💰 for charity. Have a safe trip home.
Thanks bud 🫡
Thanks for sharing the vlogs Ben. What an incredible experience you guys had.
Our pleasure! 👊🏽👊🏽
Every great story should end on a beach, loved watching your adventure and chuffed to find out your based in Gateshead, not far from me. Looking forward to the next one 👍🏻
Glad you enjoyed it Paul
glad you got to experience my country. thanks ben
My pleasure! Unbelievable place 🫡
Loved these videos. By far best trip so far. Thanks for sharing. I will miss you all …. Until next time.
What a great trip guys 👌 enjoyed every video mate ✌
Appreciate that 👌🏾
Thanks for sharing this adventure, safe travels.
Absolutely wonderful! Loved every second!
Amazing journey Ben, .... thanks for taking us along. God bless.
What a trip bro🎉
Thanks for bringing deodorant
Epic ride Ben hats off and a characteristically chaotic final night on your Indian adventure - thanks
Awesome series! Bet you can't wait to see your son again!
Can't wait! 😛
Amazing journey 🎉 congratulations Ben!
Thanks 🙌🏾🙌🏾
Loved watching the trip with you all Ben. Looking forward to hopefully meeting you and the team from Team Cycles on the Mallorca trip in April.
You are going right?
Can't wait!😛
Amazing trip. Well done. 🎉
Come on Foxxxxxxxxy
Well done. Great videos, and wonderful accomplishment. Thanks for entertaining us all. Wishing you continued success!
Thank you very much! ✔️
Loved all of it, such a great series.
Next? 🤔 Egypt, Greece, South Africa, … ?
👀
Wow. Just wow.
Thank you. I moved to north italy and taken up cycling and just bought a Triban like what France’s has for my first bike and can wait to take it on its first bike packing trip.
You have really done something amazing here. I know time away from family is hard. But when they look at what you have done the change other people lives. It will feel all well worth it.
Lovely words - thanks 🙏🏽
Loved it all, feel for you. India is Heaven & Hell, bigtime! Great cycling route!
It’s an amazing place and we have made some beautiful memories
@@allisonjslehtinen9517 this reminds me of Ben's (coffee/cake) tag-line, except, "I'm riding half the length of India for a little bit of heaven, little bit of hell."
Hands down the most amazing series to date! I have thoroughly enjoyed this and I appreciate you guys bringing us along. I haven't road biked in a decade, but this is making me feel like a gravel bike is in the near future!
Been a real eye opener to riding in India, what a last day. wonder how much sleep you actually go this whole trip, enjoy your time off the bike.
I enjoyed these so much. I really looked forward to them every day. THANK YOU
You are so welcome!
Thanks for watching ❤️
Well done Ben. ❤
You guys have made such an entertaining and joyful set of videos!! I have been waiting with bated breath for each new upload on this Kerala to Goa ride. I live in Goa, and this has inspired me to ride longer. Great adventure and all the best
Just catching up after a week away, absolutely brilliant and great to highlight the mental health benefits of cycling.
Donation made to Mind, a charity close to my heart.
Chapeau
Amazing thanks 🙏🏽
Amazing Ben and a very emotional ending. You are all superheroes and an inspiration. A fantastic though challenging adventure. Thanks for all your hard work filming and editing so we could all experience it with you.
🙌🏾🙌🏾❤️
Great trip guys.....really love to see the three of you going new places
More to come! 👀
Well done. Thanks for sharing all the sights, sounds, and emotions.
What a ride and what an inspiration you are Ben! Big up yourself
Also big up T Battie as always
Big up
Thanks for sharing Ben , bummer about lost sleep ! Rest , be well , safe travels home
Thank you 👍🏽
Japan next? :)
Thank you. Great videos!
👀
Great videos Ben! What an adventure!👍
Absolutely loved this series and watching all 3 different vlogs from different viewpoints can’t wait until the next one. Safe travels back to the UK ❤
Awesome, awesome stuff. What a ride! Thank you for great content, thank you for putting in such an effort for us. Loved it.
Het was super om op jullie avontuur te kunnen volgen
🙌🏾🙏🏽
Congratulations on the trips
Thank you! 🙏🏽
An amazing journey documented so well ❤❤❤
Thanks 🙏🏽
@ will you be uploading all the episodes as a movie?
Amazing trip! Well done and thanks for bringing us along.
Our pleasure! 🫡
Fantastic series, thank you 🙏
Well done guys
Appreciate the uploads
☀️ 🇮🇳
🥭🐿
No problem thanks for watching
Well done all of you 😘, fantastic achievement
Cheers Mum……
Don’t be late picking me up 👀
@ 👍🏻 cheeky 😉
Absolutely brilliant series you’ve made here Ben
I’ve been to India myself and agree it’s a fantastic place to visit
Never thought of riding there though
But seeing you guys has given me a great idea for myself
Once again thanks for the entertainment and look after yourself 👍
Go do it. Stay safe 🙌🏾
Great videos Ben. I've loved following your travels.
Glad you like them! Appreciate the support 🙌🏾
Ben what an amazing adventure you’ve had, I actually felt emotional at the end and sad your trip has ended. Congratulations on completing the ride and thank you for the amazing content it’s been some journey. You guys are simply the best.
Kind words. Thanks 🙏🏽
Just love your work mate it’s been awesome and inspiring thanks so much !
My pleasure!
Congratulations - amazing stories - thank you so much for the wonderful entertainment
Our pleasure 🫡🙏🏽🫡❤️
@@benjaminlechappers if you guys ever do an Italian version I'll be more than happy to help you guys out... I live in the Italian lakes region
You are a good man, Ben! Your expression of appreciation for your mates was very touching, you are very blessed! Thanks for all the effort you put in to these videos and sharing glimpses of your life with us, I always look forward to the next one! CHEERS!
Cheers dude 👊🏽
Brilliant series and have loved watching it from each of your perspectives! Shout out to Benny too! Looking forward to your next adventures!
More to come! Thanks 🙏🏽
It's been an absolute pleasure experiencing INDIA through the eyes of 4 TROOPERS. Well done on this achievement BEN! Wishing you future success in abundance! Solid trip boys!
Thanks Ben. It's been great to watch you and the lads on your trip. You've encouraged me to book my bike on a plane to Lesvos where my Dad lives for a cycle across the Greek mountains to see him. (Now how to figure out how I store a cardboard box at the airport for a week! 😂)
Congrats to all of you 🎉
Thanks 👊🏽
Great work Ben, really enjoyed the vlog updates and footage…
Glad you enjoyed it 🫡
Very touching, Ben. A lovely video.
(But still missing the hat.)
😂🤣🙏🏽
Another amazing adventure.
Thanks 🙏🏽
Thanks for taking us on the journey. Wonderful
Our pleasure! 👌🏾
It's been a fantastic watch each day. Can see how much you've all enjoyed and sown that seed of watching to do a ride just like that myself! Safe trip home and rest up..
🙏🏽
Thanks for taking me through India
My pleasure 😊
Cracking adventure. You should be well chuffed and proud for what you've done and the joy, pleasure and inspiration you've given to others.
Thank you 🙏🏽
amazing journey, mate!
Appreciate seeing the journey from your unique viewpoint. Cheers!
My pleasure! 👊🏽👊🏽
Cycling can be a lot of fun, but more so with friends who go at about the same speeds... Well done, every one of you!
Super cool 👍🚴
Well done mate. Thoroughly enjoyed watching this. Netflix need to pick you boys up and Trek need to be sorting upgradings! Love that you did it on an ALR and not a 10k bike though. Kudos.
Thanks. A bike is a bike, simple. 🫡
Well done Ben . Amazing 😅
brilliant from all you guys
Hey Ben that tailfin top tube bag -- is that the 1.1L or the 1.5L? (trying to determine which one I want)
1.1 🙌🏾
Very well done.
Thank you kindly! 👌🏾
Wonderful
Thank you
Great trip. Well done.
Love it - something you will never forget
Come to nz boys !?
Well done 🤸🏿🤸🏿🤸🏿🤸🏿
Funny and sad that it is the end
Us too ❤️
Just curious, did all of you ride spd pedals & cleats to make it easier to walk around when you stopped or did some of you ride regular road pedals & cleats (look keo or spd-sl) ?
Yes SPD for us three. Benni road cleats
how are you guys riding in india without bell... damnnnn
We honk
@@benjaminlechappers the infamous mouth honking... 🤣
Fabulous ❤
👏👏👍👍❤❤
Brilliant story and an epic adventure, I have a bromance for you guys. Take care and look forward to more “Tales from the Cycling Threesome”
What a trip. Chapeau
Thanking you 🙌🏾
A well deserved ending to an epic journey..
The brotherhood is strong ❤
How do you apply chamois cream on the road? More specifically: how do you get the remainder of your hands? :D
Hahahaha
@@benjaminlechappers This is a serious question :) Could use the advice.
Chaps!!! This trip ended far too soon. Still, Ben, did I hear you say the four of you might next bikepack in Nigeria? 😮😮😅 Now, that would prove the ultimate adventure (and challenge). C'mon lads, bring it on!!!!!!😂😂😂
🙌🏾🙌🏾
You guys have an amazing trip together. But it’s convinced me that India is not for me.