We asked 8 Nationalities from 4 Continents why do you like Bikepacking?
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- Опубліковано 4 вер 2022
- Every week people from around the world contact me about cycling in Norway. I decided to take advantage of this and interviewed some of them. They all come from different backgrounds, cultures, and cycling experiences but all share the love of exploring an area by bike. I asked them a very simple question - why do you like bikepacking?
A big thank you to those that gave their time to this video:
Fabian and Natalie from Switzerland 🇨🇭 YT Channel: / @fabienmonnier5080
Delton from India 🇮🇳 - YT Channel: / musclemadtv
Joe from New Zealand 🇳🇿
Kathrin from Germany 🇩🇪
Martin from Chile 🇨🇱
Karen from Finland 🇫🇮
Bart from Belgium 🇧🇪
and Johanne from Norway 🇳🇴
Note: only two people out of eight have English as their first language. I'm very grateful to those who didn't feel too comfortable using English to explain their passion for cycling.
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Let me know your reasons for Bikepacking/Bike Touring?
Why I love bikepacking? Absolute freedom..
To travel by bike it feels your submersed in the landscape - smells, sights, noises & the wind in your hair.
Compared to walking / hiking you can really cover ground. And the best bit - a guaranteed seat :)
Cycle vacation in Norway is going great. Epic ride over the mountain from Voss to Dale. Perfect weather
👌
Recently met a Chinese guy in Cornwall doing a 10,000 mile trip around the British Isles.
Was I jealous, yup, very.
A beautiful video of beautiful people with beautiful and perfdct answers. We get to exercise, explore, eat food, drink, camp, hotel it or do it however we want. It satisfies gearhead needs, exploring needs, foodies, camping needs, exercise needs, all while outdoors!
Slow Discovery. The flexibility to explore “That path looks interesting”.
A miserable day on a bicycle is still a good day (sometimes, in retrospect).
I agree ☝️
Inspiring video. I bikepack to see the places I know are amazing at a pace that lets me experience it deeply.
For fitness and making my students and others aware of its importance 🚲
Traveling by bike is almost like flying. Although sometimes I am literally flying but the landings are very painful. 🚴♂
I would like to thank you for present your country in a such way (series of fyords) that my wife and I were fascinated! One day we gone go to see with our one eyes!! Thank you so much! We are from Brazil, Rio de Janeiro.
Norway looks forward to welcoming you Helio 👋
Self sufficiency. Which raises an interesting question. To dynamo or not for bikepacking?
If that may be of interest to you, this year I cycled in Scandinavia for about 2,5 months and never felt the need to look for an outlet (no looking for macdonalds or having to sleep on a camping). I used an older Shimano dynamo hub with a Forumslader v6 installed in steering tube. Worked like a charm for keeping my Xperia 10 III charged. I happen to not use too much electronics, i'm not a vloger etc, just some photos here and there, NO DRONE, so I had a big margin to feel comfortably selfsufficient about electricity 😁
Using just my gps and lights, and rarely my phone, except for pictures, a good external battery generally lasts me a good 10 days, so i try to plan a stay in a camping around that time, to charge the power bank again and have a good shower at the same time :))
If you are off the grid for longer, i recommend a tiny solar panel. I never used it for bikepacking, but for hiking it worked me treats ^^
Guess i'm just not a dynamo person ;)
@@robvandennoortgate7306 solars are getting better and better, true! Then again, Norway isn't particulary sunny in my experienxe. At the same time, the dynamo friction (if that's a concern) is negligeable for my puroses, yet effective. BTW Formuslader device can also connect and make use of PV cells 🙂 even more better 😁
but on the topic of showers and self sufficiency 😁 a folding bucket/sink (10l from Sea to Summit) plus a regular sponge and some water source is a great substitute. One just has to accept water temps... 🤷
at the end of the day I preffer to spend on food than housing 😁
Personal freedom and close to nature plus exercise 🚴🏋️
This has inspired me to maybe do another long trip by bike. I did a relatively long one (50km) a long time ago and absolutely loved it, so why not again. Just need to decide on where to go first.
That's totally ruthless.
Life’s better at bike speed
It is a bit of a shame from a athletic-tourism perspective that Norway is so far from the United States, as I guarantee that Norway is far more well known in the United States than it is in most all of Europe.
Among endurance athletes of all kinds in the United States, Norway is pretty much known as the mecca for endurance training be it cross country skiing, biathlon, and in more recent years running and now even triathlon. It has a reputation for cutting edge exercise physiology and endurance coaching.
While those things are a little more 'high energy' than bikepacking, I guarantee the landscape of Norway with its dense mountains and endless rural roads and gravel has not escaped the atrention of many gravel riders and bike tourers in the U.S. Bike touring is now more popular than at any point in history, and we would be some of your best customers if not for the unfortunate distance problem. Well, between that and the U.S. being so immense in size and varying topography such that we don't really need to travel elsewhere for tourism purposes.
Lots of great points - thanks for your comment 👍
I like it for freedom, for full liberty to choose my own pace, for space, for silence at night, for sights. and, at times, some really enjoyable people I happen to encounter.
However my ocd makes me point out that i would not call myself a pro - just an experianced vagabond 😁 also the term bikepacking makse me think of those bigass bags strapped under the seat, rocking left and right, which i find silly 🙃 (i'm the bring-your-kitchen-sink kind of guy, everything that i might need tucked in panniers, heavy stuff low, and that suits me - while heavy as a tank, it's predictable, stable and allows me to burn those few extra calories more 😁)
Goodluck!😶 Then.