Searching for Mountain Bike Trails In Cyprus – Day 1 🔎

This is mine and Tom’s first day in Cyprus, we ended up mostly riding on the roads but it was a great day out and the aim of the next two weeks here is to destroy our legs, so a big road ride does that perfectly! 🙌 We are heading somewhere we know has mountain bike trails tomorrow so stay tuned for that!
Let me know in the comments if you know anywhere in Cyprus that we need to ride!

This is not in Aran anymore yeah this isn’t even Scotland we’re out here in Cypress this time we out here uh built the Highlander too built it up into a little bit of a got the Wahoo on there built it up into a bit of an XC rig with

Some Max arent Tires just the XO protection get nice and light some hunt XC Wheels the it’s going to be rolling fast I’m hoping oh got a power meter on there to see my terrible numbers all of the juice look at all that fiddle out goodness this one’s 750 this one’s

800 that is that’s ample hydration this whole build the setup as as you see it with the Crank Brothers pedals the everything like that but without water uh oh also got the tube also running tubes in the wheels tubo tubes they’re so light got a little spare on here real

Handy and as I was saying before I interrupted myself this bike without the with empty water bottles 14 1/2 kilos that’s I I think that’s I think that’s pretty light I think that’s pretty light full XTR Lo cassette let’s let’s see how she rides riding snack of choice for the

First day bag of back CL look at that just soaked in Honey delicious just left the house it is nice just cruising up the roads E Tom absolutely how the legs feeling fresh as a days I should hope so cuz it’s the freshest they’re going to feel for the

Next two weeks that’s nice that’s nice yeah we’re out here for 2 weeks and it’s basically just operation have store legs for the whole time yeah and then do a downhill race at the end cuz that coincides perfectly with our trip he’s in there he’s in the slip stream there’s a million

Goods what noise does a good make they’re not chatting I don’t speak Greek goat oh donkeys as well they a full Wildlife tour at the moment sound as a donkey B I think there there about we missed this turn off cuz we were busy looking at

Goats here we go we’re an hour in we’ve done about five 489 M of climbing just been cruising but now it’s time for our first first slice of slice of Honey soaked Heaven is that nice oh that’s good gear that is good gear right there all right

Let’s see let’s see Tom Wilson first reaction to his first ever bit of back I’m trying to get honey on my hands I got a little bit on my finger but it’s tasty so it’s all right Custard in it they got Custard in it that tasty you like that I manag that you

Know he was being real he didn’t really didn’t want me to buy this yesterday in the shop he was like oh no that looks weird but it’s tasty isn’t it back on the climb H one thing that’s key with the big long rides is hydration as always so

We’ve got I’ve got two of these fidlock bottles on my bike which adds up to a liter and a half cuz this is well 1,450 mil uh and the science the science the science on today’s R Thomas is science not power per meter of

A scent we can drink 1 mil of fluid but every meter we go up we just we drink one mil yeah and we make sure to measure that to stay hydrated but yeah a liter per th000 M Climbing doesn’t sound like very much but it should do the job we might have to

Reevaluate the the old hydration hydration strategy on future rides it’s going well L time cruising up 600 M climbing in nice view pie is loving it turns out it’s a bit of a a bit of a rig for the climbing isn’t it a rig you could say that yeah loves it that was

Exciting soon as the front wheel stops spinning it’s so hard to stay Wheeling here we go another hour in didn’t do that much climbing in the last hour but we’re going G another hour oh it’s telling me I’m off Route but we thought this is going to be a nice spot

For the next the next back C what do you think snack little snack another drink snack I’ll leave a auto post yeah it’s going to be tast snack number two done my straight back straight back to the spinning there we go there we go wheelie time that was

The best wheelie anyone’s ever done I can’t turn I’m going in that ditch we’re getting close to the highest point so going to cruise up to this little H up here looks pretty cool it’s it’s tailing me off cuz I’ve deviated from the route but it’s just just excited to get up

Here the views up here are amazing look at it this thing’s real angry why why he doesn’t like it when I go off rout this feels like been on a road bike pretty light and you can see we’re almost 1,000 m in cuz that’s so much so much water I’ve drunk nice

Little view time to get back to the time to get back to cruising up the road oh oh the way who’s happy now I’m back on the road back on the road again lost time hurry up what’s taking so long Cru the descents are nice I’ve seen something you’re going to

Like the look of what’s that oh Coca-Cola They look tasty I’m going to get my front wheel perfectly balanced on to’s back wheel you ready got the line as well so you on the line all right you ready oh no wait slow it down e smge here we go I’m going to in the bush I just stay

Straight this is way dodgier than I thought it was going to be all right I didn’t work here we are Tom it’s time for the third snap is it hour number three we’ve got a wonderful little view little a little honeycomb snack spot nice view of the hills

Bava yeah built to honor our delicious balaklava treats on your face they don’t look the most appetizing when they’re smoed in a smoed in a bag but they I can assure you that these are actually delicious little mshel of energy P for the overtake let’s try and get top speed see you

Later oh there he goes step step step step step oh another nice view back to pretty low down now the rumors the rumors are that we’ve just done a Road Route uh I think the evidence isn’t that we stayed on a road the whole time zero offroading zero offroading but having consulted Trail

Forks it looks like either this hill maybe this hill one one of these little Hills near where we’re staying has a couple of little Trails on so we might go and uh be nice have a little Explorer we’re done 1,282 M climbing we’ traveled some sort of distance we want to do some

We still got some daylight left it’s a nice day sh stopped our little little Bakery I got a pro for a bit of back of little chocolate milk and a Hy bread Tom went for a custard pie and then an apple an apple apple and custard Tom

Went anything with Custard in it Tom went for it but this will get us through the trails in the afternoon here we go we found some Trails on trail Forks now we’re pedaling up to them but it is one of the steepest steepest things we’ve R all day in the

World in the world we’re almost 1500 MERS of climbing in I am exactly did you just hit 1500 just hit 1500 Tom’s some Tom’s managed to get 13 M on me somewhere yeah roasting in on me he’s also dying so roasting in on him but hopefully these trails are good

You’ll find out in like probably about 5 Seconds we’ve arrived at our first bit of actual Trail I mean it’s a it’s a Forest Road at the moment but the the hopes are high it’s going to turn into an actual track so we uh looked a little

Bit deeper at that map and it looks like that’s actually just a a a road like this all the way down Mark is a green so we’re thinking we’re going to keep heading up here and then there’s another another green that we ride down oh we’re

Right uper green now so this is what the Green’s like but there’s a blue that looks like it could be a bit single track maybe just got a bit more climbing another 50 m then we’re up to the top of that precipice and then we’re good to go

There this is more like it look at this think we we could be on to something with this Trail this could be a good one pretty excited about this I think it should be should be coming up just around the corner onto a little bit of blue Forest Road very

Excited this is the most Offroad that we’ve been all day it’s quite exciting actually woo oh you got to be careful actually oh hooking that was Exane I think this is this is just like a little in between Trail we ride this and then and we ride down the next Ridge

And that looks like it’s going to be quite fun this is also quite fun you’re shredding dog almost loed out it’s so light with the with like cross country style tires on and the lighter Wheels the cross country Wheels when you pull for a manual it just goes up

SC oh nice dog oh rough oh rough oh step down G he stay left oh there’s like whoops that was quite fun it was a bit scary yeah that bit where Wiggly in just like a big crater in the middle of the parid and the uh AE tires and stuff are

Quite exciting they’re like pingy they’re real pingy but they’re so fast out was sharp wa oh good on L get death he doesn’t realize how much he’s going to regret that the rest of the week he’s regretting it already so from the from Trail Forks looks like we head

Down there where Tom’s just gone luckily for him and then we’re up and we right down that Ridge all the way down almost to the coast and then it’s a little shift back up the road to get back to the house why am I riding in the roughest bit

W watch just at a fly oh my God there’s so many like curb looking rocks I actually think looking at the map this section could be cooking you know oh yeah there’s not many turns oh that’s nice I like turns it’s probably going to look like that look nice but that’s exciting you

Know Tom doesn’t even know yeah this is the trail you didn’t want to ride the green this is what Blues are like Le he can really keep things exciting it’s very exciting on the edge did you just poo that smells so bad I’m going to have to let Tom get away

He he just made a horrible scent anyway keep on cruising shall we I think it’s staying up on this stuff ni oh ridg line oh my God I almost died oh it’s easy to forget you don’t have much grip with this with these tires compared to a downhill

Tire tried to put the same trust into it and the ground is so loose here it’s like Rubble who this B better yeah this is nice this is good stuff yeah dog yo that was a bit of a thrill wasn’t it uh as you can tell I’m about to check my

Phone again cuz I don’t have a clue where we’re going we’ll go down to here and then we pedal all the way back up to the house W get this bottom section done this is a nice better rocks lab yeah we went the wrong

Way it just turn up a well yeah back up to the junction where we made the wrong turn now this looks like it could be a bit of fun Thomas this is going to be some of the most exciting descending that I’ve ever filmed I’m too tired to manual that is the most exciting thing day that was exciting this hold a slide quite Nice on the road again we’re on the road again back on the road, days pretty successful ride I’d say we’re on 69 km we’ve done about we’ve done about 1,600 M of climbing we’ve got roughly 200 M climb back up to the house and we managed to ride some

Nice bumpy Forest roads and a lot of tarmac so legs are going to be delighted they look tasty they look really tasty lemons tasty tasty little orange fresh off the tree CH it or scan delicious what do you mean Chuck it or scran it look at this easy peeling ball here easy

Oh that’s really good I’m an animal there’s some tasty little oranges FL around but then there’s the Forbidden oranges these ones look real tasty don’t they all hidden off behind the fence wild but then look there’s just a wild one I don’t know if they I don’t know if

They spawn I don’t know they like Chuck chucking orange and then it just starts growing that’s dayin a day there a fresh tree Tom just found a lime at the side of the road Kobe Kobe which I’ll go overhand through oh right on the road right on

The road Road it’s walking real weird is that a rat hey buddy oh here we go the The Orchard of the village is there’s this nice nice little Park picnic area with all these oranges oranges I don’t know what are they oranges this is a nice feeling Tom yeah

Here we go back to the house just a little bit a little bit of tech to see us home how’s your how’s your stats end up looking then 1,83 M climbing oh you got 23 extra meters climbing on me then 0.54 oh 80.2 for me so I’m just out here getting extra

Stuff have you got max speed in there when Ive it it I got 68 68.4 on the kph average power 211 Watts not too bad max power 1,154 that’s my ho that’s Tom’s all right should I put mine on the table compare Tom’s got that that cute little

Selection I’ve got the world’s biggest lemon the world’s smallest lemon nice comparison there there’s two two different sizes of lemon this thing is so big it’s hard to get out the pocket I’m thinking that’s maybe a grapefruit and then in this pocket another little lemon we’re going to have

Some good lemon to go in the juice tonight some really wants to escape uh couldn’t can’t tell if that’s an unripe orange or if it’s a lime and that’s a really tasty looking orange I’ve got something else and that’s a nice looking lime that’s definitely a

Lime that’s that’s all my that’s all my snacks I right I maybe took a few more citrus fruits than you yeah and at some point this week we’re going to get a pomela cuz there’s some of them P would be really nice like twice the size of

This have the facilities to bring that home there we go that was a fun little ride to warm the legs up he Tom hey hey just loosen the legs off uh we weren’t expecting to see any Trails today on today’s route but we didn’t see any

Trails on today route so uh tomorrow we are going to go find some Trails we know where the some are and they’re quite not too far to Pedal from the house so we’ll pedal there get some laps in do another couple thousand met climbing a hey hey eat some more tasty fruit great

Success see you tomorrow