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43 Comments
Why the background muzak?
I use skinners sock shoes they are a 10/10
Do they sell 5G capes yet? I want to feel protected from microwave weapons systems hidden in phone towers and an integrated faraday mesh within the cape will protect me from grey alien abduction and NSA/CIA MILAB abductions also.
Panniers
Duct tape and a few zip lock bags.
If you have people with you earplugs are cool but never alone you will not hear anything or anyone coming around I take security seriously since drunks and drug addicts will barge into your campsite sometime somewhere eventually and don't forget the wild critters too
The most useful things when bicycle camping are a pack of those little tissues.
They are great for wiping things on (and your nose as well).
Very well presented. Top marks!
Ear plugs! Hell NO; hahaha I want to hear everything around me at all times on or off the bike. This could definitely put that in reach mini to go use. ✌🏾
I am frantically looking for this one item I saw in one of your videos before, I really don't know if u see this at all, but It was a bag for shopping. U could throw this around your shoulder. I am looking for weeks now and cannot find it in the internet anywhere…. When rolled together it was very small and had a 'net' structure. I think ur friend in the australia video had one. PLS if u read this, it would be cool if u can help me out (or anyone else who reads this). It's the perfect bag for groceries.
greetz!
Would it be a good idea to take a portable USB solar panel?
Dynamo to usb transformer.
Cable ties! I once went to the store, couldn't fit what I bought in my basket and had ONE cable tie (I call them zip ties) left to just zip my bag to the basket and made it the 2.5 miles home.
Thanks, but you speak very very fast. If English is not my native language it is hard to follow you. The subtitles can't catch your speed.
i do quite a lot of bikepacking. but the only thing i use from this list are ofc powerbanks.
Nano keeps you warnbif your wet.
I carry a small nokia phone keeps its charge for weeks and is tiny (only a phone arghhh)awesome video man
Paper map. £10 phone and watch. Do people really need to be told when to eat? All that electronic stuff would take the pleasure of the trip away for me.
Wafer thin
Well done! 👍🏿👍🏽👍🏾👍🏻👍🏼
One thing I learnt the hard way is to not underestimate the wind and the sun.
I only did a 3 day tour from Osaka to Awajishima and back last week and I couldn’t smile my lips were so chapped and fucked up.
My face was sun burnt to hell as well.
Make damn sure to bring chapstick and sunscreen
And bring a lamp as well. You only need a light on your bike to ride at night, yet when you hunker down to camp at some park etc probably the first thing you’ll notice is how dark it is 😂
We had a sun powered big battery light on one of our bikes (went with 3 buddies) so we used that as a general light, but you really need a lamp at night.
And don’t bring unnecessary entertainment things. I brought a book and DS and I touched neither even once.
You’re pretty damn tired so you fall asleep pretty quickly haha
Why not just buy an inexpensive rear view mirror that connects to your glasses to see cars behind you? On my 9,500 mile bicycle tour it proved to be way more affective than somthing that will go dead like a electronic car sensor.
Ive found solar powered charges have recently evolved to the point where they're useful. I took the bigblue3 with me on a 17 day trip in Japan recently. Even wild camping on a deserted beach u can change your phone, gopro battery and lights as u have breakfast and pack up and use in on the move by clipping it to your rack. Folds up to the size of a pad of A4. Japan's sunnier than the UK tho.
I have a black buff scarf with 50% microfibre – can be used as a hat, a scarf, but most importantly- a sleep mask. I just pull the microfibre part down over my eyes.
Great video. Can I make a small suggestion – if you placed your camera about 3-4 inches above your eyeline, you would achieve a much more flattering angle for very little work. Old Hollywood and CNN interview trick. Keep up the good work!
Roll up spokes which have the advantage of not needing to remove the cassette, don't ride any of my bikes without a mirror and if I am using a bivy always pack a midge jacket.
1. Get one of these e-Vape Refillers of ebay and fill them up with chain lube. Wrap some Tape around them.
2. Tape some Spokes to your frame
3. For short rides tape carb gels to your top tube, but only on the top end or above the tear mark, so that you can rip them off and open with one hand
I find a head torch (flashlight for our American cousins) rather than a more narrow beam cycling helmet light, useful for when setting up camp late at night or needing to go to the toilet, mine has a really useful red colour light option to avoid distracting/dazzling/waking other campers if in a campsite, plus the red light doesn't attract insects.
No mention of first aid supplies. Bandages, sterilizer all that stuff. Back in the day I always had a first aid kit in my backpack for my daily route which included a short break at the mall. I'm sitting there and some people prepared to enter the pizza joint and one of them scrapes his shin on a concrete bench. He's bleeding and he says "Geez -I can't go walking in there like this". I say "Hold on a minute". I get out the First Aid stuff -. I wiped his leg with the sterilizer and then put a BIG band aid on the scrape. His brother insisted on buying me a couple of beers. Swell.
Good channel🤝🤙
5:45 that garmin gps replacement would be more expensive than my phone 😂
Better have and not need, rather than need and not have
Just a heads up, Micro and Nano Puff jackets are Poly fill so no need to worry about them getting wet. It doesn’t contain any down at all.
When I am hungry my tummy rumbles. That is my reminder to eat some food. No need for any gadget .
Helinox Chair Zero (if you don’t like sitting on the ground).
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I carry a nice large golf umbrella on the side of my etrike. Must have English ancestors…feel naked without an umbrella.
Is that an 1899 tattoo?
You can let your loved ones know wherever you are in the world. Also, wherever you died at in the world
Merci !
BIG THANKS to a GENUINELY USEFUL VIDEO! (There's so many vids on here with so-called useful BLA BLA BLA) 👍
You can't reduce your tire pressure, if you use valve extenders of that type.
I prefer the type, which replaces the valve core.
But it make sense to bring both types with you, since not all tubes have removable valve cores.
Around a meter of metal wire. I literally dropped my keys in a drain while unlocking my bike yesterday and I was very happy I was in front of a store that that sold some so I could fish them out or I would have been very stuck right then and there. Also useful to tie things together I guess!