Saoirse Pottie is currently on a solo mission to bike pack around all 32 counties on the island of Ireland and climb the high points of each county. I met her in County Antrim to climb Trostan and find out more about her adventures.
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 – Introduction
03:44 – How did you get into bikepacking?
06:23 – What’s the day job?
08:00 – What is the point of wasps?
09:10 – What is the point of midges?
09:30 – What’s so cool about leopard sharks?
11:20 – How did you plan your trip?
14:27 – Worst high point?
15:00 – Luxury items?
15:50 – Why Solo?
19:50 – Is solo camping scary?
22:30 – Sleeping Essentials
22:50 – Food
24:30 – Avoiding getting saddlesore
26:24 – Do you go off road much?
27:30 – Dealing with tough sections & bad days
29:30 – Tent vs Bivvi/Tarp
30:45 – Showering & Washing Clothes
32:15 – What keeps you bikepacking?
33:38 – Do you ever get bored?
34:30 – Non-Obvious Essentials
35:50 – Made any mistakes?
37:20 – Bad Drivers
38:33 – World Record
42:00 – Bike Tour
48:00 – This Channel is Member Supported! 🙂 Thank You!
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17 Comments
there are indeed people behind there – little digital people. Hello! Found channel recently (fan of hill walking and outdoors) probably from subbing to related channels (shout out for Haze Outdoors!) and been watching a lot of your newer stuff. Really enjoying and subbed. Great style and fun scripting!
Great to see an amazing adventurers ❤
It’s great to see people with energy . To be talking that whole way up and down trostan is a feat in itself 👌
5 kilos wow, I’m lucky if my gear weighs 9 to 10 kilos, no e-bike though, old school tab mountain bike 21 speed.
What an amazing and interesting young woman. Watched the whole thing and the time flew by.
I love this. Great stuff Stephen . I would love to meet this young You have obviously beaten me to it. Super. Best wishes from the Belfast Hills.
Watched it all. A super young woman. Best of luck to her.
That was so interesting to watch. Makes you feel guilty for sitting in a chair watching. Brilliant as always..
Class… super interesting and inspiring! I’m defo going to have to do more bike packing adventures! Cycling to Amsterdam is on my list already 😀
What a legend……making amazing memories…that’s all we are here for, to experience, she’s doing exactly that. Hats off to her.
Just listened to an hour of Jenny Graham live in Inverness last week, now you come with an hour of Saoirse Pottie to listen to? Damn sir, you are on point there! What a legend of a human and such an inspiration for long distance cyclists!
Enjoyed that.very interesting stuff
Cool! Found Saoirse on Komoot last week and then here she is talking to Stephen!
She's lovely.
I've switched to pannier racks game changer
Thanks, I've been saving this video for Friday night. What a start to my weekend, up in the roofspace this morning digging out my bivvi bag and tarp. PS: Maybe Saorise and I can set up a support group for people with weird last names.
Wish she had a channel