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    15 Comments

    1. I am going to love this! I pedal 🐌 on trails on my commute. It's smiles not miles! Now I want to see if my wife and I can tour 🐌 locally.

    2. This is my sort of cycling. Although I love watching the racing, for me the best ride is one where I can enjoy the scenery and countryside on a small back road or bridleway. Looking forward very much to this series. Well done GCN for covering this aspect of cycling.

    3. I moved from Dorset 13 years ago to Vancouver on Canada's west coast. I have ridden every single road that Jack and Hank rode. What memories! I nearly cried when I saw the 6X beer taps! Wonderful, thanks guys.

    4. Brilliant, more like this please. Should do a video retracing a Rough Stuff Fellowship route/event. Train to Ambleside then a ride through the Lake District on bikes from the 50 or 60 perked clothing

    5. Fantastic video. Really enjoyed it, and reminded me of the touring trips I’ve done and hope to do once we can get out properly again!

      Would love to see Hank on a fully loaded touring rig doing something like the Pennine cycle way or Lon Las Cymru!

    6. This is the type of cycling doc I want to see. Basically rick steves/travelogue by bike, old sites, quiet back roads with no traffic and great scenery, waiting the rain out with tea in a cafe you've never been to before. There may be others who are into extreme- or ultra- as prefixes, but slow cycle touring through the countryside on an old steel frame is the cycling that'll get me up in the morning, or put me peacefully to sleep on the couch on lazier afternoon, just to dream about it.

    7. In May I bought a Tout Terrain Metropolitan bike. It has a 14sp Rohloff hub, carbon belt, dynamo lights, hydraulic brakes & built in rear rack. It's a heavy bike and very comfy. Since owning it I've discovered how it's much more relaxing to ride than my usual road bike. No more worrying about a twitchy carbon bike with narrow tyres bouncing all over a broken road surface, and that feeling I have to ride quickly up hills or risk looking like an "all the gear and no idea rider". Now, if I see a flower or something in a hedgerow as I'm climbing a hill I seem to have ages to view as I creep by! I see far more no while riding and often stop because there's no pressure or expectations put on myself. I'm actually thinking of getting rid of my Time ZXRS bike! Slow is the way to go 🙂

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