I’ve cycled many great roads in Norway but this was perhaps the most epic and challenging to experience. Few people know about this incredible 100-year-old mountain road. This is my story of trying to ride it in July 2022. Let’s just say things didn’t go to plan.
00:00 – Intro to the Road
02:36 – Day 1- Heading to the mountains
03:51 – Day 2 – Bygdin Lake and the gravel roads, Jotunheimen National Park
06:07 – Day 2 – Start of Tusenmeteren
08:07 -The End, Failure, and the Intermission
08:54 – Going Back
10:25 -Tusenmeterem the Oppsite Way
11:32 – Reaching the 100-year-old Tunnel
12:11 – Light at the end of the Tunnel
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24 Comments
That is an epic video !
I did the same in Norway once with a m
MTB bike and a Yak trailer. Deep snow from last year on the road….I had to dismantle everything and carry all on my shoulders. Once crossed, just more gravel road, but I had crossed the pass!💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻😃😃😃😃
Bravo! Stunning and inspiring
Beautiful country & i love.
Greetings from Timor Island-Indonesia 😇
man I missed this kind of tutorials lol. Great work here, thanks!!!
Let me start by congratulating you with this marvelous video. Beautiful footage. But I'd like to give some advice on editing though, without criticizing your work. I think you should cut down the music by at least 80%. The video is packed with music that just isn't necessary. There's one point in your video where the music stops and you say 'Do you here this?…. Silence!'. Please share this with your viewers: the silence, the sound of tires on the gravel, the wind and the rain. No music can beat that. Second tip: raise the volume of the voice over. I hope you don't mind feedback, which is meant to be positive. Keep making these nice video's! Thx
On my list. Epic effort sir. Bravo.
Awesome vid, i hope i can go there one day!
Matthew, you deserve a nobel price of your own!
Dreamt for years to travel Norway and Sweden but as I grow older, the racism present on that land makes it a hard choice to step on it. Sigh.
Really awesome video man. Very well documented. Congrats.
Wow. Misty clouds clinging to mountains IS the most beautiful presentation and presence.
Rode this twice last season. First alone, and then I had to show it to a friend 🙂 Was thinking someone need to make a film about it. Thanks for doing it, and what a great film !
that was so magnificent landscapes you have there,cheers from indonesian gravel grinder man
Beautifull roads, unfortunately not for my bike …. bust think about buying a gravel some day
Wow man that looks beautiful, gone straight onto my wish list! I rode through Bygdin in June, got really lucky with weather and had some incredible views. There's some really great riding there!
Fantastic… On and on… it is spectacular; awesome is your story.
Whaaaaa incredible landscapes 🤩
I have to visit this road now
Thanks for a beautiful video! Maybe I will start filming a journey, this was inspiration.Both for filming and of course for bikejourneys 🙂 I guess gravelroads closer to sivilisation in Valdres is more easy to get to. The hills and mountains between Bagn and Nesbyen is mostly at an altitude of between 700 and 1200 meters, and with a net of gravelroads.I have used some of them. The nearest gravelroad hills to me is Oslo-marka. Nice 🙂 Here the altitude is usually 200- 500 meters. Big forest.
Amazing place for cycling, the view is outstanding, everything is great other than your horrendous Neon green shoes. I pray Quoc shoes will come quickly to endorse you. ❤
Amazing video and perseverance. Def makes me want to do it myself. I have a question what would you do if the road behind you would get blocked??
Beautiful content. Marvelous post production. Inspiring location. Wonderfulful voiceover. I want to go there myself, and see this in person…. thank you.
If you think that's good, keep going, instead of going down to Øvre Årdal when you get to the end of the road keep going through the valley. That's a true undiscovered road which only a minority of the locals know. You can go deep in to the mountains there on roads nobody will have cycled for years.