EPISODE #65
I’m super excited to share this with you… this was an incredible week long cycling trip that I went on in December last year. This trip came about after I was spontaneously asked to go on it by my new friend Benjamin. Before this I hadn’t met either of my cycling buddies on this trip, so that was exciting in itself… meeting new people and cycling a multi day journey across the beautiful Spainish countryside. What more do you want!
However, it certainly wasn’t all smooth sailing… we come into quite a few troubles along the way, not mention the weather being far from ideal! But we don’t let that get in our way of having an incredible time on our bikes.
This episode (part 2) takes you along on our journey for the last 3 days of our journey. We start off in a small town in the mountains called Todolella and start making our way back towards the coast. We stop off in Reus first off all and then work our way on the Barcelona and finally making it to our end destination of Girona.
This really was an amazing trip, I hope you enjoy reliving it with me!
Here’s a link to the strata ride data from the rides:
Day 4 – https://www.strava.com/activities/8207796673
Day 5 – https://www.strava.com/activities/8211100967
Day 6 – https://www.strava.com/activities/8215084251
Check out Prime, I absolutely love their wheels… they also do loads of other great products too!!!
https://www.primebikecomponents.com
Shout out to Tailfin, I was using the AeroPack…
Shout outs to the guys, thank you for everything… look forward to out next adventures!
Lawrence – https://www.instagram.com/bikerlawrence/
Benjamin – https://www.instagram.com/benjamin_le_chappers/
00:00 – INTRO
00:41 – EPISODE 65
01:32 – DAY 4
03:34 – OFF TO A BAD START
07:14 – FOOD MAKES IT BETTER
08:52 – A MISHAP
10:31 – MADE IT TO REUS
11:21 – DAY 5
13:18 – MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR
15:30 – BEN IS HAPPY
16:57 – SURPRISE GRAVEL
18:55 – WHAT A DAY
20:17 – MADE IT TI BARCELONA
21:36 – DAY 6 (THE FINAL LEG)
23:40 – MAKING GOOD PROGRESS
25:15 – FEELING GOOD
28:05 – WE MADE IT TO GIRONA
28:53 – OUTRO
I’d like to hear what you think, if you have any suggestions or if there’s something particular you’d like to see… maybe you could even set me a challenge to complete? Hit me up in the comments…
Anyways… Thanks for watching & please subscribe!
Thomas “The Cycling Tattooist.”
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Film & Editing: Thomas Martinez.
Intro Music: Press 1, Lukas Got Lucky.
Intro Film & Editing: Joe Simkins, Karl Kolecava.
Featured Music:
Quidado – Los Principes del Flamenco
Buenos Dias – Matt Large
Fear the Bull – Jose Barrios
30 Comments
Your video's are getting better & better. You got any sportives planned for the summer?
Well done Thomas. Genuinely enjoyed every minute of both installments. Can't wait for the Girona video! Keep up the outstanding work and ride on!
Great stuff Thomas. Really enjoyed it. Come and ride in California. Mind you I’ll need an e bike to keep up. 😮
Love your vids, absolute legend
I did a training camp in Girona and we had Alan Piper, Robby Mcquewan and Stuart O'grady and Marcel Worst there, we stayed in a small town called El Estartit, absolutely loved it, we took a day off and got the coach to Barcelona to watch the final stage of the Catalan week at the Olympic site in Barcelona (montjuic), i was standing about 5 ft away from Miguel Indurain and Richard Vironque by the team buses, amazing experience
That was great … Well done Thomas, Lawrence and Ben …. That's some serious miles.
great job once again! Keep em coming! Can't wait for the next one
Had to pause 10 minutes as when my wife started giving birth to our son 😁 finally finished the video this morning. Great looking trip!
Another great one. What a trip. Excited for the next one on Girona. Makes me want to go back there (also tubeless is the best!)
Really enjoy the videos. I was worried you had kept that "say ley lay leyyyy" song in the edit the whole way though 😄
But it was cut, should never have doubted your editing style 🙌🏻 legend.
Congrats Thomas you guys are real troopers
My name jeff
What an awesome two videos!
Loved this one Thomas. Another brilliant vid
fantastic video, these just keep getting better. My only suggestion is go tubeless, you wont regret it
You should do a run down on your bike and kit bro!!
Nice looking forward to seeing Girona
Thomas. Loving your videos. You are a master with your camera, editing, story telling and production. Hope to see more of the three of you on new international adventures.
Great video….🐒
Awsome as usual🤟🤟🔥😅
Where's the green bib shorts from???
Could you share the route? Just so I know what to avoid 😂😂 also EU zara slaps, Ben is right 🤌
Can't believe you even went on those roads! I would much prefer to spend it at barca,great videos but noooo silly roads PLEASE makes me cringed!
HOWEVER fxxking great videos my friend 🙏
It's so cold your right hand got reverse frostbite!
Subscribing!
Amazing journey!!! Come and do one in Galicia, Northwest Spain in summer!!
You could do Santander to Santiago for example and go through the Picos de Europa mountains, or along the coast line and see things like the Playa de Catedrales.
Message me if you want more advice, its a very word of mouth sorta place.
Glad to here the legs get used to the torture/workout. But Ya think of taking a day off to just hang out? Oh whats that jacket your wearing?
Zip your jacket up when you’re cold. 😮😂
Why do cyclists wear sun shades when in cloudy low-light conditions like this?