More details, including daily stages and Strava links:
https://havardcycling.blogspot.com/2023/07/across-usa-east-to-west-key-west-to-los.html
Cycling Motivation video – consider watching while on your indoor bicycle trainer, or just in the background if you’re the impatient type. Any comments or questions is appreciated!
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This is one of the best video covering from east to west on a bicycle. 32 days in 1h10 that is amazing. I was wondering what is the total cost only for the bike ride trip.I will start following you on youtube this was very intersting
Cool journey. – I just did something similar for my next book!
That was so awesome!!!! You made it look so easy!!! 😂😂😂 Congratulations
Nice trip! Why don't you cycle from West to East to take advantage of the winds ?
what was total weight of your bike with luggage?
Well done, such a brutally fabulous bicycle journey! Thanks for sharing and inspiring ;<))
Absolutely amazing challenge. Enjoy every moment of the video. It is an adventure that, at 60 years old, I want to do soon. Magnificent. Congratulations. Greetings from Bogotá in Colombia.Absolutely amazing challenge. Enjoy every moment of the video. It is an adventure that, at 60 years old, I want to do soon. Magnificent. Congratulations. Greetings from Bogotá in Colombia.
Could you do a video on changing flat tires? Why no helmet/bike mirror.
I made it through all!! Hate small line of tar (road expansion). I counted $5,000 before food and flight.
When making a video of this type, you need to take everyone with you on the journey. Some verbal description of your day your thoughts,, a bit of history and content of the area you are travelling through. We need to engage with you on your journey..
I hour of wind, traffic and bike noises, is not interesting
You are the story teller, and I want to listen
Sorry for the Florida's stupid and impatient drivers. We Cyclist are working on it. Thanks for sharing. Pensacola Florida.
Congratulations! I loved the video. Great work.
28 flat tyres! Guessing you didn't use Slime…if not, why not?
How did you resupply tubes?
Unless you carried 28+ tubes from the start? 😮
how many days from Florida to California ? 🚴🚴♂
Wow, 28 flat tires, that's almost one per day. Did you find that you had a lot of headwinds? I know that some say the the winds in the US blow from the west to the east mainly. Hard to know. Nice video.
Wow 😮
You got a flat tire almost every day 😢
Honestly – the other amazing part of the ride is that he was averaging nearly 25 km/hour.
Great video to watch and also well done on a super cycling effort😊
Thank you for showing it. Greetings from Germany
Fantastic ride and video! Thanks.
Well done man! I did the Southern Tier in 2018, so I passed by the some roads you did, but them you took a different way to the 66 Route. Your trip was brutal compared to mine, thunderstorms, tornados, Mojave desert, quite a challenge. Thanks for sharing! Hugs from Brazil.
Loved this video. If you ever do a canada trip from east coast Halifax to Vancouver west coast I would watch for sure💕🇨🇦
Was enjoying your video and would have watched it in entirety, but shut it off at 11:40 when for some odd reason, you focused on a divisive political insert. Whether this is your personal opinion, I don't know. But I see no positive reason why this image was included… only negativity which has no place in the joy of cycling. Love your bike!
That was a heavy dose of American reality. Too much city, too many miles on highways, bad weather, bad roads, dying towns, not nearly as pleasant as the routes that avoid cities and traffic. I rode Adventure Cycling Associations Northern Tier in 2000 and all of it was gorgeous. But what does it mean to "ride across America"? I rode through a rural scenic park, while you rode through American culture. What you did was an amazing accomplishment, but it makes me want to never leave the West Coast again. In fact the part I liked best was riding down the beach from Santa Monica. I worked temporarily in Biloxi Mississippi and trained there for my cross country adventure riding in beautiful forests just north of Biloxi, but never on the beach road which had no shoulders. When I drove home to Southern California, south of LA, I noticed the Southern Tier had about 1300 miles of desert, not that appealing for bike touring. About flat tires, I had heard that riding along highways there are always a lot of metal wires from steel belted tires. None on the Northern Tier, but I managed to get some sharp small gravel in my tire changing a flat in the rain on Rainy Pass second day out from Anacortes, WA. This gravel was all over the side of the road and because it was wet it stuck to anything that touched it. Anyway I had flats every day thereafter including 4 flats one day, and I think many were due to little pieces of gravel I couldn't find or get out, and maybe the Victoria racing tires I had on my bike. Finally, in Minot ND I bought the only tires in the town, a cheap set of near plastic Michelins that were hard to get on the rims but I never had another flat. One guy riding heavy touring tires didn't get any flats.
Wow! You are a true bike monster! Congratulations, and thanks for sharing all these images from your journey. If you get back to the American Southwest, I'll take you on a couple of great rides in Southern Arizona! 🙂
I have seen so money bike tour video this is the second best video I have ever seen so far the picture crystal clear the way recorded the view and the rood absolutely professional the way you posted the picture as well phenomenon you are not taik to much you just posted the information in the screen alone and they show as around only I Lovet I am just curious what kinds of camera you use it if you tell me greatly appreciate .pease and bless.❤ ❤
Where did you spend nights ? Hotels or camping ?
You just got to love the internet. Here I am laying in my bed late at night watching this incredible adventure. Amazing effort 🫡😊
Nice bike travel vlog, keep it up
From Philippines 🇵🇭
I would love to ride my bike long distance one day. I need to save up my leave from work this year. I want to do a ride that closely follows the trail of tears walk. I also want to ride across my state. It's cool that you literally rode by where my father currently lives in Florida, where I went to college in Louisiana, and then through my reservation and near where my extended family live in Oklahoma.
Great video, keep going.😍
Absolutely incredible. I watched the whole video and I enjoyed your style – it was very relaxing without a lot of punched up music and commentary. You allowed your riding to your talking.
I’m curious if you were to do it again, would you reconsider using a road bike over something with (slightly) bigger / more robust tires?
I realize you’d give up some speed, but the amount of flats you suffered would be reduced. In the beginning of your video, when you showed your bike, I thought “this isn’t going to end well.”
I used to ride a road bike, and I loved it. But the flats – due in no small part to the garbage on the road – proved to be too much.
Thanks so much for sharing your adventure with us. Great job!
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You managed to ride through New Orleans without getting shot. Amazing.
What lousy tires are you using? 28 flats? I usually have 1 or 2 at that distance.
Hermoso video gracias por compartir abrazo fuerte de ciclismo desde argentina 🇦🇷!!!!
Nice ride! enjoyed every minute of it. Just the pure sound of bicycle, road and traffic. Let every one think what they want, there is no need to do insightful conversation. Great adventure!!!!
Where did you eat and sleep? It seems you travel light.
Your opening video looks like Los Angeles.
What is your packing list? That is not much stuff.