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Gawd all the cussing ……if it doesn’t make u happy DOŃT DO IT-it’s that simple dude!

Amazing video. I always like to see the true side of an adventure, as most videos show only the good times and I feel like it's only me having hard times. You made a lot of mistakes but showing them to us and discussing about it, is the best/free/painless lesson we can have. Thanks again, I hope some day you return and do this in 7-8-9 days, as many needed to have a great time without stress and pressure.

Seems you spend a lot of time taking drone pics etc, but less time in actual planning of the trip... If going to southern Europe, you need to know certain things (like opening hours/ suggested hours, where to rest/stay etc). So blaming so much of what "happened to you! on external forces will do you no good. Hopefully you've learned something out of this. And it would be a more productive next time. And please, less swearing... This is stopping me from looking at more content on this channel.

23:40 This is the exact problem i experienced while biking at gran canaria for the first time, no restaurants in sight, and no shops, and no food with me. It was hell experience.

bro the path with the dogs at night was insane LOL. Dogs really hate bikes so muccant understand why

Would you have benefitited from more gear range? Sad that the bike was over 25kg.... I perfectly understand the feel of 25 beacause my full enduro ebike is 25 kg,. With 900W Battery (range 100km+) With lot of rear suspension travel. but having it as cargo must be harder. I do the warm ups in flat lands and barely move it, uphills i havent even attempted it.

Du bist sehr berühmt nächstes Mal, bocklradweg! 😂😂. Ich liebe jetzt in Sizilien. Ja no infracture!!!

wow..... Waiting for next Ep.

Knowing my luck I would have come straight off that bridge if there weren't any signs. I'm watching your video after having watched several Camino de Santiago videos which I plan to do by foot. When you started your video I thought this was going to be a piece of cake, doing it on the bike, but it was quite the opposite. You should consider doing the camino de Santiago on bike. Also, as others have said, less swearing would be better.

Great! Inspirational! we learn a lot when things don't happen like we're expecting...

great music and video thank you

Hey Nono. Great video, amazing trip and I'd like to do something like this. Love the places you visited, especially the concreted village that was hit with an earthquake. I only suggest one thing - keep profanity to a minimum as TH-cam algorithm might decrease the amount of times this video is shown to the public or ban it all together as any audience can watch it but overall great job, well done. Liked, subscribed, commented! :)

It did look hard, and extremely remote. It's difficult re weight. Its tempting to travel light, but you are alone in such a remote area you don't know, and would be taking a huge risk if the weather turned bad. Maybe next time try an easier route, an have a good chance of finishing. Well done for your later route. So many beautiful places in Germany

Ya I think what killed your trip was not packing enough food and planning around Siesta. All of Italy closes from 1-3pm at least and many dining restaurants don't open until 7pm. So if you can plan the stops around that you should be able to do it Great attempt and cool ride to Poland as well. I was in Hamburg in 2000 and it was a cool city.

Not a total defeat. You showed a lot of detail in there. As it was the first time you did it, it was always gonna be a journey of firsts, with a lot of learning. Well done for the effort.

Ive never seen something like that scene of you eating pizza 😂 it looked like you'd pulled it over you like a blanket! I dont know how you didnt burst out laughing just seeing yourself like that but i guess you were just super drained at that point. It was very endearing from my POV though 😁 WELL DONE for attempting something so hard and getting as far as you did. Some of the stats you were throwing out were just crazy! 29kg, more than 2000m of climbing in a day with barely any food! I think youve had more than enough people telling you that you tried to do too much so im just here to say how impressive you are, and how likeable you were even in your darkest moments. I'm bike touring in a couple of weeks and will be climbing about 1000m per day, i will think of you when it gets tough and feel like i've got it easy! Thanks for the great video, keep doing what you're doing and take care of yourself bro! Much love from hilly Wales.

"I'm faster!! Whoa!!" Super rad video. I didn't know how beautiful Sicily is. Wonderful video.

I almost feel sorry for you... you really didn't get the spirit of Sicily, and going to a foreign country means getting to know the culture and habits. Restaurants are mostly open for lunch and dinner and closed in between in whole Italy not just Sicily. I personally had the best time and food during my Sicily Divide in March 2023. Also sleeping in B&Bs in the central Sicily was very affordable and generous hosts would give you some advice on how not to suffer without food (: but in general nice video with great aerial footage

Great video and camera work, ride safe everyone !

In may I had to abandon a gravel tour in sardegna due to several mistakes on my side and errors in open streetmap. It was sad but you learn and go on.

Italy observes siesta. It's too bad you weren't aware before this trip. When I first traveled to Italy it was a shock for me too. Also, wish you would have given yourself more rest the first day and not ridden so late into the night. Seems like you're wearing yourself out, and potentially making things unsafe for yourself. Enjoying the video nonetheless because you're sharing your feelings and the scenery is beautiful. Have no idea how you're managing to film this too.

all the negativity, so anoying

A lesson in pisspoor planning and preparation.

Thanks for sharing your great adventure. Your friends from Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Looking forward to seeing the next video where you complete Sicily Divide. Give yourself 14 days not 7. Sicily isn’t a place you need to rush home from. Have a little recovery holiday up in Taormina after you reach Catania. Take a nap in the hottest hours. Only mad dogs and English men go out in the midday sun

Bravooo

Have done a bit of bike packing in my time and watched more than a few bike packing vlogs and yours ranks in the top 5 . Your honesty , your attitude , your cinematography, sound, everything just brilliant . Your comment on the train about facing failure is something many aspiring bike packers should think about. Chapeau on such a great video.

if you are ever to canada we will make a bikepacking trip ok

what a shitty good time ;+) your editing ist wunderbar!

dont understand why unexpert cyclists has to do super difficult trip. It is just for YT visibility or what? You could have been 7 days trip as it was racomanded and it would have been super hard anyway. Mah

Hills ain't an issue with a recumbent trike. Have a rohlof on the back, 44/32/22 chianrings. Taking it easy , goes up a 15% at 2-3 mph , spins out in highest gear at 30mph

Super Reisebericht! Zwei Ideen dazu: Eventuell solltest du hoch kalorige Survivalnahrung mitnehmen. Speziell für diese Tour mit den steilen rauen Anstiegen wäre ein Racehardtail geeigneter. (Bessere Bergänge, Bremsen und Federgabel). Alles Gute, Wolfgang

Nice to see your experience. Have switched from mtb pedals and clickshoes to flexibel trailrunners and flat pedals. It will make up our hikeabikes much easier. Especially on lose soils

I would suggest that, as a triathlete, you may have not focussed enough on riding a relatively heavy bike up hills in preparation for this trip. I have just ridden most of the Montanas Vacias in Spain on a steel Surly Ogre with a total weight of 35kg. I'm 58 years old and NOT a strong cyclist by any means. There were plenty of 15 to 20% climbs on that route that didn't require pushing the bike. As I say, I am not a strong cyclist, going as far to say I am weak cyclist as plenty of others were passing me, so I was shocked when you were pushing a light 29kg up a 15% gradient. As I suggest, maybe focus your training in a differnt manner next time.

Just completed my first unsupported bike packing ride from Burgos to Valencia and had almost the same experiences as you! Its really tough!!

The quality of this video was worthy of a GCN special. Amazing and well done for how far you got.

Se avessi fatto la rotta lungo la costa, ti saresti fatto meno male e avresti potuto mangiare del buon pesce😊

Loved your video..! Too many try to portray only the pleasantries of touring by bike. There are many times when it just sucks large...! I am now in my 60s and have done 10 oversees Eurotours ranging from 3 weeks to 3 months cycle touring. Most recently, Corcica, Sardinia, and Sicily last fall, so I get the topography. You are one tough MF but you need to cut yourself some slack. You can't possibly set those kind of time/distance goals solo. Your drone stuff is great but has got to be impacting your results. Hey, I know, diddley..., but only want you to succeed. Thanks again for keeping the pain and pleasure real...GMac

Enjoyed watching your video. This looked a tough route indeed. Thanks for showing us those abandoned villages. Interesting. Great drone shots. And you fitted all that in when cycling these vast distances on this rough trail! But looks like you also learned a lot on this trip. Hope you keep it up and take us along again. As I am older now and not an athlete at all ( never have been), I try to do fewer km so there is also some time to enjoy. 😉

Great video. Just came back from Badlands solo in 12 days. Incredible ride. If I may, one tip: just take a few chainlinks, unlikely you would need an entire replacement chain. I had a few Hotpot meals with me to deal with possible lack of restaurants. My bike was also heavy at 35kg excl. water. Would defenitely try to go with max 29kg on a next trip, taking a bivy instead of a small tent. Good luck on your next adventures!

Ride and learn, tri-guy/cry-baby ;). Nice documentation, enjoyed watching.

Good trip but you show how to not do it right

if this broke you, consider it a lesson for life. because in reality, nothing bad really happened to you. this is where the cycling culture is right now. underprepared folks (in terms of local realities, of packing, and even of fitness) are going out there, doing stuff that supposed to be beautiful but having a horrible time. also, filming yourself for half of the screentime seems to be a new rule.

So my take is that if you spend 14 hours on a trip, but only 9 hours actually riding, you are spending so much time making a video of your experience, that you don't experience it. Restauranteurs and shop owners are not going to wait for you to turn up. It's probably more exhausting trying to be a film maker than it is being a bikepacker.

Great video. Wich bike do you ride, and how many kg does it weight? Good luke for the next attempt .

I'll never understand why fellow bikepackers don't ever plan to carry more than half a day's worth of food. Not having food for a full day is ridiculous. Not waiting 15 minutes for a restaurant to open when you desperately need food is incredibly bad judgement. Not trying to hammer on you and I'm sure you already know what you could have done to improve...but you failed your trip because of bad decisions and poor planning. This is on you, not the route.

Super Video, toller Schnitt und gute Musik. Danke fürs mitnehmen! Hat echt Spaß gemacht!

Despite your negativity in many sectors, it was interesting that by the end of the trip that you wanted to experience more in the future. This is the only way we grow, as we learn from our experiences. You don't need others to get on here and tell you what to do or not to do. Im sure you know. Keep it up and stay positive!

Great video, great adventure, i try to be a little more flexible while on a bike ride because things don't usualy go as planed, but i love it when all gose wrong, that's where the adventure is!

Absolutely LOVE your video! Sure, the scenery and the sunsets are great, but without the visible&audible content of you moving through this environment, without seeing your physical condition and your physical effort, without you conveying your dramatic range of emotions of perceived failures and successes...well...without those your video would just be another pretty Sicily travel ad. Not that a travel ad is bad...but dude, YOU are the star of the show...and STAR you did! In this one relatively brief video, you exhibited ability to provide dialogue evidencing uncommon ability to communicate with depth. Your German accent was just strong enough to add delight, rather than impairment. Your videography appears to be well on its way. In my humble opinion, you probably have the potential to be the next Iohan Gueorguiev. Surely, it is going to take you a while to even approach his level, but I think you might just be able to pull it off. Exceedingly rare quality potential. If you are not already familiar with Iohan, check out his See the World TH-cam videos, and take in just how huge a compliment you just received.