Is Turkey really ideal for BICYCLE TOURING? Unique review!
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- According to cyclingabout Turkey is named as the best country for bicycle touring by most world touring cyclists that took part in that survey. We take this to the test riding cross country only to put the country on our Amazing World Bike Tour leaderboard. All results are very serious and scientific and our rating is in absolutely no way biased or depending on the route we took, the people we met or who we are ;-)
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I completely agree with your quotation on the different aspects of Turkey. This country is a jewel for travelers by bike, motorcycle, van or hitchhiker. The locals are welcoming and curious about everything. Archaeological sites like Loadicia (which I love) are numerous and so interesting. You've summed it all up very well, I love your videos, I've become addicted.
Not the worst addiction 😂
New episode will release Friday!
Loving the 'Tash! And the cycle touring leage table is definitely helpful! Thanks again for these wonderful videos. Paul
Glad you enjoyed it! Maybe we do something similar later again. But for now we still have more material to edit than we can handle 🙈
Love it, love it, love it 🎉❤ It was very sentimental to watch those memories with you. We missed you guys. Com'n we are waiting for you here in AU 😉
Love you two, too! We'll try our very best to make it to Australia!!!😘
Hello, we are a touring cyclist couple from Turkey. We have been traveling with our bicycles in Asia for a year. We've seen your sticker on the road before and got to know you. You have described our country Turkey very well. We enjoyed watching it. Just be careful while cycling in traffic in Turkey. Drivers are generally not very respectful of cyclists. We have been on the road for a year, and the two most dangerous countries in terms of traffic were Turkey and Iran. Türkiye is a paradise for cyclists. Just be careful in traffic. Thank you for great videos. 😊
Hey you too! Where are you now? We think the behavior of drivers highly depends on the route. Other cyclists that took the black sea coast told us that traffic was terrifying indeed. We cycled right through the middle and did not have major problems. We are actually already in Shiraz and would say the same about Iran. Highly depends on the route / regions. We try to avoid major lorry routes and have been quite happy with the driver behavior. Glad you liked the video, many more to come. Just need a lot of time for the editing 😅
@@AmazingWorldBikeTour , now we are in Malaysia, and we are heading to Singapore. Singapore will be our last stop on our bicycle tour. We hope that one day we will meet on the road. Safe ride, guys 🙏😊 💙
@dunyaperestiz we are in Thailand now heading for Cambodia. Where are you? :-D
@@AmazingWorldBikeTour we are in Malaysia until June 2024. But I (Murat) can go to Indonesia in March for a cycling tour.
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Another great video guys, we love watching them :-)
Awesome! Thank you!
Wow! Well done. As always, we love your videos!
Thank you!
Andrew
Thanks! Glad to hear it 😃
Another great video - we miss you guys ❤
Same :-*
Nice video, thank you
Glad you liked it!
Nice breakdown :)
Glad you think so!
Nice to watch your video and dream if I would one day have time to make a longer bike trip too. We are actually now on a 9 days trip in Turku archipelago Finland and making a video. Highly recommend this Saariston rengastie ie. archipelago ring road, if you one day come cycling to northern part of the Europe.
Sounds great! Hope you will make that free time you need eventually!
TH-cam recommend me your video and I am soo soo thankful, really great stuff man.
btw,
I was wondering do you need an editor for editing your videos man?
Great that you enjoy our videos. While it would be awesome if someone would edit our videos for us, trust us when we say, you do not want to edit our videos!
An average 25 minute episode is made of about 5 to 10+ hours of raw footage. Our editing process therefore is extremely painful at best and one video takes us many days if not weeks to complete. At the same time our ad rev sits at an average of 15€ per episode, so in no universe could we dream of paying an editor. Sorry mate.
Oh, just wonderful. Can't wait for my cycling trip next year.
Thank you! Were are you headed? Turkey?
@@AmazingWorldBikeTour Plan to start probably in Kyrgyzstan/Tajikistan in May, then ride back to Holland. Likely will go through Iran then Turkey in the summer.
@spektrumB interesting. Why not the other direction though?
@@AmazingWorldBikeTour As you probably know for a long trip, at some points the human mind will have some "down" time. I bet you have asked yourself many times "What I'm doing here?" on some tough days. Heading to the direction of home hopefully will give me some motivation during the hard time. Secondly, my bike will be on fresh good condition during the Kyrgyzstan/Tajikistan part. Which are quite remote, and don't expect to find a bike shop there. When the bike parts start to wear out and have reliability problems, I should be somewhere in Europe.
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Tank you for charging
Thank you! 😊
Thanks a lot for the reply. And forward! Greetings from Bulgaria.
Sure. We always answer 😉 Safe riding!
Great video. 17:45 went by fast. What is the brand of the computer you are using? Seems to have a lot of features.
We are using a second hand macbook air. Editing software is Davinci Resolve 18 (free version)
summertime in aydın woow
We had a fantastic time, yes!
Great
It is!
Humorvoller Türkeiratgeber für Radreisende ! Aufwendig und kurzweilig. Danke dafür
Lieber Fred, vielen Dank für die netten Worte! Warst du auch schon in der Türkei unterwegs?
@@AmazingWorldBikeTour Nicht mit dem Fahrrad. Nur als Tourist und vor der Zeit von Recip E. Würde mich aber reizen, wenn ich in Rente bin. Dort sprechen ja viele etwas deutsch. Gute Reise weiterhin für Euch, liebe Grüße Fred
@@FredRiedel ja, tatsächlich findet sich in fast jedem Dorf jemand der Deutsch spricht! Ist auf jedenfalls eine Reise wert, wobei es sicherlich anders ist, wenn man die touristischen Küsten langfährt.
Welcome to Turkey
Thank you! :)
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İ love you turkeyy
We understand. There is a lot to love about Turkey and its people!
Maybe add the leaderboard also at the end, after the individual country score, or did I miss it?
Well, this is the first time we made a country review, so Turkey made number 1 on our leaderboard 😅 But if a lot of people liked the idea we can make this type of episode a regular on our channel and grow the list!
What’s that guy doing to your face with the fire?
Making sure no hair survived!😅
Hey, greetings from Bulgaria! Were there many dogs in Turkey? We use the Komoot app and there were quite a few Kangal dogs. It leads us through old paths. Which cycling app do you use? Here is a short video on the way to Istanbul 🚲 and by me: th-cam.com/video/9tPmOjROGnE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=UITD_-F_wAYdDgqW
Hello Martin,
yes, there were quite a few dogs in Turkey, and some encounters with Kangals were a little tense.
The apps we use changed a lot during our trip. Komoot uses a lot of battery, why we now only use it for general route planning on our computer, but not for navigation. We've tried several OSM based apps. By now we still sometimes use Komoot for planning, but Mapy.cz or sometimes even Google Maps for actual navigation if needed.
Wie wollt ihr auf dem Landweg weiter in den fernen Osten? Da gibt es leider überall Probleme oder? Oder Flug?
Hallo, ja leider gibt es derzeit viele Probleme auf unserer Strecke. Als wir unseren Entschluss fassten sah das noch ganz anders aus. Hauptprobleme für uns, Aserbaidschan (weil Arev Armenierin ist unmöglich), Turkmenistan (da derzeit keine Transitvisa), Afghanistan und Myanmar. Schweren Herzens haben wir uns daher dazu entschlossen von Abu Dhabi nach Samarkand zu fliegen und nach Zentralasien nochmals von Almaty nach Bangkok. Wir hoffen, dass wir in Vietnam ein Visa für China bekommen können, aber das ist noch in weiter Ferne. Theoretisch wäre über Russland möglich, aber das ist für uns derzeit keine Option.
@@AmazingWorldBikeTour Genau das gleiche hab ich für meine geplante Tour auch festgestellt. Aserbaidschan hat übrigens immer noch alle Landgrenzen dicht. Da würdest du allein auch nicht reinkommen (mit dem Fahrrad).
@@derdualeraum356 Stimmt, das haben wir überhaupt nicht weiter verfolgt. Prinzipiell geht natürlich über Iran, Pakistan, Indien (klassisches Visa, nicht elektronisch), dann ist nur Myanmar unklar. Muss man aber vpn der Jahreszeit gut timen.
@@AmazingWorldBikeTour Pakistan mag ich nicht wegen Polizeieskorte und Mayanmar ist halt Reisewarnung. Vor 4 Jahren hätten wir fahren sollen ;-)
@derdualeraum356 Ja, das mit der Eskorte ist aus vielerlei Hinsicht doof, für alle Beteiligten. Myanmar hat weiterhin die Landgrenzen dicht. Grüße aus Thailand!
Everyone has their own experiences but Turkey is not safe for cyclists. Especially Turkey should be a no-go for single cyclists. The road conditions are not good and dangerous. I think the route shown here is unique and should not be treated as the medium. Please ensure that you check all maps (and applications) that you are planning to visit.
Of course the individual experiences differ wildly, depending on where exactly you go and who you are. We’ve met many cyclists from all over the world in Turkey and none considered Turkey dangerous. Traffic situation is much more challenging if one takes the main road on the coastlines, especially at the Black Sea or huge cities like Istanbul. On our route through the middle drivers where very respectful 99% of the time, no matter which type of road we used. We always make sure that we are highly visible when on the road, which helps drivers to recognise us early enough to overtake us safely. On our route from Germany to (by now) Iran we would only consider Georgia 🇬🇪 as dangerous regarding traffic.
We would not recommend cycling Turkey to single women, especially in the far east, but all single men we met had made good experiences.
Riding in big cities should be avoided as it is dangerous - in rural areas it is safe.@@AmazingWorldBikeTour
Well I guess that is try for the majority of big cities in the world. Even in Berlin many cyclists get killed every year unfortunately. As we spend most of our time riding between cities, this is what is important to us.
@@AmazingWorldBikeTour, Indeed, I personally hit by a bus in Warsaw some years back. But in Turkey the culture is not there and not only in the cities but between the cities. My experience especially towards to eastern provinces were very bad. I would either suggest people to stick south routes or skip Turkey.