Cycling the 5 HIGHEST climbs in Great Britain in under 12 hours *challenge*
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 พ.ค. 2021
- ever wondered if it's possible to climb the 5 highest roads in the UK in under 12 hours? Probably not right... Well I did! This was my attempt...
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Cam I follow you for long now and I can confirm that this video is the greatest and the most impressive you've already done on your channel. Great scenery and amazing shots (like the aerial view of the car on the bridge). Mate, you've level up so much that no one in the cycling youtube game could fight with you (even GCN ^^).
Can't wait for the next one !
Thanks Cam :)
MY FOOOKIN GUY
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if you stayed in your kit it would ave probably saved like an hour, great effort anyway cam 💪🤜🤛
But then the kit would get really nasty, because it couldnt dry, and driving in cycling shoes is also terrible 😂
I think getting the drone out a couple of times to watch the motorhome drive over bridges etc would have saved some time. Also filming the motorhome drive away, then driving back to get the camera. 😁 but despite the title, it sounds like the challenge was more of a side thing. You can't trump the experience as a whole really! Great video!
Great video Cameron, since you asked, the "golf ball" thing on top of Great Dun Fell is a radome which contains both primary and secondary surveillance radars which are used by UK air traffic control (NATS, National Air Traffic Surveillance) and also a repeater site for air traffic control communication with aircraft amongst many other antennas that are up there :)
thats a pretty cool fact... Thanks!!
@@Cameron_Jeffers It also has the highest flushing toilet in the UK.
@@mactoshdog arguably the better fact.
Same thing for Lowther Hill. It's a NATS radar.
Good paved roads everywhere 😍. Still a dream for us here in this part of Africa. Great content btw 👍
i can honestly say great dun fell was one of the toughest climbs ive done in england. fair play!
Great video Cam. It doesn’t matter if you succeeded or not. The fact you made another cracking video for us to watch and enjoy is what matters. Keep it up fella.
What a fantastic video! The challenge, the scenery, the aerial shots, the crazy weather for May. This had it all. Really looking forward to the next challenge. Thanks Cam!
"I'll share some safety tips in the future. Now watch me climb and descend on snow!" 😂
Cam, I absolutely loved this video, amazing effort and brilliant scenery. Thanks for making this content!!
Loved this video Cam.....dramatic scenery and a great challenge....you always deliver...amazing
Great content mate....fantastic challenge, awesome footage, perfect soundtrack, you nailed it 👏
Missed your videos like these. Loved this one, keep up the great work Cam. Ride on 👍
love that you are uploading more
Great work Cameron, love the videos, recently got into your content in Perth, Australia. Keep it up mate 👍
13:54 every Scottish person winced 😂 (no hate, really good video though!)
came here for that comment :)
I call it avi more. Just like a call it kirk caldy and just I like I call it glen rothes. 👏
hahahahaha, I am sorry Sam!! It's noted for if I ever return ;)
@@Cameron_Jeffers don’t apologise. As Roy Walker used to say ‘say what u see’ I’m English living in Scotland and it winds them up!
@@Johnny-ek3fk Try Milngavie.
Cool challenge and nice video as always, Cam!
Yes Cameron I've been waiting for an awesome video like this. Can't wait for the next one!
@Cameron Jeffers Omg dude the first climb in the snow at the top, you absolute legend lol
Great vid Cam. Really enjoyed watching that.
Great effort, Cam. What a fun way to spend a day!
Very enjoyable and motivational. Nice one fella :)
Great idea, great video, thoroughly enjoyed it thank you!
Brilliant, missed watching your road trip adventures 👏
We need more of this!!
Great content Cam, mega kudos to you.
That shot of the van at the end with the drone 👌👌 Scotland is such a beautiful place
well done mate, great effort. best video by a mile so far on the channel.
Loved the Vid...keep them coming...
Great effort that, especially with the weather. Well done!
Nice idea and video (as usually). Last time i climbed the Lecht i left my arm warmers at the top forcing a 2nd ascent. Balls. Next up for you might be the biggest climb in the UK which i think is the Bealach Nam Ba - sea level to 650m and back to sea level in about 15km. But if you do go, the coastal loop to get back to the start is arguably harder than the climb itself. Its just relentless ups and downs. Borrow the van - its stunning up there.
"Morning Ride"
Great vid! Really enjoyed that :)
Ayyy, another sick video 💪🏼💪🏼
Loving the videos!
Awesome!! Cam well done!! 💪👍😁
Cracking vlog Cam 💯👏
Nice one Jeffers. Keep up the good work.🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻
Bealach na Bà at Applecross.
“Bealach na Bà is a winding single track road through the mountains of the Applecross peninsula, in Wester Ross in the Scottish Highlands. The Bealach na Bà is just one feature on this road, being its highest point and site of several corries. The historic mountain pass was built in 1822 and is engineered similarly to roads through the great mountain passes in the Alps, with very tight hairpin bends that switch back and forth up the hillside and gradients that approach 20%. It has the steepest ascent of any road climb in the UK, rising from sea level at Applecross to 626 metres (2,054 ft), and is the third highest road in Scotland.”
Great idea Cam and top adventure. Brutal weather but stunning scenery makes up for it
It really is!
The answer is: YES YOU CAN! I also make videos for different projects and now started my own vlog... Small details like you placing the camera down and coming back cycling to the van, doing the drone shot, etc... those take time! If you did not spend time filming, you would have done it. I would take an hour out of the total time to make it fair. So you did do it under 12 hours. Congrats mate!
When I climbed Great Dun Fell it was in low cloud, shat myself descending because off all the sheep on the road.
Bloody good effort ! 🤗
Mega video saw the rides on strava, all that climbing makes sense now
Eeeyy good effort 💪. This makes me want to move to the UK
Well done superb effort!!!!
Great camera work
And commentary 👌👍
Very cool video idea!
You should do Great Dunfell again in good weather Cam, it is fabulous.
Bloody great going
What an epic adventure
Top effort, cracking video 👍
Appreciate the sponsor and safety tips. Quite a standout from the usual gear sponsor it got my attention.
And again awesome video!
Cool vid Cam!
You are crazy! very nice video
yeah nice concept! nice video!
Ah did Great Dun Fell in April... it was awesome. Nearly threw my full sleeve jersey in a hedge to collect on the way back down - glad I didn't it was a freezing ride back down! God knows how you descended it in all that snow, its a scary climb without the ice potential - if you didn't just walk some of that near the top I'd be amazed!
Fun video. Well done lad
Loving the challenge - great to have you back smashing the content! Only one problem... Marchlyn Mawr in Snowdonia looks to be higher than some of these... gate at the very top is at ~640m according to the OS Map! 😉
Beat me to it! Marchlyn in 643m, deserves a crack!
To be fair I think another video of Cam riding Marchlyn and Stwlan would be 👌
Good video really nicely out together just wished you could do videos more often. Maybe try this again in July get that KOM
Totally awesome video...very cool...great idea...well done 👍
Thank you Kennedy, glad you enjoyed 🙏
@@Cameron_Jeffers this was probably one of my favourite videos yet....keep it coming...👍👍
Finally back to making epic videos!
Great vid, nice idea well executed. Jasper Verkuijl did a stunt like this - riding every province going from the southern to the northernmost point in the Netherlands (I wouldn't be worth doing all the dutch peaks) in 24h.
I'd like to see someone do Lands End to Lowestoft.
5:48 wow, good effort. May?!! Actually, i take that back... 11:58 blimey.
Cracking content, really enjoyed the Monaco one too.
I love your amazing and unique video bro 🚲🚲🚲🚲🚦🚦🚦🚦
Nice work! This is madness haha.
yessss banger videos r back
You'd have done that no problem on a good weather day. Great video
Well done Cam great effort 👍
When are you coming to Austalia we have some great hills here 💪
5 steepest climbs next?!
I think the clock should start at the base of the first climb, that normalizes the challenge for anyone else who wants to attempt it regardless of where they might live. Great video, cool scenery! Would love to cycle in some of the scenic spots of the UK. Say hi if you're ever in Boulder, Colorado USA!
Did think this mid way through actually!
In my eyes you made it well within as your timer should have started at the base of the first climb. Well done in crazy adverse weather conditions.
Is that your camper/mobile home?! It's sick! Saw this on strava and knew you were up to something interesting.. Great vid as always cam!
Sadly no, maybe when I hit a mill subs I will buy one, ahha
Well done great effort 👍🇨🇭
Cracking effort Cam. I struggled up an 800m 9% climb this morning. Need to do better
Good work! I reckon quicker kit change would help... of course snow hindered the whole thing! Cool challenge!
Nice video Cam and a great idea for a challenge. I reckon you'd have done it if you hadn't kept getting changed in and out of your kit.
When I saw the upload I was expecting something like this as I saw the data from dun fell you was up there last week as I was hovering the segments as the same day I was up lamps moss which also has a lot on snow up there
Great view at the end.
I love those novelty sunglasses you wear, fabulous. Like a Buggles video.
I have to say, u have missed the regular volgs man. Keep up the great work.
A lot of the attempts at Lowther hill will have been people whose climbing started at the bottom of the leadhills - either at Abington, Elvanfoot or the other side up from the Mennock pass. If you drive up to Wanlockhead and start from there - yes you're going to be a lot fresher. You're only doing half the climb!
The Mennock pass side is the longer climb. Try that.
Good effort on Lowther, but snow up there in May is not that uncommon. The golf ball at the top of lowther is for civil aviation radar equipment and along at the next hill of Green Lowther is for British Telecom as my dad used to work for BT and maintain equipment on Green Lowther. The buildings that you passed at the bottom of the climb store snow track vehicles for civil aviation and BT so that they can get up to the top of the climb in the winter as there can sometimes be 4ft or more snow drifts on the hill. The snow tracks have rubber caterpillar tracks to drive on top of the snow. It is also why there are snow poles on both sides of that climb up to the top. 👍
Man did enjoy this video!!!
Great video! If you had a driver you would definitely be able to make it!
What an epic day! Please keep on with the class videos 👏 Random question- do you shoot linear or wide on your GoPro?
Wide!
Cameron, hate to break it to you but your geography of Scotland is a bit out that was Glenshee you climbed to my local ski centre on the second to last climb and you were closer to Blairgowrie than you were Avimore. It is a good road tho and I have thought about going up it on a bike. Great vid tho can't wait to see more of these time limit based challenges! Love the content!
my bad!! Sorry haaha
In the snow for most of it as well, epic mate!! Bealach na Bà just missing out on Top 5 status @ 626m 🏔
Yeah it’s number 6 I believe!
Fantastic Wanlockhead just up the road from my parents, great climb.
Living in northern Italy I was quite shocked when you showed the height of that climbs (and even more when I learnt that the biggest UK mountain is only 1300m!!). I'm so used to see big climbs topping up at over 2000m, 600m are like the first hills you encounter from the plains around here
What we lack in elevation we make up for in gradient.
....because....go on...you can do it...join the dots....gawd....
@@simonwillgress The Italian mountains can be as bad for gradient, worse even, than some of these. And they go on 2 or 3 times longer! I've done Lowther Hill, and the 10% is "only" 2km, the 12% only about 800m. Monte Serra by Pisa is 4km at 9.5% - from the Compito side. Ouch, ouch, ouch.
@@PaulJakma our highest climbs are not our hardest climbs. Abdon Burf is a proper climb,
Took a gamble and hit like within 5 minutes.... I wasn't wrong. Great video!!
Highest stuff you get around here is the top of Kingston Bridge 😂
is that where everyone does altitude training 😂
hahaha
na we got the Col de Leith Hill
great video great climbs. did you do killhope from the west side, heading east? (the official seg for 100 climbs is that way). chapel fell and dunn fell are two of my favourites👍👍👍. there is a fantastic loop called the big 4 which is chapel fell, dunn fell, hartside and killhope in a full 88 mile loop. worth a go.
Beautiful places to ride !
Cool vedio thanks
Well done dude hardcone to do
Great video you have inspired me to try this. Won’t have the comfort of a camper though.
Have fun!
Hopefully no need for snow chains I. June/July.
I remember climbing Great Dun Fell - my uncle helped build the radar station at the top back in the day! Had my first proper crash on the descent on a good day so fuck doing it in the snow 😂
such a good vid
Lockdown leaves us and Jeffers is back! Get in!
this is only the start bruvvva!
Great video as usual, Cam. However, we demand that you revisit this climb 11:32 and go for the KOM anytime you're even remotely close by. That KOM is ours! (Quick before Ed goes on a UK KOM Tour! xD )
15:56 What are you saying about the Scottish scenery, aye? ;)
Next time an even harder challenge for you; Can you ride to Formby and successfully find the beach? ;P
i'll be back
@@Cameron_Jeffers Got to do the full climb though, from Sanquhar doing the full Mennock pass, to really claim that KOM. Does it count if you drive up more than half-way to get the sub-segment? :)
Legend! Great effort pal. British weather screwed you over! lol
Great effort, Cam. Suggest a "summertime version" as a 2-day bike packing escapade. Is that doable?