Our World Tour Bicycles after ONE YEAR on the road - REVIEW
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ก.ค. 2024
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We are Peyman and Matilda and these are our touring bicycles we have built for our world tour! So far they have taken us from Finland to Senegal during the last year, almost 10 000km, with the help of some pedalling power from us of course.
In this review we talk about each component, why we chose these bicycle parts and how they have performed during the last year. To put it shortly: we are very happy with our choices and these are the best touring bicycle for us. They are quite traditional touring bikes that also can handle some gravel roads.
If you are planning to custom build your own touring bicycle this video can hopefully give you some ideas on what to consider when choosing components. And if you are looking to buy a full touring bike for long distance touring you can see what features we would look for to find what best fits you.
Our philosophy for choosing bicycle components, and outdoor equipment in general, is to go with the most durable and fixable option. We consider what tools and spare parts we will need and how available those are around the world. Also, we want to be able to service our bicycles ourselves, and easy maintenance parts are always a plus. Fair to say we don't end up with the most lightweight gear, but we rather cycle far than fast.
Hope you enjoyed the video and maybe found it useful, let us know in the comments which of our gear you would like us to review next and don't forget to check out our travel vlogs too!
How will our bikes last in the long run, over the next nine years?
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Thanks to our friends at BAS-Shop for helping us with our wheel build!
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IMPORTANT UPDATE:
We are not recommending our current Dura Ace Friction/ index shifters. the rear shifters have a problem and break down if you switch between index and friction mode a few times. Unfortunately this happened to both of our rear shifters. We did switch to old friction shifters from 1979 and let you know how they preformed after a while of use. If you have any question please comment below or contact us. Thank you!
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Just got reason to live 9 more year. You guys are invited to my house when you reach Delhi India.
This is my dream for the past 30 years. After retirement, my son and I will pick up backpacks and travel around the world on bicycles. Because we also like travelling and cycling. Thank you for sharing the excellent travel experience when travelling through saharra.
Had to sub, cause your awsome ❣️
Ya'll crazy, but for some strange reason I love you both!
Haha I might have to agree😅Love to you too from Senegal!
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I can't even ride a bike, but I love watching both of you and your wonderful travels. I applaud your knowledge of all the components of your bikes. You are both brilliant!! Thank you for sharing your life with me. I am disabled (spine) so I don't get around too good. I know what titanium is....I have artificial joints, a titanium cage in my spine. Body hardware I can tell you stories about. LOL
I have a titanium internal pain pump in my left lower abdomen and a titanium battery in my left hip that runs my internal spinal cord stimulator. Those to components help me with my daily pain. Take good care of your spine and joints. Blessings from above!! ❤😀
Thank you so so much for sharing your story, it means a lot to us❤️We are very happy you enjoy our videos and find them interesting😊We are sorry to hear about your pain and challenges. But also fascinating to hear the ways that technology can help you!
We hope you are having a great day! Love from Senegal❤️
@@NomadsTrails , Thank you for your kindness. ❤🦋🌹
Also tell us about how u guys do safety ....
First time i am seeing your video i am a 23 years old , we have only one life and enjoying the life along with the life partner with same mindset is a precious thing, not everyone gets like this. Lovely couple ever don't worry god is with you
I loved watching your video. The first gear review I’ve watched all the way through and felt like I learned a lot from it.
Sound solidly built fixable. Have touring mountain bike Reynolds 653 tubing XT mostly. But have Grip shift with Magura Tomac brakes. Went from cantilever to hydraulics....WoW fully loaded fast as possible downhill, Awesome power. Never needed any work on brakes in five years of use. 😊
Very inspiring people. I love the way you engage with the local population wherever you travel. Wonderful videos. Best of luck on your travels. Xx
Awesome stuff! We are pulling for you guys from Phoenix Arizona! This series is fantastic and my whole family is watching and you have inspired me to get the Surly Disc Trucker and train for a long ride.
Stay safe you two!!!
Accounts like this are the best part of TH-cam. Thanks so much for the information, but more so the inspiration. Like him I’m kind of a big boy (at ~93kg) and had reservations about building up a touring bike. Happy to report that after watching this among other vids and researching, I’m happily on an all-purpose ride and on the road!
Love from Vermont, USA
most welcome! good luck with the building process it is a good fun!😊
really like this video, the thoughtfulness behind using every single component... thank you for taking the time to share!
Thanks for your comment, we are happy to hear you liked the video!😊
You guys fantastic! And your tips, tricks are worth of gold!😊
Thank you for this video! It's very nice to listen to you explaining why you choose this or that choice you've made about your gear. I have a bicycle and I'm planning to adjust it for longer trips and your DIY attitude is a great inspiration!
Glad you enjoyed it! 😄🙌🏽
This is the best video about bicycle spec on TH-cam. Your component choices are affordable and practical and I don't feel that you're pushing the latest and the greatest. Excellent rationale for all your component recommendations.
thank you Neil, we are happy to hear the video could transfer our idea!😊
You have got all the practical knowledge of your bicycles.
Wish you a safe and happy cycling.
These guys clearly know what it is to have a passion. You're both awesome.
Thank you! We really love what we are doing!😊
Peyman and Matilda, wow, very impressive creativity and knowledge went into the selection of your framesets, components, and accessories to meet the needs of your grueling touring! Thank you for this excellent information!
thank you Bruin, it was an interesting and fun puzzle and we are very happy with the result.🙌🏽
i love both... so much... because both are enjoying their life
Awesome job guys , love the tips with your set up on your bikes, happy travels be safe and enjoy. 👍
Inspiration!! Love the positive attitudes even in the rough times. Keep going!!
Thank you so much for your kind words!❤️
Incredible detail-
Thanks to both!
Best wishes for a supreme journey ~
Our pleasure, thanks for watching! 🙌🏾
I really appreciate your choice and creativity.
I am a new sub from this video. Of all the bikes I have seen on TH-cam this is the most practical one ever. Great work. Looking forward to seeing more from your family. Thumbs up from Kentucky mountains U.S.A
you are welcome to Join us!❤️😊
Great tips, love it, thank you guys!
Fantastic choices. Well done! Enjoy your trip.
That's so awesome. You both are so knowledgeable... Kudos.. Have an awesome journey
Hello you just popped into my feed I'm very happy about that. I look forward to following your adventures.
thank you Roland. you are warmly welcome to our channel!😊
This channel is an absolute gem.
"Know thyself." And your bike. Great video! I still don't know how to repair a spoke so these kind of videos are very helpful, thanks
I am so impressed with your knowledge of bikes and its components. Necessity is the mother of all inventions. Learnt a lot and was frantically writing all the names of components so I can get them also.
Great to hear you found it useful! You can also find our full list of components here: nomadstrails.com/our-trip/gear-list/bicycles/
But we have since swapped our shifters for some retro 1980 shifters from Sachs 😊
I'm a distance biker - and I really appreciated the information that you provided. Well done :)
Great video folks, thanks for sharing your experiences with those of us who are still are looking to get out there and travel the world by bicycle. Be safe!
You are most welcome Louis, happy to hear if video was helpful!😊
You guys are no joke..... Wow... thanks for sharing.
Salute! Admire your energy and determination, may you both have many more wonderful experiences and safe journeys
Thank you so much!
Your videos motivate me to do things instead of wait for the right time! Keep going 🤍🦋
Thanks for the detailed info on each part. I love that you built the bikes yourselves. And, I’m hopeful that 9 years from now I’m watching your video about how the bikes have endured!
Thank you, yes we will definitely make a video like that one day!😁
Great overview of your bikes! Thanks!
I'm a beginner in touring bikes and your vids helps me a lot. Will try to travel all around my country the Philippines after I payed my school debt and have a budget for 2 years adventure. 😁
I am now revisiting this video! This was the first one I saw! I’m now back after watching them in order! I love you guys! I do! Please let me know if you come to Alaska!
very good bicycle adventure tour
Hello from the Basque Country! Top 10 touring channel. Amazing.
As always an excellent & informative video. You guys are great!
thank you Roger!😊
Big thanks to you Peyman and Matilda.
This video guides me to collect my bike for making a long trip insha-allah.
Good luck on your travels!
Thank you for the detailed description :)
It is an inspiritional story of both of you. Loved to watch your video. Keep it up.
thank you Sanjeev!😊
Thank you for the post card, I've received it today! Love you guys, good health and back wind!
thank you for your support. good to hear the postcard did arrive! all the best to you from Senegal!❤️
I love these guys. That bike looks alot like home!
All of your videos interesting, wow, I'm mesmerized!
Thank you Olga!😊
Thanks for both of you. You r so inspiring me.
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Thanks very much for sharing the specs of your bike and ideas why you choose those parts, regards and God Bless on your rides👍👍👍👍👍
You are most welcome!😊
Great video! Have fun touring the world for 10+ years!
thank you !🙌🏾
Great job you guys done with custom work. Keep cycling and have a safe trip
thank you Abdallah!😊
I simply just fell in love with your bicycles ❣️❣️
Very nice bikes. It is fun to see how Matilda caught the Indian accent. Bon voyage!
😂😂, interesting Matilda has never been in India and Peyman is not from there. But good to know 😅🙌
Nice Video guys. It's nice to see that you enjoy yourselfs.
I love watching your biking adventure's bco'z it makes me feel that i can go also on that places, watching from Philippines.
I don't know why I am watching this video. This is crazy. Love you both
😂, any way we hope you liked the video! love back from Africa!
Very, very informative, I like it, very professionnal presentation...you go directly to the point. Best!
We appreciate that, happy you liked it! 🙌🏾
You guys are AMAZING 👍👍
I’m loving this! I just found you guys. I chose a surly troll and am starting to use it quite a bit!
I'm impressed you know so much about the compatbility and durability of parts. I just subscribed. Safe travels.
hi, most welcome to our channel!😊
Love your positive energy!! Simplicity is king, I've had V-brakes, canti-brakes and last years hydraulic disc brakes. My experience has been V-brakes = no fuzz. Canti = medium-fuzz and the modern hydraulic is just requiring lots of maintenance. Same thing with the wheels. My old 26" stayed true. Same can't be said for any of the 28" on my cyclocross bikes.
You made me want to go bikepacking :-)
Wow - just stumbled onto your channel and I am impressed! It's rare that bike touring channels geek out so much on bike details. You both seem very knowledagble. Love it! I'm mashing the subscribe button! 😀
Wow, thanks! Welcome aboard 🤗
Wow. Super-informative, very impressive and inspirational. Thank you and best of luck with your adventures. Subscribed.
Thank you Clac! You are warmly welcome to join our channel!❤😊
Thank you for the run down on all your gear God bless you on your journey
No problem, thank you for watching! 😊
I just discovered you channel and I am in the process of bindge watching. Thank you for sharing your travels and adventures. Best of luck and well wishes on your travels.
Thank you so much, we are happy to have you with us! Greetings from Senegal 😊
Wielce ok, jestem pod niebywałym wrażeniem.
A great description of all parts of touring bike. Really like it. Definitely useful for everybody who want to tour long distance. As said any bike will do for small trips.
thank you , happy to hear the video is useful! greeting from Senegal!😊
"stops bike in a uphill"..i want it :D
Fantastic review and breakdown. Thank you. 👍👍👍👍
You are most welcome!😊
Wow amazing video, I’ve just finished building a surly disc trucker, you Teo are so luck to have each other to travel with, looks amazing 😉 nice set ups to
thank you, i am sure you had fun and joy building your Surly, wish you a lot of fun adventures ! happy cycling!😊
Fantastic review...I am really looking forward to watching your new videos
Thanks so much!
Amazing that you built your wheels!
Thank you very much for this detailed video
Thank you for watching, hope you enjoyed it!😊
U ppl r awesome. All the best for every ride
Nicely done. Like your personal modifications. Impressive adventure and (especially) chronicling. Be safe.
Thank you! 😊🙌🏽
Really interesting, thanks for sharing 👍
Excellent video. I have just found your channel. You both are delightful to watch and do an excellent job describing your touring bikes and the setup you have. I look forward to your adventures.
Thank you, happy to hear you enjoyed the video! Welcome aboard our adventures!🙌🏾
Hello Nomad's Trails:
Thank you for this great video about good touring bicycle equipment.
Good rides for another 9 years!:-)
I'm riding up to 30'000 kilometers a year alldays and touring on a regular bike. I've had more or less all components/group sets from Shimano. Tourney, Altus, Acera, Alivio, Deore, LX, XT and XTR. Also: Sora, Claris, Tiagra, 105, Ultegra and Dura-Ace. Only the "Revoshifter" fell apart, but besides of that no issues.
If one is passionate about bicycle parts, one has to have Shimano XTR. It is very, very good. But for example the rear derailleur costs 10 times more as the Altus one - and is not 10 times better.
If one wants to do many, many kilometers: the more steel is on the parts, the longer it lasts.
Crank sets: Especially the cheap ones from Shimano (Altus, Acera, Alivio and so on) with steel chainrings last forever.
Bottom brackets: SKF 600 series is great, but costs around EURO 150,-, but I've never had an issuse with the shimano ones: BB-UN55, 26 and 100, which are way less expensive.
Do I have the choice, I don't put Octalink or Hollowtech II. Or Hollowtech II with a bottom bracket from Chris King, Hope etc..
But the standard ones, the 4 edge bottom bracket, are just great compared to the price.
Hubs: Shimano hubs are fine, from the cheapest to the highest. I ride the cheap ones. Inside the hubs is more or less the same. Once there are well greased and adjusted, they roll and roll and....
Brakes: V-Brakes are the best. Everything counted: price, brake power, reliability, durability and maintenance. Cantilevers work good too, but the adjustment can be complicated.
The brake power of disc brakes is super, but in general too many issues.
Derailleurs rear and front : From the cheapest to the most expensive all Shimano one work fine.
I prefer 7 or 8 speed (cassette, chainrings, chain..), because it lasts way longer than 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 speed. It is more durable. I swear on Shimanos HG 40 7/8 speed chain.
Enough grease and oil on parts like the chain, the cassette, the chainrings, the wheels of the rear derailleur are very important. Motorex is the best grease and oil that I know.
Rims: Ryde Sputnik or Andra 30 or 40 are the best ones.
The tyre Schwalbe Marathon Plus is all in all the best for me. But: The good old normal Marathon made almost 20'000 kilometer, the new Marathon Plus ones wear out at about 3'000 kilometers. Schwalbe might have found out that the most of the customers do the 3'00 kilometers in years. So it works for the majority of the customers.
Schwalbe tubes are the best in my opinion.
Rohloff and Pinon are fantastic! But who really needs it? Shimanos derailleur systems work great. For one Rohloff or Pinion one can buy many, many, many Shimano parts.
If you wanna go uphill, you need the right gear, for example 22 teeth chain ring front, 34 teeth rear. Or 32 t. front, 52 t. rear.
The right gear (22x34, 32x52 t.) is very important, the group set is not so important.
Cycling is not about group sets and parts, the most important thing is that you pedal as much as you can. It doesn't matter if you have Tourney or Dura-Ace on your bicycle as long as you go cycling.
The whole discussion about bicycle parts is extremely overrated. One can experience good tours and rides on a bicycle for EURO 600,- with Shimano Acera on it, no problem.
If you wanna do something good for your body and soul, if you wanna lose weight, burn fat, get muscles and a good strong heart and see the beauty of the world, then go cycling.
It is one of the best activities and sports that you can do.
Avoid E-Bikes, because no body training on a E-Bike. You just betray yourself. Stay away from it.
And you don't safe the energy and the resources of the world. You just create new problems with the batteries, the recycling and the exploiting of the resources.
If you wanna do an effective-efficient training, then cycle uphill on a normal bicycle. You breath, you sweat, your pulse goes higher - all very good for your body. And: You get mentally fit.
Nomad' Trails, you are a very great inspiration!
Hello Angelo, thank you so much for your useful comment and sharing your idea with us. it was very nice to read your comment, a lots of good informations! with 100% agree with your idea about Bottom Bracket! 😊🙌🏽
Which Bike Frame better Steel or Alloy?
Steel lasts forever. It's comfortable. Welding is easy, if it would be damaged. I definitely recommend steel.
Inspiring info. Thx.
Best bike touring and couple i ever seen,
That is so nice to see! Thanks for that Video! I have been on many Tours throughout my life but the longest has been for 4 weeks, sleeping unders the stars, snow, clouds or rain, every night. My bike looked used after a couple of days but i could not reach that very very cool "MadMax-Look" in this relatively short period of time. Your Solutions are easy and impressing. I wish you all the best!
PS: You asked for the Opionion and I agree with you! Especially the shifting: Frictionshifters are so universal and fitting on all things you can find if you have to replace something in emergency without beeing able to buy top of the range stuff. The racks are not the easyest but its more important to set on reliability and I think the more stuff you carry on the bike the less important it gets if the bike weighs 1 or 2 kilogram more. The only thing i never coped with were Butterflybars. I often went on my journeys with dropbar and wehen i chose a flatbar I always used Ergongrips and in the middle extra horns to have alternative grips but that is a matter of taste and personal prefernce. Brakes with cables are easy to repair as well! No hydraulic brakes abroad!....
I totally agree with your mentioned points! Thanks for sharing your idea and you are most welcome about the video 😊✌
Best vlog so far in your series, love you guys from India keep it up.🚵♂️🚵♂️🚵♂️
thank you Irshad! we miss indian chai!🙌🏽
You guys are so awesome. Love the videos
Thank you so much, happy to hear you like our videos!
It's funny to see how there are comments that give such importance to the price of the components. I love your way of understanding cycling!
Hi, thank you! :) we try to think practical and avoid unnecessary and complicated technology and if the old designs works perfect why should we upgrade! it is just unnecessary use of resources 😊
Thumbs up for your choice of bikes and components, all good practical economical with decent performance. With a disc brake bikes you are carrying significantly more weight, more to go wrong.
WOW I LOVE YOU GUYS!!! WAITING FOR MORE VIDEOS TO COME ^_^
Thank you! We are recording the next V log!😉
Thanks man; alright, I'm motivated now! The east coast beach or bust on my next weekend off>>>
Sounds like a plan, good luck on your adventures!✌🏽
I just caught your video..n immediately subscribed..both of u are good in bike mechanics..so that certainly helps a lot..Happy touring n keep us informed..
Thanks so much, happy to hear we could be helpful😊
Wow, some rugged hard working bikes you got there. Love your attitude.
thanks Albert, we couldn't be happier with them so far!😊
This is fantastic well done guys!!!!
Cheers🙌🏾
I fucking love this video. I love seeing and hearing about all the details, I love seeing how you've both customized your bikes to your needs and preferences. I love seeing your bikes worn and dirty, just the way they look like when they are actually being used.
Thank you Niklas!✌✌
Great vídeo. Regards from Chile 🙌🏾🌱
Absolutely amazing video and info. 👍
cheers❤️
Hey Matilda and Payman, just found from your trip plans you planning to cycle alongside of Australian eastern coast hopefully sometimes soon after lifting the Covid-19 restrictions. Happy to be your tour when you arrive here in Aus and cycling together. Meantime keep being safe and healthy during these tough days. Moji
Thanks for those quality information. It will help me on building my own bike. Im also planning a long term Biking trip on the western african route like you did.
Greetings from Finland to you two :-D Nice bikes you have. That 9 year touring plan is really not a tour anymore, but a life choice (not a bad one). Take care and have fun on your travels. I will definitely start following your adventures now. Hauskaa reissua!
Kiitos kiitos!😁Yes it is definitely quite a long term plan. No need to decide what is next just yet!😉
Your Favorite word is "Adorable" !!!
Great guys...keep going. Safe journey 🙏👍❤️
thank you! :)
Great video. Thanks for posting.
You are most welcome!😊
The right choices!
It has worked great for us! Appart from the shifters 😁
Great video and inspirational solutions. Thx for sharing. Ride safe....
Thanks Eirik!😊