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European Divide Bikepacking Trail 2022 Portugal, Spain and France
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ก.พ. 2023
- This is the video from my adventure on the European Divide Bikepacking Trail in 2022. I set out to ride the southern part of the trail and ended up riding through Portugal, Spain and France. There is also a section from the Eurovelo 15 through Germany that ended my long ride this year.
Grab a beer, sit back and enjoy it and don't forget to subscribe, comment and like!
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There is some rather poor audio, but I decided to leave the original audio from when I was out on the trail in there rather than re-record it, it felt more authentic.
Music by www.fiftysound...
Track: Route 66
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I can and can't imagine how these hills must've felt recovering from Covid. It's different for every person, I know that. And I didn't feel oke even weeks after the actual infection. Much props to you for going on such a bold adventure. And I can only second tonypaddler there in down in the comments - very enjoyable video. I will watch it properly with a nice cup of coffee later on. Thanks for going through the effort of making this! Cheers!
I’m only a few minutes in but this looks to be an enjoyable video so I’m going to watch it properly later when I have time to sit down with a cuppa 👍
Enjoy!
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Beautiful. I'll be riding this very soon, thanks for the inspiration, please keep it up!
Thanks! Hope you have a great ride, I wish I was starting again myself...
Hope to ride the northern section during the coming summer.
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Nice to see emphasis on best possible way to enjoy the trip vs speed runs lol. Weight be damned! It's a weight sacrifice to carry filming gear but great that you did. 👍
Thanks!
Thank you for sharing this fine journey 😊👍
Thank you, hope you enjoy it!
i want so mutch to do this, iam making money , and i set it to start in april next year, iam gonna work 1 more year and just quit everything and go into that journey from portugal till netherlands, i cant wait really, thanks for the video ❤
Thank you!
Hope you have a great ride. It is really worth it!
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Merci pour ces images tres interessantes.Quelle preriode de l'année est vous parti quel gps utilise vous.Encore merci et bon voyage
"In late February of 2022"
Cool. I am
About to try sections of the trail next week starting in Germany heading south first then we shall see what.
I sure you will have a great ride, the trail is fantastic! I didn’t get to do the part through Germany as I rode along the Rhine River instead but the southern part was just great. Be interesting to hear what you think of it if you get that far. I hope to do the northern part this summer if I can just manage to get some time away from work.
Have a great ride!
Thanks for this great document! How's the wild camping opportunities from Southern France until Cologne? Do you possibly know what the rules/laws are?
As far as I know, wild camping is not allowed in France or Germany. That said, there were plenty of places to camp on the sly and it should not be any problem as long as you take the usual free camping precautions. Very nice section of the trail and plenty of great views!
nprachtige rit echt fantastisch
Thank you!
HelloFromparis 😊
Hello back from Finland at the moment!
Okay and now some questions: At what time of the year did you do the trip? And what's the tent you're using? It looks pretty light - and maybe not so much rain withstanding. Any (negative) experiences?
Thanks! The first few weeks were definitely hard.
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I started the trip in the middle of February, possibly too early to be optimal, but it was more or less necessary as I was planning to stop and work for 3 weeks in Barcelona.
The tent is a Z-Packs Duplex tent and I have been very happy with it. I have used it for almost 6 years now, for both bikepacking and long-distance hikes. It is completely waterproof and you can watch my review of it here:
th-cam.com/video/OhiZg-isHnE/w-d-xo.html
Is that the decathlon touring 920 bike you rode?
really enjoyed watching it, planning on doing it next year! any problems with dogs?
There were a few dogs about, especially in Spain, but I did not have any problems at all!
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Did you map your route on komoot or similar apps? Would love to follow this
I did map most of it on komoot but do not have it as a single file or route.
I essentially followed the route that is available on the website, europeandividetrail.com/gps-files/ ,
I think the tyre width is an important detail ! I have a gravel and a Mountainbike( Fully) , a Bike between would be good !! Gravelbike tire width 42 mm, Mtb 2.2 !!!!
Yeah, my bike had 2.2 tyres and I don’t think I would have liked to have done the southern part of the EDB with thinner tyres. Not sure how the northern section is…
When did you started your beautiful journey? Sorry i have so many questions about the trail !!!😊😮
I started in Faro, Portugal and then cycled to the lighthouse at Cabo de Sao Vicente near Sagres to start the European Divide.
I know you said this somewhere but video camera did you use and how did you get the picture in a picture with the front facing view and you riding the bike ? Thanks !
For most of the riding videos, I used an Insta 360 2. I then exported 2 versions of the video, one facing forward and one towards me. Finally, I combined them both in DaVinci Resolve and made the one of me smaller in the picture.
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Great ride. Can I know what bicycle you are using for your journey
I used a Riverside 920 Touring. You can see my review of it here: th-cam.com/video/uKfXNIq9uAc/w-d-xo.html
@@wombat.vision Thanks. That is very helpful, since I’m planing to tour part of spain and Portugal.
@@adelzaid5890 I can highly recommend bikepacking in Portugal and Spain!
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@@wombat.visionthanks. Looking forward to it.
Great Tour ! Is there more Gravel roads or asphalt roads ? Cheers
The European Divide is very much an off-road trail. It tries to stay of pavement as much as possible!
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Thanks
Curious to know two things: what are those tires and what do you do for work, to allow such freedom? haaha excuse me if I'm being too nosy, I'm just trying to live just as you are and creating my perfect lifestyle
the tires are Rene' Herse Fleecer Ridge, you can watch my review of how they worked on the trail here: th-cam.com/video/mHXmtazTjNM/w-d-xo.html
I work as a photography teacher and freelancer. Work really hard for half of the year, live as cheaply as possible and then have both time and money to do what I want for the remaining 5 or 6 months!
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@@wombat.vision Awesome! I also like photography. Maybe you could introduce some of your skills along with bikepacking. Really enjoying your channel, hope it grows. Greetings from Portugal!
@@PedroDVC Thanks. I do have some plans to start making videos which mix all of my interests so keep watching!
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HI great video, how much did you cycle a day? I'm looking to do this trail this spring/summer.
Hi!
I was very unfit when I started but generally did somewhere between 40 and 100km per day, very much depending on the terrain!
@@wombat.vision Thanks for your reply. That's not too bad considering you're with a packed bike on such terrain.
@@karelvanoorschot9323 It varied quite a lot depending on the terrain. Some sections were tough at only 40 km and others where I did 80 km were easy!
Were you able to camp most nights? Was it difficult to find spots?
I managed to camp every time I wanted to. The beauty of being more of an off-road trail is that it was never really difficult to find a quiet place to camp.
But in the towns and cities, I usually stayed in hostels, hotels or with warm shower hosts.
@@wombat.vision great to hear!
Hi have you got your gpx track ??? Can you share it ? Agree with others that music is awful.
Kirkenes? Have you been there? The whole divide?
Not yet, I hope to cycle the northern part next summer or autumn, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Hope to publish some films from those sections then.
The Insects in the North should be a special experience, I read !!!! 😅😮
Yeah, not looking forward to that!
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Great video, thank you for sharing the adventure. One thing - the music is repetitive and so irritating I muted the video and lost some of your commentary.
Thanks!
I will have to look for som betyder music!
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