Great vid. Amazing scenery. I particularly like your choice of atmospheric music. So rare on TH-cam. Usually we get the thump, thump thump techno beat which is such a turn-off....literally. All the best from the UK.
Thank you for the nice comment, much appreciated. Not sure if you have done this route, if not it is a great experience and well worth coming over to the States! Ride on.
I discovered your channel this morning. Thank you for this video. Love your style, exceptional filming and editing!! One of the best I've seen on TH-cam. Doing my own adventure in two weeks, 850 miles from Key West to Charleston SC.
@@blain5827 Hey Blain, thanks for asking. The trip was awesome. Next October I will pick up where I left off in SC. I will take an alternate route north since the East Coast Greenway map takes you on many high speed roads with no shoulder. Editing videos now and will start posting them next week. Subscribe to get notification when posted.
Love the pronghorn antelope. Did you see any wild horses south of Atlantic City, Wyoming? Love the Great Divide area. Nothing else matches it, in America, for scenery. This is a very nice video. That Banff- Jasper area is also great for scenery. Thanks again.
We did see some wild horses which was amazing but by the time I got the camera out they were not close enough to get any good video. We totally agree there is nothing so far we have ridden that beats the scenery of the Great Divide it is such an awesome route. Also agree on Banff area, really amazing, have not been to Jasper area yet.
Thanks, much appreciated. Riding GDMBR is an awesome lifetime experience that you will love. We have 1000 miles left and had to push to 2021 thanks to COVID.
@@PedalPowerAdventures just for the link you get a SUB. That could be camp spot perhaps. Was it out and back or did you connect to the main trail at the end?
@@register1430 Thanks for the sub. There is a sketchy tunnel at the end of the trail that we went through then not too long after that you come to Delmoe Lake Rd. go right then to the Sketcy TwoTrack to Blacktail Canyon Rd. that meets back to the GDMBR route.
@@PedalPowerAdventures looks like the road is conveniently called Continental Dr. What a great little detour. I think Butte is worthy of some extra time to explore. So Part 3 is waiting for final edit to finish the series?
reg ister Butte is a pretty sweet town from our limited time there, defiantly want to go back and ride their mountain bike trails. Part 3 of the GDMBR is going to have to wait until 2021 due to Covid, New Mexico was making anyone who enters quarantine for 14 days. However we did just get back from riding the 1,000 mile Arkansas High Country route which was pretty awesome and will have multiple videos out on that pretty soon.
I appreciate the feedback. I am always striving to improve on each video as it is something I do for fun with our trips. I have been working with some new editing software as well and think our latest videos are better volume-wise now. Happy trails!
Hey man! Long time no see old friend... so cool to run into you on TH-cam of all places! And by the way, this is a cool channel you've got going here too. Some of the footage I've seen in this video is just breathtaking! I've always pondered trying something like this myself, but I'm quite sure it take years of training and conditioning to travel such huge distances. Maybe we could catch up at some point in the future... I'd love to pick your brain about everything involved with such journeys. Hope all is well with you and your family, and I wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy 2020!
Hey Dave, wow it has been a long time. Indeed pretty cool that you found me on TH-cam, haha. Things are going good, would love to catch up sometime. I see you are still into music and enjoyed watching your videos which are really good by the way. I remember when you first got a guitar and your brother was into drumming, pretty cool. Seeing the country by bicycle is awesome and if you have the desire you should give it a try for sure. There are tons of new bikepacking routes springing up all over the USA, it’s the perfect time to go for it. Happy 2020!
Dwayne Allgire hey man. Thanks regarding my videos! Yea I just got an RV last year so I definitely want to get out West more and would love to explore more trail biking there as well. If you wanna chat more anytime my email is Evadguitar@gmail. Peace out! ✌🏻
Amazing video!!!!! Really great work here! I feel like I actually did the ride myself. Had a quick question. I have never camped in my life but I love cycling and recently picked up a touring bike. Something about the idea of touring and bikepacking resonates with me but here's my problem..........I have a very serious fear of encountering a bear out there by myself. I know there are bear whistles and bear spray but I just don't have much confidence in those things. Did you guys have any close-call wildlife encounters out there?
Thanks for the nice comment! Trust me we were worried about bears and did everything we could while riding and camping at night to not have a bad bear encounter. Don’t know if it really helps but made us feel better and we just tried to not worry about it. This year we didn’t see any bears and last year we saw one bear while riding in the flathead wilderness in Canada. No issues with wildlife. The GDMBR is such an awesome adventure and experience, it’s well worth sleeping around bears at night, lol. Not sure if you know about these websites and I’m sure there are plenty more but bikepacking.com and crazyguyonabike.com are two good resources. The crazy guy website is a place where people upload their touring/bikepacking journals which sometimes helps with planning and just seeing what people are doing. We have a journal on this website: www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/GBMR2019. Good luck with your adventures, touring by bicycle is an awesome way to travel around and see this amazing country. Ride on!
Thanks for the nice comment, much appreciated. I may have a unique reason for choosing the 27.5+ ECR's, I originally wanted to get 29+ but my wife is only 5'2" and they don't make the 29+ in small. Since I always like to have the same equipment on both bikes to keep everything simple and be able to swamp parts if needed, we went with the 27.5+. This will probably not help with your decision, sorry about that. Iv'e never ridden a 29+ bike so I cannot give you a comparison between the two.
That is a hard question to answer without knowing your logistics as it varies for each person. My recommendation is to start at the beginning in Banff or Jasper and ride south as far as you can in three weeks. This way it will set you up if you want to do the entire route like we did. Canada was our favorite section BTW. Thanks for the question and for watching. Ride on!
Sorry for the late question, how long did you go between restocking supplies? Is there a place that you list the gear you carried with you? Loved the videos. Was really cool to see someone break up the great divide over some time rather than 1 shot.
William, no worries on the late question, thanks for watching and the question. We carried enough food for 3 days, however we never had to go 3 days without seeing a restaurant, gas station or grocery store based on the mileage we did per day. Most days we could find a restaurant to get a second breakfast or late lunch and if there was an option to hit a restaurant at the days end point we did not pass it up. We have an online journal for both 2018 and 2019 and are located online at: www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/?o=1mr&doc_id=21158&v=Dm and www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/?o=1mr&doc_id=22238&v=Fp We get into more detail of the trip and list our gear there. Ride On!
I ordered ECR frames and built up the bikes with components that we wanted. I am personally not a fan of the stock ECR handlebar and chose to go with a normal mountain bike handlebar because that is what we are familiar with. Ride On!
I used a GoPro Hero 7 Black with foam windscreen cover and my Galaxy S10 phone. We started riding July 30th in Butte Montana and ended on August 16 in Salida Colorado.
Thanks, not sure I would ride down it again though, it was getting out of hand towards the bottom and I was no longer in control and was just goring for a ride at that point, LOL.
Absolutely awesome. Thanks for taking the time and hassle to produce this video. Just awesome.
Thanks for the nice comment, much appreciated and glad you liked the video. Ride on!
Absolutely fantastic vid!!!! and I love the music. Thanks, Mike from Woodinville
Thanks so very much! Again, it was really getting meeting you. Happy trails.
Awesome video and amazing scenary. Thank you so much for posting and absolutely loved the music and simplicity. Cheers to many more adventures.
Thank you, ride on!
Impressive ride down Fleecer! I was barely able to walk down the sagebrush to the left!
Thanks!
Great video!! I really enjoyed all the awesome scenery shots!! thank you!!!🚴
Thanks!
Great vid. Amazing scenery. I particularly like your choice of atmospheric music. So rare on TH-cam. Usually we get the thump, thump thump techno beat which is such a turn-off....literally. All the best from the UK.
Thank you for the nice comment, much appreciated. Not sure if you have done this route, if not it is a great experience and well worth coming over to the States! Ride on.
Amazing video and music!!! Thankyou!
Thanks so much, appreciate it.
What a quality I loved every second of the video 👌👌👌👌👌 Really good job and awesome trip Thank you for sharing
Thanks Karl, much appreciated! Ride on!
Love 💕 your video. I can't wait to ride that trail! 👍☮️🌞🌟🚵🚵🏼♀️🏔🏕
Outstanding video! Great music selection. Until I can do this dream ride, I can live it through yours.
Thanks for the nice comment, much appreciated! It's an amazing adventure waiting for you when the time is right. Ride on!
Great ! Thank you for sharing. Congratulations from France.
Thanks, much appreciated! We met a super nice couple from France riding the divide in 2018. Would love to make it to France someday.
I discovered your channel this morning. Thank you for this video. Love your style, exceptional filming and editing!! One of the best I've seen on TH-cam. Doing my own adventure in two weeks, 850 miles from Key West to Charleston SC.
Thanks for the nice comment, much appreciated. Your upcoming adventure is going to be awesome! Ride on.
How’d your trip go?
@@blain5827 Hey Blain, thanks for asking. The trip was awesome. Next October I will pick up where I left off in SC. I will take an alternate route north since the East Coast Greenway map takes you on many high speed roads with no shoulder. Editing videos now and will start posting them next week. Subscribe to get notification when posted.
Thank you for sharing this video.
Superb!!!
Thanks very much and for watching. Glad you enjoyed it.
Man! What an epic journey! That was awesome!!!
Excellent video, really loved watching this.
Thanks so much. Appreciate it.
Awesome video! My home state of Colorado is one of the best places to enjoy and ride - God's Country! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching. I agree Colorado is amazing, can't wait to finish riding through it this year. Ride on!
Fantastic video. I really enjoyed it, watching from Chile.
Thank you, much appreciated! Ride on!
Awesome video!!
Thanks so much!
Love the pronghorn antelope. Did you see any wild horses south of Atlantic City, Wyoming? Love the Great Divide area. Nothing else matches it, in America, for scenery. This is a very nice video. That Banff- Jasper area is also great for scenery. Thanks again.
We did see some wild horses which was amazing but by the time I got the camera out they were not close enough to get any good video. We totally agree there is nothing so far we have ridden that beats the scenery of the Great Divide it is such an awesome route. Also agree on Banff area, really amazing, have not been to Jasper area yet.
Beautiful scenery🥰
Great journey! Helpful to planning post Covid
Thanks, much appreciated. Riding GDMBR is an awesome lifetime experience that you will love. We have 1000 miles left and had to push to 2021 thanks to COVID.
Wow, awesome film work! It was somehow very satisfying see you ride back for the camera which nobody seems to show, lol.
Thanks, much appreciated!
Gonna need more info on the rail bridge, that looked great.
The rail bridge was pretty sweet. The trail is located on Trailforks.com. Here is the link to the trail: www.trailforks.com/trails/rr-bed-to-tunnel/
@@PedalPowerAdventures just for the link you get a SUB. That could be camp spot perhaps. Was it out and back or did you connect to the main trail at the end?
@@register1430 Thanks for the sub. There is a sketchy tunnel at the end of the trail that we went through then not too long after that you come to Delmoe Lake Rd. go right then to the Sketcy TwoTrack to Blacktail Canyon Rd. that meets back to the GDMBR route.
@@PedalPowerAdventures looks like the road is conveniently called Continental Dr. What a great little detour. I think Butte is worthy of some extra time to explore. So Part 3 is waiting for final edit to finish the series?
reg ister Butte is a pretty sweet town from our limited time there, defiantly want to go back and ride their mountain bike trails. Part 3 of the GDMBR is going to have to wait until 2021 due to Covid, New Mexico was making anyone who enters quarantine for 14 days. However we did just get back from riding the 1,000 mile Arkansas High Country route which was pretty awesome and will have multiple videos out on that pretty soon.
Stunning! Great job!
Thanks, much appreciated!
I didn’t expect it to be this good.
Thanks for watching, ride on!
I am thankful for a volumn button.
Your tag lines are to short.
Great scenery.
I appreciate the feedback. I am always striving to improve on each video as it is something I do for fun with our trips. I have been working with some new editing software as well and think our latest videos are better volume-wise now. Happy trails!
Wow 😯 as I am residing in South Africa - would love to do this one day 🤞🤞🤞
It is definitely worth the trip over to BC and USA. Thanks for watching!
Hey man! Long time no see old friend... so cool to run into you on TH-cam of all places! And by the way, this is a cool channel you've got going here too. Some of the footage I've seen in this video is just breathtaking! I've always pondered trying something like this myself, but I'm quite sure it take years of training and conditioning to travel such huge distances. Maybe we could catch up at some point in the future... I'd love to pick your brain about everything involved with such journeys.
Hope all is well with you and your family, and I wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy 2020!
Hey Dave, wow it has been a long time. Indeed pretty cool that you found me on TH-cam, haha. Things are going good, would love to catch up sometime. I see you are still into music and enjoyed watching your videos which are really good by the way. I remember when you first got a guitar and your brother was into drumming, pretty cool. Seeing the country by bicycle is awesome and if you have the desire you should give it a try for sure. There are tons of new bikepacking routes springing up all over the USA, it’s the perfect time to go for it. Happy 2020!
Dwayne Allgire hey man. Thanks regarding my videos! Yea I just got an RV last year so I definitely want to get out West more and would love to explore more trail biking there as well. If you wanna chat more anytime my email is Evadguitar@gmail.
Peace out! ✌🏻
Very beautiful vidéo ! I hope some day doing the same trip. Congratulations from France.
Thanks for the nice comment. The GDMBR is awesome and hope you can do it. We want to make it to France one day.
Was that mira at 3:40 ?
It might have been, although there was no stick in her mouth, haha.
@@PedalPowerAdventures 😂 true lol
That was my first thought as well. Definitely looked like Mira.
Nice video. Regarding the music, I always hope for no music as I like to capture as is with nature.
Great ride, camera work & soundtrack! What tires (size/make) did you run? How'd they hold up?
Thanks much appreciated. We were running 27.5 x 3in Schwalbe tires.
Amazing video!!!!! Really great work here! I feel like I actually did the ride myself.
Had a quick question. I have never camped in my life but I love cycling and recently picked up a touring bike. Something about the idea of touring and bikepacking resonates with me but here's my problem..........I have a very serious fear of encountering a bear out there by myself.
I know there are bear whistles and bear spray but I just don't have much confidence in those things.
Did you guys have any close-call wildlife encounters out there?
Thanks for the nice comment! Trust me we were worried about bears and did everything we could while riding and camping at night to not have a bad bear encounter. Don’t know if it really helps but made us feel better and we just tried to not worry about it. This year we didn’t see any bears and last year we saw one bear while riding in the flathead wilderness in Canada. No issues with wildlife. The GDMBR is such an awesome adventure and experience, it’s well worth sleeping around bears at night, lol. Not sure if you know about these websites and I’m sure there are plenty more but bikepacking.com and crazyguyonabike.com are two good resources. The crazy guy website is a place where people upload their touring/bikepacking journals which sometimes helps with planning and just seeing what people are doing. We have a journal on this website: www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/GBMR2019. Good luck with your adventures, touring by bicycle is an awesome way to travel around and see this amazing country. Ride on!
What a beautiful video!........why did you choose 27.5 over 29 plus? I’m looking at ECR’s but I can’t decide which size tires
Thanks for the nice comment, much appreciated. I may have a unique reason for choosing the 27.5+ ECR's, I originally wanted to get 29+ but my wife is only 5'2" and they don't make the 29+ in small. Since I always like to have the same equipment on both bikes to keep everything simple and be able to swamp parts if needed, we went with the 27.5+. This will probably not help with your decision, sorry about that. Iv'e never ridden a 29+ bike so I cannot give you a comparison between the two.
If you had 3 weeks open to ride, where would start to get the best ride?
That is a hard question to answer without knowing your logistics as it varies for each person. My recommendation is to start at the beginning in Banff or Jasper and ride south as far as you can in three weeks. This way it will set you up if you want to do the entire route like we did. Canada was our favorite section BTW. Thanks for the question and for watching. Ride on!
Thank you for your response
!!!!!!!👍
Thanks!
Sorry for the late question, how long did you go between restocking supplies? Is there a place that you list the gear you carried with you? Loved the videos. Was really cool to see someone break up the great divide over some time rather than 1 shot.
William, no worries on the late question, thanks for watching and the question. We carried enough food for 3 days, however we never had to go 3 days without seeing a restaurant, gas station or grocery store based on the mileage we did per day. Most days we could find a restaurant to get a second breakfast or late lunch and if there was an option to hit a restaurant at the days end point we did not pass it up. We have an online journal for both 2018 and 2019 and are located online at: www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/?o=1mr&doc_id=21158&v=Dm and www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/?o=1mr&doc_id=22238&v=Fp We get into more detail of the trip and list our gear there. Ride On!
Did you change out the handlebars?
I ordered ECR frames and built up the bikes with components that we wanted. I am personally not a fan of the stock ECR handlebar and chose to go with a normal mountain bike handlebar because that is what we are familiar with. Ride On!
The rider with the back pack seemed to be bobbing up and down quite a bit, was there a suspension post on that bike?
Yes, she has a suspension seat post.
Hi, whats the tent u are using
Big Agnes Copper Spur UL3, this is our second one, first one lasted 8 years. Been really happy with their tents.
Yes. Great video. What camera did you use? I might have missed it, but what dates were you riding this year?
I used a GoPro Hero 7 Black with foam windscreen cover and my Galaxy S10 phone. We started riding July 30th in Butte Montana and ended on August 16 in Salida Colorado.
Just out of curiosity what rigs were you riding?
The bikes are 2018 Surly ECR’s with 27.5+ wheels and 3” wide tires. Thanks for Watching!
@@PedalPowerAdventures right on, love the video, great content
Riding the Fleecer downhillbis impressive, I ride that mountain at least twice a month and have never made it
Thanks, not sure I would ride down it again though, it was getting out of hand towards the bottom and I was no longer in control and was just goring for a ride at that point, LOL.
What dates are you riding?
We started on July 30th and finished on August 16th. Thanks for watching!
Time of year?
We started July 31.
Nice job on video. Would have preferred hearing you talk too.
Thanks so much. Appreciate the feedback and have been including more talking on newer videos.
Studs.
What kind of bicycle did you ride?
We were riding Surly ECR's with 27.5÷ wheels.