As ever, I love the background music. It's so reflective, dreamy. As a bottleneck guitar player I always like hearing others play slide guitar. Fantastic scenery on this stretch too - and I also love Hebden Bridge - fantastic pint of Old Peculiar in one of the locals. I've been fancying a Surly Bridge Club for a while, but your Ogre's growing on me.
Not sure which tracks I used in this one but a lot of the slide you hear on my vids is by a chap called Chris Haugen who has free stuff in the TH-cam library - www.youtube.com/@ChrisHaugenChannel I love the Ogre, so comfy to ride and up for anything!
Thank you for posting all of your content Jethro. These are the perfect antidote to modern life, the production is fantastic and the balance of landscape, narrative and music is absolutely on point. Keep musing, riding and talking to the orchids.
Thank you, that means a lot. This comment arrived while I'm in the midst of thorny problem of someone else's making at work and so is doubly appreciated :) Right now the perfect antidote to my modern life would be to ditch everything and start cycling North with no destination in mind. Really glad you like the videos. I'll keep making them as long as anyone is watching :)
Thank you! Your support is very much appreciated! Especially as I'm on a ride at the moment and just broke my glasses so am looking forward to an expensive trip to the opticians next week 😉 Videos from this current trip coming soon, I hope you enjoy them. Thanks again!
Good stuff, thank you! I hope you find plenty to enjoy 🙂 I have no plans to stop making them. Quite the opposite in fact, I want to make more and hopefully grow this channel a bit while I have some time on my hands. To this end your support is very appreciated, thank you for watching and commenting, it all helps the cause 😉
Ramble chat. Are you a listener of the Adam Buxton podcast? 'Ramble chat, let's have a ramble chat, put on your conversation coat and find your talking hat' If you aren't then I sound like a mad person now :)
ah nice! - you cycle past my childhood home on this stretch. up near gorple resevoir above hebden bridge. Must say watching this is giving me itchy feet. Never done a multiday ride before but plan change that this year. Love the videos!
It's an amazing part of the world. I went on some childhood holidays round there and remember loving it. Just finding a little stretch of rocky river and being happy to play there all day. As multi day rides go, this was a hard one but I really enjoyed it. I can highly recommend the experience. Where is home now? Any good routes to be explored?
@@JethroJessop Home is York now. So not too far-a-field but far enough. York riding is extremely flat and mostly farmland for quite a ways so i do miss the bridleways and wildcamp spots (although not always the hills). Yeah, from here I'm thinking some weekend stints around the north york moors or maybe the dales at a push, might be nice
@@edheyev a ride is a ride. They are all good. But I know what you mean about the wild hills. It's not easy in this country to find places that feel really wild and where you can feel that amazing wilderness solitude. But it's always nice to get out, farmland or no farmland 😉
I think this video has the best production values of all episodes thus far; well done. And we wanted to see what the non-PBW side of that reservoir looked like, so you did good. 🙃
Thanks, glad you liked it. I'm not massively pleased with the way this series came out to be honest. The fact that the mic broke meant I couldn't chat from the saddle as I would normally so they all feel a bit uneven to me. Also the hard riding left me a little unable to spend as much time filming as I'd have liked. Still, the ride was amazing and the epic scenery hopefully takes up some of the slack ;) One day I'll revisit this route with a drone and a fortnight to ride it!
I'm really enjoying this journey. Thanks very much for making it. Might I make a suggestion? It would be easier to get involved if we knew where you were and where you were aiming for each day, and where along the route at each stop. Just a thought. Thanks again for the great video.
You are not the first person to suggest this improvement. The truth is I often don't really know where I am and almost never know where I'm aiming for each day, at least not in terms of named places. I tend to follow a line on a map and not pay much attention to names of towns and such. I'm doing the Badger Divide in May so I will redouble my efforts to get some geographic context in! Glad you are enjoying the videos though, thanks for watching and for the feedback
@@JethroJessop Its a great series of videos,. I've now got to the end. Really modest and engaging presentation. Love the music choices. And impressive riding with all the kit, as is obvious. I did it the other way, unloaded, on a full suspension mountain bike. Did not quite make it to the finish down south, as we were trying to do too many kms each day and with fewer days. It is rough and steep as you say, even though not man made enduro trails, just, well, a very old bridleway. Was just lovely to see your day 7 video - so much memorable terrain, and great summing up. Thanks again.
@@gardupgti4609 well thank you, I'm really pleased you enjoyed it. It was a fantastic trail but much harder than I expected. I'm just putting together a plan to do the Badger Divide in May so hopefully that will spawn another enjoyable set of vids. I passed a few folk on the PBW riding unloaded on full sus bikes and it did look a lot of fun. I'm going to try and lighten my load a bit for the next one but I'm resigned to riding heavy, it's just the way I am 😉
I like the old buildings the best that you cycled past. Or rather the ruins. I might be wrong but it looked like a depopulated area. We have a lot of these areas in Sweden. I always find this very sad. Top notch film. 👌
There are a lot of ruins on those hills, some relatively recent but the oldest ones - the drystone walls and little shelters - are I believe hundreds of years old. There is something a little sad about seeing things abandoned that obviously took so much effort to build but at the same time there is something nice about seeing nature rising up to take back these places. All part of the cycle of things I guess.
What a reward to watch such a fantastic video- dont despair, I will contribute to your channel by buying a few of your beautifully whittled spoons and ill stuff you with plenty of cinnamon buns when you come to visit !
Hi again, Jethro. What brake blocks do you use? Did they hold up on the long, 'technical' descents? Thoroughly enjoying your ride and feeling for you on the ups and the bumpy downs. Can tell by your cadence that it is not an easy ride in many places. Wise man to take the 'tactical diversion' at the reservoir - self-inflicted machismo is not always the best answer. A brilliant pitch.
I honestly don't know about pads. I have never managed to form an opinion on the subject so they are always changing. They held up inasmuch as they managed my speed and brought me to a stop when required. The main issue I face in that area is that I'm using mechanical brakes - TRP Spykes - and while they are good they do require fairly regular adjustment to keep them biting properly. Its super quick to do but on this ride it was every other day.
Only just realised, when checking out some of the other comments, that you did this ride before the Badger Divide. The Badger is the ride I'd like to have a crack at! You seem more tired, more, not yourself on this one!? Is this harder than Scotland? You've probably answered this in a post already, so apologies if you already have,(I'm not watching these in chronological order)..but what made you chose that bike. Of all the mtb's you could have picked, what made you choose the Surly Ogre? No sign, nor mention of the mystery rider in this episode! Take care Jethro.
This was the hardest week of riding I've ever done. The Badger is a piece of cake by comparison. I never pushed my bike up as many hills as on the PBW nor clocked such low milage days. It was beautiful but really really tough. As for the bike, I wanted horizontal drop outs for Rohloff, lots of mounting points for gear a simple, easy to fix build and room for plus size tyres. There are other bikes that would probably tick these boxes as well but I can only do so much research before I get bored of shopping and just buy what is in the basket. It could have been a horrible mistake but I lucked out. The Ogre is great and I love every mile that i ride on it
The “scheduled trip” thing ... Yeah, not good at it myself. It’s normally work driven which is ok because I work for myself so when I ring in sick, I know I’m lying Tbh, I’d rather have time to just “be in the place” and get there when that ends ... but reality isn’t always that way I guess Had the same feeling more than once on ‘trips’ but always from others. Good to watch the trip though, especially now I’ve almost done the burst of work needed to fund stuff for a few months (given our outdoor canoe/cycling business is essentially killed for most of another year). Mind you, a different job and some focus on it, plus no customers after, does mean time to actually do my own stuff again.
Blimey, yeah, not a great time to be running that kind of business at all. I hope that there is a sudden burst of people wanting that stuff as soon as it is allowed again and you can make up for lost time a bit. Also hope you can enjoy that time doing your own thing. It's a valuable luxury if you can get it. I was a contractor for years and so was able to take whole summers off and cycle with no return date in mind and I got used to that being the reality of it. Now I'm in a perm role with all the benefits that brings but I'm really struggling to come to terms with only having 25 days holiday a year. I need to redouble my efforts to become a TH-cam sensation otherwise I'll never have time to ride that Sagres to Nordkapp route ;)
@@JethroJessop put it this way, it’s never going to make us rich and is very seasonal in normal times (a summer then a winter) ... but if we take from the off-season in 2019 to this year, we are just hitting our 4th year period where summer didn’t follow an off season which will be followed by a 5th off season this winter ... we will live, have done all else we can to do anything else and to be honest, it could be worse when I look at others. Plus, time is free at least once I get done on this current thing. Can’t do permanent stuff if i an avoid it and have managed for 27 years or so. IT contract remote is a great thing just now
@@markl2815 The longer I spend on this planet the more I realise that being money rich isn't a thing to aspire to, it is all about being time rich with just enough money to fill that time in interesting ways. It's a fine line to walk but if you can get it right then you are living the dream. I feel bad complaining about having a job when as you say there are many folk in the world in much worse positions than me. But the truth is, I just want to be moving all the time, either on a trip or planning a trip, or at very least poking around in the woods learning something new about the world.
@@JethroJessop I’ll be honest and say that to me now, cash is essentially freedom tokens to cover the government, food and a drink. After that it’s just so I have time. The trick is to not have the recurring lumps which hold you static
@@markl2815 well, long may that lifestyle remain sustainable. Let's hope for a summer of ample free time for all. I could definitely use a long ride or two.
That batch is gone I'm afraid but with the weather we've had recently there are bound to have been some trees downed. I need to get some more wood so I'll go out on another search ride and see what I can find. You will get first dibs on the next batch of cherry I find!
Yeah, I won't lie, I was quite pleased to miss that turning. The route winds around a lot and in a few places it will climb you up a massive hill then almost straight back down just to avoid putting you on tarmac. While I fully appreciate the sentiment there comes a time when a couple of miles on paved road starts to look pretty nice and this was definitely one of those times. I'd just gone into staring mode from tiredness which was how I missed the sign in the first place.
As ever, I love the background music. It's so reflective, dreamy. As a bottleneck guitar player I always like hearing others play slide guitar. Fantastic scenery on this stretch too - and I also love Hebden Bridge - fantastic pint of Old Peculiar in one of the locals.
I've been fancying a Surly Bridge Club for a while, but your Ogre's growing on me.
Not sure which tracks I used in this one but a lot of the slide you hear on my vids is by a chap called Chris Haugen who has free stuff in the TH-cam library - www.youtube.com/@ChrisHaugenChannel
I love the Ogre, so comfy to ride and up for anything!
Thank you for posting all of your content Jethro. These are the perfect antidote to modern life, the production is fantastic and the balance of landscape, narrative and music is absolutely on point. Keep musing, riding and talking to the orchids.
Thank you, that means a lot.
This comment arrived while I'm in the midst of thorny problem of someone else's making at work and so is doubly appreciated :)
Right now the perfect antidote to my modern life would be to ditch everything and start cycling North with no destination in mind.
Really glad you like the videos. I'll keep making them as long as anyone is watching :)
Great camerawork, fantastic scenery, free range rocks, a vocal curlew and a tired Jethro. Keep on keepin' on. A delight to see, thanks.
The curlews were incredibly vocal for a lot of this ride!
It's an eerie sound when you are out alone on a hillside in the gathering dusk
Thanks!
Thank you! Your support is very much appreciated! Especially as I'm on a ride at the moment and just broke my glasses so am looking forward to an expensive trip to the opticians next week 😉
Videos from this current trip coming soon, I hope you enjoy them. Thanks again!
Livin on the edge! Awesome! 👍
Always 😉
I just saw you contribution on ko-fi. Thank you so much, I really appreciate it 🙂
I hope the videos continue to entertain in the future!
I’m now running through your catalog and hoping you don’t quit making videos after your move to Sweden! Great stuff Jethro!
Good stuff, thank you! I hope you find plenty to enjoy 🙂
I have no plans to stop making them. Quite the opposite in fact, I want to make more and hopefully grow this channel a bit while I have some time on my hands.
To this end your support is very appreciated, thank you for watching and commenting, it all helps the cause 😉
@@JethroJessop That’s good to hear! Looking forward to them all!
@@drvoxmentat i will do my best to keep them entertaining 😉
Lovely, nice music, and some ramble chat. Thanks for sharing
Ramble chat. Are you a listener of the Adam Buxton podcast?
'Ramble chat, let's have a ramble chat, put on your conversation coat and find your talking hat'
If you aren't then I sound like a mad person now :)
@@JethroJessop big fan of AB podcast , podcasts generally
@@wilfwilliams Me too. I love sitting down for an evening of whittling with a string of podcasts lined up. And AB is pretty often in that queue
ah nice! - you cycle past my childhood home on this stretch. up near gorple resevoir above hebden bridge. Must say watching this is giving me itchy feet. Never done a multiday ride before but plan change that this year. Love the videos!
It's an amazing part of the world. I went on some childhood holidays round there and remember loving it. Just finding a little stretch of rocky river and being happy to play there all day.
As multi day rides go, this was a hard one but I really enjoyed it. I can highly recommend the experience. Where is home now? Any good routes to be explored?
@@JethroJessop Home is York now. So not too far-a-field but far enough. York riding is extremely flat and mostly farmland for quite a ways so i do miss the bridleways and wildcamp spots (although not always the hills). Yeah, from here I'm thinking some weekend stints around the north york moors or maybe the dales at a push, might be nice
@@edheyev a ride is a ride. They are all good. But I know what you mean about the wild hills.
It's not easy in this country to find places that feel really wild and where you can feel that amazing wilderness solitude.
But it's always nice to get out, farmland or no farmland 😉
Looked a good one mate, tough going tho!??
And so nice to see the free range stones, 😂 I do feel for the factory farmed ones 🙁
Thanks for sharing
Ash
It was tough. But I got pretty decent weather - unlike your recent trip. Makes all the difference
I think this video has the best production values of all episodes thus far; well done. And we wanted to see what the non-PBW side of that reservoir looked like, so you did good. 🙃
Thanks, glad you liked it.
I'm not massively pleased with the way this series came out to be honest. The fact that the mic broke meant I couldn't chat from the saddle as I would normally so they all feel a bit uneven to me. Also the hard riding left me a little unable to spend as much time filming as I'd have liked.
Still, the ride was amazing and the epic scenery hopefully takes up some of the slack ;)
One day I'll revisit this route with a drone and a fortnight to ride it!
Looks brilliant.
It was an amazing ride. Really hard but fantastic landscapes and a great trail
The great rock and roll bike ride 👌
I definitely rolled over a lot of rocks along the way ;)
Right on skipper! Beautiful.
Thank you Jethro, another great video! Well done popit. Your a inspiration.
Ah thank you, you are too kind ;)
I'm really enjoying this journey. Thanks very much for making it. Might I make a suggestion? It would be easier to get involved if we knew where you were and where you were aiming for each day, and where along the route at each stop. Just a thought. Thanks again for the great video.
You are not the first person to suggest this improvement. The truth is I often don't really know where I am and almost never know where I'm aiming for each day, at least not in terms of named places. I tend to follow a line on a map and not pay much attention to names of towns and such.
I'm doing the Badger Divide in May so I will redouble my efforts to get some geographic context in!
Glad you are enjoying the videos though, thanks for watching and for the feedback
@@JethroJessop Its a great series of videos,. I've now got to the end. Really modest and engaging presentation. Love the music choices. And impressive riding with all the kit, as is obvious. I did it the other way, unloaded, on a full suspension mountain bike. Did not quite make it to the finish down south, as we were trying to do too many kms each day and with fewer days. It is rough and steep as you say, even though not man made enduro trails, just, well, a very old bridleway. Was just lovely to see your day 7 video - so much memorable terrain, and great summing up. Thanks again.
@@gardupgti4609 well thank you, I'm really pleased you enjoyed it.
It was a fantastic trail but much harder than I expected.
I'm just putting together a plan to do the Badger Divide in May so hopefully that will spawn another enjoyable set of vids.
I passed a few folk on the PBW riding unloaded on full sus bikes and it did look a lot of fun. I'm going to try and lighten my load a bit for the next one but I'm resigned to riding heavy, it's just the way I am 😉
Always be punk rock! 🤘😉
I try my best 😉
As I get older I express it differently but the essential punk elements will always remain I hope
I like the old buildings the best that you cycled past. Or rather the ruins. I might be wrong but it looked like a depopulated area. We have a lot of these areas in Sweden. I always find this very sad.
Top notch film. 👌
There are a lot of ruins on those hills, some relatively recent but the oldest ones - the drystone walls and little shelters - are I believe hundreds of years old.
There is something a little sad about seeing things abandoned that obviously took so much effort to build but at the same time there is something nice about seeing nature rising up to take back these places. All part of the cycle of things I guess.
What a reward to watch such a fantastic video- dont despair, I will contribute to your channel by buying a few of your beautifully whittled spoons and ill stuff you with plenty of cinnamon buns when you come to visit !
I cannot wait to get some proper Swedish cinnamon buns!
You would have liked it up on this trail. Really beautiful nature
Hi again, Jethro. What brake blocks do you use? Did they hold up on the long, 'technical' descents? Thoroughly enjoying your ride and feeling for you on the ups and the bumpy downs. Can tell by your cadence that it is not an easy ride in many places.
Wise man to take the 'tactical diversion' at the reservoir - self-inflicted machismo is not always the best answer.
A brilliant pitch.
I honestly don't know about pads. I have never managed to form an opinion on the subject so they are always changing.
They held up inasmuch as they managed my speed and brought me to a stop when required. The main issue I face in that area is that I'm using mechanical brakes - TRP Spykes - and while they are good they do require fairly regular adjustment to keep them biting properly. Its super quick to do but on this ride it was every other day.
Yes, Curlew
I suspected as much. I knew as soon as I said it that it wasn't an Oyster Catcher ;)
Only just realised, when checking out some of the other comments, that you did this ride before the Badger Divide.
The Badger is the ride I'd like to have a crack at! You seem more tired, more, not yourself on this one!? Is this harder than Scotland?
You've probably answered this in a post already, so apologies if you already have,(I'm not watching these in chronological order)..but what made you chose that bike. Of all the mtb's you could have picked, what made you choose the Surly Ogre?
No sign, nor mention of the mystery rider in this episode!
Take care Jethro.
This was the hardest week of riding I've ever done. The Badger is a piece of cake by comparison.
I never pushed my bike up as many hills as on the PBW nor clocked such low milage days. It was beautiful but really really tough.
As for the bike, I wanted horizontal drop outs for Rohloff, lots of mounting points for gear a simple, easy to fix build and room for plus size tyres.
There are other bikes that would probably tick these boxes as well but I can only do so much research before I get bored of shopping and just buy what is in the basket.
It could have been a horrible mistake but I lucked out. The Ogre is great and I love every mile that i ride on it
The “scheduled trip” thing ...
Yeah, not good at it myself. It’s normally work driven which is ok because I work for myself so when I ring in sick, I know I’m lying
Tbh, I’d rather have time to just “be in the place” and get there when that ends ... but reality isn’t always that way I guess
Had the same feeling more than once on ‘trips’ but always from others.
Good to watch the trip though, especially now I’ve almost done the burst of work needed to fund stuff for a few months (given our outdoor canoe/cycling business is essentially killed for most of another year). Mind you, a different job and some focus on it, plus no customers after, does mean time to actually do my own stuff again.
Blimey, yeah, not a great time to be running that kind of business at all. I hope that there is a sudden burst of people wanting that stuff as soon as it is allowed again and you can make up for lost time a bit.
Also hope you can enjoy that time doing your own thing. It's a valuable luxury if you can get it.
I was a contractor for years and so was able to take whole summers off and cycle with no return date in mind and I got used to that being the reality of it. Now I'm in a perm role with all the benefits that brings but I'm really struggling to come to terms with only having 25 days holiday a year. I need to redouble my efforts to become a TH-cam sensation otherwise I'll never have time to ride that Sagres to Nordkapp route ;)
@@JethroJessop put it this way, it’s never going to make us rich and is very seasonal in normal times (a summer then a winter) ... but if we take from the off-season in 2019 to this year, we are just hitting our 4th year period where summer didn’t follow an off season which will be followed by a 5th off season this winter ... we will live, have done all else we can to do anything else and to be honest, it could be worse when I look at others.
Plus, time is free at least once I get done on this current thing.
Can’t do permanent stuff if i an avoid it and have managed for 27 years or so. IT contract remote is a great thing just now
@@markl2815 The longer I spend on this planet the more I realise that being money rich isn't a thing to aspire to, it is all about being time rich with just enough money to fill that time in interesting ways. It's a fine line to walk but if you can get it right then you are living the dream.
I feel bad complaining about having a job when as you say there are many folk in the world in much worse positions than me. But the truth is, I just want to be moving all the time, either on a trip or planning a trip, or at very least poking around in the woods learning something new about the world.
@@JethroJessop I’ll be honest and say that to me now, cash is essentially freedom tokens to cover the government, food and a drink. After that it’s just so I have time. The trick is to not have the recurring lumps which hold you static
@@markl2815 well, long may that lifestyle remain sustainable.
Let's hope for a summer of ample free time for all. I could definitely use a long ride or two.
Yo, my chippy wants that tooth spoon. Got any of that Cherry wood left ?
That batch is gone I'm afraid but with the weather we've had recently there are bound to have been some trees downed. I need to get some more wood so I'll go out on another search ride and see what I can find.
You will get first dibs on the next batch of cherry I find!
@@JethroJessop You're the Ginchiest ! Here in Murica that's good.
That curlew was out past its curfew.. 🤓
Ba dum bum!
Lol. You missed the trail and went on the road. Much easier and a breather.
Yeah, I won't lie, I was quite pleased to miss that turning. The route winds around a lot and in a few places it will climb you up a massive hill then almost straight back down just to avoid putting you on tarmac.
While I fully appreciate the sentiment there comes a time when a couple of miles on paved road starts to look pretty nice and this was definitely one of those times. I'd just gone into staring mode from tiredness which was how I missed the sign in the first place.