My wife and I (from US) toured Scotland last September out of Edinburgh, would have loved to bring my road bike and get a ride or two in, the most beautiful country, thanks for sharing your fun adventure🚴🏻🚴🏻✌🏼👍

Juliette missing the ferry.........what a surprise 🙂 At least you two have a sense of humour. Being in Scotland in May, it could be raining........⛈🌧

This is like most of my trips… just a comedy of errors! Love it. 😂 Loved how you kept positive despite the calamities too! 👌🏻

For this trip you need to do a _things I forgot to pack_ video. 😉 Being out in nature looks beautiful & peaceful (the birds singing to wake you up seems unreal). I envy you two.

Got my first ever bike packing trip coming this weekend! It’s an organised one called the headstock 200. Can’t wait!

Great video Katie. Real fun to watch you both together.

I'm a great fan of your videos. Happy smiles and adventure. Enjoy life!

Katie, I just love your content. You've inspired me to pick up long-distance riding so I can explore bike adventures like you do. Also, thank you so much for the information about the InReach Mini 2. Great content!

Hugely entertaining. Tell you what those tubeless tyres seem a megga faff!! So glad Im old school and still use tubes, you can do daft things like fix em easiy !! 10 hour kips too!! Some top shut eye there !! 😁😁

Skipness is close to where i grew up, there's so many places to see. I moved away a couple years ago for work and I miss it every day

An interesting dynamic - when Katie is happy we are so happy. And a bonus - Katie and Juliet in one video. I'll be watching Juliet's video version of the two dynamos.

Katie and Juliette in the same video! How fun!

Tannus armour foam inserts with tubes on my bikepacker, very robust system with the convenience of tubes. They are heavier but when your bike is loaded right up.......... HTH

You girls are living the dream. Thanks for inspiring me!

That Garmin device is amazing.

Love my tubeless and always carry a tube in the internal storage as a just incase! Touch wood, haven’t had to use it yet 🤞🏻🤞🏻

Stayed with tubes on my gravel bike for that reason! 😄

Thanks Katie you always put a smile on my face and make me laugh. Going for a swim in Scotland, just thinking about it makes me shiver. Stay safe and watch out for them Scottish sheepies 🙂🇦🇺

I love tubeless but I'd never go on a multi day or even long ride without at least one emergency tube. Get an ultra light latex one. Plus in my experience if you're getting noticeable punctures on a tubeless tyre, your tyre is worn out. Only times I've ever had punctures ive looked at the tyre and realised it should have been replaced weeks before. Trouble is tubeless is so good you never pay any attention to the state of your tyres anymore!.

Love this Katie. Proper real life. Never a dull moment hanging out with neurospicy friends☺️

I take a dip in the forth all the time. Feels warmer when the tide comes in. You can feel a little heat come of the sand through your feet, I normally wade in chest high then dunk my head under to get over the shock.

Katie it's the nighty midge nae mossies. Midge are sooo much worse. You need to take a cow with you as they really want a cow but will make do with whatever is around 😆 Fab videos as ever. You two have so much fun, it's great viewing!

A thoroughly enjoyable 13:45 minutes! Thank you!

Two crazy ladies on bikes, love it. Just came across this video and I really enjoyed it. So had to Subscribe.

Ohhh boy, like I said yesterday, this comedy of errors is KZfaq gold. Also, 2 1/2 hours isn't a mere ferry ride, that's a voyage.

We use the InReach for work when we are travelling in remote areas of British Columbia for work. One of our regular circuits is a 10 hour drive on Forest Service Roads through the Rocky Mountains. The Garmin gives us peace of mind!

Even when I'm running tubeless I always carry a spare tube..:) Love your work Katie!!

I hate tubeless too! It doesn’t work a lot! I use TPU tubes. They hardly take up any room in your bag. You can carry a dozen of them if you want to. I always carry a spare tire when touring.

Katie, I absolutely love when you pair up with Juliette! Of course she missed the ferry! (I follow her channel too). What I love best is your attitude to the inevitable glitches that come up (eg ferry, plugs etc). Chill and improvise. It's the first rule of camping, bikepacking, cycloturing etc. Love this content! The smiles laughs and insights. Thanks to you and Juliette for making my day! Also thanks for the vote of confidence on the Garmin InReach Mini2! I just bought one and they are pretty expensive in Ontario, so I'm glad to know it's worth it! Also on my bike tours, duct tape (I think you call it Gaffer Tape?) wound around a pencil and zip ties are indespensible tools for me. I don't ride tubless for all the reasons you outline here. Love the Touque idea (you call them watch caps right?) I'm stealing that one. And absolutley on the THERMAL air mat! My Big Agnes makes all the difference (combined with merino base layer). Can't wait for the next one. Cheers!

1. Good matt, forget the weight, I use a treklogy ul80 I have to use one of those dry bag to help inflate takes a little while but a million times better than hyperventilating trying to inflate the thing 🤣 I used a lightweight one for far far too long. 2. Snood (or hat if Autumn/Winter), not just for blocking out daylight at this time of year, but more importantly keeping your head warm - you lose an incredible amount of heat through your head. 3. Ear plugs, especially useful for blocking out loud barking deers in the woods and noisy audaxers lol If I were pick one more I'd say 4. And again it's about getting a good night's sleep, so number 4 get the hell out of your cycling gear - don't sleep in damp cycling kit that you've been riding all day long!

Nice to hear that Scottish Ferries are actually running and are top notch. All we hear about on Scottish TV is how bad they are and how many don't run. 😁 Weather doesn't look great for Wednesday night, might be further south though. Be safe you two.

Miles of Porlock Tea, the best 👍

In hiking areas in british columbia those satellite garmins have save lives. Essential

Nice to watch. I also dream to cycle to scotland one day. :-) Greetings

I hate tubeless too!

Kookaburra STILL laughin, despite "life" doing it's utmost to dish out the "Pop ! Hissss :) Awesome Positivity from you Katie & Missy. That Garmin mini certainly handy to have. Could've been worse ! When you went for that early morning dip Katie, off to the left ( 1.03 ) Bull shark splashing about ! 🦈 Stay amazing ❤ ☀️ 🚴‍♀️ ⛴

Day two of mayhem, hope day three calms down a bit, nice camping spot though, excluding the midges.

Great to see you two off adventuring together, so entertaining. Have to agree with your views on tubeless! When it’s working it’s great, when it goes wrong 😖😂. Gravel tyres are just too flimsy and easily cut. My frames a mess with stuck on sealant!🤷‍♂️

I hate tubeless too

Quality faffery. Great adventure though. :-)

I look at tubless as a first hit fix. It catches all the small stuff that would otherwise have you switching out a tube on the roadside. In the event you've got a bigger hole, try a plug. TBH those rarely work for me, but a patch on the inside has never failed. But, who's got time for that. Just carry a spare tube and chuck it in there. I always carry at least 1.

Now that it’s too late, if you’re really stuck, try putting the patch on the inside of the tire. You’ll need to clean the white goop off first.

"She's ripped a hole in the tent...handlebars is poking through the tent!" gets to me every time! AHAHAH that's surreal! The cherry on the cake after a frantic day. I'm going to bed with a smile on me face, the collab is working wonders! Let us all pray the following day rain hasn't showered on you so heavily as it was forecasted. 🙏 ☀️🌞 = ]

...love this sort of calamity of errors, so much more entertaining than perfect, kind of like my trips where I realise halfway through the night in the rain that I've pitched my tent on an Ants nest, a much better pub story.

Loved the editing when you were trying to get your leg 🦵 over the bike and the 2 workmen said something like 'We can help you with that' and your fantastically edited reply was 'Cheeky Bas.....' and then you cut it off 😆😆😆😆😆😆

Laughed with you guys all the way through that. An adventure you'll both remember for sure.

Lol I'm not a rider however when I'm going on a car trip, I make sure my tires and fluids and lights are all up to snuff.

Restrap sell a great patch kit that contains a variety of sizes and bottle of super glue to stick them on. Job done.

What a great idea using bike shoes for the wild swim

You can try looking into the Dynaplug tubeless repair system. A lot easier to use than other repair kits, and the plugs have brass tips making them less likely to pop out under pressure.

This trip makes so much sense when you're both just riding together, as for the camping and making ferries on time, hmmm. My rims and tyres are tubeless ready but I'm still running tubes as my bike is kept indoors and stands on a hardwood floor and I heard that sealant can leak and stain wood, but watching this I'm not sure I'll ever bother going tubeless

Same thing happened to me with a tubeless tyre on a big trip. I learned you can use a strip of fabric as a plug (just need something for the sealant to coagulate around) and that car tyre shops can do a permanent repair from the inside.

Carry some TPU innertubes if plugs fail? Did you top up on sealant before you left?

I am going to start bikepacking in Scotland in a little over a week. It helps to see where others are pitching their tent, as I am new to wild camping. Thank you for your videos! 🙂

I use this stuff that's like a rubber super glue , works really well .

Katie and Juliette, on bikes. That is how I picture Heaven.

how the hell can anyone miss that ferry??? There's nowt to be distracted by. But you pair have picked one of the most beautiful areas of the UK to ride in.

My first home was Islay, right at Laphroaig, love it. As for the cycle, shame with the removal of the Campbeltown ferry this year, you didn't get the chance to cycle up the Mull to Kennacraig. Love our ferries..... just truly awesome.

I love the concept of the inreach, but hate the subscription model. Dont get me wrong; I understand its an ongoing cost to garmin. If there was a much dumbed down similar product to the inreach without the subscription, I would buy it.

Where the bloody hell are ya Katie? 🌊🌞 🐨🇦🇺🦘☀️🏝️ Carbs FTW!! 💪💪💪

Brilliant Katie, not having that toast think they put factor 50 on it🙄

@5:00 They changed the presets. You can't change the presets anymore, they are fixed messages. You can create your own, but you have to pay for them.

You are very nice Katie!

Little tip put your sleeping mat inside your sleeping bag so comfy :) great vid thanks

This is the best bike packing experience ever capturing these special moments 😂😂

I sense a Comedy Duo being born...

lol tubless r a pain in the butt got rid of them years ago!!!!

What tent you got there Katie?

I loved bike touring Scotland. One of the most spectacular parts of the UK I've ridden round. That said, midges can fucking do one.

almost certainly mucoff sealant, might as well be water

Did the patch on the tyre work????? I would be so worried!!!!

Can I ask you what video camera you are using?

Use Avon's "Skin So Soft" to stop the midges.

it wont seal if the you keep the hole at the top! Turn the hole to the bottom.

When you get a tubeless puncture looking at it at the top of your wheel and poking and prodding it is often not the best approach. Rotate the wheel so the puncture is at the bottom and all the sealant runs to there, give it a few minutes to do its thing for the best chance of sealing.

When i get a puncture i just stuff my tyre full of leaves, grass and moss. I don't even bother putting air in my tyres anymore

Let me have me marathon tyres and keep that gooey stuff away from me bike.

Get rid of nobbly tyres for the roads they don't travel so well and make the journey more tired some. Get good big road tired for that yoke

Double trouble

the pair of you are mad lol.

You need TPU tubes, light and strong

so close ...

You know you’re a fan when you click the like button before the video even starts

3G in 2024?? Wauw I'm glad I live in Denmark where technology actually have progresed😂😂

Gringo on tour

You to should collaborate more often

😲😂

Tubeless is not ideal for backpacking.

lol

Go tubeless they say. Nah im ok thanks👌

I only use tubes, but here's the tip if the tubeless hole is too big to seal up. Carry some of those tubeless car tyre plug strips that you push in with that big car tyre tool. But don't buy or use that tool. Just buy the plugs, from an aftermarket auto shop. They only cost pennies, & work a treat. Also carry a small section of blade from one of those disposable box cutters that you break off the blunt tip in order to renew the cutting point. Use it to slit lengthwise & also cut to double length plus, the plug strip meant for insertion according to the size of the hole. Its sticky, so do the cutting with the plastic on, & carry the bit of blade in a small fold of stiff cardboard. To push the plug into the hole, double it over insert a tiny small flat bladed screw driver blunted for the purpose, the sewing machine variety is good, insert it into the plug fold, pinch the two sides to the screwdriver shank with thumb & forefinger, then push in. Easy. Your sized accordingly plug should be slightly larger than the hole, but no need to be too pedantic, & what is left outside of the tyre should be at least 1/4 of an inch, either cut off the excess, or let it wear off. To be perfectly frank, I'd ditch the liquid sealant altogether & just use this method of repair on tubeless.......Aust.

My wife wants to know how you look so good in the morning. Jc n red

Tubeless is a marketing ploy. Worthless!

how you pronous islay omg ! islay !

Only a fool rides tubeless............ever!

50% of your load is unecessary crap

A swim. Forget the wild, *that's* where it goes wrong. It's a swim. Wild camping, wild running, wild nature, all a load of 21st-century bollocks. About as wild as Center Parcs.

Islay. Land that time forgot. You should speak to Brian@washingmachinepost. New or newer tyres are the way to go