Wear a Helmettttttt!!!

I’m hitting 50 soon, been riding a push bike since I was 8 or so. I’ve seen a lot of things I would have missed otherwise. I got a motorbike about r years ago and love it as well, but there’s a certain peace when pedaling. New to your channel, got directed here by Bjorn Bullhansen mentioning you. Subbed and loving your feel-good content, as Bjorn calls it. Cheers from Tennessee, USA.

Hi Sandy, I worked in a bike shop 35 years, retired 2 yrs ago we sold that model Diamnodback. I was intrigued when you reviewed on Strava, you worked in Kilometers! I thought you were still in miles. I understand not wearing a helmet, but please do, you're a role model for one, I've seen heaps of people hit the deck and bounce up, and say if they hadn't been wearing a helmet they would be still on the ground or worse. I enjoy all your countryside, I'm in NZ. Cheers.

Brilliant attitude! Yep, I love bike rides and you’re spot on you really see so much more! My Aunty lived in fordingbridge for many years. Right next to Salisbury. I miss it there. Would bicycle everywhere. Plus keeps you fit as a fiddle. I live in Florida now. Bjorn told me to come over and so here I am. Cheers!

Hi Sandy, I'm 59yrs, two brain tumours, & to keep fitness up Iv Garaged my VN800 & Just Ridden my old Mountain bike 51miles with a two day wild camp included towing 90lb of gear; all good except the hill climbs. Great to cover the ground under self sufficiency, & then the best bit, a very very enjoyable relaxing camping setup. Awesome videos Sandy, Thank you.

Really very informative video Sandy. Well done. I like your old Bike. You live in a nice part of the world. Thank you and Stay Safe.

Well done Sandy, I was tired just watching you mate! The slower you go, the more you see, which is why I bimble so often. 60 eh? I am 26 this year [again haha]....I too am 60 this year!! Please put a helmet on mate, we need you around for a lot longer yet....! Lovely welcome home, bless them.

Hi sandy fantastic video very enjoyable looking forward to the next one Craig

It's amazing what people take for granted with modern transport. So much to take in on a bicycle. Great video. People need to take time out and do this every once in a while.

The bicycle is my only means of travel now. I've gotten rid of my vehicle, kitted out my hybrid with front and rear Panniers. Even have a MTB built solely for winter riding. It's remarkable what you can see at a slower pace. Unknown eateries, shops, landmarks and the daily lives of the locals. I've been in this small town in Japan for 12 years now and have discovered so much more of it simply by commuting by bicycle. Great exercise, but also great as stress relief, a time to think and to work on your focus/situational awareness. Rain, snow, wind and shine, I'm out wheeling about. No second thoughts, it's become a way of life and I feel so much better for it. Thank you for the efforts of battling those hills multiple times for camera shots as you carried us along with you.

What a great ride Sandy! Love those villages.

You made me sweat peddling up those hills. Great journey and what a bonus the Pastie was too.

Another excellent video Sandy, very interesting stuff as you say

That was smashing and I now I remember being greeted by our dogs thanks for that memory.

I enjoyed that Sandy. Thank you. Uffington hill is favourite place of mine and I used to go regularly when I lived in Berkshire, so was nice to see a bit of that and the smithy in your video. Just seen you have a new bike video out, so going to watch that later. All the best, Elliott.

Bjørn Andreas Bull-Hansen sent me, I love the content, subbed. Cheers from downtown Tokyo! Stu

Now that's an area I'd love to visit. Not London or other big cities! Nice place with no tall buildings (none that I noticed anyways), and a lot of nice architectures. Both the town and the countryside is a place I could spend a lot of time with both a bicycle and camera.

Hello Sandy. That was an impressive distance you covered on your 'average' mountain bike. I'll keep to my 8kg carbon fibre road bike😊. 60 years of age is the new 40. I'm there just before you. Hope ur enjoying this lovely summer. Martin WB

well done Sandy, i’m 65 and i go biking, and without a helmet, all that safety rules are just stupid. What a beautiful country. I do not like electric bikes, i love to push.

I am 69 I did 50 years of motorcycle riding I gave up recently because we're I live I have no safe parking. now I have a ebike which I absolutely love.

Thank you for sharing your adventure! Cheers!

60 is no age at all. I cycle with the over 60’s club and many of the group are high 70’s with one at 82. I am 63 just getting back into cycling. Keep it up.

G'day from Australia. Love your videos. I have a perfectly good car that I just never use. I ride just about everywhere. If its way to far I take the bike on a train. Anyway great post mate.👍

Great video Sandy. Oddly enough I watched this in the Dockle where we met last week. Cycling ads a new dimension to your channel. It’s more of a slow pace and the area you covered I know very well. Look forward to the next one. Glad you went out sans helmet - looks far more natural.

Thanks Sandy for that wonderful cycle tour of your local villages and rural scenes.

I really enjoy your channel greetings from Canada

Err sandy missed you at calne bike meet but bumped in to dave chatting about his 100 year old royle Enfield..brilliant video really great keep up the good work sandy

Well done Sandy, you have more vitality than someone Half your age 💪

Really good viewing video bro with some lovely country side along the way, the bit about the Spitfire was interesting. Safe travels

Nice to see you back on your push bike again nice to see you out and about on the bike but wear a helmet stay safe and stay healthy one life don't waist it

Certainly agree with you about seeing more on a bike ride. I have mine set up so that the seat is lower than the handle bars. It’s a step through frame Raleigh e bike and when riding in the upright style the top of my head is over 6’6” above the road so I have a great view.

You're a damn sight fitter than I am, that's for sure, but you've inspired me to get out on my bike and tackle a few (gentle) hills! Really enjoyed the video, Sandy. It'll be interesting to see if cycling improves my balance on my motorcycle.

"That's going in my gob!" 😀 Brilliant, thanks so much for this cycle tour of the locality, such beautiful places to visit

I know Callas hill very much, tis a good hill for repeat efforts! Good to see the Ridgeway, haven't been up that way for a few months now. I was thinking to myself during the video this would be great on Strava then surprisingly it was 😁😁 just added you on Strava 👍

I really enjoyed this Sandy nice one. Hope your all well., Your looking strong.

Crickey Sandy you keep finding your "Neolithic Burial Mounds" everywhere!🙂

Greetings from Vancouver Island! I've subscribed to your channel on the strength of Bjorn Andreas Bull Hansen's recommendation.

Fellow out my way has transported his Brompton on the back of his Himalayan to do some pedaling along the north rim of Grand Canyon. Sounded perfect.

Thank you very much indeed. Your videos are absolutely fantastic!

Love the video! You live in a great place full of great scenery and history.

Lovely ride and how lovely us it to have your dogs so pleased to have you home again. Some beautiful views in this trio...the hilight for me is definitely the grain fields. Missed the opportunity to get the photos this year of the grain fields at the farm before Chris started harvesting it. But did get some photos on a trip I made to Minster in Kent...and corn growing on the Isle of Sheppey....looks like a bumper crop for the farmers this year

Sandy as an ex end to end cyclist -You can nail this cycling again 👍👍

enjoyed this one, its crossed my mind in the past that slowing down is a good way to increase the size of the world. adds that much more wonder to things when they seem so distant and far away.

Lovely dogs

That was a fabulous ride WM, thanks for taking us along - 25 years old, so a Dutch-built DiamondBack rather than the pre-1992 Raleigh versions? Not that it matters, it's a great bike none-the-less. Just one observation; you're too low to reap the benefit of the final part of the pedal stroke - a few more mils should give you more ooomph! And for the "helmet commentators", studies show that drivers perceive cyclists as "safer" when sporting a bit of plastic covered foam and so tend to drive CLOSER, giving non-foam heads MORE SPACE - and plastic covered foam won't save anyone from spinal injury, or having your torso run-over: smthg to consider. Thanks Sandy, A.T.B

Looks like a fun day out. Lovely scenery. Great old school mtb. I have a Scott mtb from the same era. Best way to explore the countryside.

Thanks for taking us on the ride around your local area,always interesting to see other parts of the world and being on a push bike is a great way to see it. Its nice to hear a bit of the local history to. I think the way this mad world is going there will be more people getting back on bikes and riding to get around, the price of petrol being a major reason to do so. The best thing about cycling is, as you said the chance to see things you don't in a motor vehicle and the ability to stop just about anywhere to admire the views. I know you are probably going to get sick of hearing this but please wear a helmet, we don't ride our motorcycles without them and a push bike is just as dangerous to ride. Anyway as it was about 4:55 am when I started watching this video here in the Barossa Valley which is in South Australia i should probably think about getting up and making a cup of tea. I am looking forward to when you go on your cycling adventure that should be very interesting, anyway all the best to you and Mandy and of course your pair of good girls. Cheers from Australia

I cycle everywhere on my folding e bike And bought a folding trailer for camping trips but it gets used for camping shopping and moving just about anything , even delivered my grandsons bat man bike on it , both bike and trailer fold up very small , have visited places I used to walk to but hadn't visited for years , did a forty mile round trip to visit my daughter last week , loads of old railway paths where I live and more cyclepaths planned so it's all good

Absolutely love your videos Sandy! A lovely way to see the countryside. My brother rode the London to Brighton a few years ago and he said there was a mega steep hill in there too. Sadly my darling brother passed away in May age 59. Id like to do London to Brighton too but dont think im fit enough. Life is short, so we need to go and enjoy our time,x

Fair play sandy ...those hills are brutal...brilliant as always

It’s great to get out on the bike and as you say you see a whole lot more and can stop whenever , I wear a helmet these days but I never wore one until the kids were little and I made them wear one 😂 “keep smiling adventures” cycled the the king Alfred’s way I think . A lovely ride out , I’m out on mine later 🚲 I couldn’t find you in strava have you a link atb Dave

Great vid mr Wiltshire man👍I’m a motorcyclist and cycle and what an eye opener, as in the state of the roads and some of the places I get overtaken in

Really enjoyed that one sandy also enjoyed our little chat over the field recently nice to see you out on the bike again

Where’s your helmet!! 😳Safety first!!.. Thanks for the bike tour ~ nice views🙌 heck of a work out Sandy, good for you & way to go!!👍

You did great, Sandy. I have an e-bike and that trip would have killed me. Lol! 🙂👍🚴‍♀️

Thank you Sandy! Needed that wind through my hair and horizons widened! What a lovely area with stunning views!! Here in Carmarthenshire, it's a job to see over the hedges!! Found you on Strava... kudos given👍 Looking forward to your King Alfred's Way jolly🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Nice ride today Sandy. I have a new bike path here that I am looking forward to giving a try.

Thumbs up my brother

Great video Sandy and great to meet you on Saturday at the Himalayan meet. King Alfred way now that's a thought !!

Turning 60 in two months 'eh? That calls for a birthday video. 60, Just a kid! I'm kind of surprised at no helmet. I'm a belt and suspenders, sorry belt and braces guy myself. Great video!

I thoroughly appreciate your efforts on this ride. Sometimes it's the long hills that are worse than the small steep ones. I'm thinking of a small motor for mine now; i want to finish off my Recumbent bike when I've the money for it, i ran out of cash building the frame as I've nowhere to weld and needed help. Sparsholt? You've gone some distance, there's a agricultural college there.

Great video, you're fit as a fiddle pal, us oldies can still do it. I'm 57 and still wild camping with my dog at least once a month. Keep it up

A hill is one thing that you're glad has a downside.

57km is a pretty good outing WW. Nice little trip around the locality.

Great to see you in a cap 🧢

Hi just heading out on my ebike yeah i know but im 11years ahead of you🤣 lot of hills up here in cumbria....ps life in slow lane is my himalayan😉 atb dave...

Getting to be a bit of a slacker are you Sandy? It was downhill part of the way! LOL! It is great to get out and stretch the legs and test the wind. But wear a helmet! Lovely countryside!

You've got a cracking network of byways and bridleways to train on by you Sandy. I always follow a guy called Ken Massey on his ebike from your neck of the woods, he puts some lovely routes together.

Loved this video Sand good to see you on the old bone shaker was in Lambourn last in my camper and work my way alongside the ridgeway alway keeping my eye out for you nominally on chug

Cornish pasty. I wish. Not on the menu outside of the UK, high on the list of foods I miss.

I go to Wayland smithy every autumn, I walk from the NT car park near white horse hill. I never think of the place the rest of the year.

Push bikes where I live don’t have pedals. They are made for children to propel with their feet and to learn balance. Bikes with pedals are called bikes.

Shoulder checks!!!

That was me, my wife and dog in the background at 09.05 in. I said to her I thought it was you as you went past! We had just popped up to the trig point on Charlbury Hill.

That was a nice long cycle around, you must be well fit to just get on a bike and do that kind of mileage. I know how much exercise you need to do to stay that fit being a keen cyclist myself, well done sandy!

My hubby loves motorcycles and bikes,anything on two wheels 😂

Delightful 🙂

OK, the dogs at the end. bless❤❤

Very good vide bruv and I haven't even watched it yet. 😂👌👌

Nice one Sandy.

Stunning views, and blackberries. I wanna fly over there. Speaking of flying Sandy, are you still going up?

Cracking ride! I have a spare helmet (in Swindon) if you want one!

Why l love my Bantam

Sandy…where is your helmet…it saved my friends brother life two years ago …when a driver failed to stop on a roundabout for him…brought him off,with serious injuries to his head..he survived but has problems and always will have!! Take care…

Nice ride Sandy . I converted my old bike to electric and hills are a lot easier , i turn 70 this year and i ride a lot more distance than i normally would so it's a big help for me . Yes you do worry about range but you can manage it . Oh yeah , if your gunna ride a bike wear a HELMET or any bingle could lead to a permanent brain injury or worse :-)

Great video but I’m missing you and dickies moto camp videos..you ought to have a helmet on as well.

That thing needs a motor, I have the KAW GPX if you need it mate. Was pretty tough over 4 days

Tour de France, PAH. Mr W does the tour de Wiltshire, much better. 👍

I never used to wear a helmet until I witnessed an accident where a cyclist had his skull split open.

Great Ride Sandy. and I am curious who the ham was that had the "H" frame with what looked like 2m antennas on it? and the other tower I couldn't quite make out what was on it. and sure tease me with those Black Berry's I absolutely Love Black Berry's and those puppy's were huge! and nice too!. thanks again for sharing. de Ellis WA1RKS

I’m 40 in 3 weeks Sandy, I’d definitely prefer mechanical power on the hills 😂 I think our friend Bill mentioned doing that bike ride. King Alfred way, he got a new bike to do I think but hasn’t yet.

Good video and well done Sandy. What does surprise me, you don't wear a cycle crash helmet. One head impact on the pavement could change your life forever. Hopefully not!! It is mandatory in New Zealand to wear one.🤔

Wonderful adventure Sandy..VE9DSO Doug

Great to see you out on the bike Sandy. Certainly a challenging ride, some good climbs master there. I have done lots around the Ridgeway so know how stiff some of those Hill are. Amazing that you did not look like any of them were a challenging you. Have you been secretly training on the bike or was it the Cornish pastie that help on the hills. You are braver than I using the A420 even for a short distance. There are some great off road tracks around here, that’s for sure. Glad to see you enjoying them. Cheers.

Another excellent video Sandy but I have to echo someone else’s comment about a helmet. Was that an antenna array that I spotted approx 22mins when you were talking about the house that Alfred Williams built?

Wearing a helmet is a matter of choice. Great video.

I find it a weird experience jumping off a motorcycle and onto a push bike. Feels like you’re barely moving, takes me a while to get used to the slower pace!

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Nice one sandy, get a lid on your head please. Plenty of idiots out there that are happy to knock off a cyclist especially on busy roads and that lid could save your life. Just an ob. Glad you got looked after with the pasty you needed some sustaining after all that mileage. Keep safe and well love to all the family. ♥️👍😊

Nice one Sandy, if you want company on a ride give me a shout!