Bike touring Germany - And why this is only the beginning!

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Жыл бұрын

Our Dream: An around the world bike tour. Can we pass the first challenge? Riding 1000km across Germany in 2 weeks with fully loaded touring bicycles.
In episode three we cover week two of our final big test, a trip from the north of Germany to the south. Our journey continues in Kassel where we had our first badly needed rest day. The first week wasn't exactly reassuring: we are exhausted, Arev has swollen ankles and the first proper hills are still ahead of us.
After covering over 430 kms in the first six days, we start day 8 by following the D9 “romantic road” long-distance cycling path along the Fulda river.
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Thank you so much for watching! Arev & Mathias

Пікірлер: 51

@OlofLaurin Жыл бұрын

I switched on the notification bell. Looking forward to the next!

@AmazingWorldBikeTour Жыл бұрын

Great! We try to get quicker :-)

@goldiga3935 16 күн бұрын

@@AmazingWorldBikeTour Are you tork?

@lesleykenwood2715 Жыл бұрын

Love, love, love mushrooms. Great campsite and FREE.

@Biking360 5 ай бұрын

Inspiring, and I loved the ceremony, the pouring of champagne and the speech at the end.

@AmazingWorldBikeTour 5 ай бұрын

It seems to have worked quite well too! 😉

@michaelshireman9075 Жыл бұрын

A very good decision and a very good video!!

@dooley-ch Жыл бұрын

Learn to travel like the dog. Yes he can travel far on his little legs, but every so often he stops, stands very still and takes in the sounds, he smells the air, he looks around him and if he sees something interesting he explores it and then he moves on. It took me 60 years to learn how to really travel and appreciate all the little things rather than rush on to the next thing.

@AmazingWorldBikeTour Жыл бұрын

Great analogy! Thank you for sharing, we will keep it in mind!

@pault1289 2 ай бұрын

I love this, it's a perfect analogy of how to travel slowly and enjoy the journey.

@ashleytoutain8504 5 ай бұрын

Once again inspiring :) Love the champagne on the wheels!

@AmazingWorldBikeTour 5 ай бұрын

Our bicycles liked it too 🥂🍾🥳

@dilhanauns Жыл бұрын

wow

@astghiklalayan2244 Жыл бұрын

Duq hrashq eq❤

@Biking360 Жыл бұрын

It's a fantastic decision!!

@AmazingWorldBikeTour Жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot and happy holidays!

@marklemire8757 Жыл бұрын

Respekt!! Ich wünsche euch viel Erfolg bei diesem epischen Abenteuer. Ihr werdet etwas tun, was nur sehr wenige Menschen jemals getan haben. Wir leben in Massachusetts in den USA und sollte eure Reise euch in diese Gegend führen, seid ihr herzlich willkommen, bei uns zu bleiben!

@AmazingWorldBikeTour Жыл бұрын

Super lieb, danke! Falls wir es so weit schaffen kommen wir darauf zurück :-)

@alafenetre81 Жыл бұрын

The funnies part is this: "- But, when we are up, it'll be fantastic. - Really?" :-) Frankreich ist mein Land, so welcome! If you happen to be in the South-West, I have a garden :-)

@AmazingWorldBikeTour Жыл бұрын

🤪Yes, Mathias predictions about route and weather are always fantastic! Thank you for the offer. Right now the west is not on the table but maybe on our way back? Could take a while though 🙂

@chiprichards4668 Жыл бұрын

you guys are truly inspiring!

@AmazingWorldBikeTour Жыл бұрын

How sweet of you to say that! 🤭

@rafriedman Жыл бұрын

Congratulations! Inspiring!

@AmazingWorldBikeTour Жыл бұрын

That is sweet of you to say. We hoped so! We wish you a great 2023!

@VagabondTurtle Жыл бұрын

Wow, is it really forbidden? In Sweden we have the so called "allemansrätten" which means - in short - that you can wild camp basically anywhere for 24 hours.

@AmazingWorldBikeTour Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately yes. We kind of understand why though. First of all, Germans, and then also it has a somewhat dense population. In the state of Brandenburg (around Berlin) it is allowed to camp for the night on public land.

@Yocambio Жыл бұрын

Well worth the wait. Congratulations on your first 1,000 km ride. Glad you came away from it with your enthusiasm intact.

@AmazingWorldBikeTour Жыл бұрын

You mean the wait for the video? 😀Yeah we figure that we need to get much quicker. But we literally spend every free second of the last two weeks on this release. Cycling is amazing. Sure there is some problems everywhere and every day but also it seems like that there is always a solution and some many fantastic experiences we could not get else.

@Yocambio Жыл бұрын

@@AmazingWorldBikeTour - I did mean the video, yes. I was reminded at the end, with the teaser for your France travels, that we're looking at footage from earlier in the season, before the weather turned colder. We switched to winter riding kit around November 13, here in Barcelona, so presumably your Germany footage is from August / September. Hopefully you're spending the winter staying warm. We ride throughout the year here, though we stay out of the Pyrenees once the snow and ice arrives.

@AmazingWorldBikeTour Жыл бұрын

@@Yocambio yes, exactly. This was first week of August. We won't spoiler too much, but we will not freeze to death for sure. Safe travels!

@ridetillidie8090 Жыл бұрын

Fantastich!! Glad to see you decided to slow down! You'll enjoy the trip much more, as you're already finding out and won't abuse your bodies. Stop when you need to stop. Nothing wrong with taking a day to get 'fresh' legs! Stay safe!

@pronetowander.together Жыл бұрын

Love this! How do you make the cute map with the route for the video?

@AmazingWorldBikeTour Жыл бұрын

We use the free version of Davinci Resolve for our editing and post processing. For the map we basically follow this tutorial. You just need a high resolution map and you are good to go. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/raegq5SlptXOfnk.html

@davidcollier6520 Жыл бұрын

You two are tough cookies ... total respect for persevering to the end! I really enjoyed the footage and would love to try some of the route one day.

@AmazingWorldBikeTour Жыл бұрын

Haha, thanks! There is many nice long-distance cycling roads in Germany. So far we especially loved the D9 from the 2nd video, the stretch EV6 we did in the first France video. To be honest, despite the hard moments at the end of the day bicycle touring is just great :-)

@davidcollier6520 Жыл бұрын

@@AmazingWorldBikeTour Thanks for the tips. We love cycling and have integrated it into our day to day lives. But we only recently have had cycling holidays. Our challenge is getting a ferry from UK to Dunkirk and cycling/ getting a train to the Ruhr, Rhine or Mosel. We know all 3 well but not be cycle. Can't wait to change it. Do you know a good app to book our bikes on trains in Germany, if so please let is know! Thanks 😊

@AmazingWorldBikeTour Жыл бұрын

@Dave from Teddington on regional trains in Germany you just by an extra ticket for the bicycle. On the faster IC, EC and ICE trains you have to reserve a spot for the bicycle. Those spots sell out really fast, so you have to book well in advance. If you can't take the train for whatever reasons you are usually out of luck. Booking the bicycle ticket is usually able through bahn.de the official homepage of Deutsche Bahn. Don't know how that works with trains that go over a border but knowing the DB it is probably next to impossible. Our tip, use the regional trains if you need one.

@davidcollier6520 Жыл бұрын

@@AmazingWorldBikeTour Thanks for sharing your knowledge of dual mode transport, as much as we love cycling the odd train opens up whole new doors. I'll keep my eyes open for more of your adventures😊!

@AmazingWorldBikeTour Жыл бұрын

@@davidcollier6520 Well, we are on a world tour now. There will be plenty more videos ;-)

@lunititis 8 ай бұрын

Nice videos so far. You got a new subscriber. Did you find a way to stay dry on the rain? I am looking for a rain jacket for my next tour (one week in the coast of Portugal). But it looks more and more that finding the way to stay dry for long periods under the rain is like trying to find the holy grail.

@AmazingWorldBikeTour 8 ай бұрын

Nice! If you like the beginning you're gonna love were its going 😄 Our top tip by now is having a close look at the weather forecast 😅 Other than that, we prefer poncho over rain jackets because one gets some air.

@lunititis 8 ай бұрын

@@AmazingWorldBikeTour Last year I used a poncho for my 1 week trip. It was a bit of a pain with wind. And it let water in. Maybe it was to thin. This year will try a rain jacket under the poncho, and stay out of strong rain preferably 😅

@AmazingWorldBikeTour 7 ай бұрын

I think rain jacket under a poncho is a good idea, if it’s not too hot and when the rain is heavy. Because often it’s still cold and windy after the rain and you can take off the poncho and leave the jacket, that’s not too wet, on. Arev did that a lot in France.

@Elcomendante64 Жыл бұрын

Good video I liked the little elevation map on the bottom of the screen Also I learned that in Germany bike paths are numbered (R3). Can you elaborate on this system? The closest that we have here in NA is names. Some names are just given by the bike association like southern tier. Others might refer to the old rail road that the bike path replaced like Kettle Valley trail. Pacific coast trail is self explanatory.

@AmazingWorldBikeTour Жыл бұрын

Wow, I wrote a whole book and youtube comment is like "Ooops something went wrong..." Thank you T64. Obviously the cycling routes also all have names, but there is several layers of long-distance routes in Europe. Longest are the EuroVelo which span the whole continent. We briefly used EV3 and EV15 so far. They obviously also use the national routes in the countries. Example would be something like the D-9 we have been using a lot. There is 12 of the "Deutschland-Routen" signed by the ministry of transport. Also there a state routes like the R3 which is one of 9 routes signed by the state of Hessen. All of the are usually interconnected and use the same physical roads from time to time. You can literally get everywhere using them. The guess is the numbers just make it easier to sign and reference them, instead of using the long elaborate names. There is many routes without a number though.

@petervandeheuvel7322 8 ай бұрын

@tuskybristler4321 Жыл бұрын

Which sort of bikes do you use?

@AmazingWorldBikeTour Жыл бұрын

Rather classic touring bicycles 26 inch, both second hand. Arev: 15 year old MTB cycletec Andale (steel-frame) Mathias: 8 year old Velotraum Konzept VK-2 (aluminium)

@Bikepacking Жыл бұрын

WHY WHERE YOU IN A RUSH

@AmazingWorldBikeTour Жыл бұрын

Because we only had limited time for the test. We still had active work contracts at the time.

@Bikepacking Жыл бұрын

@@AmazingWorldBikeTour ok understand .. here a tip I’ve been travel the world for over 30 years .. take your time dont make appointments go with the flow .. see the world and enjoy the good and bad it all worth it