If anyone fancies some shorter historical based Time Travel Gravel day routes I've just started a new channel at kzfaq.info/love/gB0GZ1kKDGGy2wS_awiRXg

Ordered the guide before I watched this so cant wait for it to arrive. ... thanks Guy!

This section of videos is going to be very inspirational . 🤙

Great video to start me thinking about doing the route, especially since I live on it. Thank you.

Going to have to come to England one day and do a bikepacking adventure looks awesome

Guy, really essential watch !

Blimey, you made it Radio 4!

I watched all 3 episodes of your King Alfred's Way (can't believe I didn't know about your channel before that... subscribed now). I am an amateur long distance cyclist (if there is such a thing)... longest ride I did in my life was the Via Francigena from Canterbury to Rome in 2016, but never done bike-packing style (always panniers) and keen to try it at some point. Now... I only have 2 hard-tails and a Cannondale Synapse (the cheaper one) which has an Aluminium Frame and carbon forks. The amateur in me is not sure what is the difference between a gravel and a road, but I guess the material (no carbon) and the tires? From having watched your episodes, it does not look like the Cannondale I have is a good choice, even with a more robust set of tires, but any tips or hints would be appreciated. I've done the Pilgrims's Way from Winchester in Sept but I went MTB style with Ortlieb panniers on both sides and lost one of the lower screws along the way (and didn't have a spare one :( ), so I understand perfectly what you said there...

Book out of stock...wow! Congrats on the work Guy...keep it up!

really helpful video. looking at being a little ambitious in doing this in two days staying in Reading Prem Inn and carrying minimal kit. My setup is not tubeless with no option to convert. I run some nice wheels on an old cross bike with currently Panaracer Gravel King EXT plus slime inner tubes. Mostly its fine but bigger hefty thorns have been known to get through and render the slime inner useless. In trying to avoid this I am trying to find out the best tyre for puncture protection on the route in a 38mm (thats as wide as the bike allows). So far the Schwalbe Marathon GT365 look like a very good often, they seem to get a lot of good reviews from people riding them puncture free in the worst commuting conditions and off road. Do you have any advice on tyre choice given the limitations I am working with. The flint on the route does sound like it could challenge most tyres.

Really useful video, thanks. Also seen your route previews which are great. Quick question...what shoes would you recommend? Do you need specific gravel/mountain bike ones?

Great videos about the route. Thank you. Can you tell me the make of your tyres please?

Great video, looking forward to trying this. Just to be clear, you've got a spare inner tube but you have tubeless but there was no mention of any tubeless repair kit?

Not sure if you mentioned it in one of the other videos, but what make are those bags?

Could anyone who has done the route say that using a bike with no suspension is something they'd recommend, is it at any point difficult without?

How about a Triumph Traffic Master 3 speed? Just to make life “interesting”

Think my Thorn even with 35mm gravel tyres might find this a tough cycle

What tyres did you run?

Anyone stealth camping off this route? Yes, more than aware it's not particularily legal but say in theory if some criminal was going to do it...

My question is 32c would be enough for alfred?

Hardtail 29er or Gravel bike. Decisions, decisions.

Can you make your content inclusive and accessible by formatting the auto captioning into closed captioning? it is sadly very hard to watch relying only on the auto captioning (Im Profoundly Deaf)