It is so refreshing to see how easy and sensible you go about things, instead of getting drawn into the typical equipment rat race, VERY impressive! All the best on your adventures !!!

Another winner! You make it look easy but I can see that considerable thought goes into each trip you do. I love that you travel slowly, taking in the countryside, and always with good coffee! You are inspiring.

this is mind blowing that you camp all of these years, since the 80s? waw

This was SO helpful - it simplifies the whole process and makes it seem possible, rather than overwhelming. Thank you for all the information, and for reminding us that you don’t have to be a gear-head to enjoy bikepacking.

Wow, what an information-packed and brilliant video! You've outdone yourself. This one is bookmarked for future use.

I’ve just bought 6speed brompton 2nd hand and am plotting to do a solo camping trip. This was a valuable video. Thank you!

This was brilliant!

Brilliant as always.

Thanks again, Lady. Pragmatic, very useful and informative.

I think every Brompton owner replaces the pump! Keep Safe!

Thank you! Enjoyed seeing your setup 👌. Ultra practical.

i love that there isn't a plastic helmet in sight! cycling is fun! 😊🚵

Such an amazing video. Thank you for sharing!

Great sense of adventure going off the neaten track. love it

Love your enthusiasm!! 😀. What a great bike set up.

Very valuable information! You are very adventurous. Would love to take my Brompton on a tour. Will take a look again on this video. Thank you so much. Happy travelling!

I love your attitude. Thankyou, inspiring.

Great ideas..this is really a great share!

Very helpful🍀🕊🍀

Great tips. Relaxing watching you riding and camping and taking everything in, a lesson to us all.

Great Susanna, nice tips! Thanks

This is a great resource and makes bikepacking on a folding bike seem so possible, thanks!

Really valuable information. Thanks for sharing your insights.

Thanks Susanna; I understand the Ortlieb fixings now. Again, Happy Travels 😀.

Ms Thornton, YOU are an inspiration! So many good tips and info, and I love your style!

Thanks for sharing, Susanna! :)

Great show Susanna thanks.

What a great film thanks. Really informative and sensible info. Thanks

great production. great adventures. that's all a lot of work to put together. thank you.

Brilliant thank you,lots of sensible ideas for me to take in next time I go on a tour

Fantastic amount of information there, ill have to watch again and take notes as so many great ideas i can see built up from years of experience.

I ordered a Brompton and I’m so happy. Very useful video! Thanks!

I really enjoyed that. It's the first time that I have watched one of your vids, so I was impressed when you said "I rode from Hong Kong to London" as though it was just a casual thing to do! I tend to pack the absolute opposite and try to take everything and a spare for it. That just makes the experience a bit of a pain rather than a pleasure. Stay safe out there.

Hi Susanna Congrats! Great to see your gear. Love your trips. Keep Safe! Keep Riding!

Great video, the Ortlieb idea was especially helpful.

So very cool to see your new video, such inspiration. Really loved seeing your old photos too :) hope you are well!

What a great video, some really useful tips - thanks for sharing. I have just picked up my M6R and can't wait to have some adventures once we get out of lockdown (I am in West of Ireland) you have been a big inspiration, thank you & can't wait for more of your videos x

It is great to watch a vlog about equipment that is based on hard won experience and getting back to basics. Will defiantly be buying a trangear kit! Thanks

Thanks, love your enthusiasm. And...it is all about the coffee 😜

Great video! Very helpful and interesting. I cycled around Asia and Oz for a year almoost 30 years ago, on a mountain bike. Now I've discovered folding bikes and would love to try a trip again. Your videos are very inspiring! Thanks!!

Great video! Thank you for sharing 😊🖒

Thanks for this... I learnt about bike map from this video... Plus also gave me food for thought regarding approach to bike touring.. Thank you!

Keep doing what you are doing 🎉

this video is close to perfection in the" travelling by bike project ", thank you !

Just love watching your videos. Such a relaxed style and my kind of cycling. I’ve got my Brompton ready for my first adventure 😊 just need COVID to go and campsites to open. Looking forward to more of your adventures 😊😊

Loved your video ,thanks.

That was most interesting, thanks. I’m having a quiet day today, staying warm and relaxing after a rather stressful 40-hour power cut during, and following, the weekend storm. Good to see your kit. I love my Trangia 27 and ME down bag. Looking forward to watching your other journeys.

An excellent video Susanna and will be much help to many. Best wishes & Happy pedalling 🙏

I'm impressed at how much you've managed to get on a Brompton! Definitely given me a few ideas 🙂

Love your vids..x

Just came across this. Really love the no nonsense approach to cycle touring and the down to earth advice you give. I tour on an upright and a recumbent but have just bought a dahon for some small wheel touring.

Thanks. Great video, you’re super inspiring!

Wonderful video, safe travels

Super comprehensive and Tony list. That’s what I like, n fuss. Thank you for sharing that.

Thank you so much for sharing these tips Susanna, you'll never know how useful they are! I can see various ideas which I can incorporate into my own set up, or which I can tweak for my own use. I'm off now to get all my camping stuff out and have another look at things - hoping to do Lands End to John O'Groats this summer on my Brommie and you've certainly given me some new ideas. Love the face flannel idea - no need to buy a special backpacker's towel now :)

Safe and happy trip. From Thailand. Land of Smiles

Just come across your channel. It is SO SO refreshing to view! Why? Because your honesty and enthusiasm shine through! No slick patter and promotion of endorsed products. Your experience has lead you (and us) to take useful, well-designed kit as well as some “home-made” practical items. Brilliant videos. Thank you

Susanna, thank you so much for spending time to make this very informative video. I'm looking forward to my first overnight trip with my first Brompton which I got a few months ago. Your gear list helps a lot with planning. Regards: Pekka from Oulu, Finland

A great and super informative video, it’s always good to see how other people travel with the B. Thanks for posting.

Only just found your channel 👍 great content and useful for people wanting to try bike packing. I bought my Trangia on a scout trip to Sweden in 1983 and still use it on camping trips and also making sausage butties on the beach which has been a family tradition for years. Going to work my way through your videos now 🙂

Great, I can see what you pack for a trip. Thanks for sharing. Might be able to travel in 2nd half of the year. Just had my first jab early this week.

I've just binged a bunch of your videos, and I must say: I admire you, you're the coolest! Like a lightning bolt in human form. You have inspired me to buy a tent and go on my own adventures! Though I'll probably won't go on multiple day trips to begin with.. Greetings from Småland, and Thank you so much for the inspiration! ❤️

Very informative video Susanna. My kind of cyclist. Cycling is all about finding adventures,enjoying the surroundings,not rushing and keeping things simple. Thank you.

No reply necessary. Informative, and very enjoyable. Thank you for the time and effort. Take care.

Another awesome video 👌👌👌👌

Great video, it's good to see that you don't need all the bells and whistles to have a good adventure. I hadn't thought about checking for phone connections on route. I think you're really brave wild camping on your own. I'm going on my first solo trip this sunday but I'm going to stay in a campsite. I can't wait, I've never been on a long ride on my own before.

great video, really inspiring, i put it on my to do list, thanks.

I like the way you fasten your front and rear packs on the Brompton. Thanks!!

Merci beaucoup pour vos super conseils… et que je vais appliquer avec mon Brompton…

I'm contemplating using a Brompton for camping (mainly for the "multi-modal" travel possibilities) so thanks for sharing. I found your video very useful.

Wonderful and fascinating insight Susanna. Most I've carried on my back when hiking years and years ago but I'm not up to long route marches any more. Brompton bike touring is a new prospect for me now at 69 years young. Since the pandemic I've put on weight, got older. My family think I'm mad even thinking of cycle touring on my own which of course builds up my fears(Grrr!!), but I keep watching Brompton touring videos and looking at potential routes. Lone cycling seems the only option as friends I know are no longer very active or up for adventures. My aim: to do a few shorter ones perhaps just overnight before hopefully feeling confident enough to attempt to cycle the 'Way of the Roses' over a few days wild camping using trains to get there and back. I'd already built up a list, most kit of which I still have, from past hiking adventures but there were a few things such as flannel as a towel, head torch/peg for light in tent, power bank which I've now added. It's an adventure in itself just planning it! Just bought myself a Garmin Edge Explorer 2 and some 1:50,000 OS Maps. Sscchhh, don't tell my family!

Thank you for your reply you are a really nice person ,taking time out from your busy work schedule to reply to very one who places a comment. Thank you checking today for another video just love the way you explain everything .

Merci beaucoup, Susanna.

Thanks, Susanna, I love your shows. Educational, enjoyable, and inspiring. Gutsy Lady, you're my hero. I hope you're keeping well. Mike Gilmore. Saskatchewan. Canada.

Hi, I'm loving your videos. Really makes me want to go out on a mini adventure too. One tip on the route planning: For me Komoot has been a discovery. It's a navigation app for your outdoor adventures. You can make your routes at home on the web app, or on the way, on the mobile phone. You can choose your mode of transportation (hiking, road cycling, mountain bike, etc.) and the app will route, trying to use the suitable roads/paths. And it's easy to customize the route. So far it didn't let me down. I also export the route to a .gpx file for the Garmin.

You are an AmaZinG person 🚴‍♀️👌 and I just LOVE your videos 🤗

Great video uploaded my friend thanks for sharing nice bike uboxing like this color

Very enjoyable, thank you. So nice to see someone not selling their soul to product endorsement, like so many on KZfaq, but rather using whatever is available.

I have just found your site Susanna and have started going through many of your trips. Absolutely wonderful and inspiring. I used to cycle camp in another life with my late twin as youngsters. I cycle a lot with my wife here in the UK and a few tours abroad. However now at 73 yrs I have a dream to get back into camping with the bike. I recently sold my beloved Akto as I couldn't sit up in the tent and my damaged spine needs that extra height. So I am looking for a new tent to try our this dream. Your videos are helping me. Thank you.

Great video thanks

That's a nice Trangia set you have. I have a similar one but it's a little larger. I love it. so simple and elegant and you can actually cook with it instead of just heating water. I like making pancakes on mine or frying a fresh caught trout. I also love the little teapot that comes with it.

Brilliant

Dear Susanna, I really like your videos especially this one. I am having dreams of going cycle touring ! And think the Brompton makes a perfect solution for taking other forms of transport and simplicity. I also like the fact that it can fold up and stay safe inside the tent : )

Really enjoyed this Susanna , got to love seeing other peoples gear and what they use lol . I really understand what you say about cycling through the countryside and enjoying the sounds and sights . As a train driver I am normally whizzing through and its all gone so quick. Looking forward to few camps on my gravel bike and I swear by those Schwalbe marathons . 2021 the year of the mini adventure atb Dave

Thank you so much for another enjoyable vidoe, I wish I was confident you and do these cycle trip and tent night with amazing views. Love to see how you prepare your trips on this vidoe. Thank you again for sharing. xx

Thank you for such a helpful and interesting video, especially using many everyday items. I am about to go on a bike trip after many years (decades!) and your videos have really inspired me. I used your important tip of booking the train first before a change of plan! Best wishes and happy cycling.

So good. I wish I could go with you next time!

Wonderful video

What a delightful person Susanna is! I love her videos, quite apart from all the info.

Brilliant, thanks for sharing your knowledge, also massively impressed with your husband or indeed anyone that has a spare bit of carbon fibre rod lying around :)

Perfect! That is the most practical video you've done so far, Susanna, as it starts showing us the planning you do and the kit you need when you go on some of your wonderful biking trips you've shared with us. A lot of this many of us already have some inkling about, that is those of us who have already had experience going solo camping & hiking and/or camping & hiking with a friend, but it's great to have videos from an oldhand bicycle adventurer like you which bring together what kind of equipment you need and how to plan when you're going on one of your biking adventures, starting with a humble one-night trip. As we all know , it's so easy to overpack and/or overlook something essential. And I'll certainly be interested in follow-up videos where you discuss about equpment needed when you're going on a longer trip: medium and longer duration. Btw I really think you should invest in the Brompton toolkit. You'll find all the tools you need in there (except for the tyre levers as the ones provided are not suitable for the Marathon+ tyres), and it neatly fits in the frame tube - the front section. Also, you can hide the spare inner tube in the rear section of the frame tube. Together they're a neat little space- and weight-saver - as well as being just...cool!! As for the panniers, it's great to have an engineering-minded spouse 😉! I envy you. However for plebs like myself who are pretty useless in that domain, we have to make do the best we can 🥴. Nevertheless, there are some pretty neat things around, for example this: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/erSmqLCg2r_dXY0.htmlm28s. Though that would mean I will have to upgrade my Brompton by adding a rear rack. I'd like to see if I can find a way of doing solo camping-touring without making that mod as (when not touring) I like the weight-saving gained by not having a rear rack. But maybe that's unfortunately just being unrealistic... ----------------------------------- _EDIT: And, of course, the classic backpack on rear rack thing that @k c mentions in his post below._

Great stuff. Always wanted to see how you mount your rear rack, now I know. I agree, it is not about the speed, but rather the journey, things to see on the way. Love your spirit of adventure. Good job.

Hi Susanna, very interesting video lots of useful information. I would perhaps add a few zip ties and a couple of metres of gaffer tape to your toolkit list. Always useful to have for fixing things like pannier clips and broken rack stays. When they happen it will always be where you can't get to a bike shop easily.

I’m going to make sure my wife sees this video; she will be joining me on her first extended bike trip with her new Brompton.

New sub here, thanks for this vid 😀 I'm old, 55, dodgy knees, I think we are on similar wavelength with regards to cycling for fun and taking it slow enough to stop and smell the roses. I'm quite nervous, anxious, I would love to stay out over night on my bike but I just haven't had the courage or inspiration yet... small steps... i liked the idea of buying the tickets as a motivator, i could do that, pre-book a B&B for a specific date and then plan how to get myself there! i bet it would be a huge boost to my self esteem, sense of self worth

Another incredibly informative video. You make it look so easy but I know it isn't...not for me anyway! I'm so happy to have stumbled across your channel. You're now one of my 'go to' source of info on how to get the most out of solo cycling/camping around UK beauty spots/countryside.

Inspirational

Nicely done. It seems like a lot of stuff but it really isn’t, lot if people think you need a lot if things but in reality you just need the basic and just reuse it.

Loving that tent, I camped in a Scarborough last year and took my geertop one man bivvy which I bought from Amazon for £100..It let me down badly and would leak everytime it rained..Enjoyed the video thanks, good little mission

Very interesting and impressed you have been camping for forty years. If you don’t already, I would advise taking a Chain Tool as it is impossible to join a snapped chain without one.