KYRGYZSTAN: Racing the Silk Road Mountain Race

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10 ай бұрын

The Silk Road Mountain Race is a 2000km bikepacking race around Kyrgyzstan. The race is predominately off road taking on high altitude mountain passes and rough tracks as the route winds its way around the country.
KYRGYZSTAN is a short film shot during the 2023 edition of the race and edited by Ryan Le Garrec.
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Пікірлер: 117

@marcellopacifici 10 ай бұрын

Such a great documentary film Josh, I felt I was there. You're a great storyteller and athlete. Editing and colour grading is top notch too

@shred3005 10 ай бұрын

Editing was done by Ryan Le Garrec who does great work. If you haven’t seen his other stuff (and he’s done editing for Josh before) then search out his work. The edit can turn good footage into a great movie

@marcellopacifici 10 ай бұрын

@@shred3005 I'm aware of Ryan's work. Such a fantastic artist. His film "The easiest crossing in the world" moved mo to tears

@shred3005 10 ай бұрын

@@marcellopacifici agreed he’s able to embed so much feeling and emotion into his movies.

@CG-99 10 ай бұрын

Kyrgyzstan is one of the most amazing countries I have ever had the privilege of visiting. You capture the raw beauty very nicely in this video.

@BikepackingAdventures 10 ай бұрын

I've done a fair few ultras now with some vlogging and people always ask how do I find the time. The reality is, the vlog is a very short snapshot of the journey as whole, time management is important as ever. At the end of the day its such a great way of catching memories of the race which will live with you long after the race has finished.

@shalakabooyaka1480 10 ай бұрын

What a sick race

@jills2157 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for taking the time out of the race to film and comment for us, just brilliant coverage and spectacular scenery. Not to mention riding with one hand on some of that terrain. Thanks also to Lukas for additional footage.

@robertsetiawan7854 10 ай бұрын

What a great journey

@daviddesmet9082 10 ай бұрын

Great 🤩

@alanhanley9515 10 ай бұрын

Delightful and a great music score, what a place!

@BikepackingAdventures 10 ай бұрын

2:25 WOW

@omare_biketonature 10 ай бұрын

Epic ride! Congratulations on finishing top 10.

@movingpointcc 5 ай бұрын

Love it! We are adding it to our "long distance cycling stories" collection.

@maximkrivov 10 ай бұрын

Congratulations Josh! What an epic edit too.

@xavierleparisien929 10 ай бұрын

Bravo 😊HelloFromparis 😅

@roncarr7179 10 ай бұрын

Great job, awesome video

@rasmus9311 Ай бұрын

Absolutely breath taking landscapes and climbs ;)

@CA-ub6pf 10 ай бұрын

Cool, and great choice of music!

@dylillama5203 10 ай бұрын

Extraordinary. Thanks for letting us ride along Josh 🙏

@tednruth453 10 ай бұрын

The landscape is just stunning. Awesome job Josh✌️

@Emonk2010 10 ай бұрын

Incredible looking place, not sure if I want to ride a bike over it 😮. Those are some rough old roads. Exceptional effort, congratulations!

@TailfinCycling 10 ай бұрын

Great film Josh, you've really taken the viewer on a close-up journey through this incredibly beautiful & challenging event!

@nankestein1073 10 ай бұрын

Beautifully made, you’re a great team with Ryan. Loved it!

@Ryanlegarrec 10 ай бұрын

He has all the fun and I work hard. Great teams ain’t fair teams 😂

@ctouzelet 10 ай бұрын

Giant Race and fabulous filming/editing. Thanks for sharing.

@mhilde7744 10 ай бұрын

Nicely done!!!! The music, the narrative, the country, and THE EDIT!

@alex_n8863 10 ай бұрын

Awesome film that mate, some what envious! Well done, looked like a great adventure! 👍

@TheYanchau 10 ай бұрын

Great content, great riding Josh... and congratulation to Ryan for the great editing. You guys make a good pair! Keep on inspiring us!

@mej6519 10 ай бұрын

drum and bass is great cycling music, i usually take a lot of ltj bukem and mc conrad with me :)

@chrlmlln9018 10 ай бұрын

Amazing achievement and a great and beautiful and very impressive movie making of this epic, the Silk Road Mountain Race! Well done! Congratulations! God bless you always!

@arcoulant87 10 ай бұрын

Chapeau

@ballernsticker 10 ай бұрын

Killer doc! such a good flow with this nice d&b sound. And huge Respect for this epic effort

@bogdanc2309 10 ай бұрын

Amazing video and well done on completing the race!

@SebBreuer 7 ай бұрын

great man!!! good one

@vanbarrettdesign 10 ай бұрын

Thanks you so much! Well done! Yay, footage from the race!!!

@craigsmith5134 10 ай бұрын

That looks like a crazy mad ride. Good job!

@garethowen2816 10 ай бұрын

Brilliant. Really enjoyed this journey. Inspiring. Well done.

@scottsugimoto8223 10 ай бұрын

Love your videos, Josh ! Great story , great production.

@nurakhmed2176 10 ай бұрын

amazing journey my friend, thanks for sharing 🤜🤛

@edzeppelin933 10 ай бұрын

Fantastic stuff Josh. Thanks for taking us all along! Such a great insight into how tough these races are.

@mojochaser6383 10 ай бұрын

Absolutely awesome vlog! Thank you for sharing and huge congratulations on this mighty race! 💪🏽🚴‍♂️🌎

@markfangen-hall9182 10 ай бұрын

Josh - what a great piece. Brilliant! Thank you so much.

@markcarpenter3245 10 ай бұрын

Great video Josh, congratulations on an epic race!

@davidedwards4676 10 ай бұрын

Josh thanks so much for this, massive welldone done.

@jamesleavesley5501 10 ай бұрын

Top job josh

@joshibbett 10 ай бұрын

Cheers James, hope you are well?

@philtomlinson8220 10 ай бұрын

Love the way you told the story of your ride as a series of snapshots.

@StefanoMantegazza 10 ай бұрын

Great short movie Josh, love it!!

@garygriffin5432 10 ай бұрын

Lots of type 3 fun.

@KevinBikeTour 10 ай бұрын

So much Beautiful scenery. Great riding Josh!

@leesaunders7232 10 ай бұрын

That was epic!🙌🙌🙌Kyrgyzstan looks absolutely stunning! 😮👌👌👌

@svmuele 4 ай бұрын

surreal

@FaiscaaaH 10 ай бұрын

What a ride, chapeau mate !!!!

@ritchequindipan8388 10 ай бұрын

Awesome ride Josh! Great footages and the landscape is stunning and no doubt brutal! Congratulations and well done on finishing another epic ultra endurance race! 👊🏻👊🏻

@TheJoniGomes 10 ай бұрын

Stunning documentary, love the soundtrack. I've watched pretty much every Silk Road Race video on youtube and yours is up there with the best.

@user-jx4dc3fb9w 10 ай бұрын

pwoah. Top job here Josh and Ryan. This is quite something

@ascot1049 10 ай бұрын

Brilliant video, and very well done .

@michaelbudler7369 10 ай бұрын

Incredible video and experience 🙏

@questadventure6594 10 ай бұрын

Best film yet Josh. What stunning landscapes to travel though.

@pedallingsquaresNZ 10 ай бұрын

This video is such a perfect embodiment of ‘it’s about the journey and not the destination’. So much so that you don’t even bother to show the viewer the finish, it just cuts abruptly. I love the symbolism of that. Inspiring edit. Another tidbit also love you mentioning listening to d&b and the music before was (not quite, but similar style) d&b. The way that was edited in was so cool

@milanoreddc5591 10 ай бұрын

Great video Josh, and congratulations on 7th place. 👍

@eddie.on_bikes 10 ай бұрын

Congrats Josh for one more ultra and also Ryan for another awesome edition.

@saucepanmushroomflip 10 ай бұрын

This is tops, the videography and edit is *chefs kiss*

@lyboskaz 9 ай бұрын

Very interesting

@carlhopps 8 ай бұрын

Amazing footage! Seriously considering this event for 2024. Really enjoyed the race recap video too. Great stuff Josh 👍

@joshibbett 8 ай бұрын

Yea you’d love it, kinda like the ht550 on steroids

@harrisonwaugh9368 9 ай бұрын

wicked.

@johnwhittington 10 ай бұрын

Lovely film Josh

@RoadyPacking-CyclingAdventures 10 ай бұрын

Spaghetti pass I think you said? That descent looks like heaven dude!!

@joshibbett 10 ай бұрын

Kegeti pass…. Although the descent was like spaghetti!

@Al_Fresco 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for this video Josh and Ryan! At which point one asks themselves "is this actually a cycling race?!" All that hike a bike seems unnecessary

@jeffkoontz2186 10 ай бұрын

Great film and footage.. have (maybe 'had') some interest in doing something like this - was thinking it might be doable on a gravel bike, but this video hits some reality into that idea. (I know some do). All that hike-a-bike, oof. Congratulations - amazing accomplishment!!

@joshibbett 10 ай бұрын

It would certainly be possible in a gravel bike, but I think a mtb would make it a much more comfortable and enjoyable experience

@uclaalum88 7 ай бұрын

Josh, I loved it! Really well done. With that said, I’d love to see an extended version of this where you didn’t speed up the video clips. I know most people want the abbreviated version (so you gotta speed up the video in places), but for those of us who are looking for videos to watch while we are on our trainers, a full length or extended version (where we can feel like we are riding hard with you) of this ride would be awesome. Just my thought.

@joshibbett 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the feedback, I'll see what I can do next time. What sort of duration would be good?

@fonsovilela1167 10 ай бұрын

Well done Josh!!! A lot of hardness and beauty in your adventure. Thanks for sharing. What footwear did you wear on this trip to manage pedaling and trekking?

@justnoroadbike 9 ай бұрын

Hey Well Dorn, what do u think about your jacket? Looks interesting! You wearing the Abion also at night?

@colingoulding3227 2 ай бұрын

Great achievement one of the toughest ride around. How do you feel about this race, spoilt by the hike a bike?

@joshibbett 2 ай бұрын

The hike a bike is part of it and as a percentage is such a small amount. Plus those hikes take you to some of the most spectacular parts. So all in all I love it

@alessiosaviane8312 5 ай бұрын

Great job! Amazing performance and race. I was wondering what's the beep that I hear throughout the video here and there. Is it the bike computer? I heard it while racing an ultra as well but forgot to ask the guy riding with me and was curious to know. Thanks

@joshibbett 5 ай бұрын

The the sound that a wahoo makes when it automatically starts/ stops

@marcclish 10 ай бұрын

Wonderful film.. who is the music by at the start?

@joshibbett 10 ай бұрын

I’m pretty sure it’s by Alaskan Tapes, @ryanlegarrec should be able to confirm

@Ryanlegarrec 10 ай бұрын

Nope it s a track from epidemic, The Vision by Sonum but it s very much slowed down to sound this way…

@marcclish 10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much.. Alaskan Tapes is a great shout by the way.

@Ryanlegarrec 10 ай бұрын

@@marcclishlove Alaskan Tapes !

@lydiagould3090 7 ай бұрын

Nice documentary ,excellent filming of the scenery. Beautiful but harsh. Was it the hardest race you've done and where did you finish?(position wise)

@joshibbett 7 ай бұрын

Hi Lydia. I'm not sure off it was the hardest race I've done in terms of physical effort as I felt quite in control. But certainly the outside conditions were some of the trickiest to deal with in terms of temperature swings, altitude and availability of decent food.

@nickisauer9626 10 ай бұрын

Why the rush? Type 2 fun.

@esavirtanen6418 8 ай бұрын

Views are amazing, I'd love to do this race but those hike a bikes just look brutal lol. How does the tailfin rack hold up on this sort of terrain? Seemed you packed it quite light? Bivy, sleeping pad, bag, down jacket? Can't more be more than 2kg tops.

@joshibbett 8 ай бұрын

Yea packed fairly light and loosely making use of the volume of the aero pack. I’ve never had an issue reliability wise with tailfin stuff

@samuraioodon 9 ай бұрын

hello josh, i'm wondering if you know when the rear rack bag prototype will be released to public? i like the strap more than the current bag with 2 straps. wondering how much that would cost? thank you.

@joshibbett 8 ай бұрын

I don't think it will be available in that particular form, but the prototype will most likely inform some future designs. However I really don't know the timescale

@markfangen-hall9182 10 ай бұрын

I think I've just seen why you havent used a hike-a-bike harness!

@rossdouglas8131 10 ай бұрын

Josh, what light do you use on your helmet and what is the run time? At night, how do you store your food when you are sleeping to keep critters away?

@joshibbett 10 ай бұрын

The helmet light is an Exposure Joystick. Run time is anything from 1h-36h depending on the mode selected. Food wise critters were not a problem in Kyrgyzstan so I just left everything on the bike.

@smellyelle8422 10 ай бұрын

Josh, this is absolutely remarkable! How do you train for being at 3000m here in the Uk?

@joshibbett 10 ай бұрын

You don’t!!!!

@smellyelle8422 10 ай бұрын

@@joshibbett Just when I thought you Ultra riders couldn't possibly be any more tougher 💪😊

@bricemaieralt 10 ай бұрын

What is the name of the last music in the video?

@Ryanlegarrec 10 ай бұрын

It’s the same track as the intro, only it s a slowed down track so it sounds nothing like the original anyways…

@Ludwig2342. 10 ай бұрын

For some reason our country is quite popular among bikepackers?!

@joshibbett 10 ай бұрын

Because it’s beautiful!

@alanpage8911 4 ай бұрын

OMG = 3000m pass to climb. You need a Sherpa pedaling next to you with oxygen.

@rossdouglas8131 10 ай бұрын

One more, what shoes do you wear? I would think all that hike a bike you gotta have something flexible, but not to flexcible for pedaling.

@joshibbett 10 ай бұрын

I've been using the Shimano ME5. As you say they are a good balance of stiffness for pedalling yet flexible and grippy enough for the hike a bike. They last well too, this pair has done a couple of highland trail 550's, Silk Road and a few other hikeabike heavy bikepacking trips.

@sofianeshl 10 ай бұрын

Is it me or were you a tad bit tired toward the end?

@joshibbett 10 ай бұрын

Just putting it on for the camera!

@longboardoli 9 ай бұрын

What is your camera?

@joshibbett 9 ай бұрын

Just a couple of GoPro 10’s

@joshibbett 9 ай бұрын

And an old Olympus film camera

@skypixel9477 10 ай бұрын

came here looking for a guy named ross ulbricht who created the most popular dark web hidden marketplace and got 2 life sentences in prison but ig this still is pretty interesting