NC500 cycle tour by ebike - tips & lessons from my trip

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9 ай бұрын

At the end of June I bikepacked Scotlands North Coast 500 route by ebike. Here along with the best of my road footage I talk about lessons and tips for cycling the NC500 including
- single track roads
- avoiding the worst traffic
- getting food & drink
- wild camping and camping along the NC500
- keeping that ebike battery charged
- what sort of clothes and campaign gear you'll need
The navigation map I used is available at cycle.travel/m... - at the end of the video I spend a couple of minutes talking through each day of this and highlighting where I camped
These 5-6 days were part of a month long cycle tour around the Scottish Islands and Highlands - you'll find my day by day diaries from that tour at • Scotland by ebike - 29...
I'm also on Insta at / ebiketouringlife where I post live updates as I tour

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@eprohoda 9 ай бұрын

yeah, awseome - :)

@erikladefoged6108 7 ай бұрын

Very interesting and inspiring👍

@madbun1312 9 ай бұрын

Hey what a great thing to come across!

@lookoutleo 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for posting your experience . Your cycle camping has evolved similar to mine . It's definitely a tent as hammock in Highlands and Islands is pretty useless. Midge net a must , I have a head one and a body one :) I do same with clothes and sleeping bag and liner . I have light waterproofs top and bottom . All needed here in Scotland to :)

@wayneriley7557 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for taking the time to make these videos, I've got a lot of useful information out of them. I prefer your 'talkover' style to other cycle touring videos where people set up a camera, ride past, then go back and collect it - that must be so exhausting and make for a less enjoyable ride. I hope your channel grows and you keep going.

@Ebiketouringlife 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for that feedback it’s very much appreciated. I do have 3 short sequences I shot where I did just that set up a camera and go back & cycle past and it’s very time consuming and it is indeed a distraction from the cycling. I’m pretty happy with the swivel mount setup I have now (but only thought of after this Scottish tour) as I can just flip the camera from road to me without even stopping.

@wayneriley7557 9 ай бұрын

@@Ebiketouringlife Yea, that seems to work well and I've looked at it for myself. I had been using a small mount when doing some videos on a trip to Thailand and Australia on my Brompton but it kept slipping forward to have very nice shots of the road but nothing else.

@equidance3338 5 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for this! I'm doing this in June! Could I have a chat with you at some point? 🙂

@wilfreeborn1 9 ай бұрын

Great series, thanks for posting these! Do you think using your e-bike with the Bosch batteries and fast chargers is what make this possible? I'm thinking of doing a much slower journey on an e-bike going for roughly 50 miles per day but my charger takes 6 hours to charge which I can't see possible charging at cafés, pubs etc Even been looking at solar charging with battery bank on a trailer is possible in summer.

@Ebiketouringlife 9 ай бұрын

Yes it would be hard to do the way I did with it taking 6 hours for a full charge, I think with the fast charger its a bit over 2 hours and I get to 80% in about 90 minutes. Solar charging only really seems practical if you have a trailer with the whole roof as a panel and are somewhere sunny so you can charge while cycling

@wilfreeborn1 9 ай бұрын

thank you. @@Ebiketouringlife

@jacobijlstra846 Ай бұрын

How about loading yer batery every day for the bicicle. ???

@Ebiketouringlife Ай бұрын

I’ve a couple of videos about that, this was filmed on Skye kzfaq.info/get/bejne/msuVlNCo1anOpYE.html

@Tarmaccyclocross 9 ай бұрын

That’s not cycling

@Ebiketouringlife 9 ай бұрын

I agree. Real cycling means a cast iron penny farthing with solid rubber tyres. Anything more modern is ‘not cycling’ and perhaps even cheating!

@Tarmaccyclocross 9 ай бұрын

@@Ebiketouringlifeslobs bikes its a motorised vehicle get yourself a moped. So you think it’s progress 🤣all it will make is kids even lazier and fatter you’ll get more exercise staying at home on the sofa scratching your arse. When I meet people ( I won’t say cyclists because they are not ) they always make an excuse oh it’s my knees or it’s my back it’s as if they know they are cheating 🤣and don’t get me started on the deregulated lunatics on the trails the quicker they are banned the better. Have a watch of the video of the 90 year old retired vicar who rode the length of Britain under his own power and be rightfully ashamed