Don’t even know how many times I’ve rewatched this and other films of this nature during the pandemic

Finished the film and read the comments. As a finisher, I think you all did a great job of capturing the feel, size, lonliness and the headspace of the race. I liked both the cinematography and the music selection. There are portions of the race that are crystal clear to me know, nearly 5 years after finishing, and there are entire sections of the route that are nothing more than a blur. The B&W and focus changes captured did a great job of bringing back those feelings. While I appreciate the film, I will echo other comments in stating that it would have been good of this crew to have been held to the same standards that the other film crews were held to this year.

For those that don't ride they won't understand what a ride like that does to a person, it leaves scars and bruises but also leaves you extremely happy with accomplishment. Nothing worth doing is easy. Congrats Josh!

Just a wonderful film, thank you. Josh is a star. Keeping it calm when it gets really hard. Also Lael is always laughing. She's amazing. 😁

Excellent film capturing Josh Ibbett's rookie year on the Tour Divide. I think it's infinitely better than 'I just want to Ride'. Josh seems like an amiable human being, humble and a great athlete. Kudos to him and Hunt for making this film.

After no longer being able to race my bike, from the second I saw bikepacking on youtube I was hooked! Just got back from 4 days bikepacking around my region and now planning a 2 week bikepacking adventure around Sth Island NZ in March. And yes, there is something very liberating living entirely off one's bike...as Leonardo da Vinci said "Simplicity is the greatest sophistication".

This was great. Disagree completely with the top comments here. Kudos for the doc crew for not putting themselves in it and also making an hour+ movie of basically similar footage of a dude on a bike so entertaining. I, for one, have never heard of the race before and only know it now because of this film. I’m personally glad they were allowed to make it. What an absolutely incredible journey to share.

What he’d a few time in the last few months. Never boring to watch. Well done.

Excellent film. Thoroughly enjoyed it and I’d love to (tour) the GDMBR one day. If one thing really struck me from watching this - and this is no criticism of this team’s conduct - it’s the far stricter rules applied to Lael Wilcox’s documenting team. Really did seem to be double standards and I feel the organisers need one set of suitably robust rules for everyone’s media next year.

Loved the film, really captured what I imagine is the mind set necessary to sustain such an effort. Thanks for putting it together.

Required viewing for anyone thinking a bike packing race would be a fun thing to do I reckon. I enjoyed the realistic portrayal of the highs and lows, great scenery and music. Nice work.

Josh and Team, great great film. Great impressions and insights to the tour. Loved every minute of it. Know that you are such an inspiration.

".....thriving The Divide...." awesome quote and film.

Fantastic,, a true story of solitude and a test on your body like no other. Well done josh for the doc.

I think the B&W really shows a rider’s perspective. When deep in the attrition, sometimes you don’t notice the surroundings but only the road ahead

Loved the themes. Captured the excruciating nature of ultra riding for me. I have never ridden an ultra. Congratulations all.

Wow Josh well done, what a fantastic achievement, just watched the film from start to finish and thought it to be the best thing I’ve ever watched on KZfaq, you were open and honest with your emotions and how you were feeling about the challenge, I do hope you do it again, but only when you are ready, and your heads in the race from day one, absolutely brilliant film, thank you Guys, and all the very best to you for 2020.

Loved it. Hope to tour it someday!

Bravo! What a beautiful film.

Loved it. All of it.

Thanks for sharing. 2020 should be interesting. See you there.

I like your documentary very much. Captions, music, stories. Everything.

Fantastic film.... what an epic race ... really enjoyed that 👌🏽

Fantastic, added to my playlist of great adventures

So inspiring .

The next best thing to a really long bike ride is a really good film about a really long bike ride. Great job!

Loved Josh's self-published TD videos! Having the extra footage and commentary is awesome!

I watched Lael go "rogue" on her video, and it's great to know you're one of the folks she hooked up with for the ride. It's the best thing in the world to just ride a few more miles with friends, old and new :)

Great video, Inspirational. Gives me the feeling I should be out there cycling!

Great story, wonderful cinematography and very well edited. Thanks!

Brutal and beautiful, thanks for sharing ;

Really enjoyable film and really wets the appetite to one day maybe do this ride.

21:30 What a shot

Awsome video guys and great insights from the inside perspective of a experienced and talented rider ! More content like this in the near future. :)

Beautiful film. ❤️🎥 Really shared/shows the courage and vulnerability you brave cyclists endure in such races. Breathtaking scenes and landscapes. Very Inspiring!

Ace! Inspirational Josh ... I'm inspired by the eating, and ever changing big landscapes ... not so much by the shivering. Ant

Loved the video. Thank you. Strongly disagree with the criticisms about editing or B&W shots. You captured the gruelingness, the monotony, and the beauty. One slight editing issue: toward the end of the video, date stamp says June 1 at certain points when it seems clear you meant July 1.

The scenery is amazing and Josh's achievement is inspiring. On a purely stylistic note, I wasn't crazy about the amount of dramatic music in the background. I understand the notion of drama and human interest but it felt overplayed to me. Purely my opinion and it doesn't detract from Josh's effort, which is nearly unfathomable.

Awesome heroic effort

Inspirational

i love bikepacking. 영상 잘 보고 갑니다.

So good

great vid.. ride safe !

Inspirational film. What an amazing effort by Josh and all the other riders. Fantastic! 👍🏻 On the movie editing, I liked the b&w and the saturated colour footage, they added to the mood. Great music too. There were a few glitches with the titles showing 1st June instead of 1st July towards the end, but overall I found it very watchable.

This is raddd.

Watching this after Ryan Van Duzers tour divide video makes me realize the expirence is all in the perspective !

Fantastic film Ryan 👍 hope you go in for another shot and beat your own time . Far superior to anything on TV during this shutdown . Thank you

My inner adventurer / explorer is speaking to me while watching this video ...

Great film inspiring ,I need to ride this ,due To C19 think this years out .

Everything you said in the first 2:30 is also true of motorcycle travel. The further from home you get and the tougher the trip, the more people come up to you to connect. I think subconsciously people want to be like that. It’s a lifestyle that has the same attraction as water. People can’t help but want to look at it, touch it and be a part of it because inside, there’s a large part of it in them. Same way with minimal living and traveling. Even those that have chosen to be anchored long to be free somewhere inside.

WOW!!!!!

The best film yet about the divide! Great work!

So many people in the comments are total negative jackasses, man. Its a documentary- If you enjoy the journey it brings you on, power to you. Feel like all the complaints about the editing fall short, because you only need half a hemisphere to realize it's made to make you feel like you're going insane and dragging on for ages.

Well said in word, music and image. Moving footage. I didn't know the cyclist when film began; by end, I was sad that I was not at finish point to greet him. My loss. - Steve Parkin, Utah

Nice film, and another interesting insight into racing the TD. I think some of the time stamps towards the end are wrong “June 1st” rather than “July 1st”??

Beautifully put together and captures the grind of the TD. I guess you will be back there in June 2020? Would be good to know the music - great selection.

Directors of GDMBR could do better, equally applied rules could/should be enforced. Props to Lael for calling it quits when she recognized this distortion and finished the race anyways. I find it refreshing that that she didn't seem to get too bothered and finished anyways, enjoying the experience and still doing very well.

Great film: got me excited for the day my medical advice is to: Get back on the Bike!

I cannot wait to hit the GDMBR!!!

I really identified with the emphasis on “stuff.” Much of the appeal of cycling for me is getting away from all that “stuff” I want to leave behind. The stuff has become more anchor than comfort-my bicycle is freedom.

Life is full of beautiful colour - don't take that away by switching to black and white.

nice

The TD is an affliction, and I hope never to recover...

2.21 was you going over the snake pass, A57 glossop to sheffield.

Great film, well shot and edited. Just adding my voice to the feedback about the time stamps late in the film which denote "June" when you meant "July". If it's at all possible to go back and edit those I believe it would add value to the film. Thanks again for a sensational piece of work and a superhuman effort.

Дальние поездки -- моя страсть и мечта. Иду к мечте..........

Will this gravel wide wheel set hold up on 29er xc hardtail are they capable for that for xc trails etc

Needs more soundtrack consisting of a single sustained note, I reckon...

This is almost a beautiful film, the music is great, the filming as well, but man, the editing is all over the place. Not sure why i needed a black screen with the time and date every couple of seconds, that really kept taking me out of it

What a journey. From a certain point in the trip, it seems clear that you are tired. Are you sure about that handlebar choice ?

I want to know what that mudguard with strap slots is!

Bike hiking from Brush Mountain Lodge to Steamboat Springs in that mud would have likely taken 24 hours.

I can live without( Facebook 👎!!!! ) lots of Love 💗 🚴‍♀️ 🚴

So this is "the other film crew" on the Divide this year? Was disappointed they didn't stand up and either follow the same rules applied to Lael or at least be more present and say "hey we are doing this too, why the discrepancy?" Hopefully my interpretation of what happened is wrong. Didn't bother finishing the movie, nor feel the need to support Hunt Wheels.

I like black & white photography so that didn't bother me; the music was a little too somber, but it conveys the monotony and isolation of biking alone. I think it could have been balanced with some upbeat music to convey accomplishment and happiness of being in nature.

What sunglasses is he wearing?

Awesome video. Thank you. Did you have a chase van. Through Las Vegas looked like you were driving. Not judging just curious. I am planning the divide for June 2020.

I'll echo the other comments: why didn't Josh or the crew raise their hand with "we're doing the same thing" when Lael's case was "discussed"? I am also surprised that the sponsors wouldn't distance themselves from this. I certainly view Hunt Bike Wheels differently after this - they knew they were indirectly enabling double standards, and stayed with it.

I think the use of black and white was great. Especially to differentiate between pre trip prep and arriving in Canada for the race.

A lesson learned for the film maker. An excellent film for sure. It must have taken a lot of efforts and thoughts into this. To be frank, I am not an expert nor even close to be good in film making why would ever gray out almost 1/3 of the whole clip? Viewers are enjoying the magnificent nature as much as the ride but you've just taken the taste away by blacking out the beautiful colors from nature. Plus, please do not use a funeral music. I second that.

Amazing but grim 😎

Okay further into the video it became clear that you did have a chase vehicle. I need to see if I can talk my friend into doing same. I imagine there are sections vehicle cannot go and it’s a matter of meeting up down the road.

When its colds but you need lots of carbo, ice cream

Horrible editing. Made for painful watching. Hope you're not epileptic. I struggled through half of this and gave up. Gave a good impression of the brain fog and suffering encountered during the race. If a video could be so depressing then the ride itself must be far worse. Feel like never riding a bike again. Ugh! Makes Love Island seem like the pinnacle of film making. The dolorous music and nonsensical time jumps are a lesson in how to effectively convey the emptiness of the experience. Excruciating.

Ha. Freehub gets louder and louder as the days wear on.

After watching this and Laels film, both I really enjoyed, but good god how is sexism in biking so bad! Great film and story

This would've been great, but damn, the camera work and editing were so amazingly shoddy. If you're gonna film something epic like this, at least hire a camera operator who can shoot better than most sub-par art students.

Inspiring film, but what is that god awful noise that sounds like a road sweeper 26min in!

For the map geeks & armchair race stalkers, you can follow this ride on a map beside the vid on a 2nd screen at: trackleaders.com/tourdivide19i.php?name=Josh_Ibbett

Don't get me wrong the film is great, but Lael Wilcox caught so much unnecessary shit for also having a camera crew on course in this race, to the point that the additional rules/restrictions placed on her were one of the contributing factors to her scratching. All the while Josh and his film crew stayed completely silent on this matter neither defending her nor rebuking the people attacking the presence of her film crew, why were they not subject to the same scrutiny she was?

Good effort, great route and really tests you physically and mentally. It’s a route that’s really too nice to race if you have never rode it for fun. Well done mate, but the same can’t be said for the editing it kinda spoils the journey. Maybe an 8min edit of all the best bits would be better.

A great achievement, congratulations. However, Label Wilcox got so much shit about a film crew and friends on the course that she scratched. From her film I gather the organizer didn't help either. So WTF is it here with crew, etc., what about equal expectations and "rules" for all competitors? I personally don't think a film crew has any business on the course, even if the competitors are "clean" regarding outside support.....a slippery slope.

12:57 - He's clearly sitting in a support car. Totally against race rules.

An hour of watching a dude ride his bike to the soundtrack of Interstellar

Nice job on the film. But the ending of the race was pretty anti-climatic. They have no one there at the finish to greet people? I was part of a crew for RAAM and they had this finish line with a bunch of people cheering you on no matter where you finished. Pretty amazing accomplishment never the less.

Not to be a shit stirrer because it's a nice movie, but did your team have to jump through any of the hoops that Laels had to?

The other film crew!!! Way to step up when Lael and Rue where catching sh*t!!! Also, it was reported that the film crew provided the rider with dry clothes and a warm RV to change- at least that is what has been reported.

The constant date and time updates make this video unwatchable

liked the film but disliked the black and white was that trying to be arty ?

The divide is arguably countryside with some of the most beautiful and colorful landscapes in the world, then to be ruined with a black and white film, what a shame. Otherwise I loved it!!