Well done!!!

Wow.

El Stelvio de Casielles ?

What do you think about going to the top with a GS 1250 adv, panniers and pillion? I’m a little scared to try 🧐

Thx for sharing

nice vid! Im hoping to do similar route. I ride with 1 hand too 🙂

When things go wrong. One after another lol.

You need to be fit for that . Good luck with the challenge I'm sure you will do well. I won't be partaking I have a puncture.

Well done gents! That ain't no easy task, I know.👏👏👏

Good training for the Fred, I must give it a try on my new bike one day.

Brilliant...this is England.... Im gonna count to 13...... 13 ? 😅😅 We live local to Mow.. Beast of an Hill... 👌

Well done Ian, good effort 👍

Nice wheels bud. I spent a fortune getting a carbon Orbea. For what I spent on that, I coulda totally replaced everything on my Specialized that needing doing for less than half the cost. I never really rode that carbon bike, felt too rigid even if it was light as a feather. That's good going with three rides of that size in that time. I could only ever take hills slow and steady, and having ridden a 25% hill I know how it makes ya feel. I thought my lungs were gonna jump out my chest. That was great watching that, brought back many memories of when I was as daft as you doing this kinda stuff. Brilliant stuff, stay safe mukka

Mr Itchy Boots! It looks like a perfect bike for those lanes 👌

Oh heck

It's an unbelievably stunning area. I visited the same areas by car back in 2018 and met the free roaming cows. Did you not go up to the lakes at Covadonga? Si thi from another Yorkshireman.

Sure you’ve figured it out by now but just tap the button on the bottom right and the map will move with you and save all that tapping on the screen. 👍

You probably won't believe what I'm gonna tell you now. To look at me now at 23 stone and a lazy bustard, hard to believe that my highest mileage for cycling in a day is 118 miles on a training ride. That was cos we got lost and took a wrong turn. In 2013, at 17 stone in weight, we decided to do a charity cycle ride from John O'Groats to Lands End. Well, I did it !!! Rode every hill it threw at me and enjoyed every minute of it. I used to get to 60 miles and felt I'd just warmed up. I'm a weirdo like that. Hills killed me but on the flat I was like a BP supertanker and took some stopping.😁😁 There's a video on my channel of it. Get y'self a handlebar bag and a pack of fig rolls, keeps ya energy levels up and you can eat on the go. I ate 2 packs a day on that trip and we did 80-90 mile days for 12 days on the trot. I just shit like a goodun. Great vid, apart from the punctures, I bet that felt great.👏👏👏👏👏👏

Great series of video's, im off on my own in July, and I can't wait.

great vid !! what route did you take to get back to uk ?

Looks a whole lot of fun.

Like the way you got ahead of the traffic, nice move. You caught a bad day for weather, but that looks a nice twisty road with some great views thrown in. Would be great on a hot summers day. as long as the traffic is light. Thanks for sharing the alternative to Winnats Pass

Id love to get in touch with you and discuss your journey and raft of experience. 2 of us have a ferry booked for Santander in June. We are only near Preston.

Bastard indeed! I had that on a charity cycle ride from JOG to Lands End. Went to put my foot on the cleat to clip in and it spun and my shin slid down the thing. Ouch moment also.

I enjoyed your technical review and judgement on the tyres. Especially at 10:04. Very funny, this is my kind of commentary. By the way, I've got the CRF300L and I changed to Trackers which are pretty good, but even they can find themselves going sideways when it gets slippery.

The best vid I watched on you tube , favourite moment when you fall and go pro cut at the end , thanks for info deffo Gona check this road .

Really enjoyed this ❤

That looked steep even on camera. I expect you've ben reminded how tiring it is riding off road. As kids we used to have Bultaco bikes in the quarries and tracks on Portland. Used to ache all over after a day on the bike. Got quite used to falling off😁😁 Fly tippers...scumbags. Do many people moan at you for riding the trails? Funny things, people, but then I would imagine some off roaders have just blasted past them in the past so they tar everyone with the same brush. That geek squad you passed looked "special" Feckin hate deep puddles, ya never know what's lurking in there to throw you off.🤔🤔 I did consider another GoPro but then remembered all the problems I had with the Hero 7. Why thhese manufacturers don't make a camera with bluetooth record straight to the camera I'll never know. I get that these adapters make them money, but the customers soon get pissed off with them and will look for alternatives. Glad you got through that without binning it before ya holiday.

I`m going to sound like a total newb here but I had no idea such routes, allowing motorbikes, existed in the Uk.

Just be careful uploading content with you touching your phone/nav on the move Only takes 1 clown to send it to the poloce reporting/dashcam email, and youve hung yourself.

I'm from Sheffield always up houndkirk etc .

Get a dunlop d606 on the back pal

Been there ! tyres fitted Mitas E0-7 last year on my Himalayan really happy with them

there pritty close to me down just passed matlock been looking to adventure on some lanes when i get new bike. Looking good what tyres you got on ?

Great vid.. did good 👌

Absolutely cracking series, well ridden! 👍

👌👌👌👌👍👆

LOL that lane at 9:17 is a bugger. It had me stuck halfway up on the Tenere in the pissing rain :O) A good 20 mins just to get going again - no traction whatsoever in the rain.

Your phone not mess up your view?

All local lanes to me as well - just south of you with a Tenere. You did well on those rocky steps and climbs.

The opening dates for the passes are well timetabled. You will have passed signs telling you that the Col d’Aubisque was closed soon after passing Eaux-Bonnes and I’m sure that there will have been similar signs early on on the road to the Col de Tourmalet as well. May is still a bit early in the season to be touring in either the Pyrenees or the Alps.

I’ve got a theory that Ramblers only exist to make other people miserable. Very well ridden anyway mate, great lanes and the bike looks superb. The Honda stock tyres are really good on road and hard-pack but not so good on the lanes you’re doing….or dry grass surprisingly. I use Michelin Trackers at 15/20 psi for a good road/lane pressure with extra thick inner tubes. They’ll normally get you through (and up) most stuff. Another thing on steep downhills is to pull in the clutch and go down on the back brake so you definitely don’t get any engine drive. In my old trials riding days (around Ashbourne in the 70’s) you’d have a decompressor which was brilliant.

Cracking days riding!

Great vid. The go-pro issue could be battery heat which is solvable using a powerbank, and also saves having to change batteries every farts-end. Just bought an Osmo4 which could be another way of solving that problem.

Great choice!

Great to see the small Honda, you’ll have plenty of fun on that. From experience, ditch the original tyres for Michelin Trackers, ditch the original mirrors for Double-Take enduros, and get a rear rack to give you something to drag the back end of the bike round a bit if you do lanes on your own. Well done for the snow attempt……..we’ve all been there. 😂😂👍

80 euros cheap?

What time of year did you go bud.. lovely views

Well done getting that out of that, it seemed quite deep. Worth a play though😂

Well done getting the bike back.