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Hello. I’m Darren Alff from www.bicycletouringpro.com. In this video I’ll be talking about my recently completed bike tour across Sweden, Finland and Norway… and I’ll be dishing the details on my new Co-Motion Cycles Siskiyou touring bicycle (a very unique bicycle with a Pinion gearbox and a Gates carbon belt).
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Hello everyone I’m Darren Al from bicycle tpro.com and I am live in umia Sweden right now it is a little early it’s 5:56 p.m. here in Sweden right now and I said that we would be starting at 6: PM so I just started the broadcast now a
Few minutes early to let people kind of come in and know that we would be starting in just a moment so um thank you for showing up and I I look forward to starting here in just a just a moment so like I said I’m in umia Sweden right
Now just having completed a monthlong bike tour across Sweden Finland and Norway and yeah and now I’m here in umia I’ve rented this apartment I’ll give you a tour maybe I posted a short Tour on Facebook earlier today but maybe while we waiting for everyone to come in we
Still got three or four minutes to wait um before I begin I will give you a quick tour of where I am one second here gotta unplug my computer and I’m just posting on social media too to let people know that we’re starting Facebook Twitter Instagram
Snapchat okay there we go okay so we are in the kitchen right now and there’s a little table here this is where I’ve been spending most of my time here in umia I’ve been here for about five or six days I got here yes last Sunday so
Almost a week um but this is the kitchen and I don’t know it’s kind of bright outside but there’s this really cool like purple plant I don’t know what it is but I want to get that at home but yeah little kitchen area here once again if you’re just tuning in um
I’m Darren Al from bicycle turn pro and we’ll be starting the webinar in just a moment I started it a few minutes early just to let people come in and know that we I’m here and we will be starting so hang tight just two more minutes or so
In the meantime I’m giving you a tour of my uh apartment that I’ve rented here in umia Sweden so there’s the bathroom nothing super exciting there there’s a little bath tub in there this is the bedroom and yeah it’s it’s okay just there’s a good view outside
I’ll show you that so now we’re in like the entryway here and I’ve got all my stuff kind of hanging up over here the the person I’m renting the apartment from there’s two people that own this place it’s like a guy and a girl that live here in Sweden the guy is a
Musician so he’s got his keyboard and music stuff over here in the corner but this side of the room if I can figure out how to show it to you okay there it is is basically the living room and yeah it’s nice it’s got a TV
Couch and all that sort of thing out here is my favorite part this is whoa it’s bright this is the patio outside and I’ve got a pretty good view I’m up here on the top floor of this building so it’s really bright sorry guys but um yeah a little patio out here
I sit out here usually in the morning when it’s not so hot and U work on my computer so anyways this is where I am now having completed my month-long Bike Tour across Sweden Finland and Norway and I’m here to do work for the next month on
Bicycle touring Pro and to edit all the photos and the videos and content that I created basically over the last month so it is 6:00 here in umia Sweden right now thank you for showing up I’m going to plug my computer back in and I think it is time to begin
So once again for those of you who maybe don’t know me my name is Darren Alf and I run the website at bicycle touring pro.com I’ve been running the website there at bicycle tpro.com since 2007 so a little bit over 10 years now and for the last 17 years or more now actually
I’ve been riding my bicycle all around the world I started bike train at the age of 17 with a month-long bike trip from Oregon to Mexico down the California coastline and then I just got addicted and started going all over the place I’ve cycled across the United
States uh six times in six different directions and I’ve cycled across dozens and dozens of different countries all around around the world um on just about every continent and yeah and so for the last 10 years um I’ve been running bicycle train pro.com where I help people from
All around the world learn how to conduct their own amazing bike tours whether it be a short like two-day Bike Tour near where they live or a multi-year long adventure that takes them all the way around the world most people however that are usually that I’m working with and helping to plan their
Bike trips are like planning something between just a few days and a few weeks so like maybe you know one week to two weeks that’s like honestly like the most common length of the bike tours that most people are doing so anyways that’s kind of who I am I run bicycle tpro.com
I’ve written four books about cycling the most popular of which are the bicycle turn blueprint which is the book it’s like a textbook it’s 400 pages long about how to conduct a bike tour anywhere in the world so if you’re new to bike touring and you want to get
Started that is the book that I recommend you read um my other book is much skinnier it’s called the essential guide to touring bicycles and that book is about basically like what is a touring bicycle and what you should look for if you’re in the market for your
First Touring bike so anyways that’s who I am um I think one of the things that I’m was proud of having run bicycle TR Pro for 10 plus years now is the fact that like not only am I teaching people how to do bike tours but I’m actually
Actively doing it myself like I’m not just like sitting behind a computer and telling you what to do um or how to do it and I’m not like curate just curating the stories of other people who have gone on bike tours um I’m actually going off on long-distance bike tours
On a regular basis and um constantly kind of updating um my own strategies and the strategies products techniques that I recommend to you guys and other people all around the world so I’m kind of I’m really proud of that fact and I think that’s kind of the number one thing that
Maybe Separates Me from other people or organizations out there is the fact that I I am actively doing these bike tours um myself so anyways thank you so much for tuning in um it’s been a really like awesome summer so far because bicycle TR Pro is
At its peak right now and so many people are visiting the website and reading my book and sending me messages on social media and sending me pictures from their bike tours all around the world and I think that’s like what keeps me going more than anything is like when I get a
Photo or a video from you guys along with like a sentence or two that says like hey AR you know I read your book or I watched your videos and now here I am out on the road you know and then you send me a picture with your bike and and
You in the photo I think that’s really really cool so please keep it up keep that stuff coming I really really appreciate it can you guys hear me okay I just want to make sure um I am not looking at the actual webcast page right now but if you’re watching on
YouTube there should be a chat box somewhere whoops there should be a chat box uh on the right or something and I am not going to be looking at that right away but let me I’m I’m looking here hello from Houston hello from Canada hello from Finland hello from Denmark Moscow
Germany Brazil North Georgia is that the state or the country um California borgon Brazil Denmark Romania Wales umia Sweden hey hey Lily how are you um Germany Norway Spain Jordan Saudi Arabia Korea um where else Hong Kong Czech Republic Gulf region Mexico Serbia UK cool guys thank you so much Italy
California Paris France uh South Australia Ontario Canada Missouri Illinois Mexico Houston Switzerland Taiwan Prague Israel hello so thank you guys so much for tuning in um what I want to do today because I just recently completed a month-long Bike Tour here in Sweden Finland and Norway and because I
Just completed that trip I thought now would be the perfect time for me to talk about what it’s like to go bicycle touring in this part of the world it’s a part of the world that many people are interested in traveling on their bicycles so um yeah now that I’m here I
Think it’s a good time to talk about it um in addition to that I want to talk about my brand new commotion Cycles cisu touring bicycle um which is a new bike that I just got for this trip and I’ve really only used it now for one month um
But I’ve gotten so many questions about that I want to talk about that as well and then after I do that I’m gonna open up the broadcast for questions and answers so if you guys have any questions that uh you think I can help you with with this is the time to ask
Those questions and to get an immediate response so to begin here I’m going to be kind of talking about my Sweden Finland and Norway trip but if you’re interested in my bike just stay tuned I’m going to try to make it short um and I’ll talk about that second and then
We’ll do the Q&A after that also I should say that um I probably won’t be looking at the comments while I’m talking because it’s hard for me to like read them and think and talk all at the same time I’m just not that smart so um
Feel free to comment on anything I say um keep it positive please but uh I probably won’t be looking at those comments until I’m I’m done so um anyways I see you guys commenting now like yeah questions about the bike hello from Nepal from Finland Japan Etc cool thank you so much
For showing up um okay let’s begin shall we so Sweden Finland and Norway are the three countries that I just finished writing through and Sweden Sweden Finland and Norway are three of the northernmost countries in all of Europe um if you don’t know where those countries are you
Should maybe check a map right now because I’m going to mention um some places uh not only the countries themselves but I might mention some cities and stuff that you might want to know where they are but um before I I Was preparing this webinar and trying to think of like everything that
I know about these three countries and what I realized is I’ve actually spent a lot of time traveling on my bicycle in all of these countries Sweden Finland and Norway uh in Finland I’ve spent 36 total days in Finland in Norway I’ve spent 76 total days and in Sweden I’ve
Spent 107 days so in total I have like over seven months worth of experience bicycle touring in these three countries combined and for someone who’s not from Europe at all I think that’s a pretty good amount of time and a pretty good amount of experience so I
Feel like I have a good sense of these countries even though I’m not actually from here um and maybe it’s a good thing that I’m not from here because I have like an Outsiders perspective of what these places are like I know a lot of people some people watching today might
Be from these three countries um and and it might be strange or uh something you know my perspective might be different than yours because you are from this place but I’m going to share what I think of Sweden and Finland and Norway today um I think if I had to say like
The biggest difference between these three countries I would say that Norway is the most distinct because it has Hills um and it has like very Scenic Waterfront like with mountains that just dive down deep into the water whereas Sweden and Finland together are kind of very similar um they’re much
Flatter overall although there are Hills in both countries but um Sweden and Finland are are very much like lakes rivers forests and that’s pretty much it for just like miles and miles and miles or kilometers and and kilometers just the whole country lakes rivers and forests so um if you want something
That’s kind of flat uh Sweden and nor or Sweden and Finland are like the places to go but if you’re up for a little bit more of a challenge Norway is fantastic and the scenery is spectacular but you are going to be challenged a bit more because there is more climbing to do
There um yeah when is the best time to visit these these three countries it’s definitely during the summertime if you’re planning a bike tour um the months of June July August September I have been here for all of those months and and I think it’s all great I think
What you should expect generally however is especially in Norway I would say um more than anywhere else is is cold temperatures at times even during the summer months and and you just got to be ready for that it’s not terribly cold during the summer but it is chewy and
And you’re going to want to have a good rain jacket good set of rain pants um a good fleece you know jacket to keep you warm and and that sort of a thing so um yeah June July August September all of that is good the other fantastic thing
About coming here during the summer months is that the sun practically never sets um depending on where you are exactly in these three countries but for this bike tour that I just completed I I spent much of my time up above the Arctic Circle um and once I got above
That Arctic Circle then the Sun never went down at night it would be two in the morning and the sun would be up so that took a little getting used to to be honest um but it really didn’t like upset my sleep schedule or anything
Either so um I think I think it’s a good thing overall though because it allows you to cycle for so much longer during the day or to just have a more enjoyable day overall I I this last fall I completed a bike tour in Ecuador and Colombia in South America and because
Those countries are essentially right on the equator Ecuador is on the equator um the night came very quickly by six o’clock at night I had to be in Camp or in a hotel or something because it was dark whereas here there were several nights on my recently completed bike
Trip where I would be cycling at night at 7 o’ 8:00 9 o’ 10 o’ at night sometimes and and it was perfectly light outside so um I kind of enjoyed that because I’m I’m much more of a night person I don’t like I don’t really like
Waking up at 5 o’clock in the morning to go bike at you know as soon as the sun comes up so um anyways that’s just something to keep in mind is the fact that during the summer months the sun essentially does not go down um in Sweden Finland and Norway so anyways and
Then finally the the other thing that I wanted to to mention is the direction that the wind blows because I’ve ridden in these three countries in all sorts of different directions and I’ve noticed for the most part it’s a generalization but I’ve noticed for the most part that
When I was going north going from the south up north I had a bit of a headwind but when I was going the other direction I had a bit of a Tailwind so if if it was me and I was choosing any direction to go across any of these countries I
Would definitely choose to go from north to south versus the other way around and if you’re going east or west I would probably go from the West to the east instead of from the East to the West so um just some things to keep in mind if
You are indeed planning a bike tour in this part of the world one of the things I guess I want to mention now is like why I love Sweden Finland and Norway because it’s honestly like one of my favorite parts of the entire world and many of you who who have been
Following me on bicycle turn pro know that like I’ve been slowly making my way across all of the countries in Europe and I’ve kind of been focusing on that recently um and right now there’s 50s something countries I believe in Europe and I’ve I’ve ridden my bicycle across
All of them except for three and those three countries are Russia bellarus and Cyprus so I’ve been to every other country in Europe on my bicycle and for whatever reason I left Sweden Finland and Norway Until the End actually I know exactly what the reason was the reason
Was everyone told me Sweden Finland and Norway were the most expensive countries in the whole world and I was afraid of going here because I was I thought it was going to be so expensive that I couldn’t afford it or couldn’t stay here here very long um the
Reality is I’ve like I said I’ve spent seven months here so I’ve spent a considerable amount of time yes it is expensive but it’s not that expensive and it’s worth every cent so I’m just going to list some of the things that I really like about Sweden
Finland and Norway right now um the first thing is the boundless nature like if if you’re a nature person if you like lakes and forests and rivers and streams and Wildlife and edible plants and that sort of thing then this is the place for you um gosh I just love the nature
Especially you know there’s there’s not a lot of places in the world where there’s just so much nature that you can have like go to a lake and have it all to yourself you know there’s so many parts in the world where I don’t know
Like if you’re in New York City and you go to Central Park you’re sharing that park with thousands of other people and it’s not like you could say that that’s nature because there’s a tree but it’s not the same as being out in the forest in Finland or Sweden or something and
Having the entire place to yourself and that’s what I really like along the same lines there’s not a lot of people in these three countries overall like a lot of the towns are pretty small that you’re going to be passing through and I kind of enjoy that I mean the traffic is
Light there’s not a lot of people out there you’re not going to be bugged at Night by I don’t know people walking past your campsite or anything like that and so yeah I really enjoyed that that aspect of it as well again like I’ve mentioned this in other videos and articles that I’ve
Written about Northern nor uh northern Europe is that these three countries Norway Sweden and Finland they have What’s called the right to roam it’s also called like Al right or something something like that and it’s it’s basically a rule or a law or something that uh says that you
Have the right to enjoy nature as long as you like treat it respectfully and don’t leave a heavy Mark so in these three countries you can basically hike or ride your bike or Camp pretty much anywhere you want as long as it’s not on private property so um I’m
Going to be releasing soon on the bicycle TR Pro YouTube channel about 25 new videos from this bike tour that I just completed and you’re going to see that almost every single night of the trip um I just camped in the forest somewhere and I wasn’t breaking any laws
By doing that like I might be in some other parts of the world um and yeah it was just fantastic so I think you know like I just mentioned that this part of the world can be very expensive but that’s one of the great things about
Coming here on a bike tour is the fact that you do not have to pay to camp in the forest right um yeah let’s see uh oh yeah okay so my next point was again like I just completed this three-month long bike tour in Ecuador
And Colombia not too long ago and one of the downsides to that tour was the fact that there are not a lot of roads to cycle on in those two countries like there are essentially two roads on which you can cycle whereas here in Norway Sweden and Finland there’s actually a
Plethora of roads that you can choose from um going in all sorts of different directions and the roads are generally paved and in very good condition there’s also a pretty vast network of dirt roads and bike paths um that sort of a thing but the roads if you’re going cross
Country are generally like a small two-lane road um you know Vehicles passing one way and one way and the shoulder might be small but there’s just not a lot of traffic um and there were there were many points on this bike tour that I just completed where I would be
Cycling for a good 20 minutes maybe and I wouldn’t see another car or vehicle of any kind so it’s pretty awesome from a bicycle turn standpoint to have spectacular scenery almost no traffic and when there is traffic you might get just like five cars in a row passing you and then you
Have a break for a little bit and then five cars passing you for a little bit and then a break right so it’s compared to so many other parts of the world where you you know you might have to be riding on a high a busy highway or contending with big semi trucks
Um it’s I don’t know I think the cycling up here is really overall quite spectacular another great thing about this entire part of the world Sweden Finland and Norway is that pretty much everybody speaks English so if you can understand me right now you can get by really really well here in Sweden
Finland and Norway um I I kind of like going to countries where I don’t speak the language like I think that uh adds another element to the overall tour but um I know that for a lot of people who do travel they’re kind of afraid or maybe a little timid about going to
Places where they they can’t communicate so Sweden Finland and Norway are are all three great countries to go to because the locals speak English and some of them are really really good at it um they’re like I I mentioned this on I think an Instagram post on bicycle train
Pro but Finland is the most literate country in the world and um Sweden is not so far behind I don’t think so yeah just from an education standpoint uh the people are really really great um everyone speaks really good English not everyone I did run into a few people
That didn’t speak English but like three maybe in a month so anyways the other good thing about Sweden Finland and Norway is that it’s great for both men and for women um Norway especially I don’t know why but I’ve seen more solo women in Norway traveling
On bicycle than I have in any other country anywhere in the world um in a lot of countries I never see any women on a bicycle um but in all of these countries Sweden Finland and Norway I have seen women on bikes but in Norway especially again I don’t know exactly
Why but I’ve seen more women traveling alone there than anywhere else in the world so um it’s a it’s a very safe place um just a when I announced earlier that you know I was in Sweden and I’d be doing this webinar somebody said be careful it’s dangerous those refugees up
There causing all sorts of trouble and I don’t know what I think some people have been watching the TV too much or something but that’s generally just not true um there are refugees here in umia Sweden where I am now you see them around town and stuff um but honestly
They’re just normal people going about their lives I talk to them all the time and ask where they’re from and what they’re doing here now and they’re playing with their kids in the park and they’re just normal people so um generally I think those statements that I get sometimes about places being
Dangerous in the world you know I’ve been to far I’ve been to dangerous places in the world and Sweden Finland and Norway are not those places um so I kind of laugh a little bit when people say be careful it’s dangerous in Sweden um because it’s not
So yeah that’s all I have to say Obviously like some bad things do happen here of course like but it’s not like a widespread problem like it is in so many other parts of the world the other good thing I think about traveling here in northern Europe is is
The fact that the the main resources that you need to have access to on a longdistance bike tour are actually very easy to find so the the main things that you need when you go bicycle touring are food water gas for your camp stove potentially um internet access and
Electricity and all of those things things are very very easy to find in Sweden Finland and Norway um there are supermarkets spaced out at regular intervals um at you know maybe the longest you’d ever have to go is like two days um before getting to a
Supermarket as far as water goes a lot of the time you can just scoop the water straight out of the stream um and the locals are doing the same thing so it’s not like uh I’m a dirty bike tourist and I’m just living off the land like a lot
Of people do it um gas is is easy to find especially if you’re getting it from a gas station but there’s also plenty of because this is an outdoor sort of paradise there are plenty of Sports and Outdoor stores selling like propane butane you know camp stove sort of
Fuels um electricity is abundant you can stop at libraries gas stations restaurants charge your smartphone or your camera battery or your laptop or whatever you might be traveling with and as far as Internet access goes the internet here is actually really really good I think Finland has some of the
Best internet access that I’ve experienced anywhere in the world um when I was in Finland I paid $220 for a SIM card for one month and for 20 EUR I had unlimited phone text and data on my on my smartphone and with that I was like out I I could be out in
The middle of the forest you know one kilometer from the Russian border on my laptop computer in my tent and I could be watch like streaming Netflix on my computer like it and it was you know in HD so yeah it’s really really nice um to be I think like a
Modern bicycle Traveler out in the out in the woods and yet still connected back to home and I think that brings a certain piece of Mind as far far as like personal safety and stuff goes a lot of people nowadays don’t want to be um disconnected in case something were to
Go wrong and so it’s kind of nice to be able to just have your phone um and call your friends and family back home just to stay in touch or in the event of an emergency to call for help so yeah really really great another great thing
About Sweden Finland and Norway is that public transportation is pretty darn easy not necessarily cheap but definitely easy um the buses especially um I found to be very easy to take your bicycle on I never had any problem taking the bus in any three uh any three
Of these countries um I have had a little trouble as some of you know taking the train in h Sweden um but uh I think that they’re fixing that so hopefully it’ll be better in the future but yeah the buses like I would recommend traveling on the bus more than
The train if you do need to to you know jump over a certain part of the country but um yeah what else what else oh last thing I just want to say um from a positive perspective is that if you’re not the sort of person that likes to
Camp like I love camping and I could just stay in my tent forever out in the forest or whatever but I know that there are a lot of people that don’t like to do that and if you’re a person that wants to see this part of the world but
Doesn’t necessarily want to camp or you want to have a shower and a warm meal each day there are ways to do that here there are actually hotels um there are lots of campgrounds actually that have small cabins that you can rent um those cabins usually cost anywhere from like
$50 to $100 per night uh at a campsite and the prices go up from there as well but um but yeah so there there are ways to do it and there all are also a number of tour companies that are offering guided and self-guided bicycle tours in these three countries so if you
Want to see Sweden Finland or Norway by bike and you kind of uh want like the whole trip planned for you you want the meals fixed and you want to stay in a nice hotel in a Scenic Place or whatever um there are there are number of different countries offering tours in
This part of the world in fact if you go to bicycletouring pro.com right now and up in the main menu there’s a button called bike tours if you click that button you will see a number of bike tours that I have gone on myself in Norway and Finland I don’t have one from
Sweden on there but um these are guided or self-guided bike tours that I’ve done in these countries and I would recommend all of them the three companies that I’ve I’ve traveled with um are active Norway so activ norway. they they have bike Crews all across Norway and they’re probably the
Biggest company or they are the biggest company um there’s another company called be B frik and I’m not exactly sure what that means something about mountains but um be Frid and they’re in Norway and they have a I think a couple small bike tours near B in Norway and
Then there’s another company called upat UI t k bike tours upk bike tours and they operate in central Finland and they’ve got a really cool kind of lakes and Forest tour they’re in central Finland that I would recommend so yeah that’s those are the positives um I’m
Just going to get to the negatives really quick because there’s just a few and then we’ll talk about my bicycle um the negatives to cycling in Sweden Finland and Norway the most obvious of obvious of which is the cost um like I said like things like Transportation are pretty expensive food is expensive
Drinks are expensive lodging is expensive um but it can be done affordably and and I kept track on this particular Bike Tour the one I just completed um and figured out exactly how much my one monthlong Bike Tour cost you want to try to guess here exactly how
Much it cost me for one month of bike touring in Sweden Finland and Norway leave a comment let me know what do you think okay I’m gonna see what you guys had to say um but so one month bicycle touring in Sweden Finland and Norway how much did it cost what do you
Think anyways okay I’ll tell you how much it cost it cost me $722 76 that’s US dollar so one month of bike tring cost $22.76 Cent that’s about 676 EUR and if you divide that by the number of days that I was on the road that comes out to about
$26 per day or about 23 EUR per day so that’s what I was spending on this most recent Bike Tour um for some of you that might be a lot of money for other people you might think hey I can afford 20 six bucks a day no problem um so yeah that’s
I I think that’s encouraging to know that like hey it’s not that expensive you know um keep in mind I was camping so I didn’t pay I only paid for one night of of camping on my trip and that price does not include the airfare to
Get to Europe which for me was like another $900 or something excuse me so um anyways price I think the other downside especially if you choose to travel in Finland or Sweden is the fact that because the C these two countries are so big um and so vast that the landscape
Can become a bit boring because the country is essentially flat it’s forested and it’s just basically like Forest Lake River Forest Lake River Forest Lake River Forest Lake River Forest Lake River for days and days and days and personally like I really enjoy that and I think like I think it’s
Really nice and I could do that for several more months to be honest but I know that some of the people that I met on the road recently um especially like people that were traveling through Sweden and Finland and had been there for a couple weeks um they were starting
To get a little bit tired of like the endless Forest so that’s just something to keep in mind the cold I already mentioned Norway especially is pretty darn cold um and you have to be prepared for that even during the summer months one of the good things however about the
Cold especially like what I encountered on this most recent trip is that the cold kept the mosquitoes away so I didn’t get I didn’t even see a mosquito until the last three days of my bike tour once the weather started to warm up as soon as the weather started to warm
Um it was more comfortable to ride in but those mosquitoes started coming out and the mosquitoes are probably in my opinion the worst part of cycling in Finland and Sweden especially the mosquitoes are not as bad in Norway and that might be because of the cold maybe
Because of some of the wind coming in off of the coast but um yeah the mosquitoes can get pretty bad up here so you need to be prepared for that you need to probably have some bug spray um you want to pick your campsites very very carefully and you want to make sure
That your tent that your using is completely bug proof you want to make sure the zipper is you know working and closing properly that you don’t have any holes in your mosquito netting Etc so that’s basically it do you guys have any other questions about um Sweden Finland
Or Norway before I start talking about my bicycle I know the bike is something that a lot of you guys are interested in okay I’m looking at the comments now if you have any questions about Sweden Finland or Norway let me know if I don’t see any questions I’ll just move
On someone’s saying I used about $600 us to bike in Norway last summer so that’s about on par with where I was right and obviously like like when it comes to cost I could have done my trip for a whole lot less if I wanted to and I was
Like really trying to pinch my pennies but I honestly like I would go into the store and buy whatever I wanted and not look at the price um so I wasn’t like you know I wasn’t trying to be super budget conscious or anything I was just
Simply trying to get the stuff that I wanted and be comfortable right so price I was not worrying about price and I like I said I could have done it much more cheaply if I really wanted to and and I certainly could have spent more if I wanted to as well um
Frederick e says do you have plans to go to gutland in Sweden um not this year no sorry um okay Mr L says are you in umia Sweden now yes I’m in umia right now that’s where I’m broadcasting from so okay so let me talk about my new bike because
That’s the other the second half of what I promised to talk about and then after I talk about the bike I will open it up for Q&A and you can ask me about anything you want you can ask me about Sweden Finland and Norway my new bike or
Anything else if you need help planning your bike tour this is the time to ask me a question so let’s talk about my new bicycle um as I said before and and many of you know this if you’ve been following me at any point for the last
Five years or so but since 2012 I’ve been writing a commotion Cycles Pangia touring bicycle it’s a high-end bike built by an an American bicycle manufacturer called Co motion cycles and they they build custom bikes like that’s their thing um and they really like try to cater the bikes to fit you properly
That’s one of the things that makes them different is like they they really Pride themselves in getting you a bike that is not only like super high-end and beautiful but that that’s going to fit you well and be super comfortable for you so um I’ve had this commotion Cycles
Pangia tan bicycle is the best by far the best bike I’ve ever owned um but that bike has 26inch wheels on it which is like a very standard wheel size all around the world and that’s why I got that coosan Pangia tourin bicycle is I wanted a bike that I could take anywhere
In the world now this year I I ordered a new bicycle and once again I went back to commotion cycles and I got the commotion Cycles s touring bicycle now this is it’s it’s a bike that’s very similar in appearance to the Pangia touring bicycle that I had before the main
Differentiator is the fact that the sasu touring bicycle has 650b wheels and tires uh which is the same thing as 275 um if you’re familiar with this but the the most common size wheels and tires for bicycles especially in the Tour room Bike World are 26 in or 700 C which are
Larger the diameter is larger on 700 SE um and these 650b wheels and tires that I have now on my new sasu touring bicycle are kind of in between these two different sizes and I guess the advantage to a bike like this is that um
The the fact that the wheel is a little bit larger than on the Pangia means the bike just rolls a little bit smoother I guess is the easiest way to explain it um it’s hard to describe any difference that you might feel just talking to you but um yeah the
Bike rolls a little bit easier um and and honestly like after a month of riding the sisku turn bicycle I do notice the difference now I didn’t really notice it at first like so much I was like ah it feels almost exactly the same as my panga but I do think I don’t
Know it is nice I have to admit um and I’ll I’ll talk a little bit more about this in a moment but that’s the main differentiator the main difference between my Sask and the Pangia is the wheel and tire size also my new bike has a pinion gear box built into the bottom
Bracket of the bicycle and if you don’t know what a pinion gearbox is you should probably go to Google right now and type in pinion p i n i o n gearbox and you will see that it’s it’s a it’s a small metal box that’s built into the frame of
My bicycle and inside that box are all of the the gears for my bicycle and so I have an 18speed gearbox built into the bottom bracket of my bike and this gearbox is essentially maintenance-free um and and basically it’s hard to explain it’s that instead of a metal
Chain and a metal two metal derailers everything is now built inside of my bike so it’s kind of like a it it looks almost like a motorcycle engine but there is no actual engine like I am still the engine myself it’s just that all the gears are internal um so I have
That pinion gearbox on my bike and on top of that I’m using a Gates carbon drive system it’s a it’s a belt that I’m using to drive the bike um the belt goes from the gearbox which is on my bicycle’s bottom bracket and it goes
Back to the rear hub on the on the rear wheel of the B bicycle so I have a belt that looks very similar to the the rubber belts that you see on some cars right um and and yeah and this belt is supposed to last like a super long time
I’m not exactly sure how long yet but uh I’ll let you know when mine breaks but uh but yeah so these two things the pinion gearbox and the gates carbon drive system make my bicycle like not only a little crazy expensive but like super unique and uh I’ll talk about that
Some more but in addition to that I also have SNS couplers built into my bike um SNS couplers are this mechanism like if you can imagine like my arms are the parts of the bike frame well the the SNS couplers are like these there’s like turret I’m not sure if I’m explaining
This right my bike splits in half the frame of the bike splits in half and it comes together at these SNS couplers and the the couplers themselves are like turrets that interlock together and then have like a a twisting thing mechanism over it that like locks it in place but
Anyways the the reason I got my bike with these SNS couplers is because um having a bike that splits in half allows me to travel with my bicycle on airplanes and buses and planes and stuff without having to um pay an extra fee for my bicycle so
My bike packs up and fits inside a suitcase that is Airline friendly so I can check my suitcase in with my bicycle inside of it and not pay anything extra for my bike which for me someone who travels a lot with a bicycle is very very valuable um and it does cost you
Know I think it’s 700 or $800 dollars extra to have these SNS couplers installed on your bike but if you travel a lot that can pay off like really really fast because a lot of airlines are now charging anywhere from $150 to $300 per direction to fly with a bicycle
So if you can imagine like let’s say you know $150 per Direction well if you fly with your bike just three times three roundtrip trips you’ve paid for those smns couplers and every trip you take after that is essentially a free trip so um that’s why I opted for the SNS
Couplers on my bicycle um I just think they’re awesome and I had the SNS couplers on my previous Pangia touring bicycle and so I just I couldn’t imagine getting another bike and not having those SNS couplers they’ve just they’ve come in handy so many times not only on airplanes but on
Buses and stuff as well like several times in I was in Ukraine on multiple occasions I can remember one bus at least where I had to split the bike apart to get it on the bus and another time when I was taking a train from Ukraine to Poland um they didn’t have
Room for my bike on the train and the conductor was like no you can’t get on this train no bikes allowed and then I just I took the bike apart right in front of him like split itart really quickly and held the two bike parts in
My hand and said look like it’s not big I can fit it in there and then once he saw that he was like okay yeah no problem so anyways I’ve say I’ve probably saved like hundreds maybe thousands of dollars by having those smns couplers on my bicycle and it’s
Just really really cool now the one thing I didn’t get on my bike was a Dynamo Hub a hub on the front wheel of the bike that would allow me to generate electricity if I had gotten that that would have been like the complete package and I’m actually talking to
Commotion about adding that on whenever I go back to the United States so I might have like the ultimate touring bicycle here pretty soon but right now I’ve got the almost ultimate touring bicycle so yeah it’s pretty pretty cool um a lot of people have been asking like
How how has it been going and this you know do you like it and all that sort of thing and and I haven’t had a lot to say and and I’ve hesitated on saying anything because I don’t like to um review products based off of like one
Day you know like a lot of actually like when you read some bike reviews and magazines or on websites and stuff like a lot of time those reviews are done after like a five minute bike ride around a parking lot and then they write the whole review based on that um and a
Lot of websites will write reviews for bicycles based strictly on the information that they’ve seen on the company website um and they’ve never actually seen or touched the bicycle themselves so I don’t like to do that myself I like to actually ride the bike for a long long time or use the product
For a long long time and then give you an actual good review based on that information so I’ve been a little hesitant to say what I think about the bike but overall like my my main impression is this I used to work um well I used to work in the film industry
But I I went to film school as well and when we were in film school um they told us that uh if you were a good editor or a sound mixer for example um if if you knew that you had done your job well if nobody mentioned the sound or nobody
Mentioned the editing because if somebody came out of the movie and said like man the editing in that movie was weird like you know or what was up with those sound effects I it totally threw me off if if you got that sort of a response you knew you did something
Wrong but if if people came out of the movie and didn’t mention your work you knew you had nailed it and that’s kind of how I feel about this new bike it’s like I have nothing to say from like a negative perspective about the bike because nothing went wrong like it just worked
Perfectly now that’s my first response the reality is there are a few things that I think are worth mentioning um as far as the overall review of the bicycle and and like I said I’m going to do a more thorough review of the commotion Cycles toku T bicycle um on bicycle train Pro
In the future but I think there are four things worth mentioning from a negative P standpoint number one I don’t know how to say the name of the Bic bicycle sisu or cisu it’s it’s it’s the name of a mountain or something in Oregon and I
Don’t know how to say it CKU so I think that might be a little difficult for people and if it was me I would rename it something else two because I I I don’t know if it’s because I put the I opted for the pinion gearbox or what but
There is no third water bottle cage on the bottom um down on the down tube on the bottom of the down tube on this bicycle so many touring bicycles have a third water bottle cage and that third water bottle is very important when you’re traveling long distances and you
Want a lot of water on your bike or in some instances that that third water bottle cage is used to hold your gas canister so for your camp stove so I miss having that third water bottle cage and I wish it was there um and I guess
Because I opted for the pinion it’s it wasn’t included I didn’t really know that when I ordered the bike I kind of assumed that there would be a third water bottle under the under the bottom of it and it wasn’t there but um not a big deal overall there’s still two water
Bottle mounts but uh I I really I’d love a third I’d love a fourth you know what I mean so um the third thing that I should mention is I got this bicycle like days before this bike tour began and uh it was shipped straight from the
Co ocean Factory to my house in Southern California and I got it days before I was jumping on the airplane to come to Sweden and because I got it so soon to the beginning of my trip I didn’t even unpack the bike I didn’t even look at
The bike before I flew it to Sweden I just said I hope everything’s in here and I’ll unpack it once I get to Sweden now I would never recommend you do that yourself um I think that’s a horrible strategy for bike touring success and and for me there like I struggled a
Little bit putting the bike together for the first time like it would have been easier to do it at home where I have like all my proper tools and that sort of and I could do it in a relaxing environment or something but because I
Was in Sweden and and I was like rushing to put the bike together because I only had one day to do it before I needed to start the tour and it just added a whole level of stress so I would if you’re ordering a new bike for yourself make
Sure you get it like I would recommend like months before you actually go out on a long-distance Bicycle Tour don’t do what I do and get it like two days before a year trip begins because that’s terrible the other thing along that same line is I uh the the bike came with a
Brand new saddle it was a Celia what is it Italia NECA flow saddle and it’s it’s a pretty hard like racing style saddle and it was killing my butt during the first several days of the bike trip um I have the exact same saddle on my old
Kosan Pangia Terin bicycle and I love that saddle but I love it I guess because it was fully broken broken in I’ve broken it in over the last five years you know and I had considered just bringing that old saddle with me and using that thing on this brand new
Bicycle but I was like oh I want you know I want to take pictures of the new bike and I don’t want to have this old ratty saddle on there so I used the new saddle which I think was ultimately a big mistake um because my butt was just
So freaking killing me for the first five six days of the whole tour like I could not sit down um and yeah I just wouldn’t recommend that like you want to break your saddle in before you go off on a long tour and then finally like I
Am honestly like not yet convinced that these 650b wheels and tires are the way to go yet um I like them like they ride super smooth like I have nothing bad to say about them from a riding perspective my main concern is that bike shops around the world do not yet carry that
Size wheel tire or tubes um I’ve gone into four bike shops two in Sweden and two in California and asked if they had tubes spare tubes in that size none of them did so um that’s concerning to me um promotion told me that you could use
A 26 in tube inside of a 50b tire um as a sort of an emergency sort of thing but if something were to go wrong with your wheel your spokes your tires um and you were to pull into a bike shop right now in rural Sweden or something I don’t
Think that they would be able to help you you’d have to special order of the part and it could be a week before you know you got a new tire or a new wheel or whatever so um that is the reason that so many people who are doing round
The world trips opt for a 26in wheel tire is because those parts are easy to get anywhere in the world and so many people that are doing bike tours on the road in North America Europe Australia more civilized modern sorts of parts of the world um tend to opt for 700 sea
Wheels and tires because those um wheels and tire sizes are easy to find in those parts of the world so that’s it guys that’s everything that I had to say about my trip through Sweden Finland and Norway now it’s time for Q&A um if you guys have a question I am
Reading your comments now I’m on YouTube there’s a if you’re on YouTube there is a chat box on the right hand side of the screen and you can type in your question there I think you need to be logged into YouTube in order to do that or Google or whatever but um so
Allan Spence says do you carry a spare belt help now oh I see the sun is blasting me in the face right now hold on okay now it might be dark but um can you see me okay yeah do I carry a spare belt well for
This bike tour I didn’t to be honest um if I were doing a round the world trip I I probably most certainly would I am not sure exactly how long the belts are supposed to last um and I have I’ve arranged an interview with a representative from
Gates the company that makes the belts and I’m going to be talking to them next week and I’m going to be asking them that question you know how long do the belts last how long does the gearbox go for what sort of Maintenance do I need to do to make sure that you
Know the belt and the gearbox and all that last as long as possible because there are a lot of questions that probably you have about the opinion system or the gate system that I also have the same question to be honest now that I have a month’s worth
Of experience riding with the pinion gearbox and the gates carpon belt dve um I guess I have that experience behind me but I I I have a lot of questions myself still so I will be talking about that more once I get those answers um but yeah and and like I said like
Like I like to test things over the long run because it’s very hard to say like i’ I have a month’s worth of experience now with my bike but is that enough to to to properly like review the belt I’m not so sure you know what I mean um I
Feel like I feel like a a lot of times when you’re reviewing a product you have to you have to break it and once you break it then you know okay that’s where that’s the point where it can be that’s the point where it dies you know um like
I I have a a tent now that’s basically reach the end of its life cycle because I’ve been using it for three years heavily in all sorts of rain snow cold summer conditions and so I feel like okay this tent lasts three years or this
You know I have a sleep mat now that I bought in Finland back in 2014 and I’ve been using it ever since so four years now almost and it’s still going it’s the best sleeping mat I’ve ever had so um you know and it it would be very hard
For me to say that after one month of use because I just don’t know what the long-term life of that product is but now after four years of using the same sleeping mat I can say that is the best sleeping mat I’ve ever had um
And it just doesn’t die so yeah okay um any questions how did the pinion feel big change or subtle okay so some people have said that they heard that the pinion system like was noisy or caused vibrations or something like that the reality is for me at least was that the pinion system
Is actually way quieter than my traditional metal chain and derailer system way quieter actually most of the time the only time it does make any noise or does make any sort of vibrations is when you really like push down on the pedals like if you’re trying
To sprint on the bike or like yeah or like really push uphill or something like that then the bike does make like a I’m G to it’s basically like when you push really hard but it’s not it’s not like an annoying ongoing thing it’s just you know during those moments when you’re
Really really pushing it’s like and that’s the best way I can describe it um but yeah it’s it’s really really nice actually overall so yeah um Greg says What’s the total weight your bike with all the piers on it to be honest Greg I I don’t know because like
I said um this brand new bicycle I I got it two days before I left on this trip and and I didn’t weigh it then because I didn’t even take it out of the box but um when I go home I will weigh the bike
U with nothing on it and I’ll weigh it with everything on it and I’ll let you know the answer to that but right now I don’t know I don’t have access to a scale here in Sweden unfortunately um Patrick says are the belt drives heavier well I’m not sure the the belt is
Lighter I think than the chain but but the overall system with the pinion gearbox and everything is definitely heavier than your traditional chain and derailer setup I’m not exactly sure how much heavier and that’s one of the questions I’m going to ask um the people from pinion Gates when I talk to them
Next week but um yeah and again like I said like I’m going to um when I get home I’m GNA weigh my old bicycle which has a chain and derailer set up with this new bicycle and I’m going to tell you what the difference is um because the bikes are essentially the same
Except for the gearbox and the belt and the wheel size is a little different um Alexandra says which country do you plan to go to next well I’m here in umia Sweden for a month and I’m going to be working on bicycle turn pro editing videos um creating new
Articles I’ve just restarted the bicycle T Pro podcast so if you go to iTunes or SoundCloud and type in bicycle T Pro there are five episodes up there now um and there’s going to be more coming uh one of which the next one probably is going to be my interview with pinion and
Gates about the new system that’s on my bike that I’ve just described so um but anyway so I’m here for a month then my friend Rob who many of you know um is going to fly in he lives in Canada and he’s coming with his friend I think from
Work or something like that um his name is Doug so Rob and Doug and they’re going to fly in here and we’re going to go on a weekl long bike tour here in Sweden together then after that I am flying back to the United States and I
Just before I left on this trip I bought a van a uh it’s a Dodge Caravan like a minivan but um I bought this van with the intention of using it to tour around the United States with my bicycle and kind of stop in some of the most
Interesting places and do like mini bike tours so because um like I said like I’ve I’ve cycled across the United States six different times in six different directions those were like long distance bike tours um but that was a long time AG go that was 2001 to
2006 and um and I haven’t really done any touring in the United States since then so over 10 years all of my recent bike tours have been International so I wanted to get back to the United States largely because I have such a big um readership in the US and I wanted to
Show just some of the cool places that you could go and I and and on top of that I wanted to show that there are um really cool places that you can go that you can explore in like a very short amount of time two to five or
Seven days right so that’s kind of what I’m planning to do like I’m planning to go up to I don’t know Portland Oregon or something and um explore that area for a little bit then go to Idaho and explore that area for a little bit then go to
Utah and do some tours there you know and um yeah so I I got the van so I’m going to drive to those locations then jump out and do the bike tour around that area and then go back to the van and and continue also I’m hoping that
I’m going to be able to kind of meet up with some of you guys while I’m out there on the road like I said uh a huge part of bicycle turn Pros readership is in the United States so it’d be really cool I’m I’m kind of thinking of doing
Like weekend meetups possibly where like we meet on a Saturday morning and we ride for the day to like a nearby campsite we have a small group of people we camp there overnight and then we ride back um you know to where we began the following day just just doing like a
Short overnight tour or something I don’t know if you guys would be interested in that if you are let me know um but uh I think that would be fun so yeah but but that’s all I have planned and as far as where I’m going to
Go after that I don’t know um but probably the entire Autumn and into like December of this year the end of the year we’ll be doing that B Trip Across the Western United States so yeah um There Are Places I want to go after that I mean I’m thinking about going to Japan
Possibly um and there’s some other possibilities but I I honestly don’t have anything planned yet um Stuart says and the UK um I’ve actually been to the UK twice I don’t know if I I want to go to Scotland but I I just hate the weather
Um I had planned on going to Scotland in I think it was 2014 or 2015 and I had spent about two months touring across England Wales and Ireland and after two months of being in the rain and the cold I was just like I got
To get out of this place I had planned on spending another month in Scotland but instead I just jumped on an airplane and flew to Romania and it was hot and warm and it was lovely and I don’t regret it for a second but um uh yeah I
Want to get back to Scotland hopefully at some point um the Jambo says how would you say pinion compares to other systems shifting maintenance have you had any troubles with the gate belts in different conditions such as rain snow mud Etc 18 speed or 12s speed so yeah
The pinion gearbox that is on my new sisku touring bicycle um it comes in two different speed options there’s an 18 speed and a 12 speed I have the 18 speed on my touring bicycle um the gear range is really wide and I loved it um most of
The time I was like in Gears like I would say like 9 to 13 somewhere in there 8 to 13 that’s where I was most of the time when I was pedaling um I I maybe only once or twice got up to gear 18 which is like the highest
Gear you know when you’re going 55 miles an hour um and I probably only got into the lowest gear maybe twice on my entire tour going up steep hills right so yeah it was really really nice um no problems shift shifting yeah one of one of the differences with this new
Sisku um new pinion gearbox is that the shifting is is totally different than on any other bike that you’ve maybe ridden before um there are you don’t shift with the integrated shifters like you might on a road bike um and there’s not barend shifters um like there are on so many
Touring bicycles like my old coo Pangia had barend shifters which are shifters located at the the bottom of the drop bars on the handlebars um but the the pinion system has just a single twist grip and and you’ve probably seen twist grips on other bikes before but there’s
Usually one on the left which controls your front derailer and then one on the right which controls your rear derailer but on the pinion uh system there are not two different shifters there’s just one shifter for all 18 gears so it’s kind of like I don’t know like driving a
Car a little bit or something or like a motorcycle um yeah you just shift the gears and I like the fact that all 18 gears are on that one shifter I think that’s nice that you don’t have to mess with you know two and one and stuff it
Makes it easier especially for beginners I think um but the thing I don’t like and and it’s probably the biggest thing I don’t like about the whole opinion system is that um like I found myself riding it’s hard to explain but like on my old let’s say I have to explain it
This way on my old bicycle my kangia bicycle it has drop bars on it and to shift gears like I I normally hold my hands kind of up near the brakes like this um and I don’t know if you can see me or
Not but hold on let me go back okay so I usually hold my hands like up like this on the handlebars and then when I need to shift on my old B like I would reach down here kind of and shift the gear and then I’d immediately put my hand back up
On the hammer bar it’s like this but on the new pinion system the shifter is right here on the right hand side right and and so you have to put your hand here in order to shift so I ride with my hands here normally but then when I want
To shift I got to reach over here and then bring my hand back right and then shift and then come back and that’s very similar to how it was with my old bite but what I found myself doing with the pinion system is because you sometimes have to change
Gears quite frequently I I ended up writing with my left hand in the same place it’s always been over kind of near the brakes um but with my right hand I found it myself riding with it on top of the pinion shifter a lot so I would ride kind of unevenly
Like this this anticipating the gear changes and not putting my hand back over here and ultimately like I don’t feel comfortable or safe riding my bike in that condition in that position um because my balance is kind of off right and also it just kind of hurt my hand um
Over the long run like holding my hand in that position so I would have to you I kind of had to train myself like okay shift again and then put your hand back and and then when you need to ship again move it over so it just took a little
Bit of getting used to but honestly like the the whole system as far as uh getting used to it it took me like 30 minutes if that to get used to um and I thought it might take longer but it really didn’t it’s very very easy to use
But I just think that is the main the main problem for me was that it hurt my hand sometimes when I was shifting especially if I found myself holding my hand there in anticipation of a gear change and I think it like if you are are like I do
Worry a little bit about like maybe older writers for example who have arthritis or neuropathy or anything like that um because yeah if you have any sort of hand problem I think it this shifter might hurt you a little bit actually um or you might just have some
Pain so that’s just that’s the only like real real downside that I would experienced with the entire system thus far okay back to your questions I’m trying I have too many screens open I’m trying to flip around where are you Robert says the meetups are a good idea okay cool
Um Russia yeah I want to go to Russia too I I honestly thought I was going to make that happen this year but I have to get a visa for Russia and it it just didn’t work out um yeah the college picker says twist grips usually feel so cheap and you’re right
Um I I had an old bike when I was a little kid that had these cheap plastic um yeah twist grips on it and they were cheap the pinion one it it does not feel that way uh it’s made of metal it’s it’s very hardcore like it’s high quality um
But it just like I said like it’s it’s not necessarily easy to shift um and yeah I don’t know hurt my hand a little bit maybe they’ll develop like that’s that’s another question that I I’m want to ask the people from pinion when I talk to them next week is like you know
Because I I know that other people have said that that’s the worst thing about the whole system is is the shifter and I happen to agree um and so I wonder what you know I’m sure pinion is thinking about how they’re going to fix that I just don’t know
Because the the system is so simple right now like the reason it’s a Twist grip makes so much sense if you look at how the the bike is built um but yeah I just I don’t know I’m not an engineer or anything I don’t have a better answer for for how that that
Uh that could be built anyways Andreas says where in Russia would you like to bike I want a bike where there are no people yeah I I don’t know I’m more interested in the scenery I guess than the cities and stuff although I’d love to see the some of the Cities just just
To see them but I don’t know if I want to see them on a bicycle per se um B David Coleman says do you seek out bike shops to I’m not exactly sure what your question is try again um any bear encounters Daniel says no I haven’t seen
Any bears and and honestly I was kind of hoping to see one um based off of what I found on the internet there are about 3,000 Bears living just in Sweden and maybe even more in Finland um so I was I was actually kind of hoping to see one
Like during the daytime far from my campsite but uh it never happened um on this particular tour I saw one fox which is really cool I saw four moose unfortunately I didn’t really get any good video or photos of the moose that I saw because as soon as I saw them they
Turned around and ran away I think I got video of like a couple moose butts running through the forest but nothing worth sharing really and I probably saw 3,000 caribou and I think I saw a dolphin too I’m not sure if it was a dolphin or a
Whale or something in Norway but I have it on video maybe you guys can tell me later um what it was but I think it was a small dolphin anyways uh jaw fell off any girl encounters yes well as I mentioned there there were actually quite a few women
Traveling on bicycle when I was in Norway um think I met at least like a half dozen traveling no maybe more than that yeah maybe like a dozen women traveling on bikes in Norway um some of them were alone and and some of them were traveling in pairs so yeah there
Were some women out there on the road um but one of the things I mean I’m guessing you’re not talking about bikes per se but just women in general um one of the things that I will say about you know I’m from America um and I’m here in Europe one of the main
Differences the big differences I would say is that in America people go from their house to their car to wherever they’re going and you can kind of like be out on the street a lot of the times and not see anybody and and that includes women um and whereas here like
In Sweden where I am now I could go outside my apartment right now and there’d be like a hundred women out there just walking around or at the park or you know at the local restaurant or whatever and so it’s I think is just so much easier to meet people here in
Europe than it is in say America because in America we’re we’re we’re sheltered behind our homes and our cars and our computer screens and here so much of your life is more outside and open so I think that’s really cool um like I said I think I have more friends in Europe
Now than I have back home in the United States and that’s in part because people are just more open to meeting people here um and it’s easier to meet people here so I don’t know like like there was a time I was I uh I was in Poland not
Too long ago and I was just like at a street corner and this girl about my same age was like standing next to me we’re waiting for the light to turn green or what ever and she like looked over at me and I just said hi and and
And in the United States if someone did that I think or back home I think they’d be like why are you talking to me or something but she was like Hey you speak English and then we started a conversation and like it was just so easy and not weird you know and and
That’s what I like about Europe and so many other parts of the world actually um it’s just easier to meet people so um I don’t know if that’s if I quite answered your question but uh anyways um yeah oh there was a question there um Michael says I feel like mud would be
That gearbox’s arch nemesis did you have any experience with that well yeah I did ride through some mud and some snow but not enough to actually affect the bike in any sort of way um and that’s another question that I will be asking pinion about just to see what they have to say
One um like I’m not sure like for example how that gearbox keeps dust or water out of it is it completely waterproof I I don’t know I don’t think it is um and so I’m wondering how that works exactly like if I were to submerge
The entire bike in a river or a lake or something like would that whole gearbox flood and then rust I don’t know so that’s a question I have my myself um yeah I mean the the one thing with the belt it’s not the gearbox itself but
It’s the belt if the belt gets dusty it does make like a yeah a vibrational sort of noise that you hear so yeah maybe it wouldn’t be so great in a desert environment but to be honest like neither is a metal chain so um but yeah like I found it
Only once during my trip did that did I start to have dust um affect the noise of the bicycle and all I did was Splash it with my water bottle like one time and then wipe it down with some you know a rag or toilet paper or whatever and
Then the problem was gone and yeah it didn’t come back so if if you do get dust on the on the Belt you just wash it off and that’s the end of it but you as far as I know don’t have to lube it or anything like that
Um Nick jury says how was your new camera yeah it was really good actually and heck I don’t even know why I traveled with a DSLR camera for so long but this is my new camera that he’s referring to it’s a it’s a Canon what is
It g7x Mark I it’s a little point and shoot camera that has a flip screen and I used this to document my entire Bike Tour so I haven’t released any of the videos yet from my trip but when you see it pretty much the entire thing is shot
On this camera there are a couple other shots shot on my smartphone or my GoPro video camera but most of it was shot on this and I think you’ll see the video quality improve quite a bit um does the bike ride light or heavy to
Be hon honest I when I’m riding the bike I do not feel any difference in weight so it it honestly the the the gearbox that’s on the bottom of my bicycle is actually a lot smaller and a lot lighter than I thought it was going to be um and
Yeah I’m pretty impressed by that so to be honest now that I’ve ridden it for a month I don’t even notice if there is any additional weight I I can’t feel it um yeah uh Darren Alexi says uh Darren how to stop being afraid of roads and rabid cars that’s a good
Question then it’s something that a lot of people actually ask um I would say like my number one tip is if you’re nervous about the cars coming up behind you is to get a mirror and the best kind of mirror is probably a mirror that’s mounted to either your sunglasses or to
Your bike helmet I personally like the ones that are mounted to your bike helmet because you can take your helmet off and lay it down upside down essentially without um having to remove the mirror anything there U the sunglasses mirrors every time you take your glasses off you got to readjust
That mirror and I think that’s a pain in the butt but either of those systems would be good for you because um the mirror allows you to see those vehicles that are coming up behind you and it gives you a certain piece of Mind knowing that like okay I can see that
That big semiu coming up behind me is moving over because he sees me right or you can say whoa this car coming up here is not moving over and maybe I need to move over in the shoulder so he doesn’t hit me right whereas if you don’t have a
Mirror you’re you’re you’re judging where that car is based entirely on sound for most people um and so that can be a little bit dangerous I mean like I noticed that for me on this particular tour I wasn’t using a mirror but I was judging where all of the cars were um by
Where you know how they sounded I can I can tell if this car is passing really close to me or if they’re in the other lane because they’ve move so far over right but that would be my number one tip the other thing is you just got ride
You know like um the more experience you have like a lot of people say how do I get over my fear of camping or how do I get over the anxiety of going on a bike TR for the first time the answer is the same thing you just have to do it and
The more you do it the less afraid you will be so yeah that’s my big advice um there was a really good question that somebody sent in some bicycle turn pro reader a young guy from the Netherlands and he was asking me um um he said like
Darren I grew up in the Netherlands a country where everybody rides a bike everywhere we go right so does that mean that I am better prepared for a bike tour than somebody say from a country where bicycles are not the norm and at first my thought was yeah like totally
Like you are way more prepared than most people are are going to be but then the more I thought about it actually I thought well in reality this person from the Netherlands might be at a major drawback actually um from an international perspective because they are so spoiled with the bike paths that
They have there in the Netherlands and the fact that it’s so flapped um that once they get out into like a real uh you know Road cycling environment where you’re having to ride in the road with cars in traffic that could be really really scary I think for someone who has only rid
A bike for their entire lives on established bike pths you know in the most bicycle friendly country in the whole world right so like I grew up riding my bike through the streets of Los Angeles like drafting behind cars at 50 miles an hour or you know jumping around buses um and
That’s the way that I grew up cycling so for me like that is the norm and when I find a bike path I think gosh this is heaven you know like um this is so easy compared to what I know but for that person from the Netherlands their Norm is the lazy you
Know ride on the bike path and their hell is my Norm right like they would be in complete hell riding through the streets of LA in bumper-to-bumper traff so yeah I don’t know I just thought that was a really good question and something that I could address there
Because it’s kind of along the same lines of what you’re asking um Edon Dan says did you have good dirt roads uh here in Sweden Finland Norway there are a number of dirt roads that go off into the forests and mountains and hillsides and stuff and yeah there some
Of them are really really nice um a lot of the dirt roads that I encountered some of them were covered with snow um which was not so nice a lot of um the ground in Sweden and Finland especially is very excuse me low and and that means that there’s a lot of
Water in the ground especially at this time of year still springy kind of you know we’re having like a a late summer but um yeah some of those dirt roads can be a bit squishy is what I’m trying to say but overall the dirt road riding
Here is pretty good like if if you wanted to do some bike packing dirt road bike packing there’s some good stuff to be had here um Tommy says when on the trip did you get snow on the roads how far north well to be honest um there was
Snow I think like I think it must have been like day four the fourth day of my trip so pretty far south actually even below the Arctic Circle that was actually the worst snow of the entire trip um it was only about two Ines of snow and it melted pretty
Quickly but um for those few hours it was really coming down there and um that was the worst of it but there was snow all the way up I would say once I got to Northern Norway all the way up to the north cake which is the northernmost point that you
Can essentially cycle to in all of Europe um there was snow on the ground um but it wasn’t in the road so it wasn’t really much of a worry um but yeah it was cold and and honestly I like I I brought I was prepared for the cold
For this trip I brought full-blown snow I had snow pants a down jacket winter gloves a face mask um that sort of a thing and and to be honest I didn’t use that stuff very much but I I I probably only used all of that like twice on the
Entire trip but I was very glad to have it just just in case you know so um I don’t know I’d probably do it exactly the same if I were to do it again but I I you know you you just never know what the weather’s going to be like in places like
This um per Anderson says how do you avoid snakes and dangerous animals when tenting uh just being aware I guess of where you are and and what’s around your campsite right um that probably comes with experience too but um on one of my videos I think I was in where was I
Serbia or Romania or something I was in an established campsite and I woke up one morning and there was a snake inside of one of my bicycle Piers that had crawled in there overnight and I reached my hand into the bag and felt something funny you know um and I knew in an
Instant that it was a snake I pulled my hand out of there and uh and then dumped the pure out and yep there was a little snake in there not a big one it’s just a little garter snake or something but um that’s the only time uh that I’ve had a
Snake at my campsite but I’ve seen you know I’ve run into several snakes on other points of my trip especially like when I go off hiking or something away from my bike that’s when you got to watch out for snakes I think most people who are conducting a bike tour don’t
Really have to worry about snakes all that much the one time uh that I did have a serious snake encounter well actually I I’ve been bitten by a snake and I was hospitalized for it and that was again I was off of the bike and I was walking through some Tall Grass I
Got bitten by a snake I didn’t even know that I was bitten by the snake I had an allergic reaction I passed out and I had to go to the hospital that was on one of my early bike tours in the United States anyways uh but another time I was in
Africa southern Africa somewhere I don’t even know where it was but I was riding down the road and I saw this I thought it was a white uh like a branch from a tree you know just a little white Branch maybe this two feet long three feet long
Or something just in the in the shoulder of the road and I I honestly just thought it was a stick and as I got closer to the stick it its head popped up Suddenly from the road and it was a it was a Cobra you know full-blown Cobra and I at this
Point I maneuvered out of the like out of the way and the Cobra struck at me and probably missed me by just a couple inches um so be careful when you see a stick up ahead on the in the in the middle of the road um because it might
Be a snake but that honestly that’s only happened once and yeah it scared me actually CU I just was wasn’t expecting it you know it’s totally unexpected um yeah bicycle turn pan Pros bicycle train fan says I have a sun beard there yeah the sun is well one that’s hitting me
Strangely through the window at the moment but also like I oh yeah this one is hitting me there maybe I should move can can you see me there okay well what I was going to say was oh yeah that’s weird um maybe I should move over
Here like hold the camera um here I just disconnect here just moving so I don’t look so weird okay what was I saying yeah so I actually was wearing sunscreen for most of the spike tour but there were a few days I guess where I didn’t put enough
On and so I have like actual line a line here that you can kind of see but it’s actually the line from my helmet kind of burnt into the side of my face and you can see that where the helmet straps were going down the side of my face so
Wear your sunscreen put it on twice a day times a day if you have to um anyways and I you know the sun uh the UV rays and all that kind of stuff UV index here in Norway Sweden and Finland I checked it like quite frequently it was
Pretty much at a zero the entire time that I was on the road but when I was in Ecuador and Columbia just a few months ago it was at like an 11 which is like off the charts you know it’s like the highest it can possibly be and if you
Went outside for five minutes you’d get a sunburn so I when I was in South America I was putting sunscreen on three times a day and it was just dripping off of me by the end of the day but it honestly like saved me like I I’m
Surprised I didn’t come back from that trip with some serious sunburns so Anyways uh go back to the questions oops what’s uh tripping Pro says are are you planning to tour new parts of Norway this time further south or is planning to tour again in troma LEF Islands Etc so yeah I don’t have any more plans to to go bike Terrain in Norway um this
Year at least but I’d love to come back at some other point um yeah like I said on my previous tours I in Norway I went I was in O I did a trip from Osa to Bergen I toured all around the Bergen area then I rode from essentially from
Bergen up to uh Trondheim Norway over to Sweden and then last summer I rode from trono Norway down through the leoen islands to Bodo Norway and then back to umia Sweden so I’ve done quite a bit of the country and this year I rote up to the north most northern part of Norway
So maybe I need to do Southern Norway down closer to Denmark next time I think that would be great um any other questions how many polar bears did you have to fight no polar bears I did see a couple stuffed ones at museums but no I
Didn’t see uh any polar bears um what was I gonna say something funny I can’t remember now okay never mind um American and Asia says where would you like to go during your next South America trip um I want to go to Patagonia that’s where I want to go Patagonia
Um Alan Bishop hello from Indiana uh do you prefer to bike alone or with more people if I had to choose one or the other I would definitely choose to go alone definitely um but that doesn’t mean I’m opposed to traveling with other people if you’ve
Watched any of my videos you’ve seen me travel with all sorts of people um some sometimes sometimes just me and one other person traveling together I need water hold on and um sometimes in a small group sorry about that just wanted to get some
Water um yeah I I like them both I think if I was doing a long distance tour though like something that was several months long I don’t know if I’d want to go with like and be stuck with one person the whole time unless it’s like your significant other or something but
Um yeah like I kind of like going for a little while by myself and then going with another person and then going a little while by myself and then going with another person I think that’s kind of fun um and also like I I kind of
Enjoy like I think it’s more fun to travel with three people than with two people because like when you when it’s just you and one other person like each person only has that other person to talk to and can like Drive each other crazy sometimes but if
There’s a third person like you can talk to one person you can talk to the other person you can talk to both people or you can be by yourself right so there’s more combinations that you can sort of do um to yeah socialize and or you know
Get some quiet time to yourself I kind of like that um Pier Anderson says most beautiful place you visited and recommend Norway maybe or Yos um God there’s so many cool places it’s hard to say because like I’ve been to so many parts of the world and and you know
I get this question a lot of times actually like like people say where do you recommend going or whatever and and the problem is like there are parts of the world that I really like but I’m not sure that you would like them you know
And uh and I I’ve said before like I went to Iceland with my ex-college roommate Brandon and we spent 25 days cycling around Iceland together I loved it I’m not sure he loved it and I think that’s because like I love isolation and nature and just being out there by
Myself you know and I think his personality is more social more people you know like he would have much more enjoyed a group Bike Tour um in a crowded place like Spain or France or something like that uh he would have enjoyed that a lot more whereas for me I enjoy the
Isolation of a place like here in northern Europe or Iceland for example so um it depends on personal preference obviously but if I had to I would say up here honestly like in Sweden Finland Norway is probably one of my favorite places in the world um I think Norway
From a scenery standpoint blows Sweden and Finland away but I also really like Sweden and Finland so I don’t want people to think like Norway is the best um because I really like Sweden and Finland also like they’re the best in their own way so I don’t know um but I
Also like the one place that I’ve been telling people for a long time that I really like is Romania and I don’t know why more people don’t go there it’s so beautiful so cheap um there’s so many different places to go in the country there’s mountains and lakes and rivers
And and I don’t know beautiful architecture and friendly people a lot of people speak English um yeah I honestly like yeah I think Norway is like the best maybe from a touristy standpoint if you if you want to go somewhere super safe and established and all that sort of thing
But if you want to have a little bit more of an adventure Romania is a really awesome place to go especially in Europe um I mean there are other places like I really enjoyed South Africa for example like I think some of the best cycling
I’ve ever done in my life was in South Africa um but there are things about that place that make it maybe not as recommendable as say Romania or Norway right um just it’s a little bit more dodgy in places um that sort of a thing so yeah
Uh uh what GPS navigator do you have I just use an application called maps.me on my smartphone that’s all I use um music while cycling sometimes yes some no uh I have honestly not listened to any music for months so on this trip I didn’t listen to any music in my tent on
My bike nothing uh I don’t know what’s happened to me recently but I just I’m not a music person Suddenly It’s just don’t need music anymore uh but in the past yeah I’ve spent I’ve cycle for thousands and thousands of miles or kilometers with my earphones in listening to music I find it
Great um when you’re biking alone and just want to you know pump out some miles or colomet um put some good music on and cycle away I just think you got to be careful when you choose to do that because you want to be on road where
There’s not a lot of traffic um you know you don’t want to be in a big city where you’re having to use your ears right so and you don’t want to have a volume up so loud that you can’t hear things that are coming trucks coming up behind you
Or animals approaching from your side and that sort of thing so Andrew says cheapest places to get food in Sweden did you take a stove all of the food that I was buying was from the supermarkets so um in Sweden there essentially I think like two supermarkets Coupe and eeka um and in
Norway there’s like Rema 1000 and I don’t know what else is up there um I think they have EA also and yeah some other ones but basically supermarket food that’s what I was buying and yeah I don’t know if any of the stores were necessarily cheaper than the other every
Town the prices were different um and yeah that’s just I don’t know but yeah I I took a camp stove with me on this particular Bike Tour so and that was awesome because for the last seven years or something I’ve been traveling without a camp stove and yeah on this tour
Especially it was really nice to have that stove because it was so cold um during the day and at night that after a long day of cycling it was nice to get inside my tent cook myself a warm meal crawl inside my sleeping bag and be warm
And uh yeah so I I had a little lightweight camp stove I I’ll grab it really quick so you can see but this is it this is all I was carrying with me it’s pretty small so I have it in just like a little mesh bag but this is an
MSR um I don’t know what kind of camp stove it is to be honest but it comes in this little plastic case there it is it’s basically just the burner and and then I put it on top of excuse me this little fuel canister which I bought here in Sweden I I went
Through two of these in a month of how much fuel you might go through these are like the regular size canisters um they make them in much bigger sizes but um I didn’t want a big canister that would take up a lot of space inside my Pier so I bought one and
Then as soon as this canister started to get low I started looking for another store where I could buy one so then I had two of these canisters on my bike for like maybe two days until I burned through the first canister entirely threw that one away or recycled it and
Um then I had this one with me so and this the stove top just screws onto the top here and like that and that’s pretty much it and then this is how you can control the fuel and it works just like your stove at home does you can can you can turn it
Up high turn it down low or whatever and then your pot obviously just sits on top of here so anyways that’s what I had with me it worked well uh okay just a few more minutes guys I’ve been on for a long long time um what other questions do you have I’m
Lost the screen here oh here we go Amin Karim me says I have been inspired by your rides I rode from London to Amsterdam for charity next year I’m planning to 10 ride from Hamburg to Stockholm via Copenhagen and Osa that’s awesome advice especially for camping no no I don’t have any advice
Necessarily I mean um once you get to you know Denmark and Sweden and Norway camping is very very easy um maybe in Germany it’ll be a little bit harder just because you probably have to be in campsites or whatever but no I don’t know what advice you’re looking for
Exactly but it should be very very easy for you uh most let’s see Soo says how did you realize you were more of a solo dude so going back to the question of traveling alone versus traveling with other people I’ve always been a solo dude I I figured that
Out when I was five years old so uh I guess I figured it out when I was five but um the truth is in 2001 that’s when I did my first bike tour and I was 17 years old at the time and I told my parents and my family that I
Wanted to do this bike tour and they were pretty hesitant about me doing it and they they basically said you can do it but you have to have somebody go with you and so I recruited three of my best friends at the time to go with me each
Of them riding with me for different legs of the trip and and so I completed my first bike tour which was a month long having done the entire thing with other people somebody was riding with me the entire time the following year I wanted to go on another bike tour but I
Wasn’t able to recruit anyone to go with me that year um you know my friend that at that point we’re in college and they were busy I don’t know working summer jobs or summer school or whatever they were doing and they didn’t want to go on
This bike trip um and so I was faced with the decision of like do I not go on the trip because I can’t get anyone to go with me or do I go alone and ultimately I decided that I was going to go alone on my second Bike
Tour and it’s probably one of the best decisions I’ve ever made in my entire life um and it’s I I think yeah impacted me more than I even realized because if I had waited and said oh maybe I’ll maybe I’ll do another bike tour next
Year when I can get someone to go with me hopefully you know I would have waited a year I wouldn’t have gone on that second trip it would have waited a year maybe the next year I couldn’t have gotten anyone to go with me either whole
Two years goes by you know maybe I never go on another bike tour again and so instead I I went on the alone which was scary for me probably scary for my parents and stuff too um seeing that it was like really the first time I you
Know been away and on my own and totally independent um in my life and so yeah it worked out obviously I’m still here but it was it was a really big learning curve for me and also like one of the things that I realized on that second
Trip was my second Bike Tour was on the TransAm route In America which is the route that goes east to west across the United States and because I was cycling on a essentially a popular bicycle train route even though I was alone I I was running into lots of other
People out there on the road so there was several days where I was riding with you know Couples from Germany or um from the United States or Canada or whatever on their on their bikes and and there were several other solo people that I met out there as well so it was pretty
Easy to meet people on the road um and then in years past I don’t know like I don’t know I just started traveling by myself and realized like it’s pretty cool traveling by yourself because um not only can you do whatever you want like if you want to sleep in late cool
If you want to go to this restaurant cool you can do it like you don’t have to fight the person you’re with about oh I want to get pasta tonight and they want to get Chinese tonight or whatever you know um there’s just none of that going
On um but I think one of the biggest advantages to traveling alone in addition to the fact that you can do whatever you want is that you are much more approachable um in a good way uh by other people so other people see you traveling and they’re much more likely
To approach you and say hey tell me about your trip or if you need a place to stay or that or like if you want to come over and have dinner we’re having a barbecue at my house tonight with a bunch of friends um there’s been so many
Times where I’ve been invited into people’s lives because I am alone and they know that I’m alone um whereas when you travel with another person you become um connected just to that one person and other people are a little bit more afraid to appro approach you or invite
You to things and that sort of a thing so um yeah it’s something to keep in mind like if you if you want to interact with people uh actually going alone can be a great way to do that but you have to be open to interacting with people because
You could travel alone and and be very um you know turn people away and stuff too that would be very easy to do but um yeah if you travel with a couple or other people and you want to meet people out on the road you have to
Consciously like try to meet people on the road because it’s not going to happen as often as it would if as if you were traveling by yourself okay um just a few more minutes guys and then I gotta go um will you be buying the same tent
When you replace your current one what brand yeah well I’ve been using a a Big Agnes copper spur ultral light oneman tent for the last couple years and I really like that tent I don’t know which tent I’m going to be buying next I’m trying to figure that out I need one
Before I do my next bike trip so I’ll let you know um okay if you cycle through India I bet you would be welcomed everywhere yeah well that’s the thing too is like where you are in the world plays a huge part in how you’re treated by the people you
Meet on the road um you know that’s hard to explain but like like when I was in Africa and I would roll into a town like people would see me from like a kilometer away and start running over just to talk to me and to find out where I was from
Right but here in Sweden where everybody’s on a bicycle if I ride past nobody cares about me you know like I’m just another person on a bike no big deal so um that sort of thing happens quite a bit um and it depends like I said on where you are
Are in the world and and that sort of a thing but yeah one one funny thing that happened when I was in gosh I I guess it was Northern Finland but I was I went into this tiny little tourist office there and they had like a guest book I
Was going in there to charge my camera batteries I said hey can I charge my battery for like two hours and and the guy let me charge my battery and and so I just sat there talking to them and signing their guest book or whatever and
Uh and the guy working there said where are you from and I was like oh I’m from the United States and he saidwhat really what are you doing here you know I said I’m riding my bike and he said you’re the first person from the United States
We’ve ever had in here and I was like really are you serious um he said yeah like most of the people that come here are from Norway or Sweden or Finland or Germany and that’s about it um and I was like wow that’s incredible um so anyways I just thought that was
Kind of funny um but there are a lot of parts in the world where you know I thought it was funny because I didn’t think I was in a remote you know incredibly remote part of Finland but there are parts of the world where I
Have been to where I I have thought like I am probably like the only tourist that has ever been here you know um that’s probably not true but it certainly felt like it uh Darren I recommend nordis tents okay I’ll check them out I yeah I kind of know what that is
Um Ryan says did you shower at local pools in Iceland yeah yes yeah they have in Iceland there’s like yeah public pools they’re they’re very common actually and you can take a shower there I think for a couple bucks or something like that um and yeah but there were also places in
Iceland there was like a natural pool outside that I just jumped in as well things like that too so like Hot Springs hot springs yeah love your videos from Australia cool um yeah okay guys I think that’s about it I’ve been on here for two hours um
I’m just about worn out so thank you so much for tuning in I really really appreciate it hopefully you learned a little bit about biking in Sweden Finland and Norway and and hopefully I kind of did a did a good job of introducing at least my new coo sasu
Touring bicycle like I said I’m going to be talking about that bike some more and I’ll be talking about the whole pinion gearbox and the gates carbon belt drive system some more in a future article video and podcast on bicycle turnpro docomo already make sure you’re subscribed to the bicycle T Pro YouTube
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Teach you how to conduct your own bike tours you can get that at Bike Tour book.com or on my website at bicycl tpro.com all right guys thank you so much for tuning in I really appreciate you showing up and asking such good questions um that is going to do it for
Today I hope you have a good one I am G to go on a bike ride now it’s at 8 o’clock at night the sun is still shining here in umia Sweden I’m GNA go out and enjoy the city a little bit so thanks again I’m Darren Al from bicycle
Tpro.com and I hope to see you out on the road sometime soon all right see you guys have a good one byebye