Cycling Through Every County in the UK. Day 0 – Prep

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hello there ladies and gentlemen welcome to the very first in the series of the cycle the nation challenge this is the culmination of three and a half years of planning training stress singlemindedness all coming into one this is a collection of days but I’m calling it day zero of the final preparations collecting the van collecting stuff getting things getting myself down to base camp enjoy this the next video will be the very start of the challenge that will be out on Monday coming it takes me from wow the ultimate lows to the highest highs on this series you will see tears of joy tears of desperation and everything in between it’s going to be quite the journey enjoy it hello my name is Scott otherwise known as Cycle the Nation this is the latest in my idiotic challenges i am here on Dartmore ready to start my cycle the nation challenge proper 109 counties 15 days 3,610 km with 3.9 Everests of climbing come and join me for the whole journey hello the journey starts here oxen home again i’ve been here quite a lot recently as you may have seen from some of my recent training exploits uh yeah it’s not the usual start to a epic bike ride is it and he’s gone collect the motor home yes nerves are here i’m going to try and ignore everything today by driving home leaving the motor home there and going climbing my last exercise it is Tuesday i start pedaling on Saturday so drive the van back today motor home pack tomorrow panic about everything that I’ve missed unpack it pack it all again double check the list realize I’ve missed stuff put more stuff in the list and then go shopping for the stuff I’ve missed thursday we drive get to Cornwall then go shopping for the stuff that we’ve missed on top of the stuff that we’ve missed friday relax double check everything realize that we probably need to go to the shop or our shop to buy the stuff that I’ve missed because I’ve missed that’s my worry my worry is missing stuff and I shouldn’t i shouldn’t i shouldn’t i shouldn’t all it is is lots of 70k bike rides in a row hi are you all right so this is her go and put some diesel in it and uh get home just got to sign a few documents first thank you again to Bailey of Bristol right let’s get this thing back home it’s time to grab the final box of uh of mint cake calories lots of calories massage as you see has been done um I now need to do the thing that I’ve been putting off the most everything in boxes everything in the van it’s 1:00 in the afternoon setting off tomorrow it is recorded yes hello welcome to the M6 we have a small issue we’re literally what are we 20 minutes in something like that yeah uh this is Jacob you’ve not met Jacob yet i’ve kept meaning to introduce you to him but it never happened for for many many reasons jacob’s my support driver my my mate well he’s already my mate he very very wonderfully offered to do this there was no questions asked i didn’t have to ask he just came up to me but was it just after Christmas uh I think we mentioned it first time last year when you first mentioned not doing it again right yeah he just said “Do you want some support?” I was like “Actually yes.” So we’re in this for 9 days straight now but yeah this is this is the home it’s a bit bit more foot and rattly than it was yesterday but we’ve got to start our journey with a vehicle on fire on the M6 cuz every journey starts with a problem doesn’t it we overcome them that’s what we’re going to do cardboard’s dangerous it’s why I’ve always said if I was ever to get one superpower it would be teleportation teleportation would avoid all of this cuz I could ride me bike all day and teleport back into my bed driver driving sunny’s out in fact sunny’s onish time to do south uh yes welcome to uh Devon not Cornwall just yet we’re here at the very beautiful Tamar Valley campsite near Gunnish Lake yes isn’t it yeah Gunnness Lake tavistock’s just over there you can probably see Dartford dart not Dartford dartmore bloody hell dartford that’s That’s end of Sunday middle of Sunday anyway so we got here yesterday we’re doing all the setup stuff now today is a day of getting everything prepped getting everything ready ready for the attack that begins tomorrow which is a whole another story so this is a day zero um you’ll have already seen me packing some of the van i did a bit of that on time lapse but today is all about getting the bike out the box which has been loan to me very cheaply by Kendall Triub it’s awesome there we go kendall Tri Club yeah you’ve got to get the sticker on haven’t you uh so got to get the bike out get set up get this whole thing laid out ready for quick in and out the stops this you’ve seen this already from Bane looks awesome what we calling him what was his name or her don’t know i don’t know but there’s a resident Chuck there’s two so yeah we’re going to sort of enjoy today do a bit of relaxing final checks going to get the bike out now i forgot to carry on filming at the end of the day basically we got everything prepared and the day after was spent just chilling it was early to bed we needed to be ready i was nervous as hell we just were very very sensible did absolutely nothing got some bits of shopping had a wander around and got ourselves prepared so hit that subscribe button and I’ll see you on Monday for day one and day two combined let the journey commence