Bikepacking the Danube: 1250 km from Donaueschingen to Budapest

As you may have noticed, I haven’t been very active on my channel lately. But that doesn’t mean I’ve been sitting still! 🚴‍♂️💨

Together with a good friend, I completed a 1,250 km gravel bike adventure. I started in Donaueschingen, where the Danube officially begins.

This time, there weren’t many mountains, which actually felt like a luxury — lots of flat roads and smooth riding. And wow, what a ride it was! After eleven days of cycling along the Danube, we arrived in beautiful Budapest.

My TREK ALR4 performed like a champ again, and my Ortlieb bags? Still my absolute favorite bikepacking gear — super reliable and easy to use.

I’m still very much active on two wheels, but I’ve decided to hit the record button a little less often. I’ve noticed that constantly filming and thinking about the camera here and there takes away a bit of my mental freedom, and makes me feel less present in the moment.

So yes, I’ll be a little less active on my channel — but I’m definitely still riding! 🚴‍♂️
I may post fewer videos, but I’ll definitely keep sharing from time to time.
Twaap keeps rolling! 😜

BACK ON MY TWO STROKE SOON!!!!! ❤️ Husqvarna TE300i

Until next time 🚲💨
Much love from me!

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[Music] I’m riding now to a camping place outside of and there’s a friend also with his bike packing stuff and he’s going to join me. Beautiful single trail. Woohoo. Watch out the reds. They are really slippery because it’s wet. The [ __ ] Google Maps is [ __ ] crazy. Not nice. Lovely sunshine. Adventurous trail, huh? I know. God, slippery. And this is the place where the camping is located. And it’s now 6:00. So nice. Good timing. 114 km yesterday. 107. Slept in the tent. It was a bit too cold with my sleeping bag, but I did sleep. So, and today continue cycling and I have company with me, so that’s nice. Day three. Back on track. There’s my friend. The water is crystal clear. Hello. Yan. Morgan. I don’t know if you can see it on camera, but look at the difference in water level. Beautiful. Yeah. All I need. [Music] Thank you. Back on track. Huh? [Music] out. This continues to the road or is it closed? Um, well, it’s impossible to drive, but you have to drive over there. There’s a bugger. Bugger. You know what the bugger is? Bugger. Bugger. It’s a big machine on the way. You have to move. Oh, that’s fine. That’s fine. That’s fine. Perfect. Thank you. Wow. Water. See the moyad beautiful now. Hoping that my cat don’t fly away. That’s better. Check out wind chair. [Music] No, more but part is coming narrower. How are you going? Good. I hope so. [Music] That is what I mean. Don’t ignore the signs, but we did. Not sure. What are we doing? Oh my gosh. Yeah, actually [Music] [Music] machine from Israel for Google Maps. But I will have to go back because it doesn’t go anywhere. [Music] wide here. [Music] Oh, hi. 100 kilometers now this day. And we still need some more. I love the com mode. It’s so nice. [Music] Smells like weed here. Nice place. All right, a little room. So, tomorrow it’s going to be a rainy day and I don’t know the plan yet. We don’t want to cycle in the rain. So, we’ll see what brings tomorrow. Still raining. So dirty already. Day four. It quit raining, so that’s nice. And yeah, let’s see how far we can go this day. Okay, I slept not that good because I had some weird feelings from the bronles. Normally I don’t feel them when I have them once or two twice, but now I had loads of them and it was very annoying in the night. Yeah, a lot of kilometers. Awesome. [Music] Where you fish? Okay. You don’t know. So lovely the sun. Buckerstein uphill or gravel route. I prefer gravel route. Hello. Here is still growing. What? Heat. I need lighter gearing again. [Music] Climbing. Climbing. Heat. Heat. [ __ ] tricky. Oh no. Lovely trail. Amazing. Woo! Woo! So happy. So happy. [Music] [Music] showers. Ah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Down. Yeah. Nice. Thank you. [Music] Day five. It rained this morning, but now it’s dry again. So, that’s awesome. Sunshine. Okay, let’s go. I don’t know what’s the end of this day where it is, but try to cycle 100 plus kilometers. [Music] Still a lot of rain tonight. Last night, not in the day. [Music] Not a [ __ ] this time. Getting warm now. Woo. That’s better. So we are now in city rester [Music] boring, huh? Where’s the road? A lot of kilometers further and it’s still a boring road. Today is a bit boring. And it’s all like this. And a lot of wind in the front. So hello. Hi. Nice little flowers everywhere. Honda dog. Rubble off road. [Music] Bye. [Music] That way. Mhm. day. There was one sign that said you have to go all the way around. Oh, really? This way. Yeah. Because of that construction site site. And I was like, what the [ __ ] I don’t see any construction site. And here it is a couple kilometers later. So, still. So, probably there still it’s locked. Give it a try. Yeah. You join good. Perfect. [Music] Good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. [Music] [Music] Looks cool. Yeah. But there are always uh possibilities to go left. Left. I can see if it’s blocking somewhere. So, we’ll be fine. Back on track. This warning sign from don’t go in did well. Yeah, [Music] I love these trails. Next camping. [Music] I was too late. I was too late to put it on. So, thanks for the cycle day six. So this was the town dig off. We had a nice uh Thai massage. It was really good. And today we go further and let’s see what will the dest what will be the destination. Now that’s the thing I like with cycling. You don’t notice this one again. They’re working on the streets everywhere. [Music] Oo, [Music] come on. [Music] It’s still in here. [Music] at the other side of the river. It’s uh Austria. Almost in Austria. Last meters in Germany. Pikach [Music] beautiful lot of melons [Music] pumpkins a long way decide to go now today. [Music] Hello [Music] Apples, apples, apples everywhere. [Music] The last ferry of the day. Monica. Yeah. [Music] Nice. Thank you. Awesome. [Music] Empire bridge. The bridge now. Yeah. Smell of trophy. I like Beland. It’s nice day. First, we go to a bicycle shop because my friend had a lot of pain in his ass. Pretty clear water again. riding so beautiful trail anyway in lings very Suki lens [Music] success for the saddles. change the position of the saddle. We’ll see if that’s uh if that helps. Australia, you made up time, huh? You made up time. You took a day off, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And still caught up with us. You’re very fast. Wow. We did loads yesterday. 100 133. 33. She makes you go fast. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. My ass was hurting like hell. So, make some adjustments to the saddle. Put it like this. Yeah. Enjoy, guys. Ciao. Enjoy. Hey, I’ve been [Music] [Music] There’s lunch. [Music] Scary the streets. [Music] [Music] Arrived at the new camping ledge. Really nice place. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Cycle day eight today. Very nice. Recommended the the screwing. I really like this one. Everything with tires. Yeah. Yeah. It looks small. Your bike. Yeah, it’s small. It’s an S1. It’s an S1. Why are the guys are in here anymore? The Dutch guys. Ciao. Fine. Rice. Yeah. You good in trouble. Okay. Good in trouble. Bye. Byebye. Bye. Used Google Maps and it failed again. Back on cool mode. [Music] Hi in I see you dad. Let me milk. [Music] Really nice. Too small, but we can have a try. Yep. Oh shine. Oh, so peaceful everywhere. Really nice. It’s little town. Amazing. In every apple there’s a hole from was poor. Yeah. Now I find one without almost really nice little shortcut. This is going to be really challenging with the backpack. Uh with the the gorge [Music] enjoy m [Music] turn. [Music] It’ll be a mixture. [Music] is so nice. Next camping. Almost ready for cycle day nine. Heading up now to Vienna. Big city. [Music] Not nice with luggage. Oo, that’s scary. A lot of wind at the back. A lot of wind in the front or hat, whatever you call it today. Boring roads today. Long way straight on. It was 30 kilometers of dyke or something. Finally something different now. [ __ ] Oh jeez. Lot of wind. [Music] Wolf. We are now in Sloak arriving Bratislava. Pass to Romania in Russia. Okay. From Brusso, Romania, Mulavia, Podesta, Ukraine, and back to Romania. How many kilome? I don’t know. I don’t know. Muscle man thousand,200 I don’t have time I guess. Ah awesome. Yeah. Last kilometers to the camping to the next camping. So we’re riding now in Hungary. Hungary. Oh, the wind’s driving me nuts. Yeah. Nice. Heat. So we cycled 27 km more. So it was all worth it to cycle more because otherwise we were [ __ ] there. Switch from the other side to this side because the road is getting uh really shitty. Somebody told us try to ride more down there because the wind is getting worse. So horny bar crystal clear [Music] boring day. Whole [ __ ] day straight on. 100 kilometers straight on and went in the hat. [Music] like we cycled like 45 more than we had to cycle. Uh because we made stupid decisions or something. So we need to do now we we did already 60 in the heat with heads wind. How do you call it? Wind in the head. Headwind and it’s 30° and my friend is burnt really his skin and the lunch was only fried food. So that’s not the best uh energy for riding. But there was no other option nearby. So okay, let’s go. When I’m standing still and then I start cycling again, my legs are feeling like [ __ ] Thing happens over there. There’s a helicopter. Hi. Can we go around? Okay, thank you. You said it was okay. Sorry. The wind is getting worse. [Music] Yeah. Woohoo. It’s like it’s like a bad trip there. It doesn’t There’s no end. [Music] [Music] [Music] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. [Music] Almost there. [ __ ] Today we rode 156 km. That’s crazy. Cool. What a beautiful place. Bye. Thank you. Hello. Wow. Amazing. Woohoo. Morning. Hi. Hello. You are so cute. Law’s leg. box. [Music] So up to Budapest. End of this big cycle trip. Winter is back. Thomas [Music] look must be in here somewhere. Cycle. Okay. Thank you. Back to the road. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Paradise. [Music] Still a lot of wind today, but not that bad as yesterday in the open fields. Good fight. [Music] Good fight. Good fight. [Music] Definitely the gym. Awesome trees. Good luck. [Music] So sorry. Sorry. [Music] Last fight. We made it. This is the end. [Music] Hey, hey,