LiveStream #4 – Early Season Treats!

What are the best routes to do early in the season? Unknown Forest Gravel and Coastal treats. We’ll look at two fantastic routes to ride in May when the mosquitoes are limited, and the gravel roads are clear of snow.

hello everybody and welcome to this fifth live stream of the year my name is Matthew you may know me you may not know me and today we’re going to talk about the amazing roots that you can do here in Norway in the early season it’s May right now it is incredible weather across the whole country or at least the southern part of the country uh it’s getting warmer uh people’s moods are changing people are happier people are out drinking coffee it’s just amazing time and yeah here we are this is the season the cycling season as H us as you can see I’m not in Oslo I’m uh just in this random Forest right now I don’t know how good the internet connection is but we’ll it’s a running joke that it’s a running joke I’m sorry I could do that every every time but um I remember this well this is a route you can start from Oslo and you head north towards yman on this and these these gr roads no one knows about but that’s route is for another time not today I’ve got two other routs to uh show you today we’re going to talk talk through them why they’re so good to do in May what you need to know about them and then all the information uh you’ll be able to find on cycl norway. comom I hope you can hear me okay I’m just going to uh check to see if things are working seems like it’s working to me seems like it’s working to me so uh if you got any comments go ahead in the comment box hello Shan hello um so I am missing doing YouTube I make YouTube videos and I if you’re unaware and I miss so much not being able to make them and I’ve spent the last five months sat in front of computer screen as I did last year putting together cycl norway. comom which is now launched it is a uh quiet launch because I’m still sorting out books and all the rest it but the new website is available and I’ll show you it uh I’m going to give you a little quick guided tour of the website and then we’re going to go through and just talk about these these really cool roots to do in May and uh yeah that’s basically the plan hello yesper is here Rod is here great audio perfect cool all right so let me introduce to you cycle Norway Mark 2 Mark 2 this is not cycle Norway Mark I this is the we in Bergen right now I mean I’ve just been staring at this for like five minutes I’m I’m in I’m just in awe I’m like what am I doing here I should be in Bergen that is just to give you a re uh an understanding Bergen is one of the wetest places in Europe but once in a while you get these kind of high pressure come over and for like 7 to 10 days you just get incredible weather and it’s like you know it’s close close to as Paradise as you’ll get and right now we’re experiencing one of them in Norway it’s good in Oslo but I mean in Bergen it’s just mental I mean look at this 26 degrees Yeah so if you are in Norway right now cycling you lucky person all right let me introduce to you cycle Norway Mark 2 this is it here she is basically six over six months in the making to do this um the design is a lot more simplistic it’s a lot more cleaner um some people may prefer the old website but the simple fact of matter is that this website is going to be faster it’s easier to manage it’s easier to add content to it it is just going to be so much better to to build on in the future so it was well worth spending the crazy amount of money and time and energy to to get this out because um I don’t want to stand still with cycle Norway I want to make it the best possible so the first thing you’ll notice is the roots are just straight there you just straight into roots and we’ve got these lovely little root boxes which just simplify it U it’s just nice to look through we’ve got popular Roots which I’ll put on so for example toy do is a very very popular cycling route the one is the F Norway an area of f Norway which is absolutely amazing Bergen to andell’s Nest where you go over the mountains uh gravel routes if you want to do short or long gravel routes just things for example you know if you got a weekend and you’re in Oslo and you want to just head up to to mea and just do some of the amazing gravel roads around mura then here we are it’s it’s all here documented Etc and then um I have this kind of route of the month so that’s kind of where I’m talking today as well is that obviously some routs you can’t do until July and then there’s other routs that you don’t really want to be doing in July because there’s too many mosquitoes or what have you so each month I’ll just add the kind of roots I recommend for that particular month uh because people are always asking me when’s the best time to to ride in Norway and it’s like depends on what route you want to do website simple fast is good great to hear hello Simon thank you everybody for the feedback so yeah so you got simple tab sections this is just a brief outline of of of the roots if you want to click on the all Roots button that’ll take you to the main page there’s a brief introduction from me it’s a personal introduction from me to show you that this isn’t just some government website or it’s not visit Norway it’s done by an individual with passion and pride who’s cycled all over the country and you’ve got that kind of quality to it that you can’t really have when it’s a a state organization that’s just so big and you know just powers out the same old same old stuff the need to know section I’ll show you the moment it’s just so much information basically everything which is in my mind which I’ve accumulated over the last five six years is is on there um blog entries not had time to update these because I’ve been working on the website but there’ll be lots of new blog entries some of these will be free to everybody some of them will be for for members only but that’ll be running throughout the summer when when I do trips and such so it kind of fits in with my YouTube channel as well event we’ll talk about later on I mean it’s going to be amazing this year I really hope as many people can join as possible photos I’m going to talk a little bit about this a little bit later photos of the month so each month we’re going to have the best photos from members from from people who are cycling in Norway I’ve just set up the month uh for for this one and I’ll send out this link afterwards at the moment I’m winning there I am my photo is winning at the moment but I’m sure there’s people with better photos so it’s anybody that’s cycling right now in May in Norway don’t upload photos from August last year or what have you because that’s not how it works okay it’s only for each month so if you’re coming in June there’ll be one in June and you’ll be able to win prizes if you take the best Vote or if you win if you get the most votes so prizes each each month and uh let’s go back to the website um yeah and if you want to book a call with me if you’re coming over and you want some consultation with me you want some help discussing your root Etc then you can quite easily do that now it’s very simple to book a call with me so that’s the front page and I’ll I’ll just quickly go on to the need to know section it’s so much simplified now it’s just nice clean uh the guy who designed this his name is Yarman he’s yman he’s um amazing really really talented designer uh textbook like Nordic clean design uh very modern he chose the font the font here is unbelievably expensive to say the least but we decided it was worth spending the money on because uh we just like the quality of it and how it makes the website stand out so yeah just so much information on these for example I mean just you just wouldn’t believe um just like for example tunnels professional photos that I’ve had done just all information you need to know about tunnels on here yeah it’s just the resources if I had this when I was starting out cycling in Norway it would have just made life a lot lot easier so you see that’s just one one page there’s just so many pages with so much information yeah all right so that’s the need to know section and let’s just go to the root The Roots because this is the the meat and bones of of the site once again these photos all professionally done last year uh say taking everything seriously here making this website as as as best as I can with the budget I have so once again we got the Roots popular roots of the month up here the tab sections and then I just love this now it’s so much easier just it’s very difficult when you have so many routes to figure out where where to put them all and a lot of them can overlap and it can just get really really messy and this is trying to trying to keep it as simple as possible but at the same time show you the diversity of areas in Norway I mean there’s so much difference between the south of nor in the north of Norway in the East and the West so uh that’s every geographical location has its own pages and then these are all the national cycle routes you’ve got the Atlantic coast routes here as well you’ve even got cycle routes from the major cities in here you’ve got epic climbs all the major climbs you’ve got the Euro Roots here for the longdistance eural routes in Scandinavia and then you got the S and Scenic routs here as well so I mean it’s um everything you can imagine it is on here I can just give you example for the Atlantic coasts uh yeah root Etc this is some of this is from the old old site that we’ve integrated into the new one but a lot of lot of new pages as well um so let’s just go for example to let’s go to the East and just show you so love that photo the so I was sat on the bike and then the photographer had to come over and like squeeze in in front of me and then try and straighten his camera uh em got a great photo there it’s a beautiful beautiful photo um yeah so what we have on these on the geographical locations we just simplify it to Road and gravel um obviously there are gravel on some of the road section so you see 20% here 15% is unpaved here but we try to with the gravel ones it’s ones which are kind of 30% or more usually so you’ll see for example 45% 75% this is the one I’m going to show you tonight in a few in a few moments Etc um at the moment we just have kind of like the map and then a little bit of basic information about them uh over time all these will have a detailed page but we’re talking it’ll take it’ll take me two years to to to put all the roots in I want and have detail pages each detail page usually takes a week to do at the mo and that’s that in front of a computer screen for for at least five days so anyways um I don’t think this maybe it is working yeah you can see we’ve got detailed so these are the ones have done the detail Pages too which I’ll I’ll show you in a moment where you got loads of information about but you’ll see straight away the map uh this should be a lot closer in I’ve got my developer working on these bugs right now so this this will be looking something like this when it’s when it’s correct so you can you can just basically click on these if you want to and and access uh the pages that way or you’ve got them up here as well uh but you know all the root Ro uh the picture that I’m currently behind me right now that’s the uh the route it’s from the capital to the mountains and back again that’s the the gravel routs incredible gravel route uh a little bit of information about each each area once again personal by me my own personal feelings about it um information about the weather in that area public transport in that area some local knowledge that I can give you amazing photos from the area so you can get an idea of the difference between each area it’s really really beautiful um yeah a few quotes on there day rid and tonim yeah so um and if you switch to Road then the the the the map changes as well so we’ve got a different map here clever e clever clever clever all right so yeah that’s that’s basically it I’m not going to go into further detail um members that join you get all the detailed m Maps you get all the um view maps here you get all the need to know section vast amount it’s basically a book The need to know is like a book uh information on there and then you get updates and such and you have the members private members page as well with discounts brand discounts Etc so yeah and then for my German and uh French and of course Norwegian speaking people guess what he’s not g he’s can you believe this he’s G and translated the website into German and Norwegian most of it I would say about at the moment maybe about 75% 70% something like that is translated into German and Norwegian and then we’ve got about maybe 20% translated into French um because the costs involved to do this are enormous so uh we couldn’t afford to to do the whole of the website in French but we’ve got the basics in French because we know there’s a lot of French cyclist out there and uh we know that English is perhaps not as well spoken as in other countries so yeah there you go all right let’s get to the roots let’s get to the roots so first one is let’s go to gravel um alsoo to Vil Mar Vil marks so I couldn’t think of a name for this but it’s an amazing route to do in in in May and I’ll uh just start by going into a little bit detail about where where we begin and such so you start in Oslo and you cycle to lyom which is a small town on on the outskirts of Oslo um pretty boring cycling to lrom just going through the city traffic lights stopping and starting getting lost a little bit so what you can do is just jump on a train and that’s what I do I just jump on a train and go straight to lyom once you get to lyom train station you’re literally five minutes and you’re out you’re out of the town and you’re onto the open roads and the first part is just wide open roads with Farm fields around you uh there’s a little bit of traffic as as you’re coming out of the town so there’s quite a bit of traffic coming out so cars going past you 60 kilometers an hour um it’s not a major deal you come off at certain points uh onto quieter gravel tracks and then back onto the main road but then once you get about 20 km out out from strong it just quietens down and you’re into basically uh starting to get to Forest Area uh Farmland starts to starts to die off and the trees start to appear and um yeah it’s it just gets better and better and better so basically you’re cutting right across the east of the country straight towards the Swedish border and what you can do is the gravel kind of starts roughly here it’s a bit more paved then it’s gravel again a fantastic little detour which is just a bit of fun is you can go into Sweden through like a secret route where there’s basically you’re going through a gravel forest and there’s just a tiny little sign that says Sweden and you know it looks like you know you could be Dr you could be smuggling drugs going across the border it’s quite comical um this little border crossing and then you come up through the forest beautiful forest in Sweden and then you come back over the Border like the official main border order where there’s like shopping mall and such from uh from all the Norwegians that go to Sweden to buy to buy the groceries because it’s cheaper and then there’s a small town here so I think I think the first night I left Oso quite late so I cycled to to this town here and stayed in a small little like um bed and breakfast here I think it’s called Hotel mango I stayed there it was lovely it was run by I think it was a Polish lady who ran it and it was just like really really nice and very well priced and then you’re out into the sticks then and basically what you do is day two you follow the Swedish border and uh it’s just rural Forest uh so just vast Forest few Lakes about as you can see there’s a lot of lakes here and lots of places where you can just wild camp or the shelters um just really really peaceful on your own just KN one about so what I’m going to do is I’m just going to bring up some some photos let’s make it a little bit in interesting so uh just to give you an idea so that’s kind of like some of the roads are like that like just quite wide in places and just not no no one no traffic nothing I don’t I can’t even remember how many I think maybe two cars pass me like all day or something crazy like that um you’ll see a lot of lakes green no like w Factor scenery but just so away from it all and so traditional like this is an old industrial area where they used to do a lot of uh logging so there’s kind of like Old Settlement remains of of the you know going back 50 100 years um a lot of shelters very easy to find these look like you know used by Lumberjacks in the day now they’re kind of used by hunters in September and the hunting reindeer whatever’s moose in that in that area U so most of them are open and it’s just very basic inside um with you know an area to to to lie on and sometimes there’s a there’s a fireplace and sometimes there’s even wood uh but there are also more basic shelters as well which I’ll show you as well this is rur Los which you don’t reach this is further north if you decide to do a longer version of the route um yeah so I’ll just show you a few more photos and then we’ll go back to the to Route so you can see it’s still yeah so got beautiful lakes stunning Lakes which you’ll pass by just you know so remote really one of the remotest areas of of Norway that’s why they call it the Wilderness route um in Norwegian so here’s another basic shelter you can see it’s it’s uh a little bit more basic that that sort of shelter um great to sleep under obviously because you got a roof and such and these is not the sort of route you want you don’t really want to be doing this in July because if you’re sleeping there in July you’re just going to have mosquitoes all around you all night long and it’s going to be it’s going to be horrible but I I did this last year in May and there was no mosquitoes or you know there was there was a few about but it wasn’t a big deal you know you put your DET on and and and you’re all right I was thinking God July would be a nightmare uh once again basic shelters the some of these are not my photos of friend who’s done it as well so there’s a few different types of bikes on here but there’s a basic shelter you even got a fireplace but be careful with fires because you’re not allowed to have a campfire between 15th of April and 15th of dece uh September unless it’s in a designated area which is authorized and once again yeah see that that’s uh inside some of the cabins very very basic you got you got uh you got a what it called fireplace here sometimes you have some wood got a fire extinguisher always handy wake up in the middle of the night you’re on Fire H yeah so real traditional Swedish border right there that’s the official one the big the big Swedish border Farms lot of farms you go past as well selling Fresh Products so you can like got an hesty box traditional churches Etc that’s Ros uh what second world war um Escape Routes in this area so a lot of people escaped uh to Sweden through through this area um this is an official cabin where you have to pay to stay in the training station yeah so let’s just go back to here so all this is gravel through the roads you’ve just seen and the pictures you’ve just seen and it’s around 200 kilometers of just pure gravel which is amazing and then the second night I spent here which is basically the only accommodation around in the whole area um it started raining the second second night so I didn’t run a wild Camp so this was the basically the only campsite available and to get a small cabin for like 35 or something like a really small little basic cabin uh with you know communal showers and toilets in a in a campsite block somewhere uh okay and then basically the two options here is that you you can do the whole route to tonim which then after the once you get about this area it’s it’s paved roads a lot of it pave roads heading heading north but I find it’s that’s like 800 n kilometers it’s quite a lot to do if you don’t have the time this one is 450 km so I can do it in three days it’s perfect go on Friday Friday Saturday Sunday take the train back on Sunday and back at work on Monday it’s really really great so what you do is from this area here we’re going to turn west and head to Lily Hammer where there’s a train station takes you back to Oslo and this area is the ultimate gravel Adventure so what you have in Norway which which I find fascinating is it you have these very very long valleys where the main roads run through so for example Lily Hammer is in guan’s darland Valley which is a massive Long Valley like you know 250 kilometers long and then on either side you’ve kind of got like mountains or Hills and then another Valley uh on you know whatever it is 50 60 kilometers to the east or west or west of it so you have a valley basically here where this Main Road is from Elder room going up here and you’ve got the main good br darland Valley here G Dar Valley and then you got this kind of I would call it a mountain pass it’s more of a Highland Forest Area and it’s just incredible to cycle like we’re talking fantastic gravel roads very few people are or or no cars and it’s very very difficult to to to get across because it’s just random gravel roads going to cabins or going to farms and nothing really connecting so my friend Ian did this a few years back and he connected a route and he sent it me and I went and cycled it and it was perfect there was I think there was one or two hiker bike SE sections where it’s like literally three 300 meters pushing your bike or carrying your bike to connect you from one road to the other going through like a you know dirt track or something that’s it and and you’re back onto a lovely road and just the feeling when you get to Lily Hammer you’re covered in mud you know it’s pure bite packing like the quintessential bike packing you can imagine it’s not really for bike touring this one um you’re just buzzing when you get to Lil you just had such an amazing adventure and then just take the train back to Oslo and that’s it what a route what an unbelievable route if you bik touring you could still do bike touring up to about here and then I would recommend uh not going along here if you got a really heavy bike I would recommend carrying North or or stopping and going down to Alder and uh getting back onto the main road from there but yeah that is a classic and as you can see um this is the main this is like the full route to trhe of the Wilderness route and that kind of the one I’ve put in here is a is a shorter version uh all right so that’s route number one everybody doing okay yeah so gravel Roots so we got we got some questions about tires I had 35 mil tires on when I did this 3 5 mil I didn’t find like I needed more but I think 40 is comfortable 40 is uh probably the the the best solution and jumped on the train so you didn’t enjoy it you didn’t enjoy the old Swedish B of gravel you said it was too Norwegian Gadget man didn’t enjoy it I didn’t find it too difficult I think with any sort of gravel routs in Norway in the forest it’s up and down up and down up and down and it can be quite challenging in places but I didn’t find this one as hard as some of the other ones I’ve done I think it’s obviously it’s up to kind of what you’re after that’s the issue with roots is that uh some roots are you know are great for PE some people and not so great for others so there a good point if it’s good you mention that so people are aware uh let’s see yeah proper off-road tires are an Overkill too heavy for long trips I would agree on that are these live streams available somewhere after they are for members of cycle Norway they go on to um they go on to uh the the the members section so you can watch them when whenever you want and I try to filter out because I do Waffle on so try to make it a little bit easier for you to just skip to what sections you want yes Mr speedle it is a great ride how about going north to south joh I’m to Oslo yeah I mean there’s uh if you’re referring to that route that doesn’t really matter I think I think it’s if we have a look at the elevation gain yeah you can see if you start off in in Tron Heim then you’ve got a bit of a climb to begin with for what what’s that like 100ks and then you’re basically slow descent down so it’s probably a little bit easier to do the whole route from tonim if you’re referring to a a a full gravel route from Chim to Oso I’ll show you the the Norwegian Great Divide on the website in a moment because that’s an epic route from Chim to also like I think at least 65% gravel and we’re talking 9 900 kilom fantastic route uh my trip was along the Swedish gravel roads in the 90s in the 90s baby remember the 90s the good old days before the internet all right how about going how about going north to south TR I’m to oo and someone said there yeah that it’s that’s a race as well if you’re referring to a race that’s how long pave roads okay moving on to the next amazing route to do in may let us continue so if you’re not Norwegian maybe you’ve not heard of taly mar and you should have heard of Tel Mark uh some people I heard of Tel mark because of the the great second world war sabotage story it was caus the heroes of Tark um it’s an area of Norway once again it’s a traditional uh Forest area of Norway it’s was kind of like the Norwegian Industrial Revolution began there obviously a lot smaller than other countries when it comes to Industrial Revolution but um it was very very um it was it was kind of like the the where all the money was coming from back in the day before before oil and gas a lot of logging and a lot of electricity was produced by um by Rivers fast flowing rivers in the area um so yeah one point I think large a large part of electricity in Norway was powered from from Tark region but uh today it’s a sleepy quiet place and it is a dream to cycle and a Hidden Gem because most people will either go to the fs or maybe go to the north which of course so fantastic to do as well but this little gem of a place is worth checking out and it’s very very easy to get to so what I try to do on the maps is I try to give you as many Vari and options as possible so you can get a good idea of what what’s right for you so oslo’s up here there’s Oslo and you can take a train very easy with your bike just jump on it’s a regional train to laric and from laric you’ve got two options you can follow the old main road which is deadly quiet or you can follow some gravel some paved kind of Scenic Road uh through this area here and that brings you to a place called porun porun is a fantastic place to begin the adventure but you can also start in skiing um and you have two options one you’ve got this amazing gravel route so it starts about here and that goes through the forest uh private land um once again it’s barriers on either side of the Forest Road so there’s no cars whatsoever and a joy to cycle or you can jump on the boat so there tar Canal system uh very famous canal system which runs from Darlin here through all these lakes and they’re connected up all the way to ski and and what happened is he used to do all the Lumberjack uh all the all the forest um cutting down the trees here and then they’d send them all the way down to skiing and then from there put on a train or something down to uh to the port in por gun and uh on onto boats and Away to wherever else in the world back in the day they still do that today I think but uh I don’t think it’s transported on the on the boats anymore uh so yeah this is a con uh canal boat that runs all the way and it’s a tourist boat now and you can jump on it and get off at wfos and start the adventure there the this boat doesn’t start until mid to late May so if you start earlier than that it’s best to take the gravel road and personally I would take the gravel road it’s it’s far better than waiting around waiting for for a boat um and then you basically follow the telemar canal route along which is cycle route number two uh National cycle route number two and some of it is Grassy Parts like grassy roads and other it’s gravel roads and some of it’s tarma and you’re going past old locks where the canals are and it’s just a beautiful ride and there’s one point where you ride right by the canal on this old abandoned Road and it’s yeah that’s one of my favorite little little places to ride so once you hit with the the major lakes here these are beautiful you go on paved roads around the major major lakes here there’s places where you can wild Camp a few not many but there’s a few places you can wild camp and there’s a few camping official camping sites in the area there’s a 400 meter climb up here uh brings you out with fantastic views of the area and then you’ve got a gravel road along this Lake very very quiet and then you’ve got another gravel road down here and this is a gem a private road again absolute gem you can see this is quite steep so you got a lake with these steep mountains beside it and then you arrive in darling and darling is a historic Old Town I would call it more of a village it’s tiny really with a historic um hotel that used to house the kings of Norway as they travel through the country back in the day on horse and carriage so once you get to Darin you’ve got basically two options you can have continue uh heading north oh sorry you’ve got three options really you can continue heading north on the on the main cycle route number two and head up to luren which I talked about was the Industrial Revolution uh began in Norway it’s world heritage town and this is going over a Barron Mountain Pass area you climb up to about a th meters here um the other option is you can head towards Stanga and head towards Lisa bottom and Lisa fjorden here and go across the hadang vidda or the mountain range here but and what I would for me if I’m doing this as a a weekend trip or what have you I did this two years as a weekend trip I took the train to porun I cycled to Darling and then I came back the other side so what I’ve done on here I’ll show you the pictures in a moment I’ll go through that in a in a moment what I’ve done here is um added that I think yeah so I’ve added here uh one of the options so once I get to diing you can just follow there’s a bit of a main road you have to be on here um for a short period of time it’s wide it’s not a big deal and then you’ve got some gorgeous quiet roads you follow back on yourself a little bit here and then there’s gravel up and then it’s quiet roads back to porun and you jump on the train and back to Oso I did this over the weekend again three days 325 I think it did like 100 kilometers a day it was just chilling out easy wild camped for the three nights no problems whatsoever I think I’ve got some great wild camping photos some somewhere so um let’s just give you an idea of what it looks like so this is Ren um this is uh the uh sabotage place in second world war it’s the cold cold water hard water Factory whether they’re producing some sort of water that they using nuclear bombs as you can see I’m really knowledgeable on this um that’s the sort of views you get Lakes Forest Rocky Rocky Mountains Hidden Gem this is a SAA by darling that you can uh book online with an app really really nice and just uh go swimming in there and uh warm up uh this once again the sort of scenery that you’re going to be cycling around through just really nice it’s the historic tail Mark Canal information so you get a lot of information about the area as you’re cycling through uh just wonderful wonderful as you can see the roads here it’s the valley in lurkin it’s a bit further north this is where I wild camped uh one night right by the lake I just went for a dip in the evening in Lake and it was yeah man great wild camping experience you see beautiful evening as well this is the boat I talked about so this is the famous Tark um canal boat you can get on it’s a tourist boat uh lots of deer you’ll see a lot of deer and a moose in the forest um yeah they’re everywhere absolutely everywhere the deers they be jumping out in front of you as you’re cycling I mentioned there was a 400 meter climb and this is it bit a little bit of switchbacks and you can see the views at the top are fantastic so um yeah and there’s there’s there’s add-ons as well once again I’ve added on extra uh possibilities as another gravel route a little bit further north you just see how much information is on here and like photos so talk about the the detour to do the the uh the gravel route instead of taking the boat on here and then um members send in information to me so last year someone sent me information that one of the the gravel roads that was on the national cycle routes is uh closed off so um we just document that and then we put this on the map so you guys are aware so every feed you know when I get feedback off people are going off I can you know put these photos put this information on these Pages it just keeps everything so up to date and you’re just aware of everything I mean imagine tur up here like oh for God’s sake it’s closed and you can’t you don’t know where to go so um yeah like I say we’re trying to update there’s my wild camping how about that for wild camping spot free baby free and that water was not that cold and it was so refreshing yeah beautiful beautiful place lot of moose and that’s a little bit further north as I talked to you about before about if you go up up on higher higher lands over a th meters if you [Music] continue so that’s the second one my goodness we’ve nearly been talking for 40 minutes that’s the the the website guys so uh two routs I highly highly recommend doing if you are in Norway in May or perhaps maybe you come next year definitely don’t underestimate them tar Canal route you can do there isn’t that much mosquitoes there isn’t as many mosquito in the in the forest there so it’s sort of Route you can do in June and July and August as well but uh the Wilderness route I really recommend keeping away from that in in in July es especially um just too too many mosquitoes for my liking at least um yeah so don’t forget about the photo competition I’m going to upload that and I want to talk to you a little bit about event I’m going to make a video about this I’m going to promote it a little bit better at the moment we’ve got about 35 people signed up but I really I’m aiming for 60 and um the Ching event will be happening on the 12th of September to the 14th of September the 12th we’re going to meet in this beautiful Lodge in the middle of the mountains in the middle of nowhere it’s completely rented out the manager has rented or the owner has rented it out specially for me that’s why I really want to try to get 60 people cuz I feel lot pressure to to fill it fill it for the guy because he’s he’s exclusively booked this for me and then we’re going to do Oran which is a famous gravel route um over an incredible mountain pass with two like spectacular valleys in in fjd Norway um so that will be day one and then day two we’re going to drive to troll stigan and we’re going to be doing uh the troll route for day two and then in the evening we’re going to have a fantastic meal at the top of andell’s Nest so it’s going to going to be an amazing two and a half days to three days um experience it’s not that expensive if you’re if you’re already here in Norway or you can get to Norway um you know we’re going to keep the cost down as much as we can so go on to cycle.com event and uh check it out and just fill in the form let me know if you’re interested or you can contact me at info cyc norway. comom and U yeah how are we doing here guys any uh information going on my first big bik trip from Bergen to North cap next month wooo get in there that is a big trip how many how many days do you think I should plan uh okay so Bergen to nordc well it depends on how far you going to cycle a day most people cycle between say like 80 to 100 kmers a day and Bergen to No Cap is around 2,000 or so maybe just over 2,000 so do the math you could you could probably do it in 20 days maybe you want some rest days as well uh so maybe just say 25 days you might do it less depending on how far you how far you cycle uh but an awesome journey and remember if you’re running out of time you can always jump on the boat there’s lots of ports along the way you can just jump on the boat and Skip sections if if need be Canal route in August many mosquitoes I’ve never cycled it in August I’ll be honest be honest with you so okay that’s good to know I didn’t find the I I think I did it in late June early July once and I didn’t have many too many issues but it all depends on the rain fall and it can depend on the the wind and and things like that because it can be quite windy there so maybe I got lucky but that’s good to know then unfortunately are going to be mosquitoes at times in the forest T Mark has everything apart from flat roads that is very very true it’s it’s it’s up and down like this but oh my God it’s it’s an incredible place I think the mosquitoes in the in the north and in the South are pretty similar in size to be hona I haven’t noce big differences we took the canal boat to Darling and back to UFOs a good portion of our ride wasn’t along the canal it was very nice and little traffic yeah yeah the sections where you are along the canal but most of it you going through the forest area it’s U not much traffic as you say Randy we cyle this route last year I don’t Rec call it as yeah yeah I don’t think it’s as as dense mosquito wise as other places Tark heavy water that’s the word heavy water Factory thank you that’s the second world war Factory the Germans were trying to create a nuclear bomb with heavy water and the famous Norwegian Sabers uh came along and destroyed the Factory and then escaped to uh had hadang viida which is like a Barren extremely cold environment and they survive ski and uh that’s an incredible story read up about it it’s it’s one of the true greats what does the dark red bicycle stand sign stand for I don’t know what Red Bicycle sign stand for I’m not sure I don’t know what you mean I hope to join the Ching ride woohoo doing Copenhagen to Oso Bergen this summer can’t wait sounds like great that’s a great trip Copenhagen to Oslo flat roads through Sweden very very nice and then also to Bergen one of my favorites all information on the website if you you want to find more all right it’s 2043 um if you have any other questions you can contact me info@ cyc no.com uh I’ll be back uh in June hopefully I’ve got a lot of projects going on I’m going to the north of Norway for a project and I’m going around uh some Southern parts of Norway as well so I’m going to be away for a few weeks but try and get some live streams in uh as soon as I can when when I’m back and I hope to start making some videos again soon I’ve still got some bugs to fix on the website there still issues it’s a never ending nightmare of of problems and I’m sat in front of a comp computer screen too much but super proud of what has been achieved in a short period of time on a budget as a oneman band I hope you enjoy the website I hope uh if you can join you support me and that all that money doesn’t go to me buying fancy clothes or or spending on uh drugs and alcohol it just goes back into the website designing it improving it adding more content um yeah so I really appreciate everybody who’s joined and supported enjoy the summer season enjoy your cycling experiences wherever you are in the world and if you are coming to Norway I wish you an amazing journey we will talk again soon guys thanks for watching