Riding this bike from Amsterdam to Lisbon

Riding this bike from Amsterdam to Lisbon | bikepacking
The trip starts in Amsterdam, NL, June 2025. We’re riding Southwest to Lisbon, PT. We plan on camping/warm showers most nights with an optional hotel/ hostel stay every fourth to fifth night for a shower and electronics recharge. The tour is slated for 30 days, crossing through five countries with 2,777 km and 21,282 m of elevation.
Thank you, Tailfin for supporting the tour with all the best bikepacking gear made: https://www.tailfin.cc/
Thank you, Red Shift Sports for supporting the tour with your comfortable cockpits: https://redshiftsports.com/
Thank you MAAP for supporting the tour with their top notch soft goods: https://maap.cc/
Thank you Two Seas Cyclery for your forever support: https://www.twoseasnyc.com/

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all right this is the current bike I’m riding from Amsterdam to Lisbon currently we’re somewhere in Belgium this is a number 22 drifter made in New York titanium frame it’s got Force cranks i have Richie flat pedals because I’m wearing sandals it’s a Wolftoothoth 36 to in the front running electric axis in the back got the GX variant and for the hoods and brakes these are the Apex cheapest guys working well and the uh Apex brakes this brakes this is the uh Belgium head wheel set I have the rear is a DT Swiss it’s a 350 upgraded ratchets the front is a dynamo sun and that is running to a sine wave up on the top and it’s also got a little USB charger on the back so I have this light on the front wired down around to the back of this rear light right here on the bottom of my tail fin primarily all the bags on this bike are tail fin this is the tail fin cargo it’s very nice as you can see I got it stuffed up uh we are live streaming this trip that’s probably how you’re watching this video uh this is a local kind of internet local Wi-Fi it’s connected to a hot spot it’s what my streaming system works off of uh I got a map alt road bib back here drying i wore this yesterday um let me show you a little map hits here very comfortable bibs uh on the tail fin we have the 5 L pane ear we’re only running one right now uh because we have this rear camera here and it’s kind of rigged up to where the other paner would go uh it’s working all right the frame here we have the tail fin this is the largest frame bag that they offer as you can see this would be a little bit better for me if I could move these bottle cages down just one notch on each one um unfortunately couldn’t find them in Amsterdam so maybe we’ll try in Paris but uh either way I can still grab my bottles uh it almost seems like this frame bag was made for my bike minus where the bottles are everything else fits like so perfectly it’s crazy and this is a 61 um frame so the hell is that uh on the front I have more tail fin piers these are the 5 L and what’s cool about this stuff is that I don’t just comes right off this is just mounted on an adventure fork speaking of the fork this is the risky fork custom it’s got the mount for the dynamo cable that goes through um we got a Nene bottle on the bottom two water bottles on the top another tail fin this is the 1.5 L non-zippered inside here two batteries for the stream outer shell supplied us with the feed bags which mine are storing a chocolate bar delicious here let me get a piece of that m there’s a mic in there chapstick things I want really quickly an Insta 360 X5 and before we get into the cockpit cuz it’s crazy let’s talk about the last thing here from Tail Fin the bar mount super nice um I’ve been putting my jacket right under here right now I have some socks that I’ve been wearing so I want to keep them separate air them out a bit you know so that’s on the front there this bag basically opens up and closes down really tight i could open it up much wider this is the size small for the drop bar variant uh they have a larger one it’s much larger it would fit on this bike but I didn’t think I needed that much room and on the non-drive side another 5 L there now let’s talk about the cockpit because it’s crazy these bars are if you can see under there this is the red shift kitchen sink bars and it has this metal loop right here and the reason why I got these was I wanted to have more options to mount i have two phones on the front it’s for live streaming it’s complicated the phones will get hot if I put them away so it’s better to have them out um so got two phones out there right now um mounted on there as well as my dynamo um like I pointed out earlier I kind of wanted that out of the way of everything and then from there um I also got their padded these little padded grip inserts for the tops of the drop bars and then also these like hand grips for the bottom they’re super comfortable when you’re in the drops very very comfortable and new for this for me ever is these clip-on TT bars these arrow bars i have them I’m a pretty big boy so I got them spread out pretty wide got them at a slight angle um and yeah this is this is where we grip it and rip it um we’re trying to tuck and get you know defeat these headwinds that we’ve been battling the last two days um on this bar I also have a front camera for the live stream for the face cam and the microphone um the other thing Red Shift provided as a kit you can get the TT bars and you can get the seat post here and I’ll probably make a short video about this seat post and bars alone but you can push this forward and I know it looks insane however your saddle height doesn’t change when you slide it forward it’s the same and when you’re a little bit forward when you’re on these bars you are already forward you’re more on the front wheel so normally if you didn’t have this your ass would be like really close like on the very tip of the saddle and when you have this little flip in it it’s a little harder to do there we go when you have this little flip in the saddle position gives you about that much more room so you’re sitting on the saddle while you’re up here and it’s very comfortable um so yeah just want to shout out huge shout out to Tail Fin Red Shift MAP and Outer Shell for uh supporting us with their extremely useful and very practical gear um we would not be able to do this i wouldn’t be able to live stream and and share this this bike tour without all of the packing solutions and hand positions that I’m getting from Red Shift and the comfortable kit that we’re wearing from MAP i’m also got some MAP shorts on speaking of that these are really sick uh for hanging out off the bike so check them out we’ll see you guys on the next video if you have any questions uh yeah just let me know and we’ll try and answer them and we’ll catch you on the live stream we’ll be in France today peace