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Hi ROY just found your channel great stuff very informative.I come back to cycling after a 20 year gap and having a heart attack a year ago so getting fit again is a must. I'm planning rides similar to yours (but maybe not the same milage at first). Just wondering if you've done a video on tyres, I've got 28 mm marathons on my bike at the mo but thinking they might not be quite up to the job on off-road sections (canal paths ect). I'm in Cumbria so plenty of rides available, I'm my 60s and not a speed merchant! Thanks.

I just found this video, and want to thank you all SO very much for it. I've only recently had a real difficulty in fitting a tire, and am scouring the internet for a solution, and this looks like what i need. Im sols, and ordering one!! The new Pirelli P Zero TLR is a right difficult tire to mount. I thought my Schwalbe tires were the worst ever... until a couple of weeks ago. I rather ruefully must admit, I've been unsuccessful after every trick I know to mount them. I've tried everything, from leaving them in the hot sun all day, to a bit of soapy water solution along with the sun baked tires. All I've managed to do is ruin 2 Pirelli TPU tubes, and 2 Conti Race tubes. I hope the Tyre Glide will be the answer. Otherwise, I beleive I'm defeated, and will have to sell these new tires on to a mate, lol. Thanks again, Mr. Roy, you and your video may save my riding summer yet!!!

Great detailed review Roy 😊 very interesting.. Pete 🚴🏻👍

Hi Roy thanks for the excellent video, just ordered seat post and stem with a saving of £93.00 . Thanks very much and please keep up the video’s.

Great video and review 🫶

It looks like you have a power pack mounted on your handlebars. Where did you get the mount from? I keep mine in a small bag below the handlebars but yours looks a much neater solution. Just found your channel - enjoying watching your videos.

An excellent and informative review, Roy. It's amazing what technology is being developed for bike riders. Cheers Wendy 👋

The tester looks like a younger version of you 😎 Unless ….?!

Thanks Roy appreciate your honesty. Love your channel just saved £70 on my order from redshift. Love to Wendy.

Interesting, great to see them innovating in this space. Do you remember mg Canyon split seat post system that I brought over last year on rode on the gravel bike I had there at the time? It was also designed for the racing cyclist who wanted some give without the bounce. It worked very well and still is super comfortable. Do they say what the elastomers are made of?

The amount of pedestrians who are listening to music or podcasts or whatever even while walking either in the countryside or shared paths is ridiculous and getting worse they have no awareness of their surroundings at all

I live in an outer area of melbourne and much is zoned rural residential. Many of the local main roads are hemmed in by amcar railing with no provision for pedestrians or cyclists. Really no place to go or avoid heavy transport traffic. For those with access to gps the location is grant road baxter and golf links road baxter. Baxter primary school is on the corner with amcar railing on the corner with baxter tooradin road. The intersection was redesigned 2 years ago and since then the amcar is ridden over every 6 months by b double trucks. Cyclists and pedestrians are not the problem but the designers of these roads.

Just picked up one second hand for 350€ ! Looking forward riding it

Great video. Really interesting info and tips. Thank you.

Bought one to try remove a schwalbe Big Betty tyre this thing is on there and don't think there will be much room to play with even with the tyre in centre channel, can't even fit a normal tyre lever in this thing! New emtb wheels 30mm rim widths pro bike tools levers don't fit there way to thick so ordered schwalbe one's there flexing now so next thing to try is the glider! Should come today

Interesting to hear you mention your Ribble. I bought a CGR Ale last year. After watching your Channel I too have problems with the marathon tyres not gripping when hitting silt on the edge of puddles. Could you, or your listeners comment on what is a fast tyre which has better grip.

Look down, look down, look down. Eyes of de road. Look ahead with a throttle. Banned in Uk oh dear. 🚴🏼‍♂️

I bought one a few weeks ago and have to tested for the first time in real time on a tight road tire with inner tube, it took me half time than with regular tire levers and with no effort, it is a game changer. excellent tool very well engineered.

Can you tell me what the rim width is on that wheel and is there a choice of rim width available?

Dont you use a bell Roy..i dont like to cycle without a bell and mirror.

How are we able to see if it is the new Version? Finn. Denmark

Nice review Roy, looks like just what I need to iron out the handlebar buzz on my road bikes 👍

Nice. Might have to look into these. I have been using Specialized dual gel mitts after some hand issues on ultra events. They are good but after one race or event they get pretty worn and the gel pads also.

I’m glad I watched till the end at the beginning I was going to moan about your initial attitude but you answered all of of my moans red lights bad car car drivers no car tax Many thanks

Hello nice video

Don’t you just hate cycle paths with posts and lamps stuck in the way ( lack of planning)

Why do car drivers do what they do (they don’t go through red lights they don’t speed ,they don’t drive like lunatics and nobody pays road tax it got stopped in 1937)

Good review, Roy. I've made a note for the future-I did go to their site but ended up buying a pair of their handlebar mitts for the winter-instead!

Still think old-fashioned weight lifting gloves ... thick real keather for 10 quid are better. And they stretch to your hand shape. Sports Direct !

I have had these mitts over 3 years and still going strong with no sign of wear. Well worth the investment 😊

Look a good product, the xxl look a good size, I find some makes the largest size available are too tight.

I do like to wear track mitts, I do get after riding a distance pins & needles in my fingers....thanks for the advice on relieving it. Gonna try these. 'Ull' east yorkshire.

Hey Roy. What camera are you using if you don't mind me asking 😊

Well done both, I’ve enjoyed watching this series, it looked great fun. That would be my kind of bike packing, staying in hotels. You seem to have had a trouble free ride and no mechanicals, and apart from your off, thankfully with no injury a successful and safe ride

What do you mean "Your roads? Who made them your roads?" And road tax is about emissions! Did you know you get no emissions on a bike. Majority of cyclists are also car drivers so we know the high way code. So you're talking rubbish most of time. The amount of near misses I've had on my bike because of idiot drivers is ridiculous..

Is the Torque and speed sensor integrated in the back engine?

You soldiered on and accomplished your goal! Just as important is, on reflection, realized it had all been a bit much. Laudable is your contingency planning if things get too risky.

Well done both of you. I'm glad that I had my own little project to take me northwards (The Great North Road) as those off road cycleways aren't for me! Regarding rest days I agree with you. My strategy is to have a couple of short days, trying to stay somewhere interesting the night between.

Well done both and thanks for taking us all along on the ride.

“It was a good idea at the time” springs to mind lol I’m only joking, honestly Roy and Wendy, you both did fantastically well on completing such a tough and challenging trip. Well done to you both😊

I knew I would like this series and I wasn't wrong. All credit to you both. A trip like you've just made will be one of your favourite memories to look back on. I'm sure you must both have been very tired at the end. Thanks to you and Wendy for taking your viewers along with you.👍

Lovely series. Very well done both of you, great achievement. Congratulations to you both 🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️

Subscribing based purely on your channel description. Riding slow and the quietest route is exactly my style. 👍

Still friends? Did you take any rest days? I think that’s the secret, to take a day off when you feel like quitting

Well done to you both. Great adventure 👍

Bloody well done, you’re an inspiration! Having watched your Canti ride guess what we’re doing in Sept! Keep on pedalling!

Great adventure, well done both

Great series of videos Roy and Wendy. Loved the adventures. Well done. If you fancy a shorter 3 day adventure why not look at "the bay" cycle way (around Morecambe bay from Barrow in Furness to Glasson Dock near Lancaster). I did it with my 80 year old cycling mad father in law a couple of months ago and added extra inland loops from the designated route for extra distance. Amazing scenery, manageable daily distances and climbs, and generally quiet roads. I know you can get trains to barrow and Lancaster so maybe one to think about for you both in the future. cheers

That was great. Just picked up a new RC520 Gravel. From what the shop said, new wheels have sold the old problems. Mine came with some paint problem ( they said it on the eshop ), so a £240 discount and reduction in paint warranty from 2 years to 1 year. When I picked it up in the shop, the paint is as perfect as a non-2nd version ( the problem as noted was a 2nd layer of matt black paint not adhering to the underlying finished green paint properly in the 2-tone paint scheme. But the guy in the shop said it was the 4th of these 2nds to come in with perfect paint. "Just don't put a 1000psi power washer on it" ). Now have to get some lights - yours look great. All the best and greetings from Prague, CZ