Off Road in Slovenia! | West Loop & Ljubljana | Bikepacking Across Europe Ep.14
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- čas přidán 27. 01. 2024
- We continue our bikepacking adventure across Europe in Slovenia as we make our way from lake bled to Ljubljana mostly on the west loop bikepacking route.
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About us: We are Liz and Alex, a married couple that makes outdoor adventure and travel videos. We strongly believe that dreams are meant to be pursued, and we hope to motivate others to get outside their comfort zones and do the same. We are full-time nomads and divide up our time between traveling abroad and the other part of the time in our self converted van all the while fitting in loads of outdoor-based adventure along the way! Our goal is to show you amazing places and inspire you to get outside your comfort zone and pursue your dreams...whatever they may be.
Those long racks in the farms are for drying crops, possibly hops used in beer production.
Lol! I saw those fence-type things on a challenge on the Amazing Race! They use them to dry hay.
Nice! Thanks for sharing!
4:27 this is called kozolec. In some other times they were used to dry grass so it became hay 🙂
Nice thanks!
Binge watching these videos , last summer i cycled from Bilbao to Saint Malo. London to Istanbul would be my dream.
That is awesome! You should do it. It was epic 🙌🏼
Loving this series. Slovenia Tourist people owe you for the good PR for their country!
Aww thank you! So glad you enjoy the series ☺️
I keep waiting for Sunday afternoons...new video with Liz and Alex...yeah!!
P.S. I'm right now planning the next big trip for myself, thats why I enjoy your videos even more. They're boostering pleasant anticipation.
Aww that’s so nice to hear 🥰 We are so glad you enjoy the videos! Where will your next trip be?
@@PursuingMountains I'm planning a trip to Spain in March and maybe to Norway for a second time later on in the year and maybe...I don't know...😀I will be cycling in Europe as long as I feel like it (and of course as long as money lasts).
I hope you have nice plans to look forward to as well!
They’re great. I love the way you show the hard bits and the food!
Thank you! So glad you like those parts of our journey!
The music selection was good in this episode. Great job. Can’t wait to see what happens next.
Aww thank you so much! The music is my favorite part of editing these together! - Liz
I like the music in the video - seems very apropos. Another beautiful section!
Thank you so much! The music is my favorite part of editing the videos so that means a lot! - Liz
Another great video full of adventure. Liz my husband also doesn't want me to do any of the mechanical stuff on my bike, which is odd as I ride solo and really need to be able to fix everything on my own bike...lol But it is so lovely to have a partner that is supportive and wants to take care of me...when I let him. Alex you are a good man❤
Aww that’s nice! I’m glad we both have good men supporting us 🥰☺️ - Liz
They remind me of tobacco drying racks in my grandad’s barn, but weren’t so tightly spaced. I’d guess they’re drying racks for something to drape over. At first I thought grape or muscadine trellis, but not with a roof. Now I want to know, too! 🤔
A couple of people have commented that they are hay drying racks!
@@PursuingMountains Well, I guess once a farm kid, always a farm kid! 😆
Love it! Great videos. I am bikepaking for 35 years, too. Looking forward to the next episode. Did you go to the Skocjanske Jame Caves near Divaca? Def. a must see in southern Slovenia. Greets from Graz.
Aww thank you! We did not go to those caves. They were further south than we went. But I just marked them on my Google maps for a future trip! Thanks for the rec ☺️
Love your videos!
Thank you for commenting! So glad you enjoy the videos ☺️☺️
Another great video
Thank you! ☺️☺️
have been following you for 14 episodes. Loving it! But now I can't find episode 15. What's up?
Haha 😆. We have been posting weekly, the next one should come out on Sunday.
Slovenia is beautiful!
I'm all but given up on Komoot - between weird algorithm things like you shared, it also doesn't 'check' crowd-sourced ideas. Nearby me this means visiting cyclists are directed down a busy dangerous road (which 3 cyclists have died on) - yet parallel is a traffic free National Cycle Route. I've emailed Komoot and they refuse to act.
Crowd sourced ideas would be great I bet for the app!
What bikes did you use and would you recommend them for the eurovelo routes? Nice videos!
We each had Salsa Fargos. We bought them in 2020 to use on the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route. I would say that they’re overkill for the Eurovelo. Their tires are 29x2.6 which are too much for paved roads, but they’re great on gravel. We ended up back on the Eurovelo 6 in Serbia and there we had some pretty rough, off-road terrain, but you could probably get by with 2.25 inch tires. Other than that, they’ve been really good bikes. They have a good, solid frame, but they are a bit heavy.
@@PursuingMountains thanks! I’m actually looking at the salsa Fargo. I live in north idaho and think I would get some use around here. Looks like I need to see if I can put different tires on for Europe though.
Just a question you did a tradition panniers rear rack setup .. why you didnt use a full bikepacking setup .. was thier advantages of using traditional rear panniers setup over bikepacking setup
I would say that there’s a variety of reasons. We already have panniers and we’re use to them we also didn’t want to have to buy brand new bikepacking gear. A well organized pannier makes it easy to access our stuff. We also had a lot of stuff including camera gear and a drone that we needed to be able to access easily and quickly. There are still a number of things about our setup that I would be curious to try out, especially regarding our GoPro mount and placement. I’ll have to try some things out before our next big trip.
@@PursuingMountains good answer yes camera gear is very difficult to carry for sure on a bikepacking setup specially 4 seasons and editing gear ie laptop and drone etc .. i switched to dji action camera over gopro few years back and dji drone just added insta60 x3 which i got for new adventures .. still trying to firgue out mounting places ..but with the 360 it gives me many shots from same position on my pure bikepacking setup … .. look forward to your videos cheers
What happens with your bodys. Have your bodies changed after somany days of exercise
We did get stronger overall - the first two weeks were the hardest in terms of adjusting - but our legs would still get sore all the time. When you rid back to back days with pack weight they are just in a constant state of soreness 😅
@@PursuingMountains Have you lost weight or was it never a problem?
4:26...en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayrack
Thanks!