Survive Winter Bikepacking, Bike Touring & Camping: The Ultimate Cold Weather Guide?!?
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- čas přidán 20. 01. 2024
- Brace yourself for a winter wonderland on wheels! In this essential guide, I dive into the nitty-gritty of winter bikepacking and bike traveling. Discover my top tips and tricks to conquer the chill, focusing on two crucial aspects: staying warm on the bike and mastering winter camping. Learn how I keep my head, hands, and feet cozy during frosty rides, and get an insider look at the gear that helps me thrive in the cold. This video is packed with practical advice to help you enjoy the beauty of winter on two wheels. Let's roll into the cold equipped and confident!
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Thank you Davide! When it's cold, I fill my sigg bottle with hot water and wrap my buff around it and take it into my sleeping bag. Perfect to keep my feet warm 🔥
Yeah that sounds nice and cosy! 👊
😂you are so funny!…and informative! Thank you for all the information and inspiration
Oh thank you!
Hi Davide Travelli, great video, thanks. One tip - I too experience cracking thumb/finger tips in the cold weather. I have discovered that putting a little 'super glue' in the crack allows it to heal from the bottom up. This also works for cracked heels. Being a nurse, I observed the use of sterile equivalent to super glue to glue wound cuts, instead of sutures -- so I tried the ordinary super glue with my thumb/finger tips cracks -- and it works very well.
Thanks for sharing Chris! If you dont mind me asking, if there is a sterile appropriate product that is safe to use on open wounds why choosing normal super glue?
@@DavideTravelli yes, I think using ordinary super glue for those deep cold weather cracks on thumb/finger tips and heels is perfectly safe. I've now been using it for years.
Old school advice good to see
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Thank you for sharing this great information 🙏 You are a wonderful person
Too kind!
Good call on the OR shell mitts. That is what I use in the winter. They are gear I bought for mountaineering over 20 years ago, but I use for biking in the cold. Most of the time I wear the mitts without the shells, but when it is snowing, raining or strong winds, the shells do a great job. The one complaint I have is that it is difficult to shift my rotational shifting (Rohloff), but on my other bike with standard shifting they work quite well.
There are several brands, t he y are all very similar 👊
I wear merino wool base layer and socks for riding in the cold but if it's going to rain a lot I don't ride but put up my tent and call it a day. At the end of the day I change into Wedze ski long johns and long sleeve top underwear from decathlon €5.99 each. These are warm very light and dry very quickly when washed.
Hey Frank! The problem is that sometimes it rains for weeks 😅
Winter is by far my favorite time for biking but it needs to be below freezing or the snow turns bad. If you're on the right dry, compact snow it's better than anything. Warm snow is the worst. Try black diamond dirt bag ski gloves they're awesome down to -20. For rain, nitrile gloves.
Yeah I think in north america you get more dry and cold winters so it's easier. Everywhere else winter sucks because it's more wet and humid. Thanks for the tips.
I haven't cycled in the winter, but I have camped. It is really convenient to have a bottle with wide opening to pee in it. It also serves well in bad weather when it's not nice to get outside.
Hey Ivan! Yes I am equipped with a collapsible pee bottle all year around, I hate leaving the tent 365 nights a year. 😅
@@DavideTravelli I'm really interested how do you keep yourself motivated to sleep in a tent for so long and in so bad conditions. Do you like to sleep in a tent, or just accept it? Aren't you tired of doing it? 14 years ago I was traveling along the length in South America for about 9 months, hitchhiking in Argentina and Chile and by buses in Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador. Later I counted that I camped about 160 nights. I really hated to pitch the tend and even more to take it down in rainy weather. All the time I was trying to camp without the tent - I have slept inside drain pipes and concrete channels under the road in Patagonia to avoid the wind, in abandoned buildings, under buss stops, only in sleeping bag under the stars in the desert, I had luck with the weather and even slept 3 nights with sleeping bag only in Torres del Paine :). In Futaleufu I tried to sleep under the roof in front of the door that happened to be the local disco club. I was just falling asleep when 2 cars stopped in front of the building and they told me that they will need to open the disco :)) So I had to move under the roof of the nearby airfield, where in the morning some people appeared and told me I had to get up, because there will be an airplane landing soon :) And all of this to avoid the chore of pitching and taking down the tent, even in good weather. Drying it from the condense in the morning was time consuming and hated it too.
@@ivanilarionov1893 some unfortunate choices of camping. I mostly sleep very well in my tent. Sure when it's cold and humid is not fun but if you choose the camp spot correctly you can minimize the condensations. My sleeping pad is very very confortable, more confortable than 90% of the beds of the places where I have been hosted.
@@DavideTravelli At that time I did not have problems with the comfort, even with a mat that was not so thick as yours. Now I'm 43, so probably I won't be so comfortable with a thin one. My struggle was mostly mental. Once I went for 2 weeks in Lofoten during the winter. The idea was to hitchhike around, but when I got there and found the place to pitch the tent (fortunately I knew the place from a previous summer visit) I had to shovel the snow with my foot for half an hour, then I had problems with the pegs, because it was rocky under the snow and I had to find and clean frozen stones to tie the lines and all that in the dark :) After an hour I was ready and decided that the tent won't move from there, as I don't want to repeat the whole procedure. About the condense - it depends a lot on the tent construction. Mine tent did not have any vents at the top, so when the air humidity was high, temperatures cold combined with lack of wind, it was easy to get condensation.
Great info i am sure … grabbing 6 pack of beer .. too watch
It's a bit boring to be honest!
Some good advice there.👍 I recently bought some cheap pogies for commuting to work as the temperature was around -8. Combined with winter gloves my hands were toasty. I should have bought some years ago. Keep pedalling and keep smiling 🚴♂😀
Pogies rock! I wish them I had them in Alaska 😅 Cheers!
If you like being alone then travelling and camping outside when it's cold and raining is perfect. Only idiots are outside. I find it very relaxing.
Also in Spring and Summer if you take off road paths you’re usually alone. Safe rides!
If you have wet socks put them on your shoulders between your jacket and shirt. They will heat up from your body heat and moisture will get removed. Just make sure they dont drop like bike packers sandals 😅
Dangling down the saddle bag 😅
Good info Davide. It is the damp and humidity that causes me problems. It is very hard to keep everything dry, especially sweaty clothes, as the salt makes them impossible to dry 100%, even if I put them inside my inner layer to get my body heat to dry them (warm damp instead of freezing damp). I try to find a laundry to wash and dry clothes about once a week, easier to do in Europe of course. I did not realise you could get down socks haha. A neck warmer for me is a must in the winter. Oh and tea, a hot tea before bed is so so good.
Yeah you were in a dump af place, Portugal is the worse in winter. Much better colder climates at that stage. It’s not possible to keep everything super dry but better than fully wet and whenever you can you dry shit or or wash it and dry it. Those down cover socks are the best!
Video preziosissimo. Grazie mille ❤
Grazie a te!
When I do bikepacking in the winter, I keep a lightweight warm layer only for camp. I have a lightweight balaclava, long undershirt, long underwear and socks only for use at the end of the day. I can put some of my lightly damp clothes over them at night. I stay warm, and in the morning everything is dry from my body heat.
Yes I do that too 👊
Yep me as well ☺️🥰👍🏻
Grazie per tutte queste preziose informazioni 😃👏👏
Prego!
You are amazing 👏 my hero
There's no heroes!
I hate cold, but I love Tortellini! Son muy buenas tus sugerencias para los viajes en sitios bajo cero. Saludos Davide!!!
Saludos Ernesto! Fue una fiesta cuando en un supermercado en Marrakesh encontré tortellini 😅
hi Davide, you gave extremely good advice on how to ride in the cold. I haven't seen such a knowledgeable tutorial for a long time.
Where I ride the temperature is never below -10°.
I use gore gloves similar to yours and I'm fine until zero degrees then I put on very large, cheap rain mittens for motorcyclists and I'm fine til -10° (well, not toasty but fine)
as for the shoes, I wear hiking shoes all year round, they are pretty large and if I wear thick socks they keep me reasonably comfortable til zero degrees; then I put on Tucano heavy duty rain shoes for motorcyclists, they're made of thick, heavy canvass, they are like second shoes and they keep my feet warm at least until -10°.I know that cold is a very personal matter and what works for me might not work for you, it takes a lot of trial and error.
one question for you: I see that you use a short sleeping pad, since I am buying one next week, I wanted to know what the rationale behind that choice is. I'm asking because I've always used sleeping pads that accomodate my pillow, too.
safe trails
ciao
Ciao Ferruccio! I think you were tricked by the video, I actually use a regular size sleeping pad. It’s 183cm. Now they even sell a regular wide. If I had to buy I would get regular wide.
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Those boots are they the shimano xm9 boots… if so their brillant after many hiking boots over the years was so happy when i got those
If you Google Shimano Bike Touring Boots they will come up. I’m happy with them, I’d wish they would be a bit more washable.
Uno dei pochi sinceri in questo mondo finto di internet in cui si mangia sbobba in busta, si dorme su materassini di un mm, si usano bici delicate quanto un cristallo con 20 borsette appese da un litro l'una e si racconta che è tutto fantastico. Sì, per qualche settimana, poi si soffre e non si vede l'ora di tornare indietro 😅
Menomale che tu racconti la verità.
Viaggiare in bicicletta a lungo termine non è per tutti.
Ma no Marco, ognuno viaggia un po' come vuole. Vivi e lascia vivere! 👊
@@DavideTravelli giusto messaggio. Ognuno sceglie come viaggiare e come vivere, l'importante è non raccontare palle. E tu sei una persona onesta che racconta la verità fregandosene del pensiero degli altri. Grande qualità.
Good advice 🎉
Thanks for watching!
Genial !! con el tema de las manos... yo utilizo la bici para trabajar y ocio durante todo el año, basicamente porque no tengo coche :))) y las 4 semanas más frías del año, porque no hay más, estoy utilizando guantes de piel, però con las manoplas me has dado una idea... las probaré. Gracias!!
Si los pogies son cómodo!
What type of handlebar is that you use??
I use this one: czcams.com/video/sS5QIeHJVDs/video.html
Grazie Davide, i tuoi video sono sempre interessanti e istruttivi.
Voglio condividere una soluzione che utilizzo - principalmente - per scaldarmi la notte in tenda: la boule per l'acqua calda. Si tratta di una piccola boule (circa 11 x 17 cm) in gomma, leggera, non occupa spazio nelle brose, è resistente e costa pochi euro. La riempio di acqua bollente quando cucino e la metto in tenda nel sacco a pelo. Quando vado a dormire la tengo vicino all'addome e mi scalda tutta la notte.
Rimane calda per diverse ore, al mattino uso l'acqua ancora tiepida per lavarmi la faccia. Qualcuno sorriderà, a me ha risolto situazioni critiche.
Grazie per il consiglio Alessandro!
You’re awesome man, thanks for the videos 👍 I’m interested to know your routine for cleaning/maintaining your drivetrain whilst on tour
Microfibre cloth, elbow grease and squirt lube. That's all.