Riding 450 miles across Portugal in 3 days with Laurens ten Dam and Ted King on a Pinarello Dogma
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- čas přidán 16. 05. 2024
- Portugal's N2 runs the length of the country, 738 kilometers from the northern point in Chaves to the ocean at Faro. It's a beautiful road that traverses wine country, farmlands and quaint villages. The luxury cycling trip outfit inGamba invited me to join a special version of their N2 adventure with Laurens ten Dam and Ted King, which covered the distance in three days instead of the normal six.
The trip was all time, thanks to the absurdly high level of service by the WorldTour team of soigneurs, mechanics and ride leaders.
I test rode a Pinarello Dogma with SRAM Red and Zipp 303S wheels.
I brought and used an old Specialized Power Elaston saddle. They don't sell it anymore, but the Power Mirror is the latest version it: tinyurl.com/y7x8btv6
Check out inGamba: tinyurl.com/3f5cc9jn
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0:00 intro
2:02 day one
9:29 day two
13:04 day three
22:03 Dogma review - Sport
Shout out to Sergio Paulinho, admired in Portugal. First Olympic medal in cycling for Portugal
Iam in hospital with a broken hip (mountainbike crash) and watching this. I love Portugal and the Pinarello is so beautifull. Gives me motivation to be back soon on my bikes.
Greetings from Germany
Oh no, Rolf! Sorry to hear that. I hope you have a speedy recovery.
@@TheRidewithBenDelaney Hope so to. Just watched Rico on his first day on the road, gives me motivation
What an awesome trip! Thanks for sharing.
Another fantastic video Ben. You are "No Joe!" Keep making the outstanding videos so us Real Joe's can live the dream through you. Thanks for all you do Ben.
Faro is such a beautiful town. Gotta make my way back to the region
Great video. Thanks for taking us along for the ride. I enjoyed the long-form style - great to watch with a coffee on a rainy Saturday morning.
OMG, you get to go nice places 🇵🇹 😮😊👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻. What an inspiring experience and video. Nice one Ben, really enjoyed this one 🚴🤗 You certainly seemed to have lived up to your own motto: Enjoy the ride!
I'd imagine that when these trips are offered to him, their pitch is "Ben, you're really going to enjoy this ride!" 😀
Thanks Ben, as a growing older San Diego bike racer...I am humbly thankful for your videos. That looked amazing! I spent a couple weeks riding my bike through Tuscany 30 years ago and will never forget it. Keep the good stuff coming.. thank you sir!
Cheers, Gary.
I have a man crush on Laurens…tough guy on a bike, and funny! Oh, and you’re impressive too Ben.
Ben ... I did not see a Pastel de Nata or SuperBock in the entire video! I can imagine editing this one was tough considering all the share-worthy video.
The week before your trip .... a friend and I did a 7 day trip in a huge loop (1000km) from Porto and rode some of the N2, notably the curvy vineyard road you featured. I have almost the same video shot. The roads, history, towns, people, food, drink, views, weather, etc. were just excellent. Truly a place to Enjoy the Ride.
Good old N2! Hope you guys enjoyed our roads!
Heck yeah, we did. Especially with Sergio and Rui showing us all the good stuff in the cafes as well as on the roads.
This was the most epic ride I’ve ever seen / bucket list / and kudos on your commentary and production quality! Man I don’t think I’ll see you wanting to do the medical fitness talk anytime soon 🤣 with these epic rides!
enjoyed that immensely! thanks!!
lovely! maybe they can get a blue bike for you next time 😊
Beautiful bikes and country and food and people... Enjoy the ride 🫵🏼🤘🏼
Super ride! Looks like great weather and great riders to ride with! Congrats!
“The Best” - Enjoy the ride!
Nice! You're pretty good at making videos. Cheers 🍻!
muito bom, parabéns
Niiccee Ben !
The trip of my dreams, which would take the time I don't have and the endurance I lack - but boy I envy you 😊
Been watching your content soon after you started your channel. It just keeps getting better!!! Also jealous. This ride looks awesome!
Thanks for the support.
Great to see this gamba team back in service after the Covid issues, Ben what would be awesome is on the bottom of screen profile of the day and time etc just to add to your distance image. Thanks mate keep living the good one 🤙
Good idea, thanks.
Thanks for bringing this company to light. Ride looks awesome and would love to do one of these. Question: can you ride your own bike? Dogma seems like too aggressive of a bike for “touring” especially for non racers
Just finishing up a tour from Lisbon to Lagos mostly on Eurovelo 1 along the coast. It's amazing riding for sure!
Sweet.
Be honest - riders like Ben Delaney are not “Regular Joes.”
Exactly he's just playing the part and that's what made him successful so far. Good thing is his content is free 😊
Actually Ben is a regular Joe, it's just that there are a lot of out of shape people out there.
@@galenkehlerLook at the strava data and explain to me how that’s average
@@basedgodstrugglin have you seen the rides? He only does like 230W. Thats a decent number of anyone
You cant be a good bike reviewer if you dont ride the bike
I don’t see any regular Joe’s? Who is Ben referring to? I only see guys with hard packed calf’s… ready for that moment! Wow, top class service… those guys look super professional and seem to really enjoy the sport! Hats off to that crew. As for You, you just a Rockstar now Ben.
Great video, only slightly spoiled by the feelings of jealousy it brought on!
Hey, Ben. Welcome to Portugal!!! Be shure to eat a "francesinha" sandwich ( little french girl, literally !!! ) in my hometown of Oporto, sided by a Super Bock lager. Good ridance...
Hey, thanks. Beautiful country. I didn't have one, but Laurens and Ted and Lars did on our first day there. Guess I need to go back...
@@TheRidewithBenDelaney Yeah, go back there, and i´ll be honored to pay you a dinner, since you were the inspiration, to put my mtb´s aside and buy a gravel bike to make the Great Divide!!!
I was wondering what Laurens Ten Dam is up to , is he not doing Lifetime grand prix this year?
Great music !!!
Does anyone know a good ear doctor?
I see the bit about the former pros and the regular Joes, great, but nothing about the superior Ben? 😀
Wow! That would be fantastic. I would love to know roughly how much?
They ain't cheap! Prices for all the trips are on their website, ingamba.pro/
Envious of your life Ben, not gonna lie; as i sit behind my desk working behind my computer, dreaming of riding this weekend if I'm lucky. Keep on riding!
Bud money isn't worth it. Work to have enough for your wife and kids and that's all you need. Live a little
@@Marco-717 agree , i try to find balance and as soon as my kid's out of college, it's "me' time, lol
Dude welcome to my country, share the track please
You mean the route? I don't have it as a single file, but you can see routes of the three days on my Strava. www.strava.com/athletes/116154 Cheers.
"Regular Joes" sure
Oh. Like the regular hardware bike porn isn't bad enough (we're innured to that), now we have to have lustworthy bike trip porn too? 🙂 That looks like a magnificent experience, particularly at the more normal daily distances for their regular rides.
I will pull the whole way... not... 🤤
Pinarello keeping the tradition alive, the ugliest road bikes ever made.
OMG doing a trip like this with some dudes in tow to fix your wheel, rack your bike, even to load bidons in the morning etc, etc. I can't imagine anything worse, being independent and solving your own issues is an integral part of the adventure. This program is awful IMO.
Who said anything about adventure? Ben certainly wasn't trying to sell InGamba as an adventure. Don't get me wrong. I wouldn't mind an adventure of the type you describe. But I also would like to have the experience that InGamba provides with their tour.
@@romancho9131 .... each to their own.
hideous handlebar and chimney.
Now that's the way to bike travel! Not sure I'd keep up in that group though😃. Café duplo e pastel da nata, por favor ☕🥐