COAST TO COAST EMTB // VLOG DAY 1 // FIVE SPECIALIZED TURBO LEVO // ST BEES TO ESKDALE
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2024
- The Coast to Coast is a very popular and famous Cycle route throughout the year, but is primarily and at it's heart a Road Cycling route when mentioned to most folk.
Tim Woodcock devised a primarily off-road Mountain Bike route from Wainrights walking trail which takes in some simply breathtaking scenery and amazing climbs and descents as featured many years ago in MBR Magazine. I was blown away over the whole 6 days, as well as blowing out of my ar$e despite being on an eBike. I was expecting this to be a fairly easy route, but I was wrong.
The route we rode starts in St.Bees and ends some 225miles later in Robin Hoods bay. We did this 'assisted' using a tour company over 6 days which even on an eBike was a great challenge mentally and physically.
We all had 700wh batteries on our Specialized Turbo Levo 2019 bikes. I would not say this would be feasible on a 500wh battery unless your super good at battery management or have another battery or plan on stopping enroute to charge. There are plenty of places to do this, it will just take some planning and a lot longer.
This video is a VLOG of Day 1 of our adventure which took us from St.Bees to Eskdale. The tour company couldn't get to us on day one due to logistics so we had to carry our overnight gear with us which meant I couldn't take the drone but it was with me for the rest of the trip. In our bags of course we needed our chargers and overnight kit but none-the-less it was a great days riding. Of course, we smashed the first 19 miles in no time as it was mostly fire roads, but the climb up Black Sail Pass is a bridleway, but rideable by horse, cart or ebike!! So it was a Hike-a-bike for us..
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Very scenic ride and nice to see so many Levos (same as my Expert green) That ride got very interesting at 7:00 when you guys started hike-a-biking up that steep slope. I would find it more brutal to carry the bike than use walk mode. I realize some parts were very steep and maybe a carry is the only way. An alternative way I travel off trail is to flip the bike upside down and walk it like a wheel barrow in front of myself while holding the handle bars. That rocky descent was crazy rough. You were lucky on your crash into the the rocks at 13:41 It looked like you were going face first into the rock! I always wear a full face helmet and chin mount-- much safer for your jaw. Your buddy in front caught some nice air at 15:20 Thanks for recognizing me on the live stream with Rob today (Feb. 5, 2020). I was surprised you knew who I was and you saw my 1500 mile review of my 2019 Levo Expert.
Now this is real mountain biking. Awesome. 👊🤙
Thanks Dale. It sure felt like that’s how the sport was intended 😁🤘
The most impressive thing about this is that you managed this full ride without a level breaking down! 😆
All jokes aside nice ride
..well done guys,proper mountain biking...looking forward to day 2,...
Cheers dude. Working on it as well speak :) Hope to be by the end of the week..
@@TheBikePilot ..awesome!
What a GREAT way to see another country. For me I mean. Looking forward to watching this series. Oh the places a mountain bike will take you!
Indeed! Hope you enjoyed 🤘
Some of THE BEST MTB videos on CZcams. Thanks for creating and sharing with our MTB community. Looking forward to more of your work.
Happy Trails.
Cheers bro!
Good effort lads, when you said only 7 miles to go at Black Sail Hut I did cringe knowing what you had ahead off you all. Well done
Hahaha. If only we knew 😂😂
Looks great to get out and explore, nice change from the trails, definitely going to do something similar
Yes mate do for sure. What I love about an eBike is it gets you outside your comfort zone and into areas you wouldn't normally venture, so for me it's about adventure..I never would have considered this ride on a normal pedal bike..
Proper job boys! Love the way it all seems plain sailing then gets brutal!
Yes mate! We were (well I was) lulled into a false sense of security..
Excellent video I live locally and knew what was to come when you were taking a break at Black Sail hut! The road version of the C2C passes my house and I'm bemused by the number of folk doing it on conventional mountain bikes which are hard work on tarmac especially the brutal second day. Looking forward to episode 2.
Yes the road riding was so hard, harder than being on a trail and there is around 30% of this I would say. I didn't enjoy the road riding to be honest..
I wasn't prepared for that push up at Black Sail pass at all..But it was a great challenge and enjoyed it a lot..
great vid John lol at your comment on me throwing my 10k S works on the floor
Superb video John, had the bug for getting a emtb now for about two months......definitely gonna get one but we are at that time of year now where next years models are beginning to show so I'll most probably wait till September now before I get one. Had a giant trance on demo for nearly two weeks and loved it I'll be 54 later this month and not having cycled properly in years and really let my fitness go I thought I'd give them a try. I was massively surprised by how easy you could get Up even the steepest of hills it was great, anybody who thinks you are not getting a good workout is totally wrong. Put it this way I pedalled non stop for over 4 hours on one trip so no matter how much assist you are getting you are still getting a good workout and without being knackered at the end of it........Whatever exercise you end up getting it will be more than staying on your couch. Looking forward to part 2 😀😎😄👍👌👌
Hey Mike I totally agree! Such good fun and a great workout. Let us all know when you get a bike and head over to a group ride. Next vlog should be out this week. All the best buddy. J
The Bike Pilot yeah will do a group ride would be great, massive difference in price in the e bikes like anything I suppose but how much difference between the levo compared to the giant stance and also if you've tried it the focus jam2 ?
Cheers mike
Not a huge deal, the Brose motor is certainly, for me, the best on the market and the frame geo works well for me. Plus I get excellent dealer support from Berkshire Cycles. I haven't tried the Jam but that's supposed to be a great bike and no doubt there will be some good deals out there with the new motor coming out..!
Superb vid Mate.
Cheers buddy :)
Superb edit, really like the vlog style, better than just POV. Really captured the first day, Epic!👍
Cheers Paul. Plenty more to come 🤘
Great video Jon, makes you want to get out and ride! Awesome.
Cheers JC! Let’s get out on an adventure soon in the Camper?
My teeth are rattling just watching those descents!
Yeh mate! They were all bone shakers.. 🤪😂🤪🤘
Nice video, well thought out edit & looking forward to more drone shots.
Couldn’t use the drone until Day 3 as we didn’t get our bags til end of Day 2 :)
The Bike Pilot if you’d panned the drone on the intro a bit right you’d have got my gaff in shot!
Looks awesome Jon. Who the hell has given this video a thumbs down, idiots.
Great video, looks like good fun doing it with mates, I finished this route yesterday. Was awesome fun and weather but you look like you are much better prepped. If you find some Specialized sunglasses that I lost on the way up to Tan Hill from Winton then make good use of them :D. Plus if you can work out which way the bridleway is supposed to go both prior to the river Belah crossing and then up the bog fest to the top then you did better than me. Good luck lads.
Hey Dan. Glad you got in OK! Really boggy in places isn't it. That bit is certainly a slog..We did go wrong a little bit as some of it is far from obvious but got there in the end!!
Awesome boys
Would love to get a levo 😢
Thanks mate 🤘
Great video John. Perhaps at the end of the ride you can comment on how the bikes performed and battery usage etc.
Thanks for the feedback. I’ll definitely incorporate that into the next video..🤘
Excellent vlog that is my kind of ride great trail planning. Just out of curiosity when you had to carry your bikes was that a footpath you had to follow for that part or still hell of a bridleway. Look forward to next episode.
It's the Black Sail Pass which is a 'Bridleway' but not really passable for a Ponie or a Bike!! From the bottom section of the trail after the Youth Hostel it was pretty much a push up all the way up the Mountain to the ridgeline. If it wasn't too steep, it was boggy/rocky. The mileage on that day looked light on paper but this was the challenge on that day and it was pretty arduos as the vid shows, I hope!! There's quite a lot of boggy field crossings throughout the route. It's a 'proper' mountain bike ride in so much as you go right up and down a mountain via walking trails and are treated to truly epic views..Also, the GPX files on other days are not 100% accurate we did take a couple of wrong turns and ended up the wrong side of a field boundary as always with these things but if you pull it into Google Earth or any other mapping software you could see where we went wrong.. Next episode should drop before the end of the week. Thanks for the comment, I really appreciate it :) J
@@TheBikePilot Yours video certainly did bring it across as arduous and even though there was a group of you you still need to keep your wits about yourself including your map reading. The vid is a refreshing change to the other mtb related vids on CZcams.... ride to the top of hill then down... ride to the top then down 🙄 your vid is a genuine epic mtb ride keep up the good work 👍
Thanks mate. It's so hard to make good content for CZcams mountain biking and I've been guilty of doing what you say but it is a little lazy and believe me asking the other guys to stop and VLOG means you do need them onside, and when I got the drone out they had to stop riding or I had to interrupt their ride for 15 minutes but they were all super cool about it but I was mindful of not interferring too much...! Glad you enjoyed the vid. More to come and we are going to Megavalanche next wee so loads more content to come..
@@TheBikePilot Hello chap another good vid today the guy by the river crossing shit himself when you lot turned 😆 you can certainly say that the ride got everything in the way of woodlands and open ground. Good luck with your trip and ride next week with Rob 👍
Hi, so, from the footbridge after the hostel, how long did it take to get to the cairn at the top of Black Sail pass? Will come in handy for my possible planned day 1 route. Thanks in advance 👌👍
Hiya, I'd love to do this. Which tour company did you use and did they plan the route? Sorry if you've already answered this below, had a quick scan through!
No problem Miranda! We used a company called c2c Packhorse in Kirkby Stephen. I didn’t reference them as we weren’t super impressed with them. First day your on your own having to carry your overnight kit. The bike storage area wasn’t really adequate. On other days they lost a couple of bits of our kit and ‘told us off’ twice about how our kit was packed up and we felt it was the tail wagging the dog. I think they are great for walkers but for Mountain Biking or bike tours they weren’t superb..Hope this helps..
Quite nice. I suggest mixing the music less loud and the dialogue more loud.
Cool thanks for the feedback Bruce. I'll do that :)
how much battery did you have left? what mode were you on most?
Day 1 was a relatively short day in terms of climbing and mileage. I was left with 3 bars and used mostly Eco and Trail. My Eco on Day 1 was at 35/50 and Trail 60/60. It’s a 700wh Battery on each bike. Day 2 used a bit more and I dialled back the settings. I used mostly Eco on every day so it never really felt like a true ‘eBike’ Ride. The other boys did this 2 years ago and at the end of the trip said it was just as tough physically but you pedalled more climbs whereas you would have pushed up more on a pedal bike 😁
you know you have walk asisst on bike? why u carry them?
Haha. Too steep for that man!!
The bald bloke is proper rocking his hips. Lower the saddle
Ha! He loves bopping about on the bike 😁🤘