My Name is Colin Smith I am 56 years old, born in the UK, I now live on the Gold Coast, Queensland Australia. I am the guy who sold everything to live a simple life in 3 Tiny Homes on Wheels.
As a boy I had 2 passions: cycling and photography. As kids we used to ride everywhere.
However, I took a path away from photography and cycling, and chose to enter Britain’s “silent service’’, the Royal Navy’s nuclear submarine force in the Cold War.
I left the Navy in 1997 and emigrated to Australia in 2000 to start a technology company.
I stumbled across the blog from Bicycle Touring Pro by Darren Alf. He was my inspiration. Then on trips back to the UK to visit family, I started doing unsupported cycling tours of Northern France. That was a game changer. In 2015 I completed a 6 week cycling adventure from Greece to the UK, Passing through Tuscany up through France and eventually arriving in the UK.
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Nice one guys
Thanks Matey.
Just completed my first bike camping trip on my Riese and Muller Charger!
Nice, they look great bikes. We are currently in Athens heading for Santorini tomorrow. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Bonjour guys. Great start. Enjoy and looking forward to following your adventures 🚲
Thanks JB, just boarding the ferry to Italy.
How are your bike batteries after being in storage for a year?
Thanks for watching and commenting, we left them fully charged and when we picked them up again they were at 90% charge. And have no issues with them over the last week in Corsica.
Very helpful. Thank you.
Excellent thanks for watching and commenting. I have just started a 7 week European trip planned with RIDE With GPS if you are interested please check back.
Do you have your own e-bikes for this trip or renting?
We have our own E-Bikes that we purchased. We purchased them for a trip last year and put them in storage. We will store them again this year. We did look at renting but figured this a better option for us.
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Very interesting.. How to create multi-routes network?
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Excellent!
Many thanks!
Sadly, pedalcel is going out of business in 2024...back to hub generators...
So I here, bur thank you for watching and commenting.
Thank you for the informative video. I took my JetBoil Flash on a four-day trip into the Grand Canyon this year, but for shorter trips, I love my Esbit emergency stove. It is inexpensive, ultralight, and comes with fuel cubes, so it is good for damp conditions (unlike wood), there is no waste (like with cannisters), and there’s no risk of fuel spills (like with alcohol).
Thank you for watching and commenting. I also live my Jetboil.
Every two hours.
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Depends. If im going downhill like that? All day. But ask me to pedal? Ten minutes max😉
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*promo sm*
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Fine debris filter (coffee filters, cheese cloth, normal cloth) plus boiling
Great tip! Thanks for commenting
What a awesome adventure shippers. Chat soon jb
Thanks matey
Great video, thank you! You mentioned not overfilling the small canister; how do you know when the small canister is full?
Thanks for watching and commenting. A couple of ways. You can weigh the cannister. You can also put it back in the freezer to get more gas in it. This may overfill it. I only put it in the freezer once and fill it once. Please let me know if you have any questions. Colin.
hey I am watching your video from India
Hi and thanks for watching and commenting.
Thank you for sharing. Informative, easy to follow video that really helps use Ride With GPS
Excellent I am pleased you found it useful. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Where are you now? We just ditched the EV6 and made our way to Varna. 😄🚴
Hi Charlie, been following your trip, we are back on the Gold Coast but planning the next one. I'll send you a message.
Amazing video, how you you go about recharging your E- bike batteries everyday?
Thanks for watching and commenting. We charged on the campsites and had no issues what so ever. A couple of times, the power sockets weren't in great places but nothing major. This video was the first 4 days of 6 weeks. More videos to come.
Two years later 2023, what are your thoughts and advice on food when cycle touring? Keeping things simple, but...interesting (not boring or bland) and available. Making meals at home is very easy, not so much while camping on a bicycle: especially clean up. It seems like it would be twice as difficult. I'm not a fake food type of person (gels, protein bars, etc.) like a lot of cyclists incorporate into their diets. What did you do to refine your food intake?
Thanks for watching. I am not long back from a 6 week Euro trip, We generally carried about 2 days' worth of food. Breakfast: Cereal and a top-up with boiled eggs. Lunch: Boiled egg and tuna sandwiches. Dinner: Something like tinned spaghetti bol or chill with tinned tomatoes added on top of noodles. I also recently upgraded to a sea to summit xpan for use with the Jetboil.
Thanks for the information. Do you think this works on the Garmin Fenix 7 models?
Thanks for watching not sure but head to openmtb that may help.
Thanks for your video. I'm from the Gold Coast and I'm about to go on my first multi day bike packing adventure. I was interested in your video because I also have a Giant e bike, Talon, although not designed as a touring bike I'm hoping it will do the job.and in particular help me get up those hills.
Have fun, yes I'm sure it will. I have friends with Giant Emtbs and have done a couple of multi days with them.
If your pedalcel stop working, it is because the magnets come undone from the spinning axil, and you need to epoxy it back together...bad manufacturing... Update...they are going out of business as of 2024...
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Thanks for the info👍
No problem 👍
I Finally Fold and Button it.. good to go anywhere in saddle...👍👍👍
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Thanks for sharing!
Our pleasure!
I'm getting ready to do this to Lake Tahoe from Reno & back, how do I figure out where to recharge at daily? I'm getting a solar panel & power station eventually, but not for now, just spent way too much on thy bikepacking gear i bought the last 2 days! Lol😂
Thanks for your comment. We will either stay overnight on campgrounds with power or charge enroute during the day. A second battery maybe the way to go.
Would like to see you use the high power port to charge the powerbank and the lower powerd one to keep the phone charged how much you would charge the
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Thankyou. I will set off April.
Good Luck :-)
Learnt something new today and looks very useful. Thanks
Thanks for watching and commenting. Pleased you found it useful
Very well done and informative. Been looking for tutorials for Ride with GPS. On another note. Spent seven years in Keflavik Iceland and most of the rest of my career flying around in the P-3C Orion. Retired in 1997. Take care, Al
Thanks for watching, i'm please you found it useful. Thats cool, Sounds like we both have some interesting stories we can't tell anyone :-)
im interested in this tent but I cant find the size of the poles, only the size of the whole tent when packed, which doesnt look so practical when bikepacking with its 58cm length. Could you tell me how much space the poles need when folded? how do you pack them on the bike? panniers right?
Thanks for watching, They are about 50 ish cm when packed. I store the tent on top of my rack, here is a link to the video of the straps I use. Or I store the tent across my handle bars. kzread.info/dash/bejne/c2GtmpaqmZa8nag.html It is a 2 man tent with alot of space you could get smaller by going one man but lose the space.
Thanks for watching, They are about 50 ish cm when packed. I store the tent on top of my rack, here is a link to the video of the straps I use. Or I store the tent across my handle bars. kzread.info/dash/bejne/c2GtmpaqmZa8nag.html It is a 2 man tent with alot of space you could get smaller by going one man but lose the space.
Nice one shippers
Nice one shippers. What a great adventure. Chat soon
Great tips mate
that "techy stuff" will tell you what the ebike is capable of.. 500wh means that you can run that 250w motor for two hours at full power before it runs out of juice.. Generally people travel on ebikes at 15mph, so 2 hours means you will only be able to go 30 miles.. and that is on level terrain... if you are going uphill, that could be reduced to 10 mile range.. If you have (like in the USA) the legal ability to have a 1000w motor, that doesn't mean you are drawing 1000w all the time.. generally the higher watt motor will draw the same as a 250w motor on the same terrain and power setting. It just means that when you need more power/torque, it will be available during those brief times..
What is the waterproofing like.? I think when I looked at it, it was very low
Thanks for watching and commenting. I have been out in some pretty heavy downpours in it and so far so good it has stood up well. Like any tent overtime I will need to re-waterproof.
Been doing this trick since 70s my method is clean chain with paraffin, then melt wax in old tin put a bit wire on end of chain and lower it into tin ,after a few minutes lift it out with the wire and let excess wax drip into tin save for next time . This way you don’t get dreaded oil stain on bottom of your trousers.
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Great instruction!
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Thank you!
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What about a small light portable 1000w Honda generator strapped to the back and the battery charges as you move along? Just to correct, battery capacity is measured in "Amp Hours" (ha) not Watt Hours.
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Nice, will give it a bash. On the SA currency all the top end bikepacking stuff just to expensive.
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Super tip!!!
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I have a waterproof hack I have used for years ,10oz petroleum jelly 3oz beeswax, heat to melt together, add some citronella (keeps spiders ect away)let it set ,use a cloth to rub on to make your kit waterproof .
Interesting, I will also give this one a go. It may be better for leather type equipment. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Cool
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Great idea 👍
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Good budget hacks for cycle touring cheers
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Super camp
Thank you thanks for watching.