Hi, my name is Mikael Hedberg. But you can just call me Mike, it's easier to pronounce. I love bicycle touring. I try to document all my bike tours and upload them to KZread. Most of my tours are from Swedish Lapland where I live, but I also try to go on International tours every year.
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So good to have you back ❤
Tack!
I really, really hope you wore some bright clothes while cycling here in Finland. I can’t tell you how bad it is when cyclists come here wearing black in the summer cycling against a black tree line on the edge of the road 🙈 Honestly it’s just mind-boggling how these people think? As car drivers we cannot see you until it’s quite late. That’s if we have good eyesight! Lots of older drivers here in Inari don’t have good eyesight! 😆 Edit: I see you were wearing dark clothes against shadowy tree lines…..🙈 There’s really no hope is there…..
Just watch the following episodes and you'll see plenty of the yellow visible jacket that I wore for most of the trip.
How come your brake discs are on the right?
I now just see that you have rotated your fork. Any reason for that - or just better bikefit?
Is that the Kona Unit X that you are riding right now? i now have also an eye on it, cause i need a new travel bike
cool - congratulations from northeast Brazil - good luck
Livin the dream mike, looked like a quiet peaceful ride with lovely scenery as usual. 👍🇮🇪
Why did you turn your fork?
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A mp3 speaker to keep yourselves motivated, nothing like 1940 bluestohelpwith the mountainclimb
That Ortlieb frame bag is great, I have same one in 4L size. The roll top makes it so much easier to get to the gear inside, and it it waterproof👍 Enjoying the new series, Mike. Takes me to places I may never get the opportunity to travel to.
Hi, great video! As a fellow unit owner I would love to know which rack you are using and maybe see a dedicated video on your setup, greetings from Spain!
Beautiful landscapes! I'm wondering how do you estimate the amount of food necessary to not run out? Is it just a simple calculation, three meals for xxx days?
Thank you, Mike. Really enjoying your journey.
I'm loving these adventures. Imagine my surprise when your video popped up... and I thought hang on a minute...is this Mike from the Ryan Van Dusters Swedish adventure?? The trip looks amazing and Finland does too... maybe one day I'll do something like this.
Onya cobba , hopefully Sweedish beers h ave got better ,beers up champion 🏆
I got bitten to blazes at about the same latitude in Norway. It was mid June and the mosquitos were nowhere near their worst, but plenty enough to be troublesome.
Great video and info! You certainly got a primo spot to camp on the lake! See you in the next one!
we don't have mosquitoes in England, do we? I haven't seen any.
Yes a lot of mosquitos there up in north, though I've heard the Dala-river in Central-Sweden can be even worse. There they have used biological control agent, spread from the helicopters
Enjoy your stay in Finland, Suomi. Safe travels.
What form of navigation do you use on your travels?
Hi Mike, another outstanding video - Part 2 - of your Divide Trail. You're a man after my own heart of picking out all those great chocolate snacks, etc. :)
Haha, yeah I'm a sweet tooth.
Always interesting places, border crossings. I'm old enough to have travelled through East Germany to Berlin a few times and many other borders in Europe when you needed a passport, then didn't need one and now, after bloody Brexit, we need one again! Great start to your trip and looking forward to the rest of your vlogs..
Beautiful video, Mike!
It is so great that you are back with new videos - and I was pleased to see that you just keep improving the quality of your content. Good work, keep calm, keep pedalling, and sharing your adventures with us. I also like that you were cycling across Finnish Lapland. One of the best places for bikepacking, scenary, campings spots, clean water, etc. - assuming that you can deal with the mosquitoes ...
I really love cycling through Lapland, both in Finland and Sweden. If you want to get away from the stress of everyday life there's no better place than Lapland.
What a beautiful part of the world! These are places that I may never see in person. Thanks for sharing it with us, Mike! Safe travels!
Thank you Diana! Glad to be able to share my travels with you.
Very nice cinematography of one of the most desolate places in Europe. It was interesting to see the beautiful scenery of northern Norway that very few cyclists ever visit 👏 The mosquito season in Lapland really begins around midsummer so you were on the safe side. The lake Inari is third largest in Finland. The biggest one is Lake Saimaa in southeast Finland. Looking forward to rest of your journey.
Tack så mycket för att du tog med oss på din resa! Jag behöver komma tillbaka till Skandinavien med min cykel så snart som möjligt. Jag saknar verkligen att cykla där!
He is riding with the fork backwards. 🤣🤣🤣
It is so safe and calm to bike. Really nice.
Yes, hardly any cars at all on that road.
Another beautiful ride Mike, Finland is stunning also👌
As much as I love as a bikepacking destination, Finland is also up there. I you want to get away from everything and just be by yourself for a while there's hardly any better place than Lapland.
Mike, youre a swede! You should have no problems pronouncing finnish city names😂 But i'll forgive you this once because last year i went to Sarek and still have no idea how to properly say those town or area names..
Thanks, very beautiful video! We look forward to the continuation of your journey
Inari to Näätämö is most beautiful road in Finland, thanks the video👍
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Mike, do you eat enough during that trip? If I did 130km/day one of these ready to eat packages would not be enough.... And in a finish supermarkets I would not only head for fazer chocolate but also for the many fish dishes they have. As a Swede it is probably nothing special for you, but for us from Centraleurope (Austria) it is just amazing! Thank you for the great video. Kiitos/Tack sa mycket. Hope to be in Inari this winter.
The mosquitos don't really enjoy themselves on a sandy pine tree forest like that next to a big lake. There's not much standing water for them to lay their eggs because the terrain soaks all the water and the big lake is waving constantly. You're pretty guaranteed to have a great time at that spot anytime in summer.
You can actually avoid the mosquitos pretty well by reading the terrain and vegetation before pitching the tent. There are much less mosquitos on windy open spots and dry sandy forests which you can find out there. Thick forest, flourishing underbrushes and spruce trees are a good indicator to avoid. Pine trees growing on dry land makes camping much more enjoyable.
Thanks, Finland is beautiful !
Great to see you out and about again, this adventure looks promising you sure know how to choose them and put them together. Thankyou.
There is a lot to learn from your "European Devde" tour. I'm planning the same route for next year, because I'm already too late for this year!? What I mean is that you mentioned the period "early in the season" before the mosquitoes take over! What period is officially meant by 'early', given the time it takes to safely cross all the Scandinavian countries by bike before the mosquitoes get busy, and still be able to enjoy relatively nice - not cold and rainy weather? I think that will be April, May and early June, but it would be very helpful if you explain that in your video because, as you said, very few people have ridden that route and so far no one has given any practical instructions and advice on the timing, the right equipment and clothing for the crossing through Scandinavia!
The worst mosquito season is between mid June and mid July. Now is the best time to go because it's still warm and the mosquitos are quickly vanishing. If you find a sandy beach like Mike did you'll be just fine even in early July. In Inari on May and September the temperature reaches about +10 celsius afternoon and sets down to around +3 celius at night on average. June and August are about 5 degrees warmer.
@@anttiollila4025 Thanks a lot, does that mean that the proper timing to start the mosquito free European divide from the Northern Norway would be round mid July?
@@carbon12atom If you want to avoid mosquitos as well as possible, I'd wait at least until late July / early August. However, you won't see the midnight sun on late July and the temperature gets colder and colder week after week. The other way is to start early/mid July and avoid them by pitching your tent carefully. Mosquitos need standing water to lay their eggs and reproduce but they can't do that on sandy/dry terrain or open lakes which makes those beautiful beaches actually the best places to camp. The Finnish part of the route seems to have quite many of those places. Windy spots above the tree line also have much less mosquitos but they can often be quite rocky for pitching a tent. Mosquitos are never a problem when you go faster than jogging speed so you only have to worry about them when you stop and they don't really enjoy roads.
@@anttiollila4025 Thanks a lot, those are some very useful informations that I would definitely take into account when planning my route!
Good luck with your journey!
Wonderful way to spend a Sunday afternoon whilst trying to raise the gusto to go out for a bike ride. hope the airbed holds out!
Do you have reason why your bikes fork is wrong way round lol?
No, just realized that when I got home and started editing the videos. I will have to live with the embarrasment for the next couple of weeks ;-) I guess my only explanation, is that I assembled the bike at around 10PM after been traveling all day. You live, you learn I guess...
Great video Mike, what were the temperatures like ??
9C/48F in the morning. 16C/60F in the afternoon