full winter kit balaclava leg warmers are more mixed gloves what do we look like they can spot us
so here we go on the road in spain today's destination denier we're starting off in
alicante and it's a saturday morning so there's lots of other cyclists out
and they're all staring at us because we're wearing shorts and jersey in what is their
winter bikes all seem to be working perfectly suspiciously well this is a perfect morning so far
um
that's why we came here freshen us up so it's inevitable there's gonna be a million questions
about what bike i'm riding so i thought on day one we would just get through it and talk about
the setup and let you know exactly what i brought with me and what i'm riding so here it is so this
is my villa rave first time taking it bike packing villa sell this as a gravel slash
all road bike so it's actually pretty good for bike packing because it has one disc brakes very
very strong full grx group set and the gearing is kind of gravel friendly which again is good
for bike packing busy carrying lots of luggage i've gone with the road setup because we didn't
want to make the same mistake as last time we went bike packing jimmy and ended up on off-road bikes
just on the road have you got multi-tools i've got multiple yeah is it like very easily accessible
yes very easily in my bar bag which also has the rest of my tools garmin varia lights just in case
we get caught in the dark and a bunch of inner tubes with repair kit one of my bros there's like
star one like not not a hex talks thingy a torque thingy have you got one of them maybe i would
think why why why on earth would sram decide to use torx screws on the brake calipers for
navigation i'm using a garmin edge 830 completely stock not with the extra battery pack it's long
enough to last these kind of length rides then have two stem bags or what i'm using them for as
food pouches which are both full of sweets it's a very convenient place to put your food because
you always have it accessible right in front of you you don't have to unzip anything you end up
eating more thus having a better time on your ride pro logo fairly short nose saddle it's okay it's
quite wide there so i feel it kind of touching my legs i might switch over to my tried and tested
cell italia when i get back single best bit of bike packing equipment that i've got with me
and jimmy does as well the tailfin rack i have the aeropak version so it's got this trunk on the top
and panniers on the side this one's 20 something liters this one's 22 liters and on the other side
i have a smaller 10 liter one the two bags on the sides both fasten on in the same way
to the carbon struts which are attached to the bottom of the seat post and to a special skewer
which goes through the wheel which should fit any bike i heard it'll fit any bike
inside this 22 liter pack i fitted my 15 inch laptop fairly nice use because
i've got to make these videos along with all my laptop chargers drone all the chargers for that
memory cards extra spare cameras if things go wrong and i can put this big camera in there if
i don't want to carry it on my back the smaller pannier on the other side i've got all my normal
human clothes for when i'm not cycling inside the aero pack is my down jacket i always take a down
jacket even if i'm going to hot countries normal human shoes for walking around after riding shoes
and cycling kit and that's pretty much it i've also got these ski straps wrapped around ready
for when i need to carry things like a bottle of aquarium aquarius got electrolytes in it well nice
tire choice hutchinson fusion fives tubeless 30 millimeter on these big fat park horse wheels
bottles are magnetic fidlock i think these are the 600 mil ones and then i have another bottle on the
back which is empty currently maybe when we do a bigger day i use this as a backup a little bit
smaller but it clips on the back of the tail fin real neat spd versions of the garmin rally power
pedals really handy to pace myself especially when you're on a bike like this which is fairly slow
because it's really heavy and you're used to going a bit faster so you end up pushing on a
bit too much sometimes yes it's very it's very easy especially early on because you know it's
essentially six days of riding it's so easy to early on be like well i'm absolutely fine
because you're fresh just having a thing to power heart rate whatever whatever that is
to just kind of go like keep yourself in check keep yourself in check keep keep yourself in
check i personally think is really important last thing which i'm very happy with is my tiny little
frame pump thing well i'm not happy about it anymore jimmy because you one up to me you one up
to me i've won the frame from the olympics haven't i come on choice your frame pump very proud of
this it is cool i've always wanted one of these and i thought i've got such a wonderful bike i
should put a wonderful pump on it and i i actually said to emily i really want one of those pumps i'm
not going to buy it they're too expensive and i managed to find this half price so i said
emily i've bought a really expensive pump this is a 180 pound silke frame pump which is awesome
if you're going to be doing winter riding and bike packing what i would say as someone which has used
a couple of pumps frame pumps the top peak one is as good as this but significantly cheaper frame
pumps are amazing because you can actually get good pressure out of them and it's a lot quicker
and if you know particularly in winter winter's a great shout for it because you can actually
get your tires inflated quickly and get back on the road before you freeze to death um this is
obviously fantastic quality it genuinely is but the top peak one is it works as good as this does
tada it looks cooler than no pump it's so excessive the infrastructure puts britain's
[ __ ] oh it's insane this cycle lane runs from benidorm to altair and then we're going to go
on to calpe and then eventually denia these roads bring me back lots of nice memories they're quite
nostalgic this is the route you do out into the mountains and then back into benidorm bonk
get loads of food at a supermarket and sit on the floor and eat it lawrence would buy a whole tub of
swirly nutella stuff a whole baguette and eat all of that and then have bread legs all the way home
basically we were living the dream it'd be us in about five minutes so we've only done about 20km
i leave you for two minutes it's the bike it it it draws people in like when we were eating there was
literally people walking past going what is that lovely bunch of guys on holiday checking out the
bikes we have had a tango bar because you haven't been to calpe if you haven't been to a tango bar
we're now we're now heading up the coast even further to famous mount vanessa i quite like
i've completed calpe in about 20 minutes yeah this is it now just repeat ride bikes
tango bar repeat repeat day after day see you there tomorrow oh no we won't will we
so this is famous mount vanessa there's nothing famous about it it's not a mountain
and it's not even called banissa vanissa is the town
down the road basically we've been coming to calpe well i have for the last
10 years maybe longer it's where we used to do our training camps when we come and uh
when we were racing back in the day and who's we well me and laurence henry latimer you never met
him you love him yeah end up going way back we'd always call this famous mount vanessa anyway we're
back on it now feeling very nostalgic feeling very sweaty i'm not feeling nostalgic at all
first time you've been on it me and henders go way back why didn't you ever go on holiday with
him to calpe oh we went on at the holidays right we're not allowed to talk about them me and endubs
it's a lovely little city it's great isn't it like properly massive super
yacht how have we ended up in the posh bear spain again everywhere we go ridiculous
do you think we could chat our way onto a million pound yacht do you know what
that's probably more like 50 million absolutely outrageous what are you doing
stretching my neck you know it's normal isn't it normal behavior but you curve
you can't see the curve you're looking the wrong way because i haven't stretched my neck
you've already stretched it unfortunately i woke up courtesy of the worst pillows in
history with the right crank in my neck and it's not getting better but i will seek advice from a
medical professional and continue on with great earnest and might is the medical professional
the youtube comment section no it's emily's mother the actual medical professional usually
i just talk to these guys hey guys what should i do a real problem with my legs take francis