An epic bike packing trip through Catalunya.

[@TouringTony]

Lovely trip but it's only bikepacking if you have bags attached to your bike with camping. I am going for a 3 day trip next week and staying in hotels so I am carrying little so I don't even consider that trip bikepacking. Regards from a proud caveman

[@WheelersAtLarge]

An epic adventure indeed. 🚴👍

[@jollygoodvelo]

@@WheelersAtLarge It was great fun!

[@leftywedge]

What a journey. Ups and downs! Glad you had some fun.

[@jollygoodvelo]

@@leftywedge Hey Giovanni! It was great fun….apart from Steve’s accident and me getting bitten.

[@lfate8017]

I love when my favorite cycling KZbinrs meet up.

[@jollygoodvelo]

@@lfate8017 Glad you liked it.

[@holmes5517]

Leonard, this is not bike packing! It is luxury cycle touring. And I was so looking forward to seeing what U Lite tent you would be using as well as any other gear. But as usual, a great video, camera work and narrative. Keep them coming.

[@bengt_axle]

What a nice trip! It looks like you had nice accommodations, but it is also nice to see that the company could easily make adjustments for mishaps like accidents and illnesses.

[@andrewosborne9000]

Such a shame it had to end like that, great video though as always another cycling place for my bucket list!

[@2cats4tea79]

Yours and Russ's Path Less Pedaled are my two favorite biking channels; it was fun to see you both meet up in Girona!

[@kinell932]

Leonard, first off may I say how much I enjoy your channel. Having said that however I must take exception to your latest vlog. You say you're bike packing, but you're not! If you are not carrying all your stuff on your bike then you are in fact just doing a series of day rides, the clues in the name! That being said great vid, keep up the good work.

[@Anthony-oq9qc]

There bike packing different way I call it hotell packing

[@2cats4tea79]

Here (US), if you are staying in hotels (but usually still carrying your stuff on your bike), we call it "credit card touring," not in a derogatory way, but to differentiate it from the standard idea of bikepacking, which is carrying all your stuff and doing at least some camping.

[@Vince1648]

@@2cats4tea79 I see bikepacking as a 'light' version of true biketravellers. Bikepackers mostly use light gravelbikes, carry only a minumum of gear, go only for a couple of days /1 week max) might camp out but prefer to stay in hotels. True bike travellers use a strong and sturdy bike with both back and front panniers, go (wild) camping as much as possible and their trips are a lot longer, from a few weeks to a few months and sometimes a year or longer.

[@brianc-i2i]

Great video, and works well in a longer format than ususal. Surprised to see that no one has commented on the 'bike bike' in the title!

[@alanparkinson4568]

It was a great holiday, one of the best I’d say.

[@MrCyclist]

Wow. Forty minutes of a superb cycling adventure. I was in Girona in 2022 with my group from Toronto and visited Eat Sleep Cycle. Great times. Will be Mallorca in 2025.

[@jollygoodvelo]

Glad you liked the video. You’ll love Mallorca.

[@whatelsewouldyoudo]

Epic indeed!

[@Ulrich.Bierwisch]

I like to do trips like this so much, that I do it for 3-4 weeks in a row. I also have the luggage on the bike and without a group, I can decide about the route and where to go each day according to weather and how I feel. Distances are like yours, 50-80km on a typical day. I think it's much more satisfying to ride from place to place than in circles or up to a mountain and back.

[@jollygoodvelo]

@@Ulrich.Bierwisch It’s great to go from place to place. You see so much more than when you ride in circles.

[@vengermanu9375]

Looks excellent, sorry I couldn't make it on this occasion. Well done Leonard and Steve 👍

[@jollygoodvelo]

@@vengermanu9375 Thanks Rob, there will be other chances to join us.

[@cyclnvancouver8060]

It didn't work out so well for me Robin.

[@vengermanu9375]

Yes, just watched Leonard explaining you crashed. Sorry to hear that Steve (1st day as well!)

[@cyclnvancouver8060]

@@vengermanu9375 Me too. I just wished I knew what caused the crash. 5 broken ribs, 1 broken collar bone, and a nice concussion at the end of day 1.

[@vengermanu9375]

Oh dear, sounds pretty serious. I guess we won't be seeing any Cyclin Vancouver videos any time soon...

[@2wheelsrbest327]

Thanks Leonard great video. I hope by now you and Steve have fully recovered. Love the idea about getting your luggage moved on as well. I know Russ from his channel and its great he made the correct decision in moving there. Perhaps more importantly its great to see a fellow rotund cyclist riding the demanding route that you did .Ted

[@PyreneesCyclingClub]

Love the video Leonard! Thanks for bringing the gang over here and here's to a 2025 trip

[@jollygoodvelo]

Glad you liked it. Yes, let’s get our heads together for an equally amazing trip for 2025.

[@leissp1]

Our Tandem tour was literally on the same roads, towns, passes probably a day apart from you. Brilliant roads and weather. I feel your pain regarding the Cellulitis. I had similar incident on my ride across Canada. Same treatment lots of antibiotics. Didn't stop my ride but it did knock me back for about 2 weeks. Get well!

[@alanparkinson4568]

Brilliant. Well done Leonard.

[@jollygoodvelo]

@@alanparkinson4568 Thanks Alan, Great to ride with you, Barbra, Graham and Steve.

[@joannelouiserodriguez5966]

Looks fab place to.visit one day I certainly wanna visit France 🇫🇷 ❤ Hope Steve makes full recovery 😢 Hail the Espana 🇪🇸 part love it❤ Hope you get speedy recovery Lee!

[@cyclnvancouver8060]

Thank you. Four weeks on from my crash, I am feeling much better now. All I can say is thankfully I was wearing a quality helmut.

[@jollygoodvelo]

@@joannelouiserodriguez5966 Thanks Joanne. My bite has completely healed and Steve is recovering well. Now that you are down south, it’s very easy to jump on a ferry and pop over to France!

[@krissk77]

Nice ride..

[@TrailerYacht]

Great video. Have you ever ridden the Camino Frances? I walked it between April - June this year (thanks to long service leave - didn't need to hurry). Amazed at how many people cycle it too. Walked all the way from St Jean Pied de Port to Finsterre and eventually Muxia (approx 1,000km all up). Because of this experience, I bought myself a used road bike when I returned to Australia and am loving every moment. I am on the cusp of starting cycle touring. Thanks for your inspirational channel. Cheers, Gavin

[@jollygoodvelo]

I’ve not ridden it but it’s great that it’s inspired you to do more cycling. Glad to hear that you are enjoying it.

[@MrMarkyone]

Done that route nice part of the world 👍

[@jollygoodvelo]

@@MrMarkyone It’s a fantastic place to ride.

[@socaljoe]

Bikepacking - "you keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means"

[@Vince1648]

I know what you mean, but to be honest normal backpackers mostly carry their backpack from bus/train station to hostel and vice versa. they dont actually walk with a backpack on their back to the next destination.😆

[@RoadCyclingAdam]

So disappointed to have not be able to make this one. Looks like you had a great time.

[@jollygoodvelo]

We did! Hopefully you can join us next time.

[@raybrantner1225]

Love the vid as usual, also follow path less pedaled, surprised Russ didn’t point out difference between bikepacking and credit card touring

[@jollygoodvelo]

@@raybrantner1225 I must be a credit card tourer, then.

[@Quadlaners]

Looks amazing I wouldn't know where to start, to organise this sort of thing

[@jollygoodvelo]

@@Quadlaners Me neither. That’s why Chris did it!

[@Quadlaners]

I need a friend like Chris 😅

[@mortenthenorwegian2875]

Wonderful video! I did something similar in Italy many years ago. Great holiday, but I will never ride solid rubber tapered bike tires again. But what a cycling experience. And soon there will be a lot of cycling on the sunny coast in Spain in the future. Hint hint........

[@jollygoodvelo]

@@mortenthenorwegian2875 Are you off to Spain?

[@mortenthenorwegian2875]

@@jollygoodvelo Yes. We bought a place there

[@jollygoodvelo]

@@mortenthenorwegian2875 Fantastic!

[@chrisconnors7418]

It would have been good to do that ride with you and Steve (and meet some new folks too). Our local cycle shop has fat bikes with that burnt orange colour and some speckling/sparkling. They looked pretty good too-half tempted to trade in my dull grey one for some colour. I’ll go check the gravel bike channel. The biologist in me is curious as to what bit you. Pity you didn’t get a look at it :)

[@jollygoodvelo]

@@chrisconnors7418 Would have been wonderful if you could have joined us. Sadly I didn’t see it but I certainly felt it. Apparently it is quite common for bites of all kinds to get infected when it’s warm.

[@horizonchasing]

I remembered White Horses as being Eastern European. It was, according to Wikipedia, a Yugoslavian and German co-production.

[@jollygoodvelo]

Yes just googled it myself. I really thought it was French. Not seen it in years.

[@markwillgens5341]

Nice, I need some motivation to get on the bike. I live in the states upstate New York and it gets cold. My summer riding was interrupted health prostate biopsy, everything is fine. I just need some motivation.

[@jollygoodvelo]

@@markwillgens5341 Thank goodness it’s all fine.

[@PyreneesCyclingClub]

Nice thumbnail, Mr Bond....

[@jollygoodvelo]

@@PyreneesCyclingClub it was a very good cameraman!

[@rivergladesgardenrailroad8834]

Len, we always carry Antihistamines

[@IS-xk3iq]

Did you use a carbon bike?

[@jollygoodvelo]

@@IS-xk3iq I do. The one I rode this trip on was a Canyon. (I don’t know which model, though.)

[@IS-xk3iq]

Did I see some e-bikes?

[@jollygoodvelo]

You did. Graham and Barbara were riding them

[@yakoridesagain]

Nice ride Leonard, sorry about our insects - they def pack a punch! Did they identify it from the bite? Just a quickie - Catalans voted 90% to 7% for independence at the referendum but the turnout was only 43% - not surprising as the national police put 1000 voters in hospital that day…

[@jollygoodvelo]

@@yakoridesagain Hey Gareth, they weren’t able to identify the insect but it is pretty common for many bites to become infected in warm weather. I’m surprised the vote was so one sided.

[@markl2815]

Love your stuff, but that isn’t Bikepacking to me anyway Nice place but Bike… yeah, packing erm … none It’s just a series of shorter supported day rides surely ? Can’t see any “Bikepacking gear” on any of the bikes Now the “not cavemen” tbh is a bit of an insult to those who do like cycling and camping without prescribed shipping of gear between set locations I.e that’d be me for one The whole point of it is that to some, that’s actually exactly what it is about. Sorry to have a go about it but tbh, I personally (I stress that) think the tone of the Caveman thing is fine for you but if you’d said I was a caveman to my face, you’d have had a very direct response regarding whatever this is. Each to his own … but as far as I’m concerned you just called me and those who actually do Bikepacking Cavemen. Whilst you may be in some way correct for me, who are you to say that You may have some nice road bike mates and a big following but that’s just Trumpian in the level of tone deaf Ps, hope the guy who crashed is ok though

[@jollygoodvelo]

My attempt at self deprecating humour seems to have failed. Believe me. I would be the last person to make fun of anyone.

[@markl2815]

@@jollygoodvelo fair enough, thought it was unlike you really. I was looking forward to seeing you multi day wild camping and ended up deeply disappointed

[@jollygoodvelo]

@@markl2815 I wouldn’t mind trying that sometime.

[@markl2815]

@ right, you’re on As you know we outfit canoe expeditions so I can provide all that is needed in a lightweight load for a trip here in decent conditions. I’ll pick you up from wherever, sort supplies, camping gear which isn’t rubbish We can agree a route to fit with what you want to get out of it … we ain’t short of those on cycle ways … and given all that, I’ll even provide a proper club and animal skin for the caveman part

[@jollygoodvelo]

@@markl2815 I’m tempted. I even like the sound of the caveman part.

[@alexandermajor6467]

Not sure I’m seeing any bikepacking here - and to discredit those who actually do enjoy that activity is poor manners in the extreme

[@jollygoodvelo]

@alexandermajor6467 My mistake. It’s an attempt at humour but I should have known better than to attempt anything remotely amusing in a world where even using something seemingly as insignificant as an inappropriate emoji can cause the deepest offence. Obviously me using actual words is only going to cause untold trauma.

[@alexandermajor6467]

@@jollygoodvelo perhaps you should have just renamed your video - that would have probably been easier rather than misusing the term just to get a few more views

[@QuackQuackImADuck69]

22:05 scotland and wales are not regions. In the same way that England is not a region. They are all countries. I know you dont mean it in a bad way but just for clarification as its often misunderstood

[@jollygoodvelo]

@@QuackQuackImADuck69 Thanks for the clarification

[@stg_69]

Love the video … despite … the mistake of calling it ‘bike packing’ … which … you obviously explained early on … I then actually watched and enjoyed the video instead of stewing over whether it really is ‘bike packing’ … mainly cos I have a life and appreciate other people’s hard work in going to a location, filming the whole thing, editing it for hours on end and then sharing with everyone … so, less of the silly, lazy comments … just enjoy fantastic scenery and different cultures

[@jollygoodvelo]

@@stg_69 I really appreciate this thoughtful comment. Thank you