BEFORE YOU BIKEPACK THE GB DIVIDE

In this video we take a closer look at the bikepacking route the gb divide, watch this for some extra thoughts, and things you might want to know in this before you bikepack the gb divide.
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Main Channel - / @keepsmilingadventures
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00:00 intro
00:37 the route
01:53 whos it for
03:29 which bike
05:30 wild camping
06:57 public transport
08:15 food and water
09:09 difficulty scotland
10:18 difficulty N england
11:14 difficulty Wales
12:07 difficulty SW england
12:58 Overall difficulty
14:01 Rating scotland
15:05 Rating N england
15:57 Rating wales
16:55 rating SW england
17:48 Final Rating
18:34 outro
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[@alethearobinson8132]

Nice wrap up to the GB divide. You were pointing out some variations that would make the route better. With your knowledge, maybe design/ develop a better route. Call it "Josh's GB divide " Thanks for all your excellent work on these videos.

[@davidedwards4676]

Brilliant summery of the GB Divide Josh, the best on KZbin, very informative thanks again.

[@TheGunns]

Josh, reckon you should route plan a better version of this based on your suggestions during your summary.

[@aaronkeogh]

Currently on the GB Divide, not long passed the area on the thumbnail/ with the old house and farm sheds in the background. Wow this is tough! Some immense sends downhill though! Was not expecting that hike a bike after Oykel Bridge! 😅

[@aaroncarbon518]

Thanks for uploading Josh you've made my mind up I'm definitely going to give this ago. Got to get a few longer trips under the belt first. Thanks again for the video

[@patpat8169]

Have you got a gpx of the blended tide you suggest? Great video thanks

[@artifexjoinery9323]

Thanks for the summary Josh, its removed a little of the anxiety I have about tackling it in about a months time. Do you think the midges will have made and appearance by the middle of May?

[@kevindean9613]

Another great review , Considering all the suggestions you made regarding the route & with your experience would you compose your own route as I think people will use it .

[@simonwiltshire]

Nicely put together, thanks for the tips, what route planer do you use or do you just make it up as it gose along, cheers.

[@lydiagould3090]

Quite a nice route,and thankyou for your useful info! It could be definitely be improved. I for one have no intention of riding through Manchester(or any other big city ). You may know of an event named the EWE (England-Wales_England) which is a very nice but hard route. It was a thing before Gravel bikes emerged, and I did it on a hardtail mtb. I like the idea of planning a better route. Only problem being I'll be too bloody old to ride it as it will take ages to plan what with the receeing etc.

[@weeringjohnny]

Great wrap-up and very useful. Where can I download the route, please?

[@marcusnewey8287]

Interesting thoughts on the route, I live in the Mendips and have riden the GBDivide section and thought, hmm why just ride over the Mendips when you could ride along them? I know when they were putting the route together they said that they wanted to keep it gravel bike focused, so given the choice of rutted bridlepath or road, they chose road. Perhaps there's room for GBDivide+ that leans a bit more towards MTB and focuses on getting all the best trails where possible. Could end up being a lot longer + tougher though ?

[@marcusnewey8287]

For instance... if I was to edit the route on the Mendips [ heading South ] I'd keep the Burrington to Beacon Batch trig but then head West for the next trig at Wavering Down, then over Bleadon Hill where you can pick up a gravelly bike path to Burnham on Sea & Highbridge before heading to the Quantocks

[@streglof]

Fenomenally epic adventure! For those itching to undertake a similar adventure, would you be willing to disclose roughly how much your expenses were for the trip, train not included? Thanks!

[@morekeepsmilingadventures]

Well i only really eat shop food and its probably averages out about £10~ a day. Thats the only real cost when im on the trail. Did stay at a hotel at the end which was £65.

[@1ytt742]

£10 a day is about as low as you can go unless you're trying to as a challenge. That's enough to eat very well out of shops but you'll need a stove for hot drinks if you like those. After that, costs escalate pretty quickly! You're lucky if you can buy a coffee for under £2.50 and you won't get much change from a tenner for a cheap meal at a cheap cafe or pub. Keep Smiling probably does it as cheaply as possible without being a martyr, though I suspect a lack of Ginsters on this trip as they're not especially cheap for the amount of calories but those pasties at the end probably made up for it.

[@streglof]

@@morekeepsmilingadventures Hey, thanks so much for the reply! I forget, how many days did the trip last again?

[@peterbradley866]

Hi Josh do you think as a 68year old this could be done on my ebike

[@morekeepsmilingadventures]

it's possible for sure but a lot will depend on the battery id guess, there is a big section in scotland where there is pretty much nothing along the route where you might struggle to find a charge. it would take a bit of planning and probably will need to come of the route sometimes too. The route is in the description to get and idea of the places you will pass.

[@TazLawrie]

I will cycle this in april 24 with my 21 year old daughter if u have 2 power banks and good battery in yoru phone u should be able to go least 3 days without recharging or more.@@morekeepsmilingadventures

[@TazLawrie]

For 68 u will do this well as long as u do fair bit of training in 6 motnhs before and u havee good gear (tent sleep bag etc ) and u dotn mind camping in very tough weather,i woudl do a test run of 7 days trip before u start