BIKEPACKING THE M6 - BRITAIN'S LONGEST MOTORWAY

[@LightweightUK2007]

Applet Bridge is firmly in Lancashire Josh ;) Love your work :)

[@Grumpycyclist1983]

Another cracking video ❤

[@janeh1122]

Lovely to see you pass through my neck of the woods on this ride. Always enjoy your videos. One teeny tiny thing, Appley Bridge is West Lancashire, not Yourkshore 😜, sorry haha.

[@WiltshireMan]

Another epic adventure Josh, you never disappoint. I wish I wasn't in my 60's. I camped out last night and my air mat punctured. I woke up with a bad back and it's still bad right now, I can hardly walk. How you manage to lay on the bare earth is beyond me :)

[@happysporran]

Love your channel..😊

[@KeepSmilingAdventures]

Oo noo thats no good, hope it gets better quickly. Its my super power 😎

[@Robutube1]

What a completely nuts premise for a bikepacking trail - I applaud it!

[@Tomanart]

Great video, it looks such a very tough route, well done to you😊

[@peterhoelzel2448]

what an isea, love it. Thanks

[@SwazersC]

Nice one Josh. Good to see you near my home town of Preston. I noticed you did a bit along the guild wheel and then Brockholes nature reserve. I cycle along that route a lot. By the way. The Preston stretch of the M6 was the very first motorway in the UK. Cheers for your content.

[@garphykeks]

#inspirational Josh.... Thank you😉👌😎

[@markbaker1124]

Nice one Josh. Awesome ride, sods law about the rain and nettles 😂 Live to ride - Ride to live brother

[@Toms_journal]

When you did the 110 miles you seem even more energised and hyped at the end of the day. Thats awesome how when your in the zone biking gives more energy back and you seem to start drafting off of biking itself.

[@damedavidfrith55]

Well done u is an awesome beast on that bike ,thanks for another cracking trip 🎉

[@francisday3187]

Well done on getting through those overgrown bridle ways 👍🇦🇺

[@thedaftestnameicouldthinko8233]

Josh, I have no idea why you inflicted the first few days of this route on yourself but I’m very glad you gained an excellent finishing pay off. I have an idea for a South to north route for you which should be a lot more enjoyable. The most stunningly beautiful place I have ever lived is Skerray on the north coast of Scotland. It happens to be due north of Bigbury on Sea. A straight line goes across Dartmoor and, after a wet bit, through Snowdonia. Another wet bit goes near enough to the Isle of Man to justify a visit and then goes through Galloway which has passes few folks know about. Glasgow is bang on the line but then you get the Scottish Highlands. This is a route for weeks rather than days so I’ll understand if it doesn’t suit your needs but it has so much promise that someone needs to do it. Maybe even me, to celebrate my 70th.

[@alexparker8355]

Awesome as always. Where many would give up you carry on. Thanks for sharing.

[@ingtoningtonington149]

Great film Josh. You deserved that sun and those beautiful hills at the end. When you've worked that hard the rewards are that much sweeter. I hope your channel keeps on growing and inspires many people ❤👍

[@beardedvikingmtber]

Another banger vid mate, watching your vids has made me dust off my bike & cameras & get back out a bit more regularly so thanks man

[@reecedawson6113]

another great video, a few weeks ago i did a ride from the new forest up to Birmingham on my road bike, it was great apart from the all day headwind but also when i got to Stratford and the outskirts of the cities my route just took me on old rocky and boggy cannels so i had to ditch the route and drill it on the roads to the city centre.

[@murk1e]

Most local authorities have a way of reporting bridleway impasse- results vary (near me is a place that needs attention - boundary of three authorities - all three disavow!)

[@olrenison]

Great adventure. What's next? Coventry ring road?

[@alethearobinson8132]

Another excellent video. How you can bike 100 miles and still stop and do all the filming is amazing. Thank you. Looking forward to the next one.

[@RoadyPacking-CyclingAdventures]

Cacking adventure dude. That first day looks like a slog with all that rain, but day 2 looks spot on!! Gracias amigo ;-)

[@LancashireLarks]

Nice video. Would of been nice in two parts this. A lot of places I wouldn’t mind of seeing from Preston to Carlisle 👍🏻

[@j3j326]

A new Way to Travel the M6 with a bike, very interesting also traveled on the Grand Union Canal and had many Close calls

[@jonMclachlan-i2p]

Another great adventure Josh, I think you camped in the Woods nr Knutsford for your second night? Hope you do another bike pack in France it was one of my favourites. Keep up the good work!!

[@TheCoopsvids]

Well done Josh I live in Scotland nr Dumfries was looking at a ride to Penrith think I,ll be using that path on the end credits 👍🏻

[@bivibikebaggins]

tenacity... well done.. Also wondering why you didnt use the drone to check those bridleways out .. recce

[@pedallinraw]

That looked very grim! 🤣…..Another ticked off 🤗👍🏻

[@simonwoodward438]

You've come through my neck of the woods, I use the towpaths a lot and I've noticed they are more overgrown recently.

[@Govermentsound]

Well done bro 💪🏾

[@bulldebois]

Salut Merci pour toutes ces belles vidéos meme si je ne comprends pas l'anglais, mais j'ai une question a vous poser, quand vous partez en voyage vous lubrifiez votre chaîne avec de l'huile ou de la cire ? Merci 😉

[@dalj4362]

Feel for you mate. Them paths looked horrible...but you got through it like you always do. Do the NC500 in the middle of September and give the bushes a miss for a bit 😅 I might bump into you 👍

[@KeepSmilingAdventures]

Aha my legs were torn to shreds. I could possibly be in that area around then so we might just bump into each other 🚵‍♂️

[@dalj4362]

@KeepSmilingAdventures Cool :) ill be there from the 18th onwards, I'll keep an eye out for you just in case you do go. If you beat me in a 100m bike sprint, I'll buy you lunch 🤣

[@dalj4362]

​​@KeepSmilingAdventures Did you go to Scotland mate?, I've had to postpone for a week or 2. Lost my ticket money as well, I won't get that back now. Family problems.😢

[@faz5824]

I'm just watching this video as I write this comment. Appley Bridge is not in Yorkshire. It's in Lancashire near Wigan. Great video.

[@joeguynan]

wonderful as always Josh. New rims on the Sonder?

[@jonashubalekwhiskyandthewild]

Horrible... and torture😁 But great video with some positive energy. It's good you didn't give up an finished the whole thing. Cheers!

[@alilamb8536]

Is that a Wren Perseverance bar you have on there?

[@Mavisto2]

Loved the vid but Appley Bridge is in West Lancashire not Yorkshire. You’ve got seriously lost if you detoured through West Yorkshire.

[@christopherrichards387]

If the public has a right of way over these bridleways etc then they need to be properly maintained by whoever has responsibility. It looks like that hasn't happened. I suspect the impassable state some of them, where they are on private or agricultural land, is deliberate.

[@welshpaddler]

What system do you use for planning routes?

[@jtzj]

maybe try and do A1/A1(M) next? (britains longest road)

[@manonthemoon2912]

Appley Bridge West Lancashire North of Wigan

[@rollingnome]

M40 next?

[@dannythirkill9098]

What tent is that you have pal?

[@AVFTSCycling]

He's got the alpkit soloist, vid linked in the description 👍

[@silentwitness247]

Ear plugs! 😂

[@chrishodgson1968]

Josh, Appley Bridge is in West Lancashire not West Yorkshire

[@gvnrchmnd]

Goes to to show what sorry state a lot of the English bridleways are in. Poor paths and constant rain, remind me again why we live here? 😂

[@Ken-jp1gr]

Nice, But Appley Bridge is in West Lancashire not West Yorkshire

[@KeepSmilingAdventures]

Oops my bad

[@zil8492]

Ahh. That was confusing me. It looked a bit like the canal at Apperley Bridge on the outskirts of Leeds/Bradford so I wondered why it was there. Great vid, BTW.

[@paulhadfield8006]

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