Rainspotting: Bikepacking Scotland (2019)
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- Опубликовано: 12 янв 2021
- An 84-Hour Bikepacking Ramble through Scotland's Gloomy Grampians...
Alighting the Sleeper Train at the highest, remotest station on the West Highland Line, a group of cyclists head off on an opportunistic wintry journey to ride the old-established network of gravel drove roads, only to find themselves bogged-down exploring the alluring voids in between. That’s why they’re called push bikes, after all...
Expect sleeper trains, snow, rain, magical munro mountains, gravel, cullen skinks, cranachans, bogs, bridges, and la-di-dah land-owners...
LINKS:
Pannier.cc Journal - for more on the drove roads, locations, photography, recipes and background to the trip - www.pannier.cc/journal/rainspotting
Pannier.cc Scotland Bikepacking Experience(s) - www.pannier.cc/bikepacking-tours-expeditions
Mountain Bothy Association - www.mountainbothies.org.uk
CREDITS:
- Pannier / pannier.cc
- Brother Cycles / brothercycles.com
- Director & Editor / Luke Francis: francworks.com
- Tourers / Taylor Doyle, Jordan Gibbons, Dave Sear, Luke Francis, Will Meyer, Stef Amato
- Photography / Dave Sear
- Additional Sound & Mixing / Wavetale
SOUNDTRACK:
- Rhi - The Same / tru-thoughts.co.uk
- Laura Misch / lauramisch.bandcamp.com
- Exploded plans / soundcloud.com/explodedplans
- Wavetale / wavetale.com
- Sunday By The Sea / sundaybythesea.bandcamp.com
for more on the drove roads, locations, photography, recipes and background to the trip - www.pannier.cc/journal/rainspotting
“We’re going places, but without much urgency for arrival” is a mood for life
Too right, Olivia
Finally the RUclips algorithm gets its shit together and shows me something proper....👍....
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The bikepacking algorithm is strong!
This is my favorite adventure film ive seen 👏
So good, I watched it again immediately after watching it. Loved it. The chemistry between you all, the cinematography, the locations, the adventure, everything. My only complaint, like from others, is I could have watched this for two hours!
Nice one, Ian. Good to hear. Stef
Ordered a Meheteh. Thanks for helping me make my decision! ;-)
Top work. Keep in touch! Stef
Brilliant little film👍
Absolutely bonkers and ballsy to do this in November 😂 amazing film, thank you for sharing.
Looked like perfection. From the company kept to the meals, route, scenery, accommodations and peacefulness.
Excellent film. Love the landscape of Scotland. Chapeau 🚴🚴
The « open bothy relief »! We knew it when we bikepacked through scotland on august 2017 and it was pooring rain like hell! It was the Glencoe one. Good memories now 😊
Wow. This captured the essence of that part of Scotland, bleak but beautiful. The misery of peat bogs, the sanctuary of a Bothy, that YHA hostel and the revamped Kingshouse. As an ex-pat Scot living in NZ this was an unexpected emotional experience. Well done. Great film. Cullen Skink and Cranachan, outstanding. I hope my own adventure riding in NZ can measure up to this.
Nice one, Stuart. Bothy x Hostel x Kinghouse was a great mix of accomm. Try to do our best with local/national food and drink wherever we go, and interpret for bikepacking :) Enjoy NZ! Stef
Absolutely epic! But the instant the first shoe hit the first freezing cold puddle my toes curled up in remembrance of what that felt like and I was all NOPE. But good on you for getting it done like utter badasses.
Also, up to the thighs in muddy water? The chafing! Oh the chafing!
Many bikepacking videos I don't watch all the way thru'. This one I've watched now 3 times. The content is great, scenery captivating and duration just about right.
Well done really enjoyed this video and i am Scottish
Looks like a great trip! Pushing cus you can’t ride and trying to beat the sun going down can turn into the best days and memories, had a similar one the other day!
Exactly the case, George. Good to hear! Stef
we did that route over ten days rained solid for 9 days the odd day it snowed and that was the end of may !
Guys,and girl
You did it. Show real life, simple, with brit humor.
A wonderful trip done by nice people.
No first times, no the most amazing uniqur first time done, récord guinnes breaking, no un real people.
No american accent.( sorry )
Cheers
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Solid content
Classy video, great edit. More like it please 👍
“Tell me it’s open “, oh how that made me smile! A reminder of all the times I’ve walked/cycled up to a planned bothy with an anxious heart!
Cheers.
Great to hear, Tony! Shut, or rammed-full. Can usually tell the latter from a way off :) Stef
Enjoying this! First 2 mins in, going to pause. This deserves to be cast onto the tele after the footy..
Brilliant film. Really wets my appetite to go bikepacking. Must be a fantastic feeling to emerge out of a gloomy winter's night and find a bothy.Especially if there's firewood.
Exactly, a real bonus. Used sparingly, and made sure enough was available for the next dwellers. Quite hard for 5 to warm up around a little canister stove! Stef
Very nice video ,wow👌👍💪
So well prepared and planned
Chapeau! Many thanks for this vid. Greetings from Hamburg, Germany.
Cracking video - worth watching just for the harmonica at the end.....off to watch the previous ride in Beulah.
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Wonderful video, I was hooked straight away! By the way @12:02 - greatest 'bike portrait without visible stand' tip ever!
Great to hear! Every day is a school day :) Stef
Loved this! I had flown from the US to hike the West Highland Trail and it was an incredible experience.Thanks to this I am planning on a bike trek once Covid is well behind us. Thank you for sharing your experience with us!
Great to hear, Michael. You'll have recognised some stretches then :) Stef
Great video - inspiring post lockdown adventures to come
Brilliant!
This is so good! Loved the story you told and the landscape you rode through.
Great video and scenery! Exactly what I love to see 👍
Bringing people and the great outdoors together, What cycling is all about. Would love to do the West Coast one day. Well done!
Nice way of summing it up, Anthony. Enjoy the West Coast! We did a decent island hopping trip a few years back, if you wanted some southern info >> www.pannier.cc/journal/the-long-road-bikepacking/
Great mini adventure and nice edit! Very enjoyable 👍👍
The camaraderie and good energy here is really contagious. Putting Scotland on the list for sure!
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Great video with great landscapes. Loved it. Thanks team.
Fantastic film!
Wow! Amazing scenery. Stunning.
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Fantastic
Wonderful but hard too!! Nice one guys!
So glad this popped up in my recommended. Lovely chilled vibe and energy from you all. Just sent to my lad who is a soldier, we want to have an adventure on the bikes like this when he comes out!
👊🏼 Great that came across, Andrew :) If you need/want any info about more rideable routes(!) let us know... Stef
Congratulations it's good 👏
An awesome road, eh bike movie. Thanks for sharing. Can't wait for my first tour this year...
One of my bucket list.
A Very Big THANK to you for these most lovely views and for taking us on your voyage of adventure! Wishing you all safe and healthy days! Best regards from Sweden
Nice one, Carl! See you out there :) Stef
Great video - nice chilled vibes, great soundtrack and of course awesome scenery. Well done folks!
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Thank you!
Fantastic video! Thanks for posting
Nice one for watching! See you out there :) Stef
Why nobody’s looking at this video? Just great stuff.
Cheers Pascal. We released the film over on Vimeo this time last year, but wanted to discover more about RUclips :) >> vimeo.com/396764444
superb . A cracking challenge and very well captured.
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A pleasure to view, nice edit, great landscapes! Like the ambience of the Music also!
Thanks for watching, Georg 👊🏼
Excellent
Bloody excellent video and looked like even better times. Really great work on the edit!
Nice one, Signor Hall! Cornish Riviera Sleeper Train film next...
Thanks you for the mindmelt🙏🏻
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Great video
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Great little film and brought back some memories of a similar trip to that same bothy
Hey Tim. Nice one. It's a goodun, eh. Could've easily spent a couple of days there... Stef
Lampki na łące sa najlepsze
Stunning video of your adventure, great bunch of folks.
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Beautiful!!
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Awesome video guys. What a trip. Casting this to the big TV so good.
Nice one Jason. We released it in March 2020, but only been hosted on Vimeo...
Such a nice vibe you guys seemed to have, it was contagious, I got warm in my body and felt a bit like I was with you. Good work with the film.🤘
Nice one, Nicklas :)
This is awesome
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I'd love to try some bikepacking but I don't have a beard, will it be ok to do it without one ?
...it's harder to strike a match for your posh outdoor coffee without one, but you *should* be OK :) Stef
It’s illegal. You will be fined by the highland beard police, and locked up until you not only have a full beard, but have grown a mullet as well as punishment. So just don’t!!!
I heard it's part of the journey, first bike packing adventure you head out without one and don't come back without one grown in. This beard is then there for life!
@@pungarehu had a 'close shave' with the Highland Police a few times. Stef
You'll be accepted without a beard provided you use a flat pedal/barefoot shoe combo. Being a sourdough enthusiast is a help also...
Great short film!
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Really enjoyed thanks! A little motivation for when lockdown lifts. 👍
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I wanted to be there with you. Even in the bogs. In the dark! Very well done
Nice one, Lee! Type two fun, eh. Stef
Great trip and video!
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this vid does not deserve any thumbsdown tbh
Beautifully crafted film and brilliant trip. I know how difficult that muddy "just keep following the telegraph poles" section is between Rannoch Station and Glencoe, having done it in the opposite direction just as it got dark. Rannoch and the Road to the Isles seems to be the new hotspot for filming gravel bike adventures with Focus launching their new Atlas bike in the same location. Also very similar colour schemes. Looking forward to your next film. Cheers.
Hey Brian,
Nice one. We filmed at the end of October 2019, knowing full-well the implications. But that was kinda of the point - testing out the 'shoulder' season :) Noticed Focus' film, yep. Also popular given new-ish thru-routes like Badger Divide...
Stef
Epic!
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fantastic video!
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Nice one. Really enjoyed this
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No avocados were harmed in the making of this film.
awesome
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Nice filming and good trip! I went Kings House-Rannoch-Corrour for lunch-back to rannoch-kings house for the night. Persuaded wifey it’d be a nice autumnal day out on bikes, and there was only a short section without a track. Oops. Ran out of daylight. Began to rain icy sleet. Twice across Rannoch Moor. Was so glad for the venison pie back at hotel... liked it so much am moving up to Rannoch soon to live...
🙌🏼 Fair play! A great day out. Thing is, there aren't _any_ other options so heads down it is. Can't tell if you're joking about going to live near there - great if so, eh! Stef
Can tell you best footwear for Rannoch Moor are wet suit boots.. and yes, #true ! Am lucky.
Update..I now help look after Benalder Cottage bothy. We’ve now removed the sleeping bag ‘draught excluders’-and also replaced the grate in that stove!
I would travel 1/4 way around the world to do that trip. Think I would opt for proper waterproof boots and flats, but I would still. Watched while waiting for the world to open up again.
🙌🏼 See you in Scotland, Richard! Stef
Loved the video. Cannot wait for the NC500 on bike this year Covid permitting. Thanks from rural Lincolnshire 👍🏼
Nice one Richard. Have a look at our other film - Beulah - and consider a detour off the NC500 to Cape Wrath :) Stef
Relying on bothys yeah that's a hard no
If you did make it round that sketchy hikeabike section after the bothy then you would have been met with like 10km of walking before you met the Loch Ericht Land Rover track just FYI.
But if you do it again you can avoid the cliffs by going higher where it flattens out a bit.
👋🏼 Ewan. Sounds like you've done it! We *kind* of knew this from the nature of the OS Map. The reason we changed plans - we'd have had to have made it to the bothy bay a good 2-3 hours earlier to give it a go. Sleeper train delays didn't help! Stef
@@panniercc yeah you dodged a bullet! The next section is Hard enough on the MtB let alone a gravel bike. I was crapping myself on the hikeabike until I turned around and went higher. Awesome video 👌😎
Fantastic video. When’s the next one!!
@@vinders123 Soon! A couple of projects readying to go from April, hopefully :) Stay tuned. Stef
awesome... except all the wet boggy hike a biking
10 likes!
Magic video!
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So beautiful landscapes and cool crew!
Buy why only 720 and no 1080 full hd 😔
Cheers Filipp - next ones we will upload bigger. IF you do want at 1080, you can find it over on Vimeo vimeo.com/pannierbrother/rainspotting
@@panniercc cool, gonna watch it again then!
Call your next bike Zbynek, you are welcome
Ha, I'll let Will and James (Brother Cycles) guys know 👊🏼 Stef
@@panniercc 2 x TCR, HT550, 1000miles.cz, some other ultras so there is also some cycling history behind it :-))) 🤣
@@badhorse84 🙌🏼 you'll have passed BenAlder Cottage bothy then :)
@@panniercc yes, but as it is located quite close to start, we just passed it without stopping on the first day:-) I just remember muddy maddnes on lake's shore!
amzg!!!!
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Amazing adventure! How much this trip was walking and how much was riding? What's next for you guys? Wowzers... the last lodge you stayed at. VIP. Take care and stay safe.
Ha, a good mix of accomm for sure! Next is Bromptons in mid-Wales, and then the Sleeper Train to deepest Cornwall ... with a bit of luck :) What about you? Keep in touch. Stef
@@panniercc Currently bikepacking in Ticino, Switzerland. Magical place! It’s on the south side of the Alps so this area is warmer with a bit more sun. Camping around 0* celsius but the day get to +10☀️. Checkout our cycling gang @bicibros 😎🚲
Excellent video thanks for sharing what looks to have been an amazing trip. What was the name of the last accommodation you stayed in Glencoe? Looked a fantastic spot 👍
Nice one :) Kingshouse. Redeveloped old travellers inn - a special place, and where we start/end our Scotland trip >> www.pannier.cc/product/highland-drover-scotland-bikepacking-tour/
I'm curious about your thoughts on your tire width after dealing with some of those 'winter trail condition'?
Ha, not much would be OK on the serious bogs! Up to around 2" is fine for all the rideable stuff... Stef
Is that the bikepacking weather and terrain I've avoided by leaving Scotland 40 years ago or what I've been badly missing for 40 years? Tough one.
...missing, 100% :)
@@panniercc Could be, there's still a lot to be said nonetheless for winding along the gravel of the Italian Alps, the warm spring sun on your back, belly full of fresh croissants and the world's best coffee, with wine and fresh pasta to come in a welcoming rifugio at journey's end...
Loved the film, great trip guys. Where did you get your wee dram metal flasks from ?
Cheers, David. They're basic stainless bottles we buy in bulk for tourers on our trips. Drop us an email (basecamp@pannier.cc) - sure we could send one out, if you wanted one :) Stef
Did you carry trail shoes (as you run out of road and push your bike in cycling shoes) or spare gloves (incase you loose a glove) your rucksack must be as packed as a womans handbag) only my first thoughts - ps this is a lovely bit of footage of the Scottish highlands)
Definitely packed with 'back up' supplies (but mainly food and drink :)) - just wear cycling shoes you can hike in (spd) or flat/normal shoes, and if the weather is like that you don't lose gloves. Sometimes a second/spare liner pair is a good idea... Stef
Great film. Sounds like you’re saying “body“ when you’re referring to a “bothy”.
that'll be the unexpected peat bath talking, probs :) Stef
Nice video, what sort of map did you use at 1:27?
Does staying in accommodation qualify as bikepacking?
Define it how you like :) I think Winter in the hills changes things... Stef
Nice adventure! What video camera was used?
Hi guys, the lady at 14:10 min wears this long red down jacket, does someone know the brand please ? i'm looking for one for months ! thank you :)))
👋🏼 Not quite sure which jacket you mean - can't see one?! Stef
Precisely at 14:11, the lady in the background
So much effort and only available in 720p? Why?!
Hey Steve,
The full release for this was over on Vimeo (March 2020) - vimeo.com/396764444 - but we're looking more into RUclips...
Stef
@@panniercc Wish I could cast vimeo to the TV :( Just finished it was great, definitely worthy of a 4k watch!
Why did that one guy not have gloves? Every bike accessory possible...but no gloves in those temperatures.
👋🏼 - we all had gloves, just given the nature of filming was often sections where they'd be off. Also, wind was low and real-feel temp wasn't actually tooo cold. Stef
Love it. But how were the Mehtehs?!
Hey Rob,
Mehtehs were brill. I was running the smaller (650) wheels with bigger tyres. I have to say, riding them unloaded/lighter is brill - perfect and practical for this terrain. On this trip I was somewhat handicapped with a large-ish backpack so my actual riding experience was slightly tainted in terms of reviewing a bike! Stef
@@panniercc Thanks Stef. Appreciate the helpful response!
They couldn't wait until Summer? Or is that Summer in Scotland?
that'd be too easy, Manfred! Stef
@@panniercc My bike doesn't get ridden until it's at least 50+ degrees outside. I'd be calling an uber after the first mile.