As a long distance cyclist for over 50 years, I was deeply touched by this video. Well done - it communicates what bike touring is all about: “The sights, the sounds and the way you feel, when the world expands from a spinning wheel” (from a poem I wrote after one ride in 1974) I highly recommended reading “The Handsomest Man In Cuba”, a very entertaining account of Lynette Chiang’s solo bike ride around Cuba.
@@reginayan One of the best adventures of my life. I also noticed on the ECG page that you joined their alliance. Congrats and keep posting awesome content!
Simply awesome! Thanks for sharing this remarkable experience. Glad you kept it straightforward, personal, and non technical. Never even said anything about your gear-such as what kind of bike you ride. Very enjoyable to watch. And what an adventurous, brave, and intelligent person you are to have embarked upon such an extraordinary cycling adventure essentially all by yourself. Such an inspiring story.
My favourite part of this was when you showed you have friends in half the cities on the eastern seaboard, and then still described yourself as an introvert. Also, great work, this is legitimately really impressive
@@sweetpadreIntrovert doesn’t mean you don’t have friends, it means being around people drains you and you need recharge time. As well as being more okay with being alone. It doesn’t mean you’re anti social
One way to make sure you never get stranded with a broke bike is to become a AAA member. They now tow bicycles as well as cars. Well worth the money. I my bottom bracket went out in Nebraska and AAA actually send a roll back to take my bike and I 200 plus miles to a shop in Denver.
Excellent storytelling, excellent video editing, powerful takeaways and one heck of a bike ride. This might be one of my favorite RUclips videos of all time. Thanks for sharing the journey so transparently. I think it really captured what “type 2 fun” is all about. Your story will serve as an inspiration for many to get on a bike and to also appreciate life. It did for me. Thanks Regina!
@@reginayan Great video and great adventure. Only small problem i noticed is that music is sometimes way louder than voice (around 8 min) makes hard to hear what you are saying. But overall great video keep it up :)
Congrats to your achievement. I have done a 4,000 mile bike trip from Germany to Portugal and back, a 6,000 mile trip from Germany to Turkey and back and a 10,000 mile trip from L.A. to Alaska and back. All in 1988 thru 1992. I now live in the DC area and I have to say that I'm done with riding on roads. I would love to do the east coast greenway or a trip across the country from west to east. This is too dangerous IMHO. Now its gravel trails and MTB for me.
Really enjoyed your video. I was baffled how you know all these people and how you just meet new people as you go. On top of that you said that you're intravent.
Myrtle Beach is the armpit of America. I was just in New Orleans on bourbon street and it was somehow 10x classier than Myrtle. Bravo on the trip! Sounds wonderful.
A hundred and forty miles on the first day with no training? Acadia Maine is ten miles from the Canadian border. I have ridden about 45 miles in one day without training and I can tell you toward the end of the trip I didn't want to sit on that bike seat any longer, let alone get up the next day and do twice the mileage. Bar Harbor is an island. Twenty miles in two hours is hardly rolling, you have to be doing 10 miles an hour, with no brakes, in traffic. I can't watch anymore, it is a great story. I love how you are biking in northern Maine in late September without a jacket. Pawtucket RI in the rain, no rain jacket, late September, wow, that had to be extremely cold. Can you say hypothermia? Great story.
Yes and when it rains & one is riding even in the summer months it gets cold, how she was able to endure it without a raincoat is amazing, 140 miles with little training amazing too, She can easily compete in Ironman .
Interesting that she said 3000 miles the route she took is around 2300-2400 miles the reason they say 3000 is because they include other routes like the Buffalo NY, still to do 2400 miles nonstop in 30 days for someone that has not trained or has not done long bike rides prior is amazing but a bit questionable but either way many seem to have loved her story & that's what it is all about www.google.com/search?q=calais+maine+to+key+west+florida&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS881US881&oq=Calais%2C+Maine+to+Ke&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBwgBECEYoAEyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigATIHCAMQIRigATIHCAQQIRigATIGCAUQIRgV0gEJMTIxNzhqMGo5qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chro
Wow , that's a great video and a great journey indeed with the bike . The bigest adventure with the bike on the road , meeting beautiful people and friends to survive to the preasure . So beautiful is the East Coast . Thank you so much for sharing and take care , my dear friend !🏅🏆🎩👌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻🤗🌷
Greetings from Newcastle upon Tyne / England / UK . . . . I could hardly believe what I seen at 5:38 on the door of the bike shop, a poster showing the label of a bottle of Newcastle Brown Ale, our famous beer. Fantastic video and it was a joy watching it. Very well done, you are great. 😀
I’m glad the RUclips algorithm worked and suggested this amazing video. Clearly one of the best videos I’ve watched about just getting out and having an adventure. Can’t even imagine it must have taken to turn the pedals the first time in Maine. So much unknown lay ahead but you persevered. Thank you for sharing this amazing journey!
Thanks for pronouncing Bangor correctly! People rarely do. Glad you did this. I ride the Portand to Saco sections frequently. Want to peddle this completely some day before the end.
I live in florida and my cousin and i had this idea to bike all the way to new york and i found this video We’re planning to set off on august and i cant wait thanks to this video i think we can better prepare our trip
Thank you for sharing your journey. You are very inspiring. The algorithm brought me to you and I’m glad it did! Initially, I thought it brought me to another Regina Yan whom I worked with years ago.
Great video and story. I have plans to bike tour and bikepack in the near future and will take this one as one of my first adventures. Too bad the knuckleheads in Myrtle Beach couldn't hand you the beer and cheer you on.
thank you for making this inspiring video. I truly enjoyed watching your adventure. I am 63 yrs old and still hope to do an epic bike trip like you did.
this video really touched me. my mom was a touring cyclist in the 90s before i was born and I'm really falling down the same rabbit hole myself (riding in the NYC 5 boro bike tour this sunday!). I really connected with your openness around the challenges you faced on this trip. as i look into the future and think about long-haul bike trips like this, you've made me even more excited. thank you for your great storytelling!
Regina, WOW, just wow! What a wonderful accomplishment! I agree with other comments that this is one of the best videos of a long distance ride. Amazing how you categorized a month-long trip down the East Coast in such a short video yet I didn’t feel cheated and you inspired this 80-year old to not put off further enjoyment of my bike. Thank you.
Good day to you. I am a senior rider on HONDA Cross Cub from Japan. Enjoying touring ,camping and video uploading. This is so nice video! Awesome!! Thank you so much for sharing!! Have a nice day my friend!! Leave full support for you !
Wow, congratulations 🎉👏, amazing how u did 140 miles in a day. Especially when you said you didn't train much. The secret to any long trip is to pace yourself. Rest when you need it. Lemon grass spray helps to keep the mosquitoes away. Lavender spray helps to keep the ticks off.
Very inspiring. After watching your video, you have inspired me to hike the Fall Line Trail (43-miles) section of the East Coast Greenway in Richmond, Virginia. Maybe bike the Capital Trail from Richmond to Williamsburg. I have driven past it many times.
Great video! I'm really glad I found it. I do a fair amount of bike touring and I'm trying to figure out "what's next" (I did the Pacific Coast in fall 2022, and Lands End, England to John O'Groats, Scotland May of '22; I've also done Oregon to Boston and New Orleans to Canada in the past). I'm 66 years old (and very extroverted!) and your video has really helped me want to do the Easy Coast Greenway!! I'm quite impressed by your mileage too! (PS - I've never seen the sunrise on a bike tour...). Thank you for sharing.
I have done many long cycle tours (some on CGOAB) and I usually really enjoyed myself but my monthly target distances was just a measly target of 2000km or 1250 miles. My longest tour was 8000 km or 5000 miles. I have done 100+mile days a quite few times but never back to back, plus I was a hell of a lot younger. I have known a few people to do multiple big days, like my friend Anna who did ~250 km/day going across the Nullabor, but then it was the Nullabor. The people make every tour special. You really get to know who you are as there is no one telling you who you are. It looks like a very cool tour.
2000km is not measly at all, and you probably enjoyed the scenery more than I did at that pace! Thanks for bringing up CGOAB - I'll use that resource for future trip planning :D
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I think this is the best video I've seen so far on the topic of long distance riding. To the point and kept one's attention. Inspiring.
Wow, you watched the video to completion and that's you're take-away.. Bet you are fun at parties.
As a long distance cyclist for over 50 years, I was deeply touched by this video. Well done - it communicates what bike touring is all about: “The sights, the sounds and the way you feel, when the world expands from a spinning wheel” (from a poem I wrote after one ride in 1974)
I highly recommended reading “The Handsomest Man In Cuba”, a very entertaining account of Lynette Chiang’s solo bike ride around Cuba.
Thank you so much for your kind words and book recommendation - I've ordered it and cannot wait to read!
Awesome ride, Regina. Thanks for sharing. At 70 years old, I'm putting this ride on my bucket list.
Your video inspired me to bike halfway from DC to Key West. Thank you!
Wahoo that’s awesome!! Hope you had a blast :D
@@reginayan One of the best adventures of my life.
I also noticed on the ECG page that you joined their alliance. Congrats and keep posting awesome content!
Simply awesome! Thanks for sharing this remarkable experience. Glad you kept it straightforward, personal, and non technical. Never even said anything about your gear-such as what kind of bike you ride. Very enjoyable to watch. And what an adventurous, brave, and intelligent person you are to have embarked upon such an extraordinary cycling adventure essentially all by yourself. Such an inspiring story.
My favourite part of this was when you showed you have friends in half the cities on the eastern seaboard, and then still described yourself as an introvert.
Also, great work, this is legitimately really impressive
RIGHT! LOL
This used to be called a lie.
@@sweetpadreIntrovert doesn’t mean you don’t have friends, it means being around people drains you and you need recharge time. As well as being more okay with being alone. It doesn’t mean you’re anti social
"I think we accomplish what we expect of ourselves" - such an amazing perspective!
I’m very grateful you are ok from being hit by a beer😩…… very happy and releaved you got to your destination safely and happy
One way to make sure you never get stranded with a broke bike is to become a AAA member. They now tow bicycles as well as cars. Well worth the money. I my bottom bracket went out in Nebraska and AAA actually send a roll back to take my bike and I 200 plus miles to a shop in Denver.
Excellent storytelling, excellent video editing, powerful takeaways and one heck of a bike ride. This might be one of my favorite RUclips videos of all time. Thanks for sharing the journey so transparently. I think it really captured what “type 2 fun” is all about. Your story will serve as an inspiration for many to get on a bike and to also appreciate life. It did for me. Thanks Regina!
Haha thanks Alex!! Definitely type 2 fun... maybe next trip will be cross country to you and SF friends...?
I very much agree with you... Very well done in editing.. and your voice is perfect for narrating/voice-over
@@reginayan Great video and great adventure. Only small problem i noticed is that music is sometimes way louder than voice (around 8 min) makes hard to hear what you are saying. But overall great video keep it up :)
@@filipmustic5677 I agree. I thought it was just me. And CC wasn't available. Still loved the video!
Congrats to your achievement.
I have done a 4,000 mile bike trip from Germany to Portugal and back, a 6,000 mile trip from Germany to Turkey and back and a 10,000 mile trip from L.A. to Alaska and back. All in 1988 thru 1992. I now live in the DC area and I have to say that I'm done with riding on roads. I would love to do the east coast greenway or a trip across the country from west to east. This is too dangerous IMHO. Now its gravel trails and MTB for me.
And way more dangerous than ever with the texting & screens on the dashboard
You're crazy... and amazing! Congrats!
WOW and double wow. So inspiring, so honest, I am ready to go myself LOL. Thanks for sharing your bicycle journey ;
Thats murder beach alright sorry to see that but , what a great trip great job ! again.
Congrats on your epic accomplishment!!!… its amazing how a bike can be a tool of self-discovery #inspiring #waytogo #welldone
good vid ....holding down the spot .....peace . ....
Really enjoyed your video. I was baffled how you know all these people and how you just meet new people as you go. On top of that you said that you're intravent.
wonderful video and journey. You are amazing. You are changed forever. Congrats
Incredible the journey and the mileage. Great story.
Very impressive young lady….now the west coast!
Well done, with honest comments of your feelings and everyday situations. :)
Myrtle Beach is the armpit of America. I was just in New Orleans on bourbon street and it was somehow 10x classier than Myrtle. Bravo on the trip! Sounds wonderful.
You did it! Proud of you! Forget everything and ride!
Regina, you are inspiring! Thanks for sharing.
Bravo! 🙌 💪💯💯You’ve inspired me. I so want to do this route after my son graduates from high school. Thanks for sharing. ❤❤💪💯👏👏👏
A hundred and forty miles on the first day with no training? Acadia Maine is ten miles from the Canadian border. I have ridden about 45 miles in one day without training and I can tell you toward the end of the trip I didn't want to sit on that bike seat any longer, let alone get up the next day and do twice the mileage. Bar Harbor is an island. Twenty miles in two hours is hardly rolling, you have to be doing 10 miles an hour, with no brakes, in traffic. I can't watch anymore, it is a great story. I love how you are biking in northern Maine in late September without a jacket. Pawtucket RI in the rain, no rain jacket, late September, wow, that had to be extremely cold. Can you say hypothermia? Great story.
Yes and when it rains & one is riding even in the summer months it gets cold, how she was able to endure it without a raincoat is amazing, 140 miles with little training amazing too, She can easily compete in Ironman .
Interesting that she said 3000 miles the route she took is around 2300-2400 miles the reason they say 3000 is because they include other routes like the Buffalo NY, still to do 2400 miles nonstop in 30 days for someone that has not trained or has not done long bike rides prior is amazing but a bit questionable but either way many seem to have loved her story & that's what it is all about www.google.com/search?q=calais+maine+to+key+west+florida&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS881US881&oq=Calais%2C+Maine+to+Ke&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBwgBECEYoAEyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigATIHCAMQIRigATIHCAQQIRigATIGCAUQIRgV0gEJMTIxNzhqMGo5qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chro
You are awesome! Thanks for taking me along on your wonderful trip.
Thank you for sharing such a wonderfully story. I really love the story. I am planning to bike The Great Divide Mountain Bike Route in two years.
Wonderful❗👍
Get out of yr comfort zone n enjoy it❗👍👌🌼🌼🌼
Wow , that's a great video and a great journey indeed with the bike . The bigest adventure with the bike on the road , meeting beautiful people and friends to survive to the preasure . So beautiful is the East Coast . Thank you so much for sharing and take care , my dear friend !🏅🏆🎩👌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻🤗🌷
Wow just wow! You are a real life superhero! Thank you for sharing your inspiring journey!
So inspiring. Go, Regina!
I'm happy to see your video, and glad you made it . good for you . very nice like your narration on the video, well done
A wonderful adventure. Stay happy.
Thanks for sharing in your adventures.
That was a great video! Thank you for sharing it. I'm inspired to bike travel!!!
You're a beautiful human being. Congratulations on such a great accomplishment.
Greetings from Newcastle upon Tyne / England / UK . . . . I could hardly believe what I seen at 5:38 on the door of the bike shop, a poster showing the label of a bottle of Newcastle Brown Ale, our famous beer. Fantastic video and it was a joy watching it. Very well done, you are great. 😀
I’m glad the RUclips algorithm worked and suggested this amazing video. Clearly one of the best videos I’ve watched about just getting out and having an adventure. Can’t even imagine it must have taken to turn the pedals the first time in Maine. So much unknown lay ahead but you persevered. Thank you for sharing this amazing journey!
Simply Beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing.
Good on BK and Papa Pump at Bike Connection to get you going. Used to work there 20yrs ago. Best wishes. -U10
Thanks for pronouncing Bangor correctly! People rarely do. Glad you did this. I ride the Portand to Saco sections frequently. Want to peddle this completely some day before the end.
Thanks for watching! Ah, I had to have a few people correct me on "Bangor" and "Calais" before I got it right :)
I live in florida and my cousin and i had this idea to bike all the way to new york and i found this video
We’re planning to set off on august and i cant wait thanks to this video i think we can better prepare our trip
Thank you for sharing your journey. You are very inspiring. The algorithm brought me to you and I’m glad it did! Initially, I thought it brought me to another Regina Yan whom I worked with years ago.
Very inspiring video. Really liked the message at the end of the video. Congrats!
Absolutely awesome !!!! Well done
Great job and great video!
congrats on your achievement. Tubeless tire systems are the way to go! have had no bummer flats moments since. Keep on riding!!!
Fantastic adventure! Very inspiring
You are so strong!!! Incredible!
strong story teller for sure
You are an incredible athlete, that is a great deal of mileage in a short time, and the vid is great also.
Awesome trip. Congrats on your accomplishment.
an amazing and inspiring story... thanks for this ❤
Impressive solo trip! Think I have the same tent, bought for biking. Best rain tent I ever had. None gets in!!
Great video and story. I have plans to bike tour and bikepack in the near future and will take this one as one of my first adventures. Too bad the knuckleheads in Myrtle Beach couldn't hand you the beer and cheer you on.
Awesome bike ride, congrats
thanks for the amazing trip, awesome to watch
thank you for making this inspiring video. I truly enjoyed watching your adventure. I am 63 yrs old and still hope to do an epic bike trip like you did.
Wow! Great video and congrats. You are an inspiration to all.
this video really touched me. my mom was a touring cyclist in the 90s before i was born and I'm really falling down the same rabbit hole myself (riding in the NYC 5 boro bike tour this sunday!). I really connected with your openness around the challenges you faced on this trip. as i look into the future and think about long-haul bike trips like this, you've made me even more excited. thank you for your great storytelling!
Regina, WOW, just wow! What a wonderful accomplishment! I agree with other comments that this is one of the best videos of a long distance ride. Amazing how you categorized a month-long trip down the East Coast in such a short video yet I didn’t feel cheated and you inspired this 80-year old to not put off further enjoyment of my bike. Thank you.
Awesome video. Great story. Beautiful scenery. Keep it up. Subscribed.
Very cool! Thanks for sharing your journey.
You rock!! That is an amazing adventure I’d love to try!!
Awesome! Thanks for sharing your adventure.
Very nice!! Thanks for posting.
That's so awesome! Congrats on pushing through all of the bullshit and making it happen!
This is an amazing accomplishment. Kudos to you!!
Very well made video. Congratulations on your adventure.
Such a great story, thank you for sharing!
Good day to you.
I am a senior rider on HONDA Cross Cub from Japan.
Enjoying touring ,camping and video uploading.
This is so nice video!
Awesome!!
Thank you so much for sharing!!
Have a nice day my friend!!
Leave full support for you !
You have inspired me!
wonderful! loved it. Looks like an amazing trip and a great adventure
Incredible!! Amazing well done!!
This was a wonderful video about an incredible adventure! Thanks for sharing!🙂
Loved every minute of your trip. Congratulations!
What a great achievement! Well done.
Bravo! What a way to prove your self wrong. Keep testing yourself as it inspires other to do the same. We are better than we believe.
Thanks So Much!! Incredibly Inspiring!! Grateful!!
Wow, congratulations 🎉👏, amazing how u did 140 miles in a day. Especially when you said you didn't train much.
The secret to any long trip is to pace yourself. Rest when you need it.
Lemon grass spray helps to keep the mosquitoes away. Lavender spray helps to keep the ticks off.
Fantastic! Great job.
Wow, what an inspiring journey! You are a great storyteller, we felt every emotion you were experiencing. Thank you for sharing your journey!
Wow! Congratulations! Well done video too
Wow, great job and excellent video!
What a great story! I'm so happy for you.
You did it right. Small panniers and gear set up. Wow! Thank you for sharing your journey.
amazing adventure 👏🏾
Very inspiring. After watching your video, you have inspired me to hike the Fall Line Trail (43-miles) section of the East Coast Greenway in Richmond, Virginia. Maybe bike the Capital Trail from Richmond to Williamsburg. I have driven past it many times.
I so enjoyed this video, you are amazing amazing 😊
Wow! You’re Amazing!!! I felt very motivated watching this video…. Thanks for sharing! It makes me want to do that bike trip too!
That was an awesome video. It brought happy tears to my eyes watching it. Thank you for sharing your incredible journey.
Great video! I'm really glad I found it. I do a fair amount of bike touring and I'm trying to figure out "what's next" (I did the Pacific Coast in fall 2022, and Lands End, England to John O'Groats, Scotland May of '22; I've also done Oregon to Boston and New Orleans to Canada in the past). I'm 66 years old (and very extroverted!) and your video has really helped me want to do the Easy Coast Greenway!! I'm quite impressed by your mileage too! (PS - I've never seen the sunrise on a bike tour...). Thank you for sharing.
BRAVO! EXCELLENT VIDEO!
Thank you for sharing you experience. I'm 62 and I will like to do this one day...
Great trip young lady I enjoyed your video
Well done. Very well done. I am so impressed that you took this on and youve inspired me. So, thank you for that.
Congratulations on your trip, what a great story!
I have done many long cycle tours (some on CGOAB) and I usually really enjoyed myself but my monthly target distances was just a measly target of 2000km or 1250 miles. My longest tour was 8000 km or 5000 miles. I have done 100+mile days a quite few times but never back to back, plus I was a hell of a lot younger. I have known a few people to do multiple big days, like my friend Anna who did ~250 km/day going across the Nullabor, but then it was the Nullabor.
The people make every tour special. You really get to know who you are as there is no one telling you who you are. It looks like a very cool tour.
2000km is not measly at all, and you probably enjoyed the scenery more than I did at that pace! Thanks for bringing up CGOAB - I'll use that resource for future trip planning :D
Wow! Great respect for you!
Wonderful video and storytelling!