I've just discovered your channel Gareth so I'm busy watching all your videos. Loved this one and all the history along the way. Being a native of North east England myself, maybe this route is one I need to do.
I cycled this with my wife earlier this year after first cycling Hadrian's Cycleway to get us east. I knew a sprinkling about the Reivers but wish I had seen this first. Such an interesting history and fabulous part of the country. Thanks so much for posting.
Hi Gareth just subbed your channel and running through your vids ...resident of Carlisle but came from weardale ..co durham.. cracking vids ironically I dropped into blanchland yesterday with my eldest daughter on our way home ...who liked the place...atb..👍
Really enjoyed this video after watching your Tyne River video lot's of great history very interesting stuff and a great bike ride I normally wildcamp but if I start doing long distances bike rides I might start using camp sites a nice shower and pub lunch sounds good 🤣🤣 have subscribed atvb Jimmy 😎😎👍👍
I think I only had two hike-a-bike sections, one of which (nr Caldbeck at 26:10) I couldn’t have done on an unladen MTB - gravel bike runs much faster on hard pack gravel and roads.
Very interesting film. Rumour has it my ancestors were border raiders based around Northumberland. Would you say that drop bars suit this bike better than flat ones ?
Really enjoyed this one. I’m thinking about doing that route my self next year. Some rough trails on the this route I see. Maybe a MTB is more suitable? Thanks.
Great video, fabulous scenery and love the history lesson!
Nice to arrive here courtesy of RUclips's recommendation algorithm.
History and a route that I was not aware of, thanks.
Very interesting, thank you. I've almost finished reading Graham Robb's book The Debatable Land, and am keen to do a similar bike tour of the area.
It's great book!
Quality film, mate! 👍
A curse on your cabbage patch! Now there's an insult. Really enjoyed this ... and tempted by that Sonder gravel bike. Happy cycling!
Brilliant informative video - Loved it. Looking forward to the next one
I've just discovered your channel Gareth so I'm busy watching all your videos. Loved this one and all the history along the way. Being a native of North east England myself, maybe this route is one I need to do.
Gareth, thanks for sharing this trip a great history lesson for the bike packing guys and a route that has been added to the bucket list.
Cracking film great to see a NE bikepacker showing off the land of the far horizons 👍😃
I cycled this with my wife earlier this year after first cycling Hadrian's Cycleway to get us east. I knew a sprinkling about the Reivers but wish I had seen this first. Such an interesting history and fabulous part of the country. Thanks so much for posting.
Hi Gareth just subbed your channel and running through your vids ...resident of Carlisle but came from weardale ..co durham.. cracking vids ironically I dropped into blanchland yesterday with my eldest daughter on our way home ...who liked the place...atb..👍
I remember helping to build that bridge at 19:00 on a Sustrans workcamp years ago!
Nice work!
Really enjoyed this video after watching your Tyne River video lot's of great history very interesting stuff and a great bike ride I normally wildcamp but if I start doing long distances bike rides I might start using camp sites a nice shower and pub lunch sounds good 🤣🤣 have subscribed atvb Jimmy 😎😎👍👍
Planning a wild camp bikepacking trip sometime this year!
Excellent video Griff! Looks tough, looking at the paths I would have thought an MTB would have been better?!
I think I only had two hike-a-bike sections, one of which (nr Caldbeck at 26:10) I couldn’t have done on an unladen MTB - gravel bike runs much faster on hard pack gravel and roads.
Very interesting film. Rumour has it my ancestors were border raiders based around Northumberland.
Would you say that drop bars suit this bike better than flat ones ?
Yes - it goes much faster on the road than my hybrid, and the flared drops work well on bumpy descents.
@@GriffKane thank you.
Really enjoyed this one. I’m thinking about doing that route my self next year. Some rough trails on the this route I see. Maybe a MTB is more suitable? Thanks.
I’m not the world’s greatest bike handler and I managed all but 300m-ish out of > 300km on a gravel bike…
Delighted to know that I’m not the only one who set fire to the plastic around the MSR pot🤷🏻♂️
Only the best bikepackers!
@@GriffKane The most tired ones I think! Funnily enough, it was up in the Cheviots that I did mine. Troublesome history we have in these parts!
Notable mention; Lord William Armstrong, of Reaver heritage and the Elon Musk if his time.