At my 20, 10 years ago, I rode my bicycle from Nanjing to Beijing, 1,100km. It is not even close to a month of your 3 year world tour. You are a really brave and great person, and are such a great inspiration for many of us. Good luck to all of the rest of your journey. Hoping could meet you in person some day. And, Happy Chinese New Year!
Again, Thank you!! I'm not going on a unicycle, going on a bicycle, trying to figure out what little I can take. Attempted a bicycle tour, but was carrying why to much stuff. Suggestion for anyone reading this, start with the least needed. And if you find you need something else you can always buy it on tour.
I went travelling around the world for three years in 1981-1984 doing much the same route, except hitchhiking. I had all my gear weighing about 25kg on my back. I used to get tents/sleeping bags/rucksacks etc given to me by manufacturers in exchange for photos of their kit 'in action'. Singapore was the place for camera gear. Up until reaching Singapore I had to make do with a Russian made Zenit I picked up in Moscow held together with string.
@Bablu Mandal More often than not there are no hotels/pensions/guest houses.More often than not we slept with the families of truck drivers, with villagers, sometimes with aid workers, sometimes even police outposts. It was a question of where we were and who picked us up. We also had a small tent, sometimes overnighted on trains, or buses. In Delhi and Kashmir for example we were able to pitch our tent in refugee camps for free. No I have no team, or guide book. Just a map. Travel alone yes. Nowadays I kinda like my white linen and holidays in Maui (surfing).
I order the camping stove you use on the glowing endorsement that it made it around the world and the fact that it can use any fuel. Seems like a very versatile piece of kit.
Ed this is one of my favourite videos yet. I’ve been following your videos since “Ed Unicycles China”and have been back and watched most of the ones prior to that. It’s great to see this kind of behind the scenes of how you’re complaining your adventure. Keep up the great work mate and stay safe.
You are definitely the only youtuber that I click the like button even before the video loads. I wonder how you sqweeze your laptop into the bag thought 😊. One question for you Ed. What do you think about while cycling/camping? You get a lot of time to your self probably more than anyone else around.
78.5k subs. Congrats Ed. You channel is blowing up and getting real momentum. I have watched everything you have made and loved every second. Congrats again.
On a unicycle around the world. I think it's cool. And pretty of course. I always went as a black pete (a helper of Sinterklaas) here in the Netherlands on a unicycle cycled around.
That's an amazing amount of gear. Does the weight actually help with balance? And do you have to pay a lot of attention to getting the front and back weight evenly distributed?
Gotta say- I still miss seeing the little green monster bag u used to have! It gave ur unicycle such character- although so does the dino! Thanks for showing us ur gear!
Hey Ed, I'm been catching up on your older videos. I've not seen you mention it when your handle bars change. I noticed that they have changed again and now join at the top. Can you tell us the reasons behind it? I'm sure it is interesting to others too.
Get a small plastic spray bottle fill it with bug juice for mosquitoes n horse flies and other annoying little buggers. Try collapsible hydration bladders for water storage. Platypus makes them in various sizes. You can roll them up like ziplock bags when not in use. Approach more gear companies for sponsorship like Alpkit in the UK. For your taint try a shammy cover for your saddle. Happy travels!
Ive been wondering about the "sky-shots". Are you using a drone? Really loving this series btw, ive been watching a few episodes every other day for the past weeks. Really good motivation, been wanting to go on a bike trip for a while now.
What a logistical challenge, carrying everything to survive, repair, and record the journey. Everything has to be light and minimize bulk. Good primer for everyone from the casual bike camper to the international traveler.
This is awesome, Ed. Had watched another video yours and came across this one. Great info and video. Thank you for sharing it. Best wishes on your journey.
I was going to say you really are an inspiration but i saw like the first 3 comments said that lol. I was wondering how much this tour cost you and how you made that money or is it just a sponsor or something?
Put some water and small stones in your pot, before the hardening, and in a couple of miles your pot will be cleaned. (Water will always dissolve or take into solution any food other than bone)
Thanks for making this. Im planning a cycling tour and always wondered what you carried, because you dont have a lot of space. Definetly going to be referering to this for help because i dont want to have a ton of excess items. safe travels
thanks Ed like all efforts that have a "professional look" there are alot of bits, pieces & learning. Its an amazing & inspiring journey. In an age where the public is fed complete shite (daily) from many dodgy sources, first hand video has never been more valuable. The resounding message(i get from your blogs) is that people throughout the world have never been more giving, loving, helpful & encouraging, so where is all the hate (as shown by media) coming from??? A young man with the world ahead of him.
...cool ideas here. I actually met a unicyclist on his way around the world from the bottom of South America. He'd reached Cusco...I was just cycling around S America but mostly bussing it...
just saw your GCN interview. Well done! I'm curious how you transfered data from a Spot to your own website. In my experience, Spot can only record up to 50 points. How did you manage to keep older points as you moved forward? Thanks and congrats!
I'm from south America and pretty much know how things work in many of those country... plus the media coverage doesn't help Brazil... it's a sad fact...
Dear brother may almighty bless you good health and you are seriously amazing you’re the very good impression for me. Keep going make you dream come through.
I actually met him in person as he was working on his bike in the hallway of my apt complex..I said hello and we chatted as well he pumped my tires of my bike.Awesome personality and extremely polite.Usual British kindness..Have a safe journey back home and may God keep you in his arms and fend off any evil.
Hey Ed, love the videos. I'd be interested to know how much you eat every day. When I was cycle touring my calorie intake was probably double what it is usually.
Ed, if you had touched India too 😔!! Anyways, you're doing a GREAT JOB for the kids 😄😄. Always so excited to see you on your Unicycle and travel with you 😊😊
Wash when you can but sometimes you'll just have to be smelly for a week. If you have some extra drinking water you can clean your under arms and under carriage. For the most part you are going to smell either way.
I had hoped you would go to South America, and from there to the USA, but you went directly to the USA. Any reason why you skip a whole part of the world?
video is missing wearable rear view mirror you wore later, which is quite handy on a unicycle. I don't know if it is possible to add to this video in some manner but it would be good.
I didn't want to hurt your feelings on your last video with the Hawk. Because you were so happy about the shot. But he was thinking "I've never seen a Unicycle before but they must come in pairs and right when I've found a good meal." :-) Hope to see you in the States. Safe travels.
I have to add that your tire patch kit may be lacking in one vital way: your glue. Rubber glue is not necessarily the same as vulcanizing fluid. I commented in a previous video about your patching technique. I was getting the impression you were not letting the glue dry before applying the patch. Vulcanizing fluid requires this to achieve proper bonding. (And if your rubber cement/glue IS actually vulc. fluid, then I'm sorry I guessed wrong.) The mistake of applying a patch to wet glue is the #1 cause of patches failing for cyclists. (The #2 mistake is not sanding the inner tube sufficiently. I highly recommend putting a bigger piece of silicon carbide sandpaper in your kit - the supplied piece is useless.) It is crucial that one use vulcanizing fluid (not rubber or contact cement) on butyl inner tubes. This is actually "cold-vulcanizing" and isn't actually TRUE vulcanization, which requires high heat and melting. But it's a VERY close second and does indeed form a molecular bond between the patch and inner tube. So in other words, it is not "gluing" a patch to the tube; it's basically making the tube and patch "one," which is how patched, when properly applied, are amazing. They should never fail per se, but are merely prone to future punctures just like every other spot on your inner tube. Just thought I'd throw that out there for all the other cyclists on the road fixing flat tires. (Also, always carry a spare tube AND patch kit. Use your spare tube for the 95% of flats you get, and break out the patch kit on the 5% of bad days where you get a second or more flats.) Also, another good touring tip for tire repair is dental floss. It is GREAT for fixing a tire sidewall tear - normally deemed disastrous. I salvaged a nice Continental Town & Country from the trash about 15 years ago. It had been discarded with new tread because a brake pad had cut a hole in the sidewall. I grabbed it, took it home and went at it with dental floss. (I also used contact cement and short section of Velox rim strip to act as a boot on the inside as an extra measure.) This tire lasted daily 10 mile commuting and other use for ten years! The sidewall tear repair never failed; I simply wore the tire out. So you can salvage a disaster on the road with dental floss and your dentist will be impressed too!
aussiekartman: thanks, He is close to Bakersfield CA now definitely taking a southern route. He wants to avoid the Rockies and snow I am sure. Perfect weather for him now on the southern route. I bet when he leaves USA it's from Atlanta. Maybe he we touch his wheel in the ocean at Kitty Hawk, that would be a cool "touch".
I think this was before he landed in the USA and he didn't have a drone back then. You can see him buy the drone in the second episode of the USA series.
The super glue is great for quickly sealing puncture wounds or cuts. I prefer the Gorilla Glue gel as it stings less and is easier to apply. Super glue is used by hospitals and medics in the US military.
Since you are from the UK, it would be cool for you to pedal across the old London bridge imported and reassembled in Lake Havasu, it's along your approximate path. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge_(Lake_Havasu_City)
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2 pairs of boxers to travel the world while I carry 6 on a weekend camping trip...I think I'm doing it wrong! Haha
"It got a bit blown over on a sand dune in china" how many people get to say that! Bravo man! Keep going! You are a bright light in this world!
I never new that there was sand there hahah
@@dwaynehiggs9547 It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.
@@dwaynehiggs9547 China has a huge desertification problem.
Not unless you're a Chinese/Mongolian Herder in the middle of the Gobi desert.
@@nulnoh219 Sure. That's why there's huge programs to stop and reverse it. Because it's not a problem. lol
At my 20, 10 years ago, I rode my bicycle from Nanjing to Beijing, 1,100km. It is not even close to a month of your 3 year world tour.
You are a really brave and great person, and are such a great inspiration for many of us.
Good luck to all of the rest of your journey. Hoping could meet you in person some day.
And, Happy Chinese New Year!
Again, Thank you!! I'm not going on a unicycle, going on a bicycle, trying to figure out what little I can take. Attempted a bicycle tour, but was carrying why to much stuff.
Suggestion for anyone reading this, start with the least needed. And if you find you need something else you can always buy it on tour.
I went travelling around the world for three years in 1981-1984 doing much the same route, except hitchhiking. I had all my gear weighing about 25kg on my back. I used to get tents/sleeping bags/rucksacks etc given to me by manufacturers in exchange for photos of their kit 'in action'. Singapore was the place for camera gear. Up until reaching Singapore I had to make do with a Russian made Zenit I picked up in Moscow held together with string.
Nice my gut
@Bablu Mandal More often than not there are no hotels/pensions/guest houses.More often than not we slept with the families of truck drivers, with villagers, sometimes with aid workers, sometimes even police outposts. It was a question of where we were and who picked us up. We also had a small tent, sometimes overnighted on trains, or buses. In Delhi and Kashmir for example we were able to pitch our tent in refugee camps for free.
No I have no team, or guide book. Just a map. Travel alone yes.
Nowadays I kinda like my white linen and holidays in Maui (surfing).
I order the camping stove you use on the glowing endorsement that it made it around the world and the fact that it can use any fuel. Seems like a very versatile piece of kit.
Ed this is one of my favourite videos yet. I’ve been following your videos since “Ed Unicycles China”and have been back and watched most of the ones prior to that. It’s great to see this kind of behind the scenes of how you’re complaining your adventure. Keep up the great work mate and stay safe.
The satisfying pop sound the insta360 camera makes as Ed pulls it from it's sheath.
You are definitely the only youtuber that I click the like button even before the video loads. I wonder how you sqweeze your laptop into the bag thought 😊. One question for you Ed. What do you think about while cycling/camping? You get a lot of time to your self probably more than anyone else around.
I'm still waiting for his reply :(
Same :(
Still
This youtuber is so special for you mr pavol. Unfortunately he doesnt care about you alor your comment haha
Waiting..
I love how ed doesn’t need flashy brand name gear to get the job done! Ed is an inspiration.
Edit: what assholes would thumbs down Ed’s video ??!
Also Ed is doing this from his heart
78.5k subs. Congrats Ed. You channel is blowing up and getting real momentum. I have watched everything you have made and loved every second. Congrats again.
Thanks for the video! I am a bicycle traveler currently in Sivas, Turkey heading east on my around the world ride...
good luck man...
How did you charge the batteries while on the road - solar, dynamo?
On a unicycle around the world. I think it's cool. And pretty of course. I always went as a black pete (a helper of Sinterklaas) here in the Netherlands on a unicycle cycled around.
That's an amazing amount of gear. Does the weight actually help with balance? And do you have to pay a lot of attention to getting the front and back weight evenly distributed?
Gotta say- I still miss seeing the little green monster bag u used to have! It gave ur unicycle such character- although so does the dino! Thanks for showing us ur gear!
I saw you in South Carolina around the cross keys area last weekend!! Your awesome dude 👍
Hey Ed, I'm been catching up on your older videos. I've not seen you mention it when your handle bars change. I noticed that they have changed again and now join at the top. Can you tell us the reasons behind it? I'm sure it is interesting to others too.
Get a small plastic spray bottle fill it with bug juice for mosquitoes n horse flies and other annoying little buggers. Try collapsible hydration bladders for water storage. Platypus makes them in various sizes. You can roll them up like ziplock bags when not in use. Approach more gear companies for sponsorship like Alpkit in the UK. For your taint try a shammy cover for your saddle. Happy travels!
Nice channel 😀 How do you charge your gear (phone, camera etc) when you are traveling?
Ive been wondering about the "sky-shots". Are you using a drone?
Really loving this series btw, ive been watching a few episodes every other day for the past weeks. Really good motivation, been wanting to go on a bike trip for a while now.
You can take the cardboard out of the middle of the tapes to save a bit of weight and space
Cardboard is not that heavy to carry, if it was metal then that would be a whole different matter.
clearly quite a bit of thought and work goes into your journey! Thanks for sharing!
What a logistical challenge, carrying everything to survive, repair, and record the journey. Everything has to be light and minimize bulk. Good primer for everyone from the casual bike camper to the international traveler.
You are a really tuff guy and a wonderful human being. I wish all your desires to come true.
ed you are the man !! always was curious to see your set up in detail. always great
This is awesome, Ed. Had watched another video yours and came across this one. Great info and video. Thank you for sharing it. Best wishes on your journey.
Been waiting for a while to get a breakdown of your gear. Bravo!
I was going to say you really are an inspiration but i saw like the first 3 comments said that lol. I was wondering how much this tour cost you and how you made that money or is it just a sponsor or something?
Way to go buddy good for you to do something that you like keep it up you rock
Top Knolling Ed! That's a very satisfying layout to look at :)
Tom the Cyclist OCD? I agree
Amazing man! Kudos to your hard work. Keep smiling. You are the best.
I ran into your video by accident now i am hooked...keep up the good work.
Thanks for sharing! Safe travels.
I stop anything I'm doing to watch what you have posted!
also as an American I think the way you say garage sounds funny haha! cheers!
Always love watching and admiring your journey!
You're an inspiration to this 68 year old young fellow- pedal on!
Lots of experience shared in this video. Thank you!
Put some water and small stones in your pot, before the hardening, and in a couple of miles your pot will be cleaned. (Water will always dissolve or take into solution any food other than bone)
Thanks for making this. Im planning a cycling tour and always wondered what you carried, because you dont have a lot of space. Definetly going to be referering to this for help because i dont want to have a ton of excess items. safe travels
hey ed, try putting the sleeping bag in a clothes dryer with a tennis ball. it helps to re-loft the down.
It was an amazing experience to actually see you on the road. You have done the impossible.
Considering he's doing it I think you meant to say the "improbable"
Do you not carry a garmin nav? I wanted to know what you were using for maps
Now for the rundown on the unicycle itself.
thanks Ed like all efforts that have a "professional look" there are alot of bits, pieces & learning. Its an amazing & inspiring journey. In an age where the public is fed complete shite (daily) from many dodgy sources, first hand video has never been more valuable. The resounding message(i get from your blogs) is that people throughout the world have never been more giving, loving, helpful & encouraging, so where is all the hate (as shown by media) coming from???
A young man with the world ahead of him.
I give thumb up before watching it
...cool ideas here. I actually met a unicyclist on his way around the world from the bottom of South America. He'd reached Cusco...I was just cycling around S America but mostly bussing it...
improvement in cinematography !!!! well done
Great to get to know your kit Ed. You're an inspiration. Cheers from Brazil
Good job and good luck Ed!
Wow, lotsa gear. Well thought out.
Great video Ed, keep up the great work.
just saw your GCN interview. Well done! I'm curious how you transfered data from a Spot to your own website. In my experience, Spot can only record up to 50 points. How did you manage to keep older points as you moved forward? Thanks and congrats!
Every video is inspiring.
Bloody amazing mate! Total respect.
I would like to have your courage. You are an inspiration. I hope one day you come to Brazil :)
Juliana Seixas if he goes to Brazil he's going to end up dead..
Well... Maybe, sadly. But depends where he goes.
I'm from south America and pretty much know how things work in many of those country... plus the media coverage doesn't help Brazil... it's a sad fact...
google for Gurkan Genc. He's a turkish guy and he's been travelling the world for the last 10 years with his bike.
If you're still reading these comments, how many tyres have you gone through? (came up in discussion on the unicyclist forums)
Dear brother may almighty bless you good health and you are seriously amazing you’re the very good impression for me. Keep going make you dream come through.
Great vid Ed and nice one with all the affiliate links in the description, dead handy and hopefully help you with some funds!
Serious gear bro! Cheers!
I actually met him in person as he was working on his bike in the hallway of my apt complex..I said hello and we chatted as well he pumped my tires of my bike.Awesome personality and extremely polite.Usual British kindness..Have a safe journey back home and may God keep you in his arms and fend off any evil.
Awesome stuff as always Ed! 👍
I hate to be rude but I am asking because I am curious because I want to do what you do. How do you fund your world wide trip ? what pays for it ?
"dropped it a few times, seems solid" Looks like you used to to defeat the germans in ww2 and as a landing gear for the landing on the moon
That was really cool. I looked back to you website trying to find what you had lost over time 😂
I have just looked at your website and have seen that u r in America can’t wait for the next video 😄
Thanks Ed!!!!
Loved this video. Great packing at the end too!
Hey Ed, love the videos. I'd be interested to know how much you eat every day. When I was cycle touring my calorie intake was probably double what it is usually.
Ed, if you had touched India too 😔!! Anyways, you're doing a GREAT JOB for the kids 😄😄. Always so excited to see you on your Unicycle and travel with you 😊😊
5:20 how do you do this with 2 pears of boxes? Wash every day or keep them on for 4 days total and then wash? And how do you wash while traveling?
Wash when you can but sometimes you'll just have to be smelly for a week. If you have some extra drinking water you can clean your under arms and under carriage. For the most part you are going to smell either way.
yyooooo love your vids man. but where is your secret drone that you use for all your sweet elevated shots?!
hey ed,can you make a video showing how you fit all this on your unicycle?
Just me that wonders how he can fit all that on a unicycle?
And it has to be balanced
Well done Ed - good stuff!
Thats alot of stuff to carry on a unicycle
how did u get that stuff past customs to travel in the USA??? that does "THe World"
I had hoped you would go to South America, and from there to the USA, but you went directly to the USA. Any reason why you skip a whole part of the world?
video is missing wearable rear view mirror you wore later, which is quite handy on a unicycle. I don't know if it is possible to add to this video in some manner but it would be good.
Good selection Ed. Best wishes from Berlin.
I didn't want to hurt your feelings on your last video with the Hawk. Because you were so happy about the shot. But he was thinking "I've never seen a Unicycle before but they must come in pairs and right when I've found a good meal." :-) Hope to see you in the States. Safe travels.
I have to add that your tire patch kit may be lacking in one vital way: your glue.
Rubber glue is not necessarily the same as vulcanizing fluid. I commented in a previous video about your patching technique. I was getting the impression you were not letting the glue dry before applying the patch. Vulcanizing fluid requires this to achieve proper bonding. (And if your rubber cement/glue IS actually vulc. fluid, then I'm sorry I guessed wrong.)
The mistake of applying a patch to wet glue is the #1 cause of patches failing for cyclists. (The #2 mistake is not sanding the inner tube sufficiently. I highly recommend putting a bigger piece of silicon carbide sandpaper in your kit - the supplied piece is useless.) It is crucial that one use vulcanizing fluid (not rubber or contact cement) on butyl inner tubes. This is actually "cold-vulcanizing" and isn't actually TRUE vulcanization, which requires high heat and melting. But it's a VERY close second and does indeed form a molecular bond between the patch and inner tube. So in other words, it is not "gluing" a patch to the tube; it's basically making the tube and patch "one," which is how patched, when properly applied, are amazing. They should never fail per se, but are merely prone to future punctures just like every other spot on your inner tube.
Just thought I'd throw that out there for all the other cyclists on the road fixing flat tires. (Also, always carry a spare tube AND patch kit. Use your spare tube for the 95% of flats you get, and break out the patch kit on the 5% of bad days where you get a second or more flats.)
Also, another good touring tip for tire repair is dental floss. It is GREAT for fixing a tire sidewall tear - normally deemed disastrous. I salvaged a nice Continental Town & Country from the trash about 15 years ago. It had been discarded with new tread because a brake pad had cut a hole in the sidewall. I grabbed it, took it home and went at it with dental floss. (I also used contact cement and short section of Velox rim strip to act as a boot on the inside as an extra measure.) This tire lasted daily 10 mile commuting and other use for ten years! The sidewall tear repair never failed; I simply wore the tire out. So you can salvage a disaster on the road with dental floss and your dentist will be impressed too!
Where you fit the drone ? 😂 awesome stuff man!
What's your USA routing ? Must be south through Arizona and New Mexico.
I'm curious about this to.
Dan Blumel check his website, it's got his planned route I think.
aussiekartman: thanks, He is close to Bakersfield CA now definitely taking a southern route. He wants to avoid the Rockies and snow I am sure. Perfect weather for him now on the southern route. I bet when he leaves USA it's from Atlanta. Maybe he we touch his wheel in the ocean at Kitty Hawk, that would be a cool "touch".
Hello Sir, but with what do you take the drone shots..?? I didn't see any drone in your items??
I think this was before he landed in the USA and he didn't have a drone back then. You can see him buy the drone in the second episode of the USA series.
Yeah. This has to be before the USA trips because his camera isn't broken yet.
Thanks for inspiring!
The super glue is great for quickly sealing puncture wounds or cuts. I prefer the Gorilla Glue gel as it stings less and is easier to apply. Super glue is used by hospitals and medics in the US military.
why do you carry the electrical tape? Is it any better than duct tape?
Another great video,Thanks!
Since you are from the UK, it would be cool for you to pedal across the old London bridge imported and reassembled in Lake Havasu, it's along your approximate path.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge_(Lake_Havasu_City)
Nice vídeo Ed! I always have curiosity about your gear.
Well i don't know anything about unicycle, does it need to paddle in slope??? Or the paddle are joined to wheel?
what do you do when you need to wash your clothes?
You're an inspiration Ed.
you are the inspiration
Very useful video, I even made a screenshot;D
Ed, you're doing incredibly cool stuff!
Random question but will you be passing through CT on your U.S. tour or heading south east toward florida?
Travel the world on a unicycle, and I thought bicycle riders were crazy! Haha
Great stuff mate.
btw, have you missed to mention the drone? :)
I didn’t own one then :)
what if there was a light and you needed to stop and get off how do you get off because there are stuff in front of you and in the back of you