Yes, that bit going south away from Bath towards the aqueduct is pretty rough on a mountain bike let alone a Brompton! You did well ☺️🚴♀️ Thanks very much, appreciated.
Hi Madison. Sorry hun, i watched your video when you posted it 9 days ago but i got busy and forgot to comment on it. I will know after watch it again because all i can remember is ,what a nice day out it was.
Yes, they've done such a good job getting that tunnel open. I don't think the music was on this time, I'm not sure why, it's been on all the other times I've been through. Yes, Bath is a very special place and so well preserved. Also a bit of a sun trap on a sunny day.
Very interesting ride not least because I am reading Laura Laker’s book Potholes and Pavements which is all about the NCN and of course Bristol-Bath was one of their first routes. Anyway was great to see what the ride looks like and will have to try it myself sometime.
Thanks Madeline, my local cycle track. My lives 200 yds from it. Brother lives 1/4 mile from it but his back on, no access from his house though. I stopped cycling coz of ill health. Glad to say I improving. It’s great following you as it’s the best thing to cycling myself, thanks again Richard xx
Glad you’re improving and hope it continues to get better. Injuries and sickness can be so frustrating. You’re so lucky to have such a well kept cycle route on your door step. It’s one of my favourites and so many places you can get to. Take care.
My husband used to work at YOI Ashfield a few years ago and we used to cycle to Bath and Castle Coombe on his weekends off. Yet again another excellent video xxx
Is that near pucklechurch? I remember seeing the signs for pucklechurch when I used to live in Yate/Chipping back in the noughties. Castle Combe is another one I’ve written down but have yet to find a route that would work for me. Thanks Sheila x
Greetings from Australia. Enjoying your cycle rides. This one brings back some memories of locations I visited back in 2018. Your rides around South Wales more so having been born and bred in Neath before my parents emigrated in the late 60s. Keep up the great work!😊
And hello to you in Australia! 🇦🇺 Thanks. I very much enjoyed the last ride down Neath way, well Port Talbot last time, such a nice trail up the valley and of course a while ago up the Neath valley to the waterfalls. I sometimes wonder why it’s free to do these locations ☺️🚴🏻♀️
Great ride Mads Thanks for sharing, That dog hearing the command stop was excellent. How do you know where your going without navigation...? I don't think that custard slice was very impressive..🤔
Yes that dog was very good, I spoke to the owner briefly. Such a nice dog. Well I’ve done the bristol to bath part a few times and it’s not too hard to get lost, around town I used Google Maps now and then or follow signs. The slice was a bit tough to cut, tasted nice though. I think I should have picked it up and just bitten it ☺️🤭🚴🏻♀️
Excellent piece, I was hoping to do much of this same route myself at some point and this has just told me that I need to. I must also say that I like the look of your bike, clean and well looked after. Are you happy with it?
Thanks! Brilliant, let me know how you get on if you manage to get there. Yes, I love my bike and that’s probably why I clean and maintain it so much. Plus there is something nice about starting a new ride on a clean bike. It feels new again. ☺️🚴🏻♀️
Wow - another epic ride Madison (compared to what I do these days!), and a long video - plenty to see. As you know, I am a canal enthusiast - so loved the footage around the locks and the clink clink of the lock-gear when being used! Lovely grey wagtail too - I've not seen one myself for years ☹. I would have had to go in that camera shop!😁👍
Thanks, Jeff. (Sorry another log one, chopped loads out of it but too much footage) ☺️ yes I love that clinic clinic sound. Canals and locks are all very new to me. I’ve only been riding them the last 2 years or so. Yes that was a lucky spot with the wagtail. Almost overlooked it.
@@MadisonTen A long one yes! And must have taken you a while editing it! Well done 👍 I think a mountain bike like yours is ideal for canal towpaths - as you never know what kind of surface you'll find around the next corner (as I'm sure you know by now!).Glad you spotted the wagtail. 😁
@@Gladysthenarrowboat I’m working on finding ways to speed up the editing process. The last video (reading - Hungerford) was about 35 - 40hours editing which is insane. I’ve found some things which meant this one didn’t take quite as long as working on some other things to help. May be I should do them more bite sized like yours ☺️🚴🏻♀️
@@MadisonTen My God Madison! That IS insane - you must have a LOT of patience! Mine are certainly bite-sized by comparison - just as you said! Mind you, that is partly due to our dreadful internet speed here - it takes ages just to upload a 20 minute film. Our videos are quite different though - with mine, I tend to stop often and talk a load of gibberish to the camera, whereas in your's, you are covering a much longer distance on the bike and you obviously cant afford to stop and start so often in that case. And you don't stop to talk to the camera. I tend to switch the GoPros on and off regularly when out filming - and usually turn it into a finished video by the end of the next day if I can - as you know, I publish every week and its always something from that same week that Ive filmed - so its a pressure I have put on myself really. I guess its about 8 to 10 hours that I spend actually editing altogether. But, to compare with yours - mine are usually 15 to 20 minutes long in the end, occasionally a bit shorter or longer. But the raw footage usually only comes to about 60 minutes (90 at most). So I have much less to wade through (and cut) than you do - I must admire your fortitude! I use Cyberlink Power Director Suite 365, but I imagine most editing programs are about the same for ease of editing. It's hard to know what to do - I imagine many people will prefer your longer videos, but there's a risk others will just zip through, picking the bits that they feel will be of interest. I know the Amateur Boater channel has now started publishing normal and extended versions of each of his videos - but the longer versions definitely get fewer views. That said, a lot of his fans do like the longer (full) versions. You seem to be getting plenty of views anyway - and lots of nice comments / more subscribers - so your long hours in front of the computer do seem to be paying off! 👍👍👍
@@Gladysthenarrowboat yes and no. So I do have to stop quite a lot for taking shots of landmarks and some of the other things that take a while are multiple view shots. For instance on the Dartmoor to Dawlish ride, to get the multiple points of view crossing that first viaduct I had to cycle it and film it 3 times with different cameras which all eats into riding time. That said I do enjoy filming my rides, it adds to the experience and it’s nice to have something to look back on. I use Davinci Resolve these days which to some extent has a steep learning curve and quite a granular user interface which takes some getting used to. As for video length it’s a bit of an experiment for my channel right now. Not something I’m purposefully doing of course but the footage is naturally getting longer so I probably need to rein things in a bit. So much so I had to buy another memory card the other day. We shall see what happens.
Hiya, it was a Saturday morning starting in Bristol around 8.30am. My guess would be try a week day after the work commuter time as a lot of people use it to cycle between bristol and bath in both directions for work. So may be after 9.30am? Purely a guess though 🚴🏻♀️
Its Warner Brothers calling, can we sign you up? as you have now gone into feature length movies..... 😉 Nice ride , I've ridden most of that at different times. I like Bath and used to go quite regularly about 20 years ago, not so much now, although I was recently gifted a ticket to a Gig there and had a great night out.
Great ride and a great film too. Just sent a Strava request under my real name because I'm interested in doing part of this route and would like to see the elevation.
Thanks, very much! Catching up with approvals, hopefully it’s gone through for you. Let me know if the elevation isn’t on there, it should be but I know sometimes the link between Garmin and Strava restricts some data but I think it’s only heart rate and things like that.
@@MadisonTen Thank you. The mapping and elevation is all on there. I'm looking to get the train to somewhere I can ride through the tunnels and the back to Cardiff. I'v only only ever driven to Bath and the roads are pretty steep so I wanted to see if the bike trails were better. This is really helpful. Cheers
A train to Bath Spa will work for you as the tunnels aren’t too far from there, unless you do the loop of course. Just remember if any of the trains you use are GWR express trains you’ll need to book a space on that train at that time (it’s free). The last train I got to Temple Meads from Cardiff was the more commuter style and didn’t need a booking space. National Rail website will tell you if you search for a journey and click through to cycle policy.
Going from Bath to Bristol take a scenic short cut. Get off the cycle route at Bitton Station. Go to the main road turn left, ride along the pavement for a short way to the roundabout, turn left cycle along on the right hand side of the road along the pavement to a farm entrance where you'll see a footpath following the river. For a mile it's a pleasant walk or a bumpy ride until you come to a riverside pub. Follow the river from there to Bristol. It's a far more scenic and direct route
you should have ridden back along the river from Twerton (end of the two tunnels), rather than the horrible road! It'd've taken you to almost outside the station.
Thank you, that was great, beats looking for a film anyday...cycling is the answer...
Thanks, David. That’s really kind ☺️
A great ride out, glad it was dry for you great to see all these places thanks for sharing Madison 👏 👋
Thanks! Yes, lucky with the weather indeed!
Beautifully filmed. I did that loop on a Brompton the other week. Bit rough on the canal!
Yes, that bit going south away from Bath towards the aqueduct is pretty rough on a mountain bike let alone a Brompton! You did well ☺️🚴♀️ Thanks very much, appreciated.
Hi Madison. Sorry hun, i watched your video when you posted it 9 days ago but i got busy and forgot to comment on it. I will know after watch it again because all i can remember is ,what a nice day out it was.
Haha. Don’t worry. Never any pressure for these things ☺️🚴🏻♀️
Really enjoy the Two Tunnels very atmospheric when they have the music on in them. What a superb city Bath is to look around as well.
Yes, they've done such a good job getting that tunnel open. I don't think the music was on this time, I'm not sure why, it's been on all the other times I've been through. Yes, Bath is a very special place and so well preserved. Also a bit of a sun trap on a sunny day.
Nice video, Il be skating it next week 😃
Excellent! Hope it goes well. 🛹⛸🛼
Nice artistic camerawork around Bath, it went beyond a bike journey and became a interestingly silent observation.
Aw thanks very much. Thanks for ‘getting it’. ☺️🚴🏻♀️ really appreciated.
Very interesting ride not least because I am reading Laura Laker’s book Potholes and Pavements which is all about the NCN and of course Bristol-Bath was one of their first routes. Anyway was great to see what the ride looks like and will have to try it myself sometime.
Definitely try it if you can. Such a rewarding place to ride and can pick and choose which bit and how far you'd like to go.
Thanks Madeline, my local cycle track. My lives 200 yds from it. Brother lives 1/4 mile from it but his back on, no access from his house though. I stopped cycling coz of ill health. Glad to say I improving. It’s great following you as it’s the best thing to cycling myself, thanks again
Richard xx
Glad you’re improving and hope it continues to get better. Injuries and sickness can be so frustrating. You’re so lucky to have such a well kept cycle route on your door step. It’s one of my favourites and so many places you can get to. Take care.
My husband used to work at YOI Ashfield a few years ago and we used to cycle to Bath and Castle Coombe on his weekends off. Yet again another excellent video xxx
Is that near pucklechurch? I remember seeing the signs for pucklechurch when I used to live in Yate/Chipping back in the noughties. Castle Combe is another one I’ve written down but have yet to find a route that would work for me. Thanks Sheila x
@@MadisonTen It's in the village of Pucklechurch you have to feel sorry for the residents xx
Greetings from Australia. Enjoying your cycle rides. This one brings back some memories of locations I visited back in 2018. Your rides around South Wales more so having been born and bred in Neath before my parents emigrated in the late 60s. Keep up the great work!😊
And hello to you in Australia! 🇦🇺 Thanks. I very much enjoyed the last ride down Neath way, well Port Talbot last time, such a nice trail up the valley and of course a while ago up the Neath valley to the waterfalls. I sometimes wonder why it’s free to do these locations ☺️🚴🏻♀️
Another great ride with the weather to match.
Cheers
Thanks, Tony! ☺️🚴🏻♀️
Great ride Mads Thanks for sharing, That dog hearing the command stop was excellent. How do you know where your going without navigation...? I don't think that custard slice was very impressive..🤔
Yes that dog was very good, I spoke to the owner briefly. Such a nice dog. Well I’ve done the bristol to bath part a few times and it’s not too hard to get lost, around town I used Google Maps now and then or follow signs. The slice was a bit tough to cut, tasted nice though. I think I should have picked it up and just bitten it ☺️🤭🚴🏻♀️
Excellent piece, I was hoping to do much of this same route myself at some point and this has just told me that I need to. I must also say that I like the look of your bike, clean and well looked after. Are you happy with it?
Thanks! Brilliant, let me know how you get on if you manage to get there.
Yes, I love my bike and that’s probably why I clean and maintain it so much. Plus there is something nice about starting a new ride on a clean bike. It feels new again. ☺️🚴🏻♀️
Wow - another epic ride Madison (compared to what I do these days!), and a long video - plenty to see. As you know, I am a canal enthusiast - so loved the footage around the locks and the clink clink of the lock-gear when being used! Lovely grey wagtail too - I've not seen one myself for years ☹.
I would have had to go in that camera shop!😁👍
Thanks, Jeff. (Sorry another log one, chopped loads out of it but too much footage) ☺️ yes I love that clinic clinic sound. Canals and locks are all very new to me. I’ve only been riding them the last 2 years or so. Yes that was a lucky spot with the wagtail. Almost overlooked it.
@@MadisonTen A long one yes! And must have taken you a while editing it! Well done 👍 I think a mountain bike like yours is ideal for canal towpaths - as you never know what kind of surface you'll find around the next corner (as I'm sure you know by now!).Glad you spotted the wagtail. 😁
@@Gladysthenarrowboat I’m working on finding ways to speed up the editing process. The last video (reading - Hungerford) was about 35 - 40hours editing which is insane. I’ve found some things which meant this one didn’t take quite as long as working on some other things to help. May be I should do them more bite sized like yours ☺️🚴🏻♀️
@@MadisonTen My God Madison! That IS insane - you must have a LOT of patience! Mine are certainly bite-sized by comparison - just as you said! Mind you, that is partly due to our dreadful internet speed here - it takes ages just to upload a 20 minute film.
Our videos are quite different though - with mine, I tend to stop often and talk a load of gibberish to the camera, whereas in your's, you are covering a much longer distance on the bike and you obviously cant afford to stop and start so often in that case. And you don't stop to talk to the camera.
I tend to switch the GoPros on and off regularly when out filming - and usually turn it into a finished video by the end of the next day if I can - as you know, I publish every week and its always something from that same week that Ive filmed - so its a pressure I have put on myself really. I guess its about 8 to 10 hours that I spend actually editing altogether. But, to compare with yours - mine are usually 15 to 20 minutes long in the end, occasionally a bit shorter or longer. But the raw footage usually only comes to about 60 minutes (90 at most). So I have much less to wade through (and cut) than you do - I must admire your fortitude!
I use Cyberlink Power Director Suite 365, but I imagine most editing programs are about the same for ease of editing.
It's hard to know what to do - I imagine many people will prefer your longer videos, but there's a risk others will just zip through, picking the bits that they feel will be of interest. I know the Amateur Boater channel has now started publishing normal and extended versions of each of his videos - but the longer versions definitely get fewer views. That said, a lot of his fans do like the longer (full) versions.
You seem to be getting plenty of views anyway - and lots of nice comments / more subscribers - so your long hours in front of the computer do seem to be paying off! 👍👍👍
@@Gladysthenarrowboat yes and no. So I do have to stop quite a lot for taking shots of landmarks and some of the other things that take a while are multiple view shots. For instance on the Dartmoor to Dawlish ride, to get the multiple points of view crossing that first viaduct I had to cycle it and film it 3 times with different cameras which all eats into riding time. That said I do enjoy filming my rides, it adds to the experience and it’s nice to have something to look back on.
I use Davinci Resolve these days which to some extent has a steep learning curve and quite a granular user interface which takes some getting used to.
As for video length it’s a bit of an experiment for my channel right now. Not something I’m purposefully doing of course but the footage is naturally getting longer so I probably need to rein things in a bit. So much so I had to buy another memory card the other day. We shall see what happens.
What day of the week did you ride this please. Like the route but a bit too busy for me.
Hiya, it was a Saturday morning starting in Bristol around 8.30am. My guess would be try a week day after the work commuter time as a lot of people use it to cycle between bristol and bath in both directions for work. So may be after 9.30am? Purely a guess though 🚴🏻♀️
Its Warner Brothers calling, can we sign you up? as you have now gone into feature length movies..... 😉
Nice ride , I've ridden most of that at different times.
I like Bath and used to go quite regularly about 20 years ago, not so much now, although I was recently gifted a ticket to a Gig there and had a great night out.
Haha, thanks! 🤭
Yes it’s a fab place, especially when there is something going on there and it can be quite a sun trap on a nice day.
Great ride and a great film too. Just sent a Strava request under my real name because I'm interested in doing part of this route and would like to see the elevation.
Thanks, very much! Catching up with approvals, hopefully it’s gone through for you. Let me know if the elevation isn’t on there, it should be but I know sometimes the link between Garmin and Strava restricts some data but I think it’s only heart rate and things like that.
@@MadisonTen Thank you. The mapping and elevation is all on there. I'm looking to get the train to somewhere I can ride through the tunnels and the back to Cardiff. I'v only only ever driven to Bath and the roads are pretty steep so I wanted to see if the bike trails were better. This is really helpful. Cheers
A train to Bath Spa will work for you as the tunnels aren’t too far from there, unless you do the loop of course. Just remember if any of the trains you use are GWR express trains you’ll need to book a space on that train at that time (it’s free). The last train I got to Temple Meads from Cardiff was the more commuter style and didn’t need a booking space. National Rail website will tell you if you search for a journey and click through to cycle policy.
@@MadisonTen Great advice, thank you
Going from Bath to Bristol take a scenic short cut. Get off the cycle route at Bitton Station. Go to the main road turn left, ride along the pavement for a short way to the roundabout, turn left cycle along on the right hand side of the road along the pavement to a farm entrance where you'll see a footpath following the river. For a mile it's a pleasant walk or a bumpy ride until you come to a riverside pub. Follow the river from there to Bristol. It's a far more scenic and direct route
Thanks, a brilliant suggestion. I think I’ll have to try it out next time I plan a ride down there! ☺️🚴🏻♀️
@MadisonTen sorry when you get out of the station turn right towards Bristol not left at the main road
So basically heading towards the Avon?
@MadisonTen get off the cycle route 4 at Bitton then follow the river going west along Monarchs way going into Bristol
you should have ridden back along the river from Twerton (end of the two tunnels), rather than the horrible road! It'd've taken you to almost outside the station.
Thanks very much. I’ll remember that for next time. 🚴🏻♀️
Poo.. if I'd known we could've hooked up 😊
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