Having now done the KAW and watched your RUclips video again, I am even more impressed by your brilliant video. I borrowed a GoPro for the first time to try and capture our trip and now appreciate even more your superb skills with the camera work and editing. I now watch your film to bring back great memories of our trip.
Thanks for your comments. Yes, the filming did take a lot of time. However, when you are on your own, you can mess about without annoying others. Also I did take a week, for the trip, but I enjoy the filming - gives another thing to focus on. Glad you enjoyed the KAW, I certainly did.
Really enjoyed watching this, itching to do the route sometime soon with some cycling buddies, probably over a couple of weekends or so. Thanks for sharing!
It’s a great route, don’t believe the gmbn hype about a it being more suited to gravel bikes than mountain bikes, there’s some pretty fast and gnarly dh sections that they never show them doing on their gravel bikes and we were very glad of our mbs when we did it. Had two blowouts on the flint sections, wouldn’t have liked that on a gravel bike! XCs are perfect for it, and you’ll have far more fun on the dh segments
Great film! This really gives a feel for the King Alfreds Way, in exactly the way i'd like to do it - chilled, stopping for coffee, taking in the views. Definitely on my list!
Great video! Lovely shots, music and no narration, my kind of video! Looking forwards to trying this hopefully in the early autumn. Looks like you lucked out with the weather too!
Hi - Thanks- glad you liked it. The weather was brilliant - possibly too hot even to start with. No narration seems to work best when the film is fast moving and short. Hope your trip comes together later in the year - enjoy!
As you were doing this I was cycling the Pilgrims' Way from Winchester to Canterbury and am also in the process of creating a few videos and blog posts about it. My girlfriend and I are planning to do the King Alfred's Way this year (2021) as the lock-down restrictions ease and weather improves. We have found the route in Komoot, but if you can share yours that would be appreciated. We are hoping to do this in 5 days, but maybe that is wishful thinking (I am not in the best of shapes).
This gave me a great sense of the overall loop, the terrain, the track conditions - thank you! Were there any particular highlights, in terms of views, or pubs/cafes, or camping spots?
Thanks. The objective was to give an overall flavour of the ride in less than 10 minutes. I pretty much enjoyed it all. I would add that the Frensham area is well worth doing- even if it is an obvious place to make short cuts if tight for time.
Pubs - the flowerpots in Cheriton is a must, fantastic beer and beer garden and great food all at very reasonable prices. The bridge inn in upper Woodford does great outside oven pizza. The shoe inn in Exton is also very nice, if a bit pricey. Slightly off the route there is the Coppa club in sonning on the river Thames just past Reading. There’s a ton of pubs in wantage, birthplace of king Alfred, including the king Alfred’s head. The greyhound inn in letcombe Regis does really good food, again on the more expensive side. The court hill centre in letcombe basset is more of a cafe but very cyclists friendly and does amazing home made ice cream. The ridgeway on the north side is more hilly and rocky but very chalky, since it was all once under the sea bed. The eastern side and Salisbury plain is flatter and more cross country. The southern part along the South Downs way has lots of narrow single track with hedges and bushes and trees on either side, interspersed with hill, flinty sections. It’s all quite varied and a fantastic part of the country, with very welcoming people
Great vid, ive just dipped my toe into the bikepack thing by doing the ridgeway, really loved it, especially the hammock stop in some quiet copse. Your gear "looks" ace, beats my cable tie set up😂. How where the panier things on the rutted parts?. Nice film
Thanks. I'm planning to ride this next month so that's a useful preview of the tracks and trails. I'm assuming there are many places you can make overnight camp unobtrusively?
Thanks. I went in October. Large industrial farms, post harvest - farm staff have no need to visit fields. Might be different in spring though with lambs, calves and young crops. Also you need to carry water - only 'wild' source is cattle troughs so you will need a good filter.
Thanks. It is a populated area, so you would have thought so and in reality, you can always detour off route slightly. I was self contained but will always welcome a cafe, but was surprised how few there were, certainly in the first section of the ride.
Great video, thanks for posting it. What was your bike setup, especially the rear luggage? I’m looking at using my MTB for off road touring and need to sort the luggage and I particularly like panniers. Cheers. 👍
Thx. Glad you liked it. The rack was from Evans Cycles. Not sure if the brand but was disc brake specific. Seems quite robust, alloy. The panniers are from Vaude bike packing range. They are front panniers so are smaller.. just done an 800 mile off road trip with the same setup. No issues.
Thanks Simon - RUclips pick up the copyright but are ok with it as long as you don't monetise the video, which I can't anyway without a commercial drone license. I would imagine that from the point of view of the music artist, as long as the video is ok, exposing people to their work will only encourage them to download the tracks.
Krull-Film Thanks. I must have setting wrong on mine as keep getting my video soundtracks rejected for even the shortest of family films. 🤦♂️ Again, great film and adventure. Chapeau
Thanks Ben - I downloaded the GPX route file from the CyclingUK webpage and loaded it onto a Garmin Explore for turn by turn navigation. The route is not waymarked, so you would otherwise have to look at the map every 5 minutes.
Excellent film. Looking forward to conquering this myself. One question, how did you secure your bike when wild-camping, and was it easy to find places?
Wild camping was easy. Large industrial farms with little human presence. Harvest was in so fields were empty. No need to lock your bike as you should be out of sight. Hope you trip goes well👍
If you’re really worried about this you can get tents which use your bike frame a the tent frame, the front wheel at one end and the rest of the bike at the other. If you’re wild camping in England you’ll be stealth camping though so shouldn’t really be an issue
Thanks so much for filming and sharing this. I am planning on riding this during April 2021 over 4 days and plan on starting and finishing in Salisbury. I see you wild camped. Did you have any trouble finding suitable spots along the way? Can you also tell me what drone you were using? Thanks
Thanks. I personally thought the wild camping was easy - lots of places to discreetly tuck yourself away just off the path. Hope your trip works out OK in spring - we could all benefit from stretching our wings a bit! The drone was a DJI Mavic Air 2
Great video! Looks like a fantastic trip. I'm planning to do the route when lockdown ends and would love to ask some questions. Is there some way to contact you?
Hi Daniel -Thanks - Not sure if that can be done via RUclips. But TBH, the best place to ask KAW questions is via the Facebook group - King Alfred's Way (Official Group) - facebook.com/groups/kingalfredswayofficial/?multi_permalinks=353384589133492 I can chip in to any query you post and others will give a different perspective too.
Hoped to do this this year, didn’t quite get it together... I live in Winchester so lots of deja-vu from the shots around here (made slightly weirder by the slight creative license vs strict chronological order in the editing occasionally) 😀
Thanks for comments. I suspect few out of sequence clips might not be artistic license! Hope you enjoy it, given the right weather it is a stunner of a ride.
Thanks. Yes. If you go to the CyclingUK website (who created the ride), you can get the guide book and download the GPX route. I had never explored the area before so the guidebook was handy.
@@krull57 Did you get the book? The one one their site is a bit different to the one you can get if you buy the book apparently, guess both are good though.
Thanks Tony. Nearly all other people I met were on gravel bikes. It was dry so the chalk wasn't slimy in the first part.. However seemed to have problems with 'digging in' in the sandy areas. I could have taken something more akin to a gravel bike but was glad I didn't in the end. The MTB has 2.8" tyres and was certainly a lot more comfortable - though not as fast. Also I was on my own, with no-one to help if I fell off, so the added security of MTB knobblies wasn't amiss.
@@lucamagnanensiwild camping is legal in Scotland by the way just don't do it right in front of people's houses lol still best to stay out of view to not spoil things for others.
@@krull57 in the true nature of wild camping! What's your tent btw? Looks a great upgrade to the tiny one man tent I have, looks like you have room to sit up in there!
Thx. It certainly is - nearly everyone else I met was on a gravel bike and the route was devised as a gravel bike route. There are advantages in taking a MTB. Not least the better grip, comfort and wider tyres don't dig in on the sandy sections. The CyclingUK website has more advice if you are tempted.
Glad you liked the video. Sorry you don't like the music. With the video being so fast moving with very short individual clips, it helps tie it all together otherwise it can appear jerky. I also rarely add dialogue.
Glad to have joined you along your pilgrimage.
Hope to follow in your bikesteps 2023.
Thanks- it was a great route.
Here's to summer 2023!👍
Well done , good video and motivation. Planning to be there soon.
Many thanks
Excellent- hope you enjoy it have the right weather you!
Lovely video. Great soundtrack. Thank you.
I am doing this first week of May 2024. Possibly solo.
Having now done the KAW and watched your RUclips video again, I am even more impressed by your brilliant video. I borrowed a GoPro for the first time to try and capture our trip and now appreciate even more your superb skills with the camera work and editing. I now watch your film to bring back great memories of our trip.
Thanks for your comments. Yes, the filming did take a lot of time. However, when you are on your own, you can mess about without annoying others. Also I did take a week, for the trip, but I enjoy the filming - gives another thing to focus on. Glad you enjoyed the KAW, I certainly did.
Thoroughly enjoyed watching this. Thank you so much for making the effort to film this and share it! 😊
Glad you enjoyed it!
Superb film, thank you!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.
Really enjoyed watching this, itching to do the route sometime soon with some cycling buddies, probably over a couple of weekends or so. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks- Glad you enjoyed it and it gave you a taster - If I could give any advice it would be to take time enough to enjoy it!
It’s a great route, don’t believe the gmbn hype about a it being more suited to gravel bikes than mountain bikes, there’s some pretty fast and gnarly dh sections that they never show them doing on their gravel bikes and we were very glad of our mbs when we did it. Had two blowouts on the flint sections, wouldn’t have liked that on a gravel bike! XCs are perfect for it, and you’ll have far more fun on the dh segments
Great film. I’m looking to do similar later this year all being well, so found this really useful.
Thanks- hope all goes to plan for you. It's a great ride!
Great vid, thanks for sharing.
Thanks - glad you enjoyed it.
Great film! This really gives a feel for the King Alfreds Way, in exactly the way i'd like to do it - chilled, stopping for coffee, taking in the views. Definitely on my list!
Thanks Rick. Yes , I did it as a weeks holiday rather than a short challenge ride. Still hard work though!
Thanks, would certainly love to visit Canada!
Thanks, would certainly love to visit Canada!
Thanks for the great video, awesome adventure 👍
Thanks David 👍
Lovely. Did this last year and had a great time. Thanks for bringing back the memories!
Thanks. Yes, it is a great ride. One of my favorites👍
Brilliant video - a ride on my bucket list
Hope you manage to do it and enjoy it as much as I did!
Thoroughly enjoyable...!
Thanks. Glad you liked it.
Wicked video mate! Loved it
Thanks - I had such a great time!
Wow thank you for those moments - I hope to do some of that, one summer.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it - roll on next summer - I hope it works out for you.
Great video! Lovely shots, music and no narration, my kind of video! Looking forwards to trying this hopefully in the early autumn. Looks like you lucked out with the weather too!
Hi - Thanks- glad you liked it. The weather was brilliant - possibly too hot even to start with. No narration seems to work best when the film is fast moving and short. Hope your trip comes together later in the year - enjoy!
What a fab adventure & cool video! Loved your choice of music & how the song’s words tied in to the pictures, Well done!
Thanks David - Glad you picked up the words/music link- can't say it was intentional from the outset!
What a great achievement, especially solo.I'm inspired. Lovely choice of music to accompany film.
Thanks - i would certainly recommend it if you fancy a go. I took my time and I think that made all the difference.
This ride is on my bucket list. I'd start at reading easier for me to get too.
Great video cracking music thanks
Thanks - glad you liked it!
Man on a spiritual journey :)
👌
Nice ride, looking forward to taking a few days out next year. Route looks awesome. Fantastic video😊👍
Thanks James - route was excellent. Hats off to Cycling UK
Recently wrote an article about this trail. This video is amazing! Great choice of music too. Happy days :)
Thsnks. It is a great ride. Has your article been published? I'd be interested to read it...
Nice video, looks like you had a great trip. I got to do half of it on another trip, can’t wait to go out and do the rest, it looks great 👍🏻
Certainly worth doing the rest 👍
Great little film!! Thanks
Thanks for watching!
Really enjoyed watching! All goes well, i'll be riding this route sept next year.
Nice - September is a good time, especially with a bit of an Indian Summer. Hope you enjoy it!
Hope you’re on your way
Looks amazing 😍
Thx - I had a great time - recommend it.
I enjoyed the film and especially the music!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.
Greta Video, thanks for sharing. Really looking forward to doing this...... hopefully this year!
Thanks - it was a lovely ride, hope you enjoy it too.
Great. Thanks for lovely video
Thanks - glad you enjoyed it.
that was a really enjoyable video! iv done bike back packing in new forest last week, wanna get out and do more!
Thanks- go for it! Perfect time of year.
Great film - inspires me to do it later this year
Thanks- it's an excellent ride. Hope you enjoy it.
Really brilliant video. Looking forward to it some time this year
Thanks Darren - hope you were as lucky as I was with the weather.
@@krull57 3 and a bit weeks now. This is still my favourite KAW video 🙂
Excellent- have fun! Best advice I can give is don't rush it!
Beautiful video! You would love cycling and camping in British Columbia!
Maybe one day!
This is a really cool video, even gave me some Hobbit or LOTR vibes, extra point for that.
Keep on rocking
Thanks - glad you liked it.
A really nice video! Looks like a wonderful route as well. I mean who wouldn't want to do that?
Thanks - I think the route is one of the best I have done.
Inspirational!
Thanks Michael
Awesome!
Thanks!
Akto Man! Nice video. I'm doing KAW next summer but B&Bing it rather than wild camping.
Thx. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
Great video, I am doing the route when lockdown eases, not sure I have the balls to do all wild camping yet though!
Hope you enjoy it. I would certainly recommend it. I was lucky with dry weather which was a big bonus. Good luck.
Great 👍
Thanks!
nice story............greetings from croatia
Thanks and hello to Croatia!
Nice vid
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.
As you were doing this I was cycling the Pilgrims' Way from Winchester to Canterbury and am also in the process of creating a few videos and blog posts about it. My girlfriend and I are planning to do the King Alfred's Way this year (2021) as the lock-down restrictions ease and weather improves. We have found the route in Komoot, but if you can share yours that would be appreciated. We are hoping to do this in 5 days, but maybe that is wishful thinking (I am not in the best of shapes).
Hope you enjoy it!
The gpx route can downloaded from the cycling uk website:
www.cyclinguk.org/route/king-alfreds-way-gpx-route
Excellent video. Brilliant drone footage. How on earth do you do that? So professional. I am doing the KAW next week and just loved your film
I cheated - the drone has a follow me function!
This gave me a great sense of the overall loop, the terrain, the track conditions - thank you! Were there any particular highlights, in terms of views, or pubs/cafes, or camping spots?
Thanks. The objective was to give an overall flavour of the ride in less than 10 minutes. I pretty much enjoyed it all. I would add that the Frensham area is well worth doing- even if it is an obvious place to make short cuts if tight for time.
Pubs - the flowerpots in Cheriton is a must, fantastic beer and beer garden and great food all at very reasonable prices. The bridge inn in upper Woodford does great outside oven pizza. The shoe inn in Exton is also very nice, if a bit pricey. Slightly off the route there is the Coppa club in sonning on the river Thames just past Reading. There’s a ton of pubs in wantage, birthplace of king Alfred, including the king Alfred’s head. The greyhound inn in letcombe Regis does really good food, again on the more expensive side. The court hill centre in letcombe basset is more of a cafe but very cyclists friendly and does amazing home made ice cream.
The ridgeway on the north side is more hilly and rocky but very chalky, since it was all once under the sea bed. The eastern side and Salisbury plain is flatter and more cross country. The southern part along the South Downs way has lots of narrow single track with hedges and bushes and trees on either side, interspersed with hill, flinty sections. It’s all quite varied and a fantastic part of the country, with very welcoming people
Great vid, ive just dipped my toe into the bikepack thing by doing the ridgeway, really loved it, especially the hammock stop in some quiet copse. Your gear "looks" ace, beats my cable tie set up😂. How where the panier things on the rutted parts?. Nice film
Thanks.
The bikepacking luggage is by Vaude. It helps to use eleastic at the bottom of the panniers to reduce them rattling.
@@krull57 cheers
Thanks. I'm planning to ride this next month so that's a useful preview of the tracks and trails. I'm assuming there are many places you can make overnight camp unobtrusively?
Thanks. I went in October. Large industrial farms, post harvest - farm staff have no need to visit fields. Might be different in spring though with lambs, calves and young crops. Also you need to carry water - only 'wild' source is cattle troughs so you will need a good filter.
Very enjoyable taster to the route, well done. Would you say there is fairly easy access to cafe's and pubs on route?
Thanks. It is a populated area, so you would have thought so and in reality, you can always detour off route slightly. I was self contained but will always welcome a cafe, but was surprised how few there were, certainly in the first section of the ride.
Where did you do the wild camping? Looked like a really fun journey, I will probably do this route in the near future! Thanks for sharing!
We don't choose places in advance - just look for somewhere when the time is right. Arrive late, leave early, leave no trace,
Sold.
👍
Great video, thanks for posting it. What was your bike setup, especially the rear luggage? I’m looking at using my MTB for off road touring and need to sort the luggage and I particularly like panniers. Cheers. 👍
Thx. Glad you liked it. The rack was from Evans Cycles. Not sure if the brand but was disc brake specific. Seems quite robust, alloy.
The panniers are from Vaude bike packing range. They are front panniers so are smaller.. just done an 800 mile off road trip with the same setup. No issues.
Great film and adventure. Thanks for sharing. By the way, how do you add commercial songs like that without getting blocked by RUclips?
Thanks Simon - RUclips pick up the copyright but are ok with it as long as you don't monetise the video, which I can't anyway without a commercial drone license. I would imagine that from the point of view of the music artist, as long as the video is ok, exposing people to their work will only encourage them to download the tracks.
Krull-Film Thanks. I must have setting wrong on mine as keep getting my video soundtracks rejected for even the shortest of family films. 🤦♂️ Again, great film and adventure. Chapeau
That was a great video, thank you for sharing. My desire to the route on my xc bike has greatly increased! Can I ask what you used as route guide?
Thanks Ben - I downloaded the GPX route file from the CyclingUK webpage and loaded it onto a Garmin Explore for turn by turn navigation. The route is not waymarked, so you would otherwise have to look at the map every 5 minutes.
You can use Komoot as well
I’d like to try that one day. Looks fun. Are there any good books for the King Alfred’s way?
Great inspirational video.
What make are those fork cages?
Thanks.
Thanks Tony - Topeak Versacages - they are quite well built in plastic, but I prefer them to the alloy cage ones I used before.
Thanks Krull-Film, they look to be just what I need 👍
Excellent film. Looking forward to conquering this myself. One question, how did you secure your bike when wild-camping, and was it easy to find places?
Wild camping was easy. Large industrial farms with little human presence. Harvest was in so fields were empty.
No need to lock your bike as you should be out of sight.
Hope you trip goes well👍
If you’re really worried about this you can get tents which use your bike frame a the tent frame, the front wheel at one end and the rest of the bike at the other. If you’re wild camping in England you’ll be stealth camping though so shouldn’t really be an issue
Thanks so much for filming and sharing this. I am planning on riding this during April 2021 over 4 days and plan on starting and finishing in Salisbury. I see you wild camped. Did you have any trouble finding suitable spots along the way?
Can you also tell me what drone you were using?
Thanks
Thanks. I personally thought the wild camping was easy - lots of places to discreetly tuck yourself away just off the path. Hope your trip works out OK in spring - we could all benefit from stretching our wings a bit! The drone was a DJI Mavic Air 2
@Krull-Film Thanks. You’ve put my mind at rest regarding the wild camping 👍
Great video! Looks like a fantastic trip. I'm planning to do the route when lockdown ends and would love to ask some questions. Is there some way to contact you?
Hi Daniel -Thanks - Not sure if that can be done via RUclips. But TBH, the best place to ask KAW questions is via the Facebook group - King Alfred's Way (Official Group) - facebook.com/groups/kingalfredswayofficial/?multi_permalinks=353384589133492
I can chip in to any query you post and others will give a different perspective too.
Lockdown was the best time to do this
Hoped to do this this year, didn’t quite get it together... I live in Winchester so lots of deja-vu from the shots around here (made slightly weirder by the slight creative license vs strict chronological order in the editing occasionally) 😀
Or maybe that’s my mind playing tricks.
Thanks for comments. I suspect few out of sequence clips might not be artistic license! Hope you enjoy it, given the right weather it is a stunner of a ride.
Excellent vid mate, did you use a guidebook?
Thanks. Yes. If you go to the CyclingUK website (who created the ride), you can get the guide book and download the GPX route. I had never explored the area before so the guidebook was handy.
@@krull57 cheers
Hi. What is the introductory music to this? I know the 2nd piece - Peter Gabriel 👍
Hi. My Silver Lining by First Aid Kit. From the album Stay Gold. A favorite of mine.
Brilliant video mate. I’m planning on doing this route soon. Could I ask how you navigated, were you following a gps route or making up as you went?
Thanks. It is the official cyclinguk route. i downloaded the gpx file from their site and used a garmin to navigate.
@@krull57 Did you get the book? The one one their site is a bit different to the one you can get if you buy the book apparently, guess both are good though.
Really enjoyed the video, what are your thoughts regards doing the route on a gravel bike? Cheers
Thanks Tony. Nearly all other people I met were on gravel bikes. It was dry so the chalk wasn't slimy in the first part.. However seemed to have problems with 'digging in' in the sandy areas. I could have taken something more akin to a gravel bike but was glad I didn't in the end. The MTB has 2.8" tyres and was certainly a lot more comfortable - though not as fast. Also I was on my own, with no-one to help if I fell off, so the added security of MTB knobblies wasn't amiss.
Guy Kesteven did it on a gravel bike when the route was first launched. Think he rode it in 3 days, video is on YT
How was the wild camping? Thinking of pitching up somewhere around wantage
Wild camping was fine. It was October, so plenty of post harvest stubble fields.
Is it legal and safe to wild camp in this area?
It is not legal but plenty do. Arrive late, leave early, leave no trace and be discreet.
@@krull57 Ok thank you, same as in Italy
@@lucamagnanensiwild camping is legal in Scotland by the way just don't do it right in front of people's houses lol still best to stay out of view to not spoil things for others.
Hi, great vid, we’re did you pitch camp
Thanks Tom. Wild camped on all nights except the Premiere Inn night. I just looked out for somewhere quiet and suitable when the time was right.
@@krull57 in the true nature of wild camping! What's your tent btw? Looks a great upgrade to the tiny one man tent I have, looks like you have room to sit up in there!
@@booldawg It's a Hilleberg Akto - 11 years old, loads of use and still going strong.
Hi how did you navigate by map or GPX file ?
Hi.
Cyclinguk's gpx file on a Garmin.
@@krull57 Ok thanks
Good video (but really didn't like the choice of soundtrack I have to say! lol)
Glad you liked the video......if not the music🙃
Where do you find the route ?
You can download it (and buy the guidebook) from the CyclingUK website.
It's a new official route
Nice! Is it do-able on a gravelbike?
Thx. It certainly is - nearly everyone else I met was on a gravel bike and the route was devised as a gravel bike route. There are advantages in taking a MTB. Not least the better grip, comfort and wider tyres don't dig in on the sandy sections. The CyclingUK website has more advice if you are tempted.
8:17 I always wonder what idiots do this sort of thing... seen it in my local park as well. They should be arrested. (unless it's fallen naturally)
I am fairly sure it was a wind fall. There were a few like that. Fortunately, never came across anything malicious.
Nice but please no music. Video is fine without it.
Glad you liked the video. Sorry you don't like the music. With the video being so fast moving with very short individual clips, it helps tie it all together otherwise it can appear jerky. I also rarely add dialogue.
@@krull57i enjoyed the music it worked well and I got to learn about first aid kit! Mute option is there for others