So happy to be seeing Chris again. He's been one of my favourite characters in these videos forever. Reason I should win the garmin: I've got garmin pedals, garmin watch, garmin varia, but a wahoo bike computer. Help me be on all garmin
When lockdown started i turned to cycling as my means to keep fit and get out of the house. Bikes have changed a lot in the 30-odd years since i last rode! Finding this channel really helped me understand what needed to get the most from my time on the bike, whilst also introducing me to a raft of new 'lockdown friends'! I would love the Garmin head unit as i still dont have one, and it only a matter of time until i drop my phone while trying to check the route out! Keep up the excellent videos
Adding a speaker to my bike setup had been my favorite addition by far. I would like the Garmin as I want to recomend the Bose Microsoundlink as an amazing speaker for bikes. Its got a great punchy sound, straps perfectly on the handlebars and is 100% waterproof (I complely submerged mine when it was playing by falling out a of a kayak and it was fine!) Speakers are less dangourous than headphones and I often listen to podcasts or audiobooks on long tours
Hi Francis, loving the videos. I have been a long-time supporter of the backpacking trips such as Vietnam, and would really like to do something like that one day. I would Love the Garmin as I'm attempting my first ride abroad in the summer to Paris from the UK. The ride will help to raise money for the charities Mind and The Alzheimers Society. Currently, I use Komoot on my phone so it would be nice to have something that shows me where I'm going at all times without having to stop, especially when riding outside the UK. Keep up the great work with the Channel and Wild. Kind regards, Will
Love the content, always a good watch. I've been trying to get more regular in my cycling over the last 2 years and having a Garmin with longer battery and easy recording of ride stats would make all the difference to motivation and reward at the start and end of a ride
Head units are such a game changing piece of kit and garmin make great ones. My dad’s now into cycling and would love to give him this so he can explore new roads and adventures.
Great content as always! Can't wait to get out to Europe and enjoy these amazing roads! Checking in from Miami, FL! Would love the Garmin since about two months ago i was hit by a vehicle and lost bicycle and all my components. I have just got a bike literally two days ago and have finally started riding again but as we all cyclist know. Things are expensive. So this would greatly assist me getting back to getting on the saddle and getting those miles! Good Luck Everyone!
The Garmin 830 would be an excellent addition to my arsenal of early morning safety/navigation/data collecting/training ride computer set up. Being a father of 3 little kids, working full time, and trying to be the best husband I can, it leaves the wee hours in the morning before the sun comes up for training. My current set up is quite antiquated and a hodge podge of lights, computers, sensors and more. The efficiency that the Garmin 830, paired with the Varia, would be the stuff of legends. Not only will it be the dream training tool, but get me home safely. Thanks for giving one of these away!! Keep Living The Dream (#LTD). Appreciate it!!
The trip looks amazing, I need to do something like this in the near future. I'd love to win the Garmin so I can give it to my wife and stop her worrying about getting lost every time she goes on her bike 🙂
I love exploring with my bike and getting lost especially here in Cape Town but also far away. Having a GPS allows me to get more lost and then find my way back home while having an absolute blast. Since my Wahoo just stopped working and there is no support (not even for a repair) to get it up and running again, its time to give a Garmin a go. And the 830 looks like it will make exploring such a joy again! Thanks for your fantastic content Francis! Happy riding!
I’ve been following your blogs for a while now and has been my primary encouragement to bike pack! The Garmin would greatly help getting around instead of relying on cell phone and cell phone coverage.
French lad here who'd love to get his hands on the Garmin 830 for it to be the tiny push he needs to finally become a little more diligent in his practice of the soon-to-become greatest sport ever 🚴 (rugby still barely holding the top position 😜 thanks to me dad's passion that passed on to his boi)! Keep up the good work Francis, love your channel!
Caught the cycling bug about two years back and am gradually trying to kit myself out fully for amazing rides. I’m heading to Pollença/Alcúdia in the summer and would love to have the Garmin to track my rides and give myself and my father in law our routes for the days we’re out on the bikes!!! Love your work mate. Keep it up.
Hey Francis, been a long term subscriber and you've unspired me to start bikepacking. i was at tour down under when you visied the Rapha club house looking very cooked from the South Aussie Heat. I've just completed my MBA this monring and the plan was to emulate your Vietnam trip as a celebration, but COVID put a stop to that. In two weeks heading out on an Aussie bush bash bike packing trip and just purchased the seatpost extender to make the brand spanking new tailfin fit more comfortably. thank you to you, Daisy and all your friends for inspiring me to get out and get adventurous. The garmin would be a great additon to the setup, regardless keep up the great work!!
Hey Francis, lovely to see you two back on the road again! Spain, the mountains, the coast, everything looks so beautiful, especially on the bike - as I can only imagine, cause I’ve never been to Spain yet. I’m covering your channel only 3-4 months now! You’re one of the persons that inspired me to get into road cycling but bike packing mainly. I’m riding my Rondo RUUT AL wich is a lovely good and beginner friendly gravel bike. I’m from the baltic sea in Germany and I only have been on some small day trips yet, because of winter, but I’m planning a full 7 days bike trip through all of Germany this summer, so the Garmin would be super helpful with that! Enjoy your stay in spain & keep riding!
Hi Francis! After commuting for over a year to work in Leeds on my very old second-hand bike (which eventually fell apart), I bought my first ever new bike last month. With this new bike, I'm getting the confidence to go on longer rides exploring the Yorkshire dales. I've signed up for a few bicycle maintenance classes. and have been watching bike packing and bike videos non-stop, and yours especially have inspired me to go out more (your Vietnam series is my personal favourite). I don't have any friends that cycle, and so having the Garmin device would be an amazing tool to help me not get lost! I would also love to be able to track my progress, as getting fitter is a side-goal I have with cycling as well. Many thanks for putting out consistently brilliant videos, and I look forward to the rest of your Spain series. Thank you ! - Anna :)
I have just completed my first century ride (100 miles) yesterday thanks to your channel! You have motivate me beyond belief. I’m now starting to plan my first bike packing trip and a Garmin bike computer is on my list of necessities. Would love to ride with Garmin. Keep up the awesome content! Be safe, have fun!
I absolutely love the bike. it looks amazing. I am a 17 year old avid cyclist, who has just funded a second hand bike. At the moment i use komoot with earbuds in to direct and track my cycling trips. I race for my schools HPV (human powered vehicle) team. A garmin head unit would be amazing giving me the freedom to train better, safer cycling with no earbuds in, navigation to go to new places and explore and help during races to see my heartrate and speed. It would honestly mean the world to me. Thanks so much for this opportunity. Love this series.
Thanks for documenting this bike packing trip as it allows me to dream of how it could be when our Canadian winter ends 🥶. When I can remount on my bike I could record all my data with a new Garmin computer 👍🏻
Thanks for the great videos. I continue to learn a lot from them. They've inspired me to get out on some of my own bikepacking adventures and start to dabble in ultra distance racing. I've discovered I really enjoy it and so I have set my sights on racing the Tour Divide in 2023. A Garmin 830 would be a dream head unit and navigation tool for me on the TD. Garmins base maps are the best out there. And I know it will work. My training involves massive time on the bike so having the ability to add a Varia and have the rear radar is a huge safety bonus for me. Keep up the great videos. Keep inspiring.
Great to see you and Chris on the road again. I’d love a Garmin head unit as I’ve never had one and always relied on my phone, which I’m sure you’ll know has many drawbacks! Enjoy the rest of your trip guys!
I would love the Garmin. Finally, not getting lost anymore and bonking on a 3h ride, because I packed food for a 1 1/2h ride :) Love your content, keep it up. It inspires a lot of new cyclists, like me!
I started roadbiking during the pandemic and am loving it. Due to the cost of cycling being quite high and living on a students budget, I currently use my phone to navigate. Having a real headunit would allow me to go further and have more information about my rides which would assist me in becoming a better cyclist.
Loving the video by years now. The bike fit videos are super useful. They're my favourites. Nice to see Chris back. I always used garmin on my wrist to track my fitness but i never had a head unit and would be great to have one to improve my riding. Cheers from Italy
I was one of the people asking about the Varia + Tailfin combo. I ended up on a different setup to you; I actually bought the Tailfin "seatpost mimic" mount, but it doesn't play that well with the Varia mount, it ends up at a weird angle and it feels like it might just slide off. I think this is mostly down to the design of the Varia mount rather than the Tailfin. I ended up putting it on one of the Tailfin legs using one of the other rubber fittings that came with the Varia. Wouldn't work well with panniers but it worked okay for me with fork bags as mini panniers. Stayed pretty secure over a six day bikepacking trip with a fair bit of gravel so I'd recommend it. Given it's not the most visible thing down there, I also had a light clipped to the back of the Tailfin. I wish I was bikepacking in Spain right now!
Garmin 830 - because my daughter just got her first road bike and needs a computer. Thanks for the tour of your bike and especially showing how you attach the Varia.
Hi Francis, the garmin 830 has a number of amazing features, including navigation and workout plans. Would love to put those features to use to develop my cycling and have more fun out in the road. As always keep up the great work.
We have a JBL Clip 3 like that. Long battery life, plenty loud, compact design. We love it. I'd love to have that Garmin 830. My current old small Garmin does a good job, but I'd like to have the better nav features of a more modern unit. We have some bikepacking and gravel routes around where the nav would be so helpful.
I am a rookie to cycling, and I am one of your best fans, as I always watch your videos within 1 to 5 hours from the time you post them (despite the fact that I am commenting at 19 hours ago). I need this Garmin gadget to improve my cycling skills and to be able to discover new routes in Bahrain. Maybe this doesn’t seem to be compelling enough, but this will change my life head over heels. Thank you in advance!
Francis, I've been riding for a few years now thanks to you and others like Lawrence and Chris inspiring and motivating me to get out there and slowly it by bit been building up my kit for cycling as and when I can afford it. I currently however do not have a head unit as of yet so have been riding using my phone and battery packs to do all day rides. I have done a few overnight rides but due to battery I haven't been able to do more than two days so a Garmin would allow me to explore and start doing things like the London to Amsterdam trip I've wanted to do for a while, a trip which I intend to do this to raise funds for some of the hardest working charities close to my heart, these being the respite association and the maytree, both offering respite fothose that need it, and the Garmin will allow a trip like this to be executed smoother. Inspired by you, i also am considering riding the infamous c2c trip on a unfit for purpose bike either a Brompton or a kid's bike, so will inevitably be a multi day trip, which the Garmin will of course assist with. Francis, your content is fantastic and is part of the reason I get onto my bike each day with a smile on my face to head off, getting slimmer, heathier and happier every time I ride, so cheers for that
A bike computer would be ideal for my new cycling goals. I have been exclusively riding roads local to my home and would really like to broaden my horizons since Belgium has some great scenery. Apart from this, I also want to do trips abroad, just like you, and a bike computer would really facilitate this. No more need to look at a phone or map of cycling routes and thus a more flowing experience. Love the channel!
Brilliant feature on your kit. Great to see some fab weather and scenery. I’ve done some cracking trips myself in the UK with Way of the Roses, Wales north to south and all around the Highlands of Scotland. Currently use Garmin 130 but as I age my eyesight is not what it used to be so would very much appreciate the larger screen of the 830😎😂 Using the Forerunner 245 to support my training for the Cape Wrath Ultra in May. Back on the bike after that…hopefully 😳🤪 Good luck for the rest of the trip 🇪🇸
Enjoying the content, as ever. Having recently became a new dad, a garmin would help make my rides more structured and less prone to spending hours lost on the country lanes of Essex. It might mean that I actually get our more often without fear of not seeing the family all day 🙂. Enjoy the rest of your trip and keep the videos coming x
Your set up really nice...I liked but at first I did my tour with back panniers then realized that nearly all weight goes to back wheel. Sometimes I could not lift back side to jump two stairs. So I decided to use only front panniers, frame bag, handlebar bag and put my tenth top of the rear rack. Now my rides are much comfortable and I am happy... =) best wishes...
I've just started taking cycling more seriously because of you. Took up my works cycle 2 work offer and bought a half decent cheap road bike and been on some semi decent rides. I've been looking at buying a garmin or wahoo so I don't need to keep messing around with my phone during rides!
These last few bikepacking tours have given me the thirst for 1 myself. I’m now planning to ride to and from Lille for the Paris Roubaix. The 830 would’ve awesome as I lost my old Garmin Touring model and the second hand 820 I replaced it with has terrible battery. Cheers mate 👍
Francis thanks for all your content and great series. I would love a Garmin to track where I go and get into some great adventures, maybe not as big as yours but who knows. You keep inspiring all of us with your bike rides and bike fit videos. Thanks, Francis.
Hi, Francis. You have been a great help to me since pandemic, coping with anxiety. Because of you I really went all out for cycling since we can't play any contact sports. I started watching your videos and I learned a lot about bike-fitting, bike-packing, etc. thanks to you and Jeremy. Your experiences has inspired me to make biking more fun; recreationally and competitively. Stepping one pedal at a time. If I win the cycling computer I will be grateful that it will be the best part of my cycling life. Also, it will be the most helpful gadget while I'm riding my bike since I use my phone navigating routes. Thanks again for your awesome vlogs. Keep inspiring! Regards from your biggest fan, Onel
Hi Francis. I’ve had a Garmin Fenix 2 from 2014-2019 and now a Garmin Instinct since 2019. I have done a couple of bikepacking trips since 2019 (relying on someone else’s Wahoo for navigation) and I’ve participated in a short 50km gravel race in December last year. The race was self-navigated based on a gpx that was supplied by the organizer; that was when I realise that my Garmin Instinct watch only had a limited number of waypoints for gpx and I couldn’t rely it for navigation. I ended up using my smartphone with a gpx viewer for navigation which, as you said, drained the heck of my phone’s battery. A Garmin 830 would greatly benefit so that I can enter more local self-navigating gravel races and not having to rely on friends (for navigation) for bikepacking or audax rides in the future :)
Love these videos! So, why I should win the Garmin: I found you and cycling during the pandemic devouring all your old bikepacking videos and dreaming. When things started looking up and my family and I were all boosted I bought tickets to Italy and started to plan my husband and I's first bikepacking adventure! A garmin sure would be helpful in keeping my training honest and realistic as well as keep us on track when we get there! Thanks for all the inspiration, humor, and tips!
Why would a Garmin benefit time with me? I represent the old, unfit fathers who work all week and ride when time allows. The Garmin will allow me to extend the bike packing journeys planned for 2022 and aide me getting back when I set off. Love what you do and appreciate the hard work put into the videos.
I´ve started cycling last year and absolutely love it! I haven´t come around to buying a cycling computer and am still using my phone. Since my rides are getting longer the phone becomes less and less convenient. Been looking for a computer for a few weeks.
I'm in to my second year of road biking and your videos have helped me so much. I recently purchased a turbo trainer whilst the weather is poor in the UK, but now the weather is getting (mildly) better a Garmin would be an amazing addition in helping me track and improve my rides. If it would make me go an extra 10-15kph every ride that would be great too! 😁
Great video Francis! I have previously been a runner and am still using an old watch to track my cycling activities. I would love to upgrade to a unit meant for cycling for my upcoming bike packing adventures.
Just taken up cycling last year and currently living in Madrid, can say Spain is awesome for it. Even convinced a few mates to ship their bikes over for Sierra Nevada in May. Unreal roads and gravel - funnily enough I'm looking at buying a Garmin 530 so I can get some off-road maps and routes! Enjoy the trip Francis (and Chris!)
I am currently in Florida. I came out of Oregon last year (April 2021). I road the California coast from San Francisco to Santa Barbara. Went east to Barstow, California. Took a train from Barstow to Kansas and road all the way to Florida. Road the Florida gulf coast and currently on the Atlantic side right now.
I could really use one as I don't have any GPS computer and always get lost in Barcelona where most of the streets are one direction and after making a turn... sometimes you may be surprised what you encounter. Great video as always Francis, keep the good work up!
I’ve been a long time bike commuter but got my first road bike in the last year. I’m currently using a second hand garmin forerunner 235 watch. A head unit would be a massive upgrade that I would put to good use training for my first sportive the Loch Ness Etape in April.
Hey! Good to see you back! This middle school teacher could really use that Garmin! Ask any teacher they'll tell you the pased 2 years have been rubbish! Cheers!
Hi Francis, koodos on your amazing channel! I have just recently discovered it and after watching all your Vietnam bikepaking trip it has quicky became one of my favourite bikepacking/bike channels on youtube! Very genuine, that's what I like the most! Anyways I would love to get my hands on that Garmin 830 so in a couple of months time I can ride from London to Turin with a proper route planned out to surprise my misses!
I'd absolutely love a Garmin 830!!! I've recently been struggling a bit with life in general, and would love any extra motivation to get outdoors on my old mountain bike. Watching these videos has given me the interest to take up cycling again, so far only a few short rides. I'm a bit of a stats geek so I'm sure the extra information a bike computer provides would help keep the momentum going. Thanks for the high quality videos!
Hi Francis - commenting for the Garmin - I ordered my new Ribble in Nov - waiting for it in May! but in the meantime clocking up the miles on my 1989 Peugeot - still a fantastic cycle - building endurance for a cycle trip in the EU during the summer and a cycle trip in US in the fall. Enjoy your vids and happy climbing. (And my the way my 66th birthday is this month so would make a great BDay gift! )
Love the no rules approach to your bike packing journeys. Tailfin rack + aero bike = no problem. As well as being a road/gravel rider I also MTB and for this reason I think I should win the Garmin 830 giveaway. The only bike computer on the market that comes with new MTB DYNAMICS! Bike Park Wales will never be the same again now I can measure my jump count, jump distance and hang time. And it integrates with all my favourite 3rd party apps like Komoot, Trailforks and Strava.
I'd very much appreciate the Garmin for one of the reasons you actually mention: I'm planning myself a bikepacking trip in Germany in a couple of months and I depend on my phone for music, contact and navigation. So a proper head unit would be a nice way to be less dependent on the phone and get the maps and stats more nicely. Cheers!
Next week i''m starting on cycling. Really excited for it, I'm smarting small, just ordered a Triban RC120 (my budget won't allow for more :D). But still, super excited to adventure through the beautiful roads of Portugal. Of course, with a Garmin would be better, but I'm just happy I can finally do it!
Hey Francis, really appreciate the videos, especially while stuck inside during these frozen months! I would really appreciate the Garmin, I'm hoping to really pick up my cycling and commuting this year and it would help greatly!
Plain and simple. My girlfriend just joined me on the first rides and kind of likes it. Now we are planning to do a longer bikepacking tour from northern germany to istanbul, after our master thesis is done and dusted. Your garmin would make the navigation quite convenient :D cheers
Yo, quality series so far! I have just moved in with my GF in a different part of the country (from Devon, now in Hampshire) I recently got back into cycling from my youth and I rely on people for leading me out. Being able to have a GPS computer would mean I could go out and ride independently when I want to, rather than stopping and looking at my phone every 500m. Enjoy the rest of your trip, I hope it goes well (shall be watching!
Great set up. Thanks for sharing. I look forward to doing several long rides each over 100kms each to raise funds for maternal and child health in Zimbabwe and Burkina Faso. That Garmin gps would be such a blessing.
I have just recently taken up cycling and the gps would be a much needed addition to my set up to save me stopping to check my phone all the time 🤯 keep up the great content 👌👏
Hi Francis, huge fan of your work and just your general vibe man, solid. As a former track & field athlete I found it hard finding a sport the kept my competitive side up but also and more importantly being able to have fun and cycling was it. I came across your channel awhile back when you, James & Lawrence did your Vietnam trip, very inspiring. I plan on doing my first bike packing trip this summer with some friends from Ottawa-Montreal, Canada and having a Garmin would be amazing! Keep doing your thing mate, safe travels :)
Great videos of your trip, your explanations of how to plan a bike packing trip are really helping to give me confidence to plan something for myself. Looks amazing - winning a Garmin would be just the kick up the backside I need to get myself over to Spain riding
Love your videos! Nice seeing you breaking the “rules” - specially for a beginner as me. For the Garmin, I am a student and just spent all my money on a road bike, that I would like to use for school (35km each way) and would be great to be able to track progress.
Just bought myself a new bike, after my old second-hand was unfortunately broken. I would love to compliment it with the Garmin 830! I'm saving for a computer, bike packing bags and a power meter, but the saving takes a bittersweet time. Hope I can enroll from continental Europe (the Netherlands) 🤗
I've been watching the channel for years (since the Red Hook Crit videos in 2016!), and great to see the channel grow so much. GARMIN CONTEST: My partner and I are getting more into bike-packing in recent years, and to date, we've been using a combination of phones and paper cue-sheets to plan our routes (and getting lost...a lot). We live in the city, so want to start planning more routes that get us away from cars, and incorporate more trails, gravel tracks and rural roads. We're also aware of our carbon footprint, and the irony of using a car/plane to get to a start of a bike trip. The Garmin GPS would help us chart more complex routes and explore new locations, especially those in our own backyard and that are accessible by train/transit. Help us make our bike-packing dreams a reality!
That Garmin looks sweet! Well for one, who doesn't like full integration for your loved ones to see how slow you would be traveling uphill? Garmin integration (Komoot, live tracking, radar lights) ftw :-)
I need the Garmin 830 for additional features I don’t have on my 130. Bought the 130 when I just started to road bike a few years ago. Now I am hooked and do a lot of 100k+ rides. Having better mapping features; climb pro; bigger touch screen would be ideal. Keep making great content. You inspire me to get out on the bike.
Great tips, as per usual. I could use a Garmin because I’ve moved up north to Lancaster, which I’m only beginning to explore, from the Cotswolds, which I knew like the back of my hand: the adventure potential up here, with the Lakes etc on my doorstep, is incredible. Knowing me, without something like a Garmin rather than just my phone, I might overreach myself and get gloriously lost! 😆
I have terrible sense of direction which leaves me worrying about the phone battery running out as I pootle around so the garmin would be a massive boost to my cycling adventures. Really enjoying the videos as ever Francis!
Great video again guys. Love the way you run through all your kit and tech stuff. Like you say you can bikepack on any bike. I am riding a Kinesis Range ebike. No problems with range as I only use motor when the going gets tough. Running the battery flat on my phone while navigating is my biggest problem. That's where the Garmin 830 would come in handy. Keep up the great vids.
Love the films Francis, and as a Geordie it’s great to see you riding around places I ride too. Would love a new Garmin. Mine has served me very well for years and is only now, after almost a decade of heavy use starting to loses bit of battery life. Looking forward to seeing the rest of the adventure 👌🏻
Hello Francis (Drake?), I learn from your experience and I thank you very much. Now a little suggestion from a "student", delete the rear side panniers and carry a small rack on the front wheel and "unload" the weight in front and balance the load. I thank you for an answer.
Because it'll be perfect for my upcoming LEJOG trip! My first long distance event and I believe the 830 will stop me needing to recharge my phone and stop me getting lost hopefully!
I just moved to a new city and have no idea where I'm going most of the time! I would love to use the Garmin for directions to new places so I don't have to worry about my phone. I am also training for my first ever bike packing trip, so using it to track training progress as well as directions when I finally get out on the big ride would be awesome. As always great video and I hope you had an amazing trip!
Enjoying these bike packing videos. Hopefully, I'll get to try the tailfin setup soon! I'd love the Garmin computer to give more insights into my training, it would be a great step up from my Garmin forerunner 945👍👍
Great inspiration! Just got my first gravel bike in November and would love to try a bike packing trip sometime. A Garmin would be brilliant for that. My current solution of having a single AirPod in one ear and listening to the routing instructions has led to Komoot telling me to u-turn more than I’d like 😅
Yo. I'm a lockdown cycling convert, entering his first sportives this year. So the Garmin would guide me on the unfamiliar roads. Proper enjoying your content and nice to see Chris.
Just ordered my finix 7 and I have the pedals. In the process of moving away from wahoo and I’m all tapped out in money. Be a watcher since you’re first clogs. Love them.
Hi Francis, love all the videos, particularly the bikepacking ones. You've inspired me to try out some bikepacking trips when it gets a little warmer here (Northeast US) would love a garmin to track those routes!
That's an epic bikepacking setup, close to perfect. I'd personally just add a mid-bag in the triangle. But that's me ;) Would love to get my hands on a new edge 830. Been using my lovely "mini" edge 130 for the last couple years, and still love it. The thing took lots of beatings, even smashed the screen in a mtb crash. But it still goes and gets the data. We're going with the flow - if it ain't totally broken it's somewhat fine. Now that I'm seeing all the specs on the 830 I'd really consider an update..
*gets down on knees to beg* - I'd love the garmin to give to my girlfriend, who is doing her first ever bike packing trip this year. She's wanting to get a Garmin for this, but at present can't afford one. It'd be wonderful to surprise her with one! Plus it'd help ensure she doesn't get lost in the remote Highlands of Scotland 👍🏻
Nice bike set up- got Topeak rack and Ortlieb bags for bike packing season, a little more old school. Reason for the garmin- never had a bike computer before- books and maps, maybe time for an upgrade🤣🤘🏼
Just started training for a 105km gravel race with 2500m of climbing in August. Would love the garmin to help navigate training routes through rural Utah this summer. Love the videos!
Francis I need a Garmin head unit for hands-free navigation. In my current set up my head unit is not suitable for navigation. So I either ride the same set routes or go on adventures with lots of extra stops to check the route on Google maps. Or I get yelled at when I realise we have to turn back because I lost the route. Enjoy the sun and roads in Spain!
So happy to be seeing Chris again. He's been one of my favourite characters in these videos forever.
Reason I should win the garmin: I've got garmin pedals, garmin watch, garmin varia, but a wahoo bike computer. Help me be on all garmin
💙 I remembered to bring the script this time
When lockdown started i turned to cycling as my means to keep fit and get out of the house. Bikes have changed a lot in the 30-odd years since i last rode! Finding this channel really helped me understand what needed to get the most from my time on the bike, whilst also introducing me to a raft of new 'lockdown friends'! I would love the Garmin head unit as i still dont have one, and it only a matter of time until i drop my phone while trying to check the route out! Keep up the excellent videos
Adding a speaker to my bike setup had been my favorite addition by far. I would like the Garmin as I want to recomend the Bose Microsoundlink as an amazing speaker for bikes. Its got a great punchy sound, straps perfectly on the handlebars and is 100% waterproof (I complely submerged mine when it was playing by falling out a of a kayak and it was fine!) Speakers are less dangourous than headphones and I often listen to podcasts or audiobooks on long tours
Hi Francis, loving the videos. I have been a long-time supporter of the backpacking trips such as Vietnam, and would really like to do something like that one day. I would Love the Garmin as I'm attempting my first ride abroad in the summer to Paris from the UK. The ride will help to raise money for the charities Mind and The Alzheimers Society. Currently, I use Komoot on my phone so it would be nice to have something that shows me where I'm going at all times without having to stop, especially when riding outside the UK.
Keep up the great work with the Channel and Wild.
Kind regards,
Will
Love the content, always a good watch. I've been trying to get more regular in my cycling over the last 2 years and having a Garmin with longer battery and easy recording of ride stats would make all the difference to motivation and reward at the start and end of a ride
Head units are such a game changing piece of kit and garmin make great ones. My dad’s now into cycling and would love to give him this so he can explore new roads and adventures.
Have the Tailfin aeropack myself, love the bags, no swaying! Would love to see how a Garmin compares to a Wahoo ;)
Great content as always! Can't wait to get out to Europe and enjoy these amazing roads! Checking in from Miami, FL!
Would love the Garmin since about two months ago i was hit by a vehicle and lost bicycle and all my components. I have just got a bike literally two days ago and have finally started riding again but as we all cyclist know. Things are expensive. So this would greatly assist me getting back to getting on the saddle and getting those miles! Good Luck Everyone!
I need a Garmin so I can take my brother on his first bike packing trip - the John Muir Way!
Nice choice of route - right across the country :)
@@saintuk70 looks like a great one - he’s just bought a Ribble gravel bike to commute and is inspired to join me!
The Garmin 830 would be an excellent addition to my arsenal of early morning safety/navigation/data collecting/training ride computer set up. Being a father of 3 little kids, working full time, and trying to be the best husband I can, it leaves the wee hours in the morning before the sun comes up for training. My current set up is quite antiquated and a hodge podge of lights, computers, sensors and more. The efficiency that the Garmin 830, paired with the Varia, would be the stuff of legends. Not only will it be the dream training tool, but get me home safely. Thanks for giving one of these away!! Keep Living The Dream (#LTD). Appreciate it!!
The trip looks amazing, I need to do something like this in the near future. I'd love to win the Garmin so I can give it to my wife and stop her worrying about getting lost every time she goes on her bike 🙂
I love exploring with my bike and getting lost especially here in Cape Town but also far away. Having a GPS allows me to get more lost and then find my way back home while having an absolute blast. Since my Wahoo just stopped working and there is no support (not even for a repair) to get it up and running again, its time to give a Garmin a go. And the 830 looks like it will make exploring such a joy again!
Thanks for your fantastic content Francis! Happy riding!
I’ve been following your blogs for a while now and has been my primary encouragement to bike pack! The Garmin would greatly help getting around instead of relying on cell phone and cell phone coverage.
French lad here who'd love to get his hands on the Garmin 830 for it to be the tiny push he needs to finally become a little more diligent in his practice of the soon-to-become greatest sport ever 🚴 (rugby still barely holding the top position 😜 thanks to me dad's passion that passed on to his boi)! Keep up the good work Francis, love your channel!
Caught the cycling bug about two years back and am gradually trying to kit myself out fully for amazing rides. I’m heading to Pollença/Alcúdia in the summer and would love to have the Garmin to track my rides and give myself and my father in law our routes for the days we’re out on the bikes!!!
Love your work mate. Keep it up.
Hey Francis, been a long term subscriber and you've unspired me to start bikepacking. i was at tour down under when you visied the Rapha club house looking very cooked from the South Aussie Heat. I've just completed my MBA this monring and the plan was to emulate your Vietnam trip as a celebration, but COVID put a stop to that. In two weeks heading out on an Aussie bush bash bike packing trip and just purchased the seatpost extender to make the brand spanking new tailfin fit more comfortably. thank you to you, Daisy and all your friends for inspiring me to get out and get adventurous. The garmin would be a great additon to the setup, regardless keep up the great work!!
Hey Francis, lovely to see you two back on the road again! Spain, the mountains, the coast, everything looks so beautiful, especially on the bike - as I can only imagine, cause I’ve never been to Spain yet.
I’m covering your channel only 3-4 months now! You’re one of the persons that inspired me to get into road cycling but bike packing mainly. I’m riding my Rondo RUUT AL wich is a lovely good and beginner friendly gravel bike.
I’m from the baltic sea in Germany and I only have been on some small day trips yet, because of winter, but I’m planning a full 7 days bike trip through all of Germany this summer, so the Garmin would be super helpful with that!
Enjoy your stay in spain & keep riding!
Hi Francis! After commuting for over a year to work in Leeds on my very old second-hand bike (which eventually fell apart), I bought my first ever new bike last month. With this new bike, I'm getting the confidence to go on longer rides exploring the Yorkshire dales. I've signed up for a few bicycle maintenance classes. and have been watching bike packing and bike videos non-stop, and yours especially have inspired me to go out more (your Vietnam series is my personal favourite). I don't have any friends that cycle, and so having the Garmin device would be an amazing tool to help me not get lost! I would also love to be able to track my progress, as getting fitter is a side-goal I have with cycling as well. Many thanks for putting out consistently brilliant videos, and I look forward to the rest of your Spain series. Thank you ! - Anna :)
I have just completed my first century ride (100 miles) yesterday thanks to your channel! You have motivate me beyond belief. I’m now starting to plan my first bike packing trip and a Garmin bike computer is on my list of necessities. Would love to ride with Garmin. Keep up the awesome content! Be safe, have fun!
I absolutely love the bike. it looks amazing.
I am a 17 year old avid cyclist, who has just funded a second hand bike. At the moment i use komoot with earbuds in to direct and track my cycling trips. I race for my schools HPV (human powered vehicle) team. A garmin head unit would be amazing giving me the freedom to train better, safer cycling with no earbuds in, navigation to go to new places and explore and help during races to see my heartrate and speed. It would honestly mean the world to me.
Thanks so much for this opportunity. Love this series.
Thanks for documenting this bike packing trip as it allows me to dream of how it could be when our Canadian winter ends 🥶. When I can remount on my bike I could record all my data with a new Garmin computer 👍🏻
Thanks for the great videos. I continue to learn a lot from them. They've inspired me to get out on some of my own bikepacking adventures and start to dabble in ultra distance racing. I've discovered I really enjoy it and so I have set my sights on racing the Tour Divide in 2023. A Garmin 830 would be a dream head unit and navigation tool for me on the TD. Garmins base maps are the best out there. And I know it will work. My training involves massive time on the bike so having the ability to add a Varia and have the rear radar is a huge safety bonus for me. Keep up the great videos. Keep inspiring.
Great to see you and Chris on the road again. I’d love a Garmin head unit as I’ve never had one and always relied on my phone, which I’m sure you’ll know has many drawbacks! Enjoy the rest of your trip guys!
I would love the Garmin. Finally, not getting lost anymore and bonking on a 3h ride, because I packed food for a 1 1/2h ride :)
Love your content, keep it up. It inspires a lot of new cyclists, like me!
I currently use my phone but having a dedicated device which shows me the track all the time would definitely help here. Love the bike packing videos!
I started roadbiking during the pandemic and am loving it. Due to the cost of cycling being quite high and living on a students budget, I currently use my phone to navigate. Having a real headunit would allow me to go further and have more information about my rides which would assist me in becoming a better cyclist.
Loving the video by years now. The bike fit videos are super useful. They're my favourites. Nice to see Chris back.
I always used garmin on my wrist to track my fitness but i never had a head unit and would be great to have one to improve my riding.
Cheers from Italy
I was one of the people asking about the Varia + Tailfin combo. I ended up on a different setup to you; I actually bought the Tailfin "seatpost mimic" mount, but it doesn't play that well with the Varia mount, it ends up at a weird angle and it feels like it might just slide off. I think this is mostly down to the design of the Varia mount rather than the Tailfin.
I ended up putting it on one of the Tailfin legs using one of the other rubber fittings that came with the Varia. Wouldn't work well with panniers but it worked okay for me with fork bags as mini panniers. Stayed pretty secure over a six day bikepacking trip with a fair bit of gravel so I'd recommend it. Given it's not the most visible thing down there, I also had a light clipped to the back of the Tailfin.
I wish I was bikepacking in Spain right now!
Garmin 830 - because my daughter just got her first road bike and needs a computer. Thanks for the tour of your bike and especially showing how you attach the Varia.
Hi Francis, the garmin 830 has a number of amazing features, including navigation and workout plans. Would love to put those features to use to develop my cycling and have more fun out in the road. As always keep up the great work.
We have a JBL Clip 3 like that. Long battery life, plenty loud, compact design. We love it.
I'd love to have that Garmin 830. My current old small Garmin does a good job, but I'd like to have the better nav features of a more modern unit. We have some bikepacking and gravel routes around where the nav would be so helpful.
I am a rookie to cycling, and I am one of your best fans, as I always watch your videos within 1 to 5 hours from the time you post them (despite the fact that I am commenting at 19 hours ago). I need this Garmin gadget to improve my cycling skills and to be able to discover new routes in Bahrain. Maybe this doesn’t seem to be compelling enough, but this will change my life head over heels. Thank you in advance!
Francis,
I've been riding for a few years now thanks to you and others like Lawrence and Chris inspiring and motivating me to get out there and slowly it by bit been building up my kit for cycling as and when I can afford it.
I currently however do not have a head unit as of yet so have been riding using my phone and battery packs to do all day rides. I have done a few overnight rides but due to battery I haven't been able to do more than two days so a Garmin would allow me to explore and start doing things like the London to Amsterdam trip I've wanted to do for a while, a trip which I intend to do this to raise funds for some of the hardest working charities close to my heart, these being the respite association and the maytree, both offering respite fothose that need it, and the Garmin will allow a trip like this to be executed smoother. Inspired by you, i also am considering riding the infamous c2c trip on a unfit for purpose bike either a Brompton or a kid's bike, so will inevitably be a multi day trip, which the Garmin will of course assist with.
Francis, your content is fantastic and is part of the reason I get onto my bike each day with a smile on my face to head off, getting slimmer, heathier and happier every time I ride, so cheers for that
A bike computer would be ideal for my new cycling goals. I have been exclusively riding roads local to my home and would really like to broaden my horizons since Belgium has some great scenery. Apart from this, I also want to do trips abroad, just like you, and a bike computer would really facilitate this. No more need to look at a phone or map of cycling routes and thus a more flowing experience. Love the channel!
I’ve just started cycling and you’re videos are inspiring me. Watching you in between my split shift today!
Brilliant feature on your kit. Great to see some fab weather and scenery.
I’ve done some cracking trips myself in the UK with Way of the Roses, Wales north to south and all around the Highlands of Scotland. Currently use Garmin 130 but as I age my eyesight is not what it used to be so would very much appreciate the larger screen of the 830😎😂
Using the Forerunner 245 to support my training for the Cape Wrath Ultra in May. Back on the bike after that…hopefully 😳🤪
Good luck for the rest of the trip 🇪🇸
Enjoying the content, as ever. Having recently became a new dad, a garmin would help make my rides more structured and less prone to spending hours lost on the country lanes of Essex. It might mean that I actually get our more often without fear of not seeing the family all day 🙂. Enjoy the rest of your trip and keep the videos coming x
Your set up really nice...I liked but at first I did my tour with back panniers then realized that nearly all weight goes to back wheel. Sometimes I could not lift back side to jump two stairs. So I decided to use only front panniers, frame bag, handlebar bag and put my tenth top of the rear rack. Now my rides are much comfortable and I am happy... =) best wishes...
I've just started taking cycling more seriously because of you. Took up my works cycle 2 work offer and bought a half decent cheap road bike and been on some semi decent rides. I've been looking at buying a garmin or wahoo so I don't need to keep messing around with my phone during rides!
These last few bikepacking tours have given me the thirst for 1 myself. I’m now planning to ride to and from Lille for the Paris Roubaix.
The 830 would’ve awesome as I lost my old Garmin Touring model and the second hand 820 I replaced it with has terrible battery.
Cheers mate 👍
Francis thanks for all your content and great series. I would love a Garmin to track where I go and get into some great adventures, maybe not as big as yours but who knows. You keep inspiring all of us with your bike rides and bike fit videos. Thanks, Francis.
Hi, Francis. You have been a great help to me since pandemic, coping with anxiety. Because of you I really went all out for cycling since we can't play any contact sports. I started watching your videos and I learned a lot about bike-fitting, bike-packing, etc. thanks to you and Jeremy. Your experiences has inspired me to make biking more fun; recreationally and competitively. Stepping one pedal at a time.
If I win the cycling computer I will be grateful that it will be the best part of my cycling life. Also, it will be the most helpful gadget while I'm riding my bike since I use my phone navigating routes.
Thanks again for your awesome vlogs.
Keep inspiring!
Regards from your biggest fan,
Onel
Keep up the content! The reason I need a garmin is because I’ve been watching you since Chris was doing his 107 challenge! Cheers from Seattle, WA
Always motivating me to try longer and longer rides. The garmin would be the perfect partner on taking on new routes and going even further!
Hi Francis. I’ve had a Garmin Fenix 2 from 2014-2019 and now a Garmin Instinct since 2019. I have done a couple of bikepacking trips since 2019 (relying on someone else’s Wahoo for navigation) and I’ve participated in a short 50km gravel race in December last year. The race was self-navigated based on a gpx that was supplied by the organizer; that was when I realise that my Garmin Instinct watch only had a limited number of waypoints for gpx and I couldn’t rely it for navigation. I ended up using my smartphone with a gpx viewer for navigation which, as you said, drained the heck of my phone’s battery. A Garmin 830 would greatly benefit so that I can enter more local self-navigating gravel races and not having to rely on friends (for navigation) for bikepacking or audax rides in the future :)
Love these videos!
So, why I should win the Garmin: I found you and cycling during the pandemic devouring all your old bikepacking videos and dreaming. When things started looking up and my family and I were all boosted I bought tickets to Italy and started to plan my husband and I's first bikepacking adventure! A garmin sure would be helpful in keeping my training honest and realistic as well as keep us on track when we get there!
Thanks for all the inspiration, humor, and tips!
Love the video; Love the setup!
The Garmin would be the solution to always stopping to check my phone for navigation. No more stop and go.
Why would a Garmin benefit time with me? I represent the old, unfit fathers who work all week and ride when time allows. The Garmin will allow me to extend the bike packing journeys planned for 2022 and aide me getting back when I set off. Love what you do and appreciate the hard work put into the videos.
I´ve started cycling last year and absolutely love it! I haven´t come around to buying a cycling computer and am still using my phone. Since my rides are getting longer the phone becomes less and less convenient. Been looking for a computer for a few weeks.
I'm in to my second year of road biking and your videos have helped me so much. I recently purchased a turbo trainer whilst the weather is poor in the UK, but now the weather is getting (mildly) better a Garmin would be an amazing addition in helping me track and improve my rides. If it would make me go an extra 10-15kph every ride that would be great too! 😁
Great video Francis! I have previously been a runner and am still using an old watch to track my cycling activities. I would love to upgrade to a unit meant for cycling for my upcoming bike packing adventures.
Just taken up cycling last year and currently living in Madrid, can say Spain is awesome for it. Even convinced a few mates to ship their bikes over for Sierra Nevada in May. Unreal roads and gravel - funnily enough I'm looking at buying a Garmin 530 so I can get some off-road maps and routes! Enjoy the trip Francis (and Chris!)
I am currently in Florida. I came out of Oregon last year (April 2021). I road the California coast from San Francisco to Santa Barbara. Went east to Barstow, California. Took a train from Barstow to Kansas and road all the way to Florida. Road the Florida gulf coast and currently on the Atlantic side right now.
Would love to kick off my first backpacking trip with the 830. Thank you for sharing the awesome content!
I love your bikepacking part. Also you are great companion with Chris. Cheers from Greece...
I could really use one as I don't have any GPS computer and always get lost in Barcelona where most of the streets are one direction and after making a turn... sometimes you may be surprised what you encounter. Great video as always Francis, keep the good work up!
I’ve been a long time bike commuter but got my first road bike in the last year. I’m currently using a second hand garmin forerunner 235 watch. A head unit would be a massive upgrade that I would put to good use training for my first sportive the Loch Ness Etape in April.
Hey! Good to see you back! This middle school teacher could really use that Garmin! Ask any teacher they'll tell you the pased 2 years have been rubbish! Cheers!
Hi Francis, koodos on your amazing channel! I have just recently discovered it and after watching all your Vietnam bikepaking trip it has quicky became one of my favourite bikepacking/bike channels on youtube! Very genuine, that's what I like the most! Anyways I would love to get my hands on that Garmin 830 so in a couple of months time I can ride from London to Turin with a proper route planned out to surprise my misses!
I'd absolutely love a Garmin 830!!! I've recently been struggling a bit with life in general, and would love any extra motivation to get outdoors on my old mountain bike. Watching these videos has given me the interest to take up cycling again, so far only a few short rides. I'm a bit of a stats geek so I'm sure the extra information a bike computer provides would help keep the momentum going. Thanks for the high quality videos!
Hi Francis - commenting for the Garmin - I ordered my new Ribble in Nov - waiting for it in May! but in the meantime clocking up the miles on my 1989 Peugeot - still a fantastic cycle - building endurance for a cycle trip in the EU during the summer and a cycle trip in US in the fall. Enjoy your vids and happy climbing. (And my the way my 66th birthday is this month so would make a great BDay gift! )
Love the no rules approach to your bike packing journeys. Tailfin rack + aero bike = no problem. As well as being a road/gravel rider I also MTB and for this reason I think I should win the Garmin 830 giveaway. The only bike computer on the market that comes with new MTB DYNAMICS! Bike Park Wales will never be the same again now I can measure my jump count, jump distance and hang time. And it integrates with all my favourite 3rd party apps like Komoot, Trailforks and Strava.
Very cool setup! Bikepacking setups are an awesome wormhole to go into.
Oh, a garmin head unit would indeed be lovely, seeing I already bought into that eco system, and we all know what vendor lock-in does to us.
I'd very much appreciate the Garmin for one of the reasons you actually mention:
I'm planning myself a bikepacking trip in Germany in a couple of months and I depend on my phone for music, contact and navigation. So a proper head unit would be a nice way to be less dependent on the phone and get the maps and stats more nicely.
Cheers!
Love the backing videos. I’m cycling around the north in the rain. Plus I need a new head unit 😁
Love the bike set up. I’ve started training for my first triathlon, the Garmin would be an excellent addition to my set up!
Next week i''m starting on cycling. Really excited for it, I'm smarting small, just ordered a Triban RC120 (my budget won't allow for more :D). But still, super excited to adventure through the beautiful roads of Portugal. Of course, with a Garmin would be better, but I'm just happy I can finally do it!
Hey Francis, really appreciate the videos, especially while stuck inside during these frozen months! I would really appreciate the Garmin, I'm hoping to really pick up my cycling and commuting this year and it would help greatly!
Plain and simple. My girlfriend just joined me on the first rides and kind of likes it. Now we are planning to do a longer bikepacking tour from northern germany to istanbul, after our master thesis is done and dusted. Your garmin would make the navigation quite convenient :D cheers
Yo, quality series so far! I have just moved in with my GF in a different part of the country (from Devon, now in Hampshire) I recently got back into cycling from my youth and I rely on people for leading me out. Being able to have a GPS computer would mean I could go out and ride independently when I want to, rather than stopping and looking at my phone every 500m.
Enjoy the rest of your trip, I hope it goes well (shall be watching!
Great set up. Thanks for sharing. I look forward to doing several long rides each over 100kms each to raise funds for maternal and child health in Zimbabwe and Burkina Faso. That Garmin gps would be such a blessing.
I have just recently taken up cycling and the gps would be a much needed addition to my set up to save me stopping to check my phone all the time 🤯 keep up the great content 👌👏
Hi Francis, huge fan of your work and just your general vibe man, solid. As a former track & field athlete I found it hard finding a sport the kept my competitive side up but also and more importantly being able to have fun and cycling was it. I came across your channel awhile back when you, James & Lawrence did your Vietnam trip, very inspiring. I plan on doing my first bike packing trip this summer with some friends from Ottawa-Montreal, Canada and having a Garmin would be amazing! Keep doing your thing mate, safe travels :)
Great videos of your trip, your explanations of how to plan a bike packing trip are really helping to give me confidence to plan something for myself. Looks amazing - winning a Garmin would be just the kick up the backside I need to get myself over to Spain riding
Love your videos! Nice seeing you breaking the “rules” - specially for a beginner as me.
For the Garmin, I am a student and just spent all my money on a road bike, that I would like to use for school (35km each way) and would be great to be able to track progress.
Just bought myself a new bike, after my old second-hand was unfortunately broken. I would love to compliment it with the Garmin 830! I'm saving for a computer, bike packing bags and a power meter, but the saving takes a bittersweet time. Hope I can enroll from continental Europe (the Netherlands) 🤗
I've been watching the channel for years (since the Red Hook Crit videos in 2016!), and great to see the channel grow so much. GARMIN CONTEST: My partner and I are getting more into bike-packing in recent years, and to date, we've been using a combination of phones and paper cue-sheets to plan our routes (and getting lost...a lot). We live in the city, so want to start planning more routes that get us away from cars, and incorporate more trails, gravel tracks and rural roads. We're also aware of our carbon footprint, and the irony of using a car/plane to get to a start of a bike trip. The Garmin GPS would help us chart more complex routes and explore new locations, especially those in our own backyard and that are accessible by train/transit. Help us make our bike-packing dreams a reality!
That Garmin looks sweet! Well for one, who doesn't like full integration for your loved ones to see how slow you would be traveling uphill? Garmin integration (Komoot, live tracking, radar lights) ftw :-)
I need the Garmin 830 for additional features I don’t have on my 130. Bought the 130 when I just started to road bike a few years ago. Now I am hooked and do a lot of 100k+ rides. Having better mapping features; climb pro; bigger touch screen would be ideal. Keep making great content. You inspire me to get out on the bike.
Great tips, as per usual. I could use a Garmin because I’ve moved up north to Lancaster, which I’m only beginning to explore, from the Cotswolds, which I knew like the back of my hand: the adventure potential up here, with the Lakes etc on my doorstep, is incredible. Knowing me, without something like a Garmin rather than just my phone, I might overreach myself and get gloriously lost! 😆
I have terrible sense of direction which leaves me worrying about the phone battery running out as I pootle around so the garmin would be a massive boost to my cycling adventures. Really enjoying the videos as ever Francis!
Great video again guys. Love the way you run through all your kit and tech stuff. Like you say you can bikepack on any bike. I am riding a Kinesis Range ebike. No problems with range as I only use motor when the going gets tough. Running the battery flat on my phone while navigating is my biggest problem. That's where the Garmin 830 would come in handy. Keep up the great vids.
Love the films Francis, and as a Geordie it’s great to see you riding around places I ride too. Would love a new Garmin. Mine has served me very well for years and is only now, after almost a decade of heavy use starting to loses bit of battery life. Looking forward to seeing the rest of the adventure 👌🏻
Hello Francis (Drake?), I learn from your experience and I thank you very much. Now a little suggestion from a "student", delete the rear side panniers and carry a small rack on the front wheel and "unload" the weight in front and balance the load. I thank you for an answer.
Because it'll be perfect for my upcoming LEJOG trip! My first long distance event and I believe the 830 will stop me needing to recharge my phone and stop me getting lost hopefully!
I just moved to a new city and have no idea where I'm going most of the time! I would love to use the Garmin for directions to new places so I don't have to worry about my phone. I am also training for my first ever bike packing trip, so using it to track training progress as well as directions when I finally get out on the big ride would be awesome.
As always great video and I hope you had an amazing trip!
Enjoying these bike packing videos. Hopefully, I'll get to try the tailfin setup soon! I'd love the Garmin computer to give more insights into my training, it would be a great step up from my Garmin forerunner 945👍👍
Great inspiration! Just got my first gravel bike in November and would love to try a bike packing trip sometime.
A Garmin would be brilliant for that. My current solution of having a single AirPod in one ear and listening to the routing instructions has led to Komoot telling me to u-turn more than I’d like 😅
Yo. I'm a lockdown cycling convert, entering his first sportives this year. So the Garmin would guide me on the unfamiliar roads. Proper enjoying your content and nice to see Chris.
The Varia radar was my most important piece of safety kit when bikepacking the pacific coast last summer.
I need a Garmin thingy to fit to my Triumph Traffic Master to do the Great British divide on next year. Well you said you could bike pack on anything.
Just ordered my finix 7 and I have the pedals. In the process of moving away from wahoo and I’m all tapped out in money. Be a watcher since you’re first clogs. Love them.
Hi Francis, love all the videos, particularly the bikepacking ones. You've inspired me to try out some bikepacking trips when it gets a little warmer here (Northeast US) would love a garmin to track those routes!
That's an epic bikepacking setup, close to perfect. I'd personally just add a mid-bag in the triangle. But that's me ;)
Would love to get my hands on a new edge 830. Been using my lovely "mini" edge 130 for the last couple years, and still love it. The thing took lots of beatings, even smashed the screen in a mtb crash. But it still goes and gets the data. We're going with the flow - if it ain't totally broken it's somewhat fine. Now that I'm seeing all the specs on the 830 I'd really consider an update..
*gets down on knees to beg* - I'd love the garmin to give to my girlfriend, who is doing her first ever bike packing trip this year. She's wanting to get a Garmin for this, but at present can't afford one. It'd be wonderful to surprise her with one! Plus it'd help ensure she doesn't get lost in the remote Highlands of Scotland 👍🏻
Nice bike set up- got Topeak rack and Ortlieb bags for bike packing season, a little more old school.
Reason for the garmin- never had a bike computer before- books and maps, maybe time for an upgrade🤣🤘🏼
Just started training for a 105km gravel race with 2500m of climbing in August. Would love the garmin to help navigate training routes through rural Utah this summer. Love the videos!
Cool set up Francis ,I would love the Garmin to replace my tired worn out 520 when I do the Reivers route in spring 🚲👍
Francis I need a Garmin head unit for hands-free navigation. In my current set up my head unit is not suitable for navigation. So I either ride the same set routes or go on adventures with lots of extra stops to check the route on Google maps. Or I get yelled at when I realise we have to turn back because I lost the route.
Enjoy the sun and roads in Spain!