 me are you here hello everybody it's good to see you and I know you all didn't come to see me you came to see the real star of the show and she is right here there's Mira there she is she's licking she loves all you say hi to your fans Mira say hi to your fans Mira we got John right here hi guys let's see let's get this thing started are you guys um you guys hearing this okay here we are so she's excited she's very excited Mira's never been on youtube live yeah so the coverage has not been good on most of the ride and we are staying at a farmhouse in savory Wyoming about a hundred feet that way is Colorado and tomorrow we will be in Colorado hi Brandon how you doing hi Craig how you doing happy biker sorry for being a little late look at John he he shaved so a lot of you met John in the Baja series and of course Mira and we have stayed in touch ever since Baja they continued riding south and they started riding north in 24 hours before I started the great divide I got a text from John that said hey do you want company and I was like what do you mean do I want company where are you he was in Oregon at the time and decided to rent a U-Haul throw his bike in the U-Haul and drove to Montana and met me and that is how we came one isn't that neat so I've been riding with this guy first dogo to complete the tour divide maybe so yeah what do you think what do you think Mira are you the first dog you the first dog maybe maybe not who knows it is so good to see all of you I know I haven't been making a lot of content lately you've been watching you're gonna have to wait about a month you can you want to monitor questions for anything good shows up you're gonna have to wait about a month for these videos to come out Santos oh yeah here's back yeah there is back Mira will be the star of the show again for sure New Zealand what's up Christchurch how you're doing what do you think of the spine lock seat pack you mean this one right here I love it it's the best seat pack I ever had I've ever had we got also we have Brian we have young yo from somewhere there was Mira for president Mira for president you should you want to be president oh this is wonderful so little to Mira from the Ringo Mexico j mccosta yeah we've got Tokyo how are we doing John a Karen how's the bike riding okay so I will talk about that I flew to Whitefish Montana about three weeks ago and then a friend picked me up the airport and drove me to the border of Canada the very tippy tip usually this ride starts in Banff Canada but they are not letting us Americans into Canada right now why John thank you thank you for the simple answer COVID and so I couldn't get into Canada so I started at the border and the upper northern part of Montana is stunning I'm really excited to show you all the drone shots and the videos from out there it's like the Pacific Northwest very green lots of trees Mira for president stick chasing for everybody and three days after um after that my first three days were alone I met up with John and Mira and we've been riding ever since how is the pinion drive working it's working great I have another bike with the pinion drive I've had it for two years and I love it and that is why we developed this bike right here a mountain bike with pinion made for bike packing it's actually right here so you can all see it it has been working flawlessly and whenever John lubes his chain I kind of smile yeah he does and you know I'm a little envious they're um you know they're an investment in your in your bike and in riding but when you're riding long distance uh like we are now and like Mira and I have been since October something that's that low maintenance uh probably over the long term ends up being less money and certainly less stress so I'm impressed with it it's uh it's a pretty good system I gotta say what do you say Mira what do you think about the pinion what do you think about the pinion yeah she's so cute throw sticks throw sticks love from Brazil come ride with us someday Maurilio for sure hi Brandon how you doing but has the weather been cooler yes Montana was pretty cool recommending something for mountain biking for beginners can you see oh let's see has the weather been cooler hi from Montreal max la point pinion drive lol it's bean driven that is true I am bean driven there we are recommend a pretty cheap and good mountain bike for beginners oh I would go to your local bike shop I always tell people this people email me all the time what bike should I get I say go to your local bike shop talk to the local guys they know a lot more about bikes than I do I know I'm not a gearhead I have some bikes and I love my bikes but the local bike shops are going to be able to tell you what to do what's up Arizona we got new paltz how you doing new paltz how you doing I will be uploading videos in about a month of this tour and I have to say we got some stunning stuff what are we looking at here oh yeah crystal yeah I love it's uh salsa black burrow that I'm riding and uh yeah I think you'll love your salsa too they're great bikes okay my kava poo winnie would like to ask Mira what her favorite food is to eat on the trail oh Mira I think I just saw her eating it yeah queso she loves cheese yeah and john buys these little string cheeses and tries to teach her tricks and for the most part she can she can like do this little wave thing it's really fun hello from Virginia um and so I'm going to continue days into Montana and we rode through Montana beautiful state lots of wide open spaces there aren't many people in Montana it's not a very populated state so there's just there's so much natural beauty everywhere and then we crossed into a little bit of Idaho we rode through 70 miles of Idaho and Idaho is another beautiful state we've all we've been in beautiful states everywhere and then for the last week we've been in Wyoming and in Wyoming we crossed right at the border of Yellowstone National Park and then right on into the Teton so we saw the big beautiful mountains that remind john of of what oh back home in Kenmore Alberta right the canadian rockies yeah if you didn't know john is canadian and he's been teaching me a lot of canadian slang do you guys know what a hat is like a like a beanie is called in canadian let's see if anybody can get that right uh does john drink coffee every morning dana wants to know that dana i do every single morning uh i love coffee i think dana is asking that because dana is getting her bike ready right now to meet us in a few days in the great state of colorado so all of you are going to be able to see dana look at all these people the right answer tuk tuk's yes they're called a tuk did you know that word that's kind of a funny word it's french there we are in capitals exclamation points yeah yeah oh looks like pressure mark for spelling that's good lots of tuk okay hi from both what pedal shoe combo do you use i use these pedals just cheap Shimano platform pedals and some adidas 510 somebody is just climbing all over me she's so every day at the end of a ride we can be working really really hard and tired and sweaty and you know who's always psyched to play Mira every day every day so dana if you're listening uh get ready to play with Mira and throw her tons of sticks she never gets tired she never gets tired no she doesn't miles per day are you logging how many miles per day we go from anywhere from 65 to 95 and the trail is montana was pretty difficult there were some sections that i would call full on mountain biking for the last seven to eight days it's been mainly gravel roads right yeah pretty smooth easy non-technical gravel roads um i have shocks on my bike right i have not turned my shocks on hey hyun yoh thank you for the for the tip i appreciate it man keep it up i have shocks on my bike but i barely needed them in the last week we have heard that new mexico is pretty rough and we'll probably need a little bit more suspension there average speed per kilometer you're a kilometer guy oh yeah so that that varies greatly but i would say what i've seen on the computer if i can remember think back we're probably sort of 15 and on the on flat days we're getting up around 18 and then we've had some a mainland slight downhills on flat terrain and with our two bikes we're cruising you know in the high 30s so but we can't hold that all day long so yeah yeah um yeah that's sort of super averages yep yep so like jake about us want to read your comment hi ryan i've been watching you for years i just want you to know that after all this time you still love me oh thanks buddy there's one in there sorry uh asked how often we resupply and i guess probably yeah how much we bring along yeah okay so we resupply every day or so i've been surprised at how often we're in little towns and unfortunately we're stuck with a lot of junk food lots of junk food we have it's it's rare we hit like a solid grocery store with green things and vegetables and fruits so we're eating a lot of bars and snickers and peanut butter and nutella and tortillas and just junk food and ladies and gentlemen we have another person to introduce you to who met us just outside of jackson last week give it up for kevin how you doing my man doing great doing who are you tell everybody who you are and uh yeah how you ended up here yeah my name is kevin frias i live in minneapolis i like to ride bikes i am an engineer for proctor and gamble and if you care about that i ended up here in two years ago almost on the dot on rag brie and we stayed in touch he told me about doing this ride and i thought it'd be awesome to come do something like this because i've never done something like this before so here we are and how is it treating you kevin oh it's kicking my butt it's uh but it's been great it's been great i feel like i've learned a lot i've grown a lot on the bike and i'm really excited to keep going give me one memorable moment one memorable moment super memorable oh yeah that was a good one i completed it my first century two nights ago yeah so we rode a hundred miles and i finished that nine thirty at night so i rode the whole day and finished in the dark and i finished my first century so cross something off my bucket list yeah right on so kevin is a great guy he has wonderful energy he's always positive even when he's hurting really bad we can hear kevin you know maybe 50 feet behind us like talking to himself pumping himself up speaking spanish to himself his parents are from the dominican republic um and so yeah we are a pretty good team here eric kevin maybe you can scoot here so there we go so we get everybody in here uh mereus three years old mereus three years old mereus three so look at this team we have ryan we have a dog we have a canadian and we have a kevin oh yeah this is a pretty sweet team and we're going to have kevin for another week and in three or four days we're going to pick up another team member who i know you all love and that is dana dana is going to meet us somewhere in colorado first century is always the most memorable says shan sure is kevin can somebody do this with a gravel bike 100 what kind of bike are you riding i'm riding a gravel bike i got a 2020 specialized diverge e5 comp and i have 42 millimeter wtv resolutes on there so barely i have a millimeter space but i'm doing it yeah and he has a middle meter of space between the tire and the frame so if it gets muddy we might have some problems um let's talk about what in montana it was yeah that's right yeah we could see it brewing overhead and we're like oh that could be a little bit of rain let's put on our jackets and then just bam hail just nailed us yeah lima peru if you've ever heard or montana sorry lima peru lima montana and the hail hurt it was like nailing us and bouncing off our helmets and we we were rescued by a small highway town and got a hotel that night and it was a glorious glorious feeling john do you want to talk about some of the nice people we've met along the way oh man that that's really the highlight of the trip um the terrain is beautiful and the ride you can find that line all that but uh these individuals that we're meeting are are really special folks we i guess maybe the first one that stands out is um barba and john they own the lost lama ranch on the side of the the great divide route in montana north of uh helena they have a free accommodation uh soda sandwiches conversation even free beer uh solar shower all for the great divide riders and they don't want donations or anything they they just want you to pass that forward that that love and that that generosity and we've seen uh we've seen that throughout the trail that's been the real highlight for me um well that and the wild horses that we saw the other night those were special i got some we saw some wild horses and i chased them with my drone and that footage is going to look beautiful why are you guys asking all these boring questions about what tires we're using we're trying to get deep here and talk about the people you want to know what we're using what's that best best we go back there man oh sorry uh is your favorite place to stop and resupply best food you have purchased uh natel is my best food and i'll answer your question about the tires really quick i'm riding wtb rangers what are you riding i got a schwaubel high roller two on the backside and kevin wtb resolutes resolute yeah and so kevin put on new tires just before this trip so he could he could do it he needed something a little bit more knobby you had kind of slick ish tires right i had the pat finder pros so they have those have a slick line right down the middle they're great for all around tires because then you can ride them off road and on road but i know this is going to be mostly off road so i wanted something fully knobby and try to get 42 millimeters in there which i did those are the only two tires i could find in all the bike shops i went to that they had a double of because everything else is sold out so yeah that's all right so if you have any specific questions for kevin or john throw them out here what are you carrying in your snack caddy oh here we go i got to give a shout out to my friends kai venture bags they make these awesome snack caddies and they made me my own personal patch hair get out there look at these cool colors go to kaiventurebag.com and uh get these guys there are there are a couple out of southern california it's all made in america and the answer your question what do i bring in my snack caddies lots and lots of energy bars here i will show you really quickly let's see oh i have my gopro in there so many things can fit there it's like a clown car i've got some cliff bars i have some oh that's another cliff bars looking for a string cheese i've got some string cheese i have all sorts of stuff here's the snickers i have snickers yes snickers on my special treat got some snickers in there and these snack bags snack caddies are amazing shout out to my friends kai venture bags how does mira do with the wildlife chase the horses good question uh yeah so um so i i'm i'm really attentive of that if it's people's livestock their their livelihoods their sheep their their cattle um horses even even if they're wild they're not owned by anyone she's on leash uh or uh under high control what's that going on we don't want her to focus but uh she has uh gone many miles around some pronghorn just even recently in wyoming here it was um she didn't get close enough to do any damage so she is fast she is lightning fast she just took off we were like well i hope she comes back um how much elevation will we gain the entire route is 200 000 feet of elevation gain on an average day i would say between three and six thousand feet of elevation kevin tell us about your first day on the bike all right so i come from minnesota i'm coming in from minnesota so basically sea level and these guys put me on the bike and we do 6500 feet of climbing so climb two passes in 65 miles so i was like breathing through a straw trying to get used to elevation but then also doing 6500 feet of climbing that that day killed me but somehow we got on the bike the next day and rode another 50 miles yeah what do you do when it gets hard how do you get yourself through those times yeah i don't have a sexy answer i don't have another option right we're in the middle of nowhere and we have to get to the next town to get supplies so in my head it's like i don't have an option of quitting i can maybe stop for a bit take a rest take a breather take a bottle of water but you gotta just keep going yeah that's awesome how many people that we have in here right now wow we have 387 people watching right now that's pretty cool we're only seeing the top of kevin's head oh i'm sorry i didn't i'm sorry kevin has a great looking head well my friend andres from uh iceland says will you stick with bike packing setup or do you think you ever go back to a rack and pen penye system i like both setups you know for bike touring i like the paniers for bike packing you know when you're off road you definitely want a more streamlined setup do you get nervous with 400 people watching me are you guys nervous no no we're not nervous at all uh do you all have tattoos there's a random question john does have a tattoo yeah i gotta see one of your tattoos yeah yeah look at that going it right i can't tell yeah there we are yeah there we go what does it say oh that doesn't say anything that's um just a remembrance of a friend who recently died from cancer so it was a nice i was in mexico and and i heard that she had passed so it was a nice little reminder of a story she had told me when when she was still around so yeah yeah nice and i have to say that time to think and dream and work things out in life but we have had a very good time us three right yeah yeah and we're just you know we're a totally random crew like i haven't i hadn't seen kevin in two years and i only met him momentarily i met john this january in bahá so the way the world put us together is pretty unique and it's pretty special and you know where's mirror we also we can't leave mirror out oh there she is mirror is like what what's in the house is there food is john using the same bike from bahá yes he is he's been he's been riding since you saw him in bahá he rode all of bahá then hit mainland mexico and went south to guanajuato and then covid hit and then he turned back around and he uh met us for this uh great divide better together or miss solitude of solo i mean i like everything you know i got a little bit of a long time at the beginning and now we we are a team did i give kevin tips on packing no kevin had his setup already he's done some bike packing trips right you want to talk about that yeah i'm only doing a couple overnighters so a couple one two three day trips and i also tried rag brye when i met ryan two or three years ago and i like to do a lot of i'm a gearhead so i like to do a lot of research on what can go where what fits so no i didn't need any help on that but i did need help on like food ish i don't know what to carry how much to carry as a pro so it's been really helpful yeah there's a funny question here from ghostrunner colorado dozer what kind of shampoo do you use doesn't my hair look good or what well we all just we're sitting in the river over here for the past hour literally sitting in the river we haven't taken a real shower and maybe four days since pine dale wyoming yeah yeah well what's a real shower anyway yeah what is a real shower yeah no we i haven't used soap in a long time do i smell okay guys yeah none of us think yeah i think we smell good we smell earthy we smell earthy that's healthy healthy we smell healthy is john locked out of canada since they closed the border well that's a good question so yeah i'm trying to answer this simply as possible the answer is no i'm not i with a canadian passport i can i can enter my country they're not going to keep me out the restriction is that i need to quarantine for 14 days uh they monitor that it's not um you're not just sort of left your own devices you have to come in with a plan um there's a contact tracing app you need to download and you need to present that plan to border services before you cross so um it wasn't ready to do that yet yeah so this trip sounded like a lot of fun and and so another lap of the us well the summer's still here i did once yeah you did oh you did what do you think about the the rockies in the west and all this you know you grew up on the east coast yeah i mean it's beautiful i grew up on the east coast so there were some mountains in pennsylvania specifically i was in new jersey and every time we'd go to pennsylvania i'd see mountains but not like this i love the fact that as you're riding around you can just see everything see all sorts of mountains all around you i'm i'm pumped i really like seeing it here's a question for both of you it's um from jason hamula john and kevin is dozer always positive you go first dozer is incredibly positive and he shares and generous which is the thing that you might not see um but he is human on days he has ups and downs but uh it's part of his personality and it's it's it's the one of the best things it's what probably why you guys love him and why it's such a hoot to travel with him he's positive high energy and generous if i had three adjectives that i needed to throw it there why not sexy you're not my type okay fine i guess kevin doesn't know me as well but yeah i haven't spent as much time but i would say you're not very different from your videos i mean yeah just like he said i think you are really positive i think you do just push forward and continue to always have a smile on your face yeah and yesterday was a rough day and kevin had rode 100 miles three days ago and the day after that was pretty tough and i decided to transfer my positive energy to this guy and i just rode beside him for hours just talking to him and when you're in the pain cave and you're alone it's hard because your mind goes to dark places but if you can just keep your mind off the pain and it can be just a simple conversation about anything so i started asking kevin about favorite childhood memories and first kisses and all that stuff and i did that work yeah distracted me yeah i couldn't sit right on my bike but it definitely helped a lot i mean and it's also even if you didn't talk anything just having someone else there while you're suffering makes it a lot better yeah yesterday was a tough day man yesterday was a tough day it was a tough day it was really hot and it was hard and but i gotta tell you the end of yesterday was pretty special we didn't quite know what was gonna happen we have a little resupply list and we saw that this town called savory wyoming had a museum and they might have some food and usually museums have like cracker jacks and maybe soda and we were trying to get there before five because we figured if there is a museum it's probably gonna close at five and we're racing and racing and we're tired and we're all out of water and we get there and it's like a self-serve trail angel museum i threw down my bike and just ran in the door and there was a freezer and sandwiches and Klondike bars and all the sodas you could ever want at a box that said put your money in here everything is one dollar and we were so happy to find that spot and then we ended up camping at the museum it was like an old open-air museum of like uh you know the that late 1800s and 1900s of the mining times it was really pretty special and none of us drink sodas really outside of bike touring but man after it was a hundred degrees consistently we were out there for seven or seven eight hours yeah after that all of us got down and we dropped we down the couple sodas yeah here's one for john how did you like fleecer ridge um did you ride or walk it so give them an explanation of what fleecer ridge is first uh fleecer ridge uh the description is just a a big grassy slope um amazing views this is the place right yeah and then uh and then the funny thing is we looked at our evolution profiles go down and we both thought there might have been an error in the dps file because it just rolls and rolls and rolls and then it's just straight down so we came from the north we both rode up it just got some amazing drone shots from it we had great light and then we rode most of the way down the hill but at a certain point uh it's too steep it's too steep and gravelly so we we were the back tires kept locking up and kept locking up and then we had the front tires started to and then uh we just stopped down here and started to walk so that was actually quite tough the brakes on and uh and tricky walking down the rest of the slope it was coming uh northbound uh heck i have a hike a bike but it's worthwhile i want to talk about covid covid is happening there is a pandemic we are in the middle of nowhere lots of people have been asking questions about if stores are closed or not we've mostly seen every store open it's pretty rare that a restaurant is closed because of covid some stores are more careful than others about wearing masks they'll have a sign on the door that says you have to have a mask to come in all of the shops in the national park area near the titans and yellowstone we're very strict about it um montana some areas were strict white fish was strict wyoming's been a lot more loosey goosey with wearing a mask i imagine tomorrow when we go into colorado it's going to be more strict again but uh the world the small town america seems to be running um you know if you didn't know there was a pandemic going on you you would be like oh life is normal out here right except for those that depend on the right and the races for the two divide that's where we've seen the biggest impact because obviously the race didn't happen so like that little town yesterday they depend on those races coming through and stopping there and they didn't have that they had a lot of extra food yeah that's we have heard that there was a town in montana called ovando and they have a cafe there and she she really relies on people riding this route every year and again it's telling us that their connection is bad are we there everybody oh dear are we live okay there we are what's the longest bike trafficking packing trip you've been on all right let's go back to we're talking about covid in ovando montana yeah so um in that particular place both the race route and the people that are touring on the route go through the town and um it's a it's a good infusion of money for them so they you know that particularly in this time when there's fewer tourists they really uh they're missing they're hurting from the riders not coming through but it's also an understandable thing i mean um people are in most places doing the right thing to try and stop the spread of a disease that we don't yet have an immunity to so yeah it's a painful for people yeah yep absolutely we have the pandemic and now have a hurricane headed our way so hoping to get in lots of rides wow that must be in florida i've heard this pandemic is hitting or the hurricanes hitting florida happened to the internet there's going so well i know happened to the internet there's going so well i know we're still connected all right we're back i'm sorry this connection we are at a farmhouse and we are in the middle of nowhere um quick quick question easier or harder than baha way way easier than baha for sure what do you think john oh yeah yeah yeah way easier um the road surfaces here are pretty plush yeah what do you call it catalog oh catalog gravel yeah yeah yeah that's not totally my term everything's been done uh is the fellow that i watch on youtube so uh that's his but um yeah no it's it's uh some pleasant riding here that's why you can take a gravel bike you'd never make it on a gravel bike in baha you'd be walking yeah yeah too much sand and steep stuff and it definitely pushes the limits of a gravel bike though there was a lot of downhill where these two flew just to get that bigger tires and i had to go real slow and even then i still got a hole in my tire but you can definitely deal with the gravel bike but i'm not going to say it's going to be super plush and comfortable gravel bikes that can handle 2.25 inch tires i would say are ideal a little bit fat a little bit fapping out it's called ladder ranch right here on the border of colorado and they are making us a big dinner right oh i hope so yeah they're making us a big dinner and it's not just for us there's this is a real working ranch and all the ranch hands from around the world they say there's a lot of peruvians here are also coming to dinner so we're we're going to have dinner here a little bit and each meal is ten dollars which is really cool that's pretty cheap and it's all you can eat um mira is the bomb we should get mira in here more mira we've been going for for half an hour how would you rate the technical of the divide the divide is not very technical there are some sections very very small sections that are technical um but uh but not much of it i'm gonna i should talk about the bike so i'm riding the priority 600x it's a prototype bike that we've been dreaming up for the past few months and uh it has been absolutely bombproof i love it it's right here so you know it's still in one piece the pinion and gates drive train has been spectacular we've been riding through mud and dust and it just keeps on going the the belt will squeak a little bit but that's just about it um it squeaks because it gets dust on it and the pinions rocking the the shocks the frame feels good i feel very comfortable on it so when i get home from this ride i'm gonna give all the feedback about this bike we're gonna make it even better right now and then go into production sometime late this year early next year so stay tuned for that the bike has been great and now again the star of the show Mira talk say something more questions about Mira oh we're in Cusco somebody's in Cusco Peru tell the Peruvians Feliz Dia de la Independencia so they independent stay in Peru right how about everybody else's component performance uh you guys are your bikes are pretty solid yeah no issues component wise no i got Shimano 105 for shifting front and back that's been flawless and then hydraulic brakes and those have been flawless to the stock ones and john's riding a big rig so yeah uh sram eagle one by so it's uh 10 to 50 is the range in the back 28 up front the biggest thing for us with Mira on board our brakes so the largest rotors that i can fit in there i need to get even bigger so i have 203 on the front 180 in the back and if we could get some 220s i think we'd be a lot happier yeah we get some hot uh hot breaks from time to time hot breaks hot breaks and hot cakes we've been eating a lot of hot cakes in the morning pancakes are so good first day with us we went and got lunch john and i ate so much food we ate a lot of pizza and kevin was like how can you guys eat so much and i think kevin can understand better now talk about the food stuff i'm still not on your level though you guys their bike and go climb up a hill i tried that it was yesterday i tried that i tried to eat as much as you guys i did and then we hopped on the bike and it was horrible yesterday sucked i am able to eat a lot more it's just one of those things after a couple days you just start you're just ravenous and you're constantly you can just keep eating and the energy you're expending it's not matched by what you're putting in so you can just keep eating but i'm still not on your level of being able to just eat a huge meal and hop on the bike afterwards i feel so gross i love it the last couple days i've had a burrito and pancakes um let's see about mirror riding versus running i think okay talk about that yeah so uh mirror's a pretty fit dog and her breed uh border carly healer is uh is a herding dog so they let run lots i try to keep it down to somewhere between 12 and uh 20 miles in a day 20 being the high side and the rest of the time she's uh in the box but i do keep an eye on on surfaces and uh she wants to go and uh her paws we gotta make sure that those stay nice and healthy and and not torn up because the ash hot asphalt or rough surfaces can um wreak havoc with your paws can't they say how do your fans they're all looking at you right now they are you're the most famous dog on youtube oh mirror is the best first and second second breakfast on tour you bet what is the best moment so far for you all one of my favorite most memorable moment woke up four days ago and it was a little hazy and the sky was dark and then the sun started breaking through the horizon and it was bright pink and it was beautiful and then i looked the to the opposite side and there was a rainbow so there was like this beautiful sunset on one side and then a rainbow and i'd never seen that type of sunrise in my life and then it rained all day that was one of my best memories kevin oh sweet mine was actually that same day i would say pine dale surprising us because we woke up it was a beautiful sunrise then it just riding through mud and cold all morning we probably i don't know how many miles we did it was all morning then we rode into this town that we thought was another 20 miles away and we thought it'd be this tiny little thing and it ended up being an amazing little town pine dale wyoming had everything had a hotel so we were able to dry off all of our stuff to watch all of our stuff had awesome food had ice cream had a bike shop had awesome people that was a really fun experience what about you john uh you had lots of stories about the people for sure but uh seeing the wild horses across the they were galloping and then they ran across the road in front of us maybe uh 50 meters but uh yeah that was spectacular to see the wild horses in wyoming and if you want to see some of what we're seeing follow my instagram at dozer what's yours kevin at kev does kev does insta and then you guys all know i don't have one but little girl does and uh it's mira underscore la underscore perra yeah and all that stuff is linked um if you go to any my you or instagram photos they're all linked in it you can find that stuff have i seen have we seen a ufo i don't think we've seen any ufos but the sky has been beautiful and the the moon is getting bigger and that's always fun when the moon is so bright but we might see ufos in new mexico because that's where area 51 is so that would make sense that um that's where we see them grateful heretics says the sheriff pulled me over after sizing me up for a couple of months with my bicycle camper wagon and a class one hitch turned out to be a social call through though he was just curious it's one of a kind that sounds like a crazy thing hi from taiwan what's up brently how you doing buddy how much does john miss tim hortons and poutine uh poutine i've had in uh organ recently so that was good and timmies i don't believe the hype uh there's better coffee out there sorry sorry what other questions do we have um these guys may want to do crazy shit that's right ghost runner go do some crazy stuff is it more about the journey or is it the destination oh that's so deep for me for everything i do it's the journey it's every day it's the present moment it's it's been pretty good yeah it's not that bad can you guys hear me are we are we on are we out are we live this thing keeps on cutting out anyway uh it is it's every day in the present moment i love and i feel so grateful and happy to be out here this is a dream in the making ten years in the making and to be actually out here doing it with my friends creating memories meeting new people seeing rainbow sunrises is absolutely spectacular the destination is exciting it's always fun to get to the finish line but in the moment i really try to appreciate what i'm seeing in that moment and not get stuck with thinking oh i still have 17 more days of this this is so long or whatever i really enjoy the moment what about you guys yeah i would say it's a journey for me too because once we get to my destination it's just a flight back home so i have to make sure that i try to soak in every bit that i can of this right every mountain every person that we meet every little animal we see on the side of the road i gotta make that soak that up and try to remember it yeah because what happens in like eight days eight days i go back home and back to work this is a dream this is my my vacation hello wells it is the quietest southern border crossing in the continental us and it's even closed right now so that's not the destination yeah yeah it's actually an interesting place to finish a tour usually i finish in a town with a city and food in an airport we're going to be finishing in the middle of nowhere so if anybody wants to come pick us up in antelope wells new mexico and drive us back to boulder maybe even canada hit me up because we might just have to turn around and ride our bikes back home all right i love this philosophy y'all sleep the best in a tent yes we do sleep really well in a tent how do you determine the distance for each day that's a good question sometimes if we know there's a town that's in a reasonable distance we like to get to a town because that means water and food and resources if it's 150 miles between places then we just camp at the most beautiful place we can find and for me personally on all my tours i look for water i love jumping in water at the end of the day in a river or in a pond and just cleaning off i don't like sleeping all sticky and nasty so that's kind of how we determine is it would you guys that yeah i would say so and i mean today's a good example of i'm just breaking down so it's one of those things you don't have anywhere specifically to be on time i mean at some points we do but right now we had a day that we could expend so we took a bit of a shorter day today just because i couldn't sit on my bike so yep but tomorrow yeah we're back on ladies and gentlemen water's gonna be scarce in new mexico yes it will be i'm gonna be putting on much bigger water bottles on my bike in new mexico um global warming is the hoax okay covid not so much um when do you expect to be in antelope wealth i don't know three ish weeks from now probably at this pace right some of that yeah guys we're gonna go in there's a question you want to answer do you guys sing out loud when you ride yes we all sing you know me i'm singing all the time and making noises and oh lay and whoop the do's and all that stuff kevin what are you saying yeah what do i sing i sing whatever's on my mind and there's random little tiny snippets of songs i don't know the words of all the songs but it's just a little bit that i sing out yeah and then john is always singing salindione always every day that's his favorite i don't i don't hear john singing very often but john has been a very good participant in the state line happy dances he's been great but i i do sing should we have a vote beard no beard yeah are we back online i have no idea there you go okay i think we're back online how has the power hub been working it works okay john has a much more powerful dynamo power hub that and so what we're talking about is that the actual hub of my front bike this right here generates power and you can plug a phone into it or whatever and it will charge your devices john has a really nice expensive dynamo hub and it it charges a lot more than than mine mine is a little less expensive but they're expensive they're like five hundred dollars and you have to get it laced into your wheel and stuff so i don't know if we will choose to use that in the production model of this bicycle sometimes solar is easier or even just those battery packs those 20 milla 20 000 milliamp battery packs can charge your phone like six times so that's pretty solid um do you ever experience any kind of humps during bike tours mine is usually the third day so i usually start off light to not overstress myself at the yeah just wake up and you're just not feeling it you're like oh gosh and it might not even because it's a hard route it's just like you know you're just you didn't sleep well or you have a kink in your neck or you're thinking about you know the broncos and how bad they suck you know you never know okay somebody said masks are required in public in new mexico yes i we have assumed that we know that the uh the rules going to new mexico are pretty tight and we will monitor that as we get closer tomorrow we go into colorado and we will spend the next seven days riding through colorado up and down mountains and that should be great it's my home state i'm excited to show these guys john has never been to colorado so this is his first time doing this and um we've been live for 45 minutes so let's do another five you guys ask your questions and then we're going to go get ready for dinner we're going to have a great ranch dinner okay uh red night at sky red you guys when will you go back will you go back later and do the canadian side when the doors open again maybe that's a long way to go just for like 250 miles that's that's all that's in the canadian part but i would like to go there and visit john and just ride mountain bikes and all their amazing trails are you riding by boulder nope the route does not go by boulder am i doing rag bride this year there is no rag bride this year uh next year for sure kevin and i are um do you miss your bed uh no actually i like sleeping outside i really do and it's interesting because i you know you sleep outside and you have fresh air and it's nice and cool and then we we get a hotel and it feels kind of stuffy it's like this is like too hot and stuffy and all these guys are farting and the air is contaminated i'd rather be outside what are you saying mr bean mr bean hey my stomach is used to digesting beans i don't fart how is your mom i bet she is missing you my mom is doing great and she will come meet us in a few days in colorado when they drop off dana with zanthus so i get to see my mom in a few days which will be great are you starting the day with no crashies no flaties no whammies yes yes yes every day every day you have to ward off the evil spirits and that's how you do it um let's see yeah i think best most memorable concert you've all ever been to okay um i went i saw nirvana when i was a freshman in high school kevin i saw toby noigwi in a bar in st paul about a year ago okay john uh tragically hip in hamilton ontario wow okay all right i like it um superstitious and happy what a fun combination wish i was there i wish you all were here we're at a beautiful beautiful ranch um how was your life and uh what's the halfway point if you ride a bike in the moon would you is the iphone good enough to make video of my journey okay so i was talking about the other riders we've met on the great divide trail whether there's much fewer than normal but we've probably seen 20 yeah you know going north and south there's actually you know more riders than i've ever seen on another bike tour so there's a lot of riders out there one of these questions was would i ride a bike on a moon on the moon yeah i'd ride my bike on the moon that sounds like a great place to start a bike packing route and when am i doing a live stream again whenever i get good wi-fi and is the iphone good enough to make videos of your journey it sure is and what's the halfway point we're a little bit past the halfway point so we are we're cruising now and now it's time for to end this off with me just a little moment of zen with the sweetest dog yeah you're so sweet we're gonna ride bikes tomorrow i don't think it's gonna be so fun every day we get up she's so sweet right now look at those little licks she's so great we wake up and she is always psyched oh travis thank you buddy i appreciate it appreciate it so much thank you guys for sharing with us all good night from michigan thanks to the library i much love next time arranged to swap cars at the end okay i think we're back online for a little bit i just want to say goodbye thank you all so much for watching my channel and supporting and this whole ride and all my rides and supporting us we have been filming a ton stay tuned for all that sometime in mid to late august or no no mid to late september and i hope you're all doing wonderful and staying safe and my mom i love you too mom and we will see you in a few days do you want to say any shout outs to people you love love jazz love god good that's great yeah thanks to this whole community it's uh it's it's amazing how you're taking uh mirate in and you john do we get some more money all right on monica thank you so much i appreciate it this money that you're giving me will be spread out evenly between us and we will uh we'll get some good junk food in your honor so thank you all so much have a wonderful saturday and we will see you maybe we can do another live shot in a week