Is here for anyone who is interested.
Bromptons - the type of thing you see upper-middle class boys wrestling with around Shetland 😉
What an adventure. Brilliant shots & vistas. Wicked film.The best I've seen for ages 🙂
Is the packraft from Lomo? I need one of those now!
an unusual bike/ canoe trip but a great video - I now feel inspired to do something similar
cracking trip, well done!
Very impressive.
excellent!!
ra ra ra, ra ra.
Awesome. Inspiring. Amazing.
Wow I feel very inspired well done
excellent
That's a great little film. Can I ask what equipment you used for filming. How did you achieve the smooth tracking shots?
Simply brilliant film.
Heading up there in 4 weeks time for two weeks and cannot wait.
Got to ask, what did you use for the panning shots?
I used a glidetrack made from IGUS parts for the sliding shots (don't go there).
I don't know who makes the pakrafts...they were a friends.
Shot with 2 Canon 5D mk2's.
Go on http://www.alastairhumphreys.com/video/ lots of great vids on there
Visual poetry.
Wow, great little film, beautifully shot.
Visual poetry indeed.
nice vid! 🙂
Absolutely outstanding! Your composition is perfect, you have a first-class eye for a good shot, great light and great music to enhance the scene. If you ever wanted a job as a cameraman or producer this film would be your passport.
Friends of mine made, they think, the second ever recorded crossing by kayak from Shetland to Foula. It took seven hours going out and five coming back. I'm going to send them the link to your video.
Excellent effort guys, really well done.
A lovely video and a great sense of achievement 😀
Top. Just Top.
Well done.
Really enjoyed that !
Brilliantly done 🙂
Chris
Really, really good travelogue and so much more interesting than yet another helmet cam bumpity bumpity down the track video.
In the first shot of the ginger haired fella (is that you?) in the boat he really looked like he'd accepted that this was going to be his last recorded moment on this earth and that certain death awaits.
Great wee film
Great film - very inspiring!
Excellent film, well done. 🙂
Best thing I've seen in an age. Many thanks.
Magnificent!
Thanks for sharing your adventure.
Nice one lads..
good video.
This is fantastic: thanks for sharing!
Riding and paddling, very nice mix.
The boats are these;
https://www.alpackaraft.com/
There's a few blogs around with water and bike trips eg Pugsleys in Alaska and others.
fantastic lads, hats off
Cool,
takes me back to growing up there, think i've been on all those roads at one time or another. i remember pronouncing it Unst rather than Ooonst.
Ace 🙂
I don't want a packraft,
I don't want a packraft,
I don't want a packraft,
I don't want a packraft,
I don't want a packraft,
I don't want a packraft,
I don't want a packraft,
Great vid lads
Great video, the slider/dolly type thing really adds a touch of class and there's some very nicely composed shots.
Though I also thought the reference to middle-class city boys was a little bit sneery sounding, what's the matter - they too common for you? 😛
A great short film. Thanks for sharing.
Gets my vote for a Singletrack award.
Great video, thanks a lot
I felt that I 'needed' a packraft but soon got over it when I saw the price!
[url= https://www.alpackaraft.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=store.catalog&CategoryID=&ProductID=66 ]How Much!?![/url]
Good vid!
Great film, really nice composition. Well done.
Really nice
I like that. Well done.
Might take my Brompton out for a bit of tour after seeing that.
Fantastic!
Great adventure, stunning scenery and wildlife - all really well filmed.
Definately one of the best 'biking' films I've seen.
DON'T go touring on a Brompton. It was so slow it was terrible. On the last day, we argued over going a poxy 12 miles out of our way and both of us have pretty much been round the world by bike (Al has completely been round the world).
that was pleasant, enjoyed watching that
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don't try to be/ sound like Brian Cox though
Bromptons - the type of thing you see upper-middle class boys wrestling with around Shetland
+1
Plus, I hope you informed the coastguard of your plans to take packrafts across those sounds.
No, no, please don't encourage this sort of behaviour folks, it's not big and it's not clever. 😐
Joe, you and your mate need sectioning. I'm sorry but someone had to say it...
Definately one of the best 'biking' films I've seen.
+1. Best vid I've ever seen posted on here.
Brilliant - simply brilliant.
A great memory to treasure I'm sure
Plus, I hope you informed the coastguard of your plans to take packrafts across those sounds.
Most likely in as much the same way that the many hundreds of windsurfers, rowers, sea kayakers, swimmers, kite surfers do on my local beach.
Letting just anyone know where you were/are/going to be, and 'checking in' would be enough.
Much the same way as me going mtbing on my own.
Great vid; wish I was a doer like this rather than a dreamer (scaredy cat).
My biggest worry would have been losing that precariously strapped kit off the raft
I was on the same ferry back from Shetland as you guys. Slept on the floor of the quiet lounge between the back two rows of seats 🙂 I was interested in what you might have been up to when you were checking your luggage in. Lol.
I was on the same ferry back from Shetland as you guys. Slept on the floor of the quiet lounge between the back two rows of seats I was interested in what you might have been up to when you were checking your luggage in. Lol.
Haha. It is a small world. We were shattered and made the quiet lounge look a little bit of a mess lying all over the floor. We upset some of the motorcyclists when we were checking in as I made a joke about them being smelly and some of them got really arsey.
*like*
I really enjoyed your vid Joe, beautifully shot. Well done.
Lovely video!
Rachel
Fantastic!
Best vid I've seen for ages. Well done sirs.
you should send this into those bbc (or other) 5 minute films. Its sure to get shown because its so brilliant!
Sublime spoof....
Where did you go really?
SB
Nice vid. How did you do those tracking shots? They look a bit smooth for hand held.
So it looks well over £1000 for a packraft set up 🙁
Fantastic very inspiring thank you for posting
agree with yesiamtom
this film deserves to be seen by a lot more people
You didn't get all the way to Muckle Flugga then? You must be gutted
😉
Beautiful piece of film....
Great film, a beautiful adventure!
My 3 year old daughter sat and watched it with me, she was very impressed with the sheep and puffins!
Great. Submit it too Kendal Mountain Film Festival. It is your duty.
You probably get the idea by now, but that was just awesome. An absolute gem of a video, worth every single bit of praise its received.
What was the tune as you set out in your packcrafts??
I know it, I just can't place it.. (other than in Harry Brown)
Cracking film..
Very, very good.
Yep, enjoyed that !
like
Enjoyed.
Nice film!
Teetosugars - Cinematic Orchestra - all things to all men
Loved it. How did you get that seagull to swoop across as the boat was going past?
Have you thought of sending it to XXCmag.com? It's just their cup of tea.
Superbly brilliant - thanks for sharing that.
Joe - First dibs on renting your boat please?
having myself done the c2c and Lejog on a Brompton - adding in a kayak is taking it to the next level!
Top job chaps 😉 Nice film!
ps Brompton World Champs.. 21st of this month
That was lovely to watch - impossible not to want to plan an adventure again now! I don't know anything about film-making but it looked great to me.
Saw the end credits and thought Alastair Humphreys sounded familiar... going to find 'Moods of Future Joys' and 'Thunder and Sunshine' on my bookshelf - two great books that happen to tell the story of a very long round the world ride. Honest, unvarnished, inspiring and highly recommended, IMO.
Great vid, one day I'll do something as special as that with my son.
'Moods of Future Joys' and 'Thunder and Sunshine' on my bookshelf - two great books that happen to tell the story of a very long round the world ride.
Agreed. Well worth getting hold of - http://www.alastairhumphreys.com/books/
Great film. Makes me want to both plan an adventure and get a tracking rail for the camera!
Superb video, and a great adventure. Thanks for lifting us out of the humdrum and confirming my intention to do a big trip next year!
Al is a great guy and its well worth reading his books. He really isn't up his arse like a lot of so called 'adventurers'
Wow - I cannot believe how busy this forum is!
I have [I confess] never been to this site until a vanity Google Alert for our video brought me here.
I'm really pleased so many people like Jo's video. I think it's really good and he really worked hard to pull it off.
The Bromptons were a really fun way to travel and a great addition to the packrafts.
Packrafts are something I have really come to enjoy. You only need something as expensive as the Alpackas if you're planning on doing Grade 4 / 5 whitewater a long way from potential help.
For everything else it's worth looking at Flytepacker / Sevylor or even a cheap rubber dinghy.
If anyone is looking for someone to film an impressive bike-related film I really can recommend Jo. Give him a call (as long as you're willing to pay - he's too good for free!)
Cheers everyone for the positive comments.
Alastair Humphreys
Oi Humphreys bugger off back to Thorntree 😛
Oh like the vid - gave me something to do in the office and killed a few hours daydreaming 😉