My Top Tips for PBP!

Getting ready for PBP? Here are my Top Tips for a successful ride, based on my experience finishing the event three times (2007, 2011 and 2015).

Stay tuned until the end for Tara's Tips--recommendations from PBP veteran and friend of the channel Tara Flanagan!

To see expanded videos on these tips and a wide range of other PBP-related topics, check out my entire PBP Tips series:

If you would like information on the Drop Bag service may friends and I are providing for North American riders in 2023, check out this info page:

[johnpart]

Eric made a great and comprehensive series of every topic under the PBP sun. Extremely valuable. You would be an idiot to take part and not to watch the videos. I found them enormously useful for which im eternally grateful.

[whichwayiszigzag]

You two are a riot! I love seeing people having fun on bikes. PBP is on my bucket list now.

[markflajsner]

Living in France I can tell you the French adore cycling (even if more from an armchair perspective) and even more so the Tour de France, every year there are millions of people lining the roads very enthusiastically cheering the riders on whatever the nationality. It's indeed the same for PBP, even if the event is a 'couple' of notches down from the TdF, they are happy, proud etc to welcome, encourage everybody with cheering, clapping and offerings of free refreshments in this act of endurance. They are doing their best to make the experience more of a memorable event.

[elinser]

Appreciate the videos Eric! See you in Rambouillet & Loudéac. Bonne route et santé!

[ellywiner]

Thank you so much. I've been watching your tips for a couple of years and they've got me to the start line ready to go!

[darren]

Thanks for the tips and the bag drop signup link, Eric!

[kevinw]

Another great video, Eric, thanks for sharing your tips!

[shreddy]

Eric, very useful videos, thank you. Have you ever ridden or considered riding LEL?

[bstephens]

Just curious - were you able to do PBP this year?

[johnkieffer]

Do you load the PBP 2023 route on Wahoo or your Garmin? Is there an official route to download. I have a Wahoo. Thanks

[wazzup]

Does talking friends out of their misery and back on the bike count as being productive time? :-) No really, at some point you have to decide you're moving on without them as hard as it is to leave a friend behind. (a true friend would understand, but what if s/he rides on without you).

[semnome]

Another tip, don't ride and film with only one and on handlebar.