🎙️ Episode Notes – FKT Challenges

Ali & Mat (Trip Longer) – The Great Northern Bikepacking Route

In this episode, I sit down with Ali and Mat from Trip Longer—two riders who’ve built their lives around long-distance bike travel, spending over a decade exploring the world by bike.

In 2024, they took on one of the biggest bikepacking routes out there: the Great Northern Bikepacking Route. Stretching from the Pacific to the Atlantic, it’s a massive, mostly off-road line across Canada that throws everything at you—mountain terrain, prairie wind, unpredictable weather, long remote stretches, and the mental grind that comes with months on the bike.

They didn’t set out chasing a record, but over the course of roughly 140 days, they completed what’s likely the fastest crossing of the route by a pair. Still, this conversation  ...