EP.2 || ”’Oh, that’s bad…” First crash on the Swedish TET and a change of plan.

You are watching episode 2 of 7 of my Northern European off-road adventure ‘To Hel and Back’
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In this episode I wake up after an anxious night in Southern Sweden. I get cold, hide from the rain and change my plans. Hell is off the table?

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00:00 on this episode
00:50 leaving camp
03:02 connected to TET Sweden
05:30 Cold in Hell chat
06:39 ABS off – gravel trails
08:36 Start of Day 4
11:20 Change of plans
13:50 Near crashes w/ Morten from Denmark
18:05 split up and bad pun.
19:35 sneaky route thanks to OSMand.
21:00 spotting animals
24:40 drone practice
26:30 crash #1
28:50 camp day 4
29:03 outro and reflection

829 km so far So this is just a connecting road to the TET (Trans European Trail) Good morning to day three. We did 250 kilometers yesterday from the ferry to a campsite near Ljungby . which I will show you right now So we’re at a lake and it’s f*cking cloudy.

When we arrived here yesterday when I arrived here yesterday fuck. So… Good morning! We just made some oats and some complaining, and I realized I have a tent which I wanted to put in here, but my tent cannot stand on its own. And right now I need to take this turn

To connect to the TET Yes. We are on the Trans-European Trail again. and it is spacious out here. i mean, look at it. fields for days. it is a lot colder then yesterday 15 degrees and windy. All righty. Bring it in. Willie Nelson on the road again.

I can’t wait to be on the road again. Well, technically, we’re going to be going off the road again another 122 kilometers today, maybe even more. It all depends on the weather, because as you can see, it is hella gray out there. It’s windy. It is not too cold. 16 degrees.

And usually I ride, easily in 16 degrees But this wind is just throwing me off my guard It’s gonna be even worse when we get to Hell which is.. uhhh… I don’t know, top of my head, like a 1000 km maybe even more, north from here. like 300 kilometers from the Arctic Circle.

But hey.. We will see It’s just insane. These colors are just. Oh, oh, that looks cold *mumbles* Sometimes the route just looks like it’s sending you into someone’s backyard But.. than this happens! Yeah. Now we’re going to turn off the ABS. Uphill turns…. woah

Voice over: At this point the GoPro died again. And the weather was looking a bit grim. voice over: We did find this pretty cool forest track though. voice over: But once inside there, the navigation lost signal.. and I got lost for a bit.

Eventually we found our way again.. but the clouds were packing in above me. So I decided to pack in the camera gear It just doesn’t work so well in the rain – and head for a campsite.

And we finished the day with just over 300 km on the clock. Good morning. We are on the road again, a bit of a late one today. We have to do some adjusting of the plan. oooh, look at that.. a frikkin’ rainbow Talk about signs, jezus christ

Made the decision to leave Sweden and not go to Norway. And then, uh. Yep, yep, yep, yep. Double rainbow! which also means rain… but damn We are back on the Swedish TET . Last bit. Let’s find a nice spot to tell you about the new plan.

There’s supposed to be a viewpoint here. In about four kilometers. So let’s see if we can find that ‘Klintens Utsikt’ Careful now.. Owh.. idiot. Passed It right there. Just turn around. Should we be a dick and just go down? Let’s first see if we can go down, with the bike.

I think so, yeah. We could park it over there. Friendly voice: Hello. How are you? No, we just gotta not ride into the water. here we go… Oh, Let’s get you up to speed. While I have myself a…. *annoying noise* .. a croissant! f*cking hell, what a spot

Let me just show you real quick. That is nice. I’m going to give you a visual representation of what the weather is like way north, where I want to go to this place called ‘Hell’ Just north of Trondheim

I’m not sure if I can get a like a graphic in here, but if I can, it will be right here Well, the weather there…. it this.. I’m not sure you can see that it’s bad (the weather) Imagine things motorcyclists like.. clear skies like these So there’s plenty of sight.

So there’s plenty of grip. So there’s not too much mud because I mainly ride off-road and I don’t want to get stuck. These things are all quite new to me wet roads, rain, wind, mud… It’s all very bad. These are things I don’t like as a motorcyclist. And second of all,

There are things which I dont like as a solo-camper which is rain and wetness and all this stuff. It doesn’t just doesn’t dry . Everything I have is packed on the bike.. (so it gets wet) So a decision has been made, A ferry has been booked

And we are abandoning the whole ‘HELL’ idea. We booked a ferry departing from Stockholm tomorrow and we’re going to go to Estonia. Vocal: Estoooniaiaaa and right now we are going to have A ‘Kanelbullar’ Not sure how you say that.. (but not like this)

Gonna try to take some pictures of Tammy (the Yammy) and then we continue on our way. F*ck that’s good I completely forgot. Today is Day 4! And we started of at 1130 km because we already did some KM today. We met a new friend.. say ‘Hi Morten’ Morten: ‘lead the way’

After you, sir. Morten from Denmark is riding a TransAlp. The bike doesn’t have to be expensive. easy now… That was almost the thumbnail! wait till he sees me… He’s right behind me Oh, yeah. What a view! f*cking hell the scenery, though. Second gear Push the bike down… Keep the weight up top..

Very dark clouds in the sky. The wind is picking up too oowwaahh.. f*ck! Oh, that was on camera. We’re good. Well that almost took a very wrong turn Morten and I have split up by now probably for the best he’ll continue along the swedish TET – further west

And I’m gonna continue east – towards Stockholm Stay safe Morten Just had lunch At this really cute spot And we need to fuel up. Of course now it’s raining, this way *something Swedish* but look at it. look how cute and quaint this little village is..

With the boats there, the little red houses everywhere the graveyard is also cute I’m gonna miss Sweden Here we go. Nav says 2.5 hours to go Would you look at that.. the sun is even piping through oowh, cool Volvo Let’s say… WHEELSPIN! I’m not sure what this means

But there’s some tracks So.. on we go I was just going to say this is no longer the TransEuropean Trail. This is a route generated by OSMand And you can say that you prefer off-road. See, this is what I mean when I say like, sometimes it feels like you’re

Just driving in somebody’s backyard. Things we are not supposed to do (2x) (Pedestrian bridge) over the train tracks… That’s cool. Go camera. Go. Is it on? (3x) Do you see it? There! That was a f*cking big ass moose or something I thought it was a horse. Three, three, three. Oh shit.

Now we’re turning around… I read something about this. I think you’re supposed to make, like, a lot of noise. It was just right there wasn’t it? I think it went into the forest. All right.. Stay sharp, buddy. Cuz if one of those just jumps out of here.. that is me done-zo

That’s a nice stretch. Lovely nice curvy road. Eaaassyy… ‘be your own ABS’ These are freshly laid gravels.. and they’re a bit more jumpy because they’re not here, you see… because they’re not ridden in yet. So they’re great for wheelspin Cuz it doesn’t eat the tire as much. but if you

Need to break in a corner well… forget about traction! So I’m doing off-road whilst seated.. Did you see that? I hope there wasn’t a splash on the GoPro. three or four little deer, just right there.. Maybe I asked someone to wait for me there..

Can you like release the deer when you hear my engine? that was dope though! this is amazing. this view another great idea for a drone shot… but it’s just too windy. It’s still raining a little bit. It’s not my drone DJI, please send me a drone.

I promise I will only crash it once There’s space here.. There’s not too much wind. alright, it’s time to move on this next sequence was supposed to be normal video but i accidentally recorded a timelapse instead And I was talking about Golden Hour Creating my own ABS

And then I made a big ‘oopsie’ f*ck oh that’s bad… f*ck (#2) big crash f*ck (#3) *bike not going intro Neutral* *sighs in relief* Alright.. Well, that was all a bit dramatic. The crash not being able to capture it with the GoPro because I had it on picture mode and then the haphazard

Editing of the Insta360 content, which put the crash on there. But still, it’s like.. meeehh And as you can imagine, the ride back the ride back after the crash I was a bit shook up. I still had to go for like a good hour, like 50 kilometers. I could smell gasoline.

I could feel my wrist cramp up a little bit. My windscreen was broken. The little protector in between, it was in shatters. So it was all a bit.. you know, I knew going into this adventure that I was going to crash.

But to have it happen the way it did still caught me off guard and it still shook me up pretty bad and still bruised my ego. And the next 50 kilometers, I really had to like, I was really, like, just basically breathing

To to calm myself down, to tell myself it’s going to be fine. It’s going to be all right. I have this cabin booked. oooowhh Gonna sleep like a baby…. Don’t be alarmed… had a little crash.. But everything is alright..