First episode of the 2024 tour of Europe, me aboard the #cb500x and my brother aboard his #r1200rt
Travelling through France on day one down to #Reims and staying at a love trucker stop……..
[Music] let’s go the faffing begins what’s this trip number seven [Music] all right we’re off anyway I’m I’m I’m faffing so let’s just break this uh the back of this camel off whatever it is horse camel monkey hamster whatever sky this morning so I’m on the A 24 i’m making my way to first the petrol station as you can see um and then all the way down to do for the ferry and then making our way down to Harass to go to the old racetrack always wanted to go so it’ be cool um what else yeah they’re finding somewhere to stay cuz I haven’t actually booked anywhere yet but it’s only me so it’s not like if I try to find space for eight people just me and myself yeah it’s about 500 miles i reset my trip pump stop numero uno let’s see how we go oh Jesus look at the [Â __Â ] queue [Music] welcome to the UK’s motorways but oh look they’ve closed the road this is going to be great get to the front bomb it away oh [Â __Â ] they’re [Â __Â ] bad oh mate thanks for stopping you’re just going to load this up and then uh I’ll start releasing traffic no worries thank you [Music] anyway so this is Dra where famously Jake Dixon comes from from Moto 2 definitely pole position don’t even put my foot down docks all right we’re on a K anyway kamin on a day messy that way this way yeah [Â __Â ] really oh [Â __Â ] a duck thank you nice bit of fisting morning bit fresh today isn’t it right well have a lovely day cheers i will onwards and upwards 149 keep going here we are 149 all alone oh that will do first on where do you want me look at that i’m here i’m on board on the ferry we’re moving finally we go into the port now to see quite busy now loads of people i still haven’t got electric for the EU so he’s going to do that in a minute i’m letting it calm down of what oh and there we are we’re now on French land driving on the right driving the right driving the right drive on the right short day exceed come on then hurry up oh yes yes yes yes this is lovely absolutely lovely oh so glad to be here 44 km and 27 minutes until I come off so I need to pass for a ticket toll booth in 0 m of course it is cuz I can see it how smooth the French roads are it’s makes our roads look oh awful they’re so smooth [Â __Â ] sake why would you come behind me i made a decent way shopping center drive how the [Â __Â ] do we get in there straight on [Music] there’s a motorcycle there it’s got to be [Â __Â ] near enough look at those beauties a supermarket shop done some uh bondage tape at the flunk flunk already loads of plugs on the helmet but I made it made it to the supermarket and I bought things trouble though cuz I pushed through the barriers cuz I couldn’t find my receipt oh well he did ask whether I wanted to receive but no there he goes so onwards and upwards got to attach my bags again now it’s time to get some fuel please remove your smart card before refilling your vehicle just selected 10 all right let’s [Â __Â ] pump this [Â __Â ] thing full let’s shut that i just want to reiterate how good the roads are here look at this this is just this is a slip road to a motorway look how smooth it is do you see any bubble not a single bubble oh oh if only were like this look at that oh it’s so sweet and then let’s go [Music] wow [Music] behind me slow right down there it is oh man how cool is that it reminds me a lot of Goodwood how cool that is oh got to come back around Jesus so here is sentiment to uh rest racrack what’s left of it part of the circuit pit lane over there how cool that is made it got to head back that way though now here’s my bike made it all this way absolutely freezing now though freeze my tits off going to go have a look over there as well see what’s behind all this bit uh there she is swapped over sides got to the other side that’s where bike is there’s a plaque up here i need to read it later when I have a moment yeah oh look at this so this is your BP like stand look at that slippery look at that that’s so cool oh my god i need to get a picture there the roads have been you know boring but clean nothing come that way after this one we’re going to go it’s not doing too bad except for if you look at this i stopped at petrol station the signs are so [Â __Â ] [Â __Â ] i overshot the [Â __Â ] petrol station i couldn’t get back to it so the next one’s 43 km away absolute [Â __Â ] that’s 43 km 25 miles fingers crossed i’ve so [Â __Â ] up so yeah missing our petrol station we managed to do 40 miles on this last little bar and it has not been doing that well so I thought this meant to do 300 miles to a tank do you know what probably get about 150 12 miles it’s a long way to walk oh look love that train set flying along i like me oh this is not fun you join me at now 4.2 miles away from the petrol station sky is absolutely stunning over there i mean look at that i just then [Â __Â ] lose concentration because it does cut out i just need to pull the clutch in and just roll as far as I can i got my arm tucked in here i’m behind this lorry 3.6 miles 3.5 yeah just waiting for that moment where it just cuts out and I pull the lever to just see how far I roll hopefully at the top of a hill 3.3 I I think I’ve pushed it now 160 miles i read books that say 250 to 300 like no [Â __Â ] chance look I’ll show you how many miles I’ve done on two tanks 333 miles on two tanks well look at that 2 miles it’s downhill here i mean could be a mile of downhill oh yeah found me fell here we go come on 7 of a mile i can see it now [Â __Â ] me i’ve made it i’ve definitely made it now cuz I can just roll it that 2 mile push it the rest oh my god oh my god oh my god stunning clouds let’s put some juice in the old girl the French people probably think I’m absolutely nuts talking to myself instead look at that oh my god that is sexual so I’m now off motorways for the rest of the trip which is good cuz that cost me a [Â __Â ] fortune not sure I’ve discovered the mean of life but I have discovered my hotel see you can’t really see a sign it’s too bright see bites in one piece still uh yeah there we go yeah that sign is absolutely glowing there you go hotel the Baldens all right we’re going to check in i am also hungry so I want to see if I can get some food oh the GoPro is it recording yeah I got it on GoPro as well right going in [Music] heat heat [Music]