Brompton london to vienna 6

on the tgv dashing towards Germany

Nice to see the sun again today prop Beau morning okay so the bike they won’t take the bike on the train unless it’s in a bag so there’s my bag now got to get said bicycle into his head bag still got like 40 minutes before the train comes so that’s

Good spirits are real pain man but when we get to the Alps they’re going to be cool okay so everything has to be as luggage this is where the folding bik is King cuz if I don’t have a folding B now it would not have let me on the train

To take a special train that would have been a mission and another 16 or whatever it was not that this was cheap this was €120 justb but it’s it’s like 8 600 km so I suppose it’s not too bad um all right so short little trip to

The station today got my ticket sorted on the tgv to storg which is about 6 or 700k I don’t know the exact distance from where I am I think I’m in L just short of L at this stage in France yeah I decided not to do the the 15 days of

Riding through France and at what was at this stage sort of between 30 and 40° it was warm and the biggest problem I found in France was the lack of water it’s very difficult to get water in this in this country so yeah it was a little bit

Challenging you sort of had to stop and ask people at their homes or sort of at like service stations and stuff like that so it was a bit of a mission and yeah also I came I wanted to see the mountains man I wanted to ride up in the

Alps and and see the black forest and I didn’t really like feel like wasting half of my trip um just riding through the flat lands of France you know through all the the fields and the farmlands and everything it was yeah so I decided to go to Germany and it was a

It was a good decision it was a little bit of a mission um obviously getting the bike onto the train although with the bromton it’s super easy cuz you just fold it up and take it on but the problem was I had so much luggage that

I’ve now got to carry the bike in one hand and literally carry 20 kilos of luggage in the other hand and then walk you know walking not far but I mean you still got to walk to get onto the train you got to carry all that stuff and you got to

Carry it one shot you can’t you can’t just take like piece and stick it on and come back and fetch the other piece you know so it was a little bit of a mission but sure having the bromton definitely made it a lot easier and you’re obtainable because you could actually we

Were allowed to go onto the on the train with the bromton had to put this bag on which was great for bromton to make such a wonderful thing and included in the price of the bike but boy man to get this thing to fit and I mean I haven’t

Really modified anything on this bike it always seems to be a case of whenever they make a bag they they make it like two sizes too small that the thing will never ever fit around the bike again okay here I’ve got it the wrong way around so that didn’t help but yeah once

I got it the right way around it was still a serious flip and Mission to get the thing on you know eventually I sort of half zipped at the back and just had the wheel sticking out the bottom but if you try get onto an airplane or something with that there’s no way

They’re going to let you on into this bag so yeah I don’t know Brompton how this thing is supposed to fit around the bike but there’s no way this bag was going around that bike but anyway they left me on the train which was the main thing So eventually eventually I got it

And had a day to sit and watch the scenery at 200ks an hour whatever the tgv goes it was awesome was a was a good day out Hello hello next friend What you okay this as well I came to ask cuz it’s at another station not doesn’t leave from this station you better walk to another station just all I found a dude that could speak English out over the bridge on the right apparently Europe what is good ride I suppose but TI

Already dud no one can speak English pretty hectic pretty hectic but it doesn’t look like there’s too many people on train it should be okay anyway I’m on so after this is just one more stop and on the train stbg and then we’re over there so

This is not fuing EAS carrying all this stuff I had the chains here in like 2 minutes not even 10 minutes to get from that other one here it was wild all this C and stuff here anyway this is the last train the last bit of stress and then

From here it should be smooth sailing it’s all is for sureit yeah jeez try get in there open I’m got to get all this stuff get all that there sure show your take take I For so ATT for for all right par C okay that saved me 7 and6 700 Cas all righty going on that so let’s see if I can get this be out of here we supposed to get up I would imagine it’s down down carry this Beast down the stairs again Mar is not

Light to carry it up the stairs on the other side again as well okay I good out now right to find the cam s that is stasb I hope it’s St I said stb you a c what of bicycles here so I think we should be all right a cool City

Man cool city right let’s get this GPS on and see where we going okay so this is SC stand in stasbor and what a beautiful city it was my only regret was at this stage I was like so super tired I just felt like sitting at the campsite after we went to

The shop and got some some beers and stuff I just sat at the campsite and chilled out where I should have ridden about a bit more and I should have gone to see the scenery cuz you’re you’ll see one of the other guys just now that I

Met on the on the bront and he was actually an architect I think he was from Berlin very cool dude and he spent the whole afternoon in in stasbor actually looking at all the the old buildings and stuff Beautiful cuz I mean the sturg is 2,000 years old there and

The interesting thing is here’s the river rine half of it’s in Germany and half of it’s in France and oh it’s actually a very very interesting City should come here I was trying to do everybody I love the way deor in the it’s classic sorry guys that mean

Okay there any walking in B oh look at the mountains looks like the start of the Alps oh yeah it is it’s awesome at this crazy dude interval tring up here can I just take a pick of your brumpton just think same seriously there any other one I’ve

Seen yeah that’s so cool man that’s so cool I have I have a white one that’s old this okay um and that’s the one I wanted to take yeah but it made that knocking found uh which comes from the joint somewhere so I left it at the

Repair shop okay and they need to contact London about and see where it is okay so I took the new one yeah where are you from Germany all right okay okay from frankfur okay South Africa yeah South Africa oh yeah W yeah long way away Co very far away that sounds very good

Yeah that’s cool all Bron hey no not all on Bron from London onton yeah yeah I see you’ve got the D my front hub as well that’s awesome yeah how how well does that work to charge like to charge a power bank or something I never I

Never um tried to to charge with with the with the The Hub okay is it just for the light solar okay I have seven bicycles yeah cool so cool all kind of bikes awesome yeah and I also love bicycles we’ve been riding bicycles since ‘ 91 yeah my fav

Oh yeah yeah yeah cool oh that must be awesome I have a accient okay yeah shame so right now I got the plate still in you can’t ride that yeah yeah and recum will be a mission with these these like stalls that you have to go through on

The on the cycle pods there like metal have to take the bags off yeah you’ll have to take the old bike apart cuz I don’t think it’ll go through there yeah well you you definitely wouldn’t get I wouldn’t get on the train yeah yeah that’s the problem under under seat

Steering yeah yeah there we go yeah yeah which is quite comfortable I’m sure but you won’t be able to go way no and the other thing a lot of the the the GPS’s take you on these crazy paths through the bush you like literally little single track path and I don’t think

You’ll get to rec through there it’s like it’s pretty hectic well I’ve been to some but but for me I mean flexibility when I travel is like yeah yeah absolutely absolutely if you can just have a backpack in your bike sorted yeah not like me today somebody that kills

Himself in front of the train right they have like bus service yeah just fold up yeah yeah there we go yeah yeah for sure it’s awesome is that a bicycle no handic see all the implants that’s the device the realy device yeah brilliant yeah let me check

My phone yeah all cool man I’ll leave you in peace enjoy your chair chair is classic oh brilliant yeah cool that’ss of other cyclus here so here’s my one I need to set up stuff here yeah that’s brilliant he that’s a very cool design and uh I was searching for a long

Time for this kind of solution yeah and um the master P of everything it keeps everything way up high yeah ah cool y you’ve got like a how brilliant check there yes that’s cool this here Che at that this is the Masterpiece I can build up everything I

Okay off of that I can fold it yeah and um and it’s not sitting on your on your gears when you change how yes how does it look when you fold it ah yes I I will show it to you that’s cool man when I was 18 I had this car this French

Car called The Duck yeah and every time you met another duck they kind of PL together just like this here yeah that’s true and I love this bike and uh from year to year they they are getting better and better and better yeah for sure for sure eh look at this that’s brilliant

So it’s a decent sauce p and so it’s very oh it’s cool check at that I love that like this here okay and that’s like quick release yeah no ways and you need to patent that man yeah excuse me so you need to patent that and actually make them yeah who’s

Who’s actually making them or did you make it yourself uh uh this is tyen okay and um yes see that’s brilliant yeah and this is very nice that is brilliant yeah and specifically for Brompton no not for prompton I was trying it this is for

Race uh for racing bikes okay and if you are traveling uh they they made this kind of solution yes uh but I saw it and I thought maybe I can bring this together with modifi it sure this it’s cool this this are this they’re those you made okay make it

Possible brilliant absolutely brilliant yes see that’s clever yeah that’s clever keeps all the and keeps your bag off the ground cuz my problem with my bags is they they hit everything that goes past you know H yes it’s it’s too small yeah too small um so and this is very quick I

Can use it for the for a train yeah sure sure yeah yeah yeah the front bag’s cool good one like that yeah sorted man awesome ronon club check it it it’s so cool May the RT is allowed you I need to take a photo for this classic man love it love

It so the the penni is the bags come with the rack as well it’s it’s like part of the kit I I usually I use this um I don’t know how you call it the other one I have it also at home yeah but um they are not going together with

The r yeah yeah that’s why I I bought yeah yeah for sure that’s a flipping cool that’s very cool that’s awesome man that’s awesome so when you came from uh from London oh nice yeah but from South Africa originally I’m from South Africa but I flew to London and now I’m now I’m

Okay yeah nice but yeah I got sort of halfway through France then I gave up it was just so hot and so flat and so boring and I just got on the train and came out I want to go through the Alps man yeah okay much nice than

Germany so yeah that was the plan for me today so tomorrow we hit the Els yeah but your I think we have everything this uh all the things what I see you have near time I have the same shoes but not with me today okay yeah yeah yeah

Yeah that’s awesome very cool it’s cool to see so many of them together haven’t seen so many brmt since London lucky day to yeah I had problems withs from I was the enjoy thanks lot cheers bye this was the coolest shop man it’s a Russian shop you see all the cool stuff the

Sausages they had in here and the biscuits oh man they they had the coolest fipping biscuits and some good German beer as well which was fantastic but y thanks guys thanks for watching it was a good day out bit of a relaxed day time to take it easy be off the bike

Sort of for the day and tomorrow we’re heading to the Black Forest so stick around for that one should be good we’ll catch you later cheers