Hi Andy I have tears rolling down my face watching your videos, they are so funny. You definitely have a way with words mate . Please keep up the good work. Thanks Trev
Those forest roads remind me of _many_ of the roads here. Freeze/thaw and a 100F temperature range play absolute hell with the roads. Same with the overbanding. You just get used to it after a while. Love the series Andy & Smokey. Once again I feel I'm right there with you.
Yeah that kind of weather swing can’t be good for the tarmac. And conversely, I suppose they can’t resurface ever year. There’d be even MORE roadblocks!! Thanks for coming along mate!!
Andy the amount of effort you put into these videos is awesome!!! I love the music, love the way you interplay with the Drone, and your coms are spot on buddy - funny and informative - I know I'm years behind still but loving this a real piece of art!!!
Andy i have to admit your vids are awesome. Soon i will follow in your footsteps and travel on my bike across europe. Thank you for inspiring me. I wish you all the best.
Absolutely! We were buggering about looking in one direction at the weird clouds, while that monstrosity was creeping up behind us! VERY strange weather!
Thanks very much! I’ve sometimes wondered about the feasibility of re-releasing some of the older tours. I imagine there are many who still have no idea that they are even there!
An engrossing video on a dreary Xmas Eve is a thing to be grateful for, so thanks again, Andy. Have yourself a great holiday and all the best to you and yours for the new year. 👍🎄🎅
Hi Andy Man, I’m new to your channel, only finding you with the help of TMF (bikes v plane) Love you videos 👍. Excellent editing with a cinematography flow with your choice of video and audio. Wonderful scenery 🌱 and you have a pleasant voice that’s easy to listen too. Thank for taking the time and effort to post your rides 👍🎥🏍. Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺
Then thanks are also in order for TMF! Cheers Andy! Thank you though, Peter, for your kindest of words! It fills me with joy when people notice the extra (sometimes obsessive) little extra that I try to put into the videos! Thanks!
I can imagine that dodgy road surface part to end with Smokey looking shattered after accidentally joining in an off road race. You’re sipping a coffee ‘where the bloody hell have you been mate’
I enjoy your videos, they keep me alive while waiting for spring to come. I like these series, especially because XJ6n (red!) was my former bike and FZ1n (black) is my current bike :) Happy holidays buddy.
Fantastic and truly enjoyable tour, captured it brilliantly! " Interesting you talked about gearing down the FZ1 & bar changes. Thinking more garage vids? Cheers Andy!
Thanks Eric! Absolutely thinking about more garage videos! I’ve got a replacement tank to get rid of the dent too. I just have to wait until it’s warm enough that I can feel my fingers in the garage!!
@@AndyManCam Yes, same here. Kinda cool that off road bit was so reminiscent of the Euro Too Tour off-road jaunt. That apocalyptic cloud though, wow! Merry Christmas and best wishes for the New Year to you and your family !
Wow, really?! Sems there is no ideal solution. Yeah the roads were deeply irritating. Especially as a large section of the B500 was blocked on the way down. Some terrible surfaces too. Though i suppose you can’t get new surfaces without roadworks. Catch 22!!
Brilliant stuff, as usual. Lucky you lads are so good at U turns lol. Bet the beer finally consumed was a proper refreshing amber nectar sent from the gods.
Haha! We certainly got a fair bit of practice in on this trip! The beers that night tasted as though they were chilled on the glaciers of mount olympus itself!!
@@AndyManCam lucky for me I've not long seen your channel so have a lot of catching up to do lol love it ! Maybe I'll tap you up for some places to go on my euro trip
I had a similar experience of Schwarzwaldian back lanes this year. I felt like we'd been abandoned in a scene from "Deliverance". Your choice of hillbilly background music was almost traumatising. Spookily, we ended up at that same hotel in Forbach. Didn't park under THAT tree, though. Merry Christmas and thanks for all you do.
TheLikeableRider It’s a good job I wasn’t with them. I was once heading for Bournemouth and ended up 80 miles further up north. My sense of direction is shit.
@@buddysinsight9834 hahaha! I hade a Friend come meet us for an Alps tour a few years ago, to which he'd already done a few. He rode over 200km in the wrong direction😂😂
Getting lost properly in the back woods was actually very interesting to watch. Quite the nice scenery. And correcting yourself by saying "...curvy riding..." wasn't any better mate, haha! Made it sound like you fancy yourself a lady that keeps you warm in winter and gives you shade in summer! Merry Christmas!!!
Hahaha! Very very true. Didn’t really help myself there! Yeah the scenery from that dirt track was pretty special. The things you find when you get lost/ trust in technology!! 🤣
I follow this strange guy in his trips just to discover new english typical expression and terms. This will enrich my vocabulary, and speed up my career for sure. "Plowers" is my preferred new entry. :) :) :)
Ok so what's the final verdict on the Garmin 360? I had issues with my Zumo in Spain, ended up couldn't trust it and relied on wombles IPhone.. Very tempted to get the 360 as love those panoramic shots
Funnily enough we binned off the Zumo as well. We also couldn’t trust that it wasn’t going to change our planned route or take us through random villages because the route was 2 metres shorter! Sadly the VIRB 360 wasn’t all joy and jingles either. A lot of the footage is unusable because either the lens steamed up on the inside or the sensors went super-screwy and the stabilisation thought the horizon should be at 45 degrees or just not work at all. Also no matter how much I cleaned the lenses (inside and out) it still always seemed that they were dirty! Finally the software is a disaster. It took around 6 hours for my 6 core Xeon workstation to import a 5.7K video into the app. Then it would crash consistently, all the while being a nightmare to operate. Finally the export would then take another 6 hours. Worst of all, the bitrates of the original video and the various processing steps were so wildly mismatched that it was impossible not to either end up with a crazily oversized video or lose some quality along the several necessary steps. You may have noticed that the clips in this vid aren’t stabilized because I binned the Garmin app & 360 altogether and just used the 180 degree views with a bit of anti-fisheye effect in Vegas Pro. Oh and the colours are terrible. I’ve never had to do so much work to footage to make the colours and contrast look half way normal. In dull light the footage became really dull and soft and in bright light, the reds just went utterly nuts!! All in all, i was VERY glad to send it back and even more glad that I didn’t drop 600€ on it!!
@@AndyManCam ok thanks for the honest feedback I will pass then.. seems it's all ways the app / software which let these things down in the end. If only you could run Google maps on the Zumo hardware would be perfect!! 😁
Thanks Paul! If memory serves, it was called ‘Schauinslandstrasse’. So avoid that like the plague. Looks amazing on the map, but likely to get you in hot water with the local law enforcement!!
Look good. Are soon going to Harz for the first time. Looking forward to it. Another thing. Your logo is clickable in the bottom right. Do you insert that manually, or is it there automatically?
Hi Andy. It's a real backup for me because I was born in Forbach some years ago ans was living on Stiring Wendel (20' 59) during my youth. And I lives in Germany near Freiburg during 4 years in Breisach am Rhein. So the Schartzwald IS not unknown for me. The forbidden roads still existed due to many accidents involved bikers and because of the noise too. Too many bikers thought that this part of Wurtemberg was a race track. But they get round the problem by going over the border in the Vosges moutain and create the same annoyances. So the french Gendarmerie and the Germany Polizei made a joint force many week ends in order to prevent accidents and stopped the rally ! About your Gps problem : buy a Map and a compass you will never lose !! Personnally I use my phone with many software. No any is perfect, but I have to admit that Google Map is not so bad. You Can prepare your trip on your desktop or your laptop and export the link by mail to the smartphone. Now it's also possible to download a Map square of Google on the phone and use or offline, but only 100X100 kms. I use too the Michelin app but it's online only. So nobody's perfect! Thanks for sharing ride safe. And next time go to the Vosges, it's a nice place.
Hi Clint! It is a real shame that some bikers spoil it fir others. But also seems that when idiot car drivers have accidents, they don’t get banned!! 😉 I’ll definitely give the Vosges a gi next time. Also seems that the best way to beat the restrictions is to try and ride on a weekday!! 😎
@@AndyManCam I see more "idiot" bikers than I see "idiot" car drivers. Or rather they both display different kinds of idiocy. Of course you are a competent rider. But you are at times close to pushing it a bit much, and you seem COMPLETELY unaware that people around these roads live there and are entitled to some peace occasionally, which is why riding on certain roads have been banned. I can tell by your withering comments about other road users that you consider yourself superior, but that is an illusion resulting from simply having a higher power to weight ratio. Please SLOW DOWN on your rides, because you might well be one of those "bikers that spoil it for others".
No i don’t think so. The covers were on purely because of the overly moist air! 😉 I think you do have to have a hi viz with you at all times though. 100% sure that you do in germany.
@@AndyManCam No it is not the joy police. You know perfectly well why. People are sick and tired of endless lines of bikers treating rural landscapes as their own selfish, personal track day. THAT IS WHY there are bans. Your "joy" at hacking your way around the twisties might just be the denial of "joy" for other people, inhabitants, children, walkers, horse riders, cyclists, farmers, etc. And I AM a biker - though not a tribal one, nor possessed of the arrogance that is UNAWARE of other people's rights to enjoy these beautiful landscapes in their own way.
Soz but bitter n twisted I maybe 😕could this only be in Germany closing roads to bikes.!!!!!!..anywaz all the best to you for the🎅🎅🎅🎅🎅to your goodself and family..cheers from dave ...
Moto Go Loco is far easier to use than BaseCamp, works great with my Nav 5. Pre planned all my Europe trip in GPX files drop in and play. Found BC totally frustrating and time waisting?
I’ll at the very least be having a go on one, thats for sure! But might have to try the slightly cheaper bar swap and ECU flash before I stump up 10 grand for a new one!! 😂
Holding onto baby chicks? You sick bastard! Actually, while I think that looking up the road on Google maps beforehand would be a good idea(TM), I enjoy your videos way more when you get lost in the arse end of Hinternirgendwo on a hiker's dirt road, on a road bike. 😜 Next time, please do it with slicks on a fully faired bike with clip-ons, using the earth's magnetic field for navigation or alternatively, a sundial 😂
Haha! I enjoy every chance to get my hands on chicks... I agree though, you find more interesting things and places when you just wing it and get lost. Sometimes... 🤣
@@AndyManCam That "sometimes" usually happens to me when I need the toilet badly. Was on the freeway this summer desperately clenching my buttocks in search of a throne that was open. A real life game of thrones.
Cheers Stuart. Sadly, if one didn’t edit these videos snappily then they’d each be several hours long and nobody would watch them except for the hardcore fans!!
One of the reasons why motorcycles are banned in these areas at certain times is precisely because of what you are doing. Fun though the twisties are, this area is absolutely festooned with bikers (often with after-market loud exhausts), beating up the B roads day in, day out and people get utterly sick of them. Now, imagine that you lived in these areas yourself. How would you feel about endless lines of powerful bikes hacking their way on the limit outside your home endlessly? You rightly appreciate the stunning landscape and that's great. But you don't seem to stretch your imagination to consider what it would be like for you if your home, walks, peace, existence was permanently disturbed. You can book trackdays all over UK and Europe and get your twisties fix. Rural rides are for the enjoyment of everyone. It's not your personal race track. It will reach a point where all bikes will be permanently banned (or maybe over a certain cc) because half of the navigable Alps and other regions are now over-run with loud, fast, bikes. Please be sensible. Everyone on two wheels needs to be aware that they are pushing their luck. Ride safe, and slower, and make less noise. The countryside is for everyone to enjoy.
I completely appreciate all of your points. But surely the authorities are going about it all in a ham fisted and blunt force way? It's also a strong example of the many being punished for the transgressions of the few. I would wager that the majority of the bikers in Germany have stock, or well silenced exhausts. You only hear the loud ones so it is assumed that ALL bikers have loud bikes. The fair and sensible way to deal with the problem would be to control the noise that bikes are making. That way only those with excessively loud machines will be faced with the choice to reduce their racket, or not ride on the good roads. I for one would gladly ride a quiet bike on amazing roads! But of course it is far easier to just ban ALL bikes than it is to actually police and enforce noise emmission laws, and so that is what happens. The countryside IS for everyone to enjoy and most bikers know this. I for one always ride through residential areas in a high gear, at low revs to keep the noise down. I also don't destroy the speed limits when the police aren't watching. Yet I, and all others like me (yourself included) are punished for the actions of those few that don't have this consideration in mind. The law makers are being lazy and the majority of decent people are suffering.
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Hi Andy I have tears rolling down my face watching your videos, they are so funny. You definitely have a way with words mate . Please keep up the good work. Thanks Trev
Hi Trevor. Cheers mate! Very good of you to say so! I'll do my best!
Those forest roads remind me of _many_ of the roads here. Freeze/thaw and a 100F temperature range play absolute hell with the roads. Same with the overbanding. You just get used to it after a while.
Love the series Andy & Smokey. Once again I feel I'm right there with you.
Yeah that kind of weather swing can’t be good for the tarmac. And conversely, I suppose they can’t resurface ever year. There’d be even MORE roadblocks!! Thanks for coming along mate!!
Andy the amount of effort you put into these videos is awesome!!! I love the music, love the way you interplay with the Drone, and your coms are spot on buddy - funny and informative - I know I'm years behind still but loving this a real piece of art!!!
Thank you so very much Mark. I really appreciate you saying so mate. It's a real labour of love for me, but I enjoy the outcome so much! Cheers!
Andy i have to admit your vids are awesome. Soon i will follow in your footsteps and travel on my bike across europe. Thank you for inspiring me. I wish you all the best.
Thanks NewGuy! Very happy to have gotten you in the mood! I hope you have a fabulous trip mate.
When it's an Andy Man Cam vlog, excellence comes as standard!
Too kind! ☺️ Cheers Michael!
some things on a trip always remain in your memory and i think that cloud will be one for you and smokey bar
Absolutely! We were buggering about looking in one direction at the weird clouds, while that monstrosity was creeping up behind us! VERY strange weather!
It’s been a real joy going through your back catalogue of videos and thoroughly enjoyed this series. Keep up the good work!
Thanks very much! I’ve sometimes wondered about the feasibility of re-releasing some of the older tours. I imagine there are many who still have no idea that they are even there!
Brilliant video as always! This is like every motorbike tour i go on, fog and detours!
Haha! Seems bikes, crappy weather and roadworks go hand in hand! 🚧
Sublime composition and editing sir! You surely are the master of utube biking vids.
Thank You terribly Dear boy! Thanks so much for stopping to say!
Stunning video amc
Cheers again Richard!
Utterly Uprocktacular!
Thanks again Bimble!
An engrossing video on a dreary Xmas Eve is a thing to be grateful for, so thanks again, Andy.
Have yourself a great holiday and all the best to you and yours for the new year. 👍🎄🎅
Thanks BK! Very happy to have helped. Have a fabulous holiday yourself mate!
Nice vid Andy👍. I hope you and Smokey had a good Christmas 🎄
Cheers Buddy. I for one had a great christmas. i hope the same was true for you mate.
Hi Andy Man,
I’m new to your channel, only finding you with the help of TMF (bikes v plane)
Love you videos 👍.
Excellent editing with a cinematography flow with your choice of video and audio.
Wonderful scenery 🌱 and you have a pleasant voice that’s easy to listen too.
Thank for taking the time and effort to post your rides 👍🎥🏍.
Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺
Then thanks are also in order for TMF! Cheers Andy! Thank you though, Peter, for your kindest of words! It fills me with joy when people notice the extra (sometimes obsessive) little extra that I try to put into the videos! Thanks!
LMAO ... what a great footage Andy ... superb :p
Thank you very much Jan! It's hard not to capture beautiful sights down there!
Happy Christmas AMC! Thx for all the vids!!
Merry Christmas Neal! Thanks for all the watching!
I can imagine that dodgy road surface part to end with Smokey looking shattered after accidentally joining in an off road race. You’re sipping a coffee ‘where the bloody hell have you been mate’
Hahaha! It would be great, with more time and a Top Gear budget, to do more creative and funny stuff like that!
Merry Christmas Andy
Merry Christmas Carl!
I enjoy your videos, they keep me alive while waiting for spring to come. I like these series, especially because XJ6n (red!) was my former bike and FZ1n (black) is my current bike :) Happy holidays buddy.
Brilliant! It’s like we found the perfect combo to pull on your heartstrings! Merry christmas!
I’m glad you managed some twisted enjoyment 😉
Always good to squeeze some twisted fun in!
Fantastic and truly enjoyable tour, captured it brilliantly! " Interesting you talked about gearing down the FZ1 & bar changes. Thinking more garage vids? Cheers Andy!
Thanks Eric! Absolutely thinking about more garage videos! I’ve got a replacement tank to get rid of the dent too. I just have to wait until it’s warm enough that I can feel my fingers in the garage!!
@@AndyManCam Yes, same here. Kinda cool that off road bit was so reminiscent of the Euro Too Tour off-road jaunt. That apocalyptic cloud though, wow! Merry Christmas and best wishes for the New Year to you and your family !
I know right! Very reminiscent. Riding through a cloud was very strange indeed. Merry christmas to you and yours too mate.
We had the same shit with German Road Works in the Black Forest this year. The TOMTOM was probably worse than your Garmin. 😀
Wow, really?! Sems there is no ideal solution. Yeah the roads were deeply irritating. Especially as a large section of the B500 was blocked on the way down. Some terrible surfaces too. Though i suppose you can’t get new surfaces without roadworks. Catch 22!!
Brilliant stuff, as usual. Lucky you lads are so good at U turns lol. Bet the beer finally consumed was a proper refreshing amber nectar sent from the gods.
Haha! We certainly got a fair bit of practice in on this trip! The beers that night tasted as though they were chilled on the glaciers of mount olympus itself!!
Great video again boss loving it !
Thanks again Bick! Not many left of this series, sadly. ☹️
@@AndyManCam lucky for me I've not long seen your channel so have a lot of catching up to do lol love it ! Maybe I'll tap you up for some places to go on my euro trip
Well then welcome aboard and happy viewing! I think last i checked there were about 200 videos! 😉
@@AndyManCam to to crack open a beer grab the cleanex and have me a good time
Hahaha! Too much info!
the music piece where you had the drone in the air
It's called 'Sinous' by a musician called 'Titus'.
Damn, those road closures were a bit of a PITA!
HUGE pain mate!
I had a similar experience of Schwarzwaldian back lanes this year. I felt like we'd been abandoned in a scene from "Deliverance". Your choice of hillbilly background music was almost traumatising. Spookily, we ended up at that same hotel in Forbach. Didn't park under THAT tree, though. Merry Christmas and thanks for all you do.
That IS strange! Yeah it got very deliverancy up there in the sticks! Merry Christmas and thanks for watching Paul!
What would an AndyManCam be without some sort of GPS mayhem? ❤📷🏍💕
Too very true! Has to be either rain or some navigational hiccups!
Loved the lostness boys😂😂
Cheers mate. We tried our best!
TheLikeableRider It’s a good job I wasn’t with them. I was once heading for Bournemouth and ended up 80 miles further up north. My sense of direction is shit.
@@buddysinsight9834 hahaha! I hade a Friend come meet us for an Alps tour a few years ago, to which he'd already done a few. He rode over 200km in the wrong direction😂😂
Brilliant work! That's a solid effort! :D
Great stuff! Maybe a compass on the bars is in order!? ;P
only found the song - AWSOME such a melody where did you come across it, because it worked so well with your video buddy
I use Soundstripe. I pay a monthly fee and get access to music for my videos that i can legally use. 👍🏻
Getting lost properly in the back woods was actually very interesting to watch. Quite the nice scenery. And correcting yourself by saying "...curvy riding..." wasn't any better mate, haha! Made it sound like you fancy yourself a lady that keeps you warm in winter and gives you shade in summer! Merry Christmas!!!
Hahaha! Very very true. Didn’t really help myself there! Yeah the scenery from that dirt track was pretty special. The things you find when you get lost/ trust in technology!! 🤣
I had a very intense discussion with my Garmin too when riding in the Pyrenees. Also about what means the word paved! 😂
Certainly seems like a loose concept to the people at Garmin!
Quality production, as always 👌 Garmin says, 'Do you need a break?' You say, ' Yes I f☆☆king do!' Lmao 😅😅 RSM8
Thanks very much Rob. Sometimes, that gadget read my mind! Also really got on a my t!ts a fair bit too though!! :D
I follow this strange guy in his trips just to discover new english typical expression and terms. This will enrich my vocabulary, and speed up my career for sure. "Plowers" is my preferred new entry. :) :) :)
Haha! Thanks Giulio. But i think learning any English from me is probably a mistake!! 🤣🤣
You mentioned a sprocket change if you did this again? I put a one tooth smaller on the front works great!
I can totally believe that!
@@AndyManCam . You should try it, front sprockets are really cheap, and don't take long to change. You can fix the speedo with your ecu flash.
Ok so what's the final verdict on the Garmin 360? I had issues with my Zumo in Spain, ended up couldn't trust it and relied on wombles IPhone.. Very tempted to get the 360 as love those panoramic shots
Funnily enough we binned off the Zumo as well. We also couldn’t trust that it wasn’t going to change our planned route or take us through random villages because the route was 2 metres shorter! Sadly the VIRB 360 wasn’t all joy and jingles either. A lot of the footage is unusable because either the lens steamed up on the inside or the sensors went super-screwy and the stabilisation thought the horizon should be at 45 degrees or just not work at all. Also no matter how much I cleaned the lenses (inside and out) it still always seemed that they were dirty! Finally the software is a disaster. It took around 6 hours for my 6 core Xeon workstation to import a 5.7K video into the app. Then it would crash consistently, all the while being a nightmare to operate. Finally the export would then take another 6 hours. Worst of all, the bitrates of the original video and the various processing steps were so wildly mismatched that it was impossible not to either end up with a crazily oversized video or lose some quality along the several necessary steps. You may have noticed that the clips in this vid aren’t stabilized because I binned the Garmin app & 360 altogether and just used the 180 degree views with a bit of anti-fisheye effect in Vegas Pro. Oh and the colours are terrible. I’ve never had to do so much work to footage to make the colours and contrast look half way normal. In dull light the footage became really dull and soft and in bright light, the reds just went utterly nuts!! All in all, i was VERY glad to send it back and even more glad that I didn’t drop 600€ on it!!
@@AndyManCam ok thanks for the honest feedback I will pass then.. seems it's all ways the app / software which let these things down in the end. If only you could run Google maps on the Zumo hardware would be perfect!! 😁
My Zumo died after my Europe trip which I purchased it for. Not a massive fan although it was awesome when out there and sorted me out so many times.
That would certainly be a step in the right direction!
That’s a bit of a sod. For the cost, you’d be forgiven for expecting a little more reliability and perhaps more than one trip out of the gadget!! 😂
And now your FZ-1 has seen more dirt in one 2km section of back road than the average "adventure bike" sees ever haha.
Hahaha! You're probably right!! :D
Great road and I like the drone shots, Why are bikes banned on certain days?. RSM8
Cheers BK. I'm not sure mate. Either due to accidents or noise I would imagine. Or a combination of both.
Great vid yet again chief, where about was that road closed to bikes? Going through the Black Forest next year, and it’s gonna be a Saturday...🤨
Thanks Paul! If memory serves, it was called ‘Schauinslandstrasse’. So avoid that like the plague. Looks amazing on the map, but likely to get you in hot water with the local law enforcement!!
Thanks Andy, found it now, will avoid!
Man, the road surface in some areas is not that great. But, if forces you to slow down and enjoy the awesome views! Merry Christmas 🎄 mate.
Very true mate! Silver lining in every crap surface! Merry christmas to you too!
Andy Man Cam thank mate🎄😁
Look good. Are soon going to Harz for the first time. Looking forward to it. Another thing. Your logo is clickable in the bottom right. Do you insert that manually, or is it there automatically?
Thanks OTR! Harz is brilliant. I uploaded the logo, but youtube adds the clickability.
Hi Andy. It's a real backup for me because I was born in Forbach some years ago ans was living on Stiring Wendel (20' 59) during my youth. And I lives in Germany near Freiburg during 4 years in Breisach am Rhein. So the Schartzwald IS not unknown for me. The forbidden roads still existed due to many accidents involved bikers and because of the noise too. Too many bikers thought that this part of Wurtemberg was a race track. But they get round the problem by going over the border in the Vosges moutain and create the same annoyances. So the french Gendarmerie and the Germany Polizei made a joint force many week ends in order to prevent accidents and stopped the rally !
About your Gps problem : buy a Map and a compass you will never lose !!
Personnally I use my phone with many software. No any is perfect, but I have to admit that Google Map is not so bad. You Can prepare your trip on your desktop or your laptop and export the link by mail to the smartphone. Now it's also possible to download a Map square of Google on the phone and use or offline, but only 100X100 kms. I use too the Michelin app but it's online only. So nobody's perfect!
Thanks for sharing ride safe. And next time go to the Vosges, it's a nice place.
Hi Clint! It is a real shame that some bikers spoil it fir others. But also seems that when idiot car drivers have accidents, they don’t get banned!! 😉 I’ll definitely give the Vosges a gi next time. Also seems that the best way to beat the restrictions is to try and ride on a weekday!! 😎
@@AndyManCam I see more "idiot" bikers than I see "idiot" car drivers. Or rather they both display different kinds of idiocy. Of course you are a competent rider. But you are at times close to pushing it a bit much, and you seem COMPLETELY unaware that people around these roads live there and are entitled to some peace occasionally, which is why riding on certain roads have been banned. I can tell by your withering comments about other road users that you consider yourself superior, but that is an illusion resulting from simply having a higher power to weight ratio. Please SLOW DOWN on your rides, because you might well be one of those "bikers that spoil it for others".
I found your channel through smokeybarr, great stuff! Amazing scenery, so you work/live in Germany? How did that come about? 👍
Cheers mate! Welcome aboard! I foolishly fell in with a german girl so I had to move over there!
Andy Man Cam oh I don’t know, sounds like a good move to me! I grew up there near Dusseldorf, miss it lots 👍
Yeah it's mostly turned out well so far!
What is the music piece its freakin awesome I need to download it
Just in case you missed the other one, Sinous by Titus 😉
I see your wearing the hi viz covers do you need them in France/Germany on a bike
No i don’t think so. The covers were on purely because of the overly moist air! 😉 I think you do have to have a hi viz with you at all times though. 100% sure that you do in germany.
Nice to see the German traffic authorities can f@#k things up just as well as those in UK! 👍🏻
I think that they are the original masters!!
Sounds like a new bike could be coming in 19!!!!????
Haha! My bank manager says otherwise!! 🤣
Are all German "No Motorcycles" on just weekends (bank) through summer?
Not all. I’ve seen a few that are 24/7. It’s disgusting.
Wtf is that all about 🤷♂️
Joy police. Pure and simple.
@@AndyManCam No it is not the joy police. You know perfectly well why. People are sick and tired of endless lines of bikers treating rural landscapes as their own selfish, personal track day. THAT IS WHY there are bans. Your "joy" at hacking your way around the twisties might just be the denial of "joy" for other people, inhabitants, children, walkers, horse riders, cyclists, farmers, etc. And I AM a biker - though not a tribal one, nor possessed of the arrogance that is UNAWARE of other people's rights to enjoy these beautiful landscapes in their own way.
Soz but bitter n twisted I maybe 😕could this only be in Germany closing roads to bikes.!!!!!!..anywaz all the best to you for the🎅🎅🎅🎅🎅to your goodself and family..cheers from dave ...
Thanks Dave. Yeah it’s pretty crappy that they close the roads to us. Bloody racists!! Merry christmas to you and yours too mate.
Moto Go Loco is far easier to use than BaseCamp, works great with my Nav 5. Pre planned all my Europe trip in GPX files drop in and play. Found BC totally frustrating and time waisting?
I’ll have to give that a go. Almost destroyed several mouse and keyboard combos with rage at using BC!
Things never turn out good when Germans cross the Rhine, glad it worked out for you!
Haha! Don’t mention the war. I might have mentioned it once...
You started it 🤣
Is that me taking yet another piss @ 8:23??
Hahaha! Possibly! Though I actually think that this time was the OTHER delay. I.e. you were waiting for me to stop faffing with the flying gadget!
You need to trade her up for an MT10SP flatter bars more grunt wheelie heaven
I’ll at the very least be having a go on one, thats for sure! But might have to try the slightly cheaper bar swap and ECU flash before I stump up 10 grand for a new one!! 😂
Holding onto baby chicks? You sick bastard! Actually, while I think that looking up the road on Google maps beforehand would be a good idea(TM), I enjoy your videos way more when you get lost in the arse end of Hinternirgendwo on a hiker's dirt road, on a road bike. 😜 Next time, please do it with slicks on a fully faired bike with clip-ons, using the earth's magnetic field for navigation or alternatively, a sundial 😂
Haha! I enjoy every chance to get my hands on chicks... I agree though, you find more interesting things and places when you just wing it and get lost. Sometimes... 🤣
@@AndyManCam That "sometimes" usually happens to me when I need the toilet badly. Was on the freeway this summer desperately clenching my buttocks in search of a throne that was open. A real life game of thrones.
Nothing like the call of the wild to really put pressure on your navigating decisions!!
@@AndyManCam 😂
explore the world with garmin... you will go where you dont ever think to go 😂
😂 So very true! Never a dull trip. Never the trip you hoped for, but never dull!
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One really does over indulge with the editing, doesn't one, good stuff though.
Cheers Stuart. Sadly, if one didn’t edit these videos snappily then they’d each be several hours long and nobody would watch them except for the hardcore fans!!
One of the reasons why motorcycles are banned in these areas at certain times is precisely because of what you are doing. Fun though the twisties are, this area is absolutely festooned with bikers (often with after-market loud exhausts), beating up the B roads day in, day out and people get utterly sick of them. Now, imagine that you lived in these areas yourself. How would you feel about endless lines of powerful bikes hacking their way on the limit outside your home endlessly? You rightly appreciate the stunning landscape and that's great. But you don't seem to stretch your imagination to consider what it would be like for you if your home, walks, peace, existence was permanently disturbed. You can book trackdays all over UK and Europe and get your twisties fix. Rural rides are for the enjoyment of everyone. It's not your personal race track.
It will reach a point where all bikes will be permanently banned (or maybe over a certain cc) because half of the navigable Alps and other regions are now over-run with loud, fast, bikes. Please be sensible. Everyone on two wheels needs to be aware that they are pushing their luck. Ride safe, and slower, and make less noise. The countryside is for everyone to enjoy.
I completely appreciate all of your points. But surely the authorities are going about it all in a ham fisted and blunt force way? It's also a strong example of the many being punished for the transgressions of the few. I would wager that the majority of the bikers in Germany have stock, or well silenced exhausts. You only hear the loud ones so it is assumed that ALL bikers have loud bikes. The fair and sensible way to deal with the problem would be to control the noise that bikes are making. That way only those with excessively loud machines will be faced with the choice to reduce their racket, or not ride on the good roads. I for one would gladly ride a quiet bike on amazing roads! But of course it is far easier to just ban ALL bikes than it is to actually police and enforce noise emmission laws, and so that is what happens. The countryside IS for everyone to enjoy and most bikers know this. I for one always ride through residential areas in a high gear, at low revs to keep the noise down. I also don't destroy the speed limits when the police aren't watching. Yet I, and all others like me (yourself included) are punished for the actions of those few that don't have this consideration in mind. The law makers are being lazy and the majority of decent people are suffering.
And do motorcycles get a break on their road use taxes or is that ignored too in the blanket restrictions that are just not reasonable?