That is VERY comforting to hear! Luckily it keeps me busy while I can't ride aswell! In fact, I should probably check at some point if my bike is even still there. Haven't seen it for 6 weeks!! :O
Cheers James. I thought it was fitting. Scenery like that deserves super cinematic drama music!! You're going to have a tremendous time. Everywhere you go, it's simply amazing! Just keep the speed down! ;D
AMC special, Quality fantastic Quantity perfect, a great idea with the old sparky mix and the music was fitting too, I don't think anybody can top this video and I know how much work is stuck into a video like this ! Glad the weather held up for you chaps. 👍😉
Thanks much Gaz. Really glad I got that little spark. Seems to add a lot to the overall effect. Of course the incredible views also help a fair bit!! 🤣
Well it just keeps getting better and better Andy! Well done sir, and a large thank you for providing us with some grade A bike entertainment during these winter months! Loving it 😁
Due to the COVID-19 situation, I am on shortened working hours. Having mainly Fridays off, I have spent this morning re-watching your excellent Alp-tours. 👌😁 I have done most of these passes in some of my cars. Still needs to do the San Bernadino though, looks amazing 😍 My favorite is the Grimsel-Furka combination 🤘👌 Cheers!
Many thanks Erik! Very happy to have been able to keep you entertained. I watched a bit of one yesterday too and realised that I now really miss how the bike used to sound!!
I have had some louder ”cans” on some of my bikes. However, it would be nice if they could invent automatic baffles like they have on cars these days. Just a click of a button and you can change from highway -mode to ”belting out of corners” - mode 👌
Amazing vid again! Inspired by this, I booked myself a motor trip to the Swiss alps end of May to take on Grimsel, Furka and Gothard. Looking forward!!
The place we stayed at was great. And not too pricey. We found it through Booking.com but you can call direct and get 10% off. the number is 0796653587 (with whatever the Swiss int' code is). Happy travels mate!
Gooood stuff man. Oberalp pass and Lukmanier pass where so close from your starting point and could easely be connected to San Bernardino and Splugen continuing to Maloja pass and close there is Julier pass. All very pretty. And if you go there again there are plenty more to discover :)
Yeah, I know we could have squeezed those extra passes in and I would have loved to. But we had to draw the line somewhere. We were also both really keen to ride the San Bernardino again in the other direction! It's also always good to have a reason to go back and see the stuff that you didn't see last time!
@@AndyManCam oki doki. My route was like this. Lets start from Stelvio,we went down to Bormio and then to Livigno. After that our goal was Bernina pass in Switzerland wich is starting just after Italian - Swiss border. Next pass was Albula. We sleept there. In the morning we did Julier pass,Maloja pass,Splugen pass,San bernardino,Lukmanier,Oberalp,San Gothard and sleept in Airolo. In the morning continuing on Nufenen,Furka,Susten,Grimsel,Furka again and then went to Klausen pass for a sleep. In the morning continuing our way back to Italy hitting tree more passes. Fluela pass,Offenpass and the last in Switzerland,Umbrail pass wich finishes almost at the top of Stelvio pass. Try to put all the passes in google maps in the same order i followed them and you can see the circle i did. Now im missing few more Swiss passes wich are on the French border :)
Spectacular, your cameras do an amazing job of showing the distant mountains and rock formations. It must have taken a hell of a lot of concentration riding these passes, you'd not wanna get them wrong!
You’re not wrong there! You can really tell at the end of the day when your brain is mush from all the concentration! The cameras did a fine job. Sony fan boy for life yo! The fancy XAVC-S high bitrate codec certainly helps. Though 2-3 TB of footage in 7 days was the price!!
do you find you need to change the bitrate on editing to get past the UA-cam nerf, or are they kinder to you than they are us and give you the "good" codec for your 1080 stuff? (I have to pretend my footage is 4k to get the good codec and higher bitrate)
Seems that they give me the VP09 codec as standard now. I just upload my video at a quality I’m happy with and let the nerfing do what it will. Though me and Smokey were discussing this subject and realised that his one of his first vlogs has the good codec, but a video 2 or 3 later doesn’t. Seems there is no rhyme or reason.
Really enjoy/appreciate how you cut/edit the riding sections. Recently found your channel after watching the planes vs bikes vid over on TMF's channel. Looking forwarding to watching the rest of this series and checking out your other content. Good luck with the channel.
The best answers are the honest ones! I loved my 2006 V, but it always had its drawbacks. I guess no bike will be perfect, but fettling with it to make it perfect is half the fun of bike ownership right?!
@@AndyManCam perhaps you'll stretch legs and make a megger trip to the Pecos region, its somewhere I'll be going to, have a wedding in the Slovenia in June if I get my act together I could trailer the bike there finger's crossed
Cheers Matey! That drone was definitely a good addition to the arsenal! The real stars here are the Swiss scenery and the roadbuilders that chucked those curves on to it!! 😂
Did you see a Bedford coach and 3 wrecked Minis on your travels over the san Bernardino? This is where they got away to at the end of the Italian Job (the original)
You might be able to buy extended toe leavers for your aftermarket rear set. Not knowing what yours look like but it was something I could do for my Aprilia.
You can see what my peg setup looks like in this video! I put it on screen for that exact reason! It’s just a modified peg mount with a swivelling joint. But it sets the footrest 3/4” further outwards so i have to point my toes inwards to get the levers. Going to change it to something different before next season.
@@AndyManCam I can see the peg but not the toe. There is things you can do to help your problem. I had the same problem with the MFW (I think that's what it was called) kit. If designed like the Aprilia (well like my 2nd gen) you can replace the bit, your toe push/pull to change gear. If you're not sure what I'm babbling on about. Look up toe leaver extension and then you'll know lol. However, theses always the engineers solution of cutting off and replacing the toe leaver bit of the leaver, drill a hole and replace with something else. It's what you did if you came off and needed a replacement leaver but couldn't afford a new one.
Ah, gotcha. I think i’ll just go with an ordinary aftermarket peg holder. That way I can use the same pegs and still gain a bit of leg room plus a bit of ground clearance over stock. TBH just having the feet that inch and a half overall further apart makes it fee a bit like you’re riding a barrell!!
@@AndyManCam I couldn't get on with the kit I bought. Kept catching my feet on bracket for the lowering kit. Made myself a lowering plate with a step in it. So the pegs are no wider but still lower.
I’d love to do something similar. Sadly home made parts in chassis critical places like the footpegs have to have TüV certification to be legal in Germany.
I love the Swiss/Italian Alp soooo much :) Much nicer than my first trip - coach over the St Gothard down to Milan - at 13 it was amazing scenery !!! Last time was via a train from Kandersteg to Brig and down to Lake Maggiore - and I still loved it
You and me both! I don’t think I’ll ever get bored of it. Its all just so immense, vast and breathtakingly beautiful. 2 wheels, 4 wheels or 40 wheels, it’s a pleasure to travel through there.
Nice video 👍 It's sad you couldn't continue further on to Chiavenna, then riding the Maloja-Pass to the Engadin and then Albula. From there you got the possibility back va Oberalp or via San Bernardino Pass. This passes are mostly part of my "short" spins 😂
That would have been the ideal trip. Sadly it was already a pretty long outing at 8 hours in the saddle. A very good argument for actually touring a little, rather than always heading back ‘home’. Still, we’ve got something for next time!! 😁
Just a whole lot of "wows" every time I watch, absolutely amazing country, well done Andy! Imagine it's must feel like a bikers paradise amusement park ride, you never want it to stop. (that's what she said :-)
Just watched this video, great stuff! You would probably like the Splugen Pass better if you went on beyond Montespluga all the way to Corti, because that is where the thrilling tight bends and narrow tunnels are. And a faster road back up that goes around the Lago di Isola. I have that on video but won't be edited for the next two months or so, but you can find a few movies on that bit on UA-cam. Or even better: do it yourself next time you're there. OK, end of hindsight advice, I'm going back to enjoy the rest of your Switzerland vids :-)
Thanks Martin. That’s a great tip, cheers mate. I always wish that every ride could have been just that little bit longer! Sadly this one was already a long old day in the saddle from our digs. Maybe next time a one way trip all the way through the whole pass will be in order.
Thanks Norrie. I think it was just because these passes are a little further out of the way. The better known passes (grimsel, furka etc...) were far busier. We were there mid/end of August.
They were all over the place and we did actually get stopped once. But that was more to check that we had all the paperwork and that my noisy pipe was in fact legal! I think the only people that have real issues over there are the people who push it too far or don'T pay attention and miss the speed traps! ;D
Hi, great videos and thank you for sharing. I'm planning a road trip but one concern is the Swiss strict stance against speeding. Did you see many police actually on the mountain passes? I'm not going to go crazy, just a "spirited" drive ;)
Hi Pete, many thanks! Unfortunately we did see a fair few police around. As a result we kept the speeds to within 15% or so of the limit. The fines are MONUMENTAL so really not worth the risk. Plus in the twisties worth riding, if you can get the speeds above 80 in the bends, you’re a better rider than I! 😜 Luckily the place is so stunning that speed is only a small Part of the experience. You’ll be stopping every 5 minutes to take photos!
Totally! Stupid thing is that i had a spare, and left it at home! Luckily i had enough other bits to throw something halfway decent together! I’m glad i got to see them too. Should be way up on any bikers list!
Jeez, Andy. Quit the day job and work as a video editor! This is epic and beautifully edited. Stunning views, great riding, and lovely weather for once!
You're preaching to the choir Fred! I'd love to do this professionally! Apparently it'S a very cut-throat, highly contested and difficult trade to get into! Plus the colour-blindness issue might cause me some problems! With my own stuf, it doesn't really matter. But when the customer wants blue and they get puce... XD
Just wow Andy. It just keeps getting better. At one point in this video, as I was mesmerized by the stunning scenery, I thought... what would that ride be like on a Zero electric bike, with only the sound of the wind to compliment that visual feast? Now, of course, I know the e-bikes don't have the range to do this ride, and yes, I also know how you love the sound of your exhaust. But... can you imagine that experience in "silence"? I think it would give a surreal sense of being one with that stunning landscape.
Thanks very much Mike. Yeah the scenery down there is really something else. I’ll never get enough of seeing it. I think you’re absolutely right though and I’d love to get the chance to experience that kind of ride on a Zero. Plus the amazing and instant torque would be fantastic out of those bends!! Maybe I’ll have to have a word with Zero about it!
Where did you base yourselves for this trip please require the info for a trip next year already got one trip planned to Garmisch and interlaken looking for at least a week in one place for the second trip.
Andy, did you have any bother from police doing speed checks? I see that fine that got 4,000 Euro fine and ban for speeding. Want to return to Switzerland but not if they are clamping down too much
We got stopped the once on the way to the Grimsel pass, but more of a routine random stop check than a speed trap. We did see a fair few rozzers at the roadsides though. But the saviour was that we weren’t kicking the arse out of the speed limits. German roads for the speed, Italian roads for the ‘adventure’ and swiss roads for the views! 😉
Hi AMC you know what? Your yt channel is a revelation, it' funny ( the most important bit) and it seems to be made by someone who really loves motorbikes, which is strange becouse u dont! If you dont mind telling me what video editin program donu use - the montage is superb. I am just on a verge of buying a 2011 fazer 1000 so I am going to bugger to the AMC garage. Cheers ;)
Haha! Hopefully that’s not how it seems!! I do love bikes, honest!! 😄. I currently use Davinci Resolve (the free version), though i think i made this video on Vegas 16 i much prefer Resolve and actually moved to it after never ending stability issues with Vegas. Enjoy the garage stuff. Hopefully one or two new upgrades coming in the next week or two.
@@AndyManCam thx. P.s. next time you need to do that pop in to Bosnia - here is an open invitation to Sarajevo - yes I know it a long (train) ride from Hamburg but think about it it full of woows ;)
Found it when I searched Splügen. It's Splügenpass Best I can gather it's an avalanche galley that was made in the early or mid 1800's. www.gr.ch/DE/institutionen/verwaltung/bvfd/tba/aktuelles/NewsDokumente/Flyer_2011-06-23-DE_Galerie-Spluegenpass.pdf
Don't forget though that they weren't just speeding. They were smashing the pants, socks and trousers off of the speed limit! I'm pretty sure that getting caught doing almost double the limit in the UK would get you a far longer ban than just 3 months. The police likely wouldn't be nearly as polite and friendly either!! :D We just didn't feel the need to take the piss and as such didn't have any trouble.
Haha! It was obvious they were smashing it! 144km/h at the point they got caught and I think we can take that as an average! Not surprising with those machines on those roads! But from their footage and mine, you can tell that they were making much more ‚progress’ than we were. There‘s a reason I decided to get a naked bike when I stepped up to the Litre category! 🤣
Andy tell me if I'm wrong ? (but altho Ive previously owned fazer fz1 and a. xj6 both ecellent bikes, im now a versys 650 owner!!!...) you don't seem too look as if you enjoy the fz1 as you did your versys...I know fz1 handles better ,goes better stops better, looks better.. cheers from dave..
Weird! I suppose it’s just really different. But I’m loving the hell out of the FZ1. Smoother engine, way more juice, sharper handling and it looks way meaner. Also less tiring on the longer rides due to less vibration EVERYWHERE! The bars need to be a little wider and the snatchy throttle still needs work, but it’s def my favourite bike so far. Maybe i just need to praise the poor thing a little bit more!
@@AndyManCam no problem, i am used to it. Try Südtirol, there they are really friendly and you can still afford a few pints after refuelling! Or the isle of man during the tt! I enjoyed the race fortnight in Douglas and we were called "boys" there!!!!!! (i was 59)🤣🤣🤣 It was in the "Sugarland-Hotel", which reminded me a little bit to "Hogwarts".
@@krachenford9594 True! I was shocked when we filled up in Livigno and it was less than 1€ per litre!! Switzerland is beautiful, but they know it and 'Tax' the tourists for the view!! :D
i get to ride these daily in the summer, thank god i moved from the UK to Switzerland if you boys are back here let me know will show you some places cops NEVER go and bring out the boys in super cars to play with if your game. Andy Man Cam check my channel and FB page
@@uwegerold4647 It's always important not to make brash and judgemental statements without context. Especially if it involves insulting somebody's abilities. I'm pretty sure that he had just overtaken the guy on the Duke on the outside of the corner. One of the great things about many of the roads in the foothills down there, is that visibility is amazing and you can see for 2 or 3 bends ahead if anything is coming. Also, er hat doch sein Spur verlassen, aber es war mit Absicht gemacht! Der Duke Fahrer hat wesentlich mehr PS als wir, aber ist langsam in die Kurven gefahren. Deswegen mussten wir ihn dort überholen! (Entschuldigung für mein Deutsch!)
Awesome video Andy. I just did the Splügen pass on Thursday, 19. Sept. 2018 on my 2008 Buell XB12. I wish you had showed more of the sick turns on the way up. I wanted to compare with my riding technique. *Andy could you please check my channel, and let me know if you see anything I could improve on my Riding/cornering technique. P.S. The construction site has moved up to 100m from the summit. I still have a Lehrschield, so I turned around at the Italian border. I'll now watch the rest of your video to know what I'm in for next time. Liked, followed, and rang the bell...
Cheers mate! I found it really hard editing all of the videos from this series because they were all just full of amazing turns! I’m not sure I’m really the best judge of anyone’s technique to be honest mate! I barely know what I’m doing myself!! 😂
What can be better than having a breakfast and watching AMC? - eating from a glass bowl, of course - so you don't miss a thing!
Haha! Brilliant, thats real dedication! 😂 Cheers!!
You are the life blood for those of us who look longingly at our winter bound, two wheeled, freedom machines!!
That is VERY comforting to hear! Luckily it keeps me busy while I can't ride aswell! In fact, I should probably check at some point if my bike is even still there. Haven't seen it for 6 weeks!! :O
Great video, awesome roads, great riding...😀😀
Thanks very much Ian!
Loved the violin score; grandiose music for grandiose scenery 👌 off to ride those passes for the first time in June. Can't wait.
Cheers James. I thought it was fitting. Scenery like that deserves super cinematic drama music!! You're going to have a tremendous time. Everywhere you go, it's simply amazing! Just keep the speed down! ;D
Simple and just amazing!!!
Can´t get enough of this videos buddy!!
Thanks mate! Cheers for watching!!
Fantastic veiws and roads, good with som Dronage
Thanks Sam! Can't wait to get back there and do it all again!!
Epic musical montages Andy!!! Good show 😉
Thank you very much indeed MYM! Cheers for the watching!
Fabulous vid. Some work gone into that 😄👍👏👏
Beautiful places, beautiful roads.
Thanks for sharing 🏍🏍
Cheers Mac! Little bit of time invested, the def worth it if it shows! 😁 It’s heaven on earth down there.
Wow just wow mate. Your cinematography just gets better and better. Loveing the content. Keep it up. All the best.
Thanks very much Andy. Always a pleasure to hear that I'm going in the right direction!
AMC special, Quality fantastic Quantity perfect, a great idea with the old sparky mix and the music was fitting too, I don't think anybody can top this video and I know how much work is stuck into a video like this ! Glad the weather held up for you chaps. 👍😉
Thanks much Gaz. Really glad I got that little spark. Seems to add a lot to the overall effect. Of course the incredible views also help a fair bit!! 🤣
Another great video thanks amc
Thanks very much Richard!
Awesome. Just awesome. Thanks for sharing 😊
My pleasure! Thanks for watching Jane!
awesome video with nice exhaust sound. greatings from austria
Thanks very much Dieter. Grüß aus Hamburg!
Brings back memories👍
For me too! MUST go back asap!!
Beautiful. Thanks for the video.
My pleasure Casey. Thanks for watching!
Did this just last week, you were blessed with the weather unlike me, miserable rain but still amazing route and views
Well it just keeps getting better and better Andy! Well done sir, and a large thank you for providing us with some grade A bike entertainment during these winter months! Loving it 😁
Cheers Christopher! Entirely my pleasure mate. Hope the winter is being kind to you so far!!
Beautifully edited. The drone shot at 8.28 is fantastic. 👍🏻
Thank you most kindly Dingus. I really enjoyed the drone stuff on this trip. SO much amazing stuff to fly over!!
The cinematography around 8:20 is just amazing. It’s the bohemian rhapsody of motovlogs.
Cheers Adam. So i guess that makes me the motovlogging Queen... no wait a minute...
Switzerland is Freddy Mercury, you’re Brian May & Smokey is ermm... I’ll get back to you with that.
Hahahahaha! Just need the perm.
Due to the COVID-19 situation, I am on shortened working hours. Having mainly Fridays off, I have spent this morning re-watching your excellent Alp-tours. 👌😁
I have done most of these passes in some of my cars.
Still needs to do the San Bernadino though, looks amazing 😍
My favorite is the Grimsel-Furka combination 🤘👌
Cheers!
Many thanks Erik! Very happy to have been able to keep you entertained. I watched a bit of one yesterday too and realised that I now really miss how the bike used to sound!!
I have had some louder ”cans” on some of my bikes. However, it would be nice if they could invent automatic baffles like they have on cars these days. Just a click of a button and you can change from highway -mode to ”belting out of corners” - mode 👌
That would be good. The can in this video was awesome in the twisties, but got very wearing in the day to day!
my kinda roads, brilliant stuff really.........!!!
You and me both mate! Amazing riding, wherever you go! Shame about those speed limits though!!
Nice footage, AMC. It makes me wish I were there. 🏍
Cheers mate. Me too! Can never get enough!
WONDERFUL!!! GRAZIE ANDY!!!
My pleasure! Thanks for watching Marco!
A little bit of cheeky trivia! Skeletor was in the 'Princess Bride' .... haha
Well I never!! Learn something new every day!
Hang on, Skeletor was voiced by Alan Oppenheimer. He wasn’t in The Princess Bride! You lie!!! 😜
@@AndyManCam gotcha! You do do the perfect impression of him though dude lmao
Haha! Busted!
Amazing vid again! Inspired by this, I booked myself a motor trip to the Swiss alps end of May to take on Grimsel, Furka and Gothard. Looking forward!!
Brilliant!! You'll not regret it! Thanks Walter!
Andy Man Cam any recommendations for an appartment? Quite expensive there...
The place we stayed at was great. And not too pricey. We found it through Booking.com but you can call direct and get 10% off. the number is 0796653587 (with whatever the Swiss int' code is). Happy travels mate!
Gooood stuff man. Oberalp pass and Lukmanier pass where so close from your starting point and could easely be connected to San Bernardino and Splugen continuing to Maloja pass and close there is Julier pass. All very pretty. And if you go there again there are plenty more to discover :)
Yeah, I know we could have squeezed those extra passes in and I would have loved to. But we had to draw the line somewhere. We were also both really keen to ride the San Bernardino again in the other direction! It's also always good to have a reason to go back and see the stuff that you didn't see last time!
@@AndyManCam true. And now you have plenty of reasons :) I can name here all the passes i done if this can help you for your future trip.
Certainly wouldn't hurt to have an extensive list of what I can look forward to next time! Go for it!
@@AndyManCam oki doki. My route was like this. Lets start from Stelvio,we went down to Bormio and then to Livigno. After that our goal was Bernina pass in Switzerland wich is starting just after Italian - Swiss border. Next pass was Albula. We sleept there. In the morning we did Julier pass,Maloja pass,Splugen pass,San bernardino,Lukmanier,Oberalp,San Gothard and sleept in Airolo. In the morning continuing on Nufenen,Furka,Susten,Grimsel,Furka again and then went to Klausen pass for a sleep. In the morning continuing our way back to Italy hitting tree more passes. Fluela pass,Offenpass and the last in Switzerland,Umbrail pass wich finishes almost at the top of Stelvio pass. Try to put all the passes in google maps in the same order i followed them and you can see the circle i did. Now im missing few more Swiss passes wich are on the French border :)
Awesome. Many thanks!
Spectacular, your cameras do an amazing job of showing the distant mountains and rock formations. It must have taken a hell of a lot of concentration riding these passes, you'd not wanna get them wrong!
You’re not wrong there! You can really tell at the end of the day when your brain is mush from all the concentration! The cameras did a fine job. Sony fan boy for life yo! The fancy XAVC-S high bitrate codec certainly helps. Though 2-3 TB of footage in 7 days was the price!!
do you find you need to change the bitrate on editing to get past the UA-cam nerf, or are they kinder to you than they are us and give you the "good" codec for your 1080 stuff? (I have to pretend my footage is 4k to get the good codec and higher bitrate)
Seems that they give me the VP09 codec as standard now. I just upload my video at a quality I’m happy with and let the nerfing do what it will. Though me and Smokey were discussing this subject and realised that his one of his first vlogs has the good codec, but a video 2 or 3 later doesn’t. Seems there is no rhyme or reason.
how odd, I wonder if there's a sure way to manipulate it to give the good codec?
Seems like your trick is the best bet mate.
Really enjoy/appreciate how you cut/edit the riding sections. Recently found your channel after watching the planes vs bikes vid over on TMF's channel. Looking forwarding to watching the rest of this series and checking out your other content. Good luck with the channel.
Many thanks Alex and welcome to the team! Hope you enjoy the rest of the content!
Yeah good answer ...I've a 2o18 versys model not as vibey as older model but still there !! Cheers happy fz1 motoring from dave👍
The best answers are the honest ones! I loved my 2006 V, but it always had its drawbacks. I guess no bike will be perfect, but fettling with it to make it perfect is half the fun of bike ownership right?!
Another great vid Mr AMC! watched it twice it was that good.
Well then double thank you very much mate!
It seems you're on a good role churning out, in my opinion some of your best video's yet! Well done A.M.C.
Cheers Rob! ☺️ let’s just hope that they keep only getting better eh!?
@@AndyManCam perhaps you'll stretch legs and make a megger trip to the Pecos region, its somewhere I'll be going to, have a wedding in the Slovenia in June if I get my act together I could trailer the bike there finger's crossed
Funny you should say that. Picos and Pyrenees are very much on my list for asap.
Probably your best vid yet, made me want to go and jump on the bike!
Bingo! That'S exactly the mood I wanted to create! Thanks Adam!
Superb!! What a pass that was, great video guys😎
Thanks Paul! San Bernardino is easily the most enjoyable ride of my life (with trousers on) 🤣
Andy Man Cam 😂😂😂😂😂
You get good results using the Sony cams, jeeps its great scenery out there
Cheers mate. Yeah, they're great bits of kit. Somehow still the unsung hero (bad joke) in the action cam world. But I think they're gaining ground.
Wow bloody amazing sir, love the combination of music, drone footage and action! Next level shit 👌
Cheers Matey! That drone was definitely a good addition to the arsenal! The real stars here are the Swiss scenery and the roadbuilders that chucked those curves on to it!! 😂
Lamb Chop Rides
Couldn’t have put it better myself.👍👍👍🏍🏍🏍
Bunkers by Picasso, roads by Pollock =
The motorcycle modern art tour of the alps!!
Wow, excellent all-around:-)
Thanks very much SB!
Some crackin editing there 👍🏍
Cheers HB. Very kind of you to say so mate.
For motorcyclists by motorcyclists, love it
That’s exactly what it is! 👍🏻 Thanks for watching PJ.
One of your best edited yet Andy.
Thanks very much Tony. I really enjoyed this one over the others too. I guess it shows! Cheers!
Hola soy Dioni desde España, me encanta este video y desde hoy te sigo en UA-cam mis felicitaciones
Muchas Gracias Dioni! Bienvenido a mi Canal!!
Did you see a Bedford coach and 3 wrecked Minis on your travels over the san Bernardino? This is where they got away to at the end of the Italian Job (the original)
Hahaha! Brilliant! I actually didn't know that. But it makes perfect sense! They must still be out there somewhere...
You might be able to buy extended toe leavers for your aftermarket rear set.
Not knowing what yours look like but it was something I could do for my Aprilia.
You can see what my peg setup looks like in this video! I put it on screen for that exact reason! It’s just a modified peg mount with a swivelling joint. But it sets the footrest 3/4” further outwards so i have to point my toes inwards to get the levers. Going to change it to something different before next season.
@@AndyManCam I can see the peg but not the toe.
There is things you can do to help your problem. I had the same problem with the MFW (I think that's what it was called) kit.
If designed like the Aprilia (well like my 2nd gen) you can replace the bit, your toe push/pull to change gear.
If you're not sure what I'm babbling on about. Look up toe leaver extension and then you'll know lol.
However, theses always the engineers solution of cutting off and replacing the toe leaver bit of the leaver, drill a hole and replace with something else. It's what you did if you came off and needed a replacement leaver but couldn't afford a new one.
Ah, gotcha. I think i’ll just go with an ordinary aftermarket peg holder. That way I can use the same pegs and still gain a bit of leg room plus a bit of ground clearance over stock. TBH just having the feet that inch and a half overall further apart makes it fee a bit like you’re riding a barrell!!
@@AndyManCam I couldn't get on with the kit I bought. Kept catching my feet on bracket for the lowering kit.
Made myself a lowering plate with a step in it. So the pegs are no wider but still lower.
I’d love to do something similar. Sadly home made parts in chassis critical places like the footpegs have to have TüV certification to be legal in Germany.
I love the Swiss/Italian Alp soooo much :)
Much nicer than my first trip - coach over the St Gothard down to Milan - at 13 it was amazing scenery !!!
Last time was via a train from Kandersteg to Brig and down to Lake Maggiore - and I still loved it
You and me both! I don’t think I’ll ever get bored of it. Its all just so immense, vast and breathtakingly beautiful. 2 wheels, 4 wheels or 40 wheels, it’s a pleasure to travel through there.
Nice video 👍 It's sad you couldn't continue further on to Chiavenna, then riding the Maloja-Pass to the Engadin and then Albula. From there you got the possibility back va Oberalp or via San Bernardino Pass. This passes are mostly part of my "short" spins 😂
That would have been the ideal trip. Sadly it was already a pretty long outing at 8 hours in the saddle. A very good argument for actually touring a little, rather than always heading back ‘home’. Still, we’ve got something for next time!! 😁
I'd love to see the gpx files of the routes you guys took day by day :D
I’m afraid it was all a bit of a patchwork routes affair, with lots of changes and detours! To be honest, in this area, you simply can’t go wrong!
Just a whole lot of "wows" every time I watch, absolutely amazing country, well done Andy! Imagine it's must feel like a bikers paradise amusement park ride, you never want it to stop. (that's what she said :-)
Hahaha! Yes mate. So very true. I wanted to go back the very same second we started leaving!
@@AndyManCam The music with the views so cool, 6:54 damn impressive, really, just how do you do that?! Great! So Enjoyable!
Just watched this video, great stuff! You would probably like the Splugen Pass better if you went on beyond Montespluga all the way to Corti, because that is where the thrilling tight bends and narrow tunnels are. And a faster road back up that goes around the Lago di Isola. I have that on video but won't be edited for the next two months or so, but you can find a few movies on that bit on UA-cam. Or even better: do it yourself next time you're there. OK, end of hindsight advice, I'm going back to enjoy the rest of your Switzerland vids :-)
Thanks Martin. That’s a great tip, cheers mate. I always wish that every ride could have been just that little bit longer! Sadly this one was already a long old day in the saddle from our digs. Maybe next time a one way trip all the way through the whole pass will be in order.
Mint done that 😎
Easily my favourite road yet!
Spectacular scenery and great footage Andy 👍 the roads looked quite quiet, when did you go ?
Thanks Norrie. I think it was just because these passes are a little further out of the way. The better known passes (grimsel, furka etc...) were far busier. We were there mid/end of August.
hi, using this series as research for a next trip, THB, you missed the best part of spluga in Italy
Sadly there’s always something that gets missed, otherwise the trips would simply never end! Just means I’ve still got new stuff to see next time! 😉
What a trip - any issues with the Swiss Rozzers?
They were all over the place and we did actually get stopped once. But that was more to check that we had all the paperwork and that my noisy pipe was in fact legal! I think the only people that have real issues over there are the people who push it too far or don'T pay attention and miss the speed traps! ;D
Hi, great videos and thank you for sharing. I'm planning a road trip but one concern is the Swiss strict stance against speeding. Did you see many police actually on the mountain passes? I'm not going to go crazy, just a "spirited" drive ;)
Hi Pete, many thanks! Unfortunately we did see a fair few police around. As a result we kept the speeds to within 15% or so of the limit. The fines are MONUMENTAL so really not worth the risk. Plus in the twisties worth riding, if you can get the speeds above 80 in the bends, you’re a better rider than I! 😜 Luckily the place is so stunning that speed is only a small Part of the experience. You’ll be stopping every 5 minutes to take photos!
Note to self, bring extra camera mounts 😉. The views were epic mate. Glad you got a change to enjoy them! Ride safe.
Totally! Stupid thing is that i had a spare, and left it at home! Luckily i had enough other bits to throw something halfway decent together! I’m glad i got to see them too. Should be way up on any bikers list!
you beautyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!
I know right!! Best road on earth, easy!!
@@AndyManCam its unreal. Absolutely majestic.
I hope I get another chance to ride there again sometime.
WOW!!!!
I know right! Amazing places!
Jeez, Andy. Quit the day job and work as a video editor! This is epic and beautifully edited. Stunning views, great riding, and lovely weather for once!
You're preaching to the choir Fred! I'd love to do this professionally! Apparently it'S a very cut-throat, highly contested and difficult trade to get into! Plus the colour-blindness issue might cause me some problems! With my own stuf, it doesn't really matter. But when the customer wants blue and they get puce... XD
Andy, I think I'm getting old: such quick altitude changes could get me the bends! Hahahahahah (dad joke, sorry).
Oh dear!! 😂 In that area, everybody gets the bends!
Just wow Andy. It just keeps getting better. At one point in this video, as I was mesmerized by the stunning scenery, I thought... what would that ride be like on a Zero electric bike, with only the sound of the wind to compliment that visual feast? Now, of course, I know the e-bikes don't have the range to do this ride, and yes, I also know how you love the sound of your exhaust. But... can you imagine that experience in "silence"? I think it would give a surreal sense of being one with that stunning landscape.
Thanks very much Mike. Yeah the scenery down there is really something else. I’ll never get enough of seeing it. I think you’re absolutely right though and I’d love to get the chance to experience that kind of ride on a Zero. Plus the amazing and instant torque would be fantastic out of those bends!! Maybe I’ll have to have a word with Zero about it!
Where did you base yourselves for this trip please require the info for a trip next year already got one trip planned to Garmisch and interlaken looking for at least a week in one place for the second trip.
We were in Göschenen. A fantastic central location for most of the passes.
Andy, did you have any bother from police doing speed checks? I see that fine that got 4,000 Euro fine and ban for speeding. Want to return to Switzerland but not if they are clamping down too much
We got stopped the once on the way to the Grimsel pass, but more of a routine random stop check than a speed trap. We did see a fair few rozzers at the roadsides though. But the saviour was that we weren’t kicking the arse out of the speed limits. German roads for the speed, Italian roads for the ‘adventure’ and swiss roads for the views! 😉
My new saying, "holy wowsers on a bonkers stick" 😂😂
I should start charging royalties for the nonsense that falls out of my cake hole!
Hi AMC you know what? Your yt channel is a revelation, it' funny ( the most important bit) and it seems to be made by someone who really loves motorbikes, which is strange becouse u dont! If you dont mind telling me what video editin program donu use - the montage is superb. I am just on a verge of buying a 2011 fazer 1000 so I am going to bugger to the AMC garage. Cheers ;)
Haha! Hopefully that’s not how it seems!! I do love bikes, honest!! 😄. I currently use Davinci Resolve (the free version), though i think i made this video on Vegas 16 i much prefer Resolve and actually moved to it after never ending stability issues with Vegas. Enjoy the garage stuff. Hopefully one or two new upgrades coming in the next week or two.
@@AndyManCam thx. P.s. next time you need to do that pop in to Bosnia - here is an open invitation to Sarajevo - yes I know it a long (train) ride from Hamburg but think about it it full of woows ;)
My pleasure and thanks very much! We really wanted to see Bosnia and Montenegro, but sadly had no time. Next time mate! 👍🏻
15:43
What's that structure?
If I were to guess, I’d say that its a tunnel to provide passage for when the hillside is covered in snow.
Found it when I searched Splügen. It's Splügenpass
Best I can gather it's an avalanche galley that was made in the early or mid 1800's.
www.gr.ch/DE/institutionen/verwaltung/bvfd/tba/aktuelles/NewsDokumente/Flyer_2011-06-23-DE_Galerie-Spluegenpass.pdf
I am with you regarding the Splugen Pass, definitely not my favourite either.
Shame really. It promised so much. Luckily the San Bernardino was possibly the best I've ridden, so all was forgiven!
One of the 44teeth guys got a ridiculously expensive speeding ticket in that country, and banned.
Lifted_Above they are notoriously heavy on speeding there. Bottom line don’t speed there.
That's one lesson people learn while observing it.
Don't forget though that they weren't just speeding. They were smashing the pants, socks and trousers off of the speed limit! I'm pretty sure that getting caught doing almost double the limit in the UK would get you a far longer ban than just 3 months. The police likely wouldn't be nearly as polite and friendly either!! :D We just didn't feel the need to take the piss and as such didn't have any trouble.
@@AndyManCam yeah one didn't get the sense that they were doing mach 2 on the Swiss highways, but who knows.
Haha! It was obvious they were smashing it! 144km/h at the point they got caught and I think we can take that as an average! Not surprising with those machines on those roads! But from their footage and mine, you can tell that they were making much more ‚progress’ than we were. There‘s a reason I decided to get a naked bike when I stepped up to the Litre category! 🤣
There seems to be a lot of police around!!!
There certainly were a few hanging about. Anybody would think that they were precious about their speed limits down there!
Andy tell me if I'm wrong ? (but altho Ive previously owned fazer fz1 and a. xj6 both ecellent bikes, im now a versys 650 owner!!!...) you don't seem too look as if you enjoy the fz1 as you did your versys...I know fz1 handles better ,goes better stops better, looks better.. cheers from dave..
Weird! I suppose it’s just really different. But I’m loving the hell out of the FZ1. Smoother engine, way more juice, sharper handling and it looks way meaner. Also less tiring on the longer rides due to less vibration EVERYWHERE! The bars need to be a little wider and the snatchy throttle still needs work, but it’s def my favourite bike so far. Maybe i just need to praise the poor thing a little bit more!
It’s a triumph tiger 900 pro👍
And the Lambo run at the very beginning of the film.
Every good video starts with a Lambo.
Go to Switzerland, enjoy friendly people and reasonable prized hotels an meals . . .!
Tick, tick and tick! But mostly because we did it all at home on the cheap!! 🤣 Nothing about switzerland is cheap!!
@@AndyManCam I know, just tried to be funny, but failed . . . (german)
Hahaha! Sorry, my bad. Its the written mediums fault. Hard to hear the sarcastic inflection! 😉
@@AndyManCam no problem, i am used to it. Try Südtirol, there they are really friendly and you can still afford a few pints after refuelling!
Or the isle of man during the tt! I enjoyed the race fortnight in Douglas and we were called "boys" there!!!!!! (i was 59)🤣🤣🤣
It was in the "Sugarland-Hotel", which reminded me a little bit to "Hogwarts".
@@krachenford9594 True! I was shocked when we filled up in Livigno and it was less than 1€ per litre!! Switzerland is beautiful, but they know it and 'Tax' the tourists for the view!! :D
i get to ride these daily in the summer, thank god i moved from the UK to Switzerland if you boys are back here let me know will show you some places cops NEVER go and bring out the boys in super cars to play with if your game. Andy Man Cam check my channel and FB page
Lucky bugger, riding that every summer! Sounds like an offer we couldn’t possibly refuse mate!
Oh man!!!! .......that’s all I got. Oh man!!! Sigh.
That's the exact response I was aiming for! ;)
7:30 not good :-(
Why not?
@@AndyManCam , your "friend" (??) was too fast , cant Keep his lane … hope, it happens not too often ( sorry for my "english" ) greets Uwe
@@uwegerold4647 It's always important not to make brash and judgemental statements without context. Especially if it involves insulting somebody's abilities. I'm pretty sure that he had just overtaken the guy on the Duke on the outside of the corner. One of the great things about many of the roads in the foothills down there, is that visibility is amazing and you can see for 2 or 3 bends ahead if anything is coming. Also, er hat doch sein Spur verlassen, aber es war mit Absicht gemacht! Der Duke Fahrer hat wesentlich mehr PS als wir, aber ist langsam in die Kurven gefahren. Deswegen mussten wir ihn dort überholen! (Entschuldigung für mein Deutsch!)
@@AndyManCam uups , sorry ( next beer on my bill ) ;-) enjoy und "oben bleiben" !!!
an in general , verryyyy nice vid !!! ;-)
Awesome video Andy.
I just did the Splügen pass on Thursday, 19. Sept. 2018 on my 2008 Buell XB12.
I wish you had showed more of the sick turns on the way up. I wanted to compare with my riding technique.
*Andy could you please check my channel, and let me know if you see anything I could improve on my Riding/cornering technique.
P.S. The construction site has moved up to 100m from the summit.
I still have a Lehrschield, so I turned around at the Italian border. I'll now watch the rest of your video to know what I'm in for next time.
Liked, followed, and rang the bell...
Cheers mate! I found it really hard editing all of the videos from this series because they were all just full of amazing turns! I’m not sure I’m really the best judge of anyone’s technique to be honest mate! I barely know what I’m doing myself!! 😂
How do you know about a sex toy 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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