Motorcycle Road Trip: Adventure in the Pyrenees

The video captures the first episode of a road trip to the south of France, showcasing diverse terrains and mishaps along the way.

### Motorcycle Road Trip to South of France: Episode 1 Highlights
* 🏍 A group of motorcyclists embark on a road trip to the south of France, starting in Balboa, Spain, and riding into the Pyrenees towards their **first hotel**.
* 🎥 The trip is recorded extensively, with **nearly one terabyte of footage** captured over **10-11 days** using GoPro, K2, and Drift cameras.
* 🗺 ️ GPX files are provided for each day's route, allowing viewers to **replicate the journey on their Garmin devices**.
* 🌧 The first day's ride is wet and foggy, challenging the riders' skills on **narrow, twisty mountain roads**.
* 🚧 Traction control is discussed, with riders opting to **turn it off for better control on gravel and muddy sections**.
* 🛣 The group encounters various road conditions, including **loose gravel**, **tight hairpin bends**, and **unpredictable campervans**.
* 🏰 The day ends in the picturesque town of Casals, with the riders enjoying a **well-deserved pint** after a **challenging ride**.
* 🎬 The video promises **more episodes to come**, capturing the group's adventures through France and beyond.

I've literally just been stripping my bike down to do a complete refit of all the wiring. I've just put a power hub on there, but never mind about that. That video will be coming soon. But this video is all about episode one of the road trip to the south of France. The video you're about to watch is about 45 minutes long, so I apologize it's quite long. But I've edited out as much as I can. I have literally recorded just under one terabyte of footage over 10, 11 days. It's been an absolute monster of an editing job going through all of the footage from my GoPro camera, my K2 footage that I've got coming on the dash cam of the bike, also using one of my buddy's drift cameras, getting as much footage as I possibly can to make a really good video to put onto YouTube for you guys. Now Nick, one of the guys who is on the trip, he is the one who's done all this trip. He's absolutely fantastic at doing bike trips. Now we don't just

stick to the big sweeping roads with the twists. We go on the d-rows. We like to really mix it up, so we get a good combination of fast roads and also back roads with a little bit of gravel, a little bit of shingles, scratching around a bit, seeing what, you know, what sort of speeds we can get up to on those back roads, and having a bit of fun turning the traction off, turning it back on again, and just doing all sorts of things. So there's quite a few little mishaps happened along the way, so make sure you watch all the episodes. I don't know how many episodes there's gonna be. I probably estimate it's probably gonna be about six or seven, just so I can get as much interesting highlights as possible to except for you to see without the videos being too long. Episode one is literally just getting to Balboa in Spain via the ferry. We then ride straight into France. That took about an hour and a half to get into France. Could have

been longer. Don't quote me on that. And then kind of like rode around the Pyrenees to our first hotel. If you are interested in this road trip, there's a GPX file down in the link below. So if you want to click on that, and you can download that to any Garmin. Why I'm assuming any Garmin, but you should be able to download that to your Garmin. Or if you've got Nav5, Nav6. If you weren't aware that actually is a Garmin, you can literally just download this into Basecamp and then just upload it onto your Garmin. That's your Nav5, Nav6, etc. So you can do this yourself. So what I'm going to show you right now is for episode one, it's just the first route for day two, which is from our base from Sen Savin and going to the next location in Cask. I can't pronounce these words. Casque coin. Coin. I can't remember what it's called now. And then the next episode is going to be

the next leg, and then the next leg, and I'll see how many days I can get into each episode. It's a really, really good ride. We really enjoyed it, and hopefully you'll enjoy it too, right? I need to get back to put my bike back together again because I'm going on a ride this afternoon. [Music] Just because you just arrived to the docks. Hello, this is Nick, this is Mike, and that's Nick. It's Nick, me, Mike, and me, Nikki, Mickey, Mikey, and me. One of the things that always bring with me on my trip, basically it says always ride safe and always come [Music] home. [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] and good morning on Friday, the Friday, the whatever. I know it's Friday anyway. We've already done the ferry over to Barbara, got to this place called scent saving, and uh, we're now heading off into the Pyrenees. It's not

it's not a great day as you can see if you look up there into the mountains completely full of clouds so it's a it's a it's a wet start i'm afraid. Look at these beautiful flowers. [Music] oh. [Music] hey i'm okay with them now. Yeah it's beautiful. Oh we've got we're on with the bell. I used to be terrified of cows. Absolutely terrified of them until i spent a whole two weeks in Portugal with him on the road constantly. I love this bloody love it. I forgot how good it is nick it's been too long. Oh wet corner. [Music] [Music] so. [Music] [Music] oh gosh on the road a lot of [ __ ] on the road. [Music] whoa bloody hell the undulations. [Music] oh it's like a see a cloud. I'm not ready here you go it's all right. [Music] okay. I would like I have to have one of these kick you off your bike I think that.

i think that yeah he's got his eye on you this one has they'll wear eyeliner don't they llamas. [Music] [Music] so sorry sorry i know i keep getting too close i'm sorry sorry i i am i know i'm guilty of it. [Music] [Music] yeah i don't like hit bloody hell i don't like hitting my breath i hate hitting my brakes on corners that's why i get close it's a bit damp in places. [Music] say i've brought a tinted visor with me so uh it gets a bit dark when it's foggy so clear clear glasses going on oh yeah it's all downhill from here love here you got it she's not that young issue stood up doing well she. [Music] uh not yet i can't see it's clear yeah hairpin. [Music] still clear occasional round clear clear clear. [Music] clear yeah you're on. [Music] here now oh i nearly hit the wing of that camper van.

[Music] they come right over, don't they? [Music] Getting paranoid about campervans now. He's on the wrong side of the road, this guy's. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Okay, let's turn the traction control off, a little bit more fun on the bends then, isn't it? [Music] [Music] So [Music] [Music] Clear, yeah. [Music] Nice. Ice is beautiful. Wet, wet, wet. [ __ ] big stone in the road. [Music] Is quaint. Oh, this is lovely, lovely. Hail the rooster. [Music] Yep. Good. We've literally just been sat outside a coffee shop for 15 minutes. It wouldn't come out and bring us our coffees, so we're off. [Music] Got the old Renault 11. My, I've seen one of them for about 20 years. Well, we all need it, don't we there, yeah, pump there, yeah. I'm putting something.

too nothing wrong with that. [Music] yeah it is off just in case you get loose bits you you you don't want. If you get a steep bit and you get a lot of gravel, you want the wheels to spin to get you out of the [__] because we're not. We're not going fast there's spin. Yeah it's a good cause remember that story i told you where my bike stalled and i've i rolled back into nick. That's because my traction was on because the traction wouldn't let me get out of the bloody rut. [Music] ah it wasn't that sense. Yeah on a wet road i think it's great when you do it when you're motoring along but you need it off to be able to get through. Have you got knobbly's on. I i definitely have it turned off. You want to get get through muddy fields and slippy slippy mess you just trust your right hand your right wrist. [Music] well gravel in the corner on the bridge.

[Music] I love this, bloody love it. You okay? [Music] Why, what happened? You're trying to catch me up, weren't you? Oh, you're recording it. Good, good, good for the record. Nick just had a major slide. So we're gonna get... He's got it on video, so we're gonna get. [Applause] That. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] What, front end slide or rear? Oh, got cars having a chit-chat here. Slow, stop. [Music] Oh my god, they're not even moving. They're gonna let me pass. Thank you. [Music] Whoa. [Music] Don't want to crank that front wheel over on that gravel. This is all loose in the middle of the road, isn't it? Whoa, car, van, car, world of pain to the right. [Music] Oh, am I going the right way? I know the sat nav's gone. [Music] Is it okay? Let's keep going up. [Music] Yeah, okay. Oh god, he dropped my bike.

[Laughter]. I need to drop mine up there doing that. Yeah, it's a heavy weight to move at a slow, slowly. Look at that beautiful red gs. So I'm speaking to the YouTube subscribers who are watching this, probably in a couple of months' time when I get around to editing all this footage. [Music]. Roads like this definitely improve your riding skills. Very little room for error. [Music] [Music] [Music]. So, oh, beautiful view. I'm so tempted to cut the corner and go across the grass. Then that's a bit steep though. It's a bit steep. Yeah, at the bottom. Yeah, where the drains [Music] are [Music]. We are [Music]. Huh [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music]. This is nice. This is cute. This is beautiful [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music]. Oh, the pace is great. Um, cool. It's really good bass [Music] [Music] [Music]. Yeah, it's still clear. Still clear. Clear.

for miles. [Music] [Music] [Music] Don't go to the back of me, please, Carl. [Music] That's beautiful. To back to Bucharest. Oh, a big great thing. [Music] [Music] Dude. [Music] [Music] This is beautiful in there. Look at these trees. I love this sword. [Music] [Music] Where are we going? I've got down here. All right. Why should we wait for a mic? [Music] [Music] Oh. [Music] Oh, this is lovely. Oh, this is beautiful place. All right. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Oh no, I don't mind. Okay, cheers. [Music] [Music] The traction lights flashing. Yeah, like good. It's good. It's doing its job. It's keeping us on our bikes. [Music] Whoa. I love this. I love it. [Music] This is just great. This is why I ride a GS. Best bike in the world. [Music] [Applause] [Music]

[Music] Yeah, we're supposed to turn off right back then. Big it probably comes out in the same bit. Yeah, ah, that's awesome. That was awesome little ride. That's all on my own though. [Music] Oh, oh, I was on it. I was on it about there on it on it on it. Oh, but I could feel both front and rear slipping on corners. I'm like it's okay, but it still gets you. Oh, that is sick for the purpose of the GoPro. Nick and me have went off ahead, uh, at a little jewel, do you like, and, uh, Mick and Mike. Yeah, we basically stopped to wait a few minutes to catch up, but they haven't turned up. So we're just going to go back and see if we can find them if something has happened, obviously. Hopefully we're hoping nothing has happened, but this road's got a lot of shingle on it, and we've got a lot of slips and slides. So just hoping that one of them hasn't come off on a bend. I said we went, we went up there.

yeah, we came from up there. Yeah, we did. Yeah. [Music] I think we did. Maybe we didn't, but this is the same road, right? But this, right, that's the road that your Saturn have told you to go up to, but we stayed on the road around it. Mick, Mike, can you hear me? Hello, right, Nick, they're here. All right. [Laughter] You're all okay, yeah. Oh, yeah, all right. You can't get. It's all on camera, yeah. Tell me, I should climb out of that. [Laughter] If somebody can lift that side, I can give this side a real up, okay. [Music] We're going to drone it, drone the castle. I have no idea where we are. What's the name of this town? What's the name of this town? [Music] I've got to drone this castle, flight through, flight through the [Music] turrets. [Music] [Laughter] Oh, yeah. [Music] We are in Casa Song, beautiful place. It's kind of like day two of riding done.

and we're gonna go out for a nice point of beer after today's events and eat some food. [Music] [Music] so [Music]. Did you enjoy it? Well, if you did, enjoy it. Please stay tuned for the next episode, which will be coming in the next week or two. All right, stay safe behind bars.

SOUTH OF FRANCE 2020 ROAD TRIP EPISODE 1

A BIKE THING

Epic Bike Road Trip to the South of France

The video documents a 10 to 11-day road trip from Balboa in Spain to the Pyrenees in France, featuring a mix of fast roads, back roads, gravel, and shingles.

Episode one covers the journey from Balboa to the first hotel in France, with a GPX file available for download for those interested in the trip.

The extensive editing job involved sifting through nearly one terabyte of footage from GoPro, K2, and drift cameras to create a comprehensive video for YouTube.

Two friends embark on a wet and cloudy journey into the Pyrenees mountains.

The rider overcomes fear, enjoys the scenery, and navigates the challenging road conditions.

The adventure includes encounters with llamas and a thrilling ride down the mountains.

The speaker's random musings are interspersed with comments about driving and the traction control.

They discuss the need to turn off traction control for better maneuverability on wet and gravel roads.

The conversation also includes frustration about a slow coffee shop and observations about the surroundings.

A Motorbike Adventure with Music and Scenic Views

The speaker describes a motorbike ride, including a friend's slide and navigating through traffic.

They also express the temptation to cut corners and enjoy the scenic view.

The experience is enhanced by music and is being recorded for a YouTube channel.

Friends enjoy a motorcycle ride through beautiful scenery.

One of the riders expresses love for their bike and the experience.

They become concerned when two other riders fail to catch up, fearing they may have had an accident on the slippery road.

The group seems disoriented and unsure of their location while trying to find a specific road.

There is a mix of laughter, conversation, and a plan to use a drone to capture the castle, indicating they are in good spirits despite being lost.

The speaker is looking forward to the next episode, suggesting that this confusing adventure will continue.