Fly & Ride in Switzerland on the BMWs | Episode #1

Fly & Ride in Switzerland on the BMWs | Episode #1

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wow it's finally time i'm off to  switzerland for a fly and ride but   before i ride i got some work to  do then i'll meet mark at zurich   woohoo it's finally my turn see you soon  winston for those of you guys who want to   go toswitzerland it's like the good old days  you don't need anything but just be sure   to have your vaccination cert downloaded  the one with the QR code see you soon bro i finally finished my work trip in geneva  right now it's 2:18 pm i'm on the intercity   train to go to zurich from geneva to meet mark  and we'll start our Fly and Ride Switzerland! Finally I get to see Winston, he's been away for a week anyway  we are now in zurich it's been a   bloody long day i've had a bloody long flight  we're gonna call it and we're gonna sleep   long long long day tomorrow again  but this time we're gonna be riding this is a very nice color very nice color  very triple three yep let's start the bike, virgin start this is so big so big i love it oh my god very nice life of a content creator  bringing laptop on a road trip   very scary remember i said in that episode those  of you who bring uh laptops right the road is a   very harsh place you have to be very very careful  make sure you protect it with anything you've got strapping the strap straps and the straps  and the strap straps this one will go that side easy right these kind of bags so usually  for this case right top pannier is usually   for a helmet because people for places of  interest right you do not want to carry your   helmets and walk around so you want to walk  hands-free so usually we leave this space   for the helmets but if you have only two panniers  then use the pannier that is on the side that the   bike is leaning on to store your helmets sometimes  you have to modify the straps the original straps   was not that easy to mount because there's loop  and there's no buckle so the rings right yeah   rings so we actually got a modified one that you  can probably get from the army market and it's a   loop here so it's pretty much very easy to strap  on and just go through if you want just be safe and then just pull and same for here and you're good to go it's very  stable famous last words later we go on the road   no no you should be good we tried and tested it  in our taiwan trip tested and proven, that   is true okay let's check mark storage hey bro  why so loose? you sure its safe? you see i lazy i just wanna ride i just  wanna ride now it started to rain   a little bit but no worries  we are pretty much waterproof bro do you have this?? the GSA does not have that big screen but well it does the job   i like that not too bad he's the sweeper anyway okay we've got all our gear on the bike and we  are almost ready to go but give us 20 seconds   we need to make a very special gratitude shout out  to our very main sponsor very first one moto world   for keeping us from head to toe keeping us safe  and keeping us warm BMW for supplying the bikes   carousel our exclusive partner and of course  switzerland tourism board for making us feel   so welcome here in zurich thank you everybody  for making this project possible bye okay now i have successfully connected my  phone well bloody time to the bike navigation okay okay mark on the r1250 gsa and i'm on the  r1250rt hey now i just realized that we're   going to be riding these bikes for the next few  days right yeah then go back singapore how ah? okay one thing to always remember that we have  to keep on the right side of the road because   this is a left-hand drive country so how does  the bike feel? Bro, its a R1250GSA bro.   don't need to ask bro i'm very happy bro let's  get accustomed to the traffic here oh yes wait   uh can you see the speed limit on your dash  yeah 60. yeah okay good can you see now it's   80 yep correct so we need to follow speed limits  because they regulate speeds very very strictly   in switzerland yeah you cannot be even one  kilometer . yep so just remind each other

you know what i'm telling myself ,what? be a  good boy i think you only have two points left how's the jacket okay i'm still very dry yeah i  think i'm going to slip through nothing i'm very   dry too very very surprised with the quality  of the jacket still getting used to the bikes   so although the r250rp looks  looks big and heavy but on the   move right it's surprisingly very very  nimble you know why why the BMW oh yeah actually very nimble okay we go petrol chaos first yeah we'll get our  first toilet break i'm warming up thanks to the   heated seat and grips so okay yeah you just see i  don't see so much on the butt but it's comfortable   but now it's getting real hot on my palms i  feel good because my hands damn cold   if i'm really surprised ah these gears from Motoworld  they really keep us quite warm yeah yeah yeah i'm   i'm very surprised yeah okay very very surprised  i thought i wasn't expecting the thermal layer to   perform this well yeah and you know my Komine is a mesh jacket and with the insulation and the rain   protector inside it actually keeps me very warm  too or because you're using the rain gear also   that's the rain insulation from the from the  jacket well the roads are actually good quite   good right it's not slippery even in flat right  maybe it's a petrol station i think just stop okay so the petrol price here  is about the same as singapore how much you pump well i'm  trying to get a full amount $4.24 i pump $10.68 oh my god my god okay okay yeah i quite like the 1250 gsa i quite like the  rt though yo yo bmw why you do this to me   it's freaking nice there this bike like like we   now 100 kms already right yeah,  no feel so we took a little bit of a rest stop come  here why are you going away come here come   here are we going away so we took a little bit of  a rest stop we are at and i'm sorry to all of our   swedish friends i'm probably going to murder  this but we are at Wolfsprung you know swedish correct me please i  got no clue. so good not  

to have hair right because  my hair is messy, enjoy this looks like the jam is gonna take forever  oh my god bro you see jacket open glove off   next one my helmet will come off bro  but i don't understand why can't we   squeeze through the traffic yeah lane splitting  is illegal in switzerland yeah it's dead slow here oh my god this is gonna take forever  luckily these bikes are not hot very okay it is 16 degrees now see we  haven't we haven't go to malaysia right   now practice customs yeah at least we have some  great scenery you see the house there oh my god so there is a very big decathlon  here and then what we are doing now   it looks like we are it's called san antonio  so what we are doing now is going to get some   late lunch or early dinner and we  also just booked our accomodation here   170 dollars not cheap if you guys want  to come here just be prepared it's better   i mean it's it's about as expensive as singapore  maybe at certain places a little bit more   so singaporeans i mean if you're going to come for  a holiday make sure you've got money to spend it's yeah and all those bookings that you  see right they actually you need to   factor in taxes and surcharge because  those are not in the hotel prices  yeah it's quite high the taxes are quite high  we we search around here for food but uh there's   nothing near decathlon every place closes at 7  p.m and even if they are open there's not much uh reminds me of australia oh yeah that's  true yeah yeah yeah now the temperature   is about 22 degrees yeah it's a bit warmer  this coming jacket cardigan it has a hoodie yeah so it's quite comfy the weather  so i just removed the waterproof liner   and it was very comfortable thank you oh okay we're gonna tear down stuff set up  charging stations you know uh the normal   and after that we'll go for dinner i got a very  strong feeling we'll be having italian for dinner   so winston mentioned that  the person the receptionist   is pretty cute but not in that way yeah it's  it's the character we'll see why, she's coming she's  coming in a bit you see why you'll see she's here yes say hi She is very very nice very friendly  yes yeah so the menu uh they they have   english in the last sentence so  yeah it's not cheap though but   hope it's nice everywhere in switzerland it's not  cheap but what's interesting though is we are very   near italy and it seems like this hotel is run  by italians because she doesn't speak english   i was trying to figure out what language she's  speaking and i asked spanish you said no no no no and we got our dear friend amos here say hi Amos we wish you could be here to join us i help you. help you eat okay don't worry not nice one not nice it's not nice this is an italian pizza made by italian sorry i love you guys but this is too good   yeah it's really nice you see us eat okay you  see us here let me set up the camera first this is the risotto and that is the  pasta it really smells so good authentic   genuine pasta from italy made by  italians so this is this is actually   the original carbonara from pai and italian my  face is red yeah oh prego means you are welcome okay it seems like we are eating a lot  but because we did not have lunch   we were busy on the road yeah the the the two  bikes it's just too fantastic to stop riding   really like like that okay so this is hand on heart i've done thousands of kilometers on the   africa twin and i must say that the the the  mileage we did like what 260 something today   right on the Bm, nothing it is so comfortable you  there is no fatigue right so you you're riding   and you're enjoying it we're like oh we're  already doing 200 plus and nothing like like   it's testament to the brand now this is i'm not  saying this because they are paying us or anything   like that this is legit i i really really mean  it like going back to singapore i might have a   very big problem with my hands because i  would probably want to buy a BM so we've come to the end of day one our riding day  one right i mean i was quite afraid of .. about   how we will stay warm and how it will stay dry  then uh even at when we were at moto world you   know picking up the gear um they were asking like  you know what temperature are you gonna be riding   in or what temperature you guys gonna be writing  in and that kind of stuff and you were like oh   you know we might be in the single digits so  they were also a little worried because um   the conditions here range from from so cold to  yeah and the period that we are here it happens   to be a rainy season so we have to have we have  to prep ourselves for some bad weather especially   riding in the rain so mark what jacket do you choose  from the world i got the rs tai chi dry master   top pants and shoes whole set  not once did i get wet anywhere neither did i get   cold so i got jacket ,the thermal wear and that's  all i need because the jacket itself is waterproof   so the thermal wear comes together with the  jacket right yeah so i got the komine this   is a mesh jacket but it has a lot of versatility  wind breaker oh it's a windbreaker and then you   have another insulation layer which is made of so  basically it's a cardigan that kind of material so   which is perfect because yeah yeah i mean so far  i've come across quite uh two main riders when it   comes to this kind of stuff some riders like to  have a one that does it all yes and then you have   riders who love versatility who like to go okay  i only need a mess jacket today i'll only use   a match yeah because if you compare this mesh it  has a bigger surface area compared to a half-half   yeah correct yeah so like we were in a jam today  so what mark did was one hour jam yeah speaking   i need to tell you guys you know what we say jam  right and then you guys in singapore yes malaysia huh jam, no problem lah can cut lah. no ah! in switzerland its illegal ok.

which is quite i don't know whether  it's true or not but it's quite scary   so let's say you've got a jam okay police knows  that bikers frequent this road they wait in front   they see you come out they come to the end they  stop you and then you're gonna get it. no joke no   joke okay today we really got stuck  behind the cars so during the jam right so   what i can do is unzip my two or three  layers so mark was like easy so this   is like a vent mesh uh vent uh we call this  cover yeah so if you want a waterproof you   put it down you zip it down but then if you need  some airflow you up and then it tucks away and   i got everywhere yeah so the airflow is basically  here so this is a dual dual purpose jacket but if   let's say for this Komine it is very mesh i  mean if you look through the   material that has a lot of uh what they call that  the mesh material is quite a lot so if you want to   have a cool cooler right you basically i would  choose this more than that because the band is   just here but this this has a much bigger surface area of vents area so if you want to write cool just remove the  green breaker layer and then you will feel the   wind passing through your body for a cooler cooler  ride yeah right off the bat you know the bikes the   whole experience how we were received at the bmw  motorrad was awesome they knew what we were there   for they got the bikes the bikes were ready to  go all we had to do was to chuck the bike uh the   bags on fuel was pumped the tires uh tires were  pumped so solid easy no not fair you know why Mark's bike gsa was a new bike with 84 kilometers on the  odometer but bro yo what's yours was 1000 that's   not a lot yeah besides that uh we we find that  the bikes are very good for this kind of roads   yeah i was very surprised of how the r1250rt  how how the whole machines the the boxer engine   you know the connectivity especially the big  screen is humongous it's really big it's like   it's bigger than ipad basically you watch  movie on it already? i haven't figured out how to comment yeah so we we have to download a bmw motorrad app   and then after that you pair it with  the device through bluetooth and uh yes in order to mirror the navigation map  in the uh in the bmw motor app you need to pair   with wi-fi to the bike but the tft screen was legit huge so like for for your bike you you only can see   the direction and the distance but for me i can  literally see like how uh the google map uh you   navigate you see the map the terrain and where the  route goes and that's why he was leading and i was   sweeping so the next thing is the roads condition  surprisingly very good it rained on the first part   of the day but we did not feel any slips nothing nothing i think the roads are very good   not a single pothole i've seen okay i went over  a few covered oh covered ,no potholes yeah   but the road conditions superb for such a four  season country you know yeah expansion of road and   oh you have a very big yeah vent at   the back so what i think uh what what what rs did  which is quite smart right so when you're riding   your arms are like this air goes in from your arms  air goes in from your chest but if nothing there's   no exhaust in the back then kind of defeats the  purpose right so they put exhaust on the back i also have but just that cannot cover   yeah so we were quite happy with these jackets  provided by motoworld singapore so far they have   been really keeping us warm and dry yeah and  dry oh if you thought that this will get you   wet surprisingly , today nothing or is it yeah the waterproof layer was   right was dry huh so this jacket actually what  they call deflect or splash semi semi waterproof   yeah surprisingly i mean i was prepared to get  the inner layer uh the wind uh the wind breaker   to be wet yeah by water but we will test it out  seriously tomorrow because our we are planning   to stop at Zermatt which has a weather forecast of  what was it uh i think it was two to minus eight   degrees two to minus eight degrees celsius the  coldest i have ridden in  last one was minus two there was another one that  was two two that was the only one yeah so this is   going to be a lot colder so we will let you know  in the next episode at the end of the next episode   how these jackets fare should be all right so far  it's been very very very comfortable we're gonna   wake up early tomorrow to have an early breakfast  and we're gonna set off on the road as early as we   can because the daylight here is almost 10 to  12 hours which give us plenty of time to ride   which is nice yeah very nice so tomorrow we're  gonna uh we plan to hit zarmat that would mean   we're going to go through a lot of winding roads  you know climbs and downs and whatnot so we need   to be very well rested with that i'm mark  i'm winston and see you all on the road

2022-05-23 13:21

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