The Alpes on Motorcycle 2021 Tips, Cost & Struggles in France
good morning youtube fam it is Monday morning here in the beautiful city of... Bonjour! Bonjour! so it is a beautiful Monday morning here in the city of Valloire, it is seven or eight degrees outside right now so the floor I'm standing on is freezing cold fortunately, it's a blue clear sky and it looks like it's gonna be sun all day so that's perfect, so today I'm gonna be driving here from Valloire towards something called Col d'Izoard which is another high point like i went to yesterday, i think it's about 2600 meters in altitude and from there i'll be continuing down the mountains again further down south and see how far i can go so the last couple of days i've been driving around 100 kilometers per day which is not a lot but keep in mind I need to take a lot of pictures, film, recharge my batteries and yesterday i had a lot of difficulties with my gopro hero 8 because apparently when it gets really cold the frame freezes so a lot of the footage i have from yesterday we have to be really creative with the editing because a lot of it is useless unfortunately so um bit of tough night i had yesterday figuring that out but uh you know that's how it is sometimes you just get some unexpected problems on a trip like this and you just have to deal with it so now I'm gonna pack up my things we're gonna get back on the road and yeah let's get to it! so guys since i'm making a lot of these episodes while i'm driving in beautiful nature i thought i have to show you something a bit different every every time instead of just the the view and today i was thinking i was going to tell you exactly what i wear beneath my leather clothing to keep warm and not get totally wet so every day i will wear a pair of wool socks because the wool is perfect to wear for several days it will not smell honestly i can wear these for four or five days straight not wash them and they don't smell at all then i have actually a pair of shorts sports shorts and i wear them inside the leather pants because if i wear my cargo pants they will be all wet by the time i get to the wherever i'm going so don't wear a cotton inside of your motorcycle clothes then i have another sports fabric t-shirt i have this fleece to keep warm and then this is key because when you're driving in the mountains it gets super cold here on your neck so that's pretty much what i wear of course gloves, i wear boots, leather pants, a leather jacket, my back shield and yeah i think that's pretty much it but it's quite important that you have some good quality wear that you can have beneath the motorcycle clothes something that doesn't take up a lot of space doesn't smell easily and yeah it can keep you warm and dry... and um I also just wanted to say that I'm actually super tired today so I do apologize in advance there will be some yawning or if my mood doesn't seem as high as usual because i have not been sleeping a lot the last couple of days i tend to worry quite a bit and i'm always double checking make sure i don't forget anything make sure anything is not stolen and yeah it's just i've been shooting non-stop every day for the last four days straight now sleeping in new places every day, packing out in the evening, packing in again in the morning and yeah it's a it's actually a hard trip to do like this honestly if you are thinking about doing the uh Route des Grand Alpes, I would actually recommend you to maybe stay one place for the one night and then the next day, stay two nights or the following day stay two nights and another tip i forgot to say yesterday if you're using Agoda or bookings.com and you're traveling like day to day like i'm doing... honestly find a hotel on google, on google maps go to that place and check with
them at the check-in counter how much they charge per night because i've already noticed that sometimes i'm paying 20 to 30 more even with deals on agoda than if i just check in here at the hotel... and they usually have special prices if you're only one person for example this room is for three people and i can see on the side it says normally minimum 100 euros but i got it for 65 euros yesterday so that's a pretty good deal anyway... enough talking back on the road, let's go! and another pro tip for the day if you're a traveler like me and you're coming here to France for god's sake, please try and use some french words uh imagine if if it if you're in your own country and someone is visiting you if they try to speak your language you appreciate it so much and it's the same here it's the same in indonesia always try to speak the language of the place you're going to either if it's just thank you "merci: or if it's g'day "bonjour" just small words will make a massive difference for you trust me all right guys we are fully packed! time to get on the road it is saying now that to Col d'Izoard is 1 hour 43 minutes quite a lot of traffic 72 kilometers but it's gonna be a beautiful ride so let's go! such a small cozy city Valloire here, volia, viola? Jesus Christ, I can't remember any names, oh! and other riders always nice to meet other riders in the morning! Good morning lads so many people getting ready to hike, I should do that, I really should... Let's go! Look! it's mountain goats! With their small horns... Wow crazy! let's see what they say about drones, i unfortunately didn't get it on camera but one of the goats were a trap on the wrong side of the fence and i tried to get it in and then i tried to flew the, fly with the drone a little close to it and it got so scary that it just jumped in and over the fence and it got into its friends so...
Made it! so, but before i get to Col d'Izoard... I will first be driving through Col du Galibier and both places are here with national parks on both sides and Col du Galibier is actually i will get to 2600 meters but you can actually walk i read that this morning hike up to 3200 meters so um it's gonna be a high altitude day today fortunately the sun is shining so much otherwise it would be really really cold this really is lord of the rings land check it out six kilometers to Col du Galibier! Oh! Those guys want to ride, eh? let's try and see if I can keep up with them... why not? wow they drive fast i'm not used to cornering that fast but i do have the acceleration of the ducati with me oh i did forget one really important thing this morning damn it i just realized i didn't put on fuel oh so i'm not sure how long i will last... wow, that was stupid! well good news and bad news the bad news is that i don't have any connection so i cannot see how far i'll have to drive until i get to another gas station but taking a look around i do not see a lot of gas stations here the good news is i will hopefully probably get my connection back before i run out of gas uh let's see! not smart wow so i have almost made it here to Col du Galibier, that's why so many people are standing there up at the top and i feel like i'm getting a little winded pretty fast it could be because the air is a little bit thinner up here it is only at 2600 something meters in altitude but you see you can walk there all the way off to the top like the people are doing that's pretty cool if you want to go all the way What a view, eh? pretty decent view and here you can buy the photos as well, people are... whoa! okay i did not expect this though
i'm just gonna quickly stop here for a sec and just to enjoy those white mountain peaks wow look at all that so beautiful when you have all the gray all the green all the flowers here the big rock formations and then the white top mountains here... so according to my map it looks like i will be heading down that way down to that city that end and then i don't know if you can see this far on the camera but you just have mountain tops of mountaintop straight ahead and that is where i'll be riding the next couple of days just from the small valleys up in the mountain passes like this and down again until i get to the beach and then i will take some well deserved time off because i am tired guys it's beautiful here but it's hard work all right guys back on track and we are still driving on the d902 we will have uh we will go to another larger road today i think it's called the d1006 i'll correct it on the screen if it's not correct but besides that we will be driving on the d902 most of the day today and actually the roaster we're driving on here in um called the Col du Galibier and Col d'Izoard, this one is also to the front roads so that we can so we can see uh several places on the roads that they have drawn you know with or painted with Tour de France sign and some names so that when the helicopters from the tour de france are flying over this area then you can see it on television kind of cool like here you can see the ridings on the on the road and i got 25 kilometers 31 minutes left to Col D'Izoard so amazing honestly i can highly recommend anyone who likes to go on a motorcycle to go on a trip like this is so good for i think it's both good for your mind i think it's good for your heart your spirit basically anything especially if you're feeling a little bit stressed or down and low i mean what can be better than go on a trip like this and just get some speed on your bike wait look that was dangerously close get some speed on your bike and some wind in your helmet not your hair and yeah enjoy the view and i just love driving on this ducati honestly i was a bit worried in the beginning riding the ducati in mountains because it's not a multistrada so it's not a actual touring bike it's more like a cafe racer street bike but it's been so pleasant the only thing is if you're riding one of these and you're riding it for long maybe i would advise to like lift the steering a little bit because i'm a bit bent over so if you have back problems you would probably get it a bit more or if you're riding in the position that i am, fortunately my back is strong but the seating is nice and comfortable i highly recommend wearing leather gear because you you sit much more tight on the motorcycle versus if you're just wearing jeans i feel like you're sliding back and forth on the motorcycle and yeah probably the only bad thing about the ducati 2007 s4 r1000 is that you cannot really get boxes to attach to this motorcycle and the bag that i have on my side is actually expired so that is difficult to get as well so in that sense it's not the best for touring but i mean i've made it work and you can put backpacks on your back or on the back saddle here and just strap it down like i've done um so you can use this bike for touring and honestly i think it's nice to Touring Bike about because it has so much uh acceleration and so much raw power yeah just wanted to say that because i have been seeing comments or people people asking about how is the ducati to drive on and honestly i think it's fantastic, brakes fantastic accelerates fantastic and i think it looks hella cool let me know what you guys think do you think this is a cool bike or not i'm excited to see when i get to italy how many other ducatis i will see it's gonna be fun to be in italy on an italian bike driving in italy all right guys i was fortunate enough to find a gas station because i was actually getting pretty close to running out so i just brought another nine liters on the tank and now i can go a bit again i'm on track for a second there i thought i was going the wrong way but then i saw the sign so that should mean that i'm about to do some ascending again oh check out these roads oh it's so nice! switch! switch! so guys i've actually only driven 55 kilometers today but it's already taken me two and a half hours and because of don't stop filming stops so i thought it would actually be a good idea to stop and get some lunch so it's a bit cheaper today i opted for the chicken which was 13-14 euros and then probably a couple of euros for the drink which will be 16 euros each in total and then i will be continuing up the mountain just behind me here afterwards to Col de list... i still can't pronounce it um but again up in altitude and then i'm gonna try and see if i can make it to it's called coolia, Guillestre um today it should only be about 60 kilometers away i can't though really find any good places to stay there so i guess i'll just have to wing that today and see how it goes so i'm gonna get in some food and then we gotta get back on the road... So, I just got bit of lunch right down there and now i'm going to continue towards Col d'Izoard okay 14 Okay! 14 minutes...
right guys here is refucy napoleon and we are now here at Col d'Izoard... and the view is... quite astonishing to be honest with you check this out let me just drive close to and someone found a nice little spot there with their camper amazing this is another mountain pass and it looks like i need to go over this way to get off and over and we are almost at the top guys, here... yeah, another mountain pass top here very nice! so many riders again here you can buy different things... what is that stones? i think it's candy! oh oh and it looks real nice too maybe i should get a bit of candy, it looks good ah and there's even like a point like at the other place right there that says 2360 meters it's quite a high point unfortunately i do think that the wind is a bit too harsh right now to put up the drone...
and we do have some ground to cover so i think we're going to continue the trip Yup... you can see here the umbrellas there's quite a lot of wind can't really risk putting up the drone into this... but here it is guys! another mountain pass top... one thing i really want to do while i'm here...
and that is making my mark guys so if you come past the Col d'Izoard... then make sure to check the sign because i'm right here waiting for you guys there we go nice oh do you remember that guy from my episode 2 "Am i there yet?" ah he was there as well i'm going to try and show you the clip in case you can... if you forgot but the same sticker as i sat mine under when i was taking the ferry from Rodby to Puttgarden that's awesome cool wow this is a cute little city also here in the middle of the mountains with the red and whites it's funny they probably when they see those red and white flags they see the swiss flag or know that they were in france interesting i see indonesian flag and i see danish flag when i see those up there... i do miss both my family in denmark and my friends in indonesia
all right guys i have eight minutes left until i'm at Guillestre... and yeah i'm gonna try and see if i can find some place to sleep there because if i keep driving even further down south now it's gonna be quite a while before i can find any place to sleep and you know in mountains like this there's not hotels everywhere so as soon as you find a small city you want to consider if you should stay for the night or if you should try your luck and hope that there will be another small city not too far away so i'm just gonna check out the city and we'll take it from there... so guys i just spent actually 30 minutes here at a hotel in Guillestre but it wasn't really cheap it wasn't really that good and it's only four o'clock so you know today i'm just gonna keep driving keep driving and get closer to Nice because now guys i'm almost ready to to get out of the alps and to get to a beach and to find actually just a nice place where i can stay for a couple of days and just relax... so let's continue driving south let's go guys for real check out the panorama view behind me on that camera jesus christ and it's so green oh this is just so enjoyable to ride on even though that guy drove fast i saw the side his uh one tire just lift from the ground so yeah i'm just gonna keep riding today and see how far we'll get on the d902 we are going to Vars.. not Mars last? Lars? what's that horse? did you say Larse? no Vars! the city of vars hello bikers g'day bikers good to see you Bikers! another key point here on the Routes Des Grandes Alpes! Should I stay here for the day? No way! Will say! We are gonna keep on going! maybe i just need some water that would be great but otherwise we're gonna continue all righty all righty almighty guys i can feel that i'm starting to get over tired because my energy is spiking right now which only means one thing i am thirsty and i am over tired and i'm slightly over stimulated so 22 minutes to the nearest city i should probably find a place to sleep soon good day mate! but i actually kind of enjoy it right now because it's just so beautiful and i'm alone on the road and the sun is going down so i can enjoy the sunset from the road if i just keep on driving today on the D902 whoa look at the mountain i feel like i've said that a lot these last couple of days wow beautiful and mountain yep now we gotta keep rolling so guys right now i'm actually quite satisfied with my idea to keep on driving because it's so starting to become even more beautiful now that where the sun is coming down a bit i'm hoping i can find some place to sleep before the sun goes all the way down i have to remember that as soon as it goes down just over the hillside then it's gonna be a lot darker here but i'm just hoping tonight that i will be lucky and find a nice little place nice little town where i can find a decent place to sleep all right guys i just saw a sign that said Nice, 143 kilometers so I am getting close to my end here of the grandest route alpes, Route Des Grand Alpes whatever now i'm eight minutes away from a larger city here on the d-900 called something with b... i can't remember it now, overtake time and i am definitely gonna try and see if i can find a place to stay there if i find a place to stay there i'm gonna quickly show you how it looks like and of course let you know how much it costs and but besides that guys i am pooped for today so i'm gonna stop the route here in the city which i will show in a bit and i think that's going to be it for second day ah for chickadee you can hear how tired i am so thank you so much for watching guys i do hope you enjoyed another episode here in the French Alps with me and i appreciate your support stay tuned because there will be more episodes as i am heading towards Nice i will see you in the next episode and until next time! Good night guys! Guys as far as i can see this is pretty much just a little city with one hotel it's really relaxing and the weather is absolutely perfect you
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