Europe Motorcycle Roadtrip 2023 EP08: Riding through Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia

As the road east takes us through North Rhine-Westphalia in western Germany, my dad finds himself surrounded by his most hated blot on the landscape: windmills…

So join us on this otherwise scenic ride through this fantastic region of Germany, enjoy!

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📖CHAPTERS
🚜00:00 Intro
🚜00:48 60km west of Cologne and windmills
🚜01:42 Fantastic countryside… with windmills
🚜02:44 Pooley Snr. gets a bit discombobulated
🚜03:28 Windsock-gate and the smelly slurry
🚜04:29 Roman road!
🚜05:13 More eco talk
🚜05:53 Kochs ahead
🚜06:18 The McCrispy incident…
🚜07:21 Trying to get a coffee
🚜08:11 Bikers in the carpark
🚜09:15 Getting back on the road
🚜09:45 German motorcycle restrictions on Sunday’s
🚜10:24 Riding through Enschweiler, Aachen
🚜11:35 What is a German stereotype?
🚜12:15 More windmills
🚜13:01 Where did the French Fry come from?
🚜13:43 The TDM850 rebuild before the road trip
🚜14:51 Alternatives to ICE and EV
🚜16:30 Riding through a windfarm

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Here we go you’re now on French soil bonjo is that the Eiffel Tower we’re now entering been overtaken by Theo driver oh oh wait it’s you look there’s that fly it’s crawling here I can see it oh here it is look there’s C it this is the

The cologne the big city now oh flipping EG did you see that there you can take a pamphlet with you I don’t need a pamplet well that’s that’s where we are now in the very upside down World I think one of the things I were going to mention was how nice it was to see the windmills that we’ve been seeing oh yeah the actual traditional windmills yeah traditional windmills and and I think that a windmill that’s actually a mill or it’s not been

Flipping torn down at least yeah they they they look they look nice whereas these things that generate electricity are awful they’re not well they’re not very nice looking structures I’ve got to say no they’re look horrible they’re not that e eco-friendly seeing everybody’s gone ecad I just think they I just think

They’re awful I think they look ugly spoil spoil the countryside in a big way oh this is fantastic yeah it’s it’s fantastic apart from them ginormous struct tips that look ugly and they everywhere they look massive when you’re down next to them though don’t they yeah if they’ve got to put windmills up

Let’s say traditional looking windmills well they’re not going to generate any electricity I don’t see why not if they contain Mill Wheels to grind up grains the container generator these things are flipping Abomination roads are smooth though oh I yeah definitely fantastic roads so far in Germany compared to Belgium that were

A bit oh my God kangaroo yeah it’s like going a roller coaster up down up down up down up down it’s like the the truck that was laying the concrete or whatever was like it kept stalling every 10 ft got a flat spot on his tires yeah 50 P

Piece 50 P piece shaped tires is this a toll is this a toll that’s a crane the two cranes actually oh no this see I thought it looked like a machine a machine this my eyes oh it is a traffic light is a machine into yeah I thought

It was like a a gate that was to let you through no just a road I can see that now I miss my eyes are flipping going was well I can move that fence in way at road if you want so I can pretend to be

A toall man give me your money or I say it in German like flipping akong akong gild gild is that money I can’t remember oh little Airport we got some light aircrafts it’s definitely not windy cuz those little red and white things are just like big big floppy oh right so can

I take the Mauna for not knowing what a wind sock is a wind sock is that what it’s called a wind sock yes who’s going to is it socks you put on your feet no it’s a wind sock and there’s a level cross in in 350

M oh yeah you see the little picture of a train there’s a picture of a tractor as well Po and there’s a agricultural melt flipping is extra flipping strong it is extra strong well it’s it’s German is it extra strong poo in Germany I can’t breathe it smells a bit

Like those the like the [ __ ] lining on like work gloves a bit God I don’t like my work gloves smelling like that what is it like the gore Tex I don’t even know what the material is it smells like material well Romans have obviously been here again Romans oh oh yeah flipping

Look at this is a 360 camera on yeah it is it will get a good view of the arrow straight road flipping state of that I think it’s quite in uh like being able to do this in Spring is quite good cuz you get all different sort of scenery at

Fields cuz at time of year you said let’s go to Germany and get on the Twisters yes well yeah the twist is are must be at the end of this road somebody somebody’s got big giant iron out and straighten them yeah I know although it is nice and relaxing it’s

Not like Motorway is it no it’s not it could do be doing a few kilometers quicker like but look at that pollution going into the atmosphere over there on the left hand side oh is it a power station I don’t know where it is it looks like it’s chucking more out

Than my motorcycle well I don’t know when I’m behind you there’s sometimes a lot of flipping smoke all right flipping hey not going to get over this I’m better on field than you are you well no because it’s you there’s some some of the data is inaccurate we’re back at traffic up you

Well I’m going to speed limit so I ain’t bothered [ __ ] 1 kilm that’s what it said it was probably pronounced Co Z Co is that the rosers no it’s it I think that was ambulance so looks like a big highlighter D Krispy just seen that did you see that

Was it where it was the M crispy it was ADV iide a crematorium oh yeah and yeah that was in news was it yeah it just reminded me of it they’ve got to have known they must have they’ve done it must have done it on

Purpose I bet they have to to use so many Billboards or whatever in that area and they thought oh there’s a crematorium where a bus stop outside of it there I’ll stick the flipping poster there yeah MC crispy flipping terrible it is in bad taste really when

Oh there is a McDonald here do you want a coffee oh I’d love one it just said der Krispy it did there’s that’s why I said it there’s a sign that says derit crispy it looks like a German building that’s been converted of some some description wow where’s the car park though that’s

The question I’m assuming you’ve got to turn uh left this is what’s doing me because normally we’d be turning right that was it that was it that was the entrance where we passed it now have we yeah it was like a tunnel and I can’t see anything I can’t

Even see the traffic lights you know well I’m red I’ve got the sun right in my eyes yeah but until I got an arrow oh I have lot it’s there yeah it’s a red it’s a red arrow we’re going to have to like somewh spin around here I don’t know where

Where did we’ll have to turn up and then come back down I just hope you got right Road cuz I a’t got a clue where we going there’s a shoe there a flipping shoe on floor that was the last pedestrian that tried to cross and moving traffic yeah it’s intersection it’s like American

Intersections aren’t they are we’re going to stop and speak to these biker guys probably not given that we don’t speak German you can try what is it gut and Morgan gut and Morgan or is it good arban Spen Z English flipping out what’s he got B must have a flipping motorbike engine in

There sounds a one ah right I see what you mean this is a bit flipping bumpy little Hexagonals oh they’re all going L cuz we just turned off they seeing us coming so they’ve got they’re going is he even open I don’t know I don’t got a clue probably not cuz it’s a Sunday is it well we’re going to have to soon find out aren’t we you

Sorted over y you don’t you mean yeah yeah yes that’s is good that’s is good yeah oh yeah is that a tracer or something are they oh I Tracer cuz the light is dead bright I can’t see if um the camera’s it is Tracer isn’t

It I I don’t think we need to be too worried about your exhaust based on that so obviously we’re a little bit further north than the iel national park we was going to be doing it but they don’t like motorbikes and it’s a Sunday so we thought we’d not risk it well I

Mean judging we are many motorbikes is on the road I been worth going to sit there’s always next time now if the rules keep changing they won’t be next time oh no but I just don’t think it’s worth the risk cuz if we end up going on

A antim motorbike Road or anti n motad Road or whatever they call it um you’re on a green light there oh I was looking at the wrong light I think so where are we now what’s the what um I I can’t remember I think it’s ak

Ak we’ve just come out of I could be wrong though I probably am I don’t understand these Road these all just follow me although I’ve never ridden in Germany before well they’re all painted eyeses they all different colors oh yeah it’s bit like the sou of England like you said some of these

Asses just remember because we are going to be going through a Clean Air Zone but it fun fact motorbikes are exempt from clean air zones um which is a bit like ironic given that there Mo B motorbike roads but a uh but if there is any police

Presence pull the clutch in just to be safe for you at least there’s nothing wrong with my B what the bikes we’ve just seen on rundown on rundown it sounds like a flipping Sten a what St like a British submachine gun in it yeah but some of them spks that we’ve

Seen this morning are flipping nosy as hell well they were they must have been the Arrogant Germans I thought he gave me a Ed nod you know them that uh them that get the I think they were getting the clutch control right or it’s them

That you know early get up early in the morning to get the towel onto the uh Sun lers no you don’t know that one no I don’t people that go abroad you know like to Spain and what have you the Germans always get up early and put their

Towels on the sunlines before anybody else can get them I know what you mean now it’s a a stereotype look at that flipping blot on the hill look got a wonderful view of some hills completely covered in flipping giant almost three bladed propellers where on your right hand side

You can’t see building but it was a nice it’s a nice view flipping all the the all these videos are just going to be wind windmill conversation related aren’t they well because they’re everywhere they’re flipping invading so a Ford Fiestas but I don’t know about that yeah but they

Don’t last long do they four vests they rot away 10 years and that’s it they’re gone these windmills 25 years plus flipping first tractor of the day non-operational what I’m going to count that yeah and some chips with some Fritter in a in a in a newspaper cone

They’re not C Fritter in in Germany are they uh IR chip Iron Chip IR french fry there no french fry in Germany is it I don’t know I would think Germans called chips french fries well I bet they’re fries and they’re from France aren’t they are french fries from France is the question

Well that is a question we must need we must have answers to these questions it’s the one of those questions like which came first the chicken or the egg kind of questions you can’t be turning questions like that around that’s controversial it’s like saying what’s a better bike the devil or the

TDM well uh up to now we’ve done 101 miles and I’ve got 3/4 of a tank yeah but in terms of oil consumption the devil is winning well yes that is true but that might be because it wasn’t the valve stem seals that needed replacing well they’ve been replaced now but

They’ve been replaced yeah it’s probably a um what they call it P piston oil rings and after all that flipping nice YouTube shorts that we made or for nothing yeah but what you also got to remember is it was uh something we’ve learned that you can do these things

Without disassembling the engine well yeah but maybe that was why it’s not fixed it because we didn’t dis assem the engine although it’s not leaking oil now no it’s not it’s not like cuz you fix the gaskets that’s a bonus cuz it was leaking a lot yeah but the also the TDM

Is renan for losing oil through the seal on the uh the small sprocket from the from the engine well the on the DeVille didn’t have that problem it’s amazing yeah cuz it’s chaft Drive there’s your windmills one of them’s broke yeah but haven’t Germany switched on all their coold power stations start

Reopened them all because they a got enough electric well they’re pursuing uh alternate fueling methods as well because I don’t think they want the electric agenda well that’s that e fuel is it which it’s quite interesting the E fuel because it’s it’s synthetic petrol and it’s made from captured

Carbon apparently so that captured car someone running around with a big fishing net oh yeah catching it well yeah but technically speaking oil out the ground is carbon neutral because it’s already been it’s already existed you know what I mean yeah I know what you mean so once you use it up you’re

Just putting back what was that’s not gone back already if that makes sense yeah but a lot of people will disagree with that so fossil fuels are hey there’s your fossil fuels on that sign look gigant and dinosaur yeah yeah well fossil fuels are actually green technically speaking because the they’ve

Got to be put back into the ecosystem anyway it’s enough petrol fuel talk anyway we’re enjoying the German culture the power stations and the and the BMS in the motor motoren I bet that’s a I bet that’s a cold powerered Power Station then windmills can’t compete they keep putting another one up

And they’re like it’s still not enough Lads more SN Snell wait was this the wrong exit I don’t know where I’m going here we w’t supposed to go up here you just you just want to rub these windmills in my face oh they got even got go faster stripes on these ones

Have it’s an all right view though yeah apart from them things look at them over there flipping NE and they’re blowing the smoke away from that power station is that what they’re there for