Ep.18 / France / To Mulhouse.

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welcome to day 18 of me riding through Europe I’ve got a couple of big updates to give this morning so uh I shall turn the camera around straight away so you can see where I’m going and I’ll chat away whilst you guys are looking at the views so the first of those updates is on the fneo drive uh you’ll recall in yesterday’s episode I was having some problems I lost two gears was down to just one gear on the fne drive I got to the campsite yesterday and completely removed the front end of the Boom the fneo drive and everything came off of there in an attempt to find out what was wrong uh to be quite honest I couldn’t find anything was wrong with it um I mean most of the fno driver is enclosed anyhow and is like non-user serviceable I.E you can’t touch anything to do with the working part so I had a look at the few bits that I could look at the cable and there’s a couple of Springs that fit up against the uh the bottom bracket there couldn’t see anything wrong with any of that put it back together again went for a short ride yesterday evening and uh seems to be working fine so I can only guess that uh something needed tightening up or adjusting or I don’t know your guess is as good as mine but the long and the short of it is if it lets me down again then uh I shall probably remove it and uh I’ll buy a front chain ring somewhere with a couple of pedals at one of the cities or towns that I pass through fit that on the front but we’ll see fingers crossed this will keep going now as I say I don’t know what it was but it seems to be [Music] fixed so item number two on the agenda is my route um I don’t know how much of the news you guys have been watching but uh Southern Germany particularly the area around Constance and just north and west of there has been inundated with even more rain than what I’ve been suffering I spoke to some uh people yesterday who’ just come down the rine from constant and apparently the whole of the lake area is flooded out many of the campsites are closed and uh a quick look on booking.com showed me that the hotel prices are through the roof so I can only imagine that that’s completely correct everybody’s being forced from under the canvas and into the hotels so that inevitably led me yesterday to thinking about the tour in general where am I going what am I doing and having thought about it overnight uh today I’m heading to a town called mous and near mle house is an airport it’s actually nearer to a town called Basel but but there are several flights there per day that go back to the UK and I thought I would get to that airport and stand outside and wave at everybody who’s going back to the UK no I’m not giving up so I’ve booked myself into this Hostel at mle house uh for two nights and that’s going to give me tomorrow to sit down do a bit of editing but also to work out the next stage of this tour I hadn’t expected to have to work out the next stage until later next week in constant so I will update you with route plans in episode 19 I guess it’s quite warm today the sunscreen went on before I left the campsite as I said I started off later so it’s beating down on me but I think I’m only going to be riding for about 3 and 1/ half 4 hours tops today that’s including time to stop and film things and have a look around sightseeing so we won’t be under the sun for too long all right that’s enough yabber from me I’ll get back to you in a bit [Music] [Music] [Music] so I’ve just been through fessenheim and I’ve stopped here in the shade for a quick water break and an opportunity to to say thank you all for leaving all the wonderful comments that you do under my videos they’re all very positive and helpful full of encouragement and uh as always I read and reply to every single one of them so once again thanks very much and please do keep the comments coming they do mean the Earth to me gives me encouragement to keep going every single day there’s not much to look at here I’m afraid it’s that same view of the mountains that we’ve had all morning problems with mountains are they’re so big that they take ages to get past which means the view stays the same for quite a long time but when the traffic’s not going past the country side is still quite peaceful there another car coming right catch up in a bit [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so I’ve been on this little back road for a while now there’s not too much traffic but as always you have to keep your wits about you looks like we’re getting off of it we’re going straight across that looks like a cycle path oh mind you there’s nothing to say no cars isn’t there oh yes there is oh that’s nice we’re off the roads for a little bit for the first time on this tour I had a see serious headwind quite strong it was that certainly made the legs work a little bit harder so we’re almost on the outskirts of mle house looks as though that’s going to be on the road as well when I get into mle house um but if I can get the camera out and show you anything I will otherwise I will see you at the uh hostel SL Hotel I’m not quite sure what this place is all I know was it was inexpensive [Music] so but yes we’ll see when we get there but just for a little while longer we’ve got this nice cycle path I think this might also be the Euro Val 5 keep seeing these little lizards on the path in front of me I don’t suppose the camera picks them up but they’re aren basking in the sun getting some warmth when they run away when I come along only little things 3 4 in long right I’ll catch you back in mle house [Music]