Europe Motorcycle Roadtrip 2023 EP33: Darmstadt and over the Rhine

Join us in this episode as we battle our way through more poor weather through Darmstadt and back over the Rhine into Mainz. Enjoy!

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🚜00:00 Intro
🚜00:48 Riding on the outskirts of Frankfurt
🚜01:45 Another poor sod riding in the rain
🚜02:03 Riding through picturesque Darmstadt
🚜03:15 Police bike!
🚜03:37 Darmstadt-Nord
🚜04:18 An up-market McDonald’s?
🚜04:47 Lorry inbound!
🚜05:12 Getting out of Darmstadt
🚜05:26 A soggy story
🚜06:25 Calling my dad a doof to the locals
🚜06:57 More German music and felt tips
🚜07:44 Still heading west
🚜08:18 Fond of the Germans, us
🚜09:02 Graffiti culture in Germany
🚜09:19 Coming into Mainz
🚜09:57 Theodor Heuss Bridge
🚜10:36 Mainz
🚜11:05 Rogue radio
🚜11:42 Porridge colour

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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 the Lio 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 egg did you see that they are 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 [Music] World nice bit of a treelined road there where about what we on now oh we’re on now oh yeah they’ve actually got leaves on these trees huh yeah po it’s a little bit warm around here starting to brighten up slightly are you still connected yeah hello I just had like a funny like noise in the ear is it running out of back battery it shouldn’t be it’s fully charged this morning oh it’s in this record it must have been the start of the record but it sounded like a notification oh we’re not the only ones out look least he’s got a Ponch on sure I know I have got one in my glove box Chris and Jess gave it me but I’ll save that for SLE bug social ride this year cuz it’s probably going to rain on that orange as is everywhere what the the yellow ones well yeah it’s like orange is it yellowy Sandstone color I don’t know it looks quite um I don’t know doesn’t look very German unless it is looks a bit more like Spanish hola so it’s never good when the windows got shutters on cuz obviously they get a lot of bad weather unless they’re just for the look yeah perhaps well when I pull breaking out clutch I can feel drips dripping off enemy gloves feel the liquid squeezing out I think it stopped raining though no they’re still wet in the in the wind I’ve just lifting my Vis are up got splattered that’s why our bike should be right now covered up keeping nice and warm think garage should probably throw me off cuz not getting not happy about getting wet and dirty yours is quite [Music] dirty just wave just smiling wave boys smiling wave bitzy hopefully it doesn’t do a U-turn I don’t think so there’s a biker well at least we’re not the only biker at German police have got no no fear I’m just going to follow wherever this van goes just take it dead steady over these lines I don’t have a clue what oh it’s merged there’s like a merge logo on the floor I’ve not seen that one yet that’s just new what is that pointy it’s like a windmill or something that does we know sailes on yeah this is the bit of the route that’s going to take longer than the rest just because it’s City City Life we’ll just stay in this Lane and chill it’s about worst traffic we’ve seen in it this yeah that’s why the uh ETA was increased Itself by half an hour as soon as we left McDonald’s after our massive coffee that we got in a te it a massive cup as well porceline cup where saucer McDonald’s it was like an not Market McDonald’s W it yeah no bins table like table service sort of thing weird got big lorry behind me you’ve got a gigantic Lorry behind you yeah I’ve just seen him like what’s this him if why am I seeing a number plate in my mirror he actually see me no he’ll have a mirror on the front of his windshield that gives him his blind spot in front of him going to say some might get splattered I going to say it’s got bull bars as well yeah this was always going to be a bad part of the the route because there’s no way of really going around any of these sits but once we’re past it it should be a lot easier I am drying out a bit to be fair look starting to dry AR I’m not I am as moist as I was well not as moist you’re flipping flooded McDonald’s I’m going to be um I’m going to be all wrinkly when we get to where we’re going you look like a prune yes uh I put my jacket on the back of a chair and 5 minutes later there was a flood on the floor we had to get the lady at tell another lady and she soon swiftly zoomed around with a big mop thing big floor mop mopped it up I was just like v v it on the floor I just went this is I don’t want anybody to slip on there do can’t believe you keep call you keep calling me an idiot to people I haven’t what’s doth doth you said something doth no I didn’t you did and then the lady laughed do Do’s not even a a word I don’t think oh is it dos then dos or doth or something you said that’s the number two in Spanish that’s dos dos oh no oh no doors CH qu oh got a bit of German on I think what that craft work no Cascada oh I need a miracle an interesting smell it’s reminds me of felt tips I don’t know why what what does it remind you of felt tip pens like when you doing some coloring and it leaves a odor behind it’s a bit similar to like liking to that it’s just reminding me of felt tips you know when you used to when you used to do felt tipping and you did that much coloring in that you went through the paper oh no soggy paper we been getting blammer from side here oh my God I probably have couple of dents inside of my tank cuz I keep squeezing my legs together that tight cuz it wind probably crush me Tang Don’t Know My Own Strength and all that you know what I’m saying flipping out I thought it’d be worse for me with uh windy weather no it’s not it’s not a problem when it’s windy but it just it comes takes me off gets me off guard next minute I’m going towards the the side it’s one thing I’ve liked while I’ve been over not seen anybody misbehaving yeah nobody drunk you know no nobody causing problems everyone’s just been friendly yeah just friendly friendly [Music] is yeah it’s very organized everything’s organized and clean and and well and much more friendly oh I’m going for a smiley face smile yeah for such a clean cities that we’ve been through it’s only the graffiti that I think lets him down yeah there is a bit of graffiti is’t they seems to be scattered all over it must be a big thing oh this looks like a fun roundabout don’t it that’s it it looks like a person oh no that’s not right already right this roundabout looks like the flipping Notting gam Ring Road oh flipping out just follow this van seems to know where he’s going flipping at you just went and there flipping we were giving way there this looks a bit uh which way we going here for it Road ran I think so we’re going over this gigantic Bridge oh this is the river rine this is the uh this is like we passed this in Clone um few days ago famous river this yeah yeah it’s a very famous river the river R yeah I know it is that’s why I said famous river no I wasn’t asking the question yeah this is like the Frankfurt end or Frank near Frankfurt at least fantastic absolutely I don’t know if we’re going to have to change lane here look at them look dirt flowers in the rain yeah move over yeah I think we can stay in that lane cuz it goes we need to go down there but I’m not sure to be honest how the road works at the end I think Frank Fort is up there bloody H flipping me up that did for some reason it’s just touch radio on I’ve turned that feature off cuz it’s used to do that to me all the time how do you get back to normal then on and off or off and on you okay yeah I’m back on I’ve got no music you just press the front button what what front button and if that don’t work then you’ll just have to not have music for the next 40 minutes which which front button the very front one yeah that that’s what I press turn my music on hey we’re back on ah see I can smell my flipping exhaust yeah it smells like porridge actually do it smells like porridge it’s literally just one color it’s just porridge color the buck of your bike is so ditch well you look at your own weird on wood smells like porridge