Motorcycle Road Trip - Riding to Slovenia on an R 1250 GS
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- Motorcycle road trip to Slovenia from the UK, riding through France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria and into Slovenia.
I rode down to meet up with Canary Motorcycle Tours Slovenia before we headed off on a recce trip to check out Romania via Croatia and Hungary.
Hope you enjoy the vid folks, keep SUBSCRIBING, keep SHARING, keep LIKING, and keep letting me know what you think in the COMMENTS section below!
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Keyless go, who asked for it, who wants it, who likes it. A solution to a problem that never existed, and its put all our insurance premiums up! Good to see you out n about again, feeds the soul and fills the happy tanks right back up.
Nice Vid Bruce, enjoyed that. That's one reason I like traditional keys, if the bike starts...you know exactly where the key is!
Cheers Tony, much appreciated bud 👍
Enjoyed that Bruce! Looks like it's going to be a cracker this series 👌
Cheers Chops 👍
Them two little things above the U are called "umlauts" They make the U sound like the frog in the throat sound.
Brilliant Bruce, really enjoyed this video and looking forward to the rest of the series.
Thanks Carl 👍
What a bind have such a demanding job…,🤣👌….Great content 😊
Them roads look proper sorted fun !….
As for the BMW keys at 1K What 🤔🤯🤕……First rate share 🥃🏴
That "HIYYYAAAA" at the start cracks me up every time! Looking forward to this series
very honest comment you made after you passed the guy down.I can so relate 100% its part of the thrill.
okay okay okay, I'm convinced. New R1250GS Rallye to be picked up next Saturday morning from Arden, T.Wells. I test rode one 3 years ago but went into denial. In the last 2 weeks I've re-visited the adventure bike thing and test rode most of them then realised what I knew all along. Thanks for all the vid's and helping with my decision making process 👍. Btw I tried the R1250R (after watching your review) and was very very tempted just because of the way the engine works in such a small package but as you pointed out it is a VERY VERY small package.
Cheers John, enjoy the new bike bud 👍
Hello I Have Been Watching Your Vlogs My Dad I Found Your Vlogs Through Trucker Jenko
As far as I know Bruce, the spare key does not work through range, you have to tap it in a specific spot under the seat by the back wheel.
Dont worry Teaport. we all done it.I did it with the steering bar lock on the car. Lost the car keys and steering lock device as they were on the same key ring. Breakdown was fun... I never took spares with me. I do now
Loving the attempt to speak Germglish.
Welcome to Romania !
Thanks bud 👍
Great 1st part Bruce
Thanks Lyn 👍
Just watch this again, matey and planning to use some of your roads this year 👍 Also just booked a few nights in Hotel Valdecoro in potes after you recommended it, so no pressure mate 🤣😂
Ha Ha, have a great time 👍
What an entertaining vid.. 7 countries in 10mins...quality is awesome.. rocking it!
Cheers Shaun 👍
Great Video Mr Teapot. Only ruined by the 8 adverts CZcams interrupted it with.....
They put 8 ads in a 10min vid?! 🤷♂️🤦♂️
Sorry about that bud, I can’t dictate how many they add sadly 👍
I think your tractor has that feature where if you apply one brake, it applies the other also.🤔😅
Hence the reason why I like a key, to start my bike... :)
Looks like you are enjoying yourself. Great views 👍🏻💪🏻🤩
I love the Austria Germany part of the world such epic roads & everyone so friendly 👍🎉🏍🏍
Great part of the world isn’t it mate 👍
Awesome start to the series, looking forward to it! 🙌
Good to see you back in action Bruce! Looking forward to the rest of the series…
Just got back from a very similar trip. UK to Croatia using Calimoto on mainly the winding option. Through the Alps and the Dolomites. I did, sort of, get fed up with switchbacks as well. On the return trip I avoided the mountains as much as possible. Didn't see one other British biker all the way there ( including the Euro Tunnel ) and all the way back (apart from the Euro Tunnel, where there was one other biker on the train ).
Had a great time though.
Hope the keys turn up. That's a very expensive thing to do - losing those keys.
Loved Slovenia
Thanks Geoff,
Sounds like you had a fantastic trip bud 👍
Sounds like warped brake rotor(s) and they replaced the pads because they were worn but not the issue.
i rekon fob is inside an air vent space. I did it once fell to near my ankles. No wasnt that!
Nice one Bruce, warm up to what looks like a great tour series!
Thanks Adam, aye it was so good to get back on the road 👍
How awful Bruce, raining outside and I start this video, promise to carry your luggage if you take me next time😜, and yes I’ve lost my key on a tour too😆, found an hour later.
Nice shots. Going to Slovenia in 2 days 😃
Have a great time Martin 👍
@@teapotone Did you find your keys? If not where do you think you lost them? It might be on my way as I am near Munich in 2 days
Good vid Bruce, and looking forward to seeing more from this trip. That whole key scenario is a great reminder of why I chuffing hate keyless systems on bikes, cars etc. Fingers crossed they're just on the hook at home though.
Brilliant. Can't wait for the rest. 🤘
Back on the road! Great vibe, video quality, and editing.
Awesome video Bruce, music was really great too! More to come Then! 👍👍
Cheers Neil, aye there’s about 5 more episodes of this series, then the TT series, and a load more still to come 👍
Nationales Tempolimit!
Or so says my German wife.
"Staatsangehörige" doesn't have the same ring to it as "Nationals"! :D
Bad luck re the key.... hope they are tucked up in your garage back home.
Hope the dude on the deck was ok and his bike is not too much of a mess. We all ride for the thrill, and know the risks, but easy to forget where our ability limits are when carried away on a fun road.
That fog looked pretty grim
This is just what I need 👍🏼 we're off on our big trip next month and crossing alot of the same countries 😎👍🏼
Thanks for that Bruce, it's feeding my need to get back over into swiss/italian/ Austrian Alps that i love so much, and have started to plan our 3 week trip back over there for next year, roll on. cheers bud ride safe. oh and i bought a spare remote for my gsa for about £250 from Reiten Motorrad. cheers.
Nice one Andy 👍
Great vid Bruce 👍really enjoyed the editing and the match-up with the music, bravo. Lovely looking roads and countyside, hope the keys are safe at home, yes the GS is now everywhere/ so common, time for you to get the KTM I believe! 😀 Lookng forward to the next one.
Topography your not turning into TMF are you? We are collectively concerned about your keys! Brilliant Sally and I just had breakfast watching you. I am now inspired to get off of my ass,and get out on my bike. Keep up the good work! 👍
Nice video Bruce, great to see the touring videos back. Looking forward to watch all of them 👍🏻
Cheers Curno 👍
Looking forward to another great adventure in Europe!
I'm sure these tour vids take ages to edit but definitely my favourite type of vid you do. Do miss riding with Joy, Martin and Jose.
Definitely not selling keyless ignition to me.
Excellent work and you sum up the excitement of riding and how its tinged by the element of danger.
Looking good so far , except for the keys 😁
Cracking video and always love your upfront comments 👍 We got Germany at the end of August and praying we get good weather 🙏
Beautiful looking trip.Thanks.
Wish I was with you. We were just in Switzerland it was beautiful. Would have loved to been on a bike trip. 😎👍🍻
Brilliant video again mate,hope you find your keys mate ,looking forward to the next one 👍
Thanks Kojak 👍
Great video Bruce. I know what you mean about getting carried away with it on the roads. The odd 20p/50p moment soon brings you back.
Ha Ha cheers Marc, aye it’s part of the adrenaline fun 👍
@@teapotone I take it you found the keys
Aye they were in my Rukka puffa jacket pocket at the bottom of my rucksack
@@teapotone thought they would be 😂
Nice to see you back TP1 👏🏻😁
Brestanica or also Rajhenburg🙋♂️🏍😉
good to see you back on the adventures again
Grate looking bike
ya must have had ya key fob on ya bruce cause starting it up with the spare is a FAF lol
Another great video from you out on tour Bruce,totally enjoy these, yep great roads for bikers in Germany and for sure the south of germany..totally agree with your comment of the getting carried away sometimes, but it IS the thrill of it.
Cheers Glenn.👌👍
Great vid 👍 I have the same GS1250 and a replacement key from BMW was £240. Bad, but not £1000.
All I need now is some luggage, a route, some friends and a bike. ALMOST there. 😂 Looks great!
Great video again, yes the German roads are awsome, but I think no matter where you go there's always some exciting roads somewhere, appart from Holland and Denmark he he 😊👍
Ha Ha cheers Gaz - very true mate, grass is always greener isn’t it and what is new and different is exciting.
Still fantastic roads though 👍
Cracking video Bruce, as a new rider this is the kind of trip I aspire to do! Keep up the great content!
Thanks Musty, just go for it bud, get over the channel and just go 👍
Looks great, can’t wait for the rest of the series!
Bruce, tell me you didn't say that loud that this is you working, didn't you? 😂😂😂
Actually the german term for nationals is Landstrasse which you could translate with country road. Hope you find the key but if you wouldn't have the spare key with you, you would have noticed imediately so ..... whatever, my fingers are crossed for you to find them.
The roads you've been on, fantastic, the scenery awesome. I can't wait to see the next video.👍
Thanks very much Thomas 👍
Lovely to see that you enjoyed some German roads! As the German bikers say "Die Linke zum Grusse" (Diana)
Enjoyed that Bruce, just about to set off on my trip into Germany / Switzerland / Italy CANT WAIT 🤣 Catch you on the flip side 👍
Nice one Bruce, looking forward to the series
love that ending: sightseeing by touch 🤣
Beautiful 🤩 do hope you found that key 🔑 dam they is expensive ☝️
Ha Ha yep I found it ta 👍
Great vid Bruce. I don’t understand about the key, the spare key doesn’t work like the primary key. You have to put it under the back wheel arch for it to work. But you’ve probably found the key by now anyway:)
No that’s the plastic failsafe key - I’m talking about the actual spare key. You get two proper keys when you buy a bike.
@@teapotone ah, I bought my bike two years ago, I only got one key
@@teapotone all these people slating keyless, basically, if you haven’t got your/a key on you, the bike won’t start, so you can never ride off without a key. Will have to ask the question about the price of a new one though.
What bike?
Yep I actually love keyless personally - I just don’t understand why some manufacturers make the ignition keyless, but you need the key to open the fuel cap? WHY?!?! 🤷♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤣
The problem comes when you start your bike at home in the garage and the key is not on you but close enough to the bike - such as on a workbench, or in the pocket of another jacket that’s hanging up close enough to the bike.
You start the bike and ride off, leaving the key at home. Yes you’ll get a warning on the dash, but I get this fairly frequently with my own bike even when I know I have the key in my pocket (as the battery in the key fob degrades, the effective range will decrease). So I often just ignore this warning on the dash 🤷♂️
Hi teapot you say your discs are worn uneven I think you ment pads the only way to even out the pad wear is to swap them side to side every 6 thousand miles or soo. I had to do that on my Triumph Explorer. Have had no problems on my GS which has the now no longer fitted Hayes calipers I think you need new discs unless you're pads are contaminated as you say the front brake vibrates or judders. I am coming up to 24 thousand miles with my bike ride 2 up all the time and pads about 2 thirds worn. Hope you get it sorted soon always like your vlogs.
Aye sorry Paul, I did mean pads 👍
Is the spare key the plastic one. If so that needs to be placed in a spastic place above the rear wheel to work.
Another cracking vid Bruce!!
Are you going to overland event this year?
Thanks Barney, sadly I can’t, we are away at a wedding that weekend 🤦♂️
I’m doing the Armchair Adventure Festival later in September though 👍
Enjoy Overland, it’s a fantastic weekend
@@teapotone ah too bad fella, enjoy the wedding though!
Cant make armchair which is a shame but hopefully some other time...
At teapot probably a warp in one or both front discs nothing to do with the pads. This happens a lot with poor quality material’s you wont get this with breaking wavy disc mine got hot enough to get a purple gold blue colour without warping and they have no ware marks due to using carbon ceramic pads👍 these pads in my opinion have the best feel happy riding enjoy. Ok they don’t last as long but i like to get the bike stopped when needed.
Cracking start to the series, and love the editing, great work Bruce 👍
Thanks very much Ollie 👍👏
Love Austria. Totally get what your saying about just pushing things a little further as biking is an adrenaline kick. Great to meet you at the ABR by the way , I’m sure you met many Bruce (I remembered your name 🥴🤣)
Oh how we've missed these videos! Nope, not quite Spain, not yet at least. Plymouth to Santander return £895... Yikes! Looking forward to this series! 👍 £1000 for a key has to be a record? (Used loads of your road recommendations in the Picos and beyond)
Cheers Paul,
Aye the ferry prices are crazy now aren’t they!
Glad the roads were good for you 👍
Haven't watched to the end yet, so not sure how the hunt for the keys are going. I do feel your pain though!
Love keyless for my car, but came to understand already on my first ride with it that it can be a serious issue: While driving the car home, I needed to take a wee, so stopped at a gas station. Somehow I just couldn't find a way to lock the car. The key only have 3 buttons, so how hard can it be, really? Nope, no success on the most logical button. None of the others either. Rinse & repeat a few times while questioning sanity.
Sanity gave up and I was left with pure desperation. In the end I gave up and let the state of my bladder take precedence, and left the car unlocked. It all went fine, and when I came back I had to go through the manual - yes, that text based paperwork that is probably autotranslated by a drunk robot in France. Turns out you cannot lock the car with the key, IF the key is inside the car. Brand new car and all the papers and the spare key was in my rucksack in front of the passenger seat. So, I while I was frantically stabbing away on the main key just outside the car's door, the spare key was on the inside and that made car decide that there should be no automagical locking going on.
Great video beautiful scenery, enjoyed the commentary 👍,
I had a slight vibration on my Kawasaki it turned out to be warped discs, I wasn't a happy boy should of been £ 635 from kawasaki, I emailed phoned several times eventually kawasaki paid half on a good will gesture, bike had 6000 miles 2 and a half years old at that time , 2 year warranty,
I wouldn't like to pay the costs of a BMW ,
GS is the cheapest bike I’ve ever owned for general service costs - the pain comes with the cost of replacement stock parts 😬👍
High quality content and really fun to watch🤙👌🏆
Thanks very much Erik 👍👏
Great vid, wish I could find time to do a proper tour! Can you do a 'how to' video on how to persuade a wife she should stay at home whilst I go on tour alone for a couple of weeks?
🤣
It’s all in the ‘pre-selection’ of said wife.
Find one who doesn’t mind you buggering off for a week or so every now and then 😉👍
Brilliant vid as always sh£& music 😂🤘🥃
Keys? I’m guessing you’ve moved clothing and luggage to and from bike, making sure the spare key is not in reach/being used, and then painstakingly moved item up to and away from the bike to see if any item contains the key?
Yeah I did all that, found them eventually.
This was from back in May👍
Hi Bruce, Miss Austria so much, it’s been 3 years since our last tour, Hoping to get back there next year.
Do you do all your mile eating trips on the BMW OEM seat, I see so many videos on CZcams for aftermarket seats because the BMW seat is pants, would be interested to hear your views on this also might be a potential video review for you in the future, looking forward to the next video 👍
Hi,
Yep it’s just a stock seat 🤷♂️ My bum does get sore on any seat after a good few hours on it, so I just get off and walk about for a few minutes and it’s fine again for another few hours👍
Awesome video as ways!
Regarding your keys, would it not have been better to not have your spare key? Without your spare you would have know immediately you’d lost the key and where it was, whether it be in your garage or at your pee stop! 😀
Yep but then what would you do when you go to start the bike and it won’t start because the key isn’t there… and it’s 160 miles back the way you came at the last fuel stop? 😬
I’ll always have my spare with me on a trip, just in case
@@teapotone if you lost the only key more than around 8ft from the bike then it wouldn’t start so you couldn’t get 160 miles away. 😉
Does the bike have a warning when the key signal has been lost? For example, you drop the key on the ground next to the bike, so it starts, but then ride away! 🫤
It won’t cut out, it just won’t restart when you next switch it off.
Yes you get a warning on the dash if it can’t detect the keys, but you get this fairly regularly as sometimes even with the keys in your jacket pocket, I get a warning as the battery degrades.
Teapot what have I done , I’m in shock , 64 and I’ve bought a bike , Yamaha Fj1300 2019 , the one with the electric suspension , only done 10,000 miles in new condition and blue colour , oh dear lol 👍🏍
At about 8:15 in I can’t work out whether the guy is taking a selfie or is taking a picture of the back of his bike 🤔🤔🤔😜
👍 Great to see you out on the road again, looking forward to the rest of the series.
Im a big fan of other people having keyless ignition as it brings a lot of business to my workshop, the old key and barrel was just to reliable.
Ride safe and ,,ejoooooy
Are you referring to the small plastic spare key? If so this only works when really close to under the seat?
If you only had one key with you you wouldn’t have been able to settle from either Home or the petrol station without the key warning ⚠️ on the dash
Staatsangehörige is nationals in german
Did you phone the wife and say HI have you found the keys in the garage ? Or would you prefer not to know while on tour ?
Keyless start- the answer to a question nobody asked. Yours for only £1,000.
Dude! you missed the best road in Austria and you were next to it too. Grossglockner hochalpinstrasse next time, from Kaprun down into north Italy/west Slovenia via a glacier. It’s a few euro toll road so your nav probably dodged it
It’s a lot of Euros Toll, worth it if you have absolutely super weather. If you stay in local hotels for a few days they often give their guests a free voucher.
@@jeanjacques9980 yup, there’s a cool hotel in Kaprun that has a transport museum attached and they give you a pass
@@rickybobby7660 Oldtimer museum? Initially thought of Crosspoint, I think it has reopened.
Why would they go to the bother of servicing the callipers and not have pads to fit😱😱😱😱😱😱
Yeah I was surprised by that too 🤷♂️
Great video Bruce, but you have confused me with your keys, is your spare a full transponder battery key or is it your grey plastic emergency key, because that one will only work when you hold it in the little round recess under the rear mudguard. Just to let you know if it's a normal spare transponder spare you should not carry both keys whilst riding it can knacker the ignition up. I do carry a full spare hidden some ware on the bike but I wrap it in multiple layers of tin foil to block it's signal. A spare one from your main agent is about £240. Thank you
Just picked up my first bike with electronics and TFT, a new GS, and feel like playing with settings or functions while riding could be as bad a texting while driving, and you see a lot of CZcamsrs doing it, I wonder how many accidents this is causing.
It absolutely IS a distraction if you’re concentrating on the dash and not the traffic ahead.
If you can’t push a button without looking at it, then pull over, stop and do it 🤷♂️👍
@@teapotone agreed, but there are so many reviewers out there changing settings that absolutely require them to take their eyes off the road, even momentarily can be fatal on a bike.
Very true, but that’s their problem - I don’t bother wasting a second worrying about what other people are doing bud 👍
Some fantastic roads there. I know you'll be back home now, but did you have both keys in your backpack?
How many remote keys come with the bike? Seen posts saying 1 remote and 1 plastic key? On a 20k bike surely they come with 2 remote ones
Nope, only 1 key and 1 emergency plastic key now - used to get 2 keys but only 1 now
@@teapotone 😒 more negotiations needed then 😂 cheers bud
If that’s work what do you do for fun…? 🤔🤔
Das Nationals
Bruce, quick question (love the video BTW and looking forward to the rest) When touring whether it be UK or Europe what do you do for security/protection of your bike overnight? Do you book specific bnb/hotels that cater for bikes to be looked up and covered? Or do you have some security gadgets etc? I want to plan some tours and want to know how someone as experienced at touring as you does it. Thanks
It’s NEVER a consideration for me personally, I’ve never had any problem at all.
I pick hotels that have parking obviously, but I never lock or cover my bike. It has a tracker on it so I know if it is moved without a key 👍
@@teapotone Thanks for the reply mate! I'm honoured haha. I watched your RTW series during 2020 covid and got to say it got me through and spurred me on to get back to bikes.
Glad to hear you've never had any trouble, I imagine in remote parts of Europe which is where most people tour anyway there isn't much happening crime wise. Better get planning
Honestly mate, the ONLY time anything has been nicked off my bike was at the TT back in 2014!
No worries anywhere else 👍