Hey Steve, just stumbled across your channel and have subbed..just watched your two France vids and enjoyed those mate, look forward to the next one!..atb, Mark
Hey thanks Mark, much appreciated! Day three is nearly finished, finally! This one's been harder to edit as we had a few "issues" on the way - and I wanted the video to protray the bad as well as the good, so I hope everyone likes it as much as the first two!
Thank you for Beauvais cathedral. Current bike Interceptor 650 last bike 1200 GS got a bit heavy as did the wing.. Careful on STOP signs they are hot on grille a Stop. Be careful some cameras can get you front and back in France.The right foot down is hi or thank you. Throttle hand is busy in France!
The cathedral was very interesting. Completely unplanned visit, just happened to see it as we were walking around. So you've had two out of the three bikes that we had then! I will bear that in mind about the Stop signs and the cameras for next time, thank you!
Ah, the camping municipal. For years my touring centred around them. Rarely tired & scruffy, usually basic yet clean & tidy. Sometimes rather lovely. Always good prices.
The lady running the site had some cold beers too that she sold to us, and with our poor broken French and her limited English we still managed to get a take away delivered to the site for us, she gave us a menu told us to choose what we wanted and she phoned the order through! (with it being Sunday and everything closed, it was our last hope for food when we got to the camp site). Very helpful, great value, no complaints!🙂
@@russcattell955i So true, and a sad indication of humanity these days. There are far more good people than bad in the world, but we're conditioned to think the worst of everyone.
Thank you. The jacket I am wearing is the Segura Stripe. It cost me £380 (which is about €450 I think). Segura don't list this one any longer But I found a similar one on their website called the "Funky" and they list that for €449 on their website. Hope that helps?
Not sure if you’re already home or not. Please be careful if still in France. Seeing a lot of British Bike thefts this last month over in France. A lot of RUclipsrs. Unattended for 5 minutes and gone. Be vigilant lads. Safe trip 👍
Thanks Paul, we're home now. We were lucky in that we didn't have any issues like that really. To be fair, the bikes weren't far from us for very long throughout the trip, and the hotel we stayed in had a secure car park that was locked at night. That said, you're right, it only takes a few minutes if someone wants to take it!
Stop scaremongering. There will have been more motorcycle thefts in a Liverpool and Manchester this summer than in the whole of France. Just because you heard something on RUclips doesn’t make it a pandemic.
@@davidmatthews3093 I guess anywhere isn't without its risks - but from my experience on our short visit to France it certainly didn't feel unsafe anywhere. We did avoid the big cities though (purposely, so we could enjoy the scenery and a more relaxing ride!).
If your motorcycle is designed to run on 95 obtained fuel 98 is not the better one, it will make no difference at all to your engine it will simply cost you more money. Most modern motorcycles are actually designed to run on E10. All Honda engines have been designed to run on E10 since the mid 1990s, that’s 30 years ago. Kawasaki were late to the game and it was about 20 years ago that their whole range was designed for E10. There is a lot of rubbish talked about petrol on motorcycle forums. If you were buying 98 from a petrol station in France instead of E10 from a supermarket you must have money to burn. If a pump says 95 in France it will be E5, 95 octane fuel with 10% ethanol is simply called E10. 98 is always E5.
I only ever put E5 in my Suzuki GP100, but that's 40 years old now and I don't like the idea of the higher ethanol content fuel damaging fuel lines and the carb etc. My Interceptor will run on E5 or E10, but I tend to only put E5 in it because it can be sat for a month or more sometimes without being used if I'm too busy with other stuff or the weather is bad, which is often in the UK! That's interesting to learn that in France if it's labelled as 95 it is still E5 unless it's specifically labelled as E10. Over here in the UK pretty much ALL 95 fuel is E10, (apart from I believe Esso fuel which I did read has no ethanol content (but I only read that I'm not 100%)) so the only way to guarantee E5 over here is to buy 98ron or "Super" Unleaded.
Hey Steve, just stumbled across your channel and have subbed..just watched your two France vids and enjoyed those mate, look forward to the next one!..atb, Mark
Hey thanks Mark, much appreciated! Day three is nearly finished, finally! This one's been harder to edit as we had a few "issues" on the way - and I wanted the video to protray the bad as well as the good, so I hope everyone likes it as much as the first two!
Thank you for Beauvais cathedral. Current bike Interceptor 650 last bike 1200 GS got a bit heavy as did the wing.. Careful on STOP signs they are hot on grille a Stop. Be careful some cameras can get you front and back in France.The right foot down is hi or thank you. Throttle hand is busy in France!
The cathedral was very interesting. Completely unplanned visit, just happened to see it as we were walking around.
So you've had two out of the three bikes that we had then! I will bear that in mind about the Stop signs and the cameras for next time, thank you!
Ah, the camping municipal. For years my touring centred around them. Rarely tired & scruffy, usually basic yet clean & tidy. Sometimes rather lovely. Always good prices.
The lady running the site had some cold beers too that she sold to us, and with our poor broken French and her limited English we still managed to get a take away delivered to the site for us, she gave us a menu told us to choose what we wanted and she phoned the order through! (with it being Sunday and everything closed, it was our last hope for food when we got to the camp site). Very helpful, great value, no complaints!🙂
@@stevethebikinggrandad Yes there's still some friendly, helpful people around and we are often surprised when we encounter them nowadays.
@@russcattell955i So true, and a sad indication of humanity these days. There are far more good people than bad in the world, but we're conditioned to think the worst of everyone.
I like the dark brown jacket! How much cost in euros?))
Thank you. The jacket I am wearing is the Segura Stripe. It cost me £380 (which is about €450 I think). Segura don't list this one any longer But I found a similar one on their website called the "Funky" and they list that for €449 on their website. Hope that helps?
Not sure if you’re already home or not.
Please be careful if still in France. Seeing a lot of British Bike thefts this last month over in France. A lot of RUclipsrs.
Unattended for 5 minutes and gone. Be vigilant lads. Safe trip 👍
Thanks Paul, we're home now. We were lucky in that we didn't have any issues like that really.
To be fair, the bikes weren't far from us for very long throughout the trip, and the hotel we stayed in had a secure car park that was locked at night. That said, you're right, it only takes a few minutes if someone wants to take it!
Stop scaremongering. There will have been more motorcycle thefts in a Liverpool and Manchester this summer than in the whole of France. Just because you heard something on RUclips doesn’t make it a pandemic.
@@stevethebikinggrandadYou weren’t lucky, you were in a country which is very safe.
@@davidmatthews3093 I guess anywhere isn't without its risks - but from my experience on our short visit to France it certainly didn't feel unsafe anywhere. We did avoid the big cities though (purposely, so we could enjoy the scenery and a more relaxing ride!).
If your motorcycle is designed to run on 95 obtained fuel 98 is not the better one, it will make no difference at all to your engine it will simply cost you more money. Most modern motorcycles are actually designed to run on E10. All Honda engines have been designed to run on E10 since the mid 1990s, that’s 30 years ago. Kawasaki were late to the game and it was about 20 years ago that their whole range was designed for E10. There is a lot of rubbish talked about petrol on motorcycle forums. If you were buying 98 from a petrol station in France instead of E10 from a supermarket you must have money to burn. If a pump says 95 in France it will be E5, 95 octane fuel with 10% ethanol is simply called E10. 98 is always E5.
I only ever put E5 in my Suzuki GP100, but that's 40 years old now and I don't like the idea of the higher ethanol content fuel damaging fuel lines and the carb etc. My Interceptor will run on E5 or E10, but I tend to only put E5 in it because it can be sat for a month or more sometimes without being used if I'm too busy with other stuff or the weather is bad, which is often in the UK!
That's interesting to learn that in France if it's labelled as 95 it is still E5 unless it's specifically labelled as E10. Over here in the UK pretty much ALL 95 fuel is E10, (apart from I believe Esso fuel which I did read has no ethanol content (but I only read that I'm not 100%)) so the only way to guarantee E5 over here is to buy 98ron or "Super" Unleaded.