oh i was awake 26 times last night welcome to three guys riding to switzerland we're doing
it to visit some god's headquarters in verbier and we've got a ride through the netherlands
belgium france and switzerland netherlands belgium france switzerland belgium's netherlands france
belgium never jumps in netherlands france
so we're off the ferry in the netherlands the land of amazing bike lanes can't remember what
side of the road we drive on today we have 140k to do decent distance we uh i've only just got
off the ferry and it's 10 30. ben seems in a bit of a bad mood i can't really work out why
and getting our priorities straight we're heading straight for ride out which is a coffee shop
in amsterdam where chris knows the people so say hello to them make sure the bikes
are all good and then be on our way to be fair that fairy coffee wasn't cutting it
it's pretty wild here you have complete priority on a roundabout if you're a cyclist so cars have
to stop to let you go before they can get off the roundabout so you can basically just bomb
straight through them although it feels very scary doing that that's me yeah i'm the tall dutch guy
why are you saying two reasons why dutch people are tall the reason one is we eat a lot of cheese
and milk and the second reason more important i got a lot of kicks in my butt when i was a
kid from my dad yeah this is chris another chris just to confuse things yeah hey martin
they just thought it'd be funny to make me carry something heavier it's not big it's not clever
this is a fully functioning the only one in the world
a vr mountain bike and it sits on a platform that moves completely 360 degrees and only if you start
pedaling you see it starts rolling oh mariana force yeah oh oh cool you're swapping bikes
then yeah i'm going to take this one because it'll make me faster saddle is about right we
are bike shop and we are open to everyone not just roadies you know so we also have like uh
cargo bikes we have like city bikes e-bikes is now thing mountain bikes and we do we we
if we have bikes available people can test them we also organize a lot of events we
really like to um what is it the words inspire people to write more whoa
this is our event center is this all your space this is our space we use it for uh
well to watch through the france or to do a presentation we did that last year with chris
his his face was this big up there yeah the screen's a bit small good eh do you come in
here on your break and just watch films yeah yeah we now have chris with us showing us a much better
route than we had planned which is a good thing never underestimate local knowledge hey you're
gonna join us for the whole ride yeah we're on the hallway only today right oh you're gonna do
today yeah all day today yeah if you could just sit on the front just there that'll be it'll be
it's great good chris being the tallest man in the world isn't it
it makes a great draft you're okay ben i'm okay yes i'm enjoying it
it would uh it'd probably be a lot quicker without the robot on the back
so people can ride like scooters on here yeah they can but it's like scooters without helmets
they they go 35 kilometers an hour oh right it's an equivalent of 20 miles
so yeah it's safe ish yeah yeah the thing is if people are looking out for two-wheeled vehicles
then it makes it safer anyway doesn't it yeah it's true we're on a designated cycling path
that's what makes it safe for all of us there are no cars
these are a lot longer than mine but my toes here yeah okay chris's feet really smell so your shoes
are now today it's okay i spend a lot of time with it we we smell anyway you know that is the
thing you do you look horrible as a cyclist you smell and you love it speak for yourself well
and and then the other thing is i think i look pretty [ __ ] cool especially with this jersey
and then my girlfriend always it still looks you know with the diaper in your
so that's just below newcastle here ah okay yeah he definitely does this all
purposely it's gotta be on purpose yeah of course he's a model has it gone it is
nice thought so it's beautiful isn't it yeah yeah we only bought him to look at
will it be roll it nicely get on the mic it's one two three that works that was good
i must apologize i seem to have very bad allergies since i've arrived i thought it was the ferry and
the air conditioning but i think it might be because i'm sat surrounded by flowers i've
basically just been sneezing for the last 20k not much video has been filmed but antihistamines are
being found yeah benadryl yeah i have six just hit the pharmacy it seems to be a police chase
basically my hay fever got so bad that i had to literally stop and i've sniffed like
seven sniffs of a nose thing and smash some tablets hopefully that'll do the trick uh-oh
oh we've it now on the plus side i think pseudoephedrine is highly performance
enhancing so i might be flying for the rest of today's ride maybe tomorrow as well having my
mistake but i was so focused on that nice road over there with all the lanterns and stuff that
wanted to go there that was good that was a true dutch cycling experience that is true though
hey
45k to go we've all been uh wishing for a shop to appear for the last 10k
or so we found one luckily and now we're just cramming in calories i say as i drink a coke zero
spells are ringing ben is not singing where does this happen every half hour we get this song
imagine living in the flaps there in a fleek machine
before i forget a quick shout out to ride out amsterdam the shop we were at just there
chris works there you'll probably see him if you turn up so if you are in amsterdam
you should go and visit the shop and buy some stuff or just look when you meet chris you'll
know it's him because he'll look like this he's enjoying it now we've bonded
box is a bit damaged we might have to take him out might have to take
him out of the box and give him a better view go take a ferry
care for the robot last little leg of the ride now
40k to go temperatures dropped to a lovely 29 degrees
so welcome to this video series where we sail to switzerland
yeah indeed it's way better that sailing is the new silence exactly it is second period
of the day yeah too many it goes back now the bat not i think this is a lesson in modeling
ben is a model it's like being in a zoolander movie though is every day
look at all them garmin 1040s
last 5k now i forgot how hard cycling was ben how are we going to do this for
the next seven days we're not going to go this quickly should we just go well easy