day four day five mm-hmm four hmm we've only been running for four days welcome to this video series
where we ride to switzerland we're on the way to see sun god in verbier we're four or five
days in and like every day today's ride is 140 kilometers we were very very close to getting heat
stroke yesterday uh but we survived and today's looking a lot cooler these episodes have been
filmed on the fly and i feel like my creativity is waning so i hope this is still interesting
for all of you here's um here's a clip of chris brushing his teeth like and subscribe
so cold 22 degrees this is perfect i'm so happy about this long sleeve jersey weather
it's sunday today which means everything's closed except for one spa supermarket so we're heading
straight there we're gonna stock up on some stuff some bread some extra drinks
and then we should be set for the day just in case we don't come across anywhere to refuel nice
little breeze in the air in the middle of paradise here things are good things are good paradise
don't drive your car don't drive your car close to me that's it that's all you gotta know
of your guy that was a great morning and then i had to tell off a man for driving too close to us
i think he understood enough english to get my point everyone understands right
what are you doing i was like the air out to reduce i put a hole in it through that is clever
to reduce space we found this bar luckily it was just off route not by very much distance but by
a lot of elevation which is annoying we've basically come down a big hill and now we've
got to go back up the big hill hooray you gotta go back up that hill yeah let's try to whisper
oh
first climb and only big one of the day got like 3k 11 average which feels good quite a
lot when you've got bags in your boat luckily it's only like 25 degrees tops today so we're
not gonna have a repeat of yesterday but the salty men why am i talking to the camera now
you got funny hair coming at your helmet oh i got a wolf there
with the tuft though it looks good yeah it's pro isn't it
it works for pogba so it means i'm going to be winning the tour de france next week not
even next week that's probably chilling in a hot tub next week oh yeah we're doing all this
just dropped down onto the nicest cycle lane in the world what was that noise
ben has finally admitted defeat and it's gonna change into a slow
a slaughter [ __ ] you slaughter slaughter sheave your puncher
tubeless what is that noise what a lovely peaceful relaxing time down by the river
first rule of bike packing always know where your passport is isn't it
oh do you know i would have what would we have done we would have three options we would have
left you here and you could have ridden back on your own left you here and we could have
gone and you could have just stayed here and lived in this town or option three we could
have got them at the hotel to personally hand deliver it he hand delivered us pizza
so he might hand deliver us a passport i think he likes ben he really liked you so you could have
got you could go and live back with him oh you could go and live at the hotel it's getting closer
fishcakes
messy so we're in this little town everything's closed because sunday uh man spotted us and goes
law we could do lost if you play it's supposed to be the cool day
this is the fastest day so far i think burger time i've got your burger got me a burger yeah
oh nice catch it says that's false advertising there's a burger this is big on the menu today
two of these red thing of guacamole i wasn't very inspired when i went into that spa
i didn't do well usually i shot much better when i'm hungry elite trooper robot man
got some crisps ben seems to have just bought a whole bag of cheese
it looks rough oh it's got green on the outside happy father's day
i'm on a bike packing trip i'm in a little village in france eating crisps
only a road from newcastle
oh you make me feel so good about it dad
oh hit me lovely lady just said go around the back of the church and there's some holy water
and all your sins will be washed away so what i'm doing is i'm going to fill up
two bowls just to make double sure you've got a lot who has emotions
you have to ride back no you're present there you go you are gonna hate the tv
you have to take that and you have to give it back to the man ben's best friend
so today is exactly what we needed a little bit cooler shorter mileage turns out we've uh must
have cut a bit off the route i think it's 120 130k instead of 145 and 158 the day before so
it feels a lot shorter there's a couple of hours less means we're getting a lot earlier we can
relax don't have to rush lunch and stops quite as much and it makes all the difference it's
funny i was a little bit worried about how my body would hold up during this trip because i haven't
really been riding very much only significant ride i've done in the last month or so has been
unmanned gravel so that was my training for this but on the whole being okay riding into it
being sensible with the fueling makes a big difference we are now on this road for 26k
there's a weird noise coming from underneath the bikes chris yeah it's the melted tarmac mate
ah it's supposed to be cooler today but i feel like it was a lie it was a lie the absolute
light luckily we're not on really steep pool luckily we're not really steep climbs we're
just rolling which is a lot more bearable in the heat you go bike packing in spain or france
church is a really good place to always find water always or is that just spain no they
both are generally really good spain a hundred percent france is probably like i don't know
eighty percent all right there's a snail in here but it's been waiting for us but it was drying out
and it said i thought if i sit here long enough he's hiding from the french people
snake can you ask the checking machine if we can bring our bikes in the room
they weren't that tight before we started this ride looking like swollen legs from
definitely too much ride definitely we are once again staying in the middle of
nowhere which is a bit of an issue um the only restaurants near us for food are mcdonald's
and a steakhouse not ideal for two of us being vegetarian but we're gonna look
to see if the menu has i know there's a fence there we're not gonna get through are we so far
to walk around what we're gonna do is go there and see if we can just like make a dish out of um
like a meal out of side side portions and then go for second dinner at mcdonald's later
well this makes it all worth it thanks mate i love it yeah we can name him suggestions down below