How did you get booking reference number..l find the tunnell website a nightmare to negotiate

Wow this is perfect

Diamond with Yellow sign exists in many countries, or adopted by. Eastern Europeans and former USSR republics, including Russia has the same meaning. I am sure most African countries as well.

interesting, will take note of much. The prostate pills for this group must be phenomenal

Thank you for a great video! Very helpful for planning our next roadtrip!

I didn't realize there was a secret menu if you swiped right. This is great help, thanks!

I remember in the early days of the channel tunnel you had to park your front wheel of the bike into a giant clamp type of thing. But there were only a couple of these on the train, it was a real struggle to get off it on my CBR 1000 loaded up with luggage etc. the modern way is much easier.

This is by far the best video I have seen explaining signs, esp the priority to the right signs!!! Thank you Gary!

I didn't realise how huge these terminal sites are.

How do you update maps. I have a 2016 sgs and there are a lot of new roads since then

Thanks you Gary, very helpful sir

Hi, As per Gaby83 below, im heading out there in August so was great to have a refresher. Used to go over in a truck many years back so the refresher was so helpful, thank you for taking the time to do this

Thank you.

Very good

The French urban junctions which you pictured are unusually helpful in that they have an explicit sign indicating priorité à droite. Those signs are more common on country roads where of course they have the same meaning. Towns need a lot more care. Sometimes you will get a sign as you enter telling you that the whole town is priorité à droite; sometimes you won't. Sometimes just the odd junction follows that rule but the big problem is that there is generally no sign to tell you, the person who has to give way, that they've thrown in a tricky junction. You really need to look at every road approaching from the right and check whether it has a stop or give way sign for the approaching driver. That's the only way to be sure that they don't have the right to pull out in front of you (unless you are driving on a road explicitly signposted with the yellow diamond). It's all terribly French.

3:05 Is not true. You don't "obviously need to give way to vehicles on the roundabout. While I haven't seen roundabouts where incoming traffic has right of the way for some years, they are perfectly legal and only "Yield" sign or absence of it will tell, what kind of roundabout it is.

do they tent can am spiders in Europe?

Kudos on number 2 (Croatian coast road). Would I be right in assuming it is the stretch between Senj, Karlobag and Starigrad-Paklenica?

I use my root app together with the my root app navigator on a phone. There are rugged mobile phones available now that will work fine on a motorbike and cost less than any of the dedicated GPS options. The phone having internet connectivity allows for seamless loading of roots and easy updating of maps. It also not surprisingly integrates the navigator app features completely with the my route app planning.

Spot on. Thanks for posting!

Thank u for your view. I am using MRA (Gold) for many years. First with TomTom 450 and now with XT2. Making my own routes/tracks in Europe. 'Via points' and 'shaping point' was also for a new way of thinking. But it works fine. It's for me best way to making beautifull routes in Europe. Love it!! www.youtube.com/@Myrouteappforyou/videos

"Use your rear break when going round hairpins, it hunkers the bike down". Really? I was always taught the art of trail braking, applying a small amount of front break which increases the traction of the front wheel. Surely, applying rear will undermine this? Using rear break will encourage the bike to stand up.

Hi. Thanks for the video . I have a question for you. If your train is at 12 let’s say , how long before you should get there ? Thanks

Awesome guide Gary very informative.

Please give more detail about those nuances you refer to. I use RideWithGPS and love its PC interface to create routes. I previously used a smart phone to navigate those routes but have recently began using the xt2 also. While impressed with the display ... i feel a few steps back towards that garbage basecamp experience i also was forced to use for years. Do u import a track or route for the xt2?

Excellent guide, thanks!

the thing I have learned from this webinar is that there are alot of stupid riders around.

The yellow sign means you're driving on a highway

thanks for the video, you mention in the description "do the bikes get strapped down?" but I don't seem to see anything about that? (unless I missed it..?)

Very helpful. Thanks m8.

I put my gloves away at the check in screens otherwise would have been taking them on and off about 10 times. Also for the queues at passport control I switched the engine off and paddled the bike. I didn't fancy starting it every time I inched fowards 2 yards (or 2 meters if you're on the French side). It was boiling hot, I ride an air cooled and have long legs so decided to paddle it. You can be offered a choice of train times at the check in screen so first person to check in makes sure everyone knows which train time to select. There's bike specific lanes but Google Street view has the entire journey through the port if you want to rehearse the lanes.

I'm considering making the journey alone on my tracer so the video is much appreciated. With regards to comments about the train braking harshly, is this only towards the end or when should you be prepared for this?

Make sure when entering the train tall riders headroom limit if your on an adventure bike? Also give riders enough space too dismount in comfort. Had many riders getting to close for comfort🤔.

Done this many times

I think you answered all questions I had. Cool! Thanks

Hello, I am an American looking to tour from Italy to france and Back on a motorcycle that I'm planning to purchase in Italy..... I'll be in Europe for about a month , part time in France part time in Italy. I do not have a residence in Italy or France , so how can i do this? It says I need green card insurance and an International drivers Permit... what else? and what other obstacles might i encounter? Thank you

Just found your channel I would love to ride Europe, but don't think it will happen 74 yr old now still riding two wheels. I spent total of 14 years in the FDR Germany did a lot of traveling around Western Europe in a Volkswagen and in good old Army Vehicles lol

Here's me panicking, I thought I'd have to take loads of documents to the. Check in both passport checking in ticket, license, insurance, bike docs, ffs😂. I've only got small hands 👏

Looking for others’ thoughts please on current motorbike parking procedure on the Eurotunnel trains, and why we park facing left. Love using their service, however last time we used it with the bikes, the train driver had to apply slightly firmer braking pulling in at the end (nothing major), and some bikes then literally domino’d into each other causing some damage. Would there be more advantage for bikes to park facing right, so that any extra force (caused by unanticipated train braking) is then applied against the side stand? Is the current parking procedure (left-facing) the safest, if train braking can negate the side-stand? After this incident we will try to park up with more space around us in the train (if able of course), should the same happen again. Really interested in people’s thoughts please👍

Thanks mate. Really appreciate your time putting this out. Happy travels!

Gary think Irish people are curious as to where people or bikers have come from or where are going to over here. Maybe also us Nordy folk just are a bit distant due to the years of troubles here. Overall everyone welcome. Thank you for a fantastic viewing. Great tips on the WAW.

First I write from Germany and I am German. I use Garmin as succeeder from Navigon PNAs since 2014, before Navigon was a lot better Car-Navigation tool. I use Car-PNAs, because I travel not a bike but with cars and my convertible, first of all here in western Europe countries. The funny thing, the first tour with a Garmin Nüvi 66 was by the way in the US and Canada in 2014, from New York via Boston, Montreal, Toronto Niagara Falls, back to New York. I used Basecamp as route planner tool up to 2018 regularly. But I tested MRA (founded in 2015) here and there and bought a lifetime offer in 2017 app. At those first years the use of MRA depending on the location and availabilty of the Internet. Holiday houses, which we prefer for vacation, at that time were often not equipped with a W-Lan. The big and only advantage of BC was the independency from the Internet by download of the maps to your Laptop. The handling of BC is managable, but far from the comfort of MRA (and other internet based planner). Meanwhile internet acces is available at nearly every holiday house, hotel, even on campinground or by thethering with your mobile. In Germany/Europe the data volume you get from your mobil provider increased dramaticaly from less than 1 GB/month as base for 5€ to minimum 5 GB often more than 10 GB for less than 10€. Roaming within EU Union countries included. May a problem not exist in US. So MRA route planner substitute meanwhile BC 100% for new routes. There is only one advantage for BC. You can transfer GPX files from external sources, like moto magazines to BC, change to a track and use the track as a proposal and create your own route with the rubberband tool with maybe an other start and finish point or other POIs nearby, which you prefer. The new adjusted route you can transfer to MRA, to your PNA as you like By the way the new MRA Navigation is improved continuously and is in connection with CarPlay or Android Auto close to substitute the Garmin DriveSmart 76 which I use on my convertible up to now.

Not a HD rider but thanks for this. Road signs a great help as have seen those signs and never known meaning and how lucky have I been. Also red border on Road Town name. Lots of great bits I have got from this so thank you very much.

The website's please?

Thanks for the video. I’ve used MyRouteApp for route planning for a while now I use it with a TomTom 550. Do you use the free version of MRA or the paid version please? Out of interest have you ever used a TomTom? I know it’s the age old argument a bit like Apple v Android but as someone who plans and rides a lot just interested in your thoughts. Thanks

Thanks for your great video. I'm a beginner tourer and learned a lot. I would like to point out that your knowledge about the traffic signs is incorrect though. The yellow square with the white border does mean that you are on a road where you don't have to give way to the right. It also means that you may not park along that road if you outside of town. The yellow square with the white border and the black line though says nothing about what's in front of you, it is only telling you that you are no longer on a road where you don't have to give way to the right. So it doesn't say that you have to give way to the right in the whole town. The red triangle with a cross means nothing more then "dangerous crossroad ahead", it says nothing about who has to give way to who. In this case you don't have to give way to the right, because the road from the right is unpaved. Without the cross, only a red triangle, but upside down means what you describe. Then you have to give way to the right. Although, with no traffic you don't have to stop, like with the stop sign.

Thank you. Very informative.

Very informative video,thanks🎉

Surprised there are no searches at border control. The French are usually quite strict on that front.

The Ardennes was mental for me. Very, very little traffic, perfect tarmac, long open bends with visibility for miles. I was passing through on the way to Baden Baden but it was very fast and very fun. Thanks for the tips. My lad and I went to the swiss alps this summer Grimsel, Furka, Gottard etc, made it down to lake como (a bit shit tbh) over the Stelvio, the Timmesljoch haad a go round the 'ring on the way home. I'm in love with with the high passes. Also, it's pretty safe to put synth or semi synth oil into anything, just make sure it's moto oil (MA-2). Also 10W-40 is usual the euro zone.