Bunker hunting in the Hürtgen forest and my touring COSTS! MT10 trip ep 3. 

Glad to hear that you don´t care too much about the views on this series. Of course it would be nicer if they were big hits, but I personally enjoyed the videos. So I hope you will do something like this again. Gives me some ideas where to go on some of my next trips.

Thanks for the ride, looking forward to the videos of the September trip!

The videos are great and I like you doing the European disagreement between 1939-1945 never seen them dam photos before

Love these historic touring vids! Look forward to the next trip in September..

I loved this series, thanks Tim

Loved this series. Great mix of bikes and history 👍👍

Really enjoyed these videos, looking forward the the next ones 😊

Good show indeed….

Really enjoyed that thanks Tim. Looking forward to seeing how you get on in the Vosges in September 👍

Another brilliant video! And what a fantastic weather to ride. Thanks. Keep them coming Tim. How do you find travelling with R30 on your shoulders? I’m off to Belgium and France for a weekend in a month on my S1000R and trying to get my luggage options right. So far I’ve crossed off tank bag (to much faff to install and for so little gain) panniers didn’t make the list either (too restrictive with filtering and not cost effective as I don’t tour frequently enough) using pillion seat for storage is a joke (tiny seat and anything on it would stop me from getting my leg over properly) I think I might have answered my own question here 😂 Looks like rucksack is what I’m left with.

Just goes to show, I find these videos your most interesting! At the beginning of June I spent 10 days (7 days riding - went by boat 🥱zzzz) to the Picos and Pyrenees. As you say, I came back even more impressed with my CB750 Hornet (it's not a Hornet).

Thank You Very much for a great tour.

Great video, great series Tim!! :) Imagine my surprise to get back from touring this very morning from 9 days in Germany (8 days riding, 2300 miles), on my MT10 to find these videos waiting for me (seeing as I went to (out via the chunnel), The Eifel (Nürburgring), Kauserslauten forest, The Black Forest, Stuttgart, Nürnberg, Czech Republic, Thüringiawald, Harz mountains, Möhnesee, Edesee and then home (via the hook ferry) ;) :) (I hooked up with Shaun and his German mates for a weekend thing too (and Mike & Rachel came, so there were 3x MT10s!! ;) :D :D ). I completely agree that when you do some big miles on the MT10, apart from fuel costs (I got an average of 38mpg), it's an amazing touring bike that's fun and worthy - "take the bike you want to ride when you get there", as AMC always says! (as long as you have the comfort seat!! ;) ) I've now done 30k mostly touring miles on mine, it's 6 and I'm keeping it forever!!!

Superb stuff, please keep doing these whilst my wife and child stop me. 😁

Honestly mate some of the best bike content on youtube

Congrats. So so much better than most vids. Great mix between joyous riding and history. Very informative and helpful. So pissed off I wasn’t able to visit Struthof in June due to a friend of a friend dropping his Multistrada yet again at zero speed in Obernai. I’m doing Ardennes in Sept. Thanks.

Great content as usual Sir. Do you think you could have done this trip as well (however you quantify that!) on the new MT09 with it’s revised seating position?

Already looking forward to your Vosges tour, I will be there on my S1000r in September so this video has been very relevant on touring on a non touring bike. Keep them coming 👍🏻

Love he bike trips, love the bike and love the war history element. Keep doing em 🙏

History and motorcycles, Excellent!

Actually not a bad cost for five days away 👍! But no dinner and no beer just because you were the only two guests 🤨, Das ist verboten! 👎

Really enjoying this trip Tim. As an Aussie I'll probabably never get to ride in this part of the world. So, thank you for the great content.

Great series, loved it. Definitely inspired me to do a trip

I really enjoyed following your trip over these 3 episodes and found this more interesting than most trip vids on YT. Look forward to seeing future ones too 😃

I’ve said it before, but I really like these mixed history/biker vids, I think it works really well……. The Mrs and I just watched and decided we’re gonna do a similar search in Germany later this year, possibly ending up in Heidelberg where her brother lives. Gonna do the Obersalzburg region too. Very cool 👍👍

I love these vids and yes nothing better than riding your bike in Europe . Cheers Tim 👌

Nice one Tim, very interesting. Got back yesterday, went to Remagen, we were going anyway :D and Zundstorf in Edersee. This may be an option for next time. The only issue I have with the MT10 as a tourer is the number of visits to the petrol station you have to make. I think in 5 days I counted 18 visits from Pendine in Wales to Edersee in Germany via Maubeuge, Dinant, Malmedy, Remagen etc. The major plus point is when you get to the awesome twisty German, perfect roads it's amazing.

The Americans didn't want to talk about the battle of the Hurtgenwald afterwards because they pretty much adopted a foolish and costly strategy. Some may disagree. However, Ernest Hemingway who was there as a war correspondent and witnessed the slaughter, wrote that it would have saved the American military a lot of time and inconvenience if they just shot their (inexperienced) reinforcements as they got off the trucks.

Absolutely brilliant with history lesson, if I lived that close to the tunnel be over more often . First time I did a euro trip was in a street triple come back next bike must have cruise control.. so bought a super duke with panniers . My best friend is half German keeps telling me the places must visit in Germany . But he doesn’t ride a motorcycle so not a real friend lol . I’ve only been the black first twice so more to see unfortunately not enough time off work this year might be able ti sort something out in September. It’s 275 miles just to get to the euro tunnel for me . The horrible bit round M25 😢

Please keep doing the touring/war trips I find them great fun and interesting, keep up the good work. Ive watched your GoPro 12 video about three times now trying to get a good set up.

Really enjoyed these vids. I liked the history element as well.

I'm really glad you do these videos - really inspiring for the riding adventure and the war stuff. I'll be booking a short trip on my sad little V-Strom 800 ASAP 😂

Great videos sir. Thank you

Great video. Thanks for doing this kind of stuff Tim, its really hepful for those of us who havent done much European touring. I'm going UK to Nice later this year on my Triumph Rocket (Apprehensive but excited 👍) PS: Glad to know i'm not the only only with a camp German accent 😆 Cheers!

Great video man, thankyou I tell you, if you're ever up for it, a vlog through Bavaria and up to Berchtesgaden would be bloody awesome viewing!

Lovely open roads and Euro freedom Tim ❤ You now join Harry Metcalfe, in making automobil-unsinn my partner will watch with me 😮

Great inspiration. Just returned from a trip to Arnhem, Remagen, Eiffel (went to see the Ordensburg Vogelsang- a military training area) and Waterloo- on the battlefield tour with a mate. After seeing your previous video, want to return to Vosges mountains. Nothing beats biking and battlefield tours in Europe where roads are smooth and empty (and no police). Keep up the videos.

Sounds like a good trip.Do you ever compare with your previous KTM and your thoughts on that?LOve the history,thks.

Nice ride out, thanks would have to hear your version of speaking German more often, perhaps do a video speaking only German sometime when your next in ze Father Lund!

Thanks for sharing this tour Tim, it's definitely giving me ideas for time off in September! Silly question; what are those summer riding boots you are wearing at the end of this episode, whilst giving the cost breakdown?

Anybody touring on an MT10 deserves my click !

Excellent tour and vid. Love that region. Many trips by car but desperate to get the bike over there. You've wet the appetite! Cheers.

Good video love it S1000 XR guy

I can't wait till sept, but make sure your dad keeps his visor down till he's in France.

Great video thanks for sharing, totally agree with you points at the end about the post trip feelings

Military History & Motorbikery Fun!! My 2 favourite hobbies! Nice one mate…. Keep making these even if only a few sad geeks like myself watch them 🤩

Enjoyable series, makes me want to take annual leave and go on a trip 👍🏻

great set of vids …I’m sure you can forgive her drinking habits …i really wanted an MT10 but i cant deal with the seating position ..also is some of the footage different quality ? especially the action stuff

Evening Tim I'm going to Germany in Sept 4 to the 11 th staying in winterberg there's gonna be 4 of us would like to email you to ask a few questions if that OK with yourself regards .Tony

Love the touring videos Tim Keep doing them.

Really enjoyed the trip Tim. Gotta love the “10”. They really do get under your fingernails don’t they. Great blend of performance, comfort, sound, handling, and reliability. Looking forward to your next video!

Brilliant

Boss 👍

These tour films are great, very inspiring and shows you don’t need to be on an adventure bike to have a great adventure. Can’t wait for my trip this summer, not sure where I’m going yet but that’s half the fun, so many options and such great value all things considered

Ditto to most of that! Been touring over there now for about 20 years, like to see the extra bits you put in which I can keep adding to my trips to make them even better. Keep the vids coming!!!

Really enjoy this type of video and love the mt10 sp new to the channel and really like seeing your travels and all the history on the way 😀 👌👌keep up the good work 👏

I am gald you want to keep making these types of videos as I love them. Keep them coming!

A Tim here, loved my MT10 too. Great video the war stuff is so interesting i’ve read so much about it all. My grandfather talked a lot about when he fought to. Gotta Diavel V4 now and I have to say it’s flipping awesome.

Great series again Tim!

These are my favourite type of vids. As a few others have said the mix of history & roads is 👌🏻Heading for Spain & Portugal late Aug for 2 weeks 2 up & then hoping to head for the Voges (1up) with a mate next spring. Look forward to the vids of your Sept trip & hope the old fella survives the Eurotunnel barrier this time!!!

Really enjoying the vlogs Tim they are right up my alley. Much as I love holidays with the family what I really look forward to is a bike trip or two in Europe with a couple of mates. There’s something special about leaving home with all your gear packed away on the bike and being totally independent all the way to the destination. I can highly recommend Colditz as part of a trip. Very interesting indeed you would love it.

Great series Tim

Great video, I really enjoy these touring ones with the history chucked in , keep em coming 👍👍

Great video. Thanks.

Great video! Eastern Belgium (the Ardennes) and the Eifel/Hurtgen forest area are fantastic for the WW2 history-obsessed biker. So many great roads and so much WW2 stuff! At 18:40 you approached the two railway underpasses at Trois Ponts... it was just next to the entrance to the first underpass that a small group of American engineers from the 51st ECB tired to stop the advance, with an anti-tank gun, of Kampfgruppe Peiper, SS Leibstandarte Division during the early days of the Battle of the Bulge. If you haven't already, check out the book "Kampfgruppe Peiper - The Race for the Meuse" by David Cooke & Wayne Evans. Very detailed and identifies loads of locations were the action took place 🤓😊👍

These are definitely my favourite videos - partly because I’ve done similar trips (did the Dams a few years ago with my son - if you go back you should do the Technic Museum at Speyer which isn’t a million miles away) but also because the content is much more unique and I like your travelog style. I’m bored of road tests of bikes, where you see 10 reviews from different RU-vidrs of the same bike over a few days!

Very interested in the history in which was a very dark time in Europe. My dad was involved in the liberation of Belsen and saw a fair bit of Germany as the third Reich collapsed. Such a crazy time then and hard to imagine now. Oh and the motorbike bit was good as well. Thank you.

Really enjoyed this series, brilliant 👌🏼

Enjoyed all of that thank you Tim 😊

Lovely stuff Tim, a fine mix of action and information. Some Wish You Were Here Two Wheel vibes with the tour details too. Definitely inspirational/ aspirational!