Dave & Chuck the Freak talk about an American dude who took his recumbent bicycle on the Autobahn and had the ride of his life while attempting to make an extremely long journey.
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00:00German police said they stopped a bike rider over the weekend after he mistakenly cycled
00:12onto the A1 motorway in northern Germany. The Autobahn. This guy is vacationing there from
00:22Florida. He's on one of those recumbent bikes. So he's on one of those bikes and mistakenly
00:35gets on the Autobahn. The 43 year old American was visibly terrified
00:52and he's trembling in his knees. Police said in a statement. It's basically me on one of
00:59these bikes. Are you on vacation? I'm on vacation. Oh my God. You need to get your recumbent
01:07bicycle and your fat ass off the highway. There ain't no exits for a hundred million miles.
01:12No, I'm definitely going to die on the Autobahn. Vroom, vroom. It would sound like a racetrack.
01:18It's not really doing much for our American image. There's no speed limits helping us at
01:25all. He was a chubby guy too, I guarantee it.
01:27Here I go.
01:34You're so visibly terrified.
01:39I am all visibly terrified. Slow down. Your knees are very shaky. Police officers subsequently rushed him and escorted him
01:56and escorted him to the nearest exit.
01:59Get over here. What are you doing?
02:01After repeatedly apologizing, the Florida cyclist, who ended up on the Autobahn, told German officers that he had blindly followed his
02:09smartphone, wandered off the cycle path on to the motorway.
02:15His plan was to travel all the way from Oslo to Barcelona on his recumbent bike.
02:22How far is that?
02:25It seems like a dreadful distance.
02:29Yeah.
02:31Oh, it is 28 hours in a car.
02:33What? It's 28 hours in a car?
02:35No.
02:36Yeah.
02:37A ghost from Norway all the way to Barcelona.
02:40He was already a tremendous amount of ways away from Oslo.
02:43No.
02:44He was in Germany.
02:45I'm going to click cycle here.
02:46So it's 28 hours in a car on a cycle.
02:50140 hours.
02:52140 hours.
02:53Do you know the town that he was caught in?
02:57Neustadt.
02:59And where's that? Germany?
03:00Let's add a destination.
03:01So like, look at where he, how far he made.
03:06This dude is amazing.
03:08Neustadt Dr. Weissenstrasse.
03:09He could have took a train, right?
03:11Weinstrasse.
03:13But he was, he was cycling the whole way.
03:16Oh yeah, so there's where he was.
03:17He was halfway, guys.
03:18He was more than halfway.
03:20How did he make it halfway?
03:22That's a miracle.
03:24It is a miracle.
03:26Oh man.
03:27That's nuts, dude.
03:28That is insane.
03:29What a crazy story.
03:30I don't want to go around the block on a bike.
03:33No.
03:34I do feel like those recumbent bikes are so little effort, though, that I bet I could
03:38go farther than I'd ever imagine on one.
03:40You think so?
03:41I feel like they suck.
03:42You think they suck more?
03:43I really do.
03:44Seems like you could just fall asleep.
03:46And maybe pedal.
03:47Yeah.
03:48I don't know about that.
03:49So we would try and cross a border on a bike?
03:51No, I mean, I'd never go anywhere on a bike.
03:53No, not you, but this guy was kind of.
03:55This guy was, yeah.
03:56Apparently he thought he was going to be alright to cross oceans and all kinds of things.
03:59He did.
04:00He crossed some giant fairy.
04:01Yep.
04:02He'd have to take at least one fairy.
04:04Takes the fairy.
04:05Takes the fairy across for your 300 hour journey.
04:08Gives them the coin.
04:09Because they would take you across.
04:10They would take you across.
04:12Yeah!
04:13I really don't love it