Congratulations on your year anniversary, it's been a great ride with you both. Another great video and just what I love to do, go for a ride for the day, can't beat it. Honda make good engines, personally I don't think you can't beat them for reliability and power. I know a lot of people do stick to a manufacturer or certain countries, Japanese, American,Italian etc. That's the great thing about bikes, something for everyone. Safe journey back to Tenerife.
Thanks Dale!🙌🏻 I agree; Honda are unbeatable for reliability and power💪🏼 It really is the beauty of biking; so much choice and affordable for all (relatively speaking!)🏍❤️🤘🏻
Congrats on 95 videos, to both of you. You're doing an extremely extraordinary job (to say it with Freddie's words) Keep going! I really enjoy your content so much, and it inspires me a lot! Cheers :)
I wish I had kept my Belstaff jacket from the 80's certainly would not fit me but kids would appreciate it, only protection it had was a tartan lining. Congratulations on a years utube success.
Great video Freddie, I can also confirm that that pizzeria in the pub car park is also haunted and the ghost of the 15th Century Italian pirate “Captain Pepperoni” is regularly seen having been scuppered after a long session on the Scruttocks Old Dirigible in the boozer.
Happy anniversary, Freddie & Monica! I've enjoyed each and every one of your videos. I must ask who selects the background music for your vlogs? They're outstanding!
Hi Freddie thanks for sharing . As an older biker , in the late 70’s early 80’s many of us wore Belstaffs as they were a much cheaper alternative to the most basic of leather Jackets. My first was £18 in 1980. ! I would agree with you about the Belstaff quality in today’s clothing but that comes at a premium price beyond the reach of many folks. Merlin , another British brand of equal quality but more reasonably priced. Kind regards Phil.
Hi Phil, I agree that the styling of the Merlin is very very similar but in the first month owning the Merlin jacket ALL the poppers fell off, they did send me replacements but thats not the point really .
Hello Andrew . I’m truely shocked. I know quite a few people with these jackets and you are the first person I have heard of with a problem. Glad to hear it was resolve.
So interesting, I had no idea Belstaff jackets used to be an affordable option. Merlin’s a good shout! I’ve only ever tried one pair of their boots but their gear looks very good and at a very fair price👌🏻 Thanks Phil!
So going back nearly 44 years and my first biking jacket was a waxed cotton Belstaff Jacket, I wished I still had it, aparently they are gaurenteed for life (although my six pack was not! haha) I have watched since you was camping in the new forest (I think) with the ponies being a bit troublesome. keep up the great work, I think I have been posting for about 1.5 years and I am happy that I have 50 subscribers haha, but then your content is that much better than mine. Ian Back on Two Wheels
I will have to check out the Woolpack and Christchurch park as usually head straight to the marina when I visit Ipswich. Congratulations on reaching a year and 95 great videos, Cheers Freddie and Monica
Another great video. I will have a ride to Ipswich and visit the Marina, Park and Manor House when the weather improves. Even the Rebel is starting to look appealing but Monika must have been in pain on that pillion seat.🍻
Ipswich cannot call its football team city, but only town.... because... it has no cathedrals. Nor a university. Norwich can, it has TWO cathedrals, and a university... Regards, A Norfolk boi.
Freddie & Monika - this is superb content & attention to detail - subscribers numbers will follow & keep up the excellent work from a freezing cold UK / East Sussex ... NOW RAIN LOL
I can't even remember how I found you guys. Love from NZ by the way. I got addicted with the Tenerife vids and now I'm searching older vids......charming...energetic...amazing bloody places that I've never seen...fabulous videography..thanks Monica and thanks also for your laughs and comments..just brilliant..and...most of all I think I love the love...love for odd cars...love for where you are...love for cool riding gear..love for any type and any make of bike...that is cool. Honda Cub? Go back and look? HELL yeah!! Take care guys. Ride safe and be happy.
Going back to those Clocks marked with Ipswich, in the Manor Haus, "Google Rich Cole, Ipswich", and yo'ull see why they are there.... and I thought Switzerland was THE country for watches and clocks! Fantastic choice of music once again Monika, you always hit the spot with your choice, to do your fabulous editing justice. Greets from Switzerland, Steve.
Hi Freddie Nice vid and I enjoy your style. I don't believe in ghosts at all but I expect the legend helps to bring in the customers. Bit like the imaginary Loch Ness monster attracts tourists. I have a Belstaff Brooklands (aka Mojave) jacket in brown that I bought a couple years ago. Love it. If you think these are dear have a look at the leather version, it's over £1,000! As for the Rebel, personally I dislike its appearance. That raised slanted tank attempts to look like an old school chopper but doesn't quite cut it in my opinion. Just my view, I'm sure as a Honda it's a fine bike I just can't get on with the looks. The Triumph Bobber is much more like a modern bobber should look I think. I ride a Harley Softail Slim which is also a bobber style bike.
Thanks for your blogs Freddie, was in Tenerife and Barcelona the same weeks you were there, I have the BMW K1200LT , I’ve had it 15 years now.The bikes are heavy at low speed but beautiful to ride on the motorway, they also have cruise control and heated seats and backrests and are surprisingly nippy, Lastly I’d like to say thanks to Monica for her excellent editing and music used on the blogs.
Nice one Freddie and Monika, always informative and interesting, only skirted around Ipswich on my way to nearby Saxmondon where my sister used to live, nice part of the UK.....
Excellent video, tested Rebel after watching your enthusiasm for the model and bought one. DCT what a fantastic system, thanks for your thoughts on the model and also thanks for the 70th birthday shout Cheers Roger 🍻
Hi Freddie, I'm going this summer to London, could you please recommend me some nice pubs where i can taste nice local food? Many thanks beforehand and congrats for your amazing channel! Gracias!
Excellent video, reference the BMW K1200LT you looked at , I've owned mine from new (17 years), I've toured all over Europe on it and love it to bits, it's a big old girl to manoeuvre in tight spaces and you need to think about where you are going to park it but once its moving its surprisingly nimble, I've ridden across numerous city's including Paris, Barcelona, Rome, Milan, Geneva and Prague and its size is often an asset, it's got real road presence and traffic more often that not just moves out of the way.
Well Freddy both you and Monica Will be getting a package of goodies from Marks and Sparks soon to compete with the Bellstaff kit after the screen time you gave them at the end 😂😂 Sir Gary de la Toon
been great year thanks to your fantastic videos.i think you have a great future in front of the screen. could I ask what video equipment you use and microphone. its such a great quality. Also is Tenerife different to mainland Spain in so much as how long you can spend there??? we were hoping to move to Malaga before Brexit but that kinda screwed us over. so we now live vicariously through your videos. lol
Hey, you two, how about telling us abit about yourselves and why you started on here. Sure that would be interessting for a large number of us, and it would give you some more Content. Take it easy, Swiss greets, Steve.
Thanks, Freddie & Monica, for this great little tour, and happy anniverary! I've never been to Ipswich, but now I'll have to go. My uncle has a friend who's from those parts, and I'm sure they'll both want to see this.
Fantastic as always and great to see how well the channel is doing. Just a few thousand when I first subscribed,. congratulations to you both - well deserved 😀
Hondas have been such dependable, well made bikes from the beginning and I'm sure that 1100 is no exception! I've always been awed by their ability to keep running regardless of mistreatment but they also have lacked the "intangible" lack of personality. Your endorsement has pretty much nailed this model. Thanks for another video combining a tour and a test!
I am still trying to catch up on all your videos so I just got a look at this for the first time . I love history and I would so dig going around that mansion . I am a Chef by trade and I worked in a haunted restaurant at one time . You look over your shoulder a lot . I have to switch to a smaller bike because of age so i was considering the Rebel 500 . I enjoyed this video
Oh man! I loved the haunted pub and house, you should do a pub crawl but for haunted ones haha. Loved it! And please keep the videos coming, love all the adventures. Take care you guys, cheers!
Hey Freddie! I love the channel and all your content. I really enjoyed your video on the BMW Z3 and was wondering if you would ever make videos on other classic cars?
Love the jacket! Dare not think about how much it cost. I love the UK, it's a brilliant, diverse place to live. I just wish the weather was better, the work hours shorter and the cost of living less. Never get the time, money or weather to enjoy much of it!
@ if I had that sort of money to spend on a jacket, which I don't, I'd consider £300 expensive but fair if it was well made. £525 is taking the Michael, that's just getting cash from the badge seeking hipster rich sorts.
Thanks Rob, it’s a stunning quality jacket but you’re right- it’s a lot of money. I can’t argue with any points you’ve said as they’re points I often discuss with Monika. We live in what’s classed as an expensive property here in Tenerife, but it’s still only £870p/m with all bills included for a 3bed, 2bath, 2balcony flat, and it’s 22 degrees all year round, and is light until 19:30 in February. It’s a stunning quality of life🙂🏝🇪🇸👌🏻
I’m 6’1” too and like the bobber style and think Honda have done a great job with the 1100. However… watching you on the Rebel (23:25), it looks like your knees are under your chin…. With the low seat height, unless the foot pegs are forward, it makes the bike look small on the small side? Congrats on the anniversary, keep them coming!!
I personally love the size of it, although there are a good amount of people around my height who’d find it a bit cramped. Completely agree; forward foot controls are a game changer for giving theses bobbers a roomier feel👌🏻 Thanks Rich!🙂
We have a white cat, too. And it loves its carboard box. I don't share your enthusiasm for the jacket but I do the CMX 1100. I'm going to get one as soon as I've sold the 390.
Great way to spend a Sunday morning, another great video guys. Can't believe its been a year! I first joined after seeing your Isle of Wight tour videos and enjoyed the channel ever since ✌
I had a Belstaff waxed cotton motorcycle jacket in the 1970’s. It was real waxed cotton so the jacket had an actual coating of wax that came off on your hands and clothes. It wasn’t like modern motorcycle jackets no armour just thin cotton with a checked lining also thin so it wasn’t a warm jacket. The nearest modern equivalent would be a Barbour waxed cotton jacket, look very similar👍
Back in 61 my first bike was a Royal Enfield, I cant remember if my waxed jacket was Belstaff or Barbour but the wax also came off on your hands and it was not very waterproof.
This new one also has a wax coating- they feel so full of character. Although these new ones do have a waterproof membrane underneath (I’m sure there wasn’t this luxury in the 70s) I love little insights like this; a brand that’s been around and used by bikers for decades👌🏻 Thanks for sharing this🙂🙌🏻
Congrats on your first year of TH-cam! You guys have done so well and kept your contents very original, a bit of bike, a bit of travel content and lots of coffees 😀☕️. Thought with all the spooky stuff at the pub and the mansion I was expecting one of the mannequins to move!! 👻
My first Belstaff waxed cotton bike jacket was purchased in 1978 (I was 16) for the sum of £18, to go with my first bike, a secondhand MZ150 that I’d bought from my uncle for £160. I “upgraded” to leather a few years later, along with a Honda CB250, but still miss that unmistakeable smell. Fully agree that Christchurch Mansion is a hidden gem, along with the surrounding park and tea room. Hopefully you are back safely in the Tenerife sunshine by now; enjoy it as I’m sure that the next few months will fly by before your return to the U.K.
Congrats Monica and Freddie, on the one year anniversary and almost 35k subs! What an amazing journey - great work guys! I have been with you all the way and have enjoyed every single video! Its been so entertaining and inspiring - I'm accutally packing my z1000sx in september, and I will take off for Portugal, staying there for 6 months+ And I might take a few weeks in Tenerife.. I hope some day I will have the honor of meeting you out there on the roads somewhere. All the best to you guys!
Yesterday the sun was shining, spring was in the air, so I threw on my summer jacket and headed out on my bike. I've now got a sore throat and a rasping cough. Doh! Regarding jackets: bought a Dainese for over 300 quid and it's no warmer and less comfortable than my Frank Thomas jacket which cost about £80. I just think the whole brand game has become a massive rip-off. Belstaff and Barbour are two of the main offenders. My 20 quid, hi-viz, work-issue jacket is as warm as either of my biker winter jackets and I've sometimes ridden to or from work in it quite happily. But UK has got a shxx climate, no doubt about it. I envy your return to Tenerife, buen viaje!
Love a British pub. It’s the character and the excellent beer I think. I always look out for one here in Australia 🇦🇺. Maybe one day I can visit one in the Uk. Hey and well done on 12 months and 95 videos. Love your stuff you guys.
Huge congrats Freddie and Monika have loved your videos. That jacket is gorgeous (Dear Santa……..!) Looking forward to more content. Best wishes Dave n Ed 👍
@21:05 That "unexplained noise from the microphone" in the haunted house sounded uncannily like the TV interference sound in the Poltergeist movie... "They're heeeeere..."😱 Congrats on the Channeliversary! 👍
Thanks for a fab year of really eclectic videos Monika and Freddie.I'm not even fussed about bikes.Loved exploring the house with you.Best bit 20.20 ish.something along the lines of Freddie says" I'm starting to get freaked out,look at that horse"refèring to a toy rocking horse.Monika giggling"whats wrong with the horse"Brilliant!
Great video with a nice atmosphere! Happy anniversary, F&M! (and many miles and breathtaking experiences with your cool bike from 2020 Honda Rebel 500 rider from the Czech Repiblic!)
Fantastic video Freddie! I've got a house packed with four kids, two cats, and a dog. And I love them all to bits - but your videos have become a welcome half hour or so of zen for me. Thanks much!
Happy YT Anniversary. Started watching as you are not that far from me when in Ipswich. Love the videos and following your stories and journey. Keep up the great work.
Well done Freddie, really nice insight to some of Ipswich. Coming from Lowestoft myself it’s not far away although we hardly ever went there. Probably take a trip to the Woolpack and check out the mansion after just like you did. Thanks for the high quality and varied content😉
Fantastic one guys I would bet that Honda Rebel was not great for Monica your very right it needs a backrest , and that would kinda finish the rear of the bike off for me .Question Which of the bikes you have ridden since starting the channel sticks in your thoughts and you would swap the Bonneville for ?. I through my leg over an 875 Bonnie the other day and felt so light I would have one them for sure . : )
Congrats on a year and 95 videos, I was wondering, when you pulled away on the rebel the indicators were in running light mode, is that doable or was I imagining thinks. Hope you all had safe trip back to tenerife and Monica's mum back home
Another brilliant video! Love the travels. Your jacket is brilliant! 😀 Congrats on the one year and 95 videos! I can’t believe it’s been that long. You and Monika are really living your best lives, and that is an amazing thing. Keep it up!! Cheers.
Loved this video. As a new subscriber, started when you were in Tenerife, I am enjoying your enthusiasm, your partnership with Monica and your appreciation of the surroundings and the machines you ride and encounter. You and I would get on famously were I still in my 30s, you are the typical English gentleman but without the airs and graces, just down to earth. The mix of the biking chat with the joy of your surroundings is a very enjoyable mix and long may your success continue. Best Wishes to you both, safe travelling and can't wait to see more of your exploration of Tenerife, I dropped a few pointers a few viseos ago 😉. Thanks and Take care.
Hello sir fred and lady monica and cat loved the vid as per normal as for bmw i have the nnew version k1600 exclusive 6 pot in traffic it ok very responsive you can nip past anything very powerfull just be carefull when 7 gallon tank is full makes it top heavy like dolly parton you should try one with monica on back comfort music good handleing goes like the proverbial of a shovel electric screen and brembo brakes a bit complex but hay ho look forward to next vide cant belive its been a year stay happy
You need to stop getting me emotional about the 2 of you going back to Tenerife , I was getting used to Ipswich ghosts and all. That Rebel is cool looking. The BMW is humongous you would not be able to dodge in and out easily, I suppose.
Happy Anniversary and congratulations on reaching a milestone of one year. It’s been loads of fun to date, and I’m looking forward to your 100th video.
Despite the weather that was a good break for Sunday and an interesting trip round the pub, garnished with ghost stories. A bit unexpected your tea stop at the mansion and yet more spooky tales from the park. I just wonder if tea breakers are scared off before having a drink of something - a bit of a commercial catastrophe! I hadn't realise this was your anniversary performance, but congrats on that both of you and safe journey back to Tenerife.
Hello from New Brunswick, Canada where our riding off season is about six months long. Your videos have provided me with a motorcycle fix during this time. Love your enthusiasm and story telling.
Congratulations on your year anniversary, it's been a great ride with you both. Another great video and just what I love to do, go for a ride for the day, can't beat it. Honda make good engines, personally I don't think you can't beat them for reliability and power. I know a lot of people do stick to a manufacturer or certain countries, Japanese, American,Italian etc. That's the great thing about bikes, something for everyone. Safe journey back to Tenerife.
Thanks Dale!🙌🏻 I agree; Honda are unbeatable for reliability and power💪🏼
It really is the beauty of biking; so much choice and affordable for all (relatively speaking!)🏍❤️🤘🏻
Congrats on 95 videos, to both of you. You're doing an extremely extraordinary job (to say it with Freddie's words) Keep going! I really enjoy your content so much, and it inspires me a lot! Cheers :)
That’s very kind if you to say so, thank you very much, Robbin!🙂
Thank you both for 1 year of great content. Monica absolutely smashes the editing and freddie you are a joy to watch and listen to. 👌🇬🇧
I’m Philippines and thanking Freddie for stories with his antics, full of fun and wits. Hi Monica, great shots 👍.
Hello over in the Philippines, Nic!🙂👋🏻🇵🇭
Congrats on the year milestone, well done, Enjoy your input and down to earth approach on bikes, its refreshing.
I wish I had kept my Belstaff jacket from the 80's certainly would not fit me but kids would appreciate it, only protection it had was a tartan lining. Congratulations on a years utube success.
Great video Freddie, I can also confirm that that pizzeria in the pub car park is also haunted and the ghost of the 15th Century Italian pirate “Captain Pepperoni” is regularly seen having been scuppered after a long session on the Scruttocks Old Dirigible in the boozer.
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Happy anniversary, Freddie & Monica!
I've enjoyed each and every one of your videos.
I must ask who selects the background music for your vlogs? They're outstanding!
Thanks so much Thai! It’s all my partner, Monika. I’ve shown this to her, thank you🙂
Yep the music is so appropriate & off-beat : Wonderful
Ipswich boy living in New Zealand, enjoying your videos. That's about 5min from where I grew up. 🤣
That’s fantastic!!🇳🇿
Hopefully the video took you down memory lane🙂
Hi Freddie thanks for sharing . As an older biker , in the late 70’s early 80’s many of us wore Belstaffs as they were a much cheaper alternative to the most basic of leather Jackets. My first was £18 in 1980. !
I would agree with you about the Belstaff quality in today’s clothing but that comes at a premium price beyond the reach of many folks.
Merlin , another British brand of equal quality but more reasonably priced.
Kind regards Phil.
Hi Phil, I agree that the styling of the Merlin is very very similar but in the first month owning the Merlin jacket ALL the poppers fell off, they did send me replacements but thats not the point really .
Hello Andrew . I’m truely shocked. I know quite a few people with these jackets and you are the first person I have heard of with a problem. Glad to hear it was resolve.
So interesting, I had no idea Belstaff jackets used to be an affordable option.
Merlin’s a good shout! I’ve only ever tried one pair of their boots but their gear looks very good and at a very fair price👌🏻
Thanks Phil!
Yep, I seem to remember paying £36 for a Belstaff Trialmaster. Wore it to death commuting for many years.
So going back nearly 44 years and my first biking jacket was a waxed cotton Belstaff Jacket, I wished I still had it, aparently they are gaurenteed for life (although my six pack was not! haha)
I have watched since you was camping in the new forest (I think) with the ponies being a bit troublesome.
keep up the great work, I think I have been posting for about 1.5 years and I am happy that I have 50 subscribers haha, but then your content is that much better than mine.
Ian
Back on Two Wheels
Congratulations to you both ! keep up the great videos always a pleasure to watch you both 👍🏻👍🏻🏍
Awesome, nice to wake up Sunday mornings to another Freddie & Monika video 🙏 love the new belstaff looks epic! 5 more days 🏖🌞🤘
Thanks Nick!🙌🏻🙌🏻. It’s beautiful weather now so long may it continue for your trip too!🙂🏝☀️
Congratulations Freddie and Monica for a year of wonderful videos. It’s been so enjoyable to watch you Freddie, and Monica’s great filming.
Awesome video and awesome content can’t wait for the next video Thank’s Freddie and Monika
I will have to check out the Woolpack and Christchurch park as usually head straight to the marina when I visit Ipswich. Congratulations on reaching a year and 95 great videos,
Cheers Freddie and Monica
Another great video. I will have a ride to Ipswich and visit the Marina, Park and Manor House when the weather improves. Even the Rebel is starting to look appealing but Monika must have been in pain on that pillion seat.🍻
Ipswich cannot call its football team city, but only town.... because... it has no cathedrals. Nor a university.
Norwich can, it has TWO cathedrals, and a university...
Regards,
A Norfolk boi.
Freddie & Monika - this is superb content & attention to detail - subscribers numbers will follow & keep up the excellent work from a freezing cold UK / East Sussex ... NOW RAIN LOL
I can't even remember how I found you guys. Love from NZ by the way. I got addicted with the Tenerife vids and now I'm searching older vids......charming...energetic...amazing bloody places that I've never seen...fabulous videography..thanks Monica and thanks also for your laughs and comments..just brilliant..and...most of all I think I love the love...love for odd cars...love for where you are...love for cool riding gear..love for any type and any make of bike...that is cool. Honda Cub? Go back and look? HELL yeah!! Take care guys. Ride safe and be happy.
Going back to those Clocks marked with Ipswich, in the Manor Haus, "Google Rich Cole, Ipswich", and yo'ull see why they are there.... and I thought Switzerland was THE country for watches and clocks!
Fantastic choice of music once again Monika, you always hit the spot with your choice, to do your fabulous editing justice.
Greets from Switzerland, Steve.
Congratulation - Awesome on 32K subs as well...well done to both of you!!! - Keep it up!!! and another 32K subs in the year to come!!!
I don't feel like drinking tea in this mansion 😄... great video by the way great bike and it's worth the price, have a nice day Freddie...
Hi Freddie
Nice vid and I enjoy your style. I don't believe in ghosts at all but I expect the legend helps to bring in the customers. Bit like the imaginary Loch Ness monster attracts tourists.
I have a Belstaff Brooklands (aka Mojave) jacket in brown that I bought a couple years ago. Love it. If you think these are dear have a look at the leather version, it's over £1,000!
As for the Rebel, personally I dislike its appearance. That raised slanted tank attempts to look like an old school chopper but doesn't quite cut it in my opinion. Just my view, I'm sure as a Honda it's a fine bike I just can't get on with the looks. The Triumph Bobber is much more like a modern bobber should look I think. I ride a Harley Softail Slim which is also a bobber style bike.
Thanks for your blogs Freddie, was in Tenerife and Barcelona the same weeks you were there, I have the BMW K1200LT , I’ve had it 15 years now.The bikes are heavy at low speed but beautiful to ride on the motorway, they also have cruise control and heated seats and backrests and are surprisingly nippy, Lastly I’d like to say thanks to Monica for her excellent editing and music used on the blogs.
Nice one Freddie and Monika, always informative and interesting, only skirted around Ipswich on my way to nearby Saxmondon where my sister used to live, nice part of the UK.....
Love your videos Monica & Freddie. Spring is coming to the Pacific Northwest. Can’t wait!
Excellent video, tested Rebel after watching your enthusiasm for the model and bought one. DCT what a fantastic system, thanks for your thoughts on the model and also thanks for the 70th birthday shout
Cheers Roger 🍻
Hi Freddie, I'm going this summer to London, could you please recommend me some nice pubs where i can taste nice local food? Many thanks beforehand and congrats for your amazing channel! Gracias!
Excellent video, reference the BMW K1200LT you looked at , I've owned mine from new (17 years), I've toured all over Europe on it and love it to bits, it's a big old girl to manoeuvre in tight spaces and you need to think about where you are going to park it but once its moving its surprisingly nimble, I've ridden across numerous city's including Paris, Barcelona, Rome, Milan, Geneva and Prague and its size is often an asset, it's got real road presence and traffic more often that not just moves out of the way.
Well Freddy both you and Monica Will be getting a package of goodies from Marks and Sparks soon
to compete with the Bellstaff kit
after the screen time you gave them at the end 😂😂
Sir Gary de la Toon
been great year thanks to your fantastic videos.i think you have a great future in front of the screen. could I ask what video equipment you use and microphone. its such a great quality. Also is Tenerife different to mainland Spain in so much as how long you can spend there??? we were hoping to move to Malaga before Brexit but that kinda screwed us over. so we now live vicariously through your videos. lol
Finally the Honda advertising has come true! You really do meet the nicest people on a Honda!!! ;-) :-D
I wonder of 'Old Grog' was the inspiration for the 'Old Gregg' episode of The Mighty Boosh. 👍 🏍
I have a brand new tiger 900....but you`ll never beat Honda for reliability in my experience.
My rebel 1100 just did 4000km. You really need to upgrade pillion seat. My gf hafe it.. after replace it she enjoy the ride much more
Fantastic owner’s insight, thank you Joni!🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
like watching all your videos,your passion for life shines through.
Hey, you two, how about telling us abit about yourselves and why you started on here. Sure that would be interessting for a large number of us, and it would give you some more Content. Take it easy, Swiss greets, Steve.
Thanks, Freddie & Monica, for this great little tour, and happy anniverary! I've never been to Ipswich, but now I'll have to go. My uncle has a friend who's from those parts, and I'm sure they'll both want to see this.
Fantastic as always and great to see how well the channel is doing. Just a few thousand when I first subscribed,. congratulations to you both - well deserved 😀
Love your videos mate from wa Australia
Keep them coming
Congrats Freddie! Love your channel man. great vid.
Hondas have been such dependable, well made bikes from the beginning and I'm sure that 1100 is no exception! I've always been awed by their ability to keep running regardless of mistreatment but they also have lacked the "intangible" lack of personality. Your endorsement has pretty much nailed this model. Thanks for another video combining a tour and a test!
Congrats on one year doing TH-cam Freddie & Monika,i enjoy your varied content & enthusiasm for biking,safe travels 👊🙂🏍
Happy anniversary of your channel, I love you guys, and you really do make an exceptional job of your videos.
Long May you continue!
I am still trying to catch up on all your videos so I just got a look at this for the first time . I love history and I would so dig going around that mansion . I am a Chef by trade and I worked in a haunted restaurant at one time . You look over your shoulder a lot . I have to switch to a smaller bike because of age so i was considering the Rebel 500 . I enjoyed this video
They are a nice jacket, I have a Trialmaster. Expensive but feel like they’ll last for ever.
Nice editing, with particularly the music around 16:30
Oh man! I loved the haunted pub and house, you should do a pub crawl but for haunted ones haha. Loved it! And please keep the videos coming, love all the adventures. Take care you guys, cheers!
Hey Freddie! I love the channel and all your content. I really enjoyed your video on the BMW Z3 and was wondering if you would ever make videos on other classic cars?
Hey Freddie, what microphone are you using?
Happy anniversary guys. looking forward to many more great videos
Thank you, Malcolm!🙂
Freedie was is the music you were playing when you were in the pub???
Your videos are making it are making it so much harder to wait for the date of my DAS.
Love the jacket! Dare not think about how much it cost. I love the UK, it's a brilliant, diverse place to live. I just wish the weather was better, the work hours shorter and the cost of living less. Never get the time, money or weather to enjoy much of it!
Need to go self employed, or work for the council
@ if I had that sort of money to spend on a jacket, which I don't, I'd consider £300 expensive but fair if it was well made. £525 is taking the Michael, that's just getting cash from the badge seeking hipster rich sorts.
Thanks Rob, it’s a stunning quality jacket but you’re right- it’s a lot of money.
I can’t argue with any points you’ve said as they’re points I often discuss with Monika. We live in what’s classed as an expensive property here in Tenerife, but it’s still only £870p/m with all bills included for a 3bed, 2bath, 2balcony flat, and it’s 22 degrees all year round, and is light until 19:30 in February. It’s a stunning quality of life🙂🏝🇪🇸👌🏻
@@FreddieDobbs you're not making me feel any better! 😅
I’m 6’1” too and like the bobber style and think Honda have done a great job with the 1100. However… watching you on the Rebel (23:25), it looks like your knees are under your chin…. With the low seat height, unless the foot pegs are forward, it makes the bike look small on the small side? Congrats on the anniversary, keep them coming!!
I personally love the size of it, although there are a good amount of people around my height who’d find it a bit cramped.
Completely agree; forward foot controls are a game changer for giving theses bobbers a roomier feel👌🏻
Thanks Rich!🙂
I live in Ipswich and this is first time I've ever seen someone be happy to be here. Nice refreshing take
We have a white cat, too. And it loves its carboard box. I don't share your enthusiasm for the jacket but I do the CMX 1100. I'm going to get one as soon as I've sold the 390.
Brilliant! That’s a brilliant next bike after the 390!👌🏻🙂🏍⚡️
@@FreddieDobbs Thanks for getting back to me. I got your email.
Great way to spend a Sunday morning, another great video guys. Can't believe its been a year! I first joined after seeing your Isle of Wight tour videos and enjoyed the channel ever since ✌
Ahh fantastic, I have very fond memories of the IOW trip!👌🏻🇬🇧🏍🙂
Thank you for staying around ever since, Simon🙌🏻
@@FreddieDobbs pleasure 👍
Hi freddie I took a bmw lt from uk to Italy. Bike is great at slow speed when ur used to it
I had a Belstaff waxed cotton motorcycle jacket in the 1970’s. It was real waxed cotton so the jacket had an actual coating of wax that came off on your hands and clothes. It wasn’t like modern motorcycle jackets no armour just thin cotton with a checked lining also thin so it wasn’t a warm jacket. The nearest modern equivalent would be a Barbour waxed cotton jacket, look very similar👍
Back in 61 my first bike was a Royal Enfield, I cant remember if my waxed jacket was Belstaff or Barbour but the wax also came off on your hands and it was not very waterproof.
This new one also has a wax coating- they feel so full of character. Although these new ones do have a waterproof membrane underneath (I’m sure there wasn’t this luxury in the 70s)
I love little insights like this; a brand that’s been around and used by bikers for decades👌🏻
Thanks for sharing this🙂🙌🏻
You guys bring me such joy. Thank you
I'd already be at the airport waiting to get out,.
Great channel. Inspiring
Congrats on your first year of TH-cam! You guys have done so well and kept your contents very original, a bit of bike, a bit of travel content and lots of coffees 😀☕️.
Thought with all the spooky stuff at the pub and the mansion I was expecting one of the mannequins to move!! 👻
Really glad you’re enjoying the content, Jonathan! I don’t know if I’d have felt comfortable in that mansion overnight!😳
Great video Freddie very interesting.
Another great film Freddie & Monika. That petrol tank looks tiny, what's the range ? Always good to know that 👍🏻
Good point that I forgot to mention. I think 130-140 miles or so for me🙂👌🏻
did you use the cruise control id love that
My first Belstaff waxed cotton bike jacket was purchased in 1978 (I was 16) for the sum of £18, to go with my first bike, a secondhand MZ150 that I’d bought from my uncle for £160. I “upgraded” to leather a few years later, along with a Honda CB250, but still miss that unmistakeable smell. Fully agree that Christchurch Mansion is a hidden gem, along with the surrounding park and tea room. Hopefully you are back safely in the Tenerife sunshine by now; enjoy it as I’m sure that the next few months will fly by before your return to the U.K.
Congrats Monica and Freddie, on the one year anniversary and almost 35k subs! What an amazing journey - great work guys! I have been with you all the way and have enjoyed every single video! Its been so entertaining and inspiring - I'm accutally packing my z1000sx in september, and I will take off for Portugal, staying there for 6 months+ And I might take a few weeks in Tenerife.. I hope some day I will have the honor of meeting you out there on the roads somewhere. All the best to you guys!
Yesterday the sun was shining, spring was in the air, so I threw on my summer jacket and headed out on my bike. I've now got a sore throat and a rasping cough. Doh! Regarding jackets: bought a Dainese for over 300 quid and it's no warmer and less comfortable than my Frank Thomas jacket which cost about £80. I just think the whole brand game has become a massive rip-off. Belstaff and Barbour are two of the main offenders. My 20 quid, hi-viz, work-issue jacket is as warm as either of my biker winter jackets and I've sometimes ridden to or from work in it quite happily. But UK has got a shxx climate, no doubt about it. I envy your return to Tenerife, buen viaje!
Love a British pub. It’s the character and the excellent beer I think. I always look out for one here in Australia 🇦🇺. Maybe one day I can visit one in the Uk. Hey and well done on 12 months and 95 videos. Love your stuff you guys.
love the music!
Huge congrats Freddie and Monika have loved your videos. That jacket is gorgeous (Dear Santa……..!)
Looking forward to more content.
Best wishes Dave n Ed 👍
@21:05 That "unexplained noise from the microphone" in the haunted house sounded uncannily like the TV interference sound in the Poltergeist movie...
"They're heeeeere..."😱
Congrats on the Channeliversary! 👍
Nice video as ever guys!...nice jacket too 👌 Great to see the sights, but I bet your looking forward to some warmth and sunshine 🌞!! Cheers, Steve
Thanks for a fab year of really eclectic videos Monika and Freddie.I'm not even fussed about bikes.Loved exploring the house with you.Best bit 20.20 ish.something along the lines of Freddie says" I'm starting to get freaked out,look at that horse"refèring to a toy rocking horse.Monika giggling"whats wrong with the horse"Brilliant!
Great video with a nice atmosphere! Happy anniversary, F&M! (and many miles and breathtaking experiences with your cool bike from 2020 Honda Rebel 500 rider from the Czech Repiblic!)
Fantastic video Freddie! I've got a house packed with four kids, two cats, and a dog. And I love them all to bits - but your videos have become a welcome half hour or so of zen for me. Thanks much!
Happy YT Anniversary. Started watching as you are not that far from me when in Ipswich. Love the videos and following your stories and journey.
Keep up the great work.
Well done Freddie, really nice insight to some of Ipswich. Coming from Lowestoft myself it’s not far away although we hardly ever went there. Probably take a trip to the Woolpack and check out the mansion after just like you did. Thanks for the high quality and varied content😉
Fantastic one guys I would bet that Honda Rebel was not great for Monica your very right it needs a backrest , and that would kinda finish the rear of the bike off for me .Question Which of the bikes you have ridden since starting the channel sticks in your thoughts and you would swap the Bonneville for ?. I through my leg over an 875 Bonnie the other day and felt so light I would have one them for sure . : )
Congrats on a year and 95 videos, I was wondering, when you pulled away on the rebel the indicators were in running light mode, is that doable or was I imagining thinks.
Hope you all had safe trip back to tenerife and Monica's mum back home
Another brilliant video! Love the travels. Your jacket is brilliant! 😀
Congrats on the one year and 95 videos! I can’t believe it’s been that long. You and Monika are really living your best lives, and that is an amazing thing. Keep it up!! Cheers.
Loved this video. As a new subscriber, started when you were in Tenerife, I am enjoying your enthusiasm, your partnership with Monica and your appreciation of the surroundings and the machines you ride and encounter. You and I would get on famously were I still in my 30s, you are the typical English gentleman but without the airs and graces, just down to earth. The mix of the biking chat with the joy of your surroundings is a very enjoyable mix and long may your success continue. Best Wishes to you both, safe travelling and can't wait to see more of your exploration of Tenerife, I dropped a few pointers a few viseos ago 😉. Thanks and Take care.
Nice jacket!
Hello sir fred and lady monica and cat loved the vid as per normal as for bmw i have the nnew version k1600 exclusive 6 pot in traffic it ok very responsive you can nip past anything very powerfull just be carefull when 7 gallon tank is full makes it top heavy like dolly parton you should try one with monica on back comfort music good handleing goes like the proverbial of a shovel electric screen and brembo brakes a bit complex but hay ho look forward to next vide cant belive its been a year stay happy
I love your channel so much. Keep making the videos. Have you ever thought about doing an interview with Charley Boorman?
motto!
You need to stop getting me emotional about the 2 of you going back to Tenerife , I was getting used to Ipswich ghosts and all. That Rebel is cool looking. The BMW is humongous you would not be able to dodge in and out easily, I suppose.
Thanks for this break from this shit war
Ahhh thank you. It’s been impossible to turn the tv off recently- so awful
As always, informative, interesting, enthusiastic and very professionally filmed and edited. Well done mate and safe trip back!
Happy Anniversary and congratulations on reaching a milestone of one year. It’s been loads of fun to date, and I’m looking forward to your 100th video.
Despite the weather that was a good break for Sunday and an interesting trip round the pub, garnished with ghost stories. A bit unexpected your tea stop at the mansion and yet more spooky tales from the park. I just wonder if tea breakers are scared off before having a drink of something - a bit of a commercial catastrophe! I hadn't realise this was your anniversary performance, but congrats on that both of you and safe journey back to Tenerife.
Hello from New Brunswick, Canada where our riding off season is about six months long. Your videos have provided me with a motorcycle fix during this time. Love your enthusiasm and story telling.
Incredible vlog !!
Do the ghosts harm anyone ?!
That cute little shelter for the cat is lovely.
Excellent British ambience 👍
Freddie, have you guys noticed the weird green lights when you’re in the mansion?! Little green triangle!! 👻
A very happy anniversary! Thanks for the up their entertainment..keep up the jolly good work!👍🏻
Congratulations to you both on your YT anniversary. Great vid ad usual. It started with a fluffy cat and ended with a scaredy cat!😁
Thank you Freddie & Monica, always look forward to watching your video's :)