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
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