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Thanks, Mick, for the feedback. I'm slowly adding and adapting the motorbike exhaust note, and even more slowly adding a bit of chat.

Works for me Tim, I'll happily listen to more of both 👍

@tombiggs4687 I'll have to explore Timber Ridge road area and other smaller roads north of Hancock when I get a chance. Thanks for the good information. I appreciate your feedback.

Thanks, Peter.

@@FelliniMotorcycle I did feel a bit cheated though as we didn't get to see the waterfall 😂

Me either....😁

Thanks. Agreed. Thirty years of all season riding, fishing, camping, hiking, and exploring in West Virginia and I can whole heartedly say that it is deeply beautiful. This day started out pretty cold (40F) for a motorbike ride, and indeed we changed plans early on with Pat riding due north back to his home in Pennsylvania (vice riding together to my house) before snow hit that night and next morning. I rode with Pat as far as Junction, then we parted ways, me heading east back to northern Virginia.

Yes. Thanks. Enjoy.

Thanks, Peter. Pennsylvania is a large state, and the landscape changes quite a bit as you make your way through it. This video was from a ride in late June of this year headed north towards the just-west-of-center of the state, for a further ride up into north central Pennsylvania where it is really really forested! Thanks for the feedback. Tim

Peter, this highway is still being built. The striking thing about it is that it runs along the tops of the mountains, vice down in the valleys like the old roads. The elevated view is quite different than the valley roads (which still exist). "Surreal" is a great word for it - especially in the fall. Thanks for your feedback. Tim

Correct, double solid yellow means no passing. Solid yellow with a dashed yellow on your side of the road means you can pass, but the oncoming traffic can't. Maybe more safety minded. Maybe more lawyers ..😂

@@FelliniMotorcycle Ah yes - same here but they're white, not yellow.

Peter, from my house in northern Virginia to my daughter's house in northeast Kansas it's 1265 miles if you ride a more or less direct route. I took the less direct route 🙂. So, from the middle-ish of northern West Virginia to northeast Kansas it's about a thousand miles more or less direct route.

Also, Peter, the Triumph exhaust note is a (now) funny story. Turns out that I made the mistake of having the "Wind Noise Reduction" setting activated on the camera(s) for the whole danged trip. So, I had to flail around a bit to recover some element of the exhaust note recording. Pretty much all we hear in this series of videos now is the putt putt of the exhaust vice the usual additional road, wind, tire, chain, gear, vehicles, etc., noise that got wiped by the wind noise reduction...

Well that's a long way so you must be very fit. It's so annoying isn't it to find out when you get back that something was incorrectly set. At least you recorded the video - I've had a few instances when nothing recorded at all!!

Oh, I'm not particularly fit 😁. I took my time, turning a two or three day trip into a five day pleasure outing. And I stop and stretch every hour to attend to camera battery swap outs and memory card management. I am safe out of afternoon weather events and into a hotel usually by 3pm.

Beautiful country. I used to fish the streams in that area twenty some years ago. Love it.

Yes, it is beautiful. Especially in autumn. I'm glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for the feedback.

Yes, indeed. Was a beautiful weekend late October last year. This is the first of a handful of videos covering two full days of riding in West Virginia. Every Thursday for a few weeks. Separately, there is a different series of West Virginia ride videos running Tuesdays for a few more weeks. 🙂

Also, the different rides and trips are each grouped into respective playlists on the Fellini channel page. Thanks for viewing. I appreciate your feedback.

Thanks, Peter. This ride took place late last October. My son called and said that he and his buddy Glen were headed out the next morning, did I want to meet up and ride? Yes of course.

Thanks, Peter. Yes, exhaust note more and more being incorporated. This was a ride from last October actually. Like you, I think, I turned to RUclips a little over a year ago as a place to make my videos more accessible for my family and friends. I had previously posted several videos to my personal website, but the videos didn't run very well from there. So when I started posting them to RUclips, I had something of a backlog. The upshot now is that I am posting videos three days a week (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday). And I still have a backlog, especially given that longer rides result in several videos each. Currently, the Tuesday videos are of a ride my friend Pat and I took last October down a portion of the Blue Ridge Parkway and back up via West Virginia. Thursday videos will start this week with a ride I took later last October meeting up with my son and a friend of his for a two day ride across another portion of West Virginia. And starting this coming Saturday, the Virginia-to-Kansas series begins, which will run for months, as this ride took me five days in May to get to Kansas, several day rides while I was in Kansas (I was there for over two weeks), and then five days to ride back to Virginia getting home about two weeks ago. All this means that I can go on trips or otherwise not scramble to post videos, as I have weeks and months of videos in the RUclips queue at any given time. But it does mean that any changes I make to how I film or edit videos takes a long time to be shared publicly. Sorry for the long winded response, but I hope it clarifies the delayed nature of my videos. I really appreciate your feedback. Thanks again. Tim

@@FelliniMotorcycle many thanks for your in depth explanation. Your videos will improve steadily as you find better ways to present them. The most important thing is that you enjoy making them and then watching them.

Thanks, Mick, for the feedback. I like the sound of the bike, too. Fiddling with different approaches for these videos, I mix and match music and bike sound depending on what I am partial to at the time of editing. Some efforts work better than others, but I'm pretty happy with the evolution overall. As for the forest, it's natural. Blue Ridge Parkway is a national park, and the Park Service maintains the forest, including mowing along the edges of the road.

Thanks Tim, there are very few large areas of natural forest left in The UK, and nothing on this scale. Just an observation, not a complaint, there's still plenty of wild landscape to enjoy over here. It takes a while to develop your style and technique, mine is still work in progress too, all part of the fun.

Thanks, Peter.

Yes, the Triumph is a 2019. Fuel injection, electric start, the works. Nice bike, but maybe a bit soulless if I'm honest. I just returned home after a month riding the Triumph to Kansas and back (to visit grandkids), and the Triumph is a decent traveler. Secondary roads. Avoided the interstates and bigger cities as much as possible. As for the bridge and road in this particular video, the bridge crosses the Shenandoah River. It is Route 50 that runs east west across many states. It's a decent secondary road, larger in some stretches than others. Thanks for watching and commenting, Peter. I'll have to tell you some day about my first experience years ago driving on the left side - twas in Ireland. My kids are still traumatized over it😂

@@FelliniMotorcycle Wow Tim that ride to see your grandchildren sounds pretty epic - I hope you were able to film it. I very much look forward to hearing your tales of riding in Ireland - these ones of mine seem very popular-which always astonishes me!

Yes, Chopin wrote many passable pieces for motorcycle. Not many people know that about Chopin.🎹

Rock on, Batwoman!

Glad you enjoy it!

His true identity shall remain a guarded secret.

Thanks, Mick. Mountain weather in the fall. Always changing.

Yes, it was new to me as well. Lovely concerto.

Thanks, Peter. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Out on Snickersville Pike 🙂. Check out first Snickersville video released some weeks or months ago. I'm pretty proud of that one. The music track is perfect, if I do say so myself. I appreciate your feedback, as always, Peter. Thanks.

Thanks Tim, I I'll take a look. Incidentally I don't know if you are familiar with 'That Bloke on a Motorbike'. He's based in Yorkshire UK and rides through some absolutely stunning landscape at a relaxed pace. His latest is just sublime.

Thanks, Peter, I'll definitely have a look at thatblokeonamotorbike.

Especially in autumn.

Thanks for your feedback, Peter. I'm glad you enjoyed this video postcard excursion. Tim

Thanks, Peter. Happy you enjoyed it. I'm headed out on the Triumph day after tomorrow for northeast Kansas. About 1250 miles from northern Virginia. Back roads and easy going. Motels, not camping. Four days, weather allowing, to complete the ride there. Two weeks or more visiting grandchildren. Then meander back to Virginia. Planning to video much of the ride; hoping to effectively manage data cards and batteries...

Glad you enjoyed it!

I feel much the same about your beautiful lanes!

@@FelliniMotorcycle Wonderful that we're both able to appreciate such places.

Thank you. They're a work in progress. I truly appreciate your feedback.

Thank you. I very much appreciate your feedback, and I really enjoy your channel.

@@FelliniMotorcycle Thank YOU! This is so relaxing as I tuck down after a busy day.

Thanks. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for the feedback.

Thanks. Changing oil and doing other maintenance today prepping for another great season.

Thanks. Prepping now for a back road trip across WV, OH, IN, IL, and MO to northeast Kansas from northern VA late May into June timeframe.

Thank you.

The very best

I hear you. Not my best effort. Thanks for the feedback.

I see what you did there. I don't want you to think that it didn't go unappreciated ! 😉 The Bach pipes are well made, well tempered. Easy to tune.

Thank you. Ride on.

My bike is a 2019. No issues. Not sure if how or when gear selector issue was addressed.