I have to agree with your observations. There is nothing like riding for me. It relaxes myself like nothing else. Oh yes, I took a long way once and wound up 100 miles from home. Filled the gas tank, looked around and had some iced tea. Took my time and cruised back. Great memories. . I'm 62, started riding when I was 8. While you mentioned the reasons why you like to ride, I sat here nodding my head. So keep riding as long as you can. Great video, thank you.
Been riding since 16. 67 now and riding is still as exciting, comforting, adventuresome, soothing and a major part of my very existence. After the long winter I look forward to that first long country road ride to relieve the frustration of being unable too ride. You hit the nail on the head of what motorcycle is and means to me. January is almost thru. Come on Spring.
I’ll turn 50 later this year and I’m determined to spend most of this year expressing the love I have for motorcycling, with friends, on here with video content, and in my own head while riding. Every morning, around Christmas to late March, I open the shades, look outside and think, spring can’t come soon enough so I can go on that long ride for the first time.
Agreed, when my wife says, “I need so and so from the store”, I volunteer to go immediately haha any reason to twist the throttle. Great video man! Watching your videos always feels like a good conversation with a good friend. Very cool.
OMG JOE HI! Missed you! Always glad to see your videos in the sub box. One of the reasons personally I love motorcycling is that it's one place, one activity, where I lose my risk adverse mentality. I grew up around Japanese people and 2nd hand japanese culture. Risk aversion is a huuuge thing in Japanese culture. Im also terrified of driving a car. I cant handle driving a car because of a coordination disorder. But I get on a bike, and the wild side of my comes out, and I will do stuff like lane split, and barrel down the freeway, sometimes breaking 120mph. Once I figured out my bike can easily exceed 110, It was all over. I love to hear that dragon roar. Nothing is as quite as intense for me as 100% throttle at 120+mph on a straight and hearing that engine roar. I wish I could capture that raw sound. Motorcyles are my one exception to my fear and avoidance behavior. I don't even knw why.
In spite of the fact that I got my first mini bike at age 8, and then graduated to dirt bikes, then got my license to take a motorcycle on the road in high school 47 years ago, I am inspired by your videos. Thank you and keep the good stuff coming. I just bought a 2022 Sportster 48 because I wanted an Evo powered sportster, and I rode a Sportster when I was in high school. There have been a lot of motorcycles since then, but I’ve come full circle back to the Sporty. I plan to ride it across country this summer.
Absolutely, 100%. When I used to ride before I gave it up, I met all kinds of people - my bike instructor was an ex Royal Marine whose dad was a Yorkshireman & whose mum was Malaysian, and his co-instructor was a Jewish taxi driver. Through them I met Poles, Czechs, at least 1 Aussie, I'll tell you, the courier community in London is insane, lovely folks, who all have hair-raising tales of crashes & near misses. We went on trips outside London into the country, and when I moved up to Birmingham I linked up with likeminded folks from the alternative music scene, metalheads and goths who loved to ride. We'd ride for the fun of riding. I remember Euan McGregor saying how for him riding was a meditative act, staying in the moment, watching out for hazards & keeping the bike upright & on course. I lost it when my cousin Robbie died, on his Fireblade on Snake Pass in the Peak District. I felt I couldn't put my family through that, so I gave it up. 15 years later, I'm back - my kids are grown, my parents died last year & I'm left with this feeling that if you don't *LIVE* you become an NPC, a spectator in your own life, you waste your time & even if you die old, old, old, you might as well have died at 20 for all the good it did you. You have to engage with life, be on the front foot, get what you want out of it because it's gone so fast. Seize the day. Ride the bike. Have fun, and arrive at your grave at full throttle, sliding sideways into it.
Totally agree. The wrenching aspect is how I fill my winter time now, it helps me quite a bit. I have not done any rallies or meetups yet. This year I joined a Road Rally group for the PNW. That should be a lot of fun.
Oh yeah, we definitely can relate. Yeah always take the long way home. We organized a ride last January to a ice cream shop that was only 40 miles away. At the ride brief, I told the riders that it is going to take us 2.5 hrs to get to the shop, they were confused. Needles to say, we took the looooong way. Great Video, Like Button...Smashed!
I have a pretty insane January & February, but then I will be doing a new oil pipe on the iron and a service then ready for summer for some motocamp adventures and your video got me fired up and ready for the year ahead
You nailed it, Joe, especially for me on the points about mental health and meeting all kinds of people while riding. Winters are the most depressing time of the year for me, simply because I can't always ride my bike every day due to ice and snow conditions here in the northeast. However, thanks to climate change, this is the first December/January period in a long time that I've been able to ride pretty much every day of the two months. We'll see what February brings. As far as meeting a diverse group of people while riding, I've met die hard right-wingers and left-wingers, gun rights and gun control folk, Muslims, Christians and Jews, black, white, red and yellow folk, and the list goes on and on. Riding puts all our difference aside for that moment, and we can all enjoy the one thing that brings us so much joy, and we find ourselves so passionate about.
I agree! I ride to work (when it is warm enough here in the Rocky Mountains) because it makes my commute better and puts me in a better mood. Also, Trips on my Motorcycle are a totally different perspective then driving. I see things in a whole new way. Like When I went to Yellowstone for the first time I did it on the motorcycle and it was the best trip ever! So not the same as in the car, although still beautiful.
Happy New Joe. Riding definitely relaxes the mind. Before I retired I used to have my best days at work when I rode there. Maybe because I knew I would be riding home again. There have been times when I go for gas and 75 - 100 miles later I get back home.
Welcome back....Wind Therapy is where it's out....Feel for you being in WI this time of year as I'm sure you're missing that Wind Therapy we all live for
It is tough. I used to ride through the cold on my Sportster if there wasn’t ice or snow on the roads. I’ll make up for it in rides and RUclips content this riding season. Warm weather living is in my future.
Having a destination or an activity to do in that destination is not as important as having a nice ride. I believe that because it is a relatively new skill to me I’m alert most of the time and that helps me to focus only on the task on hand and not thinking of anything else. Stress free time is a quality time which riding a motorcycle is definitely achieving for me 👊🏽😎 stay safe.
100% on everything, you nailed it. I love that live somewhere that I get to ride every day of the year. I def do not miss WI winters. LOL happy new year.
Hey Joe! Keep up the videos! I’m glad you got a shot of my Africa Twin in there. It’s a little less shiny then when you sold it to me but I still ride here daily.
@@GreatEgret Totally agree with the video, too! The pursuit of happiness is absolutely why I picked up my Iron 883 (which is my second Iron) back last August. After that, I found your channel. Keep up the great content!
@@pudgystump it’s tough for me to measure how much joy motorcycling brings me. I’m putting together my upload calendar this week and I have some Iron content coming this spring. Can’t wait!
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"Flying on the ground" is very, very right. "A sparkle was in his eyes, but his life was in his hands."
Tonight's the night!
I have to agree with your observations.
There is nothing like riding for me. It relaxes myself like nothing else. Oh yes, I took a long way once and wound up 100 miles from home. Filled the gas tank, looked around and had some iced tea. Took my time and cruised back. Great memories.
. I'm 62, started riding when I was 8. While you mentioned the reasons why you like to ride, I sat here nodding my head. So keep riding as long as you can.
Great video, thank you.
I love that you were nodding your head for each reason. Good to see you in the comments section here again, Don!
Been riding since 16. 67 now and riding is still as exciting, comforting, adventuresome, soothing and a major part of my very existence. After the long winter I look forward to that first long country road ride to relieve the frustration of being unable too ride. You hit the nail on the head of what motorcycle is and means to me. January is almost thru. Come on Spring.
I’ll turn 50 later this year and I’m determined to spend most of this year expressing the love I have for motorcycling, with friends, on here with video content, and in my own head while riding. Every morning, around Christmas to late March, I open the shades, look outside and think, spring can’t come soon enough so I can go on that long ride for the first time.
@@GreatEgret Amen Brother
Agreed, when my wife says, “I need so and so from the store”, I volunteer to go immediately haha any reason to twist the throttle. Great video man! Watching your videos always feels like a good conversation with a good friend. Very cool.
Thanks brother!
OMG JOE HI! Missed you!
Always glad to see your videos in the sub box.
One of the reasons personally I love motorcycling is that it's one place, one activity, where I lose my risk adverse mentality. I grew up around Japanese people and 2nd hand japanese culture. Risk aversion is a huuuge thing in Japanese culture. Im also terrified of driving a car. I cant handle driving a car because of a coordination disorder.
But I get on a bike, and the wild side of my comes out, and I will do stuff like lane split, and barrel down the freeway, sometimes breaking 120mph.
Once I figured out my bike can easily exceed 110, It was all over.
I love to hear that dragon roar. Nothing is as quite as intense for me as 100% throttle at 120+mph on a straight and hearing that engine roar. I wish I could capture that raw sound.
Motorcyles are my one exception to my fear and avoidance behavior. I don't even knw why.
Always a pleasure to read your comments. I love that motorcycling requires you to focus as you ride. So much of life’s crap just dissipates.
Great to have you back, Joe! Love the positivity you bring to these videos. Here’s looking forward to a great 2023 riding season!
In spite of the fact that I got my first mini bike at age 8, and then graduated to dirt bikes, then got my license to take a motorcycle on the road in high school 47 years ago, I am inspired by your videos. Thank you and keep the good stuff coming. I just bought a 2022 Sportster 48 because I wanted an Evo powered sportster, and I rode a Sportster when I was in high school. There have been a lot of motorcycles since then, but I’ve come full circle back to the Sporty. I plan to ride it across country this summer.
That means a lot to me, Steve. Thank you. Maybe I’ll see you on the road across the country this summer.
I am 58 and got back into riding two years ago... best thing I ever did... me, my iron horse and the universe.
I get what you say. Loud and clear.
I started riding six years ago. Best decision I have ever made!
Absolutely, 100%. When I used to ride before I gave it up, I met all kinds of people - my bike instructor was an ex Royal Marine whose dad was a Yorkshireman & whose mum was Malaysian, and his co-instructor was a Jewish taxi driver. Through them I met Poles, Czechs, at least 1 Aussie, I'll tell you, the courier community in London is insane, lovely folks, who all have hair-raising tales of crashes & near misses. We went on trips outside London into the country, and when I moved up to Birmingham I linked up with likeminded folks from the alternative music scene, metalheads and goths who loved to ride. We'd ride for the fun of riding. I remember Euan McGregor saying how for him riding was a meditative act, staying in the moment, watching out for hazards & keeping the bike upright & on course. I lost it when my cousin Robbie died, on his Fireblade on Snake Pass in the Peak District. I felt I couldn't put my family through that, so I gave it up. 15 years later, I'm back - my kids are grown, my parents died last year & I'm left with this feeling that if you don't *LIVE* you become an NPC, a spectator in your own life, you waste your time & even if you die old, old, old, you might as well have died at 20 for all the good it did you. You have to engage with life, be on the front foot, get what you want out of it because it's gone so fast. Seize the day. Ride the bike. Have fun, and arrive at your grave at full throttle, sliding sideways into it.
Man, this was a good read. Thanks for commenting and watching the video. Welcome back to riding!
Totally agree. The wrenching aspect is how I fill my winter time now, it helps me quite a bit. I have not done any rallies or meetups yet. This year I joined a Road Rally group for the PNW. That should be a lot of fun.
Wrenching is that bridge between autumn and spring. I plan on doing WAY more meetups this year.
I was waiting for Friday so thanks for dropping it early 🤘🍺
Oh yeah, we definitely can relate. Yeah always take the long way home. We organized a ride last January to a ice cream shop that was only 40 miles away. At the ride brief, I told the riders that it is going to take us 2.5 hrs to get to the shop, they were confused. Needles to say, we took the looooong way. Great Video, Like Button...Smashed!
Nailed it! Warm today in Texas so I'm taking the Iron 883 to the store!
I have more excuses to ride than reasons not to. Glad you got a “mundane” ride in today!
I have a pretty insane January & February, but then I will be doing a new oil pipe on the iron and a service then ready for summer for some motocamp adventures and your video got me fired up and ready for the year ahead
Can't wait to see some motocamp adventures from you!
AMEN Brother! Knees in the Breeze! Great video!
You nailed it, Joe, especially for me on the points about mental health and meeting all kinds of people while riding. Winters are the most depressing time of the year for me, simply because I can't always ride my bike every day due to ice and snow conditions here in the northeast. However, thanks to climate change, this is the first December/January period in a long time that I've been able to ride pretty much every day of the two months. We'll see what February brings. As far as meeting a diverse group of people while riding, I've met die hard right-wingers and left-wingers, gun rights and gun control folk, Muslims, Christians and Jews, black, white, red and yellow folk, and the list goes on and on. Riding puts all our difference aside for that moment, and we can all enjoy the one thing that brings us so much joy, and we find ourselves so passionate about.
glad to see you back brother! long journey and adventurous road ahead!
Thanks man! Here’s to an adventurous 2023 for the both of us! 🍻
I agree! I ride to work (when it is warm enough here in the Rocky Mountains) because it makes my commute better and puts me in a better mood. Also, Trips on my Motorcycle are a totally different perspective then driving. I see things in a whole new way. Like When I went to Yellowstone for the first time I did it on the motorcycle and it was the best trip ever! So not the same as in the car, although still beautiful.
I’m jealous that you ride to work in Rocky Mountains!
Happy New Joe. Riding definitely relaxes the mind. Before I retired I used to have my best days at work when I rode there. Maybe because I knew I would be riding home again. There have been times when I go for gas and 75 - 100 miles later I get back home.
Happy New Year, Walter! I definitely am a better man on the days that I ride. Glad to see you on here again. Thanks for watching!
Welcome back and happy new year! 🎉🎉🎉
Happy New Year!!
badass awesome five out of five video !
Thanks Ichiban!
Welcome back....Wind Therapy is where it's out....Feel for you being in WI this time of year as I'm sure you're missing that Wind Therapy we all live for
It is tough. I used to ride through the cold on my Sportster if there wasn’t ice or snow on the roads. I’ll make up for it in rides and RUclips content this riding season. Warm weather living is in my future.
Having a destination or an activity to do in that destination is not as important as having a nice ride. I believe that because it is a relatively new skill to me I’m alert most of the time and that helps me to focus only on the task on hand and not thinking of anything else. Stress free time is a quality time which riding a motorcycle is definitely achieving for me 👊🏽😎 stay safe.
That’s the the thing. That need to focus never goes away. It’s what makes me not think about anything else too. I love that!
100% on everything, you nailed it. I love that live somewhere that I get to ride every day of the year. I def do not miss WI winters. LOL happy new year.
Thanks, man! Someday I’ll be able to say I don’t miss Wisconsin winters 😂
@@GreatEgret hopfully sooner than later!
Definitely my therapy.
Great video and great to see you back! Nice way to start off the year.
Thanks, David!
Hey Joe! Keep up the videos! I’m glad you got a shot of my Africa Twin in there. It’s a little less shiny then when you sold it to me but I still ride here daily.
I miss that bike a ton! I’ll be buying another before the end of 2023. I’m glad you’re having fun on it.
oh man those throw back clips are great. I see a lot of familiar faces in there (MMM) Love your insight
Good times, brother!
I love motorcycling the same way a dog likes sticking its head out of a car window😂
And yes it’s because it makes me happy🤘😎
This is my favorite comment so far!
Was waiting for it .nice video
Thanks, man!
Happy New Year. Well done.
Happy New Year, brother!
Yep... Cant argue with any of that Joe. You know you're hooked when you look forward to doing that 20th oil change EXACTLY on each 3k mile marker
You’re so right about changing the oil. I look forward to working on my bikes!
Sweet! New video!
And dropped a day early!! Thanks for watching, bro.
@@GreatEgret Totally agree with the video, too! The pursuit of happiness is absolutely why I picked up my Iron 883 (which is my second Iron) back last August. After that, I found your channel. Keep up the great content!
@@pudgystump it’s tough for me to measure how much joy motorcycling brings me. I’m putting together my upload calendar this week and I have some Iron content coming this spring. Can’t wait!
@@GreatEgret Definitely excited for the Iron content! I'm hoping to be able to start modding my bike soon.
I have the same olive Harley.🙂
It’s a beautiful bike!
@@GreatEgret yeah. indeed, but I have better than this. a 2015 Bonneville without all gimmicks but the sheer & pure motorcyling.🙂