Why I Ride Pt. 1 ‘Youth, Hero & Friends’.
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- Опубликовано: 14 июн 2024
- Thinking back on my first motorcycle, my first ride … the hook , youth , friendship my late Grandfather rode , The Hero.
The cover shot is from lockdown . My old 1340 evo ‘Jolene’ on the left and my great friend Dougle’s old Harley too . The morning after a wild camp sleeping under the stars in just our bags in Norfolk U.K
Beautiful words mate 👏 Describes it all perfectly. I'm just back from a solo trip to Europe. 8 countries, 8 days & 2000 miles covered. I returned home with a sense of inner peace & contentment I don't think I could have found by any other means. Keep up the good work 👍
Thank you dude . Wow that’s some going !!! I bet your brain is buzzing and body feeling it . But I hear you … it takes it out of you but also leaves you completely rejuvenated! Best wishes
Fuck yeah!
“Motorcycles, because adventures don’t happen at home…”
brilliantly put.
"Because adventures don't happen at home." Amen to that. I've always preferred to ride an unfaired bike and battle it out with the wind. Goes all the way back to my youth when I had to cycle to school and do a paper round.
@@mattcc6603 you me both !!
Cheers pal
It's great to have a B.E.M. everyone needs one. So good for your mind. 👍
Hell yeah !! Thanks mate
“A car will turn you into an arsehole”
Best quote ever.
It’ll read well on my headstone.
Haha cheers for watching
Was thinking the same lol!
As old as time; a story that sings life to us.
Beautiful!
That was heavy , deep , and so true
Haha … thanks mate …
Quite possibly the best description of motorcycles and why people fall in love with them and how they make you feel! Epic!
@@jasonwright9555 Thanks again .
Cheers for taking time out to comment
We read every one and it means a lot .
What a wonderful description of how motorcycles change your life for the better. we(wife)did all our courting on my bike,250 X7 back then,we met very young and are still together.your words are both poetic and meaningful, Forever Two Wheels bro 👍😎🤘
@@markshawreflections850 Hearing your back story like that no wonder it resonates with you . That’s a great story .. thanks for kind words too .
Happy safe travels.
This is exactly my Story same age different village different country but otherwise the same Story! Thank you
@@jaakobspringer5742 haha. Hello brother ! Gotta love motorcycles!
Thanks for watching
Amazing words and they fetched back some long lost memories of biking, brotherhood ..both me and the wife had tears in our eyes from both good and emotional memories on the road, keep up the fantastic videos they ignite all the passions why we ride which we sometimes take for granted and not as a form of moving meditation to focus on the now 😊
Thank you , this message is beautiful and very much appreciated. Our best wishes to you both.
Never mind the wife, I had tears in my eyes. God speed chum.
Beautiful.... Thank you so much....
@@michaelhaddan1965 Many thanks 🙏
This. Seriously, is the best channel on RUclips. I was flipping through RUclips last night, saw your channel, and am hooked. You are a human being friend. Keep it up. (40 years a biker, club member, human being....)
‘You are a human being friend’ best quote I’ve read in ages . It means a lot , pathetically all I can say is thanks so much mate . That’s amazing !!!
Best wishes to you .
You are a true Brother in Spirit.
@@jamescraft3381 Thank you ,🙏 My Best wishes to you
My father was a military motorcycle police in world war two, he had me on , triumph 250 tiger cub teaching me to do slow manuvers when i was ten years old. That was 59 years ago, ive been riding ever since. Got married at 18 celebrated our 50th anniversary couple of months back ,raised three kids , have grandkids and great grandkids now. There was a few years i didnt have a motorcycle during that time, just too broke, and too busy. The uncontrollable fever to ride never left. As soon as i could i would always keep one in the garage ride it until it wore out and get another one. In 2007 I finally was able to buy a new electra glide classic ,still have it. Through a life of other priorities the fever never died, between guitars and motorcycles i kept a balance of content most of my mates could not obtain. In this world of unspoken brootherhood each attachment to something more than machine is always personal, a private bond with the soulmate in the garage. Ive been binge watching your videos lately because my old friend is being completely restored at this time, thanks for the rides.
@@tankcrowe7668 First off belated congratulations on your 50th anniversary.
Next what a great story , really love hearing these tales from people .. it’s incredible that RUclips has had so many people reach out to share stories with me , my nights lately are me or Lisa reading new comments to each other .. so many good folks out there finding these videos .
I too had times when too broke to own a motorcycle, I bloody kept dreaming this re occurring dream
I’d walk into the garden to my old concrete shed and my old Sporster would be there … I’d sit on her start her up
Run back inside to grab my lid
Go back to shed and she was gone
Then I’d wake and have to check shed
To make sure …
Some of us need two wheel motion more than we know .
Hope your girl is back restored soon and you have many more safe happy journeys
My sincere best wishes
And thank you 🙏
Your father sounded an amazing man , what a beautiful introduction you had to this two wheeled world .
Magical .
So very true to many of us 👍
Puppy memories.
The good ones are what drives us.
This roundup of motorcycling is 100% accurate. 👍
Many thanks for watching …
Too right ..
Best wishes mate .
Love it!
Wow, I’ve listened to some stuff in my time, but what an inspirational 6 minutes or so. You must do more of this!! As much as I wanted a bike when I was younger, it just never happened. Job, young family, but the desire never went away, I’m now making up for it as best I can. Keep those videos coming, they’re brilliant.
That comment .. literally made the whole day editing those 6 minutes totally worth it , I’ve never done the voice over recording thingy , but it was a challenge!
Thanks so much for the kind words .
Safe travels . Enjoy
Hope in some small way it’s given you the confidence to know what you have to say rings true to so many people and resonates with us. Really like the music too! Look forward to more. Kindest regards to Lisa, Megan and all the family .
@@davidperkins1765 Thank you 🙏.
And from us all back at you … the absolute best .
You can do it chum. You can.
It's so true! I recognize this words myself. I drive motorbike since more than 40 years now. It never get boring...! I did a few tarmac tests...broke 11 ribs, collapse lung, perforated liver ...and so on, 1th of April 2006. In September I drove again. Did some stupid things and broke in 2 years (2018+19) tree ribs again and again. But.....I can't quitte!!! its a "decease" thats never heal....luckily:-) Tnxs for your artistic video's.....
Glad you passed the tests and got straight back up fighting … thanks for kind words … appreciate that .
Motorcycles and travelling by bike summed up perfectly 👌. Next May, I'll have been riding 50 years, and boy, some of the stories I could tell. I've enjoyed it all.
Looking forward to part 2, 👍.
50 years that’s incredible and that must be a few books worth ! Cheers for watching and taking time to write !
Best wishes
Amazing. So many points we can all relate to. Ride on !
Cheers mate !!!
good video hits the biking nail on the head
Thank you for taking time to comment .
Appreciate that .
Best wishes mate
Poetic words from the heart . Fabulous.
Thanks for sharing, truly appreciated.
Thanks for the support , much appreciated! Best wishes
There’s real poetry in what you do which is probably why I am so drawn to your videos. And I love that rebellious instinct in your nature which seems to have emerged at a young age. It all adds up to refreshing originality in your work. There is a book in you somewhere….
Way too kind … thank you .. can I just say , coming from someone who can put together a comment like that, it means so much more .
Best wishes..
F***ing Fantastic! Thank you!
Welcome dude .
Bloody brilliant.
Thank you mate
As a lifelong biker (currently over 30 years) I absolutely loved this video! Very relatable and highly entertaining. Thanks 🙏 for sharing!
Appreciate that man ! Happy safe travels to you .
Your take on cars is spot on. Since getting a bike I've come to the conclusion that a lot of the problems in the US could be solved if cities mandated that people HAD to ride motorcycles within the metro area's limits. I figured it would reduce congestion, making parking easier for everyone, force vulnerability and socialization on people and the big one, humble some motherfuckers over here. It'll never happen, but a guy can dream right? Just glad I have so many of those open, empty roads you speak of down here in my little corner of the high desert southwest. Despite the cold, I too commute to work on my bike through the winter unless the roads are icy. It's the only way anymore...good shit as usual. Thanks for sharing.
Bellisimo!!
Thank you brother
Brilliant mate 🙌 💯
Cheers Colin … must catch up soon pal ,
Life is a little more grounded now .
Best wishes
That was brilliant! It was over too soon! Looking forward to the next episode!
Hey thanks , glad you liked it
Well wasn’t this just fantastic 👍🏼
Thanks dude .
👍
Mate, I have lived with depression and anxiety for way too many years now. I knew sometimes I'm wasting my life away (50 now!) with this crippling f'g Illness but I can't beat it...but watching this my head is screaming at me, get TF up off this couch and get on that beautiful Triumph Bobber in the garage...stop waiting for a break in the weather etc etc...its f'g hard, maybe someone can relate but most don't get it. But anyways, you sir are an inspiration and a guide book to how everyone should live or at least sample a few times in their lives. Unfortunately I fell for the get a job, get a house in the burbs, have a kid and it's all made me miserable living in this boring mundane place full of robot lemmings. My new mate (who has to visit his sick mum often) asked me to go out tonight on the bikes and I said "YES!" without caring if it rains or what time I'll be home 😤 Anyway, Thank You from a new subscriber!!
@@doricdave Thanks for leaving such an ‘open’ and powerful comment. Sorry to hear you suffer with this all too common illness. But encouraging to read the positive vibes that follow…
The daily grind , kids , home , all things we treasure … but none of it comes easy .
You gotta fight for sure and can hear all throughout your comment .. you’re a fighter . When my girls were younger and money always super tight , gone through our share of tough times , I was off work 4 years with back injury and major op ..
literally had no money . Never had £10 in my pocket. Once I got working saved up to buy another motorcycle
Immediately heart come back to life
I couldn’t afford to go away on week trips but would get out on one night wild camps , pack my food sit round a fire with a mate and come back next day feeling brand new , ready to face another week ,
A motorcycle can do that ..
just seems to restore you .
Anyway I’m rambling .
Good to hear from you and Sub much appreciated too .
My best wishes … brother .
Mark
Dear doricdave! I tell you my Story: i suffer from an post draumatic Stress diseas and the last 8 ! ! Years i could barely leave the house had no Power to do anything then the absolute necessery my live was an big dark hole. Then little by litten i began to crawl out of this whole i begann to make yoga. at the beginning 30 min a week then more and now 7 hours a week i conquered my body back and at my 50th birthday i bought an customized cb 250 and now i am back on the road and raid every day so dont give up you can search a way out of your
hole all the best jaaki from austria
my new favourite channel !
@@mspencer5954 Thank you 🙏
Stoked you found it
I say this as someone who's done video production for a living for a very long time. Very beautifully done mate. Thank you for sharing your story. I'm inspired.
@@paulwilson1847 Wow . Truly humbling , I’m learning a little each day . Thanks 🙏 for the kind words . Best wishes
@@LeanIntoTheWind you capture the essence of being a biker and riding beautifully, but pair it with a compelling story which is as heartbreaking as it is poignant. Sharing this kind of stuff takes a lot of strength. Very grateful you've found your way here with it. My feedback: Don't change a thing. Don't play to the gallery. An audience is gathering. Keep learning and enjoy the process man. Ride safe.
@@paulwilson1847 Very much Appreciated ♥️
Man 😎 this is brilliant 👌🏻
@@sammymawdsley9389 cheers mate
Nice one Lean into the Wind,
F**kin A.
We are the beneficiaries of chance, choose life.
What saves you is to take a step, then another step.
Thats when your adventures begin.
Spot on John !
Wise words … best wishes to you
Hi Lean into the Wind, Liked & Subscribed, lnspired & look forward to all your content, Ride Hard💪🏼Be Blessed 🙏🏽Aloha, Kenneth 🤙🏽
Many thanks .🙏 happy safe travels to you and best wishes
Man, I just found your channel. Put the kettle on Darl...Love from Australia.
@@ronsmith5648 Stoked the road led you this way .
Nice one mate .
I like this. A lot! Cheers fella!
@@MrB1967 I’m stoked!
Thank you 🙏
BEM ! Love it and your lifelong passion. Be safe and keep riding !
Thanks mate … best wishes from us both
Truely humbling and honest video, hit the spot after a hard day at work. I ride for exactly the same reasons, its pure escapism from the daily meat grinder! On my third HD now, 2 sportys and now on a Sport Glide and just like you and Lisa much prefer riding. Most of mine is pillion with my good lady, trying to build up to longer distances...keep up the good work! By the way loved your video of Rye and Dungeness - my frequent riding roads!
Thanks for taking time to comment , appreciate that . Love those Sport Glides . Perfect for those roads round your way too . It’s a beautiful area .
Best wishes from us both .
@@LeanIntoTheWind Cheers, Best Wishes to you both too.
How wise you are my English brother.. i will be watching this again.. and I agree with someone else who commented and said there is a book in you! Thank you Mark 👊🏻
Too kind .. but thank you 🙏 best wishes
B.E.M too true. Like it might have to borrow that one. Road king looks ace dude. All the best
Haha … It sums up ‘The Motorcycle’ .
Cheers mate ..
Perfect brother. My Dad and Uncle used to ride, not sure about my grandad as he died when I was a toddler so can't really remember much about him but 100% agree that the bike gives you freedom the car doesn't. Suffering from mental health (following cancer) the bike is my escape from everyday stress and as you say, once you're on the bike, the only thing that you're thinking about is what you are doing and staying alive on the mean streets. One thing though, as I'm getting older, I'm feeling the cold a hell of a lot more, maybe its from the chemo or just getting older, I don't know but at the end of a days riding, its a nice warm bed I need, not a tent ..
Cheers pal . Sorry to hear you been through all that struggle and want to wish you a full complete recovery dude , that must be the stress of all stress . Power to you for your strength ! Yeah that chemo could well be the cause of you feeling the cold … tbh Friday night was not cold at all , damp and wet , but I didn’t get much sleep as the foxes were crying and doing that crazy fox sound , so yesterday making this video I was running on two hours sleep , hence the rambling .
Best wishes & good health to you from us both .
@@LeanIntoTheWind Thank you both, that means a lot, I'm a fighter and wont give up. TBH, I had a minor heart attack a month before being diagnosed with the cancer and have so far (touch wood) beat them both and come out the other side but my problem is, I can't or very rarely open up and talk which is probably the major cause of the mental health and depression but as soon as I'm out on the bike, my world changes. My eldest son rides too (typically, just after I set this account up as Harley & the Bandit, he sold his Bandit and R1 and bought a Ducati 1200 Multistrada with full tour package) and tries to get me out as much as possible and we are hoping to do a tour of France and Spain, maybe more next year if funds allow (another reason for setting this page up) but still need a decent quality wireless mic as I can't post all the videos with no commentary as my subscibers seem to show (still stuck on 11)
God knows how you managed on two hours sleep lol, I need a good 8 hours each night
Anyway, thanks again for your well wishes and my very best wishes to you both and to Meghan. Ride safe ❤
@@HarleytheBandit so now it’s
‘Harley & The Duke’ !!!
Stay strong bro .. 👊 and get that mic when you can . It’ll make huge difference..
@@LeanIntoTheWind Nah, I'll just give my son the nickname "the Bandit" lol and thank you, both of you.
Dude, this was fucking awesome.
Many thanks, was fun to make
well said my friend
Thank you . I hope you’re holding up through tough times . Best wishes mate
@@LeanIntoTheWind I'm much better thanks mate. Still, this year will be almost wasted. Nevertheless I'm not dead and riding my bike.
I can relate to all that I also have a Lisa 😂 did give up my bikes for a few years as we had our two daughters which life was good but I did need my two wheels back now it’s been 20 years back on my bikes and it freedom to me
@@MrSmileyshaun such similarities
I got two daughters two haha
Happy safe travels !
I went to America a few years ago, to find the real human beings, the red man. your up there with them brother.
@@howardandrews2911 Bet that was a beautiful trip . Kind words .
Best wishes mate
Loved watching and listening to this. A lot resonates with me particularly what I think of cars. I too cannot imagine driving for several hours straight but I reckon I could bike that. For me, the motorcycle is the natural evolutionary step from horse riding we've done for thousands of years. There's always a feeling of disconnect in a car. Have you ever been in a long car journey, then arrived and actually stepped out THEN felt the difference in the atmosphere? I have, drives from Boston to Peterborough when I was a kid with my parents, I only felt the difference when I actually got out, on a bike it would be one long continuous flow of change. Not many people get that, maybe its a thing us January babies understand. Cars have their use and its great that some people love driving for 10 hours a day, someone's got to deliver my riding gear after all. Thank you Mark.
Thanks for such an excellent comment, nah I’ve never driven that long , England is too short … but I can understand and imagine…. But even a 10 hour drive , makes me crazy , if we drive anywhere really far .. I used to drive over night
The kids would sleep and I’d listen to an audiobook.
Rather than deal with the traffic jams and the fruitcakes .
Obviously a lot of what I said about car drivers is tongue in cheek .. but again not really . People loose their marbles in a car .
But yeah someone had too .. and some van take it . Most Lorry drivers are superb gentlemen on the road , they’ll always give room for a biker lane splitting etc , where as some cars will pull in and make the gap tighter hah .
Thanks again , great words
Yes 🙏
Love this mate. Only one and half videos in and subbed.
@@pmers well that’s a great bloody compliment.. thank you 🙏 dude .
Excellent stuff mate. Connect with everything you said. Stay safe.
Appreciate you taking time to say .. happy and safe travels back at you mate
Just fabulous.
Cheers mate !!!!
Great story, perfectly narrated!
Thank you !
That’s quite a producton mate ! Solid words .
Many thanks 🙏
Wise Words 👍
Cheers pal !
Love this… great video ❤
Cheers you guys !
yes,
"I'd sooner listen to Radio 1 or stick needles in my eyes." 🤣
I get the needles, but listen to Radio 1?! Dude, that's some dark sht. 😂
@@Focal_Paradox hahaha … was trying to really drum it home
F%cking awesome. 👍
Cheers dude !!!!
Spot on mate, whenever I need some mental clarity I jump on one of my bikes. Best place ever to think things through. I prefer solo riding now (to group rides), nothing to prove, ride your own ride. On another note - where was that place with all the rubbish on the side of the road?! They need a kick up the arse. Great video keep it up, some of the best stuff on YT.
Thanks for watching. Yeah I hear you . I don’t ride in groups . Done it a fair bit in past just with my mates on trips .. but we all have our own pace , not just In riding ,
In eating , waking , lifestyles , with just the Mrs on the back we see a lot more stop / leave when we want ..
oh the rubbish , Sicily , the mafia in charge of rubbish clearance , I don’t know the whole story but I kinda heard they kinda took all the money but don’t do the job
So outside lots of towns
They seem to pick a road and just dump it there , the locals just pull up
Whole family waves at you as they chucking all their shit out the back of their cars ,
The smell is insane , and rats scurry across road . That clip was not the worst we saw by far , at one point
Only the white line was left
Cars couldn’t get by
We just bout got through on bike
Bout 2ft of road left
Beautiful! You have a penchant for picking the right roads. If you ever wish to ride in India, reply to this message and I’d love to show you around. The quaint back country roads. Not the busy expressways. Ride safe ✌️
Thank you 🙏
It’s on our bucket list for sure and hopefully one day . Best wishes safe happy travels
GREAT VIDEO ! 🤩
🙏 many thanks
Perfection
Cheers!!
Right that's it fuck work I'm packing a bag
Have fun !!
🔥🔥🔥
Cheers Dan ❤
Awesome
I shared your videos with Todd Blubaugh and Paulo from Joe King. Hopefully they see and enjoy these masterpieces
Thank you so much .. kind of you . Had my white Joe King since 2010 and it saved my life in 2022 as I bounced on my head 3 times in the crash that killed Jolene . So I bought a black one off Paulo to replace it .. best wishes bro
@LeanIntoTheWind that's great (not about your bike) but that the helmet did its job. I got a Periodmaster Black label edition. I love it, the best helmets out there
It's true!
Two wheels good ,four wheels bad.😊You poet Mark .B.E.M.
Haha … Why thank you Robert .
Best wishes
Well said. I guess I’m 50% asshole then 😂
Yeah guilty here I got a car too haha
I really enjoyed your stories and the comparison of cars and motorcycles. Freeze to death? Still better than a car! Cars are like social media - people ride nice looking cars they cannot afford to show off, but hide behind the metal to act like jerks. No accountability.
Well said that man ! Cheers bro
Always wondered why you do what you do! and now I know👌 eloquently put voice full of meaning and passion I will never watch you riding in lashing down cold and rain and think you are mad again👍 keep doing what you are doing (and hats off to the other half for always being there) may you forever “lean into the wind” 💪🫶
Haha now you know . Thanks 🙏 best wishes to you from us two
Cool vid bloke
Cheers for watching ❤
🥰
Hello,, so so so true. i used to borrow my dad's step-through when he went to the pub on the night & that was every night and that's the last of him. But he did say if you want a bike here it is , it was a bsa bantam in boxes & said son if you want it you build it. Still at school no clue in mechanics but i managed . that was my intro to bikes..
We are just a week back from our trip to Sweden,Denmark , Germany then the Netherlands . Got soaked going to the ferry but after that it was a nice sunny trip. the wife didn't get a lot of gopro film she said it wasn't for her, so I must start doing it myself.
Great story right there … and incredible you got it together at such a young age .
Great introduction!
Glad the trip went well , why does it always rain on the first day haha
I guess it’s to see how much you really want to go !
GoPro is not for everyone, at first it can feel like a lot of messing around , on the Italy trip I wasn’t that into it ,
I think you only actually get ‘into’ it , once you edited it and made something out of the hours of what feels like a lot of nothing . Only then did I or Lisa tbh
Get into it .
Best wishes from us both , really sounds like some trip that !
Really good film. Make another one.
Cheers fella .
I waited until 35 to get my first bike. It's only been 6 months of riding and all I can say is what a waste of all the years leading up until now.
Hey , you’re here man ! Well done for finding out the magic !
I got mates I known since we were kids been talkin bout passing bike test all that time and are now 50 still talking about sorting it soon .
Happy safe travels
Awesome. Moving and funny too. LOVED it.
The story about your grandad was especially poignant.
Just my opinion, people?.... 90% good 10% arseholes.
Haha you probably right there , but I didn’t want to upset too many people.
My Grandad was a legend and a real kind soul , I could re tell some of his stories for hours , it was hard to even mention him and keep it to a minute.
Thanks a lot for taking time to leave such a great comment
Whoops I thought you said 90 % arsehole and 10% good
I’d love to retract my comment . But there it is , my only defence is I live in a town that resembles the tv show TOWIE . Forgive me …
❤
Cars are just more bullsh1t TV sitting there looking at life through a window.
@@growlerfowler6068 True that !!
Wow! Two words Mark.
I conquer.
Motorcycle is my life. We get it. Well put and great video. I’m off on my motorcycle now. Thank you for sharing.
Enjoy the ride !!! ❤ Cheers for the kind words
Well done, well said, and well lived my brother!
Thank you dude . Best wishes