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⏰Timecodes⏰

0:00 - Introduction & What's Ahead

1:13 - The Toolkit: Gear Reviews

3:13 - Ride Wise: Planning & Safety

7:21 - Mile Marker: Documenting The Trip

20:21 - Roadside Q&A

23:47 - The Last Mile: Reflections

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About This Episode:

In Episode 010 of the Best Motorcycle Roads Podcast, Tom and Todd, with over 65 years of motorcycling experience, share the essence of documenting motorcycle trips. From tech tips with the latest gear to reflective tales from the road, this episode is a treasure trove for enthusiasts seeking to elevate their riding experience.

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Transcript:

(00:41) essential prep to Unforgettable Roots we've got you covered before we Kickstart today's Journey we ask you to sign up for our BMR Rider alerts it's our way of keeping you in the loop with the latest rides tips and stories we promise no spam only the essentials to enhance your motorcycle Adventures join the BMR crew today we'll put a link in the show notes this segment about motorcycle gear reviews and tips we call the toolkit today we'll talk about the GoPro 12 and the Senna mesh Port red this combo pack

(01:47) going to be able to shoot about 40 hours on the one chip um so hopefully that works out pretty well and I'm kind of excited to record the audio too yeah that that'll be fun we have a lot of good conversations when we ride and not so good some not so good but it'll be nice some really bad actually it'll be nice to have some of those you know recorded So then the Senna mesh Port red is a is a is an add-on device that basically um Taps into the senna's mesh port and then that's all the all the

(02:45) but um I know that you and I have some aspirations of just just stories that we can capture that they're hard to put into words afterwards so I'm I'm pretty excited about it yeah they're hard and sometimes you just forget about them until you know a conversation comes up later so it would be nice to have those yeah I agree ridewise is the section we focus on planning and safety tips so Travis asked us about different motorcycles I think that was maybe in the last episode episode 9 and so let's

(03:46) under you and get your butt off the seat to you know uh absorb that bump yeah whereas on a cruiser your feet out front you're getting tailbone you sometimes just take it right on your tailbone and I think honestly why they call them standard bikes is because they used to be called motorcycles right you know it was all motorcycles that happened probably until the 70s when people started making Choppers and Harley honestly I mean I think they're just the bike they're they were the motorcycle you know um so

(04:47) well they have two seats I I don't know they're actually made for two no I'm kidding good point a joke but no I mean and in some countries I've seen up to three or four I've seen those I've seen those videos as well it's the family motorcycle right but yeah like you said I think most standard bikes have places to attach things bags luggage different sorts of things and honestly that's are you know that's how the the Honda Goldman got started it was not a Touring bike it was just a motorcycle with a Big

(05:47) there not a lot of plastic or covering the engine is exposed uh you can really kind of see and get at everything and it's it's one of those bikes that if uh you know people are just getting started standard motorcycle is great you know the cheap they're cheap not a lot of plastic they're a little bit lighter um you know than than some of the big Cruisers and touring bikes sport touring bikes um but they're comfortable to ride comfortable to ride they're easy to park easy to get into your garage you know

(06:49) Adventures but they really are standards um and and I've seen the ones we call Standard now like um I think like the Ducati uh monster I I think they just have one seat on them I I don't think they're generally those aren't made for uh two up sure those are one the next segment is what we call the mile marker it's our story segment so the theme of today is really documenting the trip you know I think this is something that we've done okay at at times and just horrible at other times um you know and

(07:54) we've been planning our trip next trip and you had just went ahead booked the rooms and then you put the reservation and the confirmation number boom right in the an event for that day and it's like that's awesome right and so then doing the same thing because one of the struggles that we used to kind of have is how we going to get the maps how we going to share the maps who's going to know what the up is this the updated map you know or is this the old map you know like I don't know so I think using the

(08:52) encouraging everyone to try to document more um just just being verbal about it um but second I what I wrote down was you know it's a lot of pressure to make one person that person so if we can say um hey you know everyone participate take pictures that would be good so but one thing I know we're terrible have done is get the picture of like before you leave like the before picture yeah you know yeah and that can just it doesn't have to be anything special a selfie you know right before you pull

(09:48) write down a couple of things that happened throughout the day or something you saw or the weather or the road you were on um it's just nice to have that written down and then maybe later when you're done with the trip you can transfer into uh electronic storage you know one idea I had here too is maybe we should try to do that since we haven't again done a great job of this but trying to think about how we can I think just having the podcast has helped us kind of re-envision how we take motorcycle trips and I was thinking like

(10:43) you know even if it's just people getting junk off their bike or putting stuff on their bike in the morning I think those are good and then what I try to do too is every time we stop for gas or food at least take one picture and it does a couple things right so we'll talk about in a minute the Google timeline but when you take those pi pictures you know the modern phones unless you've turned it off it saves GPS location where you took the picture and the time of day you took the picture and I cannot

(11:33) Amazon photos they're starting to get better about visualizing what's in the picture too so you can say motorcycle and then it narrows it down gets me to the right time then I go back and hit just you know dial into that so tons and tons of people of course um are using a lot of action cams you know you see it all over YouTube they're beautiful it's great right and so two one so we talked about the GoPro 12 with the ca mesh Port red the insta 360 is a very popular camera now if if you've seen this one it

(12:28) and like we talked about with these mega cards now and on the GoPro 12 that we're going to be leveraging I bought a weatherproof battery door cover and then you can you can slip um a um power cord right through weatherproof and the GoPro 12 is already weatherproof so it's the insta 360 so now you can record and not worry about the battery dying because that is a sin and the GoPro they're just trying I mean they only have so much space you know and it takes so long so so one trick that I've used previously

(13:16) com was one that I took as a as a 60-second interval picture when you say you took it did you physically push the button or it just set on a it's like time lapse but you can go into a photo mode and then you can say take a picture every and usually it'll be like 1 second 5 5 Seconds 10 seconds 30 60 you know and I'll set on 60 or 200 you know as much as I can not 15 minutes you know but you know somewhere in the one to 5 minute range and then you just end up with a lot of great pictures and usually what I would do is i' change the battery at the next

(14:15) when you think about it but then not a lot when you're thinking about an 8 hour day right so yeah so the new one will be always running so I'll have to stop it and then hopefully we'll figure out the coms and it'll be pretty good so so uh yeah just permanent Mount we have many pictures that don't want to totally admit on but like many years I bought a Sony camera because it had a a door when you flip the door open it was a digital camera it would turn the camera on oh yeah and then the one I had was perfect

(15:16) because I have a thousand pictures that would have been amazing if it hadn't had a bug in it so maybe I have to run those 3 AI so then this is something we've struggled with and I don't know that we've completely found a solution if anybody says what they do that'd be great it's just the long-term storage because what you and I have been trying to do now as we start this podcast is kind of put these stories back together you know and archive them in the trip mode instead of my Google photos your

(16:12) look at uh my Google timelines from you know eight years ago uh because it it'll show you where you stopped for meals it'll show you where you stayed at the hotels um and then you can of course see the route and all the roads and it's the secret hack for me when you're like I can't believe you remember this I didn't I just went back and looked at Google timeline yeah and it's funny because um you know over the years you can tell when I switched phones and because it'll tell you on there too so yeah the Google

(17:10) feet are behind you MH and this is not that it's a standard but it was not a comfortable bike nor was I in the shape that I needed to be in to make that a comfortable trip um I went back and was and actually used the Google timeline to look at some pictures and full-faced helmet no modular cuz you know we weren't into that then um and then the windshield it was about that big it was about 10 in wide 14 in tall um yeah so it was uh interesting and then that second day and and this is where we were documenting with our handheld cameras

(18:13) have a full Goldwing windshield and you're actually eating bugs and dirt and stuff but um but yeah so that was a great trip on a standard motorcycle um I just one of my most memorable parts of that is laying on a concrete sidewalk on the third day thinking we're never going to make it back you know like saw oh God it was terrible but that's also where the uh you know sometimes you got to move the mattress on the floor we went to Trevor City and there was four of us and we had the last I swear we had the

(19:22) Samsonite luggage on it so that's the best man um yep I love that luggage did the luggage come off like could you carry it yeah yep yep you had they had like the barrel lock on the back and you could un it was just like a barrel lock it was a screw and you just unscrewed it and it popped off beautiful you could carry it right on in yeah beautiful don't tell Colleen my wife this but I have a brand new set upstairs here that someday we'll find another Gold Wing to to restore and put it on but but honestly like in all practical terms the

(20:21) com slmp podcast all the information you need will be there uh but you can subscribe on Spotify Amazon music apple pocketcast and YouTube this is the interactive segment we will be looking for input from you uh we want you to send us your questions and suggestions for roads topics and anything else you have on your mind before I talk about today's uh roadside Q&A I need to give a shout out to Interceptor Moto um he he's been enjoying the podcast and sent us a note on YouTube and uh he is looking forward to taking a right on tale of the dragon

(21:31) me it's moving my legs around a little bit or you know straightening up and and I do have a back rest on my bike so sometimes I'll just kind of lean back but uh how about you I mean what what are you doing to maintain your comfort when I think legs I think my knees you know my knees are what get you know we're older the knees are not as good as they used to be so for me it's that um a lot of times too you know a lot of bikes you can buy the risers like bar risers for so I know for like the newer Gold

(22:26) in a relaxed position Mak sense and that way you don't get kind of cuz I've had my shoulders get bus like on the fc1 right I remember many times I'm laying up on the front bars with both hands like that you know windshields we've talked about that a little bit you know like breaking the wind you know if you if you don't want to go riding if you haven't been out riding for long and you don't have much of a windshield your neck's going to be in trouble because you're fighting the wind with the helmet

(23:16) podcast in future but staying hydrated does help too and I'm working on a rig to kind of get me some water I'm not sure I want the coffee cup the size of uh you know the small nation state on my handlebars like you guys do but but no I mean just keeping keeping that going I think is good stay hydrated now it's time for The Last Mile it's our way to close up the episode with our reflection so Todd what' you think of this one what what what stuck out well uh just documentation why it's good to

(24:15) pictures uh that go along with the timeline and time stamps yeah um because there's been so many great things we've done and and now that I go back through my Google timeline and really start to line everything up why wow I mean we've seen some some stuff you know it's it's been great so yeah I just highly recommend document document I couldn't agree more and one of my favorite things you know and you see these coming up on your little the screen devices Here There and Everywhere but you'll just see

(25:09) did that you know I know that one of my favorite burger places moonshine you know and when we were on a trip driving the I'm like we're going to be close with my kids and they're like can we go to Moonshine and like you know like so it's just funny how it just kind of carries on so yeah I I couldn't agree with the documentary and then the next next episode we're going to talk about navigating as you're riding at night not something you necessarily want to do but you know it happens sometimes so if this