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⏰ **Timecodes:**

0:00 - Teaser

0:15 - Intro

0:45 - Pre-Roll

1:10 - The Toolkit (Motorcycle Gloves & Bon Armor)

5:30 - Ride Wise (Motorcycle Safety Courses)

10:19 - Mile Marker (Missouri Battlefield Ride)

18:37 - Roadside Q&A (Staying Comfortable on Long Rides)

21:37 - The Last Mile (Reflections)

23:08 - Closer

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Welcome to Best Motorcycle Roads! We are Tom and Todd, and with over 65 years of combined motorcycling experience, we aim to make your next motorcycle trip the best it can be. Our channel covers everything from essential prep to unforgettable routes, ensuring you have all the tips and tools for an epic ride. Join us as we explore the best roads and share our adventures with you.

(00:37) and everything in between from essential prep to Unforgettable routes 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 a couple things

(01:36) mesh ones are a little more um easier They Don't Really break in they're brok in and they kind of stay that way so um but then of course there's all different kinds there's just your standard wrist glove you know you got Gauntlet gloves and then you like uh even like a fingerless glove sometimes I use a leather fingerless glove uh the one thing I've found with my leather gloves I don't know if this is all but when they get wet a bunch of times yeah there's some of the die that actually

(02:29) like if these do rip or go bad then it's going to take me too long to get them broke in or something like so like I feel like at some point I should probably just buy some other gloves but yeah take a look at those I think we've talked a lot to is having a couple pair with you minimum you know if some if you get caught in Rain wet gloves especially if it's a little cooler is not fun uh so yeah the second one that we haven't talked about too much is just under clothing gear um there's a really great

(03:34) it also has the armor which is all removable um so like with the pants there's like nine points that it's protecting you know above the knees below the knees hips um and then with the shirt they call it a shirt or it's kind of like a coat but it's like an under shirt I would call it and it has armor in it as well again though depending on which one you go with um the made a very flexible easy to kind of move around but then you just put regular pants right over the top of them so uh when you're talking about shirts

(04:30) it's underneath but it's also kind of designed for this use so therefore like what I feel like sometimes like what I don't like is when we're riding in the in the rain sometimes like I need to take off my coat and put my rain coat on well my ring coat doesn't have any armor in it and I don't have any armor when I'm riding in the rain and Hell the most important time to be riding in the rain maybe to have the armor on so I'm kind of looking at this as another option so check out the website it's really cool

(05:30) planning and safety tips uh today I'm going to talk a little bit about uh motorcycle safety courses uh there's there's several different types there's a beginner riding course then there's the returning Rider beginning Rider course so this is someone you've had a bike in the past you've you know done some riding and then maybe you've gone two three four years five years you haven't ridden a bike this kind of a refresher yeah um and then there's a beginner writing course two mhm um and

(06:29) I don't know that was Advan but maybe it was I don't I don't remember I thought it was called Advanced I thought it was too but then later on there was another one like that we could have went too so anyway sorry I didn't mean interrupt oh that's right um so in the beginner writing courses uh this would be for someone who's a pretty new writer but they really cover a lot it's like mental preparedness um perceptual uh perception development y situational awareness risk evaluation evasive strategies uh writing

(07:29) this that you know curve turning um what I thought it was amazing was um well I I guess what I was trying to say was in Iowa they actually allow you to use that as opposed to going then down and writing at the DMV oh right yes which is kind of nice too so yeah um they're kind of hard to find in Iowa but that's one of the things that the Harley dealerships have really embraced as well is they have some of those classes which that's awesome yeah you know I mean some of the community colleges yep you know

(08:27) motorcycles it's completely impressive like w beyond my means but I was just surprised at like just a small I don't know like two parking space box people could not turn that motorcycle around it yeah you know and I know when I started um I couldn't I couldn't do it at first it it took a lot of practice and and you have to learn from somebody the skills of how to do it where to put your eyes dets where to put your head yeah where the balance point should be how to how to you know feather the clutch and and

(09:25) oh well okay I think about this stuff a lot when we writing and at that point I was writing my Gold Wing right um so turning the Gold Wing in that small box and doing the figure I think you do the mental back oh you know this is a Gold Wing I'm not I'm not going to be able to turn around this box and this guy pulls up the one of the instructors I remember had one of those big victory Cruis he turning that thing on a dime you know I was like oh okay duly noted so when he when he did that I was like all right

(10:19) guess we didn't mention that so the next segment is what we call the mile marker it's our story segment this is a story segment we call mile marker So today we're going to talk to about um a planning trip that we're planning on at some point kind of put in the files um again we're in Iowa so Missouri is a nice ride Missouri has some great riding roads and this is kind of a um I guess you might call it a battlefield tour um found a couple places in Missouri that some of the Civil War battles happened on and I thought wow

(11:22) that was kind of that was quite the I guess I didn't realize so much that there was that much history right right below us here so so yeah and there's some good Rides To Ride Along um some we've taken um a few of these roads before in Iowa down to 34 63 and 54 and then 13 in Missouri are all great roads that we've rode before as well um just never really got into this tour so so after that then it takes you down to um another place in Herman Missouri which I think you'd said you've heard of before

(12:28) we've been in that area before if you remember when we maybe you didn't ride in to the Ozarks with us that time don't remember Backwater Jacks no I don't remember that famous for their fried potato salad no I know it wasn't there I just remember it was like 105 that day and then we were parking on asphalt it was like woo yeah but um interesting um in that area of Arrow Rock actually they has a Penitentiary tour which we've seen you guys have taken one I was not on the trip where he took the tour

(13:27) it's kind of nice to kind of have have an altern alternative yeah I a Penitentiary that started in 1836 and lasted the 2004 right I can't imagine what that might look like you know I mean Stony Stony right I mean did they upgrade it did they make it look modern find out let's let's go there yeah um we don't do a lot of motorcycle camping but there is a great uh place to Camp um in AOL Rock State Historical Site it's a c it's like a it's an area we we're not into that but some people

(14:36) like a podcast and then you listen to it while you're riding through a certain area have you heard about these I have not oh my gosh it's quite interesting the technology hasn't got there there's some sites that are trying to sell it and then there's some people that just do them the technology isn't quite there you almost need a specific player that's based on GPS so starts to trigger things boy it's interesting though you can kind of learn some things things at the same time um but yeah also there in Lexington

(15:35) yeah that's thinking yeah that would be what this would be I think it could be I think you could probably find a fifth day in there if you really wanted to um you know the things where we've been planning lately it seems like people are five days is almost a little too much so we're trying to kind of crank in some these four days yeah um and then some of this area we've been to before and so you know we could probably skip some of those parts but mhm yeah that's been fun we've been using a lot of chat GPT to

(16:30) kind of came up it ended up with a theme um which I think would be pretty all right I I really like that idea you know we brought it up I don't know if it was last podcast or a couple episod or a couple ago but um you can upload a map right map yeah into chat G GPT easy for you to say thank you uh but there's that's not the only AI engine you can use well actually I was using Gemini a little bit and that's the Google's version what was really cool about that I'm like oh well can you make a map for

(17:35) that we found um when we went down to the eclipse ride um you know these are some similar roads or you know better and then this at least gives you a place to start you can start to tweak a little couple of these like one of the days they only had 125 miles we'd probably want to push that a little bit harder but based on we'd want to base on some of the stops that we had planned as well yeah um but yeah so I mean it's kind of fun to to um to play with these in this way so um it'll be interesting yeah

(18:37) topics and anything else you have on your mind today's roadside Q&A comes from Jim and Jim was asking how do you stay comfortable and avoid fatigue on Long stretches of Ry riding especially in a group uh where you're having to maintain a pace yeah yeah that's that's a good one um and for those who haven't ridden in a group before and you're about to do a group ride uh I've talked about this before that that can be a little stressful it can build some anxiety because yes you're trying to

(19:40) you can snack on uh as you go so you don't have to eat a huge meal that'll make you tired usually you know after you eat something big so you know maybe small uh small snacks as you go uh change positions you know stretch out your leg stretch out your knees stand up on your pegs a little bit um you know scoot back don't be afraid to say hey I need a little break or just ask for a break communicate with the group that's that's a big one but you know really just don't push yourself uh into being

(20:37) riding right so I think sometimes people don't want to spend a little bit of extra money on that and I saw it the other day with highway pegs some guy was talking about putting $80 highway pegs on his new Gold Wing and it's like you just spent 20 grand or 15 grand for motorcycle and now you want to save 150 bucks so you can clamp some goofy Highway pigs on and it's like just buy some nice Highway pigs that go with the bike you're going to ride it ride it a lot and you want them to be as comfortable as possible that's a great

(21:37) The Last Mile our way to kind of close the episode with our Reflections from today so what are you thinking Todd well I like this idea of uh using Gemini to create some maps for us this this sounds like um a lot easier maybe and I think we're actually going to find more um this AI technology is fantastic and now that it's uh Gemini is you know Google so it it integrates with maps yeah wow Game Changer I think yeah I would also say I just I'm kind of excited when we came up with a theme that includes some