Episode 027 - Minnesota v2 - Best Motorcycle Roads

Episode 027 - Minnesota v2 - Best Motorcycle Roads - YouTube

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(00:41) packing Roots other tips and everything in between from 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 enance 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 the toolkit today is

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(01:45) sit on the seat which look completely uncomfortable whatsoever but I think the key to beads on seats is airf flow so I think in the in the summer I think they're better they're they're good option and then one time when we were in Wisconsin and I still forget where Turk and I bought the um skunk the skunks the skunk skin PS the pelts yeah and that has the same effect I think it it's to get more air under your backside so you kind of get more air flowing but but you and Brad you ride with a well I've got

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(02:47) bike now for 20 yeah however long that's been 22 years at this point and you know it's it's broken down a little bit yeah um so that that Air Hawk uh the imitation conversion that I bought um it just helps a little bit uh you know it's it's not it's not like having an ultimate seed it's not anything like that but it's not a th000 bucks either right I mean we're talking a hundred bucks or less than that so yeah it's it's lasted a few years just like that so I'll go

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(03:48) those yeah they're weird at first I was going to say does it feel weird do you do you feel unstable on the seat at all like not really um what you feel is cool it's cold oh okay and then you again the options you know then you take the this the U the Pelt and put it over those and you get a different sensation you know and then you R it without the beads in the Pelt and then you get a different kind of feel so it's kind of nice you kind of have these different it's like you said it's these different position

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(04:49) the whole thing right you might as well ridewise is the section we focus on planning and safety tips ridewise the section we focus on planning and safety tips and we want to talk a little bit about fall riding uh because that's where you know it's going to start to get into the 60s and 50s and it could get colder than that so in the morning it's a little especially in the morning um and that's happened to us quite a few times so really the things you got to think about are are layering because

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(05:48) wrap Saran Wrap would definitely do it you scuba diving wet suit if you'd like but um yeah breaking that wind is is pretty important in have a rain suit with you of course you know um because um you know fall you know that's it's an unstable time you know it can change you know on a dime and then you know I always talk about on your rain gear make sure you get one that's got that thin hood that pulls up over because I still don't have one I know you don't I need one you put you pull that thin Hood up

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(06:45) should look at maybe even looking at a Fall Ride for it cuz I think it'd be unbelievable great so we can talk about that later but but when you get in those Falls it's no joke I mean you get into Northern Minnesota and you're talking it's cold I mean it can get cold at night and and even the next morning like we I think we've talked about this previous but you start to see a little more moisture humidity and then that's on this you know and then pretty soon you've got beads and yeah and I've got

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(07:38) attached here like snowmobiles you and you put your hands in them in them y but then there was another so they made these these big gloves you know and they're like they like two finger like it's mittens not gloves Brad got so Brad got so damn cold on this when we rode down to the eclipse cuz it was raining and cold it was it was April um and so he I had them with and he resorted to him he like these are dumb I can't do anything but it works my hands are warm so wow but I mean it's true I mean so you can look at all these

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(08:41) with layers it's more layers you might want them in the morning you know and you can also get battery operated heated gloves or you can get the you know those little thermal packs you break and and stick in those are good to put on the tops of your hands um but electric gloves electric boot warmers or even just the thermals to put in there uh the tow warmers um and it sounds silly but putting some ear plugs oh yeah in keeps that cold air that gets in your helmet from kind of getting into your ear canals and making

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(09:42) mile marker it's our story segment the mile marker today is talking about this potential Minnesota trip we just went to Minnesota in 2023 it was a fantastic trip if you remember we went backwards because we didn't realize and figure out that there was rooms no rooms in in uh in Deluth the first night so we went backwards so it's a similar trip um what we're thinking here is um hitting brainer Minnesota on maybe the first night lots of Scenic hit the Great River Road our kind of main stay um and then

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(10:42) and offers a giant serpent statue so I mean we're there why not um Lake myx um mil X also is also a lot of known for its its its views I think there's some pretty good elevation there and so kind of day two would be more about riding and seeing um roads day three and I'd never even heard of this before but in elely Minnesota there's an International Wolf Center and a northern bear American bear Center again those could be kind of cool to check out um but also up along the NorthShore area is a is a few things

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(11:54) Eastern Seaboard esque to me when I've seen him um so two hard would never be complete with Betty's without stabbing a Betty's Pies but now you know Dave our friend Dave from up there he really wants us to try The Rustic in Cafe next time so he's saying better pie and that is a strong statement I was going to say that's hard to beat yeah yeah so hopefully we'll uh get a check that on the way back that's kind of it would be more north of gr Harbor so somewhere on that Gunflint Trail would be where

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(12:55) it's very you know town to town is very sparse but when you get there there's a lot of cool stuff yeah and we're not I don't think the plan here would be to stay in duth this time but we have stayed really in that Harbor before there's a couple of uh hotels in that Harbor oh man that's cool cuz you can kind of see the boats coming in and out and that's neat smaller boats not the big ones but yeah yep so final day um of this kind of day four thing would be wota to Solen back home for us um great

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(13:56) these I think it's important for us to take a peek at these um scenic routes you know and sometimes I see this when we're driving around like around us we have Highway 6 which is the um what is that the great Lincoln is it Lincoln high what do they call that the Lincoln Highway I thought Lincoln Highway well you know what it's Highway six six yeah I guess it's interesting I try to I find myself looking at these sign the signs more you know we've talked about the Great River Roads so much to nauseum

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(14:55) so that's called The White Post highway but there's just all these little eclectic things and these roads and you know what we try to avoid the big cities we'll get on the interstate ride through but if we can find these other ones there's just so many stories you know and and you and I have talked about this just stopping at more of these historical markers even if you stop at every third or fifth or 10th one something happened there that someone took the time to do say something yeah and I don't know it's like history that

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(15:54) topics and anything else you have on your mind today's Q&A comes from Mark and this question came in a little while ago but because we're talking about this it it's perfect so he's he's going to plan a ride this summer he said should I take the Minnesota Northshore road yeah or the Great River Road what what should I do uh where should I go this summer yeah we've we've been on them both I don't know that we haven't taken we haven't ridden from duth all the way to

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(16:54) seen a pine tree like that before and I can't see the stinking Lake you know so so many of the these roads are so even if you're less than an eighth of a mile away sometimes you still can't see the the lake um so I for me the Great River Road is so amazing and so varied you know like just and then jump over on the other side and it's almost like a completely different like ride you know and it's you can see the road you're on so for me Great River Road all day but the NorthShore is cool if you haven't

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(17:49) talking about foret what it's called but a lot of you'll see a lot of like um you know trailers and things going up so they're going to go over across the way yeah that's pretty cool too and how I don't remember now U stats but how long is Great River Road do you know I don't know I should know that I talk about it so much I know I was planning to go all the way from the the full Mississippi trip and I was figuring that was going to be close to um right around 1,000 miles I think or 8 800 maybe um so you

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(18:50) some big mosquitoes up there aren't there I remember we were up near there and it was just like we were stopping I'm like well put that on the ridewise for next time bu I mean vanilla whatever to get those things my gosh they were just attacking yeah that's right I'm glad you mentioned that cuz I forgot about that so great River Road uh Mark that's the one we would yeah highly recommend um I I don't know where he's leaving from so I don't know which is closer but he's heard us

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(19:50) think it's similar to it's kind of similar to what we did last time but it was raining we got so much rain two or three of those oh it terrible yeah it was rain half of the trip so yeah I do really like this and uh I mean there's a little more exploring in Decora from what I can see so yeah yeah I'm I'm looking forward to that yeah that's good um you know and I just two things I think it's interesting to review we we just literally maybe you know like within three trips ago we did this trip

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(20:47) a Gold Wing you've got a whole extra seat you can P I definitely have bags for that um boy I but I we've talked about this before like I didn't have enough space when we went to uh the eclipse trip I was in trouble like I mean I was it was bad yeah it was really bad so um so I'll have to revamp revamp things a little bit but no so yeah I mean I'm excited to go back and uh I don't know maybe this serpent Lake statue is probably my biggest thing so all right yeah if this episode revved up

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