Best Motorcycle Roads - Episode 29: Exploring the Top 5 Motorcycle Roads in Missouri

Discover Missouri's best motorcycle roads, from the Glade Top Trail to the iconic Route 66. We also cover hydration tips for your ride and essential gear for staying hydrated on long trips.

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⏰ Timecodes ⏰

0:00 - Teaser

0:15 - Intro

1:00 - Pre-Roll (Email List Promotion)

1:30 - The Toolkit (Hydration Options for Motorcycles)

4:24 - Ride Wise (Hydration Tips for Hot Weather Riding)

10:06 - Mile Marker (Top 5 Missouri Motorcycle Roads)

10:43 - Glade Top Trail

13:18 - Ozark Hellbender

14:54 - Missouri Highway 90

16:28 - Missouri 19

17:35 - Route 66

19:48 - Website & Subscribe

20:25 - Roadside Q&A (Tips for Riding Route 66)

23:35 - The Last Mile (Reflections on Missouri)

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Welcome to Best Motorcycle Roads! Hosted by Tom and Todd, we share our 65+ years of motorcycling experience to help you make your next motorcycle trip the best it can be. Each episode dives into technology, planning, packing, routes, and everything in between. From essential prep to unforgettable routes, we've got you covered.

Episode 029 - Top 5 Motorcycle Roads of Missouri - Best Motorcycle Roads - YouTube

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(00:41) 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 because they have so much moonshine and jugs in Missouri I figured maybe we should talk about hydration water water

(01:52) when I would go to take a drink you know raise the the chin bar up and then I'd have to tip my head way back well then you lose sight of the road so what I've done more recently the last few trips is I've got a you know water bottle that's got you know the flip up suction tube at the top with a straw away at the bottom so all right I keep my face you know looking down the road and then I can just you know suck water up from the bottom that works a lot but it's so much safer oh good yeah the second thing is

(02:48) not like it's not a cooler or anything so I think you know yes and it gets really hot in the tube and then it gets you know it's not you don't really put ice in those it's really just water yeah so um um so I think they're not terrible they're better than nothing and then kind of the thing that I've seen more and more people doing and there's a few accessories out there but they just buy kind of a regular old good siiz jug and then they'll put a hole through the cap and then they'll feed a like a hydration

(03:48) gallon insulated jugun the thing is Big um and it came with a kind of a sleeve a neoprene sleeve and so what I think I'm going to do is that neoprene sleeve has some attach M on it so I think what I'm going to do is attach that to my rear seat luggage run the tube somewhere you know to be determined um and and see how that works um just as a test uh because you hate to stop and get a water bottle water bottle gets hot this H you know so I need to do a couple things is kind of test out how long does it take

(04:53) a motorcycle on the Melt you know the how much the ice would melt rather than just sitting in the sun right there's probably a big difference there too so exactly so you almost have to like set it outside in the sun or something um give it a little test to see but you know we talk about hydration a lot and that's one of those things that you know and I guess for me too it's it's such a I think what I end up tend to do is I do a good job in the morning I'll drink water in the morning then I'll have and

(05:47) to the bottom of the uh yeah so A good rule of thumb is 1 liter which is 32 o approximately uh for every hour of riding okay so you're going 10 and well you got 128 not gallons ounces both and you know you're so that'll get you what four five hours is get the water that means you're going to drink 8 ounces of water every 15 minutes I can't I mean that is a lot of water just sip it okay one constant sip of water do not stop no but either way either way yeah that's on a really hot day that's just a

(06:53) going in late July on a big trip and it's 90s hundreds you know we're riding out west it's going to be hot so yeah I mean I think more is better yeah nothing work worse than a leg cramp on a motorcycle or a hip cramp uh also you might want to think about uh having a a small cooler with some uh fruits and and vegetables that are high in water content watermelon you know celery cucumbers uh any of that kind of stuff that's got a lot of water in it yeah um not only help fill you up but then beef

(08:01) the better well and I think that's where these kind of you know from the cup to the camel pack to the you know this kind of jug with a with a tube cuz I think of times when you think I could use a drink water but like I'm not stopping it's in the back it's this it's that and so like you know maybe this is a good way to go so yeah mhm and uh you know really just listen to your body um don't wait until you feel really parched to start drinking just again just kind drink as you go and you've already

(09:03) is cuz you should it just feels odd that okay hey I'm riding on the motorcycle going 65 miles hour down the road and I'm going to fall asleep you know and it's like what in the world so yeah uh the other thing that can uh kind of dry you out make you dehydrated is like sugary drinks uh or caffeine which I love I love a giant jug of coffee in the morning but you know those things can help dry you out or you know make it make it worse and then you know wearing clothing that kind of covers up you know that's that's got you

(10:06) episode series kind of talking about the top five best motorcycle roads in the midwest so today is number two of six and we're going to talk about we're going to talk about Missouri today so top five motorcycle roads in Missouri again I'm sure we missed some please comment complain whne in the comments that would be great uh but really I mean Missouri has some some great roads it really does mini mountains in the Ozarks River rides on both sides oh wow and just probably some you know big cities to visit which is kind of fun for some

(11:18) talked about this I'm not sure if there's a best season because it's hot or nice and spring and fall are nice and and summer and well winter's not hot but it's you know but I will say in this area careful with um the roads cuz there's a lot of gravel and logging roads in these areas so ones that look really squiggly on on paper don't look so good when you get there it's gravel mud and then don't always the because a lot of the now Harley has some great GPS that has gravel a lot of gravel roads

(12:19) yeah the best place to always look is at a corner at like an intersection because when you look at it sometimes you're not sure but usually it'll be a very stark contrast between a paved Road and a gravel road when you look at the combo of the two so yeah that's they probably don't have street view in those areas right some but not many some but not many I know yeah gravel roads maybe that's the tri maybe that's the maybe that's it if there's no street view view yeah no it's that could be it you may be

(13:18) the coolness um it's just um south and east of Fort leonardwood um there was a time though I will tell you that we rode through there I don't think you were with us that time if you ride through a military base um we had to not everyone had um I think I was wearing shorts shocker and then there was a couple guys that weren't wearing gloves and every piece of skin must be covered and they were really protective about the ankles and and stuff so like luckily everyone had long ankled cover no boots like if

(14:18) some fun um some areas there oh that sounds good yeah yeah uh the third is Missouri Highway 90 so that's basically um and again I've never I was been in this area one time when when we did the the first Eclipse trip when you guys split we were down in this neighborhood but I don't think we rode this road because we were doing East we were going north south and this is more of an East West so it's called Missouri Highway 90 um if you go to Lost Oklahoma and then I hav an a clue to Arkansas not real town names but that's

(15:29) plenty of trees um but I would say you know it's only 45 miles but check the fuel before you start um I thought kind of the some of the names of the towns were pretty cool um that were on there Noel Jane Arnette Cove and it ends up at the Washburn at the Trojan PQ mart but uh and then there's at least one church every 2.

(16:28) um just quite a bit less than they were in the past but it's it's the best time to ride is fall but really we've rode this all year round um it's really close to Hannibal is when you kind of jump on and all the way down unbelievable roads um we love a place in the middle called the Bixby Country Store um homemade food and everything just nice people but this this road I mean for the length that it's that it is it's it's a great Road 200 62 miles on the same Highway take some breaks and

(17:35) really great portion of of Route 66 is in Missouri um it starts in St Louis goes to Galina Kansas it's just the road right I mean there's some tons of places to stop it's kind of um happy and sad at the same time I guess for me when I think about it because this road is deteriorating and not physically but mentally um you know and I don't know if that's because the people that were nostalgic about this like we're kind of like the third generation of of people that know what Route 66 is and it's kind of just going

(18:47) one place that we just love is a place called The Wagon Wheel motel in Cuba Missouri uh it's just a vintage Route 66 the signs are they've restored all the signs yeah it's a hotel motel um with little cabins like little cute little cool little places cabins and then in the back we've talked about I think before but there's like covered parking and like picnic tables I don't know it's just like if I had to build a place that we could stay every single night on a trip this is what I would pick yeah me

(19:48) com 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 inter Ive 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 today's roadside Q&A comes from Marcus and Marcus was you know because we chose Missouri yeah asking about um Route 66 great choice do we have any tips about WR writing Route 66 and you know enjoy the enjoy the ride uh

(20:56) luck with them it's hard to syn them up but I'll bet yeah it'd be cool if they were GPS um yeah enabled but I mean some help you navigate the roads themselves I think and maybe not doing the narration but yeah um yeah that's that's really about what I know we've been talking about doing this as a bucket list item is maybe riding it One Direction and then having the the bikes you know shipped back or shipped out or whatever but um or maybe we'll just do the whole thing or you know go One Direction on

(22:04) look that up because honestly like at a bare minimum I feel like someone needs to at least document this like and it probably has been I just haven't seen it yeah but like man it's going it's crumbling quickly um and that's kind of sad but at the same time things move on but yeah I don't know if I was going to pick I'd say we ship bikes out and ride back cuz with you know you and Chris kind of both being from Chicago I think it' be cool to end in Chicago but yeah yeah a friend of m not a friend of mine

(23:02) way ped and so they've pulled the pavement or maybe it's there and just or dirt yeah dirt over the top but yeah he basically showed me like this road block and he said if you see down there that's Route 66 and it it was just dirt yeah I mean I get it you know like people don't get into it as much as they do but it's too bad yeah now we've come to the last mile it's our way to close the episode with our reflections of the day Todd what is your reflections of missoui well we you know we talked about our top five

(24:07) fun well and I know we've talked about the historical Battlegrounds I mean it's it's a Battleground State too I I would agree Todd I mean I think um you know m in Missouri there's not a lot of gravel roads either I mean there's some a few but you know it seems like you just kind of cruise along and everything turns out and there's some great barbecue oh gosh in that area too both sides Kansas City and St Louis um too so like I've never went hungry anywhere but for sure in Missouri if this episode reved up your