Best Motorcycle Roads - Episode 31: Discover Wisconsin's Top Motorcycle Roads

Join us as we explore the top motorcycle roads in Wisconsin, including hidden gems like the Driftless Area and the Great River Road. Plus, we discuss essential multi-tools and first aid kits for your ride.

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⏰ Timecodes ⏰

0:00 - Teaser

0:15 - Intro

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

1:30 - The Toolkit (Multi-Tools & First Aid Kits)

4:10 - Ride Wise (Planning Tips for Wisconsin Motorcycle Rides)

7:09 - Mile Marker (Top 5 Wisconsin Motorcycle Roads)

7:45 - Eau Claire to La Crosse (Black River Falls)

9:30 - Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest Ride

10:34 - Ride the Alphabet (County Roads)

10:34 - Wisconsin Great River Road

11:42 - Driftless Area

13:41 - Website & Subscribe

14:13 - Roadside Q&A (Hidden Gem Roads in Wisconsin)

17:32 - The Last Mile (Reflections on Wisconsin)

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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 031 - Top 5 Motorcycle Roads of Wisconsin - Best Motorcycle Roads - YouTube

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(00:38) 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 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're going to talk about multi-tools and first aid kits in the

(01:42) an adjustable wrench so it's really good to at least have a toolkit and have it in a place where you can kind of grab it close you don't want to have to unpack everything to get it out so a lot of the bags um if you don't have a tank bag a lot of the bags have little pockets on the sides and those are great places is to to put something like that um with that I always carry a little bit of paracord too because it seems like those two can go hand in hand and then go ahead uh so I used to have a multi- tool

(02:45) first time use it is when you need it um and the Pliers are usually are good enough so but yeah a little bit of wire sometimes is nice too you can kind of fabricate a little cinching you know piece and zip tie a zip tie yeah you can pull a zip tie tight cut off the The Edge yeah but yeah I mean if you want to spend the Box you know Leatherman has some really really nice ones but there's a lot of other one Gerber kind of mid-range to just kind of generic so I should avoid uh the what's that the Harbor Freight Tools I'm a huge fan of

(03:40) staying that night uh you just never know um it's it's not it isn't it's pretty cheap to have a decent uh first aid kit and yeah man does it make a big difference if something happens yeah I I know I've got one in my bike all the time ridewise is the section we focus on planning and safety tips so today for planning and safety tips um I just wanted to focus on since we're talking about Wisconsin um just a couple of the kind of hidden gems maybe uh one of those would be like the w d RI Valley River

(04:45) like East Central Wisconsin all right just tons of birds that they've got you know boardwalks that go through this big marshy area uh but the roads there you've got a mix of like Scenic back roads country highways it's it's perfect for a nice relaxed ride um I I would just and if you if you're into that you can stop at the U they've got an education center there at the horin marsh so uh just an unique uh ecosystem that you can find birds and wildlife there that you can't find any place else

(05:47) to pick one state and one state only ever did ride in with motorcycles in I think I might pick Wisconsin you know it might not be the total top fives of the you know but boy the mix is quite impressive so yeah we'll talk through some of that now um at number five we kind of have a ride that goes from eclair to lacr and then back um through while you're doing that um is the Black River fallos and that's it's nothing too special but it's just um it's one of these places that really just the

(06:56) brewing company is there in Black River Falls so that's a local brew and then Lacrosse on the river has some really great options and one of them that's really cool is called the Waterfront Restaurant and Tavern so just a great uh you know lacrosse may be just that like iconic Wisconsin town it's got a little bit of everything really the beer the river yeah a bunch of dudes no that' be what yeah uh number four is the chaan nicholet national forest rid so that's near where you were talking

(07:59) iron W kind of in that same area um what a beautiful ride not a lot of roads but the roads you're riding on are just interesting um so that would be like copper fall State Park um there there are some waterfalls actually in that area um The Pines the Pines restaurant in Mercer is a great place to eat as well as the Pine Tree Supper Club in Tomahawk so those areas are just really nice um you can avoid some of the major highways and you're just kind of tooling through the these old towns and I don't

(09:00) but uh you get all of the like I guess the iconic dairy land is what I think of when I think of this part of the of Wisconsin rolling Farmland I mean you'll see the wildest you'll just come down through in a valley and one side will be person's uh house and on the other side you can see it's a dairy barn and I mean they're probably 40 feet apart and you're driving through the middle of it yeah um just just quaint little towns lesser known Scenic ruds um some options here is we've done this for is loop from

(10:07) like you can only buy some of these beers in Wisconsin so you'll see a lot of people going across the border to to go to bars to get those beers but it's a it's a cool little Brewing Company it's kind of cool that they've kind of kept it in state not worried about kind of going crazy so yeah and I think they might be 100% employee owned as well oh really I think oh interesting yeah yeah um you can't forget the Wisconsin Great River Road that's our number two um you know right along the western edge of

(11:07) like a deck over overlooking overlooking the river and then buav Vista Park in Alma Wisconsin has just some of the most amazing views just can't can't get away from those if you're looking for like photography and things like that and then number one I guess is less a road and mor in area again and I I just can't I just love the driftless area um it's just a unique place on Earth you know the basically what happened or what the story is is the glaciers never touch this area so it's actually Wisconsin

(12:12) but and then also the towns of aroqua and gaze Mills are two really great places and we can kind of highlight one of like if we were looking at highlighting the driftless area what I would recommend is starting lacrosse go to gaze Mills Wisconsin um there's Wildcat Mountain State Park you can go that on Highway 33 and then Wildcat state Mountain to veroa veroa is kind of middle of the southern Wisconsin that's Highway 131 yeah and then veroa to gay Mills gay Mills is just Bluff Bluffs Bluffs and then the best time to ride is

(13:13) area but maybe haven't stopped at the river um but yeah this I I couldn't agree more that anywhere you go to Wisconsin fantastic roads yeah scenery Wildlife just amazing views over lakes and rivers man and and you're going to see all these roads we talk about are really on the westish side now there's things to see on the other side I mean there's Green Bay and there's Milwaukee so there's clearly things to do in those areas but for me unless I was driving up to Michigan it's just not quite as good

(14:16) but Wisconsin is the most unique inventors around because also you start to look at like history of tractors there's tons of trctor history of tractors also there too so the podcast can be found on best motorcycl roads.com SL 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

(15:23) the Eastern kind of and that's the thumb of the MTH right yes yeah the Eastern Shore door County it's the that Coastal byway uh Jets out into Lake Michigan and there's just really just stunning views along the way and little little towns and Villages um efham Fish Creek yeah there's lots of ligh houses along the way that is cool I mean yeah I don't know if i' they call them beaches I don't know it's not what it's a rocky Beach it's a rocky Beach yeah I agree and and state parks there's lots of

(16:22) but I mean it's wide open spaces it and it's it's pretty vast but it does get crowded you know on the weekends uh you know the roads would um and then another um not not exactly hidden gym but I would say Devil's Lake State Park uh there's a there's a like a 500 foot um Bluff that overlooks um the lake their Devil's Lake and that's called uh qu quartzite I think it's quartzite Bluff yeah uh or you can go to Peninsula State Park it's got a uh a kind of a coastline along uh along the Eagle Bluff

(17:32) the way we close out the episode with our Reflections and kind of things that we thought of so what do you thinking Todd well I I just have to say that much like Missouri uh Wisconsin is just a state you can't go wrong for riding motorcycles uh get yourself lost if you want you don't necessarily have to follow a route um just amazing scenery they've got Lakes they've got state parks winding roads overlooks uh the driftless area it's it's a fantastic place for riding motorcycles for food

(18:37) making a second documentary and the guy actually that was kind of leading it past so I'm not sure where the status of that is but it's fantastic to learn and it's just some of the most unique on Earth actually I mean I know one of them and I maybe have talked about it before but there's some um they call them ice flu it's like underground Ice Caves that shoot air up and it comes out of these Limestone flu at like 33° and one um just variety of flower grows there because it's like almost like an Arctic

(19:37) probably why we leaned heavy to the west side but the west side is amazing I mean you can see all the stuff on the east side with a car or bike almost doesn't matter but boy the West Side enjoying that on a motorcycle every so often just kicking off on one of these alphabet roads it's so amazing it just kind of feels like you're in two different places yeah agreed and it's so crazy that I've you know I've lived here for 35 years I I didn't even learn about the driftless area so just a few years ago

(20:30) about the thrill of the ride and the bond it creates keep the spirit of Adventure alive and remember bikes friends and endless roads the stories ride forever take care [Music] [Music]