3,000 Miles Solo on a Triumph Bonneville from NYC to Canada - Motorcycle Adventure
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Join me on my dirt and pavement adventure, filmed on 3 cameras, riding 3000 miles on my motorcycle to journey from New York City to Fundy National Park in Canada on a Triumph Bonneville SE during May. I spent a few rainy days in Acadia National Park in Maine (primarily riding Park Loop Road on Mt. Desert Isle), and headed north up Route 1 "Maine's Big Sur", to the Fundy Coast in Canada. Plenty of logging roads, winding coastal roads, and even a little bit of snow. I chose to motocamp most nights, despite the cold weather in Canada.
Name of Film: On the Bird in the Cage
Philosophical topic explored: Dualistic Thinking.
Initial Quote by Robert Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
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"...not afraid to die, afraid to have never lived.." kind of captures the essence of motorcycling. I''ll be quoting that in future!
💯, me too.
I like: You never truly know a woman, until you meet her in court".
great quote and should be used in all aspect of existence. Loved your video..in the future I am going to buy me a honda supercup and explore some more...once I become to old to keep riding my bicycle across continents like I have so far in my life.
perfect
I love to ride a motorcycle but I think that with that speech he is just licking his own balls.
This my be the best why we ride video on the internet, and I can't think of a more perfect bike for it.
Triumph Bonneville.. it could have been a better trip if he rode a street bob or any harley 750
@@rodolfosabater7781 ok boomer
@@philipli4085 -🤣 honestly im young still in my 30's dont get me wrong I like Triumph motorcycles especially the Rocket 3.. however Harley Davidson is still "The Harley davidson" whichever way you put it.. it is Iconic the brand the logo the motorcycle.. triumph is an english brand and its best if they just stay in england....
Royal Enfield
A Honda C90 is much better.
Riding a motorcycle is like riding the wind, you can feel the freedom as you travel.
Indeed
I bet. I have never done a bike trip but I could relate it to camping (which I love) instead of renting a house. When camping you feel on vacation 24/7
@@Yasmin-pi5pr Just imagine sitting on a rocket that will take you wherever you want to go.
@@derp195 sounds really good =D
The wind can also be a massive jerk!
The landscapes, the motorcycle, the narration...! It's all so inspiring! Makes me want to ride my motorcycle right now as far as possible! Congrats, mate!
True !!
Let's ride for Pride!
You're living a life many of us dream of!
Buy a motorcycle, drone, go pro, and drive any where you like.
this is literally an achievable dream dude c'mon
I am 15 right now but I would love to travel these countries with bike.
Canada, US, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, India, China(if possible), Japan
Australia too
In india u cant ride solo.... Ya to naxal ya lootere milenge
"When your in car everything you watch through your windshield is watching TV" iam impressed...you have my respect rider 🥰 Love from Southern Indian (On Behalf of Kerala & TN riders )
Add me too...
Love from kerala 😘😘
He's quoting "zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance"
A great book.
Kudos, Lots of love from 💕Tamilnadu💕.
KL♥️
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In lockdown here in Ireland, just discovered your video,great scenery and narrative, really enjoyed it,have a triumph t100, & BMW, 2 twins,great bikes.
Trying to find a T120 in Ireland but so difficult...
Yes ,they are.
I loved traveling in Ireland 🇮🇪, really wish I had a bike at the time to enjoy that lovely green scenery.
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance: A visual representation of sorts.
I love it Chris! My good friend Jay and I drove our motorcycles the entire way around Ireland last summer, wild camping along the coastline, stopping off to climb mountains along the way. It was the best adventure I've ever had. Jay and I had so many conversations about the trip, how the journey became the destination! You've captured all the conversation we had in one 6 minute video, you've summed it up beautifully! Well done.
Sounds like you and Jay did it right. Ireland appears to have quite incredible coastal roads. It’s certainly on my list - just not sure how adept I’d be at driving on the left side of the road...
Your opening words sum up the appeal of riding a motorcycle. Well said..
I’ve been captured by motorcycling since 1969. Returned to the sport seriously 2 years ago. As a result, I watch a lot of moto vids. You my man have done an excellent vid. Love the images and your commentary. Keep it up.
I loved it... The landscape... The Wind... The Day... The Night... The Motorcycle.... The Thumping Sound... The Life....
Beautiful video, bike and scenery...
This channel should be a world heritage, your reflections and thoughts about the world and yourself are incredible, please keep bringing us more content
"Afraid to have never lived" ............ Great line.......................... Great video............
Great trip an a great bike. And nicely filmed. Thanks for sharing. Cheers
"I am not afriad to die, I am afraid to have never lived" RESPECT.
Rode up to Nova Scotia with a friend a few years ago, and my ride was also a Bonnie (2010 model). Did the southern (lighthouse) route from Yarmouth, then continued east to do the Cabot Trail. Returned to the States via New Brunswick. Easily one of the best trips of my life.
Great video 👍🏻 Thanks for sharing.
Wharf rat rally??
@@clintonw6409 I wish, but sadly no. Just a buddy and I doing a leisurely 2-week circuit of New England and the Atlantic provinces. And during the entire trip, it only rained once. It was perfect!
I have a long term illness which prevents me from riding any more. I have good days and bad days. Today isn’t a good day. I’ve just discovered your channel and am going to watch your videos all day. Thank you.
Nice vid man! We cannot emphasize too much that making motorcyle trips is the ultimate freedom experience!
Wow I absolutely concur with you biker brother you hit the nail on the head as to why motorcycle riders get the freedom bug, thanks for sharing buddy I have a new T120 and love it kind regards from James in uk👌☺️🏍👍
Watching this video, I felt like you were saying something all of us have in back of our minds but cant express it. Damn beautiful footage to go along with it. This is now a route I want to take one day.
The best part of the adventure - it's a Triumph.
Nope its a Bloorshite.......
.....a Hinckley Triumph....an electronic oldstylebike....much the same as Yamaha or Suzuki or BMW......and has nothin' to do with a real Triumph.......
@@catweazle2090 so what?
@@kaleidostar257 ...sorry - have just spoken to myself.....so what.....
Made in Thailand with Chinese parts 😂
This really expresses my own feelings about what pulled me to motorbikes. It shuts the nagging world out. And its raw! And we don't live forever. Im Quite happy to sacrifice a boring life early to gain the feeling of freedom on a bike on the open road and feeling the sun wind and rain on my face before i decompose in the ground...
Spot on explanation of riding. I lived in Australia for 10 years before returning to Canada. I only rode motorcycles. Didn't own a car. Because I could ride year round. This video is exactly the same thing I would tell all my friends. And I toured all over the eastern part of Australia. Still ride today, but its only half of the year now.
Motorcycle riding is indeed the ultimate expression of human freedom on the highways...facing real obstacles and comforts life can offer yet very rewarding.
I stumbled across this video randomly looking at motorcycle content, and I have to say you put riding into a context that I feel every time I ride but find difficult to express to people. I'm actually looking to get a Triumph Street Twin this year as my second motorcycle. Can't wait to keep on living.
I'm nearly 62 years old, and got my motorcycle license at the age of 18. So I've been riding for close to 44 years. I've taken numerous long distance motorcycle trips in those years. My last one almost 8000 miles, in 20 days.
Along the way, over the years, I've also run across many other older two wheeled travelers, like myself. Crossing the U.S., or at least several states, on a trip with no destination. "Reveling in the bliss of the journey", as we've jokingly quipped. It is always a joy to share the happiness of our experiences, when you run into people at gas stops, campgrounds, and road side restaurants. It feels like running into old friends. People that are also, older two wheeled veterans of the road, out there, "drinking-in their universe". Often times no schedule to keep. No one expecting you to show up at point "B", at a certain time.
In my travels, I'll typically cover 350-500 miles per day. On my last trip I logged one 952 mile day, one 740 mile day, and the rest between 350-500 miles. Among we veterans of the road, that I've conversed with, it seems universally true that we have one thing in common, the appreciation of having a machine, that doesn't unnecessarily fatigue you. The subject often gets around to the noise level of our bikes. Most agree that they've found over the years, that quieter is better.
I ride a 2013 Yamaha FJR1300a. She's my Japanese mistress. My best friend.
I watch a lot of TH-cam videos. Mostly related to motorcycle travel, nomadic/ camping living and such, as well as motorcycle reviews.
Occasionally I notice with younger people giving reviews of ADV motorcycles, and speaking of mods that they recommend, is the tendency to recommend a louder exhaust system. I usually chalk that up to people who seldom do multi-day motorcycle trips, and over a hundred miles a day. It's okay because often times it takes a person quite a while before they figure out the magic combinations of factors and comforts that make their traveling an adventure in bliss. That is to say, "I've had loud pipes"........ now I know better. ON TO BLISS.............
Mine is having my Android Smart phone, with a mini SD card, for music storage. Also my set of Bose Noise canceling ear buds, and an inline amplifier. My earbuds switched on, with my Shoei Air GT helmet in combination with the stock quiet exhaust system, blocks out at least 75% of all the ambient noise. Typically I'll be listening to navigation information with music, or an Audible book of my choice, or a podcast. Sometimes TH-cam videos. The experience of riding and enjoying the smells of the nature around me, the blissful scenery zipping by, while listening to something other than the fatiguing drone of exhaust system noise, is as close to heaven as I'm going to get, in my time on earth.
In 2016, "my 8000 miler", I stopped over night in Bozeman, Montana, on my way to Kalispell. The next morning I woke to rain storms, and showers, that would end up lasting for nearly four hours of my ride. It was about 65 degrees(mid August), in Bozeman, and I wasn't about to stand around for several hours under the hotel car awning, with "car" travelers, waiting on a change of weather to come. I donned my rain suit and temporarily my ball cap, and rode my cycle into the carport to load it. Needless to say, the looks I got spoke volumes......... "A 56 year old man on a motorcycle, getting ready to ride off into a rain shower". They didn't have to say what they were thinking. Myself, enjoying the smell of the ionized summer rain shower.
So.... off I went, listening to an audible book about John Adams, and a British girl in my Waze App. I'd like to think that when I rode into sunny Kalispell, Montana, at @ in the afternoon, and a 78 degree temperature, that the "car people" were still standing under the car port, in Bozeman, waiting on "the love of my life", mother nature, to change her mind. Do you know how great it is to ride through Montana, with Swan Lake on one side of you, and Flathead National Forest on the other side, while listening to john Denver sing Sweet Surrender ? It beats the hell out of exhaust noise.
I’m surprised that someone in the world can pop that popcorn properly
We feel the same about Motorcycles, it seems. Roll on, My Friend.
Beutiful scenery and editing! It really captures the feeling of why you should ride motorcycles, explore and live life to its fullest!
So well said and done. Art! That video and narrative was amazing, spot on!
Greatness! Very nice work!
one of the best moto film that I've ever seen
I was hoping for a feast and you gave me pop corn?!
Man, I just added another item to my bucket list. Thank you.
Your intro sound remarkably like Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, a nod to Robert M. Pirsig may be in order.
He says it is in the description.
@JP Chandler if you buy that book don't try and read it a lot at a time like a normal book. It's like sippin whiskey. You take a sip at a time and think on it. It's philosophy and explores art and the intangible essence of quality.
Triumphs are the most beautiful bikes available as far as current models on the market.
@@ChrisIronhardt My Speed Twin might be available for purchase at my estate sale. But never before then.
I just rode a 2400 km (1500 miles) trip between the South and Southeast of Brazil, and I can't think of a better description of the feeling of riding than yours here. The trip was a soul-warming experience.
By the way, your content is incredible! Hope to see more from you.
Qual trajeto você fez? Estou pensando em fazer uma viagem nesse estilo também, tem alguma recomendação de cidade, percurso?
@@taksuii eu subi do sul de Santa Catarina pela BR-101, beirando o mar até Itajaí, subi para Curitiba e segui até Campos do Jordão, em SP. Na volta, desci pelo Rastro da Serpente até Curitiba, e depois retornei para SC. O Rastro da Serpente é deslumbrante, vale muito os quilômetros a mais, basta ter atenção e ir com cuidado.
This is best video for bike ride adventureres, reminds me of why I ride
It's really hard work. Filming this stuff when you ride alone. I know your effort.
Good day to you!
I am HONDA Cub grandpa from Japan !
I love nature and freedom.
It is so nice tour video !
Looks so great adventure !
Thank you for sharing! !
Have a nice day my friend !
Simply breathtaking shots and loved your motovlog.....
When I was younger, I did the long distance, wet, cold, motorcycle thing. These days I prefer the comfort of my VW golf. I also found that too much obsession on living my life, caused me to miss out on what was actually going on in my life ! Thanks, Rick…..
Great, you should watch the movie One Week.
I was just going to write this.
beautiful narration of feelings and the connect to the reason of motorcycling to oneself.
Thanks Anil!
This was my great great grandmother’s first bike. RIP grandma Claudette
I have one Bonneville and i can understand your emotion. i do a lot of travel too. it is not about being reached. it is about the feeling to be reached. and that feeling can only be achieved by a motorcycle. cutting drizzles through those hypnotic rumbles on a bonnie is just priceless.
This kind of motorcycle isn`t the best for this ride, but the most important is the adventure. Amazing trip, congratulations from Brazil.
Good to watch your trip. 👍
At night where did you sleep?
I noticed you only had a backpack.
He wrote „motocamping“. I also wondered where he put all of the equipment like tent, sleeping bag, all of the camera stuff incl. drone etc….
Dozens of countrys on hundred of bikes since 83
Nicely said .
Vancouver Island is the most beautiful ride of my life, Ireland, India top three on a bike for me .
Finally buckett list
Isle of man this spring for the tt.
Great vid
Fabulous scenery superbly filmed. I live in Sydney, Australia and have a T120 and thinking about similar type of road trip.
Wowwwww.....the best narration of life 😍
This is my favourite video of all time.
You totally get it. Love the bike, the journey and the philosophy. Don’t look back. There’s a reason the rear view mirror is small. What’s in the past isn’t nearly as important as what’s in front of you.
My big ride was in 1970. I rode my '68 Bonneville from Ontario, Canada to Southern California. Almost 3,000 miles. Wish I had never stopped riding. Thanks for sharing the video.
Sounds like an incredible trip! What made you stop riding?
3000 miles with just a small backpack?! Please tell us everything you have in that backpack😂❤️
Seriously!
Gopro, drone and credit card, what more you need? :-D Maybe bottle of water too
@@rosko_expert 😂😂😂 good one! Maybe even room for a toothbrush 😜
Awesome video and view on life, thanks!
"I usually don't "like" videos. But when I do, I only "like" quality Motorcycle contents!" And this is it. Quality content! ♥️ Great work man! (I Love the intro) Ride safe!
Thanks brother
Nice video. You might enjoy a canoe trip in northern Canada, maybe the NWT or YK. No machines. Just a canoe. It is glorious.
Rode my 2012 Bonneville SE from Niagara Falls NY to San Diego CA in 2012. Best three months of my life. Great video!
Man this video cured my depression and sadness...❤️
And all the way, we see God creation and we can adore Him so much...
The U.S. is such a beautiful country to ride, I did 19000 miles in 18 weeks of holidays, the best riding I have ever done.
Until you put your helmet on and it’s just like a screen again
You’ve obviously never ridden a motorcycle, or read Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance
👏👏👏 Beautiful and very poetic brother. Keep exploring and living. Be well. JB
You Feel Freeman when you Ride in Adventure ,..healing..
Working harder as much as I can in the present. And I know in the future I'll be able to buy my own motorcycle and do the same :)
Great video. The journey, the reflections, the scenery...all in a package of meaning and awareness. Thank you for sharing.
Watching you ride gave me a sense of freedom during this Pandemic
Cheers - thanks Direk
Most simple philosophy if you have doubts whether it's worth living through it all or not go on a bike trip and see it for yourself the beauty that you couldn't see.
was für einen genialer Trip. Kompliment
Best video on road trip, with great background music and your play with words.
Truely a beautiful narrative and video! It makes me wanna go for a week long ride and see where i end up
Just finished riding from bali to east java and spend 1 weeks to explore little bit of east java, spend 1200 km on the road with kawasaki W175TR. All you said in this video are true, spend most of all my time in raining condition but always enjoyed the journey. What a great adventure can't wait for my next adventure
Amazingly nice scene . Waiting to enjoy more videos .
When you have freedom to ride you choose the best route to travel , NYC to Canada is best route I loved to watch this video 😍
After two years TH-cam recommended this to me. This is so nice ❤️
Cheers thanks Basura
thank you for opening my eyes!
Best Video ❤️🥺 Left me in Tears...
I love your introduction on the difference between car & motorcycles. Such a message there, i only had the chance to ride a motorcycle once but i'm an avid bike rider & certainly the freedom that comes from riding a 2wheeler and the connection that happens to nature is real deep, even walking/trailing in nature won't do me like riding does on a bike.
Real freedom like this you'll never experience in your routine life, you need to seek discomfort every now & then to really feel what it's like.
I did Vancouver BC to Ottawa Ontario in Summer of 2019 on my 2013 Triumph Bonneville, mostly camping. Looks like you didn't have nearly as much gear as I did....tent, stove, camp chair, plus the largest item, a good sleeping bag. Just about all I met said the Bonneville is the wrong bike for this type of trip! Of course, there are better choices, but this is the way it used to be done!
I ride a Bonneville. A motorcycle has always been a consolation prize for covering the country on a fine horse, of course. The horse alas has dropped off our radar almost entirely, but all those roads and cars and such make cross country travel by horse (which is self-fueling) too dangerous and difficult anyway, now. Meanwhile the motorcycle is helluva a consolation prize, and top of the list is Triumph. Good little film, thanks.
Nice bro enjoy the beautiful way of life that you found for yourself
Chris, thank you so much for this video.!
If anyone want to know why some of us ride a motorcycle, listen to Chris from 3.35 to 4.55. If you don't get it still, I am sorry you might never will.
Love and peace to you from India my brother, keep revving. Always stay safe.
Your line of narration is so inspiring, made me wanna start my journey..love it..thanks..
Deep, moving, and insightful. Certainly, it is the journey, not the destination, that is the adventure. More videos & safe travels 🚲
Started riding after 11 years and the feeling is priceless
That closing scene with the lighthouse was amazing, wow!
amazing man, 3 years later!
The Bonneville, the bike you keep for ever.
I love your commentary. You truly capture the spirit of life through the lens of a motorcycle traveler.
That opening monologue was pure poetry! Well done.
very well presented! A beautiful location, wonderful narration and a marvellous bike!
Hope youtube algorithm evolves not just giving u recommendation or even search of a content with high views but shallow stories/presentation.
Because this video is why i ride and its awesome!!!
this video was therapeutic ❤
amazing, thinking about taking my T100 up the coast of California. This video might have just made up my mind for me.
I've only driven the CA coast in a car but it is magical
Very nice and well made video. Great landscapes.makes you want to ride this moment with no plans and destinations
Ride safe..
Thank you for another great video, Chris. The ferro rod strike @4:55 was the coolest of cool guy tricks I've seen in a while.............and perfectly timed for affect with the line about living. Masterfully executed.
Your videos refresh my soul. God bless you.