Riding 1,200 miles to Michigan and back on my BMW R65
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- Every year I make at least one trip to visit my family, specifically on my motorcycle. Most years, I'd go to Indiana, but this year we decided to convene the clan in Michigan.
So I changed the oil on my trusty 1980 BMW R65 and set off across Appalachia and the Midwest to get there.
Already looking forward to your next video, keep 'em coming!
Great video and beautiful country ! Watched this on a nice morning with some chai. Life is good!
Makes me want to start this yearly tradition of visiting family on my Moto.
You should! Riding bikes and seeing family are always positives. :)
oh my god this guys video Is so damn entertaining!!
Beautiful ride...
Nice Bmw
Lovely looking trip (and video), I should have been editing a video but enjoyed watching that much more instead.
Haha god I know the feeling. This one took me a while, just chipping away an hour at a time. I feel your pain haha 🤝
I'm so happy I discovered your channel Ian! This is what youtube should be. Honest and well put together travel motorcycle travel vlogs.
Kind of getting addicted to the story telling.
Is your engine healthy? It sounds like it has too loose valve clearences or something else is knocking
I adjusted the valves after I got home, they were a little out of spec. I had the heads off recently to replace the pushrod seals and what I could see looked fairly healthy in there (according to more experienced airheads than me, that is). Didn't have the whole thing apart though.
Great video! Really thinking about getting an R65 because of you. Just cruising around. What mileage do you get? :)
Depends, when I'm just commuting to work I can get as bad as like 35mpg or so, but on road trips I usually average around 45mpg, I've hit 50 before. So...not great, not bad.
@@ihutch92 thankyou!! :)
Remember, it’s about smiles per gallon, not miles per gallon haha
@@ihutch92 100%!
I saw you filled up with low 89 octane gas. Do you ever use the high 93 octane gas? I have a '79 R45 and I remember seeing a label somewhere to use the higher octane stuff. I live in Spain and I've been on a few long trips. Barcelona-Santander then ferry to Plymouth. the all round the UK to the Start of northern Scotland and back. Another year a trip to Ireland. Same route but detoured to ferry to Cork and the Beara Peninsula and up to the Northern counties border and back. Wonderful memories. 30 years later I'll be taking the same steed around parts of Spain that I haven't been to. Great filming and storytelling on this and your other vlogs. Godspeed, Ian!
To be honest, I used 87 for the longest time and never had an issue with pinging, even on hot days. I’ve switched over to the midgrade stuff recently just to be safe, but I think on an engine with like 9.2:1 compression, 93 might just be overkill.
Those trips sound amazing, I go back to visit family in Ireland fairly often and I’d love to ride there, despite the rain. :)
I like your paper maps. I like planning everything from paper maps. It easier to see everything at a glance.
In fairness, the maps were for visual interest, I’m a huge fraud haha. I usually just plug my destination into google and choose to avoid highways.
Did plenty on mine. Twice a year from N Germany to Manchester Uk, 655 miles one way. Try it in winter. The bike did it thou with pillion
Oof, I’m a huge wimp for riding in the cold, don’t know if I could stomach that in the winter!
R65がかっこいい。音楽が心地よい。キャンプ地でのテント設営や釣りの画像は新鮮です。ツーリング途中で固定カメラでの撮影は面倒でしょうが、期待しています。しかしアメリカは道路がスゴイね。
Schönes und unterhaltsames Video und auf einer schönen und hoffentlich zuverlässigen R65👍 ✌️🇨🇭
Really enjoy your travels through the states, we don’t have so far to wonder here in the UK. That trip would have taken me to my family’s home in Ireland and back to London.
Awesome Ride, Glad I discovered an underrated channel , i would love to travel America's country roads and towns one day, brings such a good vibe to it. Love from India❤
You can't beat motorcycle camping. It's very liberating. Great video. Well done.
제가 원하는 스타일의 라이딩 영상이네요. 즐겁게 봤습니다.👍
Excellent, fantastic, you capture the essence of traveling by motorbike!
Cool bike! Great storytelling. Thanks for sharing.👍🏻
What a fantastic trip. Super professional production yet again, your content is truly outstanding 👌🏼
Thanks for taking us with you! Your cinematography is really becoming more polished.
Looking forward to the next one.
A mellow journey is a breathe of fresh air, you let beauty speak for itself. Well done.
Just binge watched a few of your vids. Great job editing and story telling! Sub-ed.
i live here in the philippines. i can relate much on this kind of riding plus the bonus of being present with the family. i enjoy this beautiful motovlog.
Thanks for the ride! A noce story on a pure motorcycle! Better than all the newest stuff!
Thanks for sharing. The R65 sounded great.
always great videos to watch in bed before I go to sleep
Nice video and great trip. Good to see, that it is not only raining in Nort Germany !
I love the style and pace of these videos. Well done
Watching through a TH-cam suggestion, beautiful interesting ride, watching from a rainy UK, ride safe 👍🏻
In fairness it’s grey and rainy here and has been for a week so I can sympathize somewhat. Ride safe. :)
I love the bike, great video!
Such great videos
Great video
Nice road trip video. But you should tell us a bit more about your R65. For example, I've always read they were rather underpowered and buzzy. Yours seems to go down the interstate with traffic just fine. After all, an old BMW R65 is a pretty rare choice for a touring bike these days.
I mean, it’s not the most powerful thing (roughly 40 horses I think) but it’ll still happily do 85 if I ask it to. Granted that’s not pleasant with no fairing, so I don’t do it much, but it can! I don’t find it particularly buzzy either, it has a slightly buzzy spot at like 4.25-4.5k rpm but other than that it’s quite smooth when the carbs are balanced. It’s definitely a rare choice for a touring bike, but it’s the bike I have so it’s the bike I use. Plus it encourages you to stick to backroads, which are always more fun anyways. :)
I had the same speedometer issue with my 1980 Suzuki GS850. A little blue Loctite took care of it. Not sure about your BMW but my old Suzuki is a vibey girl.
I actually added a little when I got home, hopefully won’t be a problem again. :) And no, it’s a fairly smooth ride! The R65s have a weird buzzy point from like 4.25-4.5k rpm, but other than that, pretty slick!
Stellar work, getting the notification of a new vid of yours was the highlight of my day! Love the format, style, camera work, everything. Top notch stuff!
That’s so kind of you! Glad to bring a little joy. :)
I was going to comment on the lack of evidence of regular maintenance on your bike and then I saw a previous post where you said you had the heads off. I know that's not the focus of your channel, but some brief insights as to what it takes to keep an airhead running (I have a '77 R100) might be interesting. I also appreciate your philosophy of riding where you are on trips you can work into your schedule, rather than epic adventures to exotic places most of us will never see. I did live in Ohio for a period and one of the few things I miss is the well-kept rural countryside. Beautiful in and of itself. Keep up the good work and thanks for the effort to publish your videos.
Oh I spend a lot of time doing work on the thing that’s for sure haha. Oil and valves every 5k, most other fluids every 10, tires, bearing greasing, carb cleaning, etc etc. but I look after her and she looks after me. :)
As always a great video.
I regret selling my R80RT back in 2016. I did a lot of miles and a lot of work on that bike and it was ‘my’ bike. Love these kind of journeys though. I need something or someone at the end to get me to ride this sort of distance. Your sister’s place looks beautiful.
I think that’s part of what I like most about this bike, it’s a shared relationship with the machine. It feels so much more satisfying to do long trips when you’ve put a bunch of time and labor and love into it.
Great trip! I rode from Indiana to Mountwood in Oct of 22 (see my avatar). I camped on the same hill, at the top site. It's an amazing place!
Oh yeah, I see your picture! It’s a great spot, I stop there once a year usually. Such a nice lake. Also I love “Backroads Pizza 2,” always makes me chuckle haha
My friend, as a fisherman, you are the greatest motorcycle storyteller on this site. Loved the video.
Shit fisherman though. :) Hope things are well friend
Just loved the video. 1980 model, huh?!!! I like the exhaust beat. 😃.
Yessir, 1980. “Champagne” colorwaze, hence my beloved nickname for the bike, the champagne shitbox haha :)
Keep the wheels turning, fellow cat whisperer.
But if I keep the wheels turning, then I don’t see my own cat at home, that’s what really gets me back to base haha. :)
Very nice video, thanks. If I may, I started riding with a cover and find that it keeps the bike dry and away from prying eyes. Not too bulky, either.
I’ve brought them on some trips before, like one to NY. Honestly I ride through enough rain that I can’t be arsed too much anymore tho haha
@@ihutch92 lol, I never did either but I’m quite a bit older and arsing becomes more of a thing! All the best!
This is poetic!! ❤️❤️
You gotta read more poetry, this isn’t that great haha :)
I tried the "local" counter, but I don't think you said it once this time... might have to count "little" though hahaha i am just messin with you. Not sure why that stuck out to me
16:36 This was siiiccckkk
21:08 aww so wholesome, bet that was such a nice week
25:40 I am not sure how you resisted going under that. I have a hard time resisting when im in my car and I KNOW that wouldn't fit
I’m gonna be going through these scripts with a rule of each word being only said once at this rate haha.
@@ihutch92 hahaha that’d make for a very interesting video 😂 things would get real tricky after the first couple adjectives haha. All seriousness though your narration is awesome don’t change a thing. Lookin forward to the next one 🤙