The Badlands Southbound: South Dakota Motorcycle Ride
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ธ.ค. 2024
- Pour yourself a drink, sit back and enjoy the ride with us as we make a second pass through South Dakota's incredible Badlands. Starting at the National Park's Pinnacles Entrance we follow Highway 240 as it carves its way south through the best of the Badlands. After a couple stops for wild Bighorn Sheep we arrive at Cedar Pass Lodge just as the sun sets across the Plains.
Featuring Paul Black's songs "Fly" and "Breathe"
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I just want to say your videos are part of my inspiration to check out the Badlands this summer. Thank you for sharing!
That is awesome to hear. I just want to say that comments such as yours inspire me to keep on producing videos. Thank you for watching, and commenting.
The Badlands are pretty spectacular, you are going to have a great visit!
Robert Merz I came across your channel while planning a trip to Colorado this summer. There are many places that I discovered as a result of watching your videos and I'm really excited to see them. Everything about these videos is great!
Thank you!
Another brilliant video sir, soothed the soul...nice tunes...
Thank you. Knowing that you took the time to allow my vid (and Paul's music) to soothe your soul lifts mine.
What I LOVE about your videos is that you keep the sound of the motorcycle. To me, listening to the sound of the bike as you ride is a big part of what riding is all about.
Obviously I agree with you, the sound of the engine whether it be bike, truck, or car is part of the experience for me.
Like that tune.."Breath"..Very appropriate, because that's just what you can do when you get on a bike and let loose for a bit. The feeling can't be explained, gotta be experienced to be understood..Great job, Robert.
Thanks Wade.
Yes it is a feeling that cannot be explained, at least not easily, and it is much better to be experienced anyway.
Good morning Robert thanks for sharing Have a blessed day Robert.
And Good Morning to you David, I am blessed just with you joining Lizette and I on our journeys. Thank you, and the same to yourself.
Tom you out did yourself. Wonderful scenery and breath bye Paul black song Breath is a good bike ride song.describes how the scenery on a motorcycle ride makes me feel. Such a previagle riding along with you.
Thank you very much.
And it is a privilege to have you join Lizette and I on our rides. Without you it would be very hard to justify the effort I put into creating our videos. Thank you for coming along and giving us a comment.
Now that’s REMOTE! Love it, grew up in those parts, family vacationed thru there. Forgot how beautiful that landscape is.
It is beautiful and unique!
Looks like the weather was nice and the views were stellar! Thanks for sharing !👍
It was great weather and the perfect time of day for the views.
Thanks for watching!
really nice landscapes, thank you for sharing with us
And thank you for joining us on another ride Marco!
Absolutely Awesome! Cool! God Bless Be Safe!
Thank you. I really appreciate the comment. I hope you had a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year.
Excellent and glad you are out riding
Only virtual riding. Winter refuses to let go here, so no riding yet.
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Классное видео Роберт!
Thank you. Nice to hear that you enjoyed it.
Great video, Thank you
Thanks for watching, and commenting!
Excellent video
Thank you very much!
Breathtaking!!!
We hit this at just the right time, didn't we?
Robert Merz absolutely
How do you get the audio so clear? I'm just beginning to capture some of my rides but cannot find a good combination like you have
Ok so you are not going to like my answer because it is a lot of work. The audio that you are trying to use is from your forward mounted camera and you are recording wind noise from the wind on the bike and air intake noise, and actual engine noise like your valves, tappets, cam drives etc. What you were hoping and expecting to record is the actual exhaust noise of your bike, but that is way behind all the other stuff you are recording. What I have done is prerecorded my bike from the back of the bike inside several soft bags and dead cat filters to reduce the wind noise and capture mostly my exhaust noise and then created audio tracks from that. When I compose a video I strip the raw audio and build my video only. After that is complete I start again and I begin adding audio according to what I am watching using my prerecordings. Often my audio segments that I splice together are only a few seconds long each, as I build an audio track that I feel suits what am seeing.
So don't beat yourself up about what you are doing wrong in your video recording, I certainly couldn't come up with an easier solution for myself or I would not do it this way.
@@RobertMerz I sort of assumed it was something along those lines. From what I've read, there's no real 'simple' solution because of the items you mentioned. Anyhow, thanks for the reply! You've inspired me to take my first trip through the badlands, I leave in two weeks and I can't wait. Hopefully I'll have some good (enough) video!
It is really great to hear that I inspired you. Thank you very much for letting me know. The Badlands are really beautiful and I hope you find them just as beautiful as I did. I never made it to the south unit but any rides in the area would be my kind of scenery and are probably worth checking out. Of course while you are there check out Wall Drugs in Wall, and also about an hour east in Murdo is a really interesting and very large antique auto museum worth the look if that is your thing (it is mine).
Your video will be more then good enough because it will be yours of your trip. Keep it personal to make it even better with lots of pictures or vids of yourself or family. For audio do some prerecorded bike audio, keep it simple, like just a mellow steady ride, and play it in the background of your vid (background means lower, understated volume) and maybe do a voice over narration or something along that line.
It is going to be awesome, the trip, and the vid!
@@RobertMerz your videos are some of the best footage. I really enjoy the natural sounds mixed with music that ISN'T annoying. Far too often you only get one or the other. I'm doing my first saddle sore so I won't have too much time to fiddle around but I'll take in as much as I can during that time. I appreciate the suggestions!
Good choice of locations. These videos would be great with image stabilization on your camera.
Thank you, and you are right about image stabilization. So now I have to go back and reshoot them! You can check out my image stabilization video here: th-cam.com/video/3bIgEcJXwS0/w-d-xo.html
@@RobertMerz Wow! What a difference. Now you "have to" go back and reshoot - what a chore! I subscribed so I'll be watching.
Well I can't guarantee that I will be able to go back and reshoot so many of these roads, I sure wouldn't mind if I had the opportunity. But there are also lots of roads I haven't filmed yet, and I really want to do those too. Meantime we wait to see when the US/Canada border is going to reopen, I suspect my filming will stay in Canada for another year.
Hey thank you very much for subscribing. Also a thank you for watching, and taking the time to leave a comment!
Robert I called you Tom.. lol
Production values continue to please. Oh, about that two point turn-about, on pebble strewn surface, with two up, sweet
Thank you! On two points!
Would you consider adding month and temp to your videos. 👍
Thanks Ghost for the suggestions. I started putting the date on my vids a few years back exactly in response to comments like yours, the date on this one is about 1 minute in and it is September 5. I also add the date in the end credits. The temp was not something I have thought about before but worth my consideration for sure. I try to create a vid that is both enjoyable, lose yourself in the journey kind of thing, but also has information that is helpful for a viewer to plan a ride from. Temperatures are definitely information that is helpful to planning so yes I will look at that and see how I can fit it in without cluttering up the video too much.
It sounds like you might be planning a visit to the area, if so be sure to check out Wall Drugs in Wall, it is pretty Iconic. Also in the area, about an hour east of Wall is the Pioneer Auto Museum in Murdo, if you like cars you really should check it out.
Not sure which way you might be travelling but if you are going west beyond Wall Hwy 44 is a much nicer ride then the Interstate, and while you are on 44 stop in and see Scenic SD.
Thanks so much for watching, and taking the time to comment, I really appreciate it.
Sorry Robert, I knew a Tom mertz.
No problem, I figured you meant me!