Aging and all that comes with it can be tough. Not just the physical aging and feeling your bones creak, but also parents dying, friends dying, children off living their own lives. It all takes a toll. I just started riding a year and a half ago, and it has been so therapeutic! I look forward to adventures and exploring instead of dreading what the day will bring.
Best kind of motorcycle videos ever to watch at the end of the day. Nice music, an inspiring speech, the sound of the engine, the road and the landscape. I love your videos, Sir! Keep it up!
Your choice of background music behind the relaxing vocal delivery almost...ALMOST...makes the viewer just want to close the eyes and feel the story. Unfortunately that would mean missing those great "chest-eye" images of you on your journeys. Fantastic job sir. Your outlook is precisely why us old-timers are still riding. That's something the new kids on the block don't yet possess. With any luck, the choices they make while their brains are still developing will get them far enough down the road to appreciate what it is to really Experience the Ride. I look forward to spending more time with your story-telling skills.
TBH I know I give a ‘give a ####’ way to much, especially at work, & it’s kind of killing me! Maybe not physically, but it’s buried the ‘real me’, & I don’t even know who I am anymore. I was in bands in my teens & 20s, I had exciting friends, I went places & took risks, the problem I find is that all my friends seem to also GAF way too much now also, maybe GAF is a pandemic of 40-50 year old male! Anyhow, I just brought myself my first motorcycle, I’m toying with buying a bass guitar, and I’m gonna try to re-set, my ‘not giving a fuck button’… Thanks for the inspiration Bug, I have come to love watching your vids, they make me smile.. 😊
I love this! Mission accomplished. You brought a smile to my face. Thank you! I wish I had it sooner but here I am. The more things I do without caring what others think the more I feel myself... my authentic self and not the lie of trying to be someone that I'm not. Thanks again and safe rides!
I bought one of those Christmas car decorations - antlers on the windows and a red nose at the front, cuz I saw someone on the road with the same thing and it made me smile, remember that I wanted to have it when I was younger. Downside is that the windows don’t close fully so when you go 25+ mph it’s pretty annoying. Since then though, since I drive through a few schools zones on my way to class I’ve gotten kids pointing and smiling. Makes it so worth spending $15 and drive with the windows cracked slightly. The smallest things can make someone’s entire day, if it directly affects them or not. If I saw a motorcyclist with a tutu I’d smile, compliment them to the silence of my car knowing they wont ever hear it, hope that they have a great day and be at least 10x happier!
True freedom is knowing who you are and that we all conform in some way, even the non comformist conforms to an anti-image. As you get older I've found shocking people isn't half as satifying as making them smile, showing them that you're happy and content in yourself, something which most people really want. Riding a bike that I love, that I've made my own gives me the greatest joy in my life, regardless of what anyone thinks. Great video, the tutu looks awsome 😂
Thanks for your wisdom, I enjoy your videos! When I graduated from college in 1988, I lined up an interview for a writing position at a magazine. I didn't have a tie, so I asked all of my friends if I could borrow one for the interview. Only one friend owned a tie, and it had little surfers printed on it. I figured that wouldn't do, so I stopped and bought a tie at a discount clothing store on the way to the interview. Somehow, it was good enough, because I got the job. I lasted a year. After that, I quit to pursue writing fiction on my own. More than three decades later, I'm still at it, and riding a motorcycle to boot. I've got some ties in a storage locker somewhere, but I don't know the last time I wore one. Anyway, thanks again for sharing and enjoy your new tutu.
My mom ended up sending me a bunch of ties as birthday presents or something. They were Grateful Dead-branded ties. Yup, there was such a thing, and they were pretty cool.
"You don’t become cooler with age, but you do care progressively less about being cool, which is the only true way to actually be cool. Call it the geezers paradox." -Author Unknown "Be yourself. Everyone else is taken." -Oscar Wilde Excellent video and some wicked awesome advice about not worrying too much about what the other kids think about you. Tutu on, my brother! Tutu on!
Very well written! I chuckled at the idea of buying the tutu...but the central theme of be yourself as you enjoy what you do...was beautifully expressed.
The older I get, the less I care about what other people think, without wanting to cause them any pain, of course. I find it sad when I talk to people who do care about what the people around them think and try to build themselves up to be something they aren't. Even sadder when those people care about what someone they never met and never will meet thinks. I think it's about judging people though, not about spreading a little fun.
I don't know how to do a tie and I am 64 , my dad did all my ties for 40 year ( wore then every days) I use to go over his house and asked not to be thought but for him to do them. He always did.... was not to happy when I got motorcycle at 17 ... and at 25 and at 42 and at 52 and now at 61 he never like it , but I love to ride ... today its only 3 wheel but love it and i am better dressed on the bike than off the bike ... Merlin jackets, jeans something with a style Same with the helmets ( i have to many know).. not to show off but just for the feeling of the ride. Alain & Yellow Great Video thank you.
Thank you for another video that made me laugh. It reminded me of a book I read a while ago and my biggest take away from that was you only have so many f’s to give so use them wisely. Looking forward to your next video, thanks for the smiles 😁
I like motorcycles but they have very little with who I am. I'm more complicated then a set of Chinese exhaust pipes. I felt free when I got out of the Army in 1970 and I felt some freedom when my last house payment was mailed. Sometimes when I am backpacking I feel insignificant like a tiny little life form on the end of a sewing needle. Even retired I have a lot to do and never really feel that free.
Ok…I’m perfectly ok with a tutu…but only one saddlebag (excuse me, pannier I think the cool kids call it), that’s where I draw the line 😂. Another cool video, thank you for putting a smile on my face today 👊
I get groceries on my bike - 3 Givi Trekker bags can hold an entire grocery cart. Anyway, once I got to the store with only one saddlebag. I was horrified!! I went home looking for a huge expensive box on the road, trying to think how the really reliable Givi mechanism failed. I got home and the bag was still sitting on the shelf. 20 years later I still wonder how that happened.
Having ridden from Vermont over to Laconia Bike Week every year through the mid 1980's, 1990's, 2000's and 2010's, I was probably one of those Harley riders passing you by on your couch. There were several occasions I saw locals propped up on comfortable looking furniture, probably pulled out of their living rooms after a few beers, gawking at the bikers. I was jealous of their prime observation/drinking posts. (Just goes to show you that bikers were looking at YOU too!) Speaking of self-expression, just out of curiosity, what's with the five or six bracelets on your right mirror stem?
A month or three back I did a 2000-mile adventure down through Northern California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. Along the way I started picking up little things I found. These bracelets were in a parking spot I pulled into, and I dunno. I found them to be kinda perfect for whatever reason. I decided that keeping little things like this I find along my journeys is more fun than buying trinkets as mementos.
I have never cared what people think of me, mainly because I have absolutely no idea what people think of me, and I'm 100% certain they don't care what I think of them, so the feeling is mutual. Here in Florida when I'm ATGATT with my Aerostich or Tour Master jacket or whatever, I always get "aren't you hot in that?" and I reply "well my girlfriend thinks so!" and boy do people get offended/angry sometimes! I'm ace, FWIW, which is a literal not giving a f*ck. I also get "what kinda car do you have?" and I say "my 1967 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is at the dealership" and people go "REALLY? Why?" and I say "well, have you seen how much they want for one of those? it's ridiculous!" and again, they don't consider it funny and get offended/angry and stomp off. Don't ask me stupid questions if you don't want a stupid answer.
Know what you mean, I sometimes went barefoot in high school. Unfortunately I didn’t have the talent to rise above the taunts, but I made it out alive : )
Funny, I was perpetually barefoot in high school. Drove my mom and my friend's mom crazy when I'd run across the street to his house barefoot in the winter. In a tshirt.
Well, yeah. I mean, at the core, that's the essence of motorcycling, doing something you love even though most people think it's dangerous and crazy. We give a f*ck about the important stuff. It's just the stupid sh*t we don't gaf about. Bug net tutus are not me. I wear tattoos and knives. But it's all the same really. "We want to be free. We want to be free, to do what we want to do. We want to be free to ride. We want to be free to ride our machines without being hassled by the man. And we want to get loaded, and we want to have a good time...And that's what we're gonna do." -- Heavenly Blues (Peter Fonda), The Wild Angels
@@BugMotoChannel Ha! I actually thought of that as I wrote it. At first I thought fish-net, no. Mosquito-net, uh-uh. Oh, BUG-NET! Honestly, all in favor of individuality. Celebrate the individual. It's an essential creed of motorcycling. Good on you for making that statement on your channel!
I quit giving an f about work n stuff when I realized after a massive heart issue that when I'm dead it ain't going to matter I ride how n when and what I want don't like it sorry
I honestly didn't even realize it until after I edited the video... I attribute it to be stuck in the house for a long time because of shitty weather, then just getting outside and letting loose. And forgetting to look at the speedo. God I'm a moron. :)
Hi from UKgreat vid with a message that sould be grabbed with both hands by us all niver put off you can't get back wasted time and nobody knows how muc h time they have everybody ride safe ride often and be the you that you want to be try niver to say I should have Because you niver will
re: Nixon. Back then I had a bumper sticker "Don't blame me I'm from Massachusetts" since it was the only state that didn't vote for Nixon. 😀 (Going to college in Boston, I even attended a McGovern rally there.)
Ok, I think I get what you’re saying, but other than perhaps some sort of weird Halloween costume, a man wearing a tutu on a motorcycle is a road I just won’t travel. Guess I’m just weird that way. Maybe it’s more of a Portland, Oregon thing?
I'm with you on the "do something fun for no reason" thing, which is why, at times, you'll find me out riding in a ridiculous Hawaiian shirt and sombrero combination
I actually spent an hour of my life talking to Ira Glass on the phone once. Was trying to convince him to license a web application I was building for the public broadcasting space. He declined.
Aging and all that comes with it can be tough. Not just the physical aging and feeling your bones creak, but also parents dying, friends dying, children off living their own lives. It all takes a toll. I just started riding a year and a half ago, and it has been so therapeutic! I look forward to adventures and exploring instead of dreading what the day will bring.
I'm just shy of 40 and I think that's part of it. I'm burned out on giving an f. Aging is liberating.
Not as liberating as having done it.
Best kind of motorcycle videos ever to watch at the end of the day. Nice music, an inspiring speech, the sound of the engine, the road and the landscape. I love your videos, Sir! Keep it up!
Your choice of background music behind the relaxing vocal delivery almost...ALMOST...makes the viewer just want to close the eyes and feel the story. Unfortunately that would mean missing those great "chest-eye" images of you on your journeys. Fantastic job sir.
Your outlook is precisely why us old-timers are still riding. That's something the new kids on the block don't yet possess. With any luck, the choices they make while their brains are still developing will get them far enough down the road to appreciate what it is to really Experience the Ride.
I look forward to spending more time with your story-telling skills.
TBH I know I give a ‘give a ####’ way to much, especially at work, & it’s kind of killing me! Maybe not physically, but it’s buried the ‘real me’, & I don’t even know who I am anymore. I was in bands in my teens & 20s, I had exciting friends, I went places & took risks, the problem I find is that all my friends seem to also GAF way too much now also, maybe GAF is a pandemic of 40-50 year old male! Anyhow, I just brought myself my first motorcycle, I’m toying with buying a bass guitar, and I’m gonna try to re-set, my ‘not giving a fuck button’… Thanks for the inspiration Bug, I have come to love watching your vids, they make me smile.. 😊
I love this comment so much. GAF IS A PANDEMIC!
Thanks for the smiles, bud. Happy miles to you.
Thanks! Right back at ya.
I love this! Mission accomplished. You brought a smile to my face. Thank you! I wish I had it sooner but here I am. The more things I do without caring what others think the more I feel myself... my authentic self and not the lie of trying to be someone that I'm not.
Thanks again and safe rides!
I bought one of those Christmas car decorations - antlers on the windows and a red nose at the front, cuz I saw someone on the road with the same thing and it made me smile, remember that I wanted to have it when I was younger. Downside is that the windows don’t close fully so when you go 25+ mph it’s pretty annoying. Since then though, since I drive through a few schools zones on my way to class I’ve gotten kids pointing and smiling. Makes it so worth spending $15 and drive with the windows cracked slightly. The smallest things can make someone’s entire day, if it directly affects them or not. If I saw a motorcyclist with a tutu I’d smile, compliment them to the silence of my car knowing they wont ever hear it, hope that they have a great day and be at least 10x happier!
Smiling already Bug bring on the fashion show man hahaha
Love you man. Another great video. I vividly remember sitting on that couch and it was awesome! You haven’t changed a bit. Don’t start now brother.
Right back at you. Damn, we GOTTA make a buddy trip video together.
Love this. I’m about to get my learner rider licence about 25 years later than I wanted to, but here I am. I’m so excited, I can’t wait 🎉
Excellent!
True freedom is knowing who you are and that we all conform in some way, even the non comformist conforms to an anti-image. As you get older I've found shocking people isn't half as satifying as making them smile, showing them that you're happy and content in yourself, something which most people really want. Riding a bike that I love, that I've made my own gives me the greatest joy in my life, regardless of what anyone thinks. Great video, the tutu looks awsome 😂
"As you get older I've found shocking people isn't half as satifying as making them smile" - This is so so true.
Thanks for your wisdom, I enjoy your videos! When I graduated from college in 1988, I lined up an interview for a writing position at a magazine. I didn't have a tie, so I asked all of my friends if I could borrow one for the interview. Only one friend owned a tie, and it had little surfers printed on it. I figured that wouldn't do, so I stopped and bought a tie at a discount clothing store on the way to the interview. Somehow, it was good enough, because I got the job. I lasted a year. After that, I quit to pursue writing fiction on my own. More than three decades later, I'm still at it, and riding a motorcycle to boot. I've got some ties in a storage locker somewhere, but I don't know the last time I wore one. Anyway, thanks again for sharing and enjoy your new tutu.
My mom ended up sending me a bunch of ties as birthday presents or something. They were Grateful Dead-branded ties. Yup, there was such a thing, and they were pretty cool.
@@BugMotoChannel 😄 That sounds like a very cool mom!
My Grom was orange and when I got on it, I felt like a hooligan. I'm not, but man did I feel like one and that was fun
I've GOT to try a Grom.
"You don’t become cooler with age, but you do care progressively less about being cool, which is the only true way to actually be cool. Call it the geezers paradox."
-Author Unknown
"Be yourself. Everyone else is taken." -Oscar Wilde
Excellent video and some wicked awesome advice about not worrying too much about what the other kids think about you.
Tutu on, my brother! Tutu on!
This is the kind of therapy I so desperately need. Thank you for spelling it out for me.
DILIGAF is a stereotypical Harley statement but could also be a life philosophy. Love your videos - time to go ride now 🤘
Very well written! I chuckled at the idea of buying the tutu...but the central theme of be yourself as you enjoy what you do...was beautifully expressed.
Words of Wisdom for sure !! Thankyou
Well done. You just earned a subscriber. Thank you!
Remember...
Growing old is required. Growing up is optional.
The older I get, the less I care about what other people think, without wanting to cause them any pain, of course.
I find it sad when I talk to people who do care about what the people around them think and try to build themselves up to be something they aren't. Even sadder when those people care about what someone they never met and never will meet thinks.
I think it's about judging people though, not about spreading a little fun.
I don't know how to do a tie and I am 64 , my dad did all my ties for 40 year ( wore then every days) I use to go over his house and asked not to be thought but for him to do them. He always did.... was not to happy when I got motorcycle at 17 ... and at 25 and at 42 and at 52 and now at 61 he never like it , but I love to ride ... today its only 3 wheel but love it and i am better dressed on the bike than off the bike ... Merlin jackets, jeans something with a style Same with the helmets ( i have to many know).. not to show off but just for the feeling of the ride. Alain & Yellow Great Video thank you.
Totally agree. I put on my Merlin jacket and I feel like a million bucks. It was worth every penny.
Hahahahaha awesome. I live in Bartlett, in the White Mountains. Nice vlog again.
Thank you for another video that made me laugh. It reminded me of a book I read a while ago and my biggest take away from that was you only have so many f’s to give so use them wisely. Looking forward to your next video, thanks for the smiles 😁
Not sure about a tutu, but a kilt would be awesome!
Oh good call. I already own a kilt!
Inspired thought! I also own a kilt and hadn’t thought of it as bike wear, until now.. Nice video as always Bug😁
Am I the only one that doesn’t own a kilt?
Do something that brings a smile to your face, and maybe someone else's face... loved!!!!
Thanks for the nice vid, all the best from Germany, Joe
I like motorcycles but they have very little with who I am. I'm more complicated then a set of Chinese exhaust pipes. I felt free when I got out of the Army in 1970 and I felt some freedom when my last house payment was mailed. Sometimes when I am backpacking I feel insignificant like a tiny little life form on the end of a sewing needle. Even retired I have a lot to do and never really feel that free.
I always like your stuff mate. Cheers! 😊
YOU ARE SOOOOOOO FUNNY! We definitely would have been friends in HS. Thanks goodness I know you now. Next time you lead and I'll film you.
You probably saw me, my stomping grounds!
Ok…I’m perfectly ok with a tutu…but only one saddlebag (excuse me, pannier I think the cool kids call it), that’s where I draw the line 😂. Another cool video, thank you for putting a smile on my face today 👊
I get groceries on my bike - 3 Givi Trekker bags can hold an entire grocery cart. Anyway, once I got to the store with only one saddlebag. I was horrified!! I went home looking for a huge expensive box on the road, trying to think how the really reliable Givi mechanism failed. I got home and the bag was still sitting on the shelf. 20 years later I still wonder how that happened.
Having ridden from Vermont over to Laconia Bike Week every year through the mid 1980's, 1990's, 2000's and 2010's, I was probably one of those Harley riders passing you by on your couch. There were several occasions I saw locals propped up on comfortable looking furniture, probably pulled out of their living rooms after a few beers, gawking at the bikers. I was jealous of their prime observation/drinking posts. (Just goes to show you that bikers were looking at YOU too!) Speaking of self-expression, just out of curiosity, what's with the five or six bracelets on your right mirror stem?
A month or three back I did a 2000-mile adventure down through Northern California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. Along the way I started picking up little things I found. These bracelets were in a parking spot I pulled into, and I dunno. I found them to be kinda perfect for whatever reason. I decided that keeping little things like this I find along my journeys is more fun than buying trinkets as mementos.
@@BugMotoChannel Excellent! My garage wall art consists of similar findings.
I have never cared what people think of me, mainly because I have absolutely no idea what people think of me, and I'm 100% certain they don't care what I think of them, so the feeling is mutual.
Here in Florida when I'm ATGATT with my Aerostich or Tour Master jacket or whatever, I always get "aren't you hot in that?" and I reply "well my girlfriend thinks so!" and boy do people get offended/angry sometimes! I'm ace, FWIW, which is a literal not giving a f*ck.
I also get "what kinda car do you have?" and I say "my 1967 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is at the dealership" and people go "REALLY? Why?" and I say "well, have you seen how much they want for one of those? it's ridiculous!" and again, they don't consider it funny and get offended/angry and stomp off. Don't ask me stupid questions if you don't want a stupid answer.
"What other people think of me is none of my business.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
The 'my girlfriend thinks so' line is frigging priceless.
One becomes an adult when you stop bothering what others think.
Know what you mean, I sometimes went barefoot in high school.
Unfortunately I didn’t have the talent to rise above the taunts, but I made it out alive : )
Funny, I was perpetually barefoot in high school. Drove my mom and my friend's mom crazy when I'd run across the street to his house barefoot in the winter. In a tshirt.
Just read a Jack Reacher book set in Laconia
Well, yeah. I mean, at the core, that's the essence of motorcycling, doing something you love even though most people think it's dangerous and crazy. We give a f*ck about the important stuff. It's just the stupid sh*t we don't gaf about. Bug net tutus are not me. I wear tattoos and knives. But it's all the same really. "We want to be free. We want to be free, to do what we want to do. We want to be free to ride. We want to be free to ride our machines without being hassled by the man. And we want to get loaded, and we want to have a good time...And that's what we're gonna do." -- Heavenly Blues (Peter Fonda), The Wild Angels
I hadn't thought of them as bug nets, but now that you mention it, that's a totally valid excuse to wear one! I'll pack it in my camping gear.
@@BugMotoChannel Ha! I actually thought of that as I wrote it. At first I thought fish-net, no. Mosquito-net, uh-uh. Oh, BUG-NET! Honestly, all in favor of individuality. Celebrate the individual. It's an essential creed of motorcycling. Good on you for making that statement on your channel!
:54 I know exactly what ya mean. Exactly.
Someone else gets it, sweet 😊
I quit giving an f about work n stuff when I realized after a massive heart issue that when I'm dead it ain't going to matter I ride how n when and what I want don't like it sorry
Wish I would’ve not given a shit when I was younger. At 47 starting to no care. Looking at getting a triumph Bonneville
Don't really matter what I wear. I'm still the same dumb ass. Enjoy. Happy go lucky. Thank you for sharing 🙏 😊
Is it me or did that ballerina make you ride a lot faster than usual? Tutus must have an effect on the wrist, huh? 😂
I honestly didn't even realize it until after I edited the video... I attribute it to be stuck in the house for a long time because of shitty weather, then just getting outside and letting loose. And forgetting to look at the speedo. God I'm a moron. :)
What is a tutu?
Cheers from Sweden 😊
LOL. Hmm. Hard to describle, but it's a little skirt type thing that a ballerina would wear. Or, you know, a 52-year-old dude on a Triumph.
@ 😝 ok, I understand! Thanks for answer.
Cheers and keep up your thoughtful TH-cam films.
band? guitar? drums? Bass?
Hi from UKgreat vid with a message that sould be grabbed with both hands by us all niver put off you can't get back wasted time and nobody knows how muc h time they have everybody ride safe ride often and be the you that you want to be try niver to say I should have
Because you niver will
re: Nixon. Back then I had a bumper sticker "Don't blame me I'm from Massachusetts" since it was the only state that didn't vote for Nixon. 😀 (Going to college in Boston, I even attended a McGovern rally there.)
I agree, but I won’t wear a tutu.
It's been done before
Yeah growing up stinks … lol
Ok, I think I get what you’re saying, but other than perhaps some sort of weird Halloween costume, a man wearing a tutu on a motorcycle is a road I just won’t travel. Guess I’m just weird that way. Maybe it’s more of a Portland, Oregon thing?
Nah, it's a "do something fun for no reason" thing.
I'm with you on the "do something fun for no reason" thing, which is why, at times, you'll find me out riding in a ridiculous Hawaiian shirt and sombrero combination
When will you admit you are Ira Glass from the NPR show "This American Life"? Or at least go on his show.
I actually spent an hour of my life talking to Ira Glass on the phone once. Was trying to convince him to license a web application I was building for the public broadcasting space. He declined.
I think you really do care what other people think about as you discover who you are......
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