This is one of the best ADV rider series on TH-cam. Most of them have good video but yours includes a lot of valuable info for us folks who are in the planning stages of similar trips. Simply stating the dates for the trip and the temperatures experienced along with your weather comments is huge. All comments on tire choices, maintenance issues, etc. are valuable. Thanks for a great series.
I've been adventure riding since my dad removed the training wheels from my bicycle. You're a inspiration to me. I'm 65 now and just recently coming out of 9 years of injuries, surgeries & recoveries. My number one motivation has been to get back in the saddle again. This is my year! FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for this beautiful ride in Idaho. The Google Earth shots are a nice addition to this fine product. I am so glad that Verbal Widget shared this so that I could enjoy your art.
Damn Joe, close call on the road, your reflexes and the grace of God are why your still here. You have to wear the gear, there is no way around it. That being said, just a beautiful trip through Idaho, the mountain roads were spectacular, and the ending campfire scene is just beautiful. Your music and the editing superb have become a master of TH-cam.
Watched the entire video because the VERBAL WIDGET sent me here. While trying not to get too long winded, just a wonderful video, ride, etc. I understand all too well what it must have taken to edit such a beast of a ride. Great job !!!
Another great video Joe! I like the fact that you are not in a hurry and just enjoying the beauty of the ride. Glad you were OK after that incident. There is something to be said for traveling alone out in a beautiful place on a DR650. The simplicity of it all is soul refreshing. Excellent series! Cheers!
@@verbalwidget7267 Very true VW. Home hell or high water, I am going to make a trip like this one. Very true about having a tough, reliable bike is the key (and the overwhelming desire to go).
Was out this way late June 2022 with the kids, made a loop of Idaho up through Ketchum, Stanley, Salmon, Missoula, Couer dAlene. Amazing country. Glad you avoided death!
Glad you were okay. Some really nice footage here, new subscriber. If you make it over to Western Washington, be sure to stop by the solobox shop..the door will be open...ride safe..
JR... glad your ok after that fall. I remember when we met up in Yellow Pine a few days later you telling me about this. Thank you so much for your videos. Watching them as i work in a winter wonderland def helps stay sane until riding season.
Great to hear from you! Getting close to Yellow Pine. Might have some shots of you, I don’t know. Plotting next ride season from here in sunny Florida.
@@jrdepew If your heading the great inland pacific north west let me know. I have a few private property locations you can camp at and maybe we can ride together.
Thanks for the video...beautiful area. We rode that Copper Basin area from Arco to Iron Bog campground and then up and over Antelope pass about a week before you went through there. It was really hot when we were there. We are fortunate to live just an hour east of that area.
Hey Jr. Joe from Colville Washington. I watch a lot of offroad motorcycle stuff and I also like Itchy Boots as well. And I must say, you do a great job on your videos. Some just don't talk. You take us with you. That is a big difference. Like the post before mine, ditto. The day of the trip, the weather of the trip, where to stay not to stay, who we should say hi to if we see them, all info that us other riders are looking for. And I must say, a man at your age, doing what you are doing, more should follow suite. You even film quite well. You don't have a shot of your gut with the audience just looking at how out of shape they are for minutes upon minutes. I just wanted to say to you, Awesome job. Keep it up. I ride a KTM 1290 SA and would love to run into you on a ride. So, on Super Bowl Sunday, I just wanted to say, I think your channel is awesome and I hope I am doing what you are doing at that age.
Thank you for taking the time to comment. Reward enough to hear the videos are finding value. I’m thinking as I learn this process and ride, what would I want to know and see as a rider/viewer. Keep it organic. I’m extremely lucky to still be able to get out and do this stuff. It’s incentive to stay in shape. I have immense respect for what Noraly accomplishes. BTW, Coleville is a great area for a rider to live.
Awesome job JR. I appreciate the info you are providing, I am documenting as I watch so I can put together a track for my next time out west. Thanks agin and stay safe.
@@jrdepew so true. I use “My Route” and Google satellite to make up my tracks and then run them on a Montana GPS. How do you find your routes and what do you use to create them?
@@jrdepew so was the tracks your running in Idaho part of the TAT? A buddy and I ran the TAT from Ky to Wyoming and then looped back on the northern TAT route through SD. I didn’t get Idaho track from Sam at the time. We are planning on running theSouth Dakota Adventure Loop this year and then run part of the WYBDR. Again, thanks for all your hard work on the videos, they are very well done my friend.
This video in Idaho is Sams original TAT I believe. Back when it cut through Arco to the Oregon border at Weiser, Huntington area north of Ontario where his current route joins. It came through Featherville but I will leave it there and join the IDBDR north. I have done his current TAT and it is pretty boring through Idaho staying south of Boise.
Man, really enjoyed this! Glad you didn't get banged up too bad. I've glanced at my GPS before and off the side of the trail I went. A split second can change everything! My buddy lives in Fairfield. We plan to head out of his place and follow the tour of Idaho route in parts and ride north until we get to worn out too keep going. Leaving late summer. Camping along the way. The goal is to make it to Wallace. We'll see how it goes. We'll be on Honda trails and TW200s. Appreciate the video man. Super good, quality YT content right here!!! Fantastic!
Encouraging feed back. Appreciate it a lot. Tour of Idaho looks above my level but should be a great adventure. The pickup driver and wife were from Fairfield out for the day. He had to get the bike off me as my leg was pinned in a awkward way.
@@jrdepew wanted to come back here and tell you seeing this very campsite in person, going over dollarhide and other spots after seeing it on your videos here was surreal. We camped on the Boise about one mile past Smoky bar store for 7 days and my buddy from Fairfield showed us around. He has a mining claim up on bear creek 20 or so miles north of Smoky bar there. It was the highlight of our trip. 9500 ft peaks and an old hard rock gold mine. We broke off from them on day 8, went your same route in reverse over dollarhide to Ketchum and north all the way to Wallace. Headed back south on the bdr and some other random routes we made. Got video up of some of the route over on the channel if you wanna check it out. I appreciate you sharing your journeys man. Really was nice to see it in person.
I’ll check it out! Sounds like a great adventure. I had a very big adventure summer that I’m starting to edit now. Next summer I want to base camp, explore areas and move on to base camp again. Thanks for updating!
Great video, I spent 3 months in 2021 riding all over Idaho and western Montana on my Africa twin, I little to big of a bike at times , just bought a new ktm 690 ready to go back, looking forward to more videos.
Fantastic I’ve been riding all my life just last year bought a new v85 tt guzzi looking to do a 4 or 5 day BDR with someone I’m 66 very handy with machines don’t wish to race just ride and enjoy any company’s or people this year available ? Tomas great video
Dang, I did something similar when I was 16 or 17 on a Yamaha 175 and I had a passenger on the back. It tore the left foot Peg and mount off my bike had to have it welded back on. Fortunately no one got injured just a few scrapes and bruises.
Hey Mate. I'm hearing you, i was recently riding along looking for a spot to pull up, next thing a bullbar on a Toyota Landcruiser is right in front, i hit the corner of the vehicle, damaged the bike and myself with a trip to a hospital thrown in for free.... Spent the night there feeling sorry for myself and angry for the stupid mistake I'd made. Just on 60 and like most been on motorcycle since i was a kid. I'm really beginning to think about whether this motorcycling is worth the pain. It is👍
This for the uninitiated! Been riding 40+ years now only a couple of scrapes. Always slow on corners, curves turns and peakes. Yes I am usually the tail on the trail! Lol
Just turned 60 and getting a chance to get back out on my motorbike. Rode the IDBDR in 2020, one leg of the ORBDR in 2021, and other rides mapped from my Garmin Mini. I rode my KZ550 through Ketchum in 1989 from SF on my way to NY, through Victor, ID etc. but all on pavement. How did you plan the ride shown in this video? I now ride a CRF450RL and an ‘92 R100GS - can you send me the route? Ride on brother - thanks for the videos!!
I connected Idaho TAT tracks from Arco to Featherville, ID then joined the IDBDR northbound. PM me with email and i think I could get you GPX file for that video.
Sorry no. It was a section from a large file from Sam Correro’s WEBSITE. TAT. Should be easy to map out. Arco, Antelope Pass, Copper Valley, Ketchum, Warm Springs road , Forest Development road 227, Smokey Bar, Featherville.
It is a Madstad. A little big for off roading. It raises, lowers and tilts and is well engineered. This one has taken a beating over 4 years. Made in Florida.
Best bang for the Buck. I probably have around $3,000 in upgrades. Depends on your use of it, but suspension is a big one especially for off road. Congratulations!
This is one of the best ADV rider series on TH-cam. Most of them have good video but yours includes a lot of valuable info for us folks who are in the planning stages of similar trips. Simply stating the dates for the trip and the temperatures experienced along with your weather comments is huge. All comments on tire choices, maintenance issues, etc. are valuable. Thanks for a great series.
Whow! Thank you so much. I try to keep it simple and real. Glad it’s of some value.
Couldn't agree more!
I've been adventure riding since my dad removed the training wheels from my bicycle. You're a inspiration to me. I'm 65 now and just recently coming out of 9 years of injuries, surgeries & recoveries. My number one motivation has been to get back in the saddle again. This is my year! FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!!!
Cool. I started riding in the cow pasture in 1966. I’m 70 now and still at it. 🤠
I’m an old guy like you. We’d better get it while we can! 👍🏻👍🏻
Right! Grateful to still be able and WILLING to still take calculated risks for the rewards of not atrophying. Thanks for watching.
I really like the 3D map shots.
Thanks. I’m going to use them more.
@@jrdepew I just subscribed.
Thank you. Cool name!
Glad you’re still with us JR! God was watching over you!
I believe it! Thanks for watching.
Thanks for this beautiful ride in Idaho. The Google Earth shots are a nice addition to this fine product. I am so glad that Verbal Widget shared this so that I could enjoy your art.
It’s good therapy for the soul. Amazing adventure.
Thank you! Close as I’ll come to a drone most likely. After replacing two phones on this trip I can only imagine what I could do to a drone.
First video I've seen, subscribed!
Thank you!
Damn Joe, close call on the road, your reflexes and the grace of God are why your still here. You have to wear the gear, there is no way around it. That being said, just a beautiful trip through Idaho, the mountain roads were spectacular, and the ending campfire scene is just beautiful. Your music and the editing superb have become a master of TH-cam.
Very close call. Next video I will elaborate a bit I think. Ended up a pulled groin muscle the biggest issue. Thanks for encouraging comment!
Hi Dave!!
Thanks VW for sending me to this channel. I am enjoying this very well made video.
@@ParallelCamper Hi Rob! It is a great channel and Joe is awesome!!
@@doc650adventures Looks like another kindred spirit.
Watched the entire video because the VERBAL WIDGET sent me here. While trying not to get too long winded, just a wonderful video, ride, etc. I understand all too well what it must have taken to edit such a beast of a ride. Great job !!!
Thank you OBI-WAN, I thought you might enjoy it. Great guy on an incredible machine. He's living the dream.
Welcome aboard!
This is a great channel and Joe is awesome! Inspiring and informative at the same time! Cheers Bro!
Another great video Joe! I like the fact that you are not in a hurry and just enjoying the beauty of the ride. Glad you were OK after that incident. There is something to be said for traveling alone out in a beautiful place on a DR650. The simplicity of it all is soul refreshing. Excellent series!
Cheers!
Thanks Doc, I did have a bit of injury. Think I’ll address it in next episode.
Hi DOC I hope some day we all get to do a trip like that. Just proves that you don’t need the most expensive bike, Just the most reliable one.
@@verbalwidget7267 Very true VW. Home hell or high water, I am going to make a trip like this one. Very true about having a tough, reliable bike is the key (and the overwhelming desire to go).
@@jrdepew Glad you were able to continue. Looking forward to seeing the next one!
@@doc650adventures Well I see your going to need a co-pilot for that. I even have a DR650 too.🤣😂
Fantastic video. Very beautiful landscapes. Thanks for this episode. Take care.
Beautiful segment JR. Glad you were properly geared up and glad you are ok. Looking forward to the next episode(s). take care- Al
Much appreciated
Was out this way late June 2022 with the kids, made a loop of Idaho up through Ketchum, Stanley, Salmon, Missoula, Couer dAlene. Amazing country. Glad you avoided death!
Yah! Me too.
Glad you were okay. Some really nice footage here, new subscriber. If you make it over to Western Washington, be sure to stop by the solobox shop..the door will be open...ride safe..
Thanks for watching. Nice to see entrepreneurs at it. Next episode soon!
JR... glad your ok after that fall. I remember when we met up in Yellow Pine a few days later you telling me about this. Thank you so much for your videos. Watching them as i work in a winter wonderland def helps stay sane until riding season.
Great to hear from you! Getting close to Yellow Pine. Might have some shots of you, I don’t know. Plotting next ride season from here in sunny Florida.
@@jrdepew If your heading the great inland pacific north west let me know. I have a few private property locations you can camp at and maybe we can ride together.
Generous! Keep offer in mind. UT is calling!
Thanks for the video...beautiful area. We rode that Copper Basin area from Arco to Iron Bog campground and then up and over Antelope pass about a week before you went through there. It was really hot when we were there. We are fortunate to live just an hour east of that area.
I would like to spend more time in that area. Thanks for commenting.
Hey Jr. Joe from Colville Washington. I watch a lot of offroad motorcycle stuff and I also like Itchy Boots as well. And I must say, you do a great job on your videos. Some just don't talk. You take us with you. That is a big difference. Like the post before mine, ditto. The day of the trip, the weather of the trip, where to stay not to stay, who we should say hi to if we see them, all info that us other riders are looking for.
And I must say, a man at your age, doing what you are doing, more should follow suite. You even film quite well. You don't have a shot of your gut with the audience just looking at how out of shape they are for minutes upon minutes. I just wanted to say to you, Awesome job. Keep it up. I ride a KTM 1290 SA and would love to run into you on a ride.
So, on Super Bowl Sunday, I just wanted to say, I think your channel is awesome and I hope I am doing what you are doing at that age.
Thank you for taking the time to comment. Reward enough to hear the videos are finding value. I’m thinking as I learn this process and ride, what would I want to know and see as a rider/viewer. Keep it organic. I’m extremely lucky to still be able to get out and do this stuff. It’s incentive to stay in shape. I have immense respect for what Noraly accomplishes. BTW, Coleville is a great area for a rider to live.
Awesome job JR. I appreciate the info you are providing, I am documenting as I watch so I can put together a track for my next time out west. Thanks agin and stay safe.
Great to know it may be helpful. The west has so much to offer. I plan to be back this spring.
@@jrdepew so true. I use “My Route” and Google satellite to make up my tracks and then run them on a Montana GPS. How do you find your routes and what do you use to create them?
@@garyheitzman1153 So far, I have used others tracks. The BDR routes, TAT for examples. Download to Gaia GPS and a hardened phone.
@@jrdepew so was the tracks your running in Idaho part of the TAT? A buddy and I ran the TAT from Ky to Wyoming and then looped back on the northern TAT route through SD. I didn’t get Idaho track from Sam at the time. We are planning on running theSouth Dakota Adventure Loop this year and then run part of the WYBDR. Again, thanks for all your hard work on the videos, they are very well done my friend.
This video in Idaho is Sams original TAT I believe. Back when it cut through Arco to the Oregon border at Weiser, Huntington area north of Ontario where his current route joins. It came through Featherville but I will leave it there and join the IDBDR north. I have done his current TAT and it is pretty boring through Idaho staying south of Boise.
Man, really enjoyed this! Glad you didn't get banged up too bad. I've glanced at my GPS before and off the side of the trail I went. A split second can change everything! My buddy lives in Fairfield. We plan to head out of his place and follow the tour of Idaho route in parts and ride north until we get to worn out too keep going. Leaving late summer. Camping along the way. The goal is to make it to Wallace. We'll see how it goes. We'll be on Honda trails and TW200s. Appreciate the video man. Super good, quality YT content right here!!! Fantastic!
Encouraging feed back. Appreciate it a lot. Tour of Idaho looks above my level but should be a great adventure. The pickup driver and wife were from Fairfield out for the day. He had to get the bike off me as my leg was pinned in a awkward way.
@JR Depew glad you made it out okay. We're in upstate SC so it'll be quite the journey!!
@@jrdepew wanted to come back here and tell you seeing this very campsite in person, going over dollarhide and other spots after seeing it on your videos here was surreal. We camped on the Boise about one mile past Smoky bar store for 7 days and my buddy from Fairfield showed us around. He has a mining claim up on bear creek 20 or so miles north of Smoky bar there. It was the highlight of our trip. 9500 ft peaks and an old hard rock gold mine. We broke off from them on day 8, went your same route in reverse over dollarhide to Ketchum and north all the way to Wallace. Headed back south on the bdr and some other random routes we made. Got video up of some of the route over on the channel if you wanna check it out. I appreciate you sharing your journeys man. Really was nice to see it in person.
I’ll check it out! Sounds like a great adventure. I had a very big adventure summer that I’m starting to edit now. Next summer I want to base camp, explore areas and move on to base camp again.
Thanks for updating!
@jrdepew awesome! Can't wait for it man. Thanks a ton for what you do buddy!!
Great video, I spent 3 months in 2021 riding all over Idaho and western Montana on my Africa twin, I little to big of a bike at times , just bought a new ktm 690 ready to go back, looking forward to more videos.
The 690 is a great tool. Have a safe adventure.
Amazing, thanks!
Welcome!
So happy to learn you were only awakened to the potential consequences. Stay alert my friend.
Amen! Thank you.
That was a good moo ya did
Fantastic I’ve been riding all my life just last year bought a new v85 tt guzzi looking to do a 4 or 5 day BDR with someone I’m 66 very handy with machines don’t wish to race just ride and enjoy any company’s or people this year available ? Tomas great video
Thanks for watching. Get on a BDR Facebook page your interested in doing and you’ll have a good chance of linking up with someone.
really enjoy the videos.. What app are you using for GPS?
Gaia GPS, thanks for watching.
Great route
I’d like to do it again.
Not out here to set ant speed records is correct. You have it figured out. Enjoy the scenery along the way.
3D map shots for the WIN!
Thanks! Was fun learning the techniques.
I carry the currently open bottle of water under the tank bag webbing. Seems to ride well there.
A bottle like that is my extra. Not too concerned with loosing it. There's better options for sure!
Dang, I did something similar when I was 16 or 17 on a Yamaha 175 and I had a passenger on the back. It tore the left foot Peg and mount off my bike had to have it welded back on. Fortunately no one got injured just a few scrapes and bruises.
The only rock in the road and I had to land on it! Lucky angel riding with me!
Hey Mate.
I'm hearing you, i was recently riding along looking for a spot to pull up, next thing a bullbar on a Toyota Landcruiser is right in front, i hit the corner of the vehicle, damaged the bike and myself with a trip to a hospital thrown in for free....
Spent the night there feeling sorry for myself and angry for the stupid mistake I'd made.
Just on 60 and like most been on motorcycle since i was a kid. I'm really beginning to think about whether this motorcycling is worth the pain.
It is👍
A split second can change everything, Right! Thanks for commenting.
This for the uninitiated! Been riding 40+ years now only a couple of scrapes. Always slow on corners, curves turns and peakes. Yes I am usually the tail on the trail! Lol
Good advice!
I got a MOLLE water bottle
“Holder” retains the bottle neck and a snap and Velcro hook retains in to a net, backpack, belt loop, etc
Yes, better way for sure. I mostly use the hydration pack so the bottle was a whim!
Just turned 60 and getting a chance to get back out on my motorbike. Rode the IDBDR in 2020, one leg of the ORBDR in 2021, and other rides mapped from my Garmin Mini. I rode my KZ550 through Ketchum in 1989 from SF on my way to NY, through Victor, ID etc. but all on pavement. How did you plan the ride shown in this video? I now ride a CRF450RL and an ‘92 R100GS - can you send me the route? Ride on brother - thanks for the videos!!
I connected Idaho TAT tracks from Arco to Featherville, ID then joined the IDBDR northbound. PM me with email and i think I could get you GPX file for that video.
I can’t believe your all alone, I can do that I need someone one to talk to or if I ran into trouble
Great video! Do you have gpx tracks for it?
Sorry no. It was a section from a large file from Sam Correro’s WEBSITE. TAT. Should be easy to map out. Arco, Antelope Pass, Copper Valley, Ketchum, Warm Springs road , Forest Development road 227, Smokey Bar, Featherville.
Thank you
Welcome!
They say the most dangerous part of a journey are the last 20 miles! Close one.
So close!
Just found your channel, if your ever up in Montana give me a hollar.
Deal!
Great video, what wind screen are you using? Been looking at different ones for my DR.
It is a Madstad. A little big for off roading. It raises, lowers and tilts and is well engineered. This one has taken a beating over 4 years. Made in Florida.
Thanks for the info just bought a 2023 DR650 can’t wait to start building it
Best bang for the Buck. I probably have around $3,000 in upgrades. Depends on your use of it, but suspension is a big one especially for off road. Congratulations!
@@jrdepew Thank you, watching your videos now.
YOUR motorcycle is SUSUKI ? From Coral Springs fl .
Yes. With a number of modifications. Tough, simple bike.
Joe, I just stumbled onto your videos today, I like your style. I live in Rigby ID, if you happen this way drop me a message or something for a ride.
Rigby is a beautiful area. Thank you for the invite.
What time of year was this recorded?
Late August
Moo?
That's cow for, " what's going on "!