I have an additional idea for you as to why motorcycling is so beneficial which I learned many years ago while backpacking. When you go backpacking deep into wild and spectacular areas, you are many days walk from anywhere. The terrain is difficult at best with sometimes thousands of feet of elevation change per mile. It might be in a torrential downpour. These areas will frequently have animals that are above you in the food chain. Everything is difficult and you have a 50 pound pack on your back filled with the difference between you surviving and not. Your vision into the future and the past is non-existent. You can only focus at the 1mph walk, getting up or down the next mountain. All of this together makes it impossible to worry or even think about anything else that is happening in that far away place that existed before you got on the trail. Motorcycling is a little bit like this. If you are doing it right, it takes your focus off all those things way back in that far away place before you got on the bike. If you take your mind to anywhere else, the odds of the wild animals on the road taking you out are high.
This articulates very well the reasons why I love riding. I had to sell my bike in 2020 to get by when covid took my job, but now I have moved and have a new job and I have money saved to start riding again. This just gets me more motivated than ever. Thank you!
I needed this video today. I rode early this morning and I feel like I’m losing my mojo. I think about selling my bike and have thought about it for several years actually but I just can’t do it. I use to love traveling on my bike but I’ve lost that desire too. I have several other hobbies and never get bored and I’ve been retired for a year and a half. I listen to Adventure Rider Radio podcast and follow other stuff online to stay interested but I still have a hard time.
@@robertlewis3116 Glad it helped! I was in a riding funk a few years back and then bought my Africa Twin 2 + years ago and it instantly reignited my passion! I’ve always had a gold wing and has a few sportier bikes, but this one has pulled me back into riding big time. I also made a pact to myself to go for a ride nearly every day, even if for only 15 minutes. Tons of different aspects of riding that you may try that could get your mojo back. Glad you’re here!
@MindsetMotoGuy Maybe I need to try riding more. I recently read a comment from another video where the guy would get in a funk and go buy a new bike and that would work for him. I bet that Africa Twin is a great bike. I just looked at a TransAlp at the local Honda Dealer yesterday. Love that bike but I’m too short. I ride my 20 year old f650gs that I bought new. I’ll keep trying to stay interested and keep following your channel. Thanks
I have an additional idea for you as to why motorcycling is so beneficial which I learned many years ago while backpacking. When you go backpacking deep into wild and spectacular areas, you are many days walk from anywhere. The terrain is difficult at best with sometimes thousands of feet of elevation change per mile. It might be in a torrential downpour. These areas will frequently have animals that are above you in the food chain. Everything is difficult and you have a 50 pound pack on your back filled with the difference between you surviving and not. Your vision into the future and the past is non-existent. You can only focus at the 1mph walk, getting up or down the next mountain.
All of this together makes it impossible to worry or even think about anything else that is happening in that far away place that existed before you got on the trail. Motorcycling is a little bit like this. If you are doing it right, it takes your focus off all those things way back in that far away place before you got on the bike. If you take your mind to anywhere else, the odds of the wild animals on the road taking you out are high.
I couldn’t agree more! The mind clearing peace of being 100% present is therapeutic for sure!!
This articulates very well the reasons why I love riding. I had to sell my bike in 2020 to get by when covid took my job, but now I have moved and have a new job and I have money saved to start riding again. This just gets me more motivated than ever. Thank you!
Thanks for the support. So excited for you!! Ride well and Ride Often!
Movement makes you feel good if it's running walking riding a bike or motorcycle
Heck yeah! Seeing your handle makes me miss my 929! :)
I needed this video today. I rode early this morning and I feel like I’m losing my mojo. I think about selling my bike and have thought about it for several years actually but I just can’t do it. I use to love traveling on my bike but I’ve lost that desire too. I have several other hobbies and never get bored and I’ve been retired for a year and a half. I listen to Adventure Rider Radio podcast and follow other stuff online to stay interested but I still have a hard time.
@@robertlewis3116 Glad it helped! I was in a riding funk a few years back and then bought my Africa Twin 2 + years ago and it instantly reignited my passion! I’ve always had a gold wing and has a few sportier bikes, but this one has pulled me back into riding big time. I also made a pact to myself to go for a ride nearly every day, even if for only 15 minutes. Tons of different aspects of riding that you may try that could get your mojo back. Glad you’re here!
@MindsetMotoGuy Maybe I need to try riding more. I recently read a comment from another video where the guy would get in a funk and go buy a new bike and that would work for him. I bet that Africa Twin is a great bike. I just looked at a TransAlp at the local Honda Dealer yesterday. Love that bike but I’m too short. I ride my 20 year old f650gs that I bought new. I’ll keep trying to stay interested and keep following your channel. Thanks
You nailed it!
Thanks! Glad it resonated!! Ride Well, Ride Often!
I've parked mine dozens of times 😂
Stay in the moment, know thy self.
Btw
About happiness:
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(How to Reduce the Pain of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer)
For sure!
Not true but I feel ya 😂😂😂
Amazing title!
Thanks! Thanks for your support