@@Coy.Rug22 I hope you enjoyed the video. It was a beautiful ride.

It's really uniquely peaceful riding across the plains, Mick. Especially on secondary roads. Skirting the handful of large cities, it's quite beautiful, and the people are generally good. The weather can be Wagnerian: tornadoes, flash floods, hail, winter blizzards, minus 16 F to 100 F, rainbows, and seemingly endless sunshine. All the more so on a motorbike. It very much reminds me of being at sea.

Cherry pie, Peter. My favorite. No pumpkin pie for me, thank you. And I really like shepherd pie. I mean, really like. 😊

@FelliniMotorcycle With you all the way viz a viz the pies Tim. This is all very English but I suppose Virginia does have a very close connection. Sir Walter Raleigh and all that. I wonder if your Shepherd Pie is the same recipe as mine 🤔

@@valedslinger6290 Front Royal is perfectly located to a lot of great adventure. 👍

@@AmericanCurrentsStories Spot on with regards to Guzzi versus Triumph. As for pie, this is the fourth video in a series, we're almost to the farm.... 😁

@@AmericanCurrentsStories Steppenwolf too tame.... Thanks for enjoying!

Part 2 of a multipart ride. Apologies for the confusing titles, Peter. This run eventually bags a cherry pie, and is a test run before what promises to be another confusedly titled series for a second pie run in a couple of weeks or so with my friend Pat (in better weather, slightly different route, and apple pie). Stateside, pie almost always refers to a fruit pie vice meat pie. I happen to love both. ❤️ Thanks for watching.

High praise, Mick, thank you.

All the best, Peter. Merry Christmas. 🎄

@FelliniMotorcycle Thank you Tim 🤗

@@tombiggs4687 It is gorgeous country. Thanks for watching!

Always happy to hear you enjoyed the video, Peter. 🎹

Carnegie Hall, here I come 😁

Yes, indeed, Peter. Almost a dream sequence. I've grown to love this stretch of country - good thing, because it goes on and on 🙂.

Mick, to paraphrase Peter @Lanes-Explorer5733, it's the traffic wot makes the potholes. 😂 Thanks for watching, and thanks for your terrific videos capturing your epic rides across Wales, England, and Scotland.

@FelliniMotorcycle Thanks to you too Tim 👍

Not all have tunes. Sometimes I'm just too tired to engage in the copyright extortion struggles...

Yes indeed it is. You, by the way, have the coolest avatar ever!

Perfect! I'm very glad you enjoyed it, Peter!

Peter, this pie run was a recon mission to double check the route, and to confirm that my new tail bag would indeed safely carry a pie 🥧. I was prepping for a ride with my friend Pat, a pie run that would occur a week or two later and in sunnier conditions. For the later run with Pat, I did not ride the same exact route, skirting this dirt/mud section - but because it is so darn beautiful, I do end up riding and filming this section again on another later drier ride out. These back back lanes are often the best rides. But I don't need to tell you that, master of Lanes Exploring🙂.

@FelliniMotorcycle Always interesting to have a bit of background information on rides I think. You did well with the Triumph on that potentially hazardous lane 👍

I don't know the exact comparative sizes, Peter, but the British Isles are larger than Pennsylvania, and (given the north south spread, and wonderful ocean borders) Great Britain it's certainly more varied wrt landscape. That said, Pennsylvania is pretty spectacular. I'm glad that you enjoy these rides. I really like your videos of Northwest England. Thanks, Peter.

@FelliniMotorcycle Bless you Tim. Yes we do have incredible variety here despite our size. Perhaps I'm thinking of Texas 🙈 It's always good to watch when you follow Pat on his BMW - presumably he decides the routes as he's the local lad 😊

Pat is indeed great to follow. Native to Pennsylvania, and something of an explorer, he is a terrific guide. And a good friend.

Yes, Peter. A bit different. A quick clip through the neighborhood. We live in one of the smallest houses (townhouse). Our goal years ago when we moved to this area was to live in as nice a neighborhood as we could afford, so we live in the smallest house in this pretty nice neighborhood.

@FelliniMotorcycle Lovely to see where you live Tim

Yes, it's very nice. Nearly perfect for us. Thanks.

Mick, I do love that Guzzi, I love everything about it. And yes, western Maryland is beautiful, maybe a little like England as you say. Thanks. 👍

I'm not a big talker on these videos. Thanks for your feedback, much appreciated.

We're riding west onto the plains and plains and plains. 😁🌞🌞

@FelliniMotorcycle So we're deep into Zen and the Art country now perhaps? I shall refrain from asking *Are we there yet? "😂

Pirsig took a more scenic route, riding from Minnesota to Montana to California. Well, "differently" scenic. Our route offers no such distractions. Just us and the grandeur of the windswept breadbasket. 🌞

Thanks, Dave. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

I'll admit Mick, that I'm at sea. Time for me to listen to the Bruckner 8. I don't know it off the top of my head. If it gives me tinnitus, I'll let you know 😁

@FelliniMotorcycle It's an experience that's all I'll say. My tinnitus was caused by music of an entirely different kind, but an enthusiastic brass section will set it off if I get carried away with the decibels, and I usually do.

Mick, I listened to the Bruckner 8 late last night in an otherwise quiet house. One hour and thirty three minutes of unsettled but optimistic turmoil. The last movement is a small symphony in itself. No tinnitus here. 🎺🎺😁

@FelliniMotorcycle A good description. The 9th feels like a continuation, more sudden mood swings and false endings. It was never finished and you're left waiting for the missing finale, seems appropriate really.

Yes, Mick, things are drying up finally. I stopped in Troy to take off the rain gear. My wife and I (and our two children) had lived in Troy for seven years nearly twenty five years ago. A very nice little town. Pleasantly, it doesn't look like it's changed much. So it was a slowish ride down memory lane, if you will. I hardly noticed the trucks. 🙂

The Guzzi is at home on the open road, not much of a country lanes machine - except for the tractor sound 🚜😮 (exaggerated by unfortunate microphone placement, I do apologize for that). Thursday videos now and for a while going forward feature the more genteel Bonneville on much more peaceful back road outings. As for the power, phone, and other cables strung on poles, it's still a thing in many older communities.... I expect that the cost of burying the cables is a factor.

I've driven by that road a few times and always wondered about it, Mick. So indeed, a nice little ride. It turns out that the Bonneville does ok on dirt and gravel if conditions aren't too wild (rain mode setting is a help), and if you take it slow and easy on the street tires 😁. More of the gravel and dirt lanes to come...

Thanks, Peter. I'd never been on that road before. A very pleasant surprise. I'm glad you enjoyed it .

Yes, indeed, Peter. This is my 1999 Moto Guzzi V11 Bassa. More than a bit louder than the Triumph! I've had to turn the bike sound down quite a bit in the audio mix, but because it sounds so lovely, for a few more videos there is engine sound only, no music. The Guzzi is a heck of a lot of fun to ride, much more visceral than the Triumph, but generally plays havoc on camera stability. I'm glad you like it.

@FelliniMotorcycle Aha I thought it sounded very different - not about microphone placement at all then. Also being shaft drive with presumably an engine speed gearbox?? the gear changes are rather 'noticeable' 😂 Oh but that vee twin engine is magnificent. I could take a lot of that sound. Yes I always have to take my exhaust sound right down - around 35 % generally though with the straight thru silencer (muffler) I now have on Spitfire it's a wee bit more subdued. Great ride.

The Guzzi engine and gear box have been aptly described as "agricultural," and I guess I agree. Happily. The Guzzi is a heal toe shifter, and it always takes me a while to get used to it, so I stumble through a few upshifts and downshifts. 😁. Also, on the Triumph, the mic is to the rear of the seat, closer to the end of the pipes. For this Guzzi ride (I ride the Guzzi quite a bit generally, but almost never rig a camera to it - instead just fully immersing in the ride) the mic is placed inside the right side panel just below the seat, about halfway between the engine and pipe exhaust, and right above the gearbox. So, we really hear the gear shifts and misses!

I’ve had 4 moto guzzi’s-sp1000 v5ll-v11 sport-norge 1200gt 2 valve- I never heard a transmission sound like that. It must be the placement of your microphone near the gearbox?. I only have three videos of my Norge on my KZbin channel that I put on a few years ago on the last ride before I sold it. I re listened to that machine and it doesn’t sound like yours.. when I was searching for the best place to put the microphone on my Venture, I did have it between the driver seat and the passenger seat, and I heard a lot of transmission and primary gears with the microphone in that location.. after about a year and a half of experimenting off, and on with microphone locations, for me, I found the best place is inside the helmet under the helmet lining just above my collar in back..

@@Jodyrides Thank you for feedback. Yes, microphone placement is the primary culprit here - and the fact that I kept missing gear shifts due to too light a touch on the shift lever. My Triumph has a much lighter and shorter shift action, and I've become used to that. Things improve somewhat as this ride progresses. The Guzzi is a great bike and a lot of fun!

Yes, the rain is letting up. Finally. Watching and trying to guess the larger weather pattern for the five day trip to Kansas, I gambled that if I could get through this mess on day two, I could dodge tornadoes and such the rest of the trip west across the plains. There is some ducking and weaving still to be done, but I stay pretty dry from here on. ☔☔🦆

Mick, there are some dry stone walls in various states of repair throughout this area. That disused building you mention (located at what is called Lost Corner) is very interesting indeed. It has significant history during the American Civil War. Union General of the Army, George McClellan was headquartered there in early November 1862, and it was there that he received his orders from President Lincoln relieving him of command of the army. Later in the war (1864) the old store was held by the Confederate Army, and used as a prison and the site of retaliatory executions of three Union prisoners in response to Union (General George A. Custer's orders reportedly) killing of seven Confederate soldiers accused of being spies.

@FelliniMotorcycle Worth preserving, looks like it could do with a bit of attention, especially the woodwork, before it falls down!

Yes, the eagle was super cool. Riding around Pennsylvania, you'll see eagles, deer, elk, bears, rattlesnakes, hawks, turkeys, and the occasional wild coed.😁

It was one helluva day.

Yes, Mick, very soggy gloves, boots, and socks. But it was reasonably warm, so I'm ok. The water was beginning to take its toll on the external microphone, and eventually on the camera itself. I wouldn't fully understand what was happening to the recording gear until I got to Kansas 😂

'Twas a long slog. And many miles to ride. Confession: it was very fun. Every minute. ☔🦆

@FelliniMotorcycle I can understand that you found it enjoyable riding through the rain Tim - there's something rather special about it that I find too. I also enjoy walking in it with good wet weather gear 😊. It's quiet for one thing as most folk hide away inside Living on the UK West Coast it's a given that it's going to be wet pretty regularly 😂

Spot on, Peter. This video is from the first week of September. Second in a series where I'm headed to a road (a beautiful little lane actually, the coming fourth part of the series) I've never been on before. And while I've previously filmed this particular Marshall stretch, I take advantage of the great light and film it again 🌞😁

@@tunahead7275 Thanks so much for the feedback and the heads up concerning current road conditions. I'm very happy you enjoyed this video series. It was a terrific ride.

@dangunn6961 Yes, I know the place. We rode through there last year, stopped at the Cherry Springs Country Store for ice cream. Beautiful country. ***Whoops, we rode through there, and rode past the Cherry Springs County Store - we stopped later, if I remember correctly, in Sinnamahoning State Park for ice cream. So many great rides in Pennsylvania, I'm starting to mix things up! 😅

Peter, I'm pleased you enjoyed it. More Virginia back lanes and bimbles to come, sprinkled in amidst the Pennsylvania and Kansas rambles. Nothing here quite like North West England, but we make do. 🌞

@FelliniMotorcycle very much looking forward to that,Tim. 👍

It really is. A joy to ramble through.

Not my first choice either, but when caught out in it and a long way from home, we ride on. 🛵☕☕

@FelliniMotorcycle Yes and you've a long way yet to go 😊 And I've another dry, sunny ride to enjoy with tonight, I see 👍

I'm hoping to get out again tomorrow. Looks to be warm and sunny. Get 'em while we can. 🌞

@FelliniMotorcycle 👍

Wet, but not cold. It rained all morning that day. The rain gear kept me dry and warm. ☔🦆

The weather here just now is beautiful, Peter. I hope for a bit of a ride out tomorrow. I'm happy you enjoyed this video.

Thank you, Peter. ☕

Safety third...

Peter, I had thought as much myself, planning to stop in Circleville, but I realized that the rain wasn't going to let up any time soon, and that if I stopped I'd never have the will to put the rain gear back on and saddle up... Many miles to ride. Plus, I knew that there was a dry warm hotel room waiting for me at the end of the day. ☔☔☕😁

@FelliniMotorcycle Yes, Mick (5d traveller) would have had exactly those thoughts too, I'm sure, as he always seems to be racing against the clock.

Too, tea and crumpets are hard to come by in these parts, sadly. 😕

Thanks, Mick, for watching. I'm glad you enjoyed it.