Hey Colin, great video, enjoyed your ride both on and off the black top. Cheers Dave

Some good tips and some good reminders. My wife and I have ridden together now for over 15 years, covered all lower 48 and most of canada. Never a bad trip. The most truthful topic you covered is personality! :) Holy crap! You wanna test a friendship or marriage? Go on a multi day road trip with another person. If you're still friends at the end of that trip keep that person in your life FOREVER! It's amazing how little things like one wants to stop for coffee a certain number of times and the other doesn't, or one needs to pee more than the other and they need to stop, can QUICKLY ruin the experience and cause some seriously hard feelings. Sounds silly but there are few things in this world that are more personal to different riders than their "riding preferences and personality." So guys, if you find that lady who you can ride with for six straight days and at the end of the trip she doesn't want to smack you with a tire iron...you just won the lottery!:) Also the NEXpow compact compressor is incredible! Nice vid. Thanks.

It's complete. Everything worked well, thanks to you and others who put out helpful tips and videos that help hookup our Harleys!!!

Use tape please to keep your drill bit from sliding.

I hope I gave enough cable to connect once I run my wire around to the battery. I'm not there yet. I have to run my wite and tape it down. We ll see then.

I had to use a 9/16 drill bit because the connector required that. I popped my reflector with a flat head screwdriver. Easy.

mine very same from amazon $ 157 red but mine has a bigger bottle 1500 lbs

Old info..... Just sayin.

Been considering a PanAm from my ultra limited. How do you like yours on a multi day trip compared to the touring bike? Could you see one as your only bike? Also is maintaining the chain a pain in the butt on a multi day ride? As we age those tourers get pretty damn heavy LOL!!!!!

I went with 6" up 2" back. Really really neccessary for more technical terrain. Also better for highway.

My dream ! And it may be coming true soon ! 😎✌️

I like to see you on dirt as much as I like to see HDR on twisties ... 💪🏻

Awesome video, thanks for sharing those roads! Have to go check those out soon

Great video thanks- I see you are demonstrating gb40. Isn’t gb20 enough for motorcycles? I am about to get one but not sure if I need gb40.

Looks like my Halfords one that was £92 English pounds

Thanks for sharing

for the last 24yrs just oil and gas.. no major issues with any of my bikes. I don't abuse them though

Outstanding! I’m with everyone else the yodeling is hysterical but wow, what an awesome road. Makes we want an ADV bike!

Nice man! Hope to get a chance to ride those roads. Jeff’s super cool to ride with. Boyer farm track all I’m gonna say. lol!!!

Parson's Branch looks interesting, not something my bikes would be suited for but my car could handle it (the BRZ blew its motor, now I have a Volvo XC60, it has an off-road mode and AWD). Another road I can recommend out of Knoxville is 11W over to Bristol; last trip I made back from Nashville (which was the halfway stop coming home from Wichita, really), I took that for a change of pace from the Interstates, it's a fun drive (it was a car trip, in February). From Bristol you can get right on to The Snake, or head up to the Back of the Dragon (or for a very twisty day, do both, I've done that several times now).

Thanks for the great video and tips on how to access these two off road rides. Noticed on your Pan America TFT screen that you are due for the latest software update.

Great intro for Mike . A1 cycles is the shit. Dude help me find parts that he didn’t even have for sale. Really standup guy and I’m a fan of his work.

Beautiful. I took my DR for a 380 mile ride today.

Thank you for bringing us along. Very interesting and unknown scenery.

Beautiful scenery

Smoky Mountains are hard to beat! Cool looking ride, thanks for sharing 👊🏼

I’ve heard it caused the dirt Cherohala, and I still haven’t been on it! Looks like a ton of fun! I’m down to one bike at the moment, the VStrom, I may have to get out there, camp and ride!!! Fun video Colin!

That’s an awesome day of riding right there!!! That pavement looks so inviting!!

Oh yea, I’ve got get out there and ride that road!!!

6:31 yodeling!?!?😂😂

Thanks for the great video and ride

That my friend was some nice looking riding!! Thanks for sharing...stay safe out there!!😎👍🤙👍🤙🇨🇦

The yodeling was hilarious. Man I wish we got to do it. That concrete is gonna get slick over time.

I have not done Parson’s Branch yet. It’s either been closed, or the traffic to it has been terrible. I’ll get there one day!!

parsons branch. check ! got it ! just did the tail week before last. fresh pavement was aweome. Dragon will never be better than it is right now. 🎉

Great video! The yodeling music had me in stitches. Glad you ended before the rain came. Need no reminder of that!

Thank you for adding us to your video! Was fun hanging out with you guys at the gas station

A bit long winded. I thought for a minute you were going to tell us everything from the time you entered the maternity ward. I bought a Vevor Lift, identical to the Harley one you paid $300 for and I got mine for $100 and free shipping on top of it, it's also a 1500 lber. Sure there were a few issues with it, I had to modify the safety lock mechanism it didn't work now it does. Also the handle wobbles like nobody's business but I made a bushing and fixed that piece of crap as well. I'd still say I got the better deal out of the two of us. Good luck with that H-D money pit of yours. skål!

Good video, but I just have one question: Do American men actually use swimsuits? In Europe only women would dream of using them. Men use swimming trunks/shorts!

The better way to get the bike off the stand is to mount the bike, standing upright on the pegs and within 1, maybe two forward movement the bike will roll off to keep the front brake applied. The bike Will literally stand vertical with you on easily for what seems amply time for you to sit and put you feet down. As for lifting, just continue so push the stand down with your right foot and the bike will lift and mount itself. Very little need to lift anything with you hands.

A road trip to Kentucky is a good one for sure 🙂

You MAY actually be able to connect that other company's brake lights to the CANsmart, if you make an adapter so that it plugs into one of the CANsmart circuit connectors. And as long as there's no controller or programming inside that aftermarket brake light. Then you should be able to allow the California Legal Flashing (flash, flash, flash, solid) and the deceleration braking to work for those aftermarket brake lights. You do need some sort of brake light plugged into the CANsmart in order to get access to these special braking features. The same applies for Driving lights or Fog lights. Any OEM driving or fog lights won't have those special features like strobe with horn, or dimming, unless those OEM lights are wired into one of the CANsmart circuits. But then you would no longer control them with the factory aux light switch. There's so much you can do with these types of controllers! What are your thoughts now that you've had them for a year?

So glad to see a new video from you!

7:25 - 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 What biker DOESN'T empty their saddlebags BEFORE heading to get groceries?!?!?!?!?! What'cha got...? A bunch of rookies ridin with ya????? LOL It's been so cool to see all the good times you gents have shared!!! Travel safe!!!

I pay 450 bucks a month for my financed road glide, I wipe my shit off every chance I get 😂

Haven't been to KY yet, other than just getting over the state line on a ride from around Abingdon over to Breaks Interstate Park on the quite twisty stretch of VA80 (and then back to Tazewell). Nice garage!

Great start to the trip.

What a great start to what I’m guessing was an even greater road trip with good friends!! Looking Freud to the next video already!! PS: I recently rode Pete’s bike for a few miles… that’s such a nice ride!!!!

Looks like you guys had a great trip! Thanks for sharing...stay safe out there!😎🤙👍🤙👍🇨🇦

Be safe guys! I just came back from Denver on my week long road trip! Had a blast!