An Old Guy, old Goldwing & old Mini Mate - Spearfish, Crazy Horse & Needles Hwy - Day 20 - 2025 Ep 9

[@jimmandle498]

Everyday here is now mind boggling! Enjoyed the video & greatly looking forward to this summer. Jim

[@OldGuyonaBike]

The more I edit of my trip... the more sad I become by what is happening.

[@SNOWBIRDBIKER]

Great video. Amazing roads and scenery!! Thanks Jim.

[@OldGuyonaBike]

I had a good day, Cal. I actually had a lot of those last summer lol.

[@lufunodreadierambuda5800]

Thank you for sharing the video. Victor from South Africa.

[@OldGuyonaBike]

As always, thanks for coming along, Victor.

[@hectoruribe788]

Great video, thanks for sharing.

[@OldGuyonaBike]

Thanks for watching.

[@goldwingmoments]

Another fantastic video Jim. Thanks for bringing us along for the adventure. Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

[@OldGuyonaBike]

The Black Hills were awesome. I have a funny feeling I won't get back that way for a while.

[@MMADV606]

Awsome Video. Never been down that way, keep up the great work !! 😊

[@AndréFitzback]

Cool to look at. Thanks.

[@OldGuyonaBike]

It's a great area. Maybe too busy during the Sturgis Rally, but it has some great history and rides.

[@VicktoreBeskor]

Thank you for the video JIm as always I enjoyed it and I am looking forward to I the next one. I can not wait for the 2025 riding season to begin.

[@OldGuyonaBike]

I'm glad I have enough material to keep me editing until the snow is gone.

[@PinksAdventures]

I can't imagine the traffic during Sturgis rally!! I would definitely hit the area pre/post rally! Great views...great video...stay safe out there!!😎🤙👍🤙👍🇨🇦

[@OldGuyonaBike]

Note, you can still get rally souvenirs the week before the rally and also the week after. Discounted the week after lol.

[@jenkins1979]

great video ,I was in spearfish myself a few years back.Thanks for taking me a long on your ride

[@OldGuyonaBike]

Great place to ride.

[@Hondakjell2]

I really like to follow you on your trip around interesting places!! Greetings from Norway 🇳🇴 😊

[@OldGuyonaBike]

Thanks for coming along. A lot more to edit!

[@randymedeiros2187]

Thanks for letting me come along Jim. I'm loving the scenery.

[@OldGuyonaBike]

It was almost visually overwhelming. Had a lot of days like that on this trip.

[@billstapleton8833]

Enjoyed the video,I haven't done the Needles Highway,missed it last time that I was riding n the area.I look forward to each of your videos. BJ ,from Emma, Kentucky

[@OldGuyonaBike]

My first time through in 2008, I missed it. I did miss the Iron Bridge Loop? Will go back at some point I am sure.

[@Motoramblings]

I loved Needles Highway, such incredible beauty on an amazing road!!

[@OldGuyonaBike]

It is... all that in a very compressed area. I hit a lot of beautiful roads on this trip. More to come.

[@Motoramblings]

@ Excellent!!

[@westcoast01letsride]

Cool roads, great scenery. Thanks.

[@VanBlamm]

Great ride, Jim. I've only ever spent one day riding in the Black Hills but it was unforgettable.

[@OldGuyonaBike]

It was my second time through but once again I was under a time constraint. There are some very nice roads to ride.

[@MrGuitarfool]

Great ride Jim , Been trying to keep up and always look forward to the nest one ! About two weeks after the rally was a good time to visit that area !

[@OldGuyonaBike]

That would be a better time to ride there. I guess one would have to decide whether they want to ride or party lol. I'm for the riding.

[@woodsontr]

My wife and the dogs and I toured these areas in 2023 for her, after retirement road trip! It was great. We did some camping and some hotel camping!😉 thanks for sharing.

[@OldGuyonaBike]

My second time through and I did get to see more than on the first. Could have easily spent another couple of days there.

[@vannshuttleworth4738]

So Entertaining! Good Job!

[@tomfillmore9710]

Thanks Jim that was a awesome ride enjoyed tagging along you take care hope you are having a great weekend see you on the next video

[@OldGuyonaBike]

It was a grand day for sure.

[@arthurmoreira9180]

Good soundtrack, as usual, and nice places. Hope that couple of beers were pretty cold.

[@OldGuyonaBike]

Thanks. I had a great day and the beer were darn right frosty.

[@mikewatson4644]

Traffic in the Black Hills during tourist season is bad. Around the Rally it becomes brutal. Looking forward to Yellowstone Thanks for bringing us along

[@OldGuyonaBike]

Yellowstone will turn out to be a bit of a s--tshow lol. coming soon.

[@Motoramblings]

Sure seems to me that you had a great day!!!

[@roadtripper5553]

Great video. Thanks, I was up there about the same time. Wish I would have run into you maybe next time. Thank you.

[@OldGuyonaBike]

I've got to find a way to communicate in more real time. Certainly difficult to do through posting to You Tube but maybe I'll start a Facebook page.

[@gomer54-iu9ir]

If bikes could talk, I'm sure yours would say Thank-you for not making me tow in this heat today Jim. Great video!

[@OldGuyonaBike]

The old Goldwiing doesn't mind. She does tell me "thanks" over and over again for letting her off the island to do what she was meant to do. Cross continents!

[@codraven57]

Great places to visit for sure Jim but it looks like too much traffic for me.......Fall may be better..........really unique places though.............similar to the road to Tofino.....if you ever have done that one............as you say it would have been nice to spend some extended time in the Black Hills...........never enough time..........oh thats too hot...........

[@OldGuyonaBike]

On a 3 month trip, one needs to watch the heat trends. I certainly did not want to be in the south west in August but I did not want to tackle Beartooth Pass in early July. Did not get out to Tofino... but that's for later. Did ride some great roads in BC though.

[@dragonslayer1294]

Thank you for sharing. I thought about going out there and doing that what you do but being that they charged for it I won’t be going.

[@OldGuyonaBike]

I don't mind an entrance fee to go towards the upkeep of most things... just thought Needles was a little high.

[@davidallen3284]

One of the things that strikes me about some of your videos, Jim, is that even though I’ve been over the same roads myself, I don’t seem to remember having seen half of what you have captured. I’ve been through Needles Highway at least twice over the past 40 years (most recently only 8 years ago) and yet was amazed by much of what your video shot! I’m telling myself that the intense focus required for negotiating such twisty roads doesn’t necessarily leave enough grey matter to remember every inch of the road itself. …. ‘Course, I will be 78 in another couple of months, so …… 🥴

[@OldGuyonaBike]

Old grey matter still matters. I had not thought of that before. You are right, there are times when I am editing that I see things more clearly than when I was there. I certainly get a clearer understand of my day and the rides when I start editing. Gets me through the winter months for sure.

[@davidallen3284]

@@OldGuyonaBike By the time I hung up my helmet, at age 75, I had at least become a proficient user of - and chronically dependent on - GPS technology, but even the basic GoPro recorders were still alien to me, so I unfortunately have no videos of my own to look back on. It’s a Boomer Bummer.

[@OldGuyonaBike]

@@davidallen3284 My father was filming our family vacations in the early '60s and bought one of the first 8mm video cameras in Canada. I've got it in my blood lol. Still learning and trying to get better but isn't that how everything should be in life.

[@davidallen3284]

@@OldGuyonaBike 👍 Especially if it helps fend off Alzheimer’s and allows us to remain sharp enough to keep riding as long as possible!

[@OldGuyonaBike]

@@davidallen3284 Riding keeps us sharp. Ride on. Ride on.

[@Motoramblings]

I was there in September, the traffic was negligible. I went by the Devil’s Bathtub, did not stop….

[@OldGuyonaBike]

September would be a good month. Actually one of my favourite travel and cmaping months.

[@Motoramblings]

@ I stayed in a cabin, it was fantastic!

[@janramondt-n2f]

Still one of my favorite places to ride and I've been 4 times. Never attended the rally though. I was told if you want to see bikes and bikers come during the rally, if you want to see the Black Hills come any time but.

[@OldGuyonaBike]

This was the 2nd time I was though here and both time a week before the rally. I would not go to see the Black Hills during rally week. I think I would just sip beer on main street and watch the bikes and the girls lol.

[@Motoramblings]

I did not stop at Crazy Horse this trip, thought I would save that…. Maybe this year!!

[@OldGuyonaBike]

I think it is well worth the visit.

[@Motoramblings]

@ Thanks!

[@stroln]

The Crazy Horse Memorial is a privately owned enterprise. I have pictures dating to 1993 and last say it in 2023 and have not seen much if any progress in the monument.

[@OldGuyonaBike]

It does look as if there is only a small crew working. Worth going for the museums.

[@southernrebel]

Jim; Good video!! Love the dobro. Have you made it to the post office? God Bless safe ridin rubber down.

[@OldGuyonaBike]

Almost Johnny, almost.

[@billstapleton8833]

I have looked for the 30 Ah Lipo batteries ,cant find them is Lipo a brand of battery ?? BJ from Emma, Kentucky

[@OldGuyonaBike]

LiPo is short for lithium -ion polymar(?) battery. The brand I had bought was Eco-Worthy. These are the ones I got aas they had the excat same dimensions as the ones I was replacing. www.amazon.ca/ECO-WORTHY-LiFePO4-Rechargeable-Wheelchair-Trolling/dp/B08ZD3XBF2?pd_rd_w=wrpNP&content-id=amzn1.sym.e51ba234-0a50-4ceb-91c0-b5fbf20f648d&pf_rd_p=e51ba234-0a50-4ceb-91c0-b5fbf20f648d&pf_rd_r=QSBMSAE3P6BDVT3BED38&pd_rd_wg=6dNju&pd_rd_r=ca32b60c-b805-44f8-8d4c-551bd403c68f&psc=1&ref_=pd_bap_d_grid_rp_csi_prsubs_0_i

[@garysbackroadadventures]

Spearfish Canyon is one of my most favorite rides around the rally area. It's strange you paid to ride Needles. I've done it 3 times and never paid a penny.

[@OldGuyonaBike]

If I had entered from the other end I would not have had to pay. No one at that gatehouse. I made the mistake of entering through the main gat of the park. It still was an awesome day.

[@toslow9045]

Great way to ruin a perfectly great YT channel, Bring politics into it. Word of advice? do the ride and leave the politics out of it. IMHO

[@OldGuyonaBike]

Thank you for your opinion but from time to time I will mention things that will not jive with everyone else's thoughts. Or their taste in music. Or the fact that they think I should get a trike. It won't be often. I won't be blowing any political trumpets but as long as I am riding and making videos, some of my thoughts and opinions will come out.

[@Ruleof2plus1]

I recognize every inch of those wonderful roads. We met the original craftsman artist back in 1970. My wish is to live long enough to see crazy horse complete.😊 yes Trump is bent on destroying America. I just hope canada fights back hard. Needles is fun. Blackhills is unmached

[@OldGuyonaBike]

The Blackhills are certainly special. I can understand why the Native Americans thought they were sacred. It would have been great to meet Ziolkoski. I think it will take several lifetimes to see it complete. It was a great day.