Iron Mountain Road: The best of the Black Hills 

It does not rely on distant views and large landscapes to make it a good ride, so I can see it being good even in the rain! I hope your other Black Hills rides aren't to wet, but sounds like you can handle it! Thanks for leaving a comment.

Yes they are. Thanks for watching, and taking the time to comment!

Hey you are very welcome. I am glad you enjoyed it.

That is such an awesome comment. Thank you very much, and I am so glad I could help you with your planning!

That's everything we did except in a F150 lol stayed at the Mt Rushmore KOA. I live 5 hours or so from the blackhills it's nice get going early be up there before noon.

Glad you enjoyed it, thank you for watching!

Very cool! I have ridden this road during the rally, but I really preferred it after the rally is over with much less traffic. I usually try to plan my rides to have the sun at my back for filming purposes, it just usually turns out better. Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment.

And thank you for watching!

Thank you very much. I am continuing, so yes, more videos are in the works. My videos are quite labor intensive, probably a good 40 hours of editing time for each one, and right now I am working on several projects at once getting things ready for new releases, plus following doctor's orders of keeping my foot above my heart for most of the day until the swelling goes down. I really appreciate the comment. Comments like this keep me encouraged, so please keep them coming. Thanks again, Robert

And thank you for watching and commenting!

Thank you!

Absolutely!

Glad you enjoyed!

It is a great road to ride, and it would be a really pretty area to camp in, you are very lucky!

Sounds like you guys have a great adventure planned for next year, I hope there is lots of two lane in your future. Thanks for watching, and commenting.

This was shot on a GoPro 5, 1080 @ 29 fps, in the medium wide setting. Thanks for watching, nice to hear that you enjoyed it!

Thank you!

Thank you! I do want to ride at that perfect balance of just enough speed that everything flows easily but slow enough to see the scenery. And Iots of stops, to take a little time to really enjoy the sights ( I often edit out the stops just to keep the flow of the video). Have a great ride in June, it should be a nice time of year to visit the Black Hills, and thanks for taking the time to comment!

As always, it is nice to have you join us for the ride! By the way, just how far east can you go? For some reason I thought you already were east!

We live in El (HEL) Paso TX as for how far are we going. We will go to Fort Campbell KY stay in TN then we head to VA to the top of the Blue Ridge PKWY and head to NC and SC before going to GA for our grandsons graduation on 18 May. then to OKC and home. Trailer pulling camping adventure

Wow, that sounds like a great adventure!!

One of a few coming

Thank you. I am an average rider, and I want to create videos for everyone to enjoy, average riders included. I want to encourage everyone to go out and enjoy the ride, their ride, not someone else's, and to encourage them that they are good enough to do it. It would be counter productive to that end to make people feel that I my riding skills are so superior to their's that they just shouldn't try, or that they go out and ride to fast for their abilities, and then not enjoy the ride, or worse, get hurt. Your comment encourages me that I am doing it right and I really appreciate your taking the time to write it. Again, Thank You.

It is a beautiful ride Marco!

Iron Mountain truly is epic! Thanks for stopping by!

Thanks Jeremy, glad to hear you enjoy my vids. I strip out the GoPro audio and then dub my own audio in which I recorded with a different device.

That was a great bike back at the time, and a classic now!

Steel grates on the highway are reasonably common on secondary highways and roads where cattle are on open range or in the case you saw wildlife are being restricted movement to other areas. They are often made of heavy steel pipe and place on the highway where a fence is to replace an actual gate across the road. In my area we call them cattle guards but they are often called Texas Gates in other parts. In the vid the guard was to stop the Bison from using the road to leave the park. Generally they are of little concern to ride over but use the same methods as crossing a railway track, try to be vertical not leaned over, maintain your speed not braking or accelerating, and cross them square on if possible. If it is wet or frosty be sure to apply all those rules double. Many cattle guards also have running strips placed on top of them to provide a smooth surface for car tires, some riders use these strips to cross but I prefer not to because if your approach isn't perfectly aligned it can act like grooved pavement and pull the bike around a bit. Now for my question, what part of the world are you from that you have not encountered these? I am just so used to them being around all my life I rarely take note of them.

@@RobertMerz I'm from the north east. Specifically Winchester VA. About 50 miles west of Washington DC. Close to Skyline Drive National Park. To be honest the first time I saw "Cattle" gates was during an episode of Yellowstone. :)

They are just one of those things we grew up with in the west so don't think much of them. We have lots of open range, government land that cattle owners can obtain a permit to range their cattle on, and that is where you will most likely encounter them. It is easy to think that everywhere in the world is the same, and it is good to be reminded that it isn't, thank you.

Thanks Sheldon. This vid features Paul Black. I first heard Paul on RU-vid and really enjoyed his music. Later I got in touch with him and explained what I did and asked if he would license me to use his music in my vids. He agreed, I drew up a basic license, and here we are. A similar story applies to the other artists I use, Sean Ashby and The Chitlins. I have noticed music on some of your vids, I like it. Your selections have been nice background pieces, appropriate for your vids. Not sure your source but I know RU-vid has lots of free music available and have used some of it a couple times. I think your vids do well with just a little background music, like you did in the trip to the falls.

It really is. Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to comment.

Thank you, and you as well!

It is a great road, and certainly worthy of a second voyage on any bike!

I totally Agree. Needles Highway was also Great. My Cuz and Myself had a great time!

Thanks Bud I really appreciate your compliment. I also appreciate hearing about what you would like to see, and I do plan on doing some kind of little walk around video of my bike in the future if that will answer your wish to see a bit more of the bike.

A switchback is a road corner that takes you through about a 180 degree turn, so you would be traveling in the opposite direction upon exiting the corner from when you entered the corner. The purpose of such a corner is usually for elevation gain. A pigtail is basically the same as a switchback except it is 360 degrees or more, and you exit the corner in the same approximate direction as you entered it but with a change in elevation.

Don't be sorry for being excited about your next adventure, you should be very excited about what you have planned. It is the people that don't understand your excitement that you should be sorry for.

Thanks. I am 64, retired. The old logo. Live to ride, Ride to live. Is my way of Life.@@RobertMerz

If I don't edit the video down to a much shorter length most viewers will only watch the first couple minutes before they move on to a different video. Sorry it isn't to your liking.

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Wow, I have never looked at a 360 bike video before, looks pretty neat!

@@RobertMerz Check out my channel: 360Bikers. Go to the VR Playlist and you'll see some I've done. I'm looking forward to my ride this year to do a lot more. sites.google.com/view/the-2019-ultimate-ride/

Very cool

Thanks for the advice. I created these types of vids just to enjoy the ride, see the scenery, lose yourself in the journey type of vid.