8 Days to do 4300 km and I've MELTED my motorcycle | S1E60

Oh geez, everything's melting here too. Plastics are melting on the exhaust here. My journey begins at North America's most northern drivable point. The plan is to ride through Canada and America before crossing over to Europe. From there, I'll make my way across Asia and down to Australia. New Zealand's southern most drivable point will mark the end of my journey. I'm calling it the big spiral and this is act three across North America. Good morning from Colorado Springs. All right, so today is the start of, I don't know, just a really long, a really long drive. So basically I need to get from Colorado to Halifax. Let me show you on the map. So Halifax is right here and I'm just below Denver right here. So that's about 4,300 kilometers or 2,600 miles and about 40 hours of riding. It's gonna be a mission and I've kind of done it to myself. So first off, this is the most eastern point I can ship my motorcycle from North America and I'm a little bit of a completionist. If anybody's played video games or whatever, I'm the guy that always went for 100%. So I just wanted to go, I just wanted to go as far east as I could shipping the motorcycle. And secondly, these motorcycle flights are seasonal. So I only have about two weeks until I can catch the last flight. So I wanna get there a bit ahead of time, just in case things happen, you know, because things do happen as I've learned, but fear not if it sounds like just one giant highway road trip. I've picked out a whole bunch of interesting places of Americana, just weird, odd places along my route that I'm gonna stop at. And yeah, it's gonna be interesting for sure cause there's a lot of weird stuff in the States and I'm kind of excited to see it all. So, all right, maybe I should clean up and then we'll get going. All right, time to start this massive leg. 40, what did I say? 4,300 kilometers and 2,600 miles. It's a lot of time on this little bike. Yeah, so I mentioned shipping my bike from Halifax. Yeah, I'm not gonna tell you exactly where it's going yet, but it's going to Europe. And I'm kind of excited as to where it's going though. But yeah, I'll leave that as a surprise for act four. Let's do this. Well, I don't know if it's official yet, but I think we're in the prairies east of the Rockies. It's pretty flat, but like I said, we've got lots of little things to see along the way. And the first one is just outside of Denver. It's about an hour away, so let's ride a little bit first and we'll get to it and have a look. When I did the oil change, there's an O-ring on the oil filter cover here. And I damaged it a little bit, I think. And it's just sweating, sweating a little bit, but I don't think it's too bad. But it is causing me some concern. I'd like to get a new O-ring, but all the bike shops are closed today and tomorrow, today's Sunday. All right, we're coming up on our first stop. Trying to see if I can see it already. But there's some art here. But yeah, definitely, clearly a lot of art around here. Oh, I think I see her. Oh, can I park here? I think we might get our first glimpse here. Oh yeah, there she is. She's got fans already. So this is Umi, and she's meant to represent Mother Earth. And she was inspired by the Greek goddess Gaia, who was apparently the mother of all life. Pretty cool. So Umi was created by an artist by the name of Daniel Popper. And it looks like there's a whole bunch of art in this area, which is kind of cool. Here's another piece here. And I think if I keep going this way, there might be something else. Oh yeah, there it is. Well, it's interesting. They have holes all over them. Anyhow, all this stuff is in the middle of a housing development. So I think the developer probably likes art, but I think they're also trying to make it more attractive for people to move here. So yeah, but yeah, it's cool because yeah, supporting art is something I can get behind for sure. Well, Umi was cool. So the next one is 645 kilometers away or five and a half hours if I actually do these American speed limits. There she is, bye Umi, see you later. But yeah, I'm not sure if I'm gonna make it to the next one today, but we'll definitely make it for tomorrow for sure. ♪ This time tomorrow, where will we be ♪ ♪ On a spaceship somewhere, sailing across an empty sea ♪ ♪ This time tomorrow, will we still be here ♪ ♪ Watching an in-flight movie show ♪ ♪ I'll leave the Sunday night myth ♪ ♪ I'll watch the clouds as they sadly pass me by ♪ ♪ Seven miles below me, I can see the world ♪ ♪ And it ain't so big at all ♪ ♪ This time tomorrow ♪ So it turns out my fuel mileage is pretty bad on the highway if I'm just, like I've been going 110 the whole way or so, 110 kilometers an hour, which is probably about, yeah, 66 miles an hour. And I've only done 364 kilometers and my fuel light's on already. So I gotta take this exit, get some more. Normally I get to like 420 or so kilometers before the light goes on. So it's, yeah, this highway stuff, not so fuel efficient for me. This is a very small, small gas station. So I just realized my rear tire's quite low. So that might have affected my fuel mileage. It's a good thing I bought this compressor. Yeah, there's maybe five PSI in there. Wow, what's going on? Now it's 35. Make sure this valve core is tight. Okay, something funky going on here. Just want to look for a nail or something. Oh geez, everything's melting here too. Wow, the plastics are melting on the exhaust here because the bag is pushing it. Okay. I don't see any issues. I don't see any nails or anything. So maybe I'll ride for a bit and check the pressure again. All right, so that would explain my poor fuel mileage. Glad I didn't destroy that tire. It looks fine from the outside. Surprised I could go that fast, you know, 110, 120. So I think I'll just keep going till like the next exit. I'm gonna check that pressure again. But yeah, yesterday I bumped up the pressure to 35 PSI. And I wonder if that made a difference. Caused the change and maybe it punctured, pushed through the tape on the spokes or something. I don't know. Very weird. Yeah, that's so weird. I was like, man, my fuel mileage is so bad. Like the light's off already. And then I don't even know why I checked, but I just squeezed the back tire for some reason. You know, like I just did it. And I was like, oh my God, it's so soft. Really weird. I have no idea why that is. And then somehow this plastic started melting too. Like was the bike working that hard? Anyways. But yeah, it does seem like the bike is more easily doing 110 kilometers an hour than it was before. So yeah, it's a weird one. All right, we're gonna exit here. Just check the pressure. Hopefully it's all good. But if it is all good, then what's the problem? All right, let's have a look here. All right, let's see. Yeah, it's still like 35 PSI, so. Okay, so maybe I'll just keep going for, I don't know, another hour maybe. See what happens. This is, I was like, man, the bike really doesn't like highway, does it? Well, it turns out there's like no pressure on the tire. All right, let's keep going. Well, you look at that. We're entering Nebraska, the good life. I've never been to Nebraska before, but it actually changes quite a bit when it's across the border. There's like bales of hay and I don't know, is that corn? Probably corn, yeah. All right, first time in Nebraska. Okay, I gotta tip the tire again. It's only been like 15, 20 minutes. But I can't stop thinking about it. Like, if it was a five PSI, there's gotta be something wrong with the tube, right? It's gotta be a problem. All right, I'll just pull over here. Okay, let's have a look. Still 35. I think my tire's gaslighting me. All right, I guess I should just trust it. I don't know, I don't know what to do now, but I remember like at the very start of my trip, I had like three flats in a row. And I never truly understood why that was happening. It's been a while since I've had a flat since then, but you just kind of, makes you wonder like, what the heck's going on in there? The other thing I'm thinking is like, no, it's a really stupid thought, but like in the hotel last night, maybe someone was like, oh, I gotta deflate this tire. Maybe, but this seems so unlikely for that to happen. Why would anybody do that, you know? So that would also, if that's the case, that would also mean I rode 350 kilometers on a flat tire. Seems unlikely, but. Full of cows and they're stinky. Oh my God, there's poop dripping out of the truck. Okay, I just gave him some space. Oh my God, it's literally dripping out of the truck. Yeah, I gotta change lanes here. Oh my God. All right, I gotta check the tire pressure again. Just wondering, it seems like my top speed has maybe dropped a little, so just double check. Okay, let's see. Yeah, it's still 35, okay. I guess it's fine. While I do this, I'm just gonna book a hotel, I guess. Where are we? ♪ Oh, Miss Misty was a star singer ♪ ♪ She didn't stick around at one time for too long ♪ ♪ It's too long, it's too long, she said ♪ ♪ I'll be gone by morning, don't come looking after me ♪ ♪ Got to get back to that place I've never been ♪ ♪ Never been before ♪ Sun is starting to go down. Getting a little chilly now. I got 30 more minutes here. ♪ Got to get back to that place I've never been ♪ ♪ Never been before ♪ All right, well, we've arrived in Kearney, Nebraska. I had no idea this place existed until I arrived here. But yeah, it is 614 kilometers today. All right, so I got my Colorado map. Last time I updated it, we were in Victor, and so I drove like this out of Victor and went down to Colorado Springs, did all those errands, oil change and stuff, and then I drove north. And then right around here is where we saw Umi, the sculpture, and then just continued north and then started heading northeast. And then we ran out of Colorado and kept going like this. All right, from there, we have to switch maps. So here's our Central American map. And yes, so then I drove like this, this, this, this, this, this, and kept going to Kearney right there. So still a ways to go. And we still have the eastern part where my garbage can is. Anyways, I'm not sure what was going on with the tire. I'm glad I didn't destroy it because I was going on for a fair amount of time, probably at five PSI at like 110 kilometers an hour. This just seems insane to me. I don't know how that works, but for the rest of the day, it seemed to hold its pressure fine, so I don't know. But anyways, for tomorrow, I have a whole bunch of more interesting stuff to do, including a giant ball. Yeah, anyways, I'll see you in the morning and we'll go on a bit more.