The BikersandBackroads’s Podcast
Sep 25, 2026 · 59 min · 9 segments
Podcast Episode 47. We discuss the Top 5 reasons you should ride a motorcycle. We also talk about the latest results of Mission King of Baggers as well as 2nd quarter Harley-Davidson earnings. The Big…
Big ZHostTop five.
Top five reasons you would ride motorcycles.
And I love the fact that when you look at this, the AI says – The statement from the AI was, according to AI that has no emotions or feelings or a personal experience of riding motorcycles, this is what it offers when it looks over the course of what people say in articles and it looks at comments and things shared across all digital platforms and people that interact with AI.
But the first thing it says is a radical, mindful presence.
And we talk about, man, when you're riding, you have to be focused.
You have to be paying attention to your surroundings.
But the AI version of that was such a big shift from that.
It talked about... how people are so engrossed with their phones and things like that.
And even when they travel by car, they're checking text messages on their radios that come through and things.
But AI was like, this is an activity that makes you almost 100% unplugged other than if you're listening to some music or things like that.
Yeah.
The

short answer from AI, and it gave us a big long answer, but the one sentence in the answer that kind of stood out was, because you must focus entirely on the road, your body, on the road, your body, and the machine, it triggers a very powerful flow state.

I kind of 100% agree with it because it is kind of something where you get to just turn all the background off and it makes you really focus on what you're doing and whether you're just having fun and riding aggressive or just simply cruising the town stoplight to stoplight.
on what you're doing.
You are the most efficient person at whatever task you're doing when you are present, not distracted.
And I think riding makes you really focus.
And that's just one of those things.
whatever you're doing, if you look at elite level athletes, they have the ability to focus on their task.
If you look at people who accelerate in the business world, they can focus on specific parts of their business that allows them to be successful over XYZ person.
Top five.
Top five reasons you would ride motorcycles.
And I love the fact that when you look at this, the AI says – The statement from the AI was, according to AI that has no emotions or feelings or a personal experience of riding motorcycles, this is what it offers when it looks over the course of what people say in articles and it looks at comments and things shared across all digital platforms and people that interact with AI.
But the first thing it says is a radical, mindful presence.
And we talk about, man, when you're riding, you have to be focused.
You have to be paying attention to your surroundings.
But the AI version of that was such a big shift from that.
It talked about... how people are so engrossed with their phones and things like that.
And even when they travel by car, they're checking text messages on their radios that come through and things.
But AI was like, this is an activity that makes you almost 100% unplugged other than if you're listening to some music or things like that.
Yeah.
The

short answer from AI, and it gave us a big long answer, but the one sentence in the answer that kind of stood out was, because you must focus entirely on the road, your body, on the road, your body, and the machine, it triggers a very powerful flow state.

I kind of 100% agree with it because it is kind of something where you get to just turn all the background off and it makes you really focus on what you're doing and whether you're just having fun and riding aggressive or just simply cruising the town stoplight to stoplight.
on what you're doing.
You are the most efficient person at whatever task you're doing when you are present, not distracted.
And I think riding makes you really focus.
And that's just one of those things.
whatever you're doing, if you look at elite level athletes, they have the ability to focus on their task.
If you look at people who accelerate in the business world, they can focus on specific parts of their business that allows them to be successful over XYZ person.
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