Uploaded June 2022 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago
Video Details
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Cameras:
Bike Cam 1: Insta360 ONE X2 [ amzn.to/3tYl8M7 ]
Helmet Cam: Insta360 ONE RS [ amzn.to/3HoGyXV ]
Bike Cam 2: Akaso EK7000 Pro [ amzn.to/3zBtU62 ] (not really recommended, but it is very inexpensive)
Edited in Blackmagic Davinci Resolve Studio [ amzn.to/3NQNDmt ] (highly recommended)
(Note that there is a 95% feature complete free version available!)
Buy the Speed Editor and get Resolve Studio for $80 [ amzn.to/3MKW4i4 ]
(or buy Resolve, and get the Speed Editor for $80 š)
Music Ā© Mike Thomas 2021, 2022
About the Ride
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First installment of "KY Gravel Rides". I hope to do more exploring of the gravel around KY, and to share it here on YouTube.
Please check out http://gravelmap.com, which is how I discovered the roads in this installment. Highly recommended!
As I mentioned in the opening voiceover this was not actually my first time on some of these roads:
In my first ride in the area, the footage of which was lost in a freak computing accident, I entered on the east (Lockport) side, and rode to the west, eventually hitting Joeās Branch and continuing on that until the gravel turned into old pavement and I reached the intersection with Route 22. I U-turned at Route 22, intending to ride back down Joeās Branch and turn south onto Six Mile Creek Roadās southbound leg, and out from there. I eventually made what I thought was the turn, but ended up in a dry section of Six Mile Creekās bed, and had trouble figuring out where I went wrong since my map software made it seem like I was in the right place. The R1200GS is a pretty big bike to "get experimental" with, and I was already a bit tired, so I ended up just riding out and back to Lockport, then home, leaving the north/south segment of Six Mile Creek Road for next time.
(Note: if you're on a smaller dual sport or dirt bike you could definitely have some fun in the creek bed if it's dry, and there also appear to be some off-road trails even further off to the left and across the creek once you're down there.)
So ... this video depicts that ānext timeā. On this outing, in order to figure out my prior navigational failure, I entered from the south end of Six Mile Creek Road and rode north. At the intersection with Joeās Branch Road I figured out my navigational mistake from that first ride: I had taken the correct turn to the south then, but there is a fork not long after the turn. The left leg goes down into the creek bed, and the right leg is actually Six Mile Creek Road. Somehow I convinced myself that the left leg was the correct choice on that first visit, and I was oh-so-close to where I actually needed to be. I actually thought maybe the right leg led to private property. So, arguably bad research on my part. What can I say? I was kind of tired and maybe a little dehydrated by the time I got to this point, so I didn't have my thinking cap on š¤·š»āāļø.
Video Details
===========
Cameras:
Bike Cam 1: Insta360 ONE X2 [ amzn.to/3tYl8M7 ]
Helmet Cam: Insta360 ONE RS [ amzn.to/3HoGyXV ]
Bike Cam 2: Akaso EK7000 Pro [ amzn.to/3zBtU62 ] (not really recommended, but it is very inexpensive)
Edited in Blackmagic Davinci Resolve Studio [ amzn.to/3NQNDmt ] (highly recommended)
(Note that there is a 95% feature complete free version available!)
Buy the Speed Editor and get Resolve Studio for $80 [ amzn.to/3MKW4i4 ]
(or buy Resolve, and get the Speed Editor for $80 š)
Music Ā© Mike Thomas 2021, 2022
About the Ride
=============
First installment of "KY Gravel Rides". I hope to do more exploring of the gravel around KY, and to share it here on YouTube.
Please check out http://gravelmap.com, which is how I discovered the roads in this installment. Highly recommended!
As I mentioned in the opening voiceover this was not actually my first time on some of these roads:
In my first ride in the area, the footage of which was lost in a freak computing accident, I entered on the east (Lockport) side, and rode to the west, eventually hitting Joeās Branch and continuing on that until the gravel turned into old pavement and I reached the intersection with Route 22. I U-turned at Route 22, intending to ride back down Joeās Branch and turn south onto Six Mile Creek Roadās southbound leg, and out from there. I eventually made what I thought was the turn, but ended up in a dry section of Six Mile Creekās bed, and had trouble figuring out where I went wrong since my map software made it seem like I was in the right place. The R1200GS is a pretty big bike to "get experimental" with, and I was already a bit tired, so I ended up just riding out and back to Lockport, then home, leaving the north/south segment of Six Mile Creek Road for next time.
(Note: if you're on a smaller dual sport or dirt bike you could definitely have some fun in the creek bed if it's dry, and there also appear to be some off-road trails even further off to the left and across the creek once you're down there.)
So ... this video depicts that ānext timeā. On this outing, in order to figure out my prior navigational failure, I entered from the south end of Six Mile Creek Road and rode north. At the intersection with Joeās Branch Road I figured out my navigational mistake from that first ride: I had taken the correct turn to the south then, but there is a fork not long after the turn. The left leg goes down into the creek bed, and the right leg is actually Six Mile Creek Road. Somehow I convinced myself that the left leg was the correct choice on that first visit, and I was oh-so-close to where I actually needed to be. I actually thought maybe the right leg led to private property. So, arguably bad research on my part. What can I say? I was kind of tired and maybe a little dehydrated by the time I got to this point, so I didn't have my thinking cap on š¤·š»āāļø.
