Get full route details and free GPS tracks at https://www.ridebdr.com/BlackHills!
About The Route and Film:
The Black Hills BDR-X is the perfect introduction to a BDR in the Midwest. With striking landscapes ranging from wide-open prairie, dense pine forests, and tall aspen trees, this 355-mile loop comprises three distinct sections and encompasses all the elements for your next adventure.
Enjoy a plethora of gravel and dirt roads, challenging two-track, and some of the best pavement you’ve ever ridden as you make way through historical towns in an area that shaped the west.
Mount Rushmore, Needles Highway, Iron Mountain Road, Spearfish Canyon, Cement Ridge Lookout Tower, and the Custer Wildlife Loop are some of the many incredible features dotting the landscape of this scenic route.
The Black Hills BDR-X is presented by:
@zeromotorcycles
@REVITsport
@RevZilla
Directed by:
Michael Bielecki
Music by:
A Cloud for Climbing
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Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/a-cloud-for-climbing/863314273
About Backcountry Discovery Routes:
Backcountry Discovery Routes® (BDR®) is a non-profit organization that creates off-highway routes for dual-sport and adventure motorcycle travel. We have introduced a new route with free GPS tracks for the community every year since 2010.
Routes can be downloaded from our website at www.ridebdr.com
Our work includes rider education, safety campaigns and promoting responsible travel for motorcyclists traveling in the backcountry.
Our volunteer-powered organization works with agencies and land managers to keep trails and remote roads open for motorcycling.
Each route generates new tourism that delivers sustainable economic relief to less-advantaged rural communities. This creates local stakeholders who will help fight to keep access for dual-sport and adventure motorcycles in these incredible backcountry areas.
** This film is for private use only. ** For public, commercial, or group use please contact us here: https://ridebdr.com/contact-us/
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Thanks for tuning in everyone, we appreciate your comments.
BDR’s mission has always been, and will always be, about the creation and preservation of routes for adventure and dual-sport motorcycles. By working with individuals, government agencies, and moto-industry companies, including OEM’s, that align with our mission, we strive to strengthen our community and better position ourselves to help preserve public land access for motorcycle riders for generations to come.
While we hope you’ll view this film with an open mind, we understand that electric motorcycles aren’t for everyone. To be clear, Zero Motorcycles has been a great partner. They fully support the BDR mission, BUT in no way had influence over this route’s or any future route’s development or film production.
Are electric motorcycles the future? No one really knows for sure. But, as the technology advances we have a responsibility to make our community aware of its developments and how it might impact riders, economies, and public land accessibility.
Embracing the technology and riding electric motorcycles today is entirely up to you. BDR has no stake in what you choose ride. Big bike or small bike, gas or electric, the bottom line is – if you are on a motorcycle and are mindful enough to Ride Right & Ride Respectfully, we invite you to Ride BDR.
Nice filming. It would have been nice to have a list of the bikes you used. Not essential, but always interesting. However, the publicity for electric bikes are unwanted.
Whats with this reality show format, constant talking heads? Show the trip, the route as its happening instead. All the best for TEAM BDR🤙
I love all the BDR vids but seems like everyone always going so fast how do they all the scenery???
Epic!
Such a great route!!
Charging is a pain the butt in the current generation of batteries and electrical infrastructure. It would be useful if they talked about power consumption so people could estimate their stops. Once battery capacity is high enough that you can just charge overnight it will become reasonable. Otherwise stopping is just too much of a pain in terms of time and route choice.
Thank you so much for creating and releasing this beautifully done film. 5-Stars!
The feds aren' t "short of money" to maintain trails. Their goal is ZERO use. That's why trails are closing. They view it as "The King's Land". Electric vehicles would not need "promoting" if they were a viable option. They are not.
screw electric!!!!!!!!!!
Electric off road riding, that’s funny! Your motorcycle boots better be good for hiking back in.
Bill is a legend. So glad he was involved.
Just rode this as my first BDR last week on the T7. So much to see and love the diverse terrain! I never planned a campsite. There are so many campsites on the route or just find a backcountry spot when you get tired. Definitely going to ride more BDRs!
PS: apparently I rode the whole loop backwards… still great!
Brilliant!
Such an amazing journey, looks like so much fun!
Oh wow. Coal powered motorcycles. How green! Gag. The comments hit the nail on the head. It's a commercial. I was enjoying these BDR videos. I hope they leave Al Gore home the next time.
THANKS
Thank you BDR for what you do for the off road ADV community. The Black Hills are truly a special place and it is really cool to see a BDR-X there. I hope you guys create more of these types of routes in the future. Well done. Looking forward to Nor-Cal as it is in my backyard!
33 minute Zero commercial
So glad to see the BDR organization is making shorter routes which more riders can access without taking two weeks off to complete. Electric ADV bikes are a 1st world offering since too many areas in developing countries couldn't adequately support the recharging needs. Limited fuel access is sketchy enough for ICE bikes as it is and gas anxiety already plays a significant role for those remote areas that I can't imagine what it'd be like on a Zero or similar rig. The videographer does a fine job of catching the feel of the route.
All I can say is thank you. 😊😃😳
can a zero motorcycle do 100K miles and still have a minimum of 10% battery degradation?
We rolled up to Cement Ridge lookout in our Avalon. Good times!
Ride Zero bikes have a range of 112 miles hwy, 150 miles combined range. Probably a great options for commuting in a city, but zero practical application for a trip like the BDR. This video is nothing but an advertisement, which seems to be contrary to the entire concept of the BDR. Money talks. Really disappointed.
Normally love the BDR films and get excited to plan my adventures around them, but I noticed this wasn’t noren films and it felt like a huge advertisement for zero motorcycles, which I have zero (no pun intended) in owning.
Still, thank you for putting together the route and i look forward to checking it out.
The route aside, did Zero purchase the rights to "ridebdr"? If not this is the best commerical for Zero electric bikes I have seen. I kinda get the feeling the ridebdr lads have lost sight of the primary mission. Back country travel in hotels, really? Trading in tents for electrical outlets does not seem very back country to me. One has to wonder if the route would be different absent the need to charge electric bikes every day.
Was nice riding the BDRX in SD, skipped the expert section. But great roads. Was nice meeting the BDR team at the Chip
laugh out loud!!! don't pet the fluffy cow!!
What a bunch of whiners here in the comments. You don't have to ride an electric motorcycle if you don't want to.
This was okay. Seemed more like an electric moto video instead of a BDR-X promo. Zero interest in Zero EV's.
Many thanks for your dedication and giving back!!! How can I reach some one ask questions about this route?