Ramblestream Podcast
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The Retro Question: Modern Fads vs. Mechanical Soul
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A lot of motorcycle talk gets stuck on horsepower, specs, and whatever the algorithm says is “next.” We take a different route here, starting with a new way for you to be part of the show: our Ramblestream voicemail line, where you can leave questions any time and we’ll play selected messages on a future stream. Then we do what we do best: wander into meaning, memory, and why riders keep certain “things” long after they’ve stopped being useful.
That question gets real when we read Lord Byron’s “Epitaph To A Dog” and then hold up a literal relic: an old, beat-up helmet covered in moped stickers. It’s the perfect bridge into the practical side of riding too, from answering where Janus engines are made to introducing a simple helmet lock designed to keep “helmet goblins” from walking off with your gear. We also share company updates, including the Janus Motorcycles WeFunder push, spring build slots with reduced deposits, and the new Founder Fridays tour format that lets you see the shop running in real time.
The big topic, though, is retro motorcycles. We unpack what “retro” usually means in today’s market, then put real bikes on the table: Ducati’s Paul Smart-inspired Formula 73, the MV Agusta Superveloce, the Benda Napoleon Bob, the Indian Chief Vintage, and a Harley-Davidson cafe racer concept nodding to the XLCR. We’re not just judging looks. We’re asking what still delivers that analog riding experience.
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From livestream #120 - 03/09/26
Welcome And Tonight’s Plan
SPEAKER_01Hello everyone. Welcome to the Ramble Stream Podcast.
SPEAKER_02I'm Richard. And I'm Jansen. Each week we sit down for rambling conversations about motorcycles, the experience of riding, design, and whatever else catches our fancy. Bring a beverage of your choice or stories, and we'll see where this takes us.
SPEAKER_01If you're interested in thoughtful conversations, friendly and informative banter with fellow riders, and the latest dispatches from Janus Motorcycles headquarters, you're in the right place. Let's get started.
SPEAKER_02Hello. Good evening.
SPEAKER_01Good evening. Welcome to Ramble Stream number 120.
SPEAKER_02120. Can you believe it? Can you believe it? I mean, every week you say that. I know. It's crazy and crazy. It's been a whole year now, I think. No video.
SPEAKER_01Every week I believe it. Well, let's just make sure it's not just Jeff. Jeff, you should have video. We're glad anyone else notices. Then sing out. We're really happy to see you all. We're back for another program. This one's a very uh pretty pretty packed agenda. We have yes. We have some surprises. We have some treats.
SPEAKER_02We have some treats, some goodies. Some goodies. No giveaways.
SPEAKER_01No giveaways.
SPEAKER_02I mean, we could do a giveaway. We could. Shoot, we should do a giveaway. Anyway. Yeah, we should do a giveaway.
SPEAKER_01Let's do a giveaway. Anyway, it's gonna be it's gonna be great. So we have to kind of keep moving.
New Voicemail Line For Questions
SPEAKER_02Yes. Pretty quickly. So go ahead. Uh first thing, really cool and fun thing. New thing. The first new thing of uh this evening, we have a phone number. That's right. We got a phone number. Uh so the way this is gonna work is we will not be answering live calls. Unfortunately, there's just a little too much risk there for us to feel comfortable uh with doing that. We trust you guys. Uh, we just don't trust some some fools, some other fools on the internet. So uh how this is gonna work is you guys can call this number. You can leave us a voicemail with whatever questions you have, uh statements, whatever you want, and we will select some to then listen to live on the stream and answer and respond to. So that phone number is 574-501-3830. And I'm going to copy and paste that into the chat here. So you guys can give us a call at any time 24-7, whenever the heck you want.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and then we'll at the next Ramble stream, we will have reviewed them all and we'll be able to uh play them. Yes.
unknownOn air.
SPEAKER_02On air, live. First comment though, very important saying we've got Jason. Not none other. I feel like he's a reigning champ at this point. Should we keep track of Tally? I think we should. So Jason was first at 12.01. So glad to see Jason. You were in the pre-Ramble. If you guys would like to join the pre-ramble, which is just 30 minutes before the show of us hanging out, talking about different bikes, different cars, uh, really just chatting it up. You can do so by hitting the join button uh down below this video if you're on YouTube. Uh, once you do that, you'll uh be able to select the option of Rambler, which is$2.99 or$1.99 a month. Uh, you get access to members only shorts, uh, the pre-ramble, and a week early access to any videos that we release. So um, it's a lot of fun. We love having that time uh before the show to hang out with everybody. Uh, we see a lot of familiar names in here. We've got let's see, who do we want? We've got Arlsberg. You can just call him out, Richard.
SPEAKER_01Um we got Tracy Mac505. Watching YouTube on the screen porch for the first time since October. Oh, that's nice. We got Bill Maxie, 79 degrees in Tallahassee, Florida, rambling on his new Halcyon 450 and sipping on some peach flavored bird dog whiskey. Nice. Just don't do the both of those at the same time. Beeline. Oh, so Janet McGrider wants a beeline. Um, what's up, Janice McGrider? Glad you're here. There was something. Is there anything up higher that I saw? A comment? There's lots of comments before. There's one. We've got Kevin here. How are you doing, Kevin? Opus Opus Cat. Hello from Kenton, Ohio. Abit Housey on 1063 with 2,000 miles. Will you take a trade-in on a 450? Um, give us a call. We do trade ins. Uh the one thing with when we do trade-ins is we um we don't necessarily, you're not gonna get as much from us as you would. It's like any dealership um as you would with uh on the open market, but we would love to talk to you. We can um give us a call. Not at this number though.
SPEAKER_02No, different numbers not salesmen, no, different numbers.
SPEAKER_01Uh let's see. Dying to rye, but there's still too much salt on the roads to bring the Janice out. That makes sense. You've got to protect your investment, Mac. You know?
Lord Byron’s Epitaph To A Dog
SPEAKER_02He's doing a good thing there. Jordan Hand, Howdy from Wyoming, Housey on 450 number 422, enjoying a foster's IPA and some unseasonably warm weather. How are you doing, Jordan? Glad to see you all here. Kelly, I'm glad you're here as well. I saw your name right before I scrolled down. Um, but I think what really is gonna center us is a poem. Alan's point.
SPEAKER_01This one came in. This was a recommendation. By whom? Mr. Um We just went over this.
SPEAKER_02I wrote it down for you.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah. There we go. I I I get your real names and your handles mixed up. Yes. Um, this is for you all. This is Motard91. Recommended this. He sent an awesome email, which I always like to get all these emails, but one of the things he recommended was that we um read this poem by Lord Byron. Lord George Gordon. Um it's called Epitaph to a Dog, and it's a sort of sentimental little poem about a dog. Epitaph to a dog by George Gordon, Lord Byron. Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man without his vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the memory of Boatsun, a dog, who was born in Newfoundland, Newfoundland, May 1803, and died at Newstead, November 18, 1808. That's the epitaph. Then he wrote up some lines of poetry about that dog. When some proud son of man returns to earth, unknown to glory, but upheld by birth, the sculptor's art exhausts the pomp of woe, and storied urns record who rests below. When all is done, upon the tomb is seen, not what he was, but what he should have been. But the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, the first to welcome, foremost to defend, whose honest heart is still his master's own, who labors, fights, lives, breathes for him alone, unhonored falls, unnoticed all his worth, denied in heaven the soul he held on earth. While man, vain insect, hopes to be forgiven, and claims himself a sole exclusive heaven. O man, thou feeble tenant of an hour, debased by slavery, or corrupt by power, who knows thee well must quit thee with disgust, degraded mass of animated dust. Thy love is lust, thy friendship all a cheat, thy tongue hypocrisy, thy heart deceit. By nature vile, ennobled but by name, each kindred brute might bid thee blush for shame. Ye who behold perchance this simple urn, pass on. It honors none you wish to mourn. To mark a friend's remains these stones arise. I never knew but one. And here he lies. That's kind of sad. Not only is it sad, it's like a scathing uh um indictment of human in favor of an animal. Who what does it say? It says that the dog um denied in heaven the soul he held on earth, while man, vain insect, hopes to be forgiven. Hey. It's actually a beautiful little epitaph to the first part. Yes. Not sure I agree with Lord Byron on that.
SPEAKER_02Just because you're Lord doesn't mean you could just say stuff like that. Oh, he said all kinds of stuff. Richard, I forgot that uh we didn't do something very important. We didn't introduce ourselves. Uh we didn't. So if you would like to do that, if we'd start.
SPEAKER_01I'm Richard. I'm a James Motorcyclist. That's all I got. I ride a 2017 Halcyon 250 number 68, and I'm drinking water.
Builds Of The Week Walkthrough
SPEAKER_02My name is Jansen. I ramble in a Ford Lightning and seem to be rambling on Phoenix 450 number four. And I'm sipping on uh, as the last two weeks, some Journeyman Distillery Ride or Die Rye. Uh, and it is delicious. Delicious. No, my water tastes very, very, very, very slightly like coffee. Because it's a coffee cup. Because it probably has a little bit of coffee in it. Very weak. Now we're gonna bring you guys along to our uh uh a fan favorite segment, uh, builds of the week. Starting out, we have what else? Stanley. Stanley. Number 1268. Sahalcy on 250. Now, I want you to guess, Richard, what color this one's gonna be. I'm gonna say it might be vintage red. I'm not gonna guess. I'm just gonna give it to you. I I succeed. Succeed. Oh man, looky there. Some beautiful tie-downs. A little book rack action. This vintage red looks super good. Ooh. Ducktail fenders with double gold pinstripe.
SPEAKER_01Classic.
SPEAKER_02Very nice.
SPEAKER_01Very nice.
SPEAKER_02That looks super good. Ooh. I just I love these caps.
SPEAKER_01We say it every week, I think, but maybe that especially the double J one really looks like it's cast to me, even though it's actually laser engraved. So good. You can uh have your any any design can be can be put in there. I mean, within reason. Right. It might have to be modified slowly to make it fit the process. Right. Just about any design.
SPEAKER_02That was the that was the last picture there. I think we're missing out on some of them, but yeah, these are pretty hot off the press. So um up next, we've got who this. We've got William.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I No, I didn't talk to William. I'm getting confused.
SPEAKER_02Uh this is his housey on 250. It's number 1266. Very nice. Very nice indeed. Eventually these numbers are gonna get to I remember 1066. 1066.
SPEAKER_01200 bikes ago. Hey, that's green. I'm gonna go with green. Just because I want to go with 200 bikes later. What's the what's the luck? Charlevoix. Oh, Charlotte Blue?
SPEAKER_02Wow. Old. Okay. Black seeds. It's looking pretty good. Look at that detail. Some tied up. Is this true? Is this true?
SPEAKER_03We're getting some hits. You got it.
SPEAKER_01You got it. Now I do not understand why you would just get the book rack of Charlevoid Blue.
SPEAKER_02I I don't know either. Okay. I want to see it as a whole. I wonder if there I hope there's a picture of it as a big thing. So we got silver pinstripe. Oh, skirted fenders. It looks good. Charles White Blue, alright though. Charlevoy. Beautiful. That's a great looking motorcycle. And look at that.
SPEAKER_01We got polished exhaust with a fishtail, skirted fenders, single pinstripe in silver on uh Charlevoy blue, which is our kind of baby blue color, uh named after a lake in Michigan. And we got black leather uh with a unsprung pilon seat and a tool roll. We have bar and weights, two mirrors, headlight visor, number plate. And I mean, what is he missing? Um not much.
SPEAKER_02Uh he doesn't have saddlebags. Uh no saddlebags on. I do see now why he opted for the sh that frame match um book rack. Because it kind of blends in a little bit.
SPEAKER_01I think there must be like a remnant of something in the way the configurator works. Because maybe if you maybe you can get the book rack color match, but not the frame.
SPEAKER_02Maybe. I don't know. I don't know. That's a great looking motorcycle. William, congratulations. Polished polished handlebars, too, by the way.
SPEAKER_01I didn't mention that. Okay. I gotta redeem myself here. Um what color is this gonna be? This is gonna be um maze. Maze.
SPEAKER_02I am going to guess. Cream. Moment of truth, everybody. Everybody's got some tie-downs. We'd love to see it. Vintage red. Another vintage red with double gold. Or is that cream? That's cream. That's that's a me problem. That wasn't a monitor problem. I just glanced at it too quick. I that's an interesting combo. I like that a lot.
SPEAKER_01Very nice. Very nice indeed. Hey. That looks super good. Well, it is very nice. That really makes it very crisp.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Yeah. I like that a lot. It's got like candy cane energy in like the best kind of way.
SPEAKER_01In a good way.
SPEAKER_02No, that's very nice. Brush exhaust. It's like a vintage candy shop. That's a great leg of a motorcycle, too.
SPEAKER_01I like the fact that it doesn't have the rear rack.
When A Used-Up Thing Matters
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Yeah. It's really clean. That's super super. Good job, Michael. Good job, Michael. I think that is by far the fastest we have ever gone through builds of the week. So we've got a packed program. That's true. Um, but what what is a thing, Richard? Oh crap. No. Oh, Frank. I didn't come prepared. Um I never come prepared. A thing. A thing. Is an object. What's this? Uh okay, I've got a I've got a direction on this. It's it's maybe a new direction on a thing. Amy? We were talking about it. I'm always going on new directions with it. With uh Amy, your your wife, uh, on Friday. Um does a thing, this is more of a question, but I I think it does a thing is this is a thing still a thing if you don't use it anymore? Or what do you mean if you don't use it anymore? If if it is sitting on a shelf somewhere to represent a time. Oh or uh is art I see where I remember this conversation. Art a thing. Or does it does its purpose change? Yes. I think it can. So so purpose does change, though. A thing is something that can transform, but it's something you keep when it transforms.
SPEAKER_01It's very sort of where you're going with that is that you can have an object that maybe wears out in some form or another, uh, and you still keep it.
SPEAKER_02Yes. Like even though it's past its expiration date.
SPEAKER_01It's so funny you say that because the thing that I have is exactly that. Jansen, you must have been talking about this. What do you mean you weren't prepared? That's crazy.
SPEAKER_02I think you were holding out on us. Well, no, I I just I was lucky enough to remember the conversation. Okay. Well.
SPEAKER_01Speaking of things that have expired. Speaking of things that have expired, here is the thing for tonight. Which this is all gonna tie together, folks.
SPEAKER_02Uh-huh. We got the Scottish show. And I'm realizing now we didn't put the uh the overhead cam together. Well, do they need it?
SPEAKER_01They don't need it for this. No, they don't need it. They don't need it for this. So this is a thing. Oh, it's got dust on it too. It's got it out of a museum. Um, this has been sitting on my shelf behind me for quite a while. Um this is a motorcycle helmet. Actually, it's not a motorcycle helmet. It's a snowmobile helmet. Oh, is it really? Yeah. It has like these weird little ear insulators. Oh, yeah, I see it. Um, it's probably from the 1980s. Yes, definitely from the 1980s. Uh, it did come with these yellow kind of wings. Coming after me. Um when I bought it. I bought it at a thrift store. Nice. And this was my motorcycle helmet or my moped helmet for many years. And so it's completely covered in moped gang insignias. So we got on the top the Hell Satans with dead possum as their logo. Moped and gang feel like oxymorons to me. So do it, do what you want with it. I love it. Um, I got I have the the bro peds from West Lafayette, Indiana. I think somewhere on here. Oh yeah, on the back it says I got roofied by the broheads. Uh the Mosquito Fleet from um Seattle, Motion Left. We've got Motion Left, Delorto, Molassie, Ghost Riders, Grand Rapids. Um, anyway, ton, oh, and a big old poop sticker on the front. Nice. Uh many, many years. This thing's probably been dropped way too many times. And I was just going through the basement. Uh and I found this one. And I'm gonna have to give it to him because this is Devin's moped helmet who co-founded Janice with me. We both had these like ratty old helmets. This one, and he was uh he was going to uh it says on the front, fur is dead, animals are not ours to wear. Oh, he's got a mosquito fleet sticker. The day of the mopeds has come, motion left, um, which is our moped. That's great.
SPEAKER_02Anyway, you can feel I live when I listed it up, the uh the it's stupid heavy, and then the foam on the ears are completely broken down. Like there's no sponge left.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but yeah, these are super cool. These are pieces of history, but anyway, it does I I was thinking that that they couldn't be. Oh my gosh, that's really falling apart. This can't couldn't be a thing, but in the sense that something there are many things like my family has a habit of uh holding on to interesting things, let's just say for a very long time. A little too long, maybe no, no. Uh the only reason that we've recently gotten rid of a lot of stuff is we had to move uh from our family home. But these are things that no longer can be used. Old uniforms, uh very old uniforms, um weapons, boxes of whatever, all kinds of interesting things. But they have an intrinsic value. And in some cases, because they because you still have it and you are the descendant of who is it was, it's more valuable because of that story.
SPEAKER_02Yep.
SPEAKER_01Um so the longer it's been retired is means that's the longer it's been cherished, I think, yeah, and inherited. So maybe I was thinking about this. I have a um um what was that? Oh, that like a jacket or a wax canvas piece of apparel. There's comes a point at which it will wear out. But there are also reasons that it maybe needs to be kept. Right. So an heirloom, an heirloom gets passed on. Yeah. So I don't know. I think that's just an interesting um angle on it. Yeah. But uh helmets. And guess what? The most important thing, I still have my helmet.
Where The Engines Are Made
SPEAKER_02That is important. It's very important. You still have it because wait, I have to I have to do a uh I have to break the segue. Because I think there's a funny question being asked by works powersports.
SPEAKER_01Works Power Sports. I asked last podcast, but didn't get an answer. Where are the engines made? Um, well, you could have spent your time just looking at our website, but they're made in China. They are made in China. Um, the 250, the CG250 is um we call it our bulletproof 250. It's probably the most manufactured engine in the world, um, based on our uh 19 early 70s Honda design. It was a simplification of the CB 125, yeah, designed to be bulletproof. Low tolerance, um, low tolerance. Tolerance, high durability. Yeah. Low maintenance, easy to work on. The 450 is that is based on the XR 400. It's bumped up to 450 and also shares a similar simplicity and ease of maintenance. Yeah. And the place where you get these kinds of motors, it's not the United States right now. We've looked all over the place. But if you want to get a small, I think you said it reads best. If you want to get a small engine in the United States, you're ending up with like a power washer or I'm going to get a lawnmower. A lawnmower.
SPEAKER_02But yes, uh country of origin doesn't necessarily matter as far as uh the quality of these engines. But yes, Richard, you still have your helmet. And I wonder why you still have your helmet.
SPEAKER_01The ride was perfect. The weather cooperative. The engine sang its tiny mechanical song. Life is good. You swing a leg over, pop the helmet off, and look for a place to put it. You hang it gently from the handlebars because that's what riders do. Helmet on handlebars, problem solved, right? Unfortunately, the world contains helmet goblins. Small or large, sneaky, and strangely passionate about other people's helmets. But there is another way. Introducing a revolutionary motorcycle technology. It's called a helmet lock. Turn key, insert strap, and just like that, your helmet stays exactly where you left it. Helmet goblin defeated. No electronics, no apps, no complicated gadgets. Just a simple mechanical solution to a problem every rider eventually learns the hard way. Because sometimes, the smartest motorcycle technology is the stuff we already figured out decades ago.
SPEAKER_00The genus helmet lock will not affect all fun, but will make it significantly more often. Other goblets of it's a trouble, be careful.
SPEAKER_02There you go. We have helmet locks available, everybody. There you go. Is Jansen that goblin? No, actually, that's Richard also. Uh that was me the whole time. Live stream not working for me. Goodbye. Okay, so hey, see you later. Uh uh, buddy. We'll we'll catch you on the next one. Uh, we have what what do you want to talk a little bit about um the ham helmet locks? I mean, other than I guess, is there anything else to talk about?
SPEAKER_01Uh yeah, just real real quickly, we we've sourced uh after uh take us quite a while to find the right one, uh, make sure that it fits. That's the that was the hardest thing of all from this is because we wanted to make sure that it was in a place that made sense. We discovered this and when we were filming that video, is yeah, it can't be on the exhaust side, needs to be somewhere out of the way. Right. Um on the 450, the size of the tubing is different where it wants to go than where it is on the 250. Yeah. And so we wanted to find uh something that would work with different sized tubing. So we ended up uh sourcing the different kinds of rubber that it mounts to. Yeah. Um and it has the Janus logo on it, and it's made just for us. Very, very simple. Um, if somebody really wants your helmet and they're willing to cut the strap off, they could get it, but then the helmet would be worthless. Right. So um, I don't think you have I think you could be very comfortable locking your helmet up on this thing, put it through the D-rings, so put it through the metal loops, and you should be good to go. Will the helmet block work okay with saddlebags? It's designed that it should work with saddlebags, yes. Um it may need to be kind of over the saddlebag slightly, but it's designed to work with saddlebags or with aid. I've posted that link in all the chats so you guys can follow that and order one today.
SPEAKER_02We got tons of them and we want you to have them. Yes. 25 bucks uh plus shipping and handling, I believe. So um easy peasy limit squeezy. What other announcements we got? Let's see.
SPEAKER_01Let's see. We got WeFunder? Any any updates on the WeFunder? WeFunder is actually um we've brought in a lot this week. Let's go. Uh probably at least 50,000. Nice. Um, thank you all for those of you who have contributed. I know that there are some in the chat right now that are considering putting more in that I've talked to recently or gotten emails from. Um, if you have any questions on WeFunder, how it works, just send me an email, rambling at Janus Motorcycles, and I will either be able to answer it myself or I will forward you to Mark Zwag, our COO, who can answer it, or we can put you directly in touch with the people at WeFunder. Yeah. Um our goal is one million dollars. One million dollars dollars. Um but it does close at the end of the month. So we are in kind of hyperdrive mode right now, um, spreading the word. We're focusing a lot. You may see some different looking ads. Um, and those are going out to kind of like outside of our usual network. Yeah. Um, we're trying to bring more people in. So uh, if you haven't invested, please consider doing so. You can invest as little as$100 and own a bit of Janus motorcycles. If you have that invested, you could always invest more. Um, or you could also just share the word with friends and uh let them know about what we're doing. Yeah. We appreciate it.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, thank you all so much for your investment in Janice. You're making helping us make motorcycle history every single day. Um, next thing we've got, uh we've got some build slots available for spring delivery. So if you guys would like to get your motorcycle by spring, you can do so. Uh on both 250s and 450s, we're offering a$250 deposit uh compared to the uh what was it?
SPEAKER_01It used to be$500 for a$250 and a thousand for a$450. Okay.
SPEAKER_02So yeah, that this is severely discounted to um go ahead and secure your spot in line and get your motorcycle by spring.
SPEAKER_01Basically, our lead time is reducing. And so we're trying to be the instead of focusing on getting a whole lot of money up front to build the bike, we are shortening our lead time and making it easier to kind of pull the trigger and start thinking about colors and options. Yeah. So yeah. Very exciting. I know that two bikes sold today. Two bikes.
SPEAKER_02The the list is limited if you want to buy spring. Um, we have some two two new kind of new things. One new thing and one kind of new. Um, Founder Fridays. What is what is a founder Friday, Richard?
SPEAKER_01So a founder Friday is like a different kind of discovery day. So in the past, we've done discovery days, and we will still do um discovery days, but we will not be doing as many. We're gonna try and condense those into basically quarterly events, and then we're gonna do something called a founder Friday, and that is actually kind of interesting in its own right because typically, if you get here on a Saturday for a discovery day, they usually happen on Saturdays. You get here, we get a we have donuts and coffee, you get a tour, watch a little movie, go test ride, and we take you out to lunch. But it's the shop's closed, so you're just kind of getting a tour of the shop. Right. Founder Friday, the cool thing is the shop is open. So bikes are being built, and we're gonna be guiding you through the shop as it's in operation. Yeah, which is a little different. It's a little less terminal. I don't think I'm not sure. Is there a price on this? 10 bucks. 10 bucks. 10 bucks. Um it's and then we that basically we make we cook hamburgers or hot dogs or make something really great lunch. We provide lunch, you get to eat with us. I give you a tour, and you get the whole experience. But it's not as and you can go on a test drive, but it's a self-guided test drive. Yeah, so it's not as lengthy as the full discovery day, but they're more frequent and you get to see everybody here. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Very cool. There's a link there if you guys would like to uh sign up for one of those. It's happening this Friday. This Friday is the first one, is the first one. Uh, if you guys would like to sign up if you're local, if you're if you have a Janus, if you're Janice curious, come on by. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Discovery Days in Founder Fridays. If you are a Janice owner and you want to show up, we welcome you. Yeah, absolutely. We will put you to work.
SPEAKER_02Uh you must work. Uh, and now we're uh we're also opening uh and have all there's some of the dates for uh the discovery days as well that I'm gonna post a link for. There's a lot of announcements today, so bear with us here. We've got a lot of links, a lot of announcements. Uh uh, but Richard already talked a little bit about the discovery days.
SPEAKER_01Uh there's super there's not as many this year. So if you are interested in going to a real discovery day, which is a Saturday event, with it's a more choreographed thing. Um get on the website at the link that Jansen just posted in there, all the dates are listed. Yeah. But basically, that's again, it's a nine o'clock donuts and coffee, uh little intro, video, in-depth shop tour, test rides on all the bikes, and then a um lunch on us. And the price for those, I think I believe, is still$25. Uh, yeah, I'm not sure if it's promotion or anything. So check the website.
What Retro Actually Means
SPEAKER_02We're doing it very differently this year. Yes. Yes. So that is all the announcements we have. Thank goodness. Thank goodness. But uh something really that I wanted to talk to you about, especially given some of the motorcycles that have been released or uh concepts have been released, is uh this concept of retro. And what does it mean? What is it how does it impact us as riders, as uh people who ramble? I just want to unpack the the whole concept of retro.
SPEAKER_01Well, it's funny you ask. There's a whole chapter of the Rambler's Companion dedicated to what is retro. You can find it on Amazon.com. Um, that is a great question, and one that I think it's worth revisiting, especially with what we're seeing on the market right now. I mean, look at all the bikes. They're just it just keeps happening. Yes. Um you get the what are being called retro motorcycles. Um, we're gonna talk about a couple of them this evening. But in general, I think when the modern American or modern consumer, let's just say, thinks about the word retro, let's put even put it in the term oh just say retro. Yeah, what they're thinking is old looks new function.
SPEAKER_02That's what they think. Someone uh Hey Bert said retro or recreate. Or recreate. I think that's a good that's a good distinction. Yep. Uh yeah. Uh how can we take the old looks and uh put them on a new uh uh take make make just the shell old and everything else on the inside is new and updated and right, right? Yeah.
SPEAKER_01That's what I think most people think. Um and I think that that's a fairly accurate version of I think what the the the retro trend, and that is why I always I make the claim that Janus motorcycles are not retro. Uh no, if you describe your bike and your Janus Center as retro, that's perfectly okay. I know what you mean. It it is, it's like just like the Janus god with two faces looking one into the past and one to the future. Our bikes can be described as retro. That's perfectly okay. But I if you d dig down a little deeper there is a a quality to what we're trying to do that is more than well, like you have the word uh trend, right?
SPEAKER_02It's an interesting word. It's a whole topic that we don't have time to completely unpack. And then you also have the tr the word fad.
SPEAKER_01Uh-huh. And I would describe the current infatuation with retro. Maybe it's gotten past a fad. Maybe it's trending toward a trend. Um but what these bikes are trying to do, or what the retro thing is trying to conjure up a feeling of the past, yeah, a nostalgia, perhaps for a past that you or I never experienced. Right. I was not alive in the 1970s. Well, the 1960s. Hey. Certainly not in the 1920s. Hey, I wasn't either. The 80s. Oh, not for me. Not for you. Um, so the there's this kind of like golden nostalgia for a time past. Yeah. And it can be conjured, I like that word, conjured up with a sort of clothing. It's makeup.
SPEAKER_02Makeup on the bike, right? Conjure, I think of like like magic, like hum foolery. Like this isn't trick. This isn't truly what it looks like. Right.
SPEAKER_01It conjures a kind of a of a sensation of nostalgia. That I think captures that's why I don't like the term retro. Yeah. And why what when we started making JS bikes, we wanted something that was that wasn't we it didn't matter if it looked that way. It was right, does it capture the what old bikes do? The S. But they still do. Yeah. In the sense of like a thing, like an old 1970 Volkswagen bug still drives, right? But the sensation you get when you when you're driving it is you can't get that in a modern car. Right. Because they don't drive like that. And same thing with a Jan S with an old old bike is that there's a visceral sensation. Some people might call it uncomfortable. Some people might call it unacceptably low performance. Dangerous. They might even call it dangerous. Um, but it's a direct connection with a vehicle that has a soul. Yeah. Yeah. And you take what you will with that. Like, I'm not saying like Mr. Lord Byron that like dogs, motorcycles don't get sold. But right. But you see what I'm saying? They have a character that that that that's that enhances the experience in a way that a modern like if you know, like uh, I'm sure the the you know whatever new bike, it's like super smooth.
SPEAKER_02But it and it loses that but it doesn't have sensation. That like gumption, that like yeah, that that feeling of of of having to like pat your dash, right? Right as like, we got this, like we can do it. Yeah, exactly. So so there you go. What that's a great definition. I think that sets up uh kind of what we're gonna do next. As far as like I I want to take a look, uh, you have put it put together a list of some motorcycles that do this well, and uh some that are I think all these bikes do this well. Okay, I got like some kind of like fabriclass under that helmet in my hand. Yikes. That's not don't put that on my head. Remember that. This is right in your ears. So we've got a list of bikes here um that I I would say do this whole um retro thing well.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and they do it in different ways. Yeah. Which we've tried to pick a selection of bikes that are kind of unique. So one other thing is they kind of spawned this, maybe, would you say? Yeah. This Bart video? Yeah. So Bart um is a YouTube channel. Just look it up, B-A-R-T. Um, he did a recent episode um on retro motorcycles. Just look up like Bart YouTube Retro Motorcycles, and he features Janice. Bart um I could I could Brett came out here and visited us. Yeah, and uh he's a big Janus fan. He gets it. He has an old triumph. He gets it. But um, it was a really interesting video because he basically just can compares and contrasts a lot of retro bikes. He misses some. He had some that I don't think deserve to be there. Didn't make the list. Um, but we it got us thinking.
SPEAKER_02You're gonna pull it out. I'm gonna I'm gonna just gonna I'm gonna pull up his channel uh and I'm gonna paste it in the chat here so you guys can check it out.
SPEAKER_01His most popular video, why old motorcycle look better than modern motorcycles?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it's a really good channel. He does a really good job. If you guys like Janice at all, you'll like Bart.
Ducati To Harley Through A Retro Lens
SPEAKER_01He also has a channel on watches. That's also very cool. Okay, so anyway, uh where were we? Oh, these a bunch of different bikes that were picked kind of based on this thinking. So the first bike. What are we gonna start with?
SPEAKER_02Or we're gonna start with a Ducati. Ducati. Ducatisti. Ducatisti. The Formula 73. Gosh, this bike looks so beautiful.
SPEAKER_01Um so this is the new 750 Super Sport Paul Smart Replica livery. So this is I mean, what do y'all think? What version of retro is this? I think it's beautiful. I think it's a beautiful bike. I think it's beautiful, it's gorgeous. Um, basically, this is probably one of the last Desmodromic Ducotis they're gonna make. So this is essentially the Scram Scrambler. Sorry, not the Scram, the Scrambler, Desert Scrambler, whatever the Ducati Scrambler. Yeah. Um, it's a L twin desmodromic valves, um, all the other new big fancy Ducotis have moved away from that. Yeah, they're like conventional valves now. Yeah, um, so this is like this is a real thing, I think.
SPEAKER_02Um, they're only making like 800 of them. Um Texas Rebel says he's seriously considering buying a Formula 73. Yeah, they're they're pretty cool. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I would say, though, if you look at what they're modeling this on, which is like the 70s, early 70s Imola Pulse Mart um 750, they've totally changed the look. Yeah, it's modernized. They've modernized this pattern. Yeah. So this is like a version of retro because I think everybody would agree this is retro. They're they're using the same Pulse Mart colors, the the sea green frame with the silver tank, and they even have the vertical stripe, which was from the Emola. So that it was a endurance race.
SPEAKER_02Was it you that was? I can't remember. I can't remember if I watched a video or it was a Fort 9 video when they're talking about that stripe and what it represents. But it it's they made it a clear portion in the tank so that you could see where your fuel level was at.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, because this the Imola was or I'm not even sure I'm pronouncing it right. It's a racetrack in Italy that um is it was an endurance race. And the first 73, I think, was the first one. It was like their version of Daytona. Okay. And so they they fitted these bikes with giant fuel caps and this. They didn't even need a fuel, they didn't even need a fuel gauge because they were gonna be refilling this thing like over and over and over 200 lap rates. So anyway, so I would say this is like kind of more on the end of like inspired by the past, but making a new thing. I kind of I kind of like that more.
SPEAKER_02I if I had twenty thousand dollars, twenty grand, I would buy this bike. Yeah, it's good. Um there's like a gorgeous bike. I love the references. Uh, I mean, even all all the way down to like the X on the headlight, you know.
SPEAKER_01Which is the same, but that that really tells you it's this the um scrambler.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah. Right. Right. But it's a beautiful motorcycle, but I don't think it it's the original. Oh, look at that helmet. Holy cow, I want that helmet. I know that's cool. I don't think it captures the essence. I'm sure when you get on this motorcycle, it is um keep going. Where's the old bike?
SPEAKER_01There's the that's the one right there. That's the um the um set the original MLR.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, that is so far off.
SPEAKER_01But both beautiful.
SPEAKER_02Beautiful. Okay. Both beautiful. So there's one version that's available now. Now this this oh this has been around for a while. But this one, okay. If I also had another 20, if I had 40, I think I would get this one. I would get this one over the Ducati. I wouldn't buy this year, I'd buy two years back when it first came out, the first one. This is the NVIAG super veloce. This motorcycle is unreal. Are those those are spoked wheels?
SPEAKER_01It seemed like they're it seems like they're internally fake spoke. They're no, they're real. They're like machined into the in- to that has Whoa, I've never noticed that. That's really interesting. That's cool. Um Envy Augusta is like you think Ducati's a fancy Italian? Envy just takes it to another level. Um they're actually made right across the lake. I saw their factory from SWM. Really? Yeah, they're like at the same time they're right outside of um Varese. That's cool. North of Milan. Beautiful motorcycle. Now this one is more leaning into the kind of the even the fairing is very I don't know, the whole thing is it's very modern. Very modern, but also looking very much back at the past. Yeah, yeah. Uh love this bike. I have 20k and I won't buy it. I think that I think that bike is a very, very good job at retro. Yeah. I I can't I haven't ridden one, so I don't know what it feels like to rid the case. Well, yeah, I haven't either. I haven't ridden the Ducati yet, but I'm just saying based on the spec sheet that I've seen. So based on the looks, it looks very nice.
SPEAKER_02Based on the two the Ducati reviews, the two examples so far. Um what differences do you see in both motors? Cycles that says, yes, this does a good job at like hearkening back to the past.
SPEAKER_01I would say that both these are kind of in a similar vein. They're taking cues from the past, styling cues from the past, to take a modern motorcycle and sort of dress it up. That's what they've done. They've taken a modern motorcycle, they've dressed it up in old clothes that make it look good. Right. They've done a really good job. Yeah. And I think that if the industry as a whole did more of that, I think they'd get more people interested in motorcycles again. Right. Rather than these like weird, like just bizarre. Like just ugly ugly.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Yeah. Um modern bikes. So Joe says, hello, it's Warmount. Hi, Joe. Glad you're here. Hey Joe.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so that's I I would I would buy this bike so far. Both this bike is is on the extreme end of it's not really very high performance. I think it's interesting. Nor is the Ducati. You are both low performance. These are detuned? Um, I'm not sure. The MV is probably pretty highly strung, but it's just so, it's like it has no very little rider aids. Yeah. It's it's out there on the it's like an old classic Italian design. It's just kind of raw. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Very raw.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02So the reviews I've read. Um we're talking about we're we're talking about white, white motorcycles and the pre-backed. That's MV colors. See. That looks really good. I would choose the white and the gold. Oh, do it. All right, moving on. No. Up next is a motorcycle that we have talked about before.
SPEAKER_01This is the Benda Napoleon. I'm gonna ride one of these. The Napoleon Bob. The Napoleon Bob 500. Now, the the Napoleon Bob 300, I think, has the one that has the weird forks.
SPEAKER_02Yes.
SPEAKER_01Well, no, I think this one, this one has weird forks as well. Well that's anyway. This is a different thing going on here. It is something.
SPEAKER_02This is like Explain it, Richard. Talk to us about it.
SPEAKER_01I mean, they're just going off on a completely different tangent. But they're taking they're making a motorcycle that looks good, and to the extent that old motorcycles look good, it has to be somewhat retro. Right. But I don't think they're intentionally being retro. Yeah, I think they're saying I think this is like this is what motorcycles should look like. Yeah. I actually have more praise for this, as much as I hate to say this, than the Super Veloce or the Ducati.
SPEAKER_02Because they're forging new different path. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And it's just a V-twin 500. I mean I'm not sure it's my flavor. I want one, but I have to give it I have to say that it seems like what they're doing is trying to be very intentionally focusing on what a motorcycle should look like. Yeah. Whereas the MV is like, oh, we're going to uh make it look like the ones in the past. Is that racist? I don't know if you can do that. You can actually personate Italian.
SPEAKER_02Give me a break. No, I I agree. I think that this is Do I have to speak Italian for you to like think it's not racist? No, I don't I don't it was a joke. No, I think this is um I really want to ride one of these. I don't know if anybody can get us in in contact with Benda. I don't know if we can even reach out. I would love to have I want to ride one. I would love to have uh this is Chinese, by the way. Yes. Yes. I will not do a Chinese impersonation. I would I would love to Hey Richard, is my new Halcyon 450 done and ready to pick up? Kelly asks.
SPEAKER_01I would have to check on that.
SPEAKER_02Give us a call, Kelly. We would love to hear from you. Oh, hold on. Ed Smith, I just received my uh Rambler's Companion book today. It seems like a nice sequel, somewhat dated to Terminal Cases uh book that Rose Titch enjoyed.
SPEAKER_01I actually based it on that book.
SPEAKER_02Did you? Yeah. So I don't know if I got a copy of it or in here somewhere, but yeah, I do.
SPEAKER_01What's what's our next motorcycle here? Uh okay, now we have the Indian Chief Vintage, which was debuted recently. Um, and this is I mean, it's just pretty. This is something else. It's just good to look at. I mean, the the there's a lot to going on, but probably the thing that my eye goes to is not actually the skirted fenders, although those are cool. Uh-huh. It's that motor. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02I mean, that motor is beautiful. My eye instantly goes to the overall silhouette of the motorcycle. Uh-huh. And it reminds me of cars in like the late 30s. 40s. Early 40s, with like the sweeping fender flip.
SPEAKER_01Like, that's what they're channeling as a Harley as a uh Harley. Uh chief from the 1940s. I mean, this is they've even got the little Indian head with the light on it in it. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02I I would personally would never buy this, but uh and I also like our skirted fenders, our Halcyon 450 with skirted fenders better than this. I think the I think we do it better. It lends itself. The Halcyon 450 with skirted fenders is a little more um, it doesn't take us up as much like eye space. I don't know, I don't know how to I don't know how to articulate it. Uh but this is too like clunky for me. The Halcyon 450 with Skirted Fenders looks uh very um simplified. Oh, I guess it's exactly what Janice is, right?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. So this is if we're kind of looking at the way that this is retro, I would say that they've they have if if dressing it up in clothes and putting makeup on it is what they're doing, they have done a very, very good job. They've gone above and beyond. Like, I mean, the the and it's almost hard to to talk about a cruiser, an American cruiser v twin, uh, in the same conversation as retro because that's the whole thing. Right. Isn't that what they all is what they do, right? Actually, what Bart Bart in his video says, he's like, Yeah, I didn't include any cruisers because that's kind of what cruisers are. But I thought that that I really wanted to talk about this bike on the ramble stream because it's so similar in a lot of ways to what we do. Yeah. And so very, very different.
SPEAKER_02Just different all at the same time. And it there's something really there's there seems to be this trend. We talked about this on Friday. Friday's when we plan these things. Uh, and we talked about how there seems to be a pendulum swing toward uh motorcycles that actually feel like something rather than like this you pull the throttle and you go. Yeah. Um and I I I think this is like gonna be what we look back on and say, like, oh, this was the moment when the chief vintage came out that kind of set motorcycle trajectory for what we're experiencing now.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I mean, my point on this is that I I st I I do still think that this is a motorcycle that is a modern bike, it's a completely modern bike. Yeah. Like Indian has just done an incredibly good job at making their new technology look old. Right. Like right down to the end. They didn't even have to like think about it. All they had to do is put some different paint on this engine to make it look like a an old because they already were doing it. Right, right. So then they all they had to do is put some different fenders on it and reconfigure how they did the Indian bobber seat and take the fearing off, and it's done. Um so my I guess I would just say that I still think this though is is um new clothes or old clothes on a new machine, new bike, yeah. Definitely, which is a little different than just the the super veloce, which is like new bike with a flavor of the past influencing it, right? Which is completely different than the Napoleon Bob, which is entirely new, but still but but they're the the fact that it looks somewhat old, and a lot of people would include it as a retro, absolutely a retro bike, is that they're trying to honey on what makes a good looking motorcycle, and I would argue that that's universal, right? It's cross time.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I would say that any conversation I have with you about uh motorcycle design always harkens back to like the things that look timeless are references from the past.
SPEAKER_01Any any sometimes, but then there's things that like just came out like 1980s sport bike fairings. They look good. Is this a hint toward the Phoenix 450, Richard? Um like there's a little like there are moments when we we make yeah when we're inspired, yeah. And and and and things kind of like figure themselves out. Right. And I don't think we want to go and look at 1920s aerodynamic fairings for like necessarily, but like when it comes to like other parts of a bike, we've done things the best. Right. And so if you're just dressing up your modern sport bike with all with with old clothes, then you're not really gonna get the experience of what it's like to ride a cafe racer because or an old sport bike because it's so you're so it's too refined. It's refined and it's remote, it's it's removing you from the experience, right? Like we're like an old bike is just so much more immediate. Yeah. And and and why did we lose that?
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Why do we have to? And that's what we're asking with our retro.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_02I was about to ask, like, we've got one more to kind of look at, but uh I I think we kind of uh kind of go through it because that's what's the next one. It's the Harley.
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah, let's do let's let's wrap it up with that one. Yeah. So this is a fun one. This one was just debuted at Mama Tried up in Milwaukee, which is a very fitting place for it to be debuted. Um this is the Harley Davidson uh X R M R M XR. RMCR. RMCR. Sorry, I Harley Davidson names, I just can't do it. RMCR stands for Revolution Max Cafe Racer.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, the the Harley, you gotta figure it out, man. You've got to have something simple.
SPEAKER_01People already know what it is. I don't know. FLXT card. That's too much. Um but the famous 19 uh 70s uh Willie G came out with uh came up with the idea, penned the XLCR, which was a cafe racer Harley that just kind of like came out of nowhere. And they weren't the best performing bikes in the world. Let's just say uh Scott Ferguson, our supply chain um VP, is he has one and he loves it. So cool. But he he will be the first to tell you that it will shake you to death. Um and they just I mean you can go one, you know, not not every when I say that you you the experience at motorcycling should be visceral. Yeah, I'm not saying that you should like need new fillings or have to wear a back support or something after you ride your bike. It needs to be functional. Um, but there and then there are certain bikes that are failures and successes along the way. Right. But it was certainly a fun thing for Harley to do, and then they they launched this. This is just one of one. There's no there's no um, I don't think there's been much announcements of production. Yeah. Um, but I think it's a sign of what they're gonna be doing. And wouldn't it be fantastic if Harley did have a cafe racer?
The Janus Case For Analog Riding
SPEAKER_02I mean a sport bike. I I think they need any help that they can to figure out what's next. Uh, but but how does how does where does Janice fit?
SPEAKER_01So Janice fits into this in a different way, which is that one, certainly the aesthetics, we like old bikes. Yes, but I also like new bikes. As you can tell just from this conversation, Super Veloce is beautiful. The Triumph Speed Triple R R, gorgeous bike. Yeah, um 1980s bikes, even some 1990s bikes are beautiful, yeah. Um however, the the experience, we believe, of the motorcycle has been diluted. Yeah. The the automotive safety, convenience, efficiency, drive has seeped into motorcycles. And it's done so and in performance, like insane performance has seeped over. So motorcycles reached a point where they couldn't really go much faster. Yeah. The Hayabusa, the you know, set that what 1999, 2000. And so then they started like, what else can we do to if we're in this war with other people, other competitors, how do we keep making these bikes upping the ET? How do we make them better? How do we make them better? Exactly. And it's just been I I'm not I think that there's a perfect, there's a great place for traction control, it's a great place for all the amenities. However, we have to maybe some of those things aren't as necessary if you're riding a bike with less horsepower, right? That you're having more fun on twisty roads with, that's more analog, that's that up that in a the different relationship with reality offers fun, yeah, like those older bikes. And those older bikes don't just offer fun to you all because of nostalgia. Um it's not just because you get people that come scream, you know, running out of the woods when you park your go get gas on your Janice, which does happen. Right. It's because you you didn't buy it just because of hat. You bought it because it it does the ride of the bike is different. It's not something that you can you can find elsewhere and you can really have that connection with them. So there's that. Obviously, the aesthetics play into that. The the the manufacturing process that we use it has limited us. We talk a lot about constraints, yeah. Jansen and I, and the constraints of the way that we make things mean that we make bikes that are a certain way, and that happens to be the way Janice makes motorcycles, right? Which is can be kind of archaic in some regards. Um and we're very small, we have a very low uh budget, and so that all kind of pairs together to create this very unique machine that is because of those constraints, right? It has allowed us to say, what does a motorcycle do? Why do we ride motorcycles? And we ride motorcycles because we want to get on the road, we want to feel like we're getting away with something like we always say, we want to feel stealing, like we're we can transform ourselves, like we can push ourselves to the limit, and we want that limit to be within the range that we've experienced every single day. Right. Um, they're not motorcycles that are if you're the kind of person that wants to be um passing everybody, screaming by everybody, you want to be like showing off with how loud your engine is. Um I mean, I'm not joking. If you if there are people like that, right, um sometimes that's fun. If but they're not that motorcycle. These are them, these are the bikes that are designed for two-lane roads, 55 miles an hour. Um, even the 450 is happier at 60 miles an hour than it is at 90. I would argue that any rider is happier at 60 miles an hour. That's the argument we're making, is that we're that we're focusing on that aspect of twisty roads, stopping, talking to people, meeting new people, rambling. Right. So we are retro only insofar as we do a better job of remembering what motorcycles are actually about than other people do. Right.
SPEAKER_02I'll leave it at that. Yeah. I don't know. I think that's a great summary. Um we want to we want to distill the experience down to its only the the last bits, what actually matters, what actually provides flavor. And and if you want to distill something down, you do lose some things. Yeah, absolutely. You lose a lot of lose a lot of the water. Right. Which which can add yeah, there's a good thing. But we don't think it's important for the most. Yeah, not the most important thing. Exactly. I think it was a good conversation. Uh thank you, Richard, for providing your insight on that. It's always so interesting to see um your opinion and other people's opinions on motorcycles. I think uh Janice McRyder mentioned uh a comment that said, it's really interesting seeing everyone's taste in motorcycles, which I I completely agree.
SPEAKER_01Um Kelly4199 says that Kelly Christmas He says, Richard, would ever consider going to Wheel Street Time to visit and do a Ramble stream? Oh, that would be cool. I have been to Real Street Time. I don't know if I mean we could definitely we could ask. We could ask. We could see if we really could make a guest uh get start up some kind of really cool bike for us on the ramble stream.
SPEAKER_02That'd be awesome. That would be really cool. Um, well, that's all we have planned, except for one last thing. If you guys want to enter the word lock, lock all caps, l-o-c, jason. You've got it. Uh, we are gonna be giving away a motorcycle helmet lock. One of our own. And if you want to enter, go ahead and hit uh type in lock to the chat. This is for everybody. So if you're watching on Facebook, YouTube, you name it. You gotta spell it right though. You can enter. You do have to spell it right. You do have to spell it right. Let me see if I can pull this up. Look at all these locks. Lock lock lock lock. Dave Bowen's in there. I see Dave Bowen wants one. Add it to the list. Everybody add this this uh this name or this this word to the list of croc lock. Drop it. I don't know. What was the what are what have been our other giveaways? What have we we've given away a lot of stuff? Um I can't remember. I can't remember either. Locke. Crocs locks close. Michael, I'm not sure if it matters or not. Michael Webster, yeah, sure if it matters or not. But uh the way I have it is it all caps. So maybe tie downs. Yeah, tie downs. Thank you. Thank you, Jason. Lochness crocs. Lochness the the Lochness monster, the Crockness monster. We're firing on all spots. This is not this is gonna be cut for the podcast. Yes, this will be cut for the podcast. This will not this will not be cut. Be line. All right. Okay, we got 29 entries. We'll give it a couple more minutes here.
SPEAKER_01Crocs, no, not not the uh okay. So while we're letting these entries come in, if you want to receive the prize that you win, which will, if you're lucky, be a helmet lock for your Janus motorcycle, you have to send us an email. You have to rambling at Janus Motorcycle.com. Just because you won an award or a prize last time doesn't mean I still remember your email or your your physical address. Yes. So if you win this, you've got to send me an email, uh, rambling at Janus Motorcycle.com, and then I will give that email to Danielle and she will ship you. Yes. Yes.
SPEAKER_02Also rambling email physical address. Rambling at Janus Motorcycles.com is a great way to send in any suggestions or questions that you have for Richard or I. Jansen, we have a phone number. Would you remind us of what that phone number is? I want to remind you guys of what the phone number is. If you guys want to leave a voicemail and ask any questions uh and be featured potentially on the live stream, it is Are You Ready, 574 501 3830. Again, that's 574-501-3830. You guys can give us a call, leave a voicemail. And uh Oh my gosh, confed yank up in here with that number. Nice. All right, all right. Let's let's do it run.
SPEAKER_01We got 30. That's good.
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