YouTube, perhaps more than any other platform since the original Blogger service, has enabled all kinds of different people with different perspectives to get their message out. Previously, when a few companies owned all the media outlets and throttled their output, someone who wasn’t a balls-to-the-wall, full-send rider/racer/adventurer would not be able to reach a wider audience. But now, thanks to YouTube, we can watch the moto adventures of people like Calen and Nika of Joy Machine.

Joy Machine is a YouTube channel focusing on moto travel around North America, riding old-school bikes down back roads. You should recognize a lot of the landscapes along the way. Check out their visit to Monument Valley or the Bonneville Salt Flats.

If you go to their channel, you’ll see lots of their EVO-powered Harley-Davidson complete with king-and-queen seat, and on some trips Nika rides her Royal Enfield 650 Continental GT.

And of course they have an Instagram account filled with their adventures, like every good, modern influencer does.

YMMV on whether or not you like their adventure footage. It’s certainly not based on a modern ADV bike with long-travel suspension and farkles galore. However, I appreciate their channel for showing that it’s still possible to get out there and see the world using the equipment you own. And considering all the Old-Man-Shakes-Fist-At-Cloud comments that we see whenever this site has a story about young people and motorcycling, I say it’s good to see that some of America, at least, is still in love with the open road.