In today's video, i'm going to tell you about the new motorcycle I bought,
why i bought a motorcycle, and how i'm gonna carry this thing on my rig.
What is going on youtube greetings from cold went Missouri. I'm here at my mother's house the sun's
actually coming up right now so maybe we'll have a pretty sunrise here behind me but the reason i
made this video is yeah i got a motorcycle before i talk about the specific motorcycle i have and
how i'm gonna carry this thing on my rig let me go into why i got a motorcycle in the first
place so you'll remember when i was looking for an rv i decided on a van because it gave me the
most mobility compared to other rvs and that's been mostly true i can go almost anywhere i
feel comfortable driving this thing in cities and it's no issue trying to find a parking spot it's
actually pretty easy but there was still a lack of mobility in certain situations to and from
campsites is no issue but once i find a great spot on national forest or blm land or a great
spot hooked up at a campsite that's where it gets a little bit tricky and it's a little bit more
difficult to be mobile when i find a sweet spot on blm land or national forest land i don't really
want to break camp and potentially lose that spot to go on a hike that's only about a mile away
or to go find some groceries or to go explore the surrounding areas and when i'm on full hookups at
a campground it's kind of a pain to have to unhook everything to go get groceries or go explore
i had a mountain bike but that range is kind of limited not only by time but how much physical
ability i have to go somewhere the last campsite i was at dc was 50 miles away riding a bike to dc
wasn't really feasible i thought about an e-bike but that too is sort of limiting so i decided to
try to find a street legal motorcycle that i could carry on a hitch carrier and that led me
to my 2020 honda ground so let's talk about the motorcycle okay let's talk
about why the honda grom over other models of motorcycle and it comes down to one word
numbers the biggest number being the weight of the bike this bike comes in at 229 pounds wet that's
really really really light for a street legal motorcycle the hitch on my rv is rated to carry
350 pounds so this bike is way under that number my hitch carrier is actually 36 pounds so together
it's under 260 pounds i have about 90 pounds to play with on the amount of weight the hitch can
hold the next number is miles per gallon this thing right here gets 135 miles to the gallon
so it's a great way to inexpensively explore the surrounding area where i'm camped at and
the final number is the price this thing is only about 3 brand new you can find them used anywhere
from 1 500 to 2500 so the price was really right for me as well all right let me show you how i'm
gonna carry this on the back of my rig okay so i wanted a motorcycle but one of my big requirements
was that i didn't have to tow it on a trailer i wanted to be able to mount it on the hitch so for
that to be possible the hitch and my bike needed to be under 350 pounds i mentioned before my hitch
can only hold 350 pounds and i didn't want to be anywhere close to that i'm gonna mitigate some
of the weight on the hitch and i'll show you how i did that in a second i've got my van parked a
little bit on a hill i found it easier to get the bike up onto the rack that way so let me show you
so behind here is a little ramp for the bike so basically you just hook it on like this
all right so i've got a bunch of straps here i have these rhino straps i heard a lot of good
things about them i saw them on nomadic fanatics channel actually you can get these on amazon
as well i'll put links to all this stuff this black widow carrier and this kind of thing on
amazon if you want to go and check it out so that these are what i'm going to use i also have some
tie down straps that i'm also going to use doing this by yourself is not the easiest thing so you
definitely want to put safety precautions in place so one thing i like to do is i like to put the
handlebar straps on before i put the bike up there and one reason is so the bike doesn't tip over
so what i'm gonna do is get one of these straps ready to go so i can hook it up right away to
the side of my bike that is uh next to the van so it'll keep it snug against the van
and it won't tip over so it's ready to go all right if something bad is going
to happen it's going to happen right now so make sure you keep your eyes on the video if i
drop this bike i'm gonna get all kinds of views i like to get a running start to do this
you almost saw me lose it there one of the things about downhill is you've got to make sure you
keep a hold of the bike or it'll go right off all right so now that i'm here like i mentioned if i
just let the bike go it's gonna fall over so i've already got this strap up here ready to go and i
can hook it on to this side of the handlebar all right so that's hooked in now let me just crank it
down okay now that i've got this one attached uh we're gonna go ahead and attach the other
handle bar as you see it's like stable on here you don't want to crank down on the handlebar
too much until you get the other one hooked up now that i've got the first straps put on
i'm going to take some of the pressure off the hitch so i bought some of these things here
they're what rock climbers use to bolt to a rock and then hook themself into well i hooked those up
here i screwed them in here so now i have these little uh you know these little anchors here
and i'm gonna hook straps up to take some of the weight off of the hitch carrier if you're enjoying
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so you don't miss any of my weekly videos and then just crank down a little bit on this not too much
but just enough to take some of the weight off of the hitch even though i'm up below i still worry
about something happening to the hitch so i figured the more precaution i can take
the better so have this thing hooked up and um taking some of that weight off the hitch
let me put the other one on there we go not only are these providing a little bit more
support for the hitch they're also kind of pulling the bike into the rig which i like
so if one of these goes they're still gone to the rig somehow there's a little bit of support
okay lastly i'm going to use some tie downs to make this more secure
so i just have a bunch of various different ones that i use on the rig
for me the more tie down points the better
all right i think we're pretty secure and we're ready to hit the road i'm
actually headed up to forest city iowa to get some warranty work done on my rig
okay so i made it to forest city iowa it took me eight hours it was over 400 miles
and as you can see my bike stayed on my rig so that's great
so yeah so tell me what you think of the bike tell me what you think of how i'm carrying it
do you think i should have got the bike should i stayed with my mom bike if you enjoyed this
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hit that subscribe button see you next week where i talk about the warranty work i'm gonna get done
at winnebago see you soon filling out my cup coffee talk on the screen porch so in love now
you're the one i'm losing sleep for and i hope the wrong ones slip right through your magic
in love like we fingers
dreaming in the first place