this is the 2022 honda monkey and in this video i'm going to
give it a full review and tell you how fun this little thing really is
the engine on this is really nice it's a 125 cc and it's probably the most economic bike you
could possibly think of it's nice and smooth through the rev range you've got five gears
the clutch is very light and this thing does over 150 miles per gallon so the fuel economy is
absolutely brilliant and this could be the answer to the fuel crisis at the moment it costs about
six or seven pounds to fill up this whole tank and then you can go 220 miles on it without having to
refuel so you wouldn't need to refuel for a couple of weeks and it's going to cost you absolutely
nothing the engine produces 9.7 brake horsepower and 10.5 newton meters of torque but the figures
aren't really relevant when it comes to this bike because it doesn't really matter
it keeps up with most one two fives it doesn't feel any less or more powerful
the engine is very smooth and it's got five gears so it's good for 60 miles an hour so it'd be a
great first bike or a little run around i just really really love this bike it's so much fun
one of the first things i noticed when getting on this bike is how comfortable the seat is it's
quite big it's very padded nice and soft so you can ride this bike for a fair while and not get a
saw bottom so that's very good and it as it's very small you do kind of feel your weight getting onto
it the suspension is very good you got upside down forks at the front and when you go over the bumps
you do feel them but it feels nice and soft so you do find yourself bouncing up and down over the
bumps but it doesn't feel like it's going to break your back or anything it's still nice and smooth
but obviously because it's so small you are going to feel the bumps a little bit before
we carry on in the video i just want to say a few things about this foam mount that i've got here
been sent it kindly by quad lock which is absolutely fantastic i've got the handlebar
mount pro i've got the iphone case for my phone here so that's very good and it
just clips on you twist it around it's very secure i've also got a vibration dampener so
it's not going to shake your phone about there's a thing where if you don't have one of those
the f the actual camera can come loose and come out of its um housing which is not good
so that will stop that from happening i've also got a waterproof poncho for it so in the wet
i'll be fine and a weatherproof wireless charger so when i'm on my trips to wales
i can charge my phone and it'll be fully charged when i get there so absolutely fantastic
you can check the link in the description to see quad lock and i thoroughly recommend it
um
this monkey handles really well because it's so light and nimble you can just chuck it around very
easily and the turning circle is out of this world you can just full lock it and it'll go
around so easily i wish you could do your bike test on one of these it'd be absolutely easy
you pass it instantly so yeah the handling is absolutely great and you can throw it around like
it's not even there i really like the speedo on the monkey it's nice and small when you turn it on
it's got this cute little face and the eyes blink at you so i like that moving chuckle tells you
miles per hour how many miles you've done you've got a fuel gauge it doesn't tell your revs but to
be honest on this bike i'm not bothered about that at all um it tells you whether in neutral or not
and it doesn't have a gear indicator um tells you when your indicators are on you've got an
engine light obviously and your beams and abs so it tells you everything you need to know
and it's a nice design as well the monkey costs 3899 pounds plus on the road charges in the uk
so it's not expensive at all very cheap and you're obviously going to save a lot of money
on petrol so definitely a good investment here i've got it in this new blue color here
which looks quite nice we've had it in yellow before i prefer this blue
so yeah very nice color i really like how the forks the upside down forks are anodised in blue
normally they just keep them gold but in this blue color it looks really really nice
and the rear suspension in blue as well there's a lot of chrome on this bike which looks very
classic you've got chrome around the speedo chrome indicators chrome heat shield chrome mud guards so
it looks really nice and classic looking so i really like the look of this bike
as i was saying this bike is extremely light it only weighs
104 kilograms so that's absolutely nothing you could pick this bike up very easily
my only worry with that is that it could make it easy to steal and put in the back of a van you
could probably pick it up just one person or two people very easily so yeah i would be a little bit
worried about that so especially if you live in the city somewhere like london where bike theft
is pretty high definitely make sure it's locked up and secure maybe get a tracker for it as well
but other than that this bike would be perfect in the city in and out of traffic like nothing else
um as easy as a bicycle would be but you've got much more power and it's extremely fuel
efficient so you're not going to be putting out loads of pollution so if you do live in the city
even in the countryside as a commuter this bike would be absolutely brilliant oh what's that
what's that that
is it an alarm yeah must be oh that's good isn't
it alarmed no i just unset it
it's got single disc brakes on the front and the rear something like this doesn't need double
discs so the stopping power is plenty enough so i didn't have any issues there either the mirrors
are quite small on this bike they'd probably be better if they were
mounted on the ends of the bars but then it would be less easy to get in and out of traffic
so i can see about 50 percent of the road behind me so they're okay the exhaust note is quite quiet
so that would be good in the city you're not going to annoy anyone it's very subtle i think there's
some aftermarket exhausts for these even vance and heinz do one so they might sound pretty nice
uh we've come off the road because i've had to move the bike about 29 000 times so this bike
as you can see is very small i'm six foot one and this is what i look like sitting on the bike
and surprisingly it actually feels plenty roomy enough my arms are stretched out my
legs are in a comfortable position my bum's very comfortable on this nice padded seat
so riding position is actually really nice despite how small the bike is obviously the
bike's going to look small no matter who's on it but yeah it feels very comfortable to ride
i've just noticed how cool the exhaust shape is where it exits it then comes
out and spirals around and then up it's kind of like a ram's horn i really like that very nice
so in conclusion this bike i'd definitely recommend it's very cheap it's very cheap to run
it's nice and nimble it'd be a great learner bike or if you're older absolutely it'd be
fantastic as a little run around to get to the shops and things like that get to work
around the city absolutely fantastic it's so nimble you can just chuck it in and out
so yeah this bike is absolutely brilliant and i think this bike is the answer to our pollution and
fuel problems it's going to cost you nothing and it puts out barely any pollution so really it's uh
this is the answer if everyone rode one of these in london i think the pollution levels would go
right down to nothing so why don't the government give us all one of these for free that'd be great
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