behind me right here just over my shoulder is my brand new fully finished fully customized
honda dream the bike that we are about to use to travel to every single province here in thailand
it's taken me a few months to get to this point through researching what bits to get
what customizations to find and then to get them fitted and to get it just right and uh
before i reveal the bike i just want to quickly show you how did it used to look like a couple
of weeks ago because i was getting so many of you guys coming and saying oh my god when are
you gonna fix your bike please fix your bike you're not gonna make it on that bike and then
i'll talk to you about why i'm not upgrading and getting a really good proper bike to do this big
trip on and why i think it's best actually why i think it's best to use a honda dream
so when i dropped off my honda dream at the mechanic he
was like okay what's happened now because i'm always dropping my bike off it's always
got something wrong with it but uh this time i said no listen we've got some big things to do
starting firstly obviously with the bloody chair you guys have been messaging me so much about the
seat it's ripped to shreds and it just looks awful so i said to him please can you fix me and get me
a new chair nice and soft please then we moved on to this weird like rubber um footrest thing
that had just fallen off the other day i went to basically put my foot on it and it just fell off
the oil that always leaks that's pretty much standard but i was asking him if he could you
know change the o-rings i thought that might work and uh turns out it did and then the tires i like
the back tire because it's big and chunky but i i really wanted to replace at least the front tire
the front tire is just a bit thin and flimsy and then i also wanted to change the helmet i've been
loving my helmet it's my favorite thing but it doesn't really fit anymore it's a bit loose and
a bit rubbish so i wanted to upgrade that so yeah that's all the things i wanted done there is a few
other surprises that i uh requested but you'll see them in a second so let's go back and uh have the
reveal so that's how she used to look and this is how she looks now are you ready drum roll please
don't worry i'll bring you in for a closer look let me explain
here she is okay so what i'll do is i'll walk around the bike and i'll explain all of the things
we've changed all of the things we've kept and just all the little tiny improvements that we've
made so obviously the big massive thing you notice firstly is the back side boxes so i found these on
lazada lazada is basically a thai version of amazon and they're made in thailand made down
in bangkok and they've got really good reviews and they're 35 now 36 liters each 72 liters in total
and they're just the right size i don't think they look grotesquely big
i think they're just right they're made of plastic but they're made of really good watertight plastic
the aluminium ones are the best but they're so expensive these were 6 000 baht about 200
us dollars and the metal aluminium ones they can go for something like you know nearly a thousand
dollars which i ain't got that kind of money so i was like okay cool and we installed them
and the guy in the shop ripped off the old metal back seat frame thing um and then he installed
these and it was quite simple apparently and uh yeah so now i can keep you know
stuff in my backpack and then stuff that i can't fit in my backpack in each box and yes i will make
sure that i weigh them equally don't have one too heavy on the left and not one have one too light
on the right and i think they look cool i really like how they don't make my bike super fat at the
back it adds about i've looked at it it's about two inches um on the left of my handlebar and two
inches on the right of my handlebar so when i'm going and weaving through traffic i should be able
to know and not have to worry too much that i'm gonna hit them into something i'll just have to
be a little bit extra uh lenient with my big ass i think they look great i'm really happy with them
obviously you can see that i also have this tie flag now this is not a permanent fixture
it does basically just come out if you pull it and i was thinking about getting it taped to it
but then it's hard for me to get my leg over but i think it looks really cool so when there's
days when i'm driving and i'm really sort of happy with the bike and in love with thailand
i'll fly my flag i'll jam it in there get some good shots you can see here i've been using it
before in places like pi and it just makes the it makes the shots look great when you're driving up
a hill and you have the drone following you just looks cool i'll probably keep the flag in my bag
sticking out the top and then when i want to use it for really good shots
and photographs i can just whizz it out and jam it quite quite easily in here
and then uh yeah it should fly really nicely and my neighbor's cat's here look so antiqua
how are you what are you doing being all weird so this is my uh old helmet just a red one it didn't
have a sun visor anymore that kind of snapped off one day and i love all the budgeteer sticker on
there but um it was a bit loose it was a bit old a bit knackered so i got this one and it's cool it's
like a matte black finish and it's got this really nice long sun visor which is good for keeping the
sun out of your eyes especially if i forget or lose or break my sunglasses and i just like the
matte black finish i think it looks really cool and it's a much tighter it's a much more snug fit
and what do you think um i do look a bit daft actually but there's not much you can do and
safety first right especially when you're driving around in thailand uh even really
low speed accidents if you're not wearing a helmet bang head on the curb head on the concrete see you
later alligator so this should hopefully fingers crossed if i don't have an accident but if i do
um this will protect me properly which is great another cool feature is we just painted these you
know metal pieces that go on the outside is the technical term and the engine i painted the engine
these like pieces here and on the other side i painted the chain guard and the same piece in
black so it just kind of gives it that stealthy look just gives it that i mean the paint actually
has come off a little bit there from when i was um watering it with the hose this morning trying to
clean it which was kind of annoying but anyway it looks still looks sick so i'm really like that and
that goes really well with the wheels so the wheels i had to upgrade the wheels number one
the tires were actually punctured i was driving around with broken punctured tires
and he had to throw out the tires so i wanted to keep the back tire originally
put the back tire on the front but then he said the back tire was punctured
the front tire was just not good enough so we've got these really good west lake branded um
tires they're a bit thicker they're a bit chunkier and as a little sort of added beautification
we uh spray painted the front forks black we spray painted the drum brakes black
the spokes the basically the inner metal works of the of the tyre is now all black as well to
match the engine and the back chain guard and everything so it's got that cool kind of like
black on red vibe i think it looks kind of cool and i love these ties these are really nice
and chunky just gonna give me a little bit more comfort a little bit a tiny little bit more range
probably but um just looks cooler as well and it'll give me a bit more grip when i go off-road
i kept the basket um i love the basket so handy for when you're just like getting some water or
snacks from the 7-eleven or whatever just chuck it in there and it's good to go ah so useful just
having this now as a secondary storage item for things like snacks and water can keep all the good
stuff in here and in my backpack on my back and then yeah just little bits and bobs in the basket
and the last really cool tiny little customization thing i have is this cool chain that links to
i think this is the what is this the front brake anyway just just keeps my chain because i used to
my keys sorry they used to smack against the bike and make a really loud noise when i'm recording
which i don't want and i've got this really cool usb charger which means that you know
with a usb cable i can then have my phone my drone my camera my whatever charging through the bike
it's wired through the bike somehow the mechanic did that for me and this cost me like one or two
dollars from lasada again and that means yeah i can charge my stuff as and when i need to which
is really good especially if i'm in the middle of nowhere when i run out of battery on my phone
or i'm nearly alright about to run out of battery i can charge it or if my drone isn't
charged and i know there's going to be an amazing sunset or something i can then just
charge it up on the way and know i'll have enough battery to get it up there and get a cool shot so
i think that's everything yeah that's pretty much all of the modifications customizations that we've
made and i just think she looks beautiful what do you think and i just want to say a massive thank
you to my patreons you guys have been supporting me even though i haven't promoted it yet and i'll
start pushing it properly when i'm on the road but you can become a patreon and support the journey
and support the channel and the production and thankfully the few people who are supporting me so
far the february and march some actually a little bit of january too i put into a little piggy bank
pot and used all of that money for the side boxes and the helmet and the whole mechanic fee he
charged me 2 800 baht just about 90 us dollars to paint the wheels fix the brakes tighten the chain
paint the bits and bobs install the usb charger install the side boxes for me
and just give it a general you know mot style change the oil that kind of thing so 90
for that 750 baht for the helmet six thousand bar for the side boxes all in all it was about 400
300 400 i'm not quite sure uh but thank you to the patreons i used that support for that so thank you
so much and uh yeah we we have a fun monthly like pub quiz basically via zoom and every month we do
one so if you want to come to my fun pub quiz style uh monthly quiz every month and support
the channel and our journey across thailand uh check the description because you can join
there if you're interested if you're not don't worry we're gonna have a great time aren't we
and the last thing i want to say is why am i doing it on this you know 100 cc 125 cc
honda i mean look at it it's not exactly a big bike right and when you're driving around thailand
there are proper bikers with proper bikes and obviously you guys are like oh you guys are
nailing me in the comments i get comments every day oh great idea but you should upgrade the bike
it's going to be miserable it's going to be awful you're going to regret it you're going to regret
it firstly you don't know what i like and i like adventure proper adventure and if it was a big
expensive comfortable bike i would whiz around all the provinces in 20 minutes not see anything and
uh and it wouldn't be very interesting i want to go slow i want to be uncomfortable it's more fun
life's more fun when you're having like a difficult struggle to get through it so
and i'm not going to be doing 400 kilometers 300 kilometers in a day i'm going province by province
town by town day by day i'm going slow there's no rush we're not trying to break any records in
fact i'd like it to take over a year but i think it's going to take nine months or a year to go
slowly to all the provinces yeah there'll be days where i have to go from one side of a big province
through it to the next province and that might be 110 k's 150 k's
which would take me four or five hours on this thing but still it's gonna be fine so let me
have a good time on my honda dream don't give me a bad time about it um i know i'd love to go
and get a big bmw thing i got the money and it's uh not my style she's my style she's my baby so
so that's why anyway thank you for watching i hope you enjoy uh the the look of the new bike it's not
massively different but it's got the things i think i need to make the trip more comfortable
more practical and just looking good while we do it right so subscribe if you don't want to miss
our journey it starts next week next week friday is my last day at school saturday i'll just you
know do my last few things i'm selling things on the minute on facebook i'm getting rid of all my
last bits and bobs it's becoming real and then i think on the sunday i'll get on the train um
i'm gonna get this on the train somehow wish me luck um there'll be a video about that soon
there'll be a couple more videos coming up i know you guys want to know how i'm planning my trip
so i've got a planning video coming out this is kind of a planning video as well this is how i've
planned my bike anyway i'm rambling thank you for watching subscribe don't miss the big adventure
and thank you to the patreons for your support and enabling the bike to look
this good so thank you so much and see you in the next video bye sweaty oh