Different is better than better!
Good afternoon youtube and welcome back to the channel, today is
Q&A day roll the intro! listen y'all these kids want to act up in school...
Now somebody asked me about pure street oriented tyres for the Himalayan I'm probably the wrong
person to ask for this because I've got Mitas eo7 tyres on here which is a 50-50 off-road tyre.
It's hard to find just a straightforward street oriented tyre for a profile that's as narrow as
this especially the front tyre on a Himalayan so my instinct is that I would go for maybe the
Ceat tyre which is the stock tyre or maybe even the Pirelli mt60. As I say I'm no tyre expert
yeah. The tYres I use tend to be for street and off-road but if you're looking for a pure street
tyre then I'm not 100 percent sure so if anybody knows perhaps maybe put comments below to help
this guy out. Do I still intend to travel? Yes I do! If you've followed me for the last three and
a half months then you'll know that my initial plan was to get this bike across a little tour
of Europe and then out the far end of Europe yeah maybe through the Stans up towards Russia,
present circumstances have scuppered that slightly and who knows when that's going to change, but
it doesn't mean that it's off the cards I still intend to do that but in the meantime we'll make
some youtube videos here in Scotland. Am I going to install an led headlight on the Himalayan?
No I'm quite happy with the Ozram Nightbreaker bulb that I've installed on here before,
I might be tempted to put auxiliary lights on here at some point in the near future
though. Been asked if this was my first youtube channel the answer that is yes.
I did make a video, one video last year which I posted up on youtube when I was still in Indonesia
but I took that down again, it's been de-listed but it's something that I might put up someday
for fun at some point in the future. Things like booster plugs um you know maybe an upgraded
HD Lead type thing, moving the air box or sensors maybe even something like a powertronic ecu.
Am I going to install that type of thing? Well I'm not going to write the idea off completely but
the the straight answer is probably not right away I'm kind of happy with the way that the
bike is configured at the moment. This was a good one.. Why do you carry fuel cans in the UK?
surely that's some kind of vanity statement. Well not all parts of the UK are created equal yeah
and good luck trying to find a petrol station open somewhere remote in the Scottish highlands on a
Sunday and also I might be out doing some wild camping and stuff like that so maybe I want to
carry water in one and fuel in another. It's not something that I think is necessary for absolutely
everybody every single day but I fully intend to take this bike well beyond the borders of Europe
someday. The relays and do I have stalling issues and that type of thing? No it's not something I've
suffered from but I've read about it so often in some online forums it's made me a little bit
paranoid and the relays are not expensive yeah but it seems to be a issue that's particular
with a certain run of the newer bikes the bs6 model rather than bs4 that I've got here.
One of the videos where I received the most hate was the top speed video yeah,
the top speed of a Himalayan fully loaded. In particular because I didn't use a gps system
I just used the speedo, the comments were so bad some of them that I actually had to remove
them and that's not something that I do but if people decide they're going to be offensive then
unfortunately! In all honesty who cares about the top speed of a Royal Enfield Himalayan? The real
point of that video was not really how fast can I get this bike to go, the real point of that video
was.. do you really want to yeah? Because if you watch the video all the way to the end I say it's
not particularly smart to be riding this bike for prolonged periods of time at 80 miles an hour.
Hitchcock's cam or the new Tec cam that's come out? Well for me at the moment the jury's out
on either of these things. If I were going to go for either of them it would probably be the Tec
cam. I'm not particularly worried about the amount of power that this bike outputs I'm quite happy
with the configuration of the bike as it is at the moment that doesn't mean that I would
rule it out in the future. There's a youtuber called Nathan the postman he does bike tours
and all that sort of thing I trust him he's a very straightforward guy he's going to put a tec cam on
his 2018 I believe it's 2018 or 2019 Himalayan I'd be interested to see how that pans out for him as
I say he's a type of youtuber that you can trust you know quite implicitly he's a no-nonsense type
of guy so I'm going to watch that with interest. Another common question I get and I don't know why
it's what does this bike idle at? Now this bike idles hot and cold around somewhere between 1100
1200 rpm. Tubeless tyres on the Himalayan at some point again it's not something that I would rule
out. I'm not going to rush out there and do it but once I start to travel longer distances perhaps
across the continent it's definitely something that I would look into. It's not difficult to get
the wheels off the Himalayan and it doesn't take particularly long to to switch out the inner tube
and again inner tubes for these are relatively inexpensive. This is a good point and I think
it's something that needs to be addressed and Subscriber Stephen M said to me that
you know why so many videos? Uou know I've made like more than 60 videos in the last three three
and a half months.. is that overkill? Well yes it is and no it isn't yeah.. Just let me explain,
youtube's a tough gig these days there's a lot of people out there guys that are doing
the same thing. youtube rewards hard work actually it's like any job I suppose and I do treat this
a little bit like a job yeah I'm trying to make something of this. The average time that people
take to get to a thousand subscribers believe it or not is somewhere between 15 and 22 months. Over
the last three months if I had been putting out one video a week I would have produced probably
about 12 to 16 videos at the moment rather than 60. Now I was at 16 videos and I still had less
than 100 subscribers...okay so what that means is if I had followed that path there's a real
possibility that the people who are asking me these questions still wouldn't have found me yet,
now whilst I don't want to be making four and five videos a week because I do believe it is overkill,
it's too much but now I've got 1000 subscribers and I've got over 4000 hours watch time which
again is another reason I was putting out those videos it's really hard to achieve that. Think
about how many hours people need to sit and watch my five minute videos. Fuel's expensive guys
and I'm running this bike a lot probably more than the average person because I have a youtube
channel centred around the bike yeah so if youtube can start to pay me back a little bit of money to
put some fuel in this tank occasionally then of course I want to be monetized. Subscriber
hybrid asks about broken frames near the front of the bike here and potentially leaking heads now
it's not something that tends to plague any of the newer bikes it's something you see quite
often particularly in some of the older forums when the Himalayan first came out at 2015 2016.
There was a certain run of bikes particularly the rental bikes that were going out up and around
the Ladakh mountains breaking the frames and stuff but to be honest all of those early issues with
the Himalayan with the first run models.. most of those issues have been addressed over the years.
What do I use to clean and lubricate the chain? Well there's a lot of different products you can
use personally recently certainly for the last six months or so I've been using ipone to clean the
chain and on Ipone xtreme which is an off-road base lubrication. If you want to save money
use something like gear oil. Let's talk about the things that I'm going to do. I'm going to sort out
the condensation on this cluster at some point and what I might do is add some heated grips on here.
So if I go down the road of installing usb, I put heated grips with potentially some auxiliary
lights on here I would be tempted to put some type of delayed switch relay on it. There's certain
relay systems you can buy that will hold back that power for maybe about eight seconds or so
before it feeds some of the auxiliaries that you add to the bike yes? I think because the battery
is not particularly strong on the Himalayan I think that's probably a good idea. The next spark
plug is going to be an iridium plug. Different is better than better! That's a quote by a lady
called Sally Hogshead now it's something that I aspire to in this youtube world. I've been
asked why do you do all the history stuff and and you know how does that tie in with the motorbike?
Well for a start the Royal Enfield is the oldest motorcycle manufacturer in the world and it's one
of the reasons that I bought Royal Enfield in the first place because you'll probably have picked
up that I'm a bit of a history buff. In this world you either need to be first or you need to be the
best yeah.. and if you can't be the first and you can't be the best then you absolutely need
to be different otherwise what's the point? Also travel in general because travel is my thing guys
I've been living abroad for years and years and years. It's only very recently that I've been
back in the UK. That doesn't mean I'm going to stop you know with the history vlogs and
all the other things that I do with the bike and all the other types of videos that I make
it just means that I might be doing it in Bulgaria it might mean that I'm doing it in in Georgia,
it might mean that I'm doing it in Croatia. Anyway that's it for this one I really hope you liked it
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