Welcome to MOTOTREK! I'm Bret Tkacs and I've been in the motorcycle industry
for a long time and I've had the opportunity to work with a lot of
prototype products and do a lot of reviews and in this episode I have an
entire bag full of solutions and innovations that I get to share with you
and we've got all kinds of different neat stuff that we're gonna play with
and look at! I appreciate anything that makes my riding more efficient safer or
just more fun. when I was traveling in Africa I used an X-mount and all of the
little rubber pieces came off and I had to bend the tips to hold my phone in
place. I think RAM saw what it looked like. they sent me a whole box of new
toys to play with. as much as I like my X grip and as good as it works, what I'm
missing is wireless charging. so I'm gonna switch up to the Quick Grip and
modify this by adding a wireless charger
as simple as that I have a wireless charging phone mount well I've never
seen anything quite like this before. EXOTOGG! this is an insulation vest that
just uses air to insulate you from the environment works on the same principle
as down does in a jacket. you have a little air belt it fills up the jacket
creates a pressure around you and I hear it doubles as a life preserver. I'm not
sure why they give such a large bag does this packs up really small
I'm not a really big fan of tank bags they often get in the way I can't move
around so much on the bike but I do often want to have things that are quick
access like a camera and the problem is if I have a camera in my pocket on the
bike and I come off and land on that it can cause injury so a small bag like the
MOSCO bag here. this one's called the Pico. might be a perfect solution for
having something where you want quick access to something that you don't want
to have on your body and this one is just large enough to keep a nice quick
point-and-shoot camera or any other small things that you don't want to have
in your pockets this is cool because it's totally waterproof and the strap
systems will fit any motorcycle. here's a really neat gadget that came from Al
Jesse it's called the MirrorLok and this plugs in where your old mirror goes and
your mirror goes in on this side and it puts some vibration damping in it give us a
little better field of view to the back. but what makes this really neat is it
actually has a lock where you can put your D-ring on your helmet and you can
lock your helmet up onto the handlebars. for me that's where I leave my helmet
when I charge my radio system to lock it in
just push the button it's all locked in kind of a neat idea a neat gadget I am
really looking forward to updating my comm system. I've never used mesh
technology and Cardo is the pioneer from mesh technology in motorcycle
communications. in traditional Bluetooth communication there's one radio and all
the other radios daisy-chain into that one radio and if that radio disappears
communication breaks down. with dynamic mesh communication or a DMC they
call it each radio pairs independently with every other radio that's already
been put together and they pair very very quickly so when you break
communication as soon as you come back within range
it immediately reconnects to any other radio that it's already been paired with
the Cardo is waterproof not just water-resistant and that should be a
no-brainer for adventure riding. installation complete.
total piece of cake and I am so
looking forward to trying out this new radio system. Ryan from FortNine did a
great review on the Cardo if you haven't already seen it check it out.
all the way
from Norway we have TwinPegs. and these are a solution for those tiny little
foot pegs that are so often stocked on our adventure bikes twin pegs may not be
an exciting creative name but it's extremely descriptive because that's
what these are. it's a bracket that mounts onto the motorcycle the factory
peg or your aftermarket pegs stays in the same location the bracket to the
back adds a second foot peg behind it the idea here is to create more surface
area to reduce fatigue and having a peg rather than a floorboard means that
we're not gonna pack a bunch of mud and everything else on it Oh
see these are these are nice I can roll forward they don't get in the way I can
sit back on top of the heel it doesn't interfere but if I drop my heel it just
allows me to relax and drop onto that rear peg. I never would have thought of
this. these are kind of neat when picking out a protection there's some very
critical things I want in my eye protection it needs to be actual impact
rated so that I know that it's going to protect me if there's a problem they
need to be comfortable I'm looking that they slide in and out of the helmet
comfortably and they're not pinching my ears and most importantly I want to make
sure that they're not polarized it creates a irritating rainbow effect on.
my gauges of my helmet but most importantly I want to see those
reflections from oil and antifreeze and water on the road for safety
these do all of that here's one of my favorite solutions to wet feet since
motocross boots are almost never waterproof. these called SealSkinz and
these are a hundred percent waterproof socks. I started using these back when I
was doing kayaking fantastic product. I'm really glad to be part of an industry
that's innovative and is constantly changing and evolving to make adventure
riding more fun and safer