so at last i can now reveal the new motorcycle that we've got the honda crf250 rx
in this video i'm going to go into the reasons why i bought this bike and not something else
and also i am genuinely going to give you my first ride i haven't started it up yet
it's going to be the first ride experience on this bike bearing in mind it's going to be running and
what have you so it's going to be the first ride and we'll see what it's actually like now we have
i must apologize we've been building up to this for a long time and the delays have not been our
fault um then we've had the weather so i've had it a week and haven't actually ridden it because
it's been raining every day and there's work to do on the house that we've bought so there's so
many things going on uh today's the day we've decided to get out on it for the first time
and tell you what it's like now i chose this bike and a lot of people were guessing that i was going
to get all sorts of bikes and the harley-davidson pan america was people's main sort of guess
completely wrong of course i've got one of these now the reason i've got one of these
is very simple where we are in wales it's full of tracks and byways and very muddy very rocky
and very bumpy so i need a bike that's got a lot of ground clearance a lot of suspension
nice snappy power lightweight it's only 111 kilos it's nothing so you can get sort of
three adventure bikes for the same weight so it's ever so light as i shall demonstrate i mean you
can literally just pick it up i mean it's not a heavy bike try doing that with an adventure
bike and you'll pull some muscles if you can get the back wheel off the ground at all so it's very
light very maneuverable masses of ground clearance as i said which is very important when you've got
bumpy rocky ground it is road legal but i'm not going to be doing masses of road work so i really
wanted a more off-road focus bike than an on-road focused bike so we will be reviewing this bike
in weeks to come but we're not going to start off with a review we're going to do it a bit
differently because this is my new bike i've still got the harley more news on that coming actually
but i basically narrowed it down to this and the gas gas ec 300 two-stroke um and i was going sort
of in my mind for a two-stroke for a while because of the engine the characteristics of the power
they're much better at sort of low grantee stuff um and that was kind of at the top of my list for
a while but then i looked at the ergonomics the geometry of the bike and this is more suited to my
kind of style the rake isn't as steep as the gas gas it's got a little bit of a longer wheelbase
and so on so i think ergonomically it's the bike that you ride not the engine so
i went for this one not only that though i contacted a honda dealer and a gas gas dealer
the honda dealer came back to me immediately and was very helpful the gas gas dealer didn't
i had to chase them up after a week by telephone and by the time they sort of toured and froze
the honda dealer had already sort of given me the price and i went for the honda now the bike's
nice and simple very minimalistic which i like you've just basically got three modes
i don't like modes but it's got three different levels of mode it's got three different levels of
launch control an on button and off button and that's about it the normally the mode switches
and things are here but because i've got the lighting kit the lighting switches are here
so the modes have gone over there other than that it's basically a simple dash which i'm
hardly ever going to look at just to speed to be honest and there you go it's a simple basic
motorcycle that's all about the ride so let's go and find out right now what it's like to ride
from the start it you need a lot of revs to get moving on it
and um with size 11 motocross boots i can't change gear unless i'm sitting on the tank so i'm gonna
have to do some adjustments there that was the same with the honda crf 300 l to be honest so
no big deal i can get that change so i can get some longer gear shift levers but let's get a
good old ride up the byway and see what it's like for a mile or two
it does sound nice got two exhaust pipes on this one the new model has only got one
the suspension is good you don't feel these bumps at all
obviously i'm running it in so i'm going to take it easy
got nothing to prove it's all about just getting out really in the uh countryside and
enjoying the surroundings it's very rocky here some of these uh
some of these slates are very sharp so i don't want to get a bunch of first outing
it's really hard to get my foot under that gear lever
i'm riding like a wuss today don't worry i haven't ridden the motorcross bike for a while but durable
it's honda rx is red sky high so i'm not a big fan of remy engines but you know
you don't get big bloody engines on bikes like this but if you do they're flipping heavy
really
quite hard to find neutral
just gonna ride it up the road straight again
so
yes guys on the road really nicely
actually
uh 250 so quite a bit smaller than my harley completely different characteristics
but you know i'm not buying it for those reasons so i think once i've
got this bike tuned into my uh size and what have you it'll be fine just shake that stupid
so
yeah so definitely likes to rev sounds really nice big enough
just gotta sort this gear shift thing out because my big feet are way too big and the
uh brain pedal's a bit high as well i've missed it a couple of i do when times standing up it's okay
another one of the reasons for buying a bike that doesn't weigh anything is this let me show you
um you can move it backwards and forwards i mean this is one hell of a slope here
and uh you know the bike is so light and so easy to maneuver you don't get that with an adventure
bike like i've said before um you can't really see it here but this is quite a hill and i'm having no
trouble whatsoever pushing the bike up the hill now we've had harley's where we can't actually
get up this hill you have to start the engine too it's nice to have a light bike if you're going to
do some off-road riding we've also got a triumph t100 in the garage waiting there for us to review
it so looking forward to riding that i love these triumph bonnevilles they're superb um dust is
coming down hopefully this weekend on the harley if it doesn't rain otherwise he'll be just doing
the triumph with me so we'll be doing a bit of a tour of wales on the harleys and uh as a result of
living in this area i'm actually thinking of selling my harley-davidson heritage classic so
if you want to buy my heritage classic i'm looking at about 16 000 pounds in the uk let us know in
the comments below so that was my first ever ride on this bike and um first impressions obviously
the first thing that struck me was that i can't change gear because my feet are too big so i need
to move the gear lever forwards i'll have to find an accessory gear shift lever and there are some
also the brakes very close into the engine so i missed the brake a couple of times so again
you've got to get used to all these things it's a lot different ergonomically from bikes i'm used
to but as far as grip and handling go it's really nice there's some pretty bumpy stuff and i didn't
feel at all nervous on it even though i'm riding like a wuss but that will come in time uh i'm not
of the age to prove anything i don't care if i'm the slowest guy in the world i just want to enjoy
where i'm riding this bike's got plenty of lump i went out on the road went into fifth gear it revs
sky and it feels um plenty powerful enough and if you open it up this is a wheelie bike for sure uh
whether i will do wheelies we'll have to wait and see um but that could come in time and say i'm
gonna take it slowly get used to it again i used to do motocross years ago it's been a while so
i just need to get used to it but the trail rides we've got planned on this bike are going to be
phenomenal so stay tuned there's going to be a lot more of that and we'll see you on the next video