this is the royal enfield scram and in this video we're going to find out if this bike can go
off-road and i'm going to address a few questions and comments that came up in our review of this
bike so make sure you watch that video too one of them was this cover here so we'll start with that
so you just need an allen key underneath
so there basically comes off quite simply one allen key nut
and there you see it's just this um bar sticking across here which is attached to the frame there
you could remove it but the other side the oil cooler is attached to it so it would be an easy
modification if you wanted to get rid of it completely or you could just take the plastic
things off and this little bracket for it uh it just sticks out a little bit or you can see him
saw it off so i mean it's easily done so not a big deal now just looking at it here you've got two
nuts here which you could remove and there's this plastic insert you could inside put maybe a tool
kit or a few bits and pieces so you could make it quite a useful little thing for that when i filmed
the review of this bike oh you won't believe it i did the whole thing and i packed away put it onto
the computer and then realized that the camera was set to manual focus so none of it not one shot was
in focus so i had to do it all over again what a pain and i think i did forget a few things i
was going to say one of them was when you get on the bike sometimes you can whack yourself on this
bar here that sticks out so uh just be careful of that but it's useful to have so it's nice to
have something to strap things to another thing i forgot to mention i think on the review was how
the gears are and the gear change is brilliant no problems whatsoever nice gear change on this bike
another thing is that it has this little plastic mud guard extender at the bottom here which is
great because it stops all the muck going onto your bike so that's a good thing so
many mud guards these days are built for looks and not for functionality and when you're going
on mucky ground you don't want the bike caked in mess and have to spend hours washing it and
talking about washing it if you do wash this bike because it's so simple it's really easy to wash
and a lot of bikes with radiators and fans and things it's just a nightmare to get all
the crud and muck out of it so this is good you don't have the center stand on the scram
like the himalayan has it does look better i must say but if you're oiling your chain
what you have to tend to do is if you've got someone help you
ideally but you just have to move the bike back a few inches every time you squirt it
until you get all the way around so it's a bit more of a pain but it's not a big deal
alternatively if you've got a friend you can just pick the bike up like that and your body can help
you lubricate the chain just by leaning it on the side stand so that's a good trick to know
so i'm going to get my boots on and helmet and find out what this bike is like off-road
so yes the scram can go off-road and it handles really nicely it's got very good steering
and it's quite short-footed so no problem at all the limitation
that i found is with the motocross boots that i'm wearing voila the design of the frame
and the cover here means that you can't grip the bike with your boots uh it sticks out too far
so when you're standing up there's you know your feet are in the wrong place so that's no good also
the brake lever and the gear lever i can't get the boot underneath the gear lever to shift you
can in normal um yeah cowboy boots i normally ride into most and no problem with that but with
motocross boots being fatter you'd have to adjust the levers to suit so they're definitely not
geared up as standard to accommodate that this mud guard at the front
when the rocks get picked up by the wheel you can hear the rocks going underneath and going bing and
that's why motocross bikes have tall and taller mud guards to stop that problem happening because
you know sometimes a rock get jammed and you end up locking your front wheel so
that's not a good thing for that
the rear brake seems a bit vague with the motocross boots on it's fine on the
road um but again just feels like you're pressing it and nothing's happening so
when you're going down quite a steep hill which i have been doing um there's
not enough engine braking for the bike to go down slowly so you do need to use the brakes
and then they just feel a little bit vague but as i said in a previous video poor brakes are a
safety feature and um you know that stops you going too fast and by the way that is a joke
and i lost a couple of subscribers over there saying oh you say brakes are bad brakes are a
safety feature what a lot of nonsense and goodbye because honestly if you think that wasn't a joke
then you're the one with the issue it's not me anyway some people but um actually no the bike's
very good it does go off-road it will take you anywhere look where i've come so yes you can do
it same is pretty much the same as himalayan just a little bit stiffer with suspension
and um on the hole though it will get you to places no other bike will get you
of course the beautiful thing about bikes like the scram
is it gets you out to places and i've just stopped off here to see a horse
a bit scared of me that one hello and there's some more up here look and uh
oh together
amazing they've got um tons of horses here this is a local riding school and they do pony trekking
and they've got i don't know most of 100 horses but look at where you could ride
so if you come to stay in our holiday lap
you can ride one of these and go for miles they do half day treks full day um they even
do this great thing where um people come stay with them and they have us like like a week
riding and grooming and all that sort of thing that you do with horses come on come on zano
no chance today but oh hello being friendly now no not come on come on
come on little horsey got fluffy heat
nicely groomed nicely looked after so beautiful hot day on a scram what could be better so let
us know what you think of the scram make sure you've seen the review that i did before we
did this video and hopefully i've covered the points in this one that i didn't in the last one
and also squeaky and uh yeah do you know what it's a good bike i do like it it's not um
it's not enduro if you know what i mean so with the gear on it doesn't feel so comfortable to
ride as it does in normal clothes and boots and if you were riding down tracks and things i'd say
if you had just normal boots like cowboy boots or whatever you would normally wear and you were just
puddling along sitting down then it feels fine when you're standing up with all the gear on
it doesn't feel so comfortable so um it's not an enduro bike it's a dual sport trail bike road bike
it'll do it but you know if you want to do serious
off-roading then you need an enduro bike if you want an all
sort of all-terrain easy to ride bike that does everything mainly road then this will be fun
do
so to summarize yes this bike will go off-road and it is capable off-road
so if you're doing farm tracks and green lanes no problem at all
i was riding on some rocky ground and you'd be better off with mud guards higher up like a
enduro or motocross bike for gnarly stuff uh things can get caught in there um but that's
not really a problem uh the biggest problem was that this panel here sticks out quite a long way
so you can't hug the side of the bike with your boots on so if you're riding with motocross boots
this was really difficult it didn't feel comfortable at all and then the pedals
kind of feel in the wrong place for the big fat boots they're fine for normal road riding boots no
problem at all but most people that get these are probably going to be riding off-road occasionally
in their road gear and you'd be fine and it actually does feel better if you're sitting down
riding off-road i know people say you're supposed to stand up but yeah you can ride off-road sitting
down if you're not going too fast as i said as soon as you stand up then this it's so wide here
that it doesn't feel right it's a nice engine i think for green laning because it just sort of
chugs along and if you're just poodling along exploring that's what you want if it's a powerful
meaty bike then you know you're always holding it back and that doesn't feel nice so you can just
not worry about it and just ride where you want so that's really good um so on
the whole this bike is a fabulous motorcycle this or the himalayan basically is down to
your use they're the same bike in essence this has got firmer suspension a different
seat a little bit less suspension travel and tiny bit less ground clearance so this is more road
focused and it's a light off road the himalayan is more perhaps i would say serious off-road
but slightly more gnarly not none of them are enduro bikes so
um but then enduro bikes are hopeless on the road so if you buy an enduro bike and for the
first time go out on the road i think oh my goodness what have i bought it's awful because
you go through the gear so quickly and you get to 50 miles an hour and you're pretty much top speed
so horrible but these are great so they're a road bike that can go off-road and highly recommend it