alright buddy, after you! Let's do this! Lets get some tunes going! You know what? Compared to the
1980 XT250, it really does feel planted, it is just so much weight... which is both a good and
a bad thing for the most part its good, but you know, it can be bad. Like for instance,
for instance yesterday I was on Colin's uh, 2017 XT250 and uh, sent it for like a uh, I don't know;
it must have been a 70-meter slide, but I didn't hit the ground, it was just
ready to hit the ground and then all it took was just a little *berp* and it was back up.
As opposed to this where you'd just be f***ed. Oh yeah, this is so much worse
than last time we were here, this is great! This is just excellent! *Laughs maniacally*
this is going to suck. *sings along to the radio*
See, I get in this really bad habit of wanting to put my feet down in this, but what you got
to remember, is if you have to put your foot down in this really muddy loose stuff
you're going over anyway because you can't get your feet planted! You just sink. so it is
a mind game, if you can keep the mental fortitude to
keep your feet on the pegs really, you'll stay planted, you'll keep going but uh,
you might feel a little squirrelly that's all. Aw Colin, what a good guy waiting for me, now
if he doesn't pelt me with rocks or mud.... I'll be even happier.
The other thing with a bike of this size is once you get in a runt... like this...
err tire track you can't just hop out of it you're really, committed. Now this is getting real loose,
real soft. I might be able to hop up now if my tire... nah my tire is too caked for
that right now. Alright,there we go! Yeah, like I was saying, the V-Strom is so heavy if
it gets real loose it will just slide right over into whatever hole it wants to be in. Go ahead!
Oh, I thought he had a question.
Yikes! Aw, this is gonna suck! Yeah, so this like ya'know, get your feet down just paddle walk'er,
that's the lovely thing about the Strom you can just paddle walk it through all this shit.
Now you can see I've just got like... inches on either side,
um, to avoid hitting my feet because the pegs are so low, let's see if I can hop back... Yeah,
there we go! Yeah, if you can stay on the elevated ground you're good. That off-camber stuff sucks.
Um we have been on this before but uh, it was really, really wet.
Today is actually a little bit better than I seem to recall. Be good to me, be good to me!
And down we go!
Yeah, this has got substantially worse since the last time we were down it. It is just
a straight-up riverbed now. and it's easy to get fixated on the objects in front of ya. You
just gotta have faith, you just gotta keep looking forward, looking at your next line.
Accept that the line you've chosen is previously is over,
and that if you're in the attack position you should be able to handle whatever
accidental line you get thrown onto, um, and then start looking for your next one.
Like my next one is going to be left up here. Right? Right here.The next one is going to be
right, up here. Then you see it kind of smooths out on the left side again, nice transition into
this little hole and bam! Easy peasy. Especially on these bigger bikes, you really gotta.. like
I was telling Colin yesterday... on the 250cc, it's really just senseless riding,
you can do whatever you want and it will really do it. These you gotta be a little more cognitive,
otherwise, you can end up in some shit that, you know, you're not really going to recover from.
I seem to remember there being... this is it yup, this is the hill
climb I remember. I think... Ah F***. Yup, this is where I got stuck last time too.
Let's see if I can get her onto the... no... Woo! Hello GPS.
I should be able to just pop her over to the right line. Bammo! Easy peasy!
Beats uh, oh yeah that's actually way better than it was last time.
Oh I'm going through! AHHHHH!!!! Oh,
that friends is why you go riding with buddies and let them go first! Ow, ow, ow, ow ,ow
.Um, it's really quite crazy going from the V-Strom... er.. From the 250cc to the V-Strom, um,
I feel, part of this might just be my hours, and hours, and hours of experience on the Strom but I
feel more confident and more planted, riding this than I do that 250cc and part of it is because
you do have so much more weight on the ground, so when you go and give a hard brake
you can trust that it's actually going to catch and actually drive some weight into
the ground and ABS, like, a lot of guys are like "oh you gotta pull the ABS fuse, blah,
blah blah blah blah. Um, but like Ryan F9 says, it has one of the most intelligent ABS systems, well,
not one of the most intelligent, we'll say it has one of the most "effective"........ Whoop,
thanks Colin! It has one of the most effective ABS systems for off-road, it really does so long as
you're using them in unisen they'll just bring you to a stop like that *snaps*. You can see if you
watch the uh, motocross video Colin doesn't have ABS on the DR650, um, it just doesn't come with it
and I do have it on this.. but when we go into corners I'm going in waaayyy faster because I know
when I come onto those brakes that they're going to bring me to a stop, right? I cant power slide
it, of course, with the ABS on, um, but uh, the *stutters* stops and starts are so much quicker.
Ah, what a great ride out here in Gaspereau. Gaspereau... Nova Scotia. Just outside of
Wolfville, Luckett's Vineyards is like 10 minutes from here, um, really I think Nova Scotia is a uh,
it's really kind of hidden gem in terms of the dualsport and ADV world,
as you've seen today I think we've been on this trail before, but yeah.