hello welcome back to the channel today i'm going to show you what we got up to on the weekend which
is your typical sunday dual sport ride i was lucky enough to meet up with one of my new friends kevin
on his crf 300 as well we took our bikes out to see what they can do in the bush now i do need
to warn you we did have a little incident that uh well you'll see later in the movie
and for those of you that don't know i live on this little island here it's called australia
and this is where i live new south wales just above sydney a nice little place called the
central coast and this is our loop we're going to do it's about 200 kilometers we're going to
do a little bit of exploring but we've got a rough plan that's it there we're going to go
through all that green stuff green stuff is good as this is your typical dual sport ride
i've done what a lot of us do and ridden my bike to the bush so here i am sitting on the freeway
our speed limit is 110 so here i am sitting on 110 or thereabouts um and the little crf 300 rally is
doing it easily we've probably got 20 kilometers of highway plus another maybe 20 kilometers of
back roads to get to the bush but once again it's a dual sport ride this is what we do
here we are getting a little bit of stuff this is the main fire trail heading into the bush uh
kevin's out in front on his rounded rally and as i've just met kevin i'm just taking it easy seeing
where he's up to how he's riding kev was riding these bike trails really well and i didn't have
any worries at all so the pace was not super fast but we were clicking along quite well
now for those wondering we're about to be riding this is it we're in the wadigan state
forest it's an awesome place to ride on the adventure bikes and also on the enduro bikes
we were off the main trails now trail's a little bit rougher and as you can see we're starting to
have a little bit more fun so these are the trails we like the less used tracks they don't have to
worry about pool drives too much as you can see here trails are starting to get better and better
that tree there a little bit more fun little 300 rallies an awesome bike i was just waiting here
for kev to get in front and really didn't have to wait too long he's right behind me
just wanted to see how kev was going as the truck tracks get a little bit rougher and a
little bit tighter as you can see he's going real well i didn't have too much to worry about at all
the tracks now are starting to get really nice that overgrown fire trail almost down to a single
track is what we bike riders really like kev was going really good pace was still up there
and this has given me the confidence to take him places that you know i might not take the novice
as you can see the track here is getting less used we're ducking and diving trying to avoid
the lantana witness this track goes to a really nice camping spot and i wanted to take kevin
there because we've been discussing maybe having an overnight trip now this track is not well used
and i was really happy that we were on the little box because you never know what's
around the corner and how it's going to be to turn the bike around just take a look at this
this could be the end of our truck yes we had to turn the bikes around and that might have
been a hassle on a big heavy bike you can see kev just got around another log that was down
we had to head back up that really nice track so i thought i'd mess around with
the camera angles a bit and put the camera on the back of kevin i think it turned out
okay but i'm not sure if you get that sort of seasick feeling so
let me know either way get to see me right a bit more which is always good
little trail obstacle here we gotta just get through
your screen gonna make it
this is actually a track that we ride on our enduro bikes quite a bit
it's part of the big loop we do with a lot of single track
um but i wanted to see how these lightweight adventure bikes go on you can see the tracks
going downhill it's getting a little bit rougher bit by bit um but on a dual sport ride that's what
you do you see a little side track and you want to go check it out and that's what we're doing here
could be interesting
okay we're looking very boggy here
i have to converse with kevin and see what the consensus is for going ahead
that's all right so i've got some good news and bad news uh the good news is
this is a track i was looking for the bad news is this is the track i was looking for
so nice and gnarly yeah so we're going to cop some mud but we'll see how we go no worries
now parts of this track are always boggy even in the middle of summer
even in the middle of a drought there's places in here the sun
just doesn't get and it's always bog holes mud ruts red clay
which one to choose i always choose the wrong one but
good work we'll make an enduro rider out here yet
so just do what you can up here if it gets too much just stop and we'll turn around now i just
want to show you here this is a little 300 rally taking off uphill in second gear and doing it
we're starting to get into the boggy section the bog holes become
more and more frequent and deeper and deeper
i've actually seen plenty of bikes drown in these puddles because you don't know how deep
they are till you get in there i try to avoid them mostly you can always willy oven that works too
here we go
how are you feeling how about i write it up just this bit because it gets easier up here
all right i just don't want you to drop it or anything
all right i'll get us up this bit and then
no worries if it gets any worse we'll turn around
well not long after this section it did get worse
and i decided not to push it the truck's a bit too muddy today
too many puddles and don't want to struggle for the whole day for a truck that we know is
a dead end because of that big log that we saw earlier a big tree or something
all right just taken kev's bike down for him can't hold he's come to me bye
yeah go
you want to keep going
my playground
work yeah that next if i knew we could get through
it might be worth it but because we got to turn back it's not worth it
all right let's go get him hopefully kev can make it up
you've been riding really good today it's just i think these wet conditions
have them a bit psyched out
this is a good example both on the same bike different skill levels but
we're doing the same tracks the bikes are doing it the riders are doing it
kev might be uh
he might be a little bit more apprehensive about the tracks and don't worry
he's doing them none the same
probably pushed him out of his comfort zone today but
i think at the end of it he'll be a better rider
he's doing all the right things up on the pegs nice and smooth
yeah he's doing real good
the middle one yep there we go
now purposely come down here much to kevin's disgust
to really highlight what these bikes can do oh good
oh
you okay kev hang on i'll help you out hang on one sec
all right get your foot out
are you okay
and i'm bleeding my face oh what happened got a tree across my face oh that would hit yeah
[ __ ] that got me oh right there i wasn't really up there oh you're going so good
that was the last little bit oh [ __ ] happens oh man you were doing so good
as long as you're all right that hadn't been there yeah
that would have been awkward by yourself definitely all right you ready one two three
there we go and the blocks come out unscathed yeah it's hard to break
them on it sorry i said it'd be hard to break them yeah what's bleeding on my face
just the bridging on that end of your nose yeah i just got a branch across there
get up here i'll fix you up
that one are you just so good that log at the bottom yeah up here and you came
around that stuff perfectly the actual i don't mind you didn't know this stuff
so my experiences level is not as good as yours that's for sure well it's up a notch now
all right all right so just cruise out to the road and have a break i'll fix up your nose then
so turn it off turn it off so what they've got to tip over sensor yeah okay to turn off the fuel
pump and everything so turning off and on resets it all right that's the first time i dropped it
there you go there's a tip for you
i wasn't aware of that yeah all right all right nice and easy i'll see you at the top
knocked a bit of his confidence out but he's still going good he was going so good up here
it's a shame he's just taking that little knock to his confidence now let's get this up i uh couldn't
stuff around getting the stand down i just threw the bike on the ground to give kev a hand
there we go yeah try doing that with a africa twin or big bike
okay so hopefully kev's okay up there cruise up and so close to the end i feel bad that
he fell but i'm really proud of him getting up as far as he did and getting through it
oh
you're right sorry yeah you're right i tried picking up that's heavier than what you think
oh yeah an awkward position let's do it
just put your foot down nothing there right all right one two all right
yeah i don't know it must have been there yeah that's what's happened yeah
yeah so we're out of the hard stuff now we're gonna go back to our original plan
and find some nice forest roads cruise out to walmart for lunch
yeah off you go
just swap bikes here quickly kevin's bike's set up really nice
he's got allen's in the back
and he's got the uh andriyani for kit these bikes set up really nice too so we'll just swap bikes
have a bit of a compare see what they like
so the first thing i noticed about kev's bike was the shock he's got the holland's rear shock in it
and it's really nice i've got my suspension set up but i bought mine secondhand so the suspension's
set up for someone 80 to 100 kilograms and i'm you know just under 70. so it is a little bit stiff uh
kev said he's set up his own's rear shock for someone a bit stiffer but you know it feels really
plush for me i liked it these forks were nice too very well set up like similar to mine but i think
the shop is just a little bit nicer and here we are we caught up with a couple of guys on dr
dr650s here and fortunately for us they got to the gate first so we had the gate open for us and took
off and enjoyed these nice country roads we're heading back to the park we're out of the bush now
i'm going through the farmland just cruising kev was going really well he's recovered from his
little crush um starting to enjoy it again right on the tar now uh cruising to a place called wombo
it's an old town here it is here there's a nice little puppy as you can see it's very
popular with the road bikes um this is where we stopped for lunch and a really nice lunch here
after lunch we took the back roads we're starting to head into home now but there's some really nice
back roads through all this farm country the road has been great had a little bit of rain
so you can see quite a little bit quite a bit of water on these sort of floodways
and that was sort of the last bit of good riding now we just had the for me it was
probably 60 kilometers of nice country roads back home and that's the beauty of a
dual sport bike you can do everything you can ride through the bush have a great
day in the bush and then ride home on the road and little crf 300 really did it well
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