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This is North of MM4. 33.890871, -112.591260 is essentially the trail we went out on but it's a maze-ish out there. The trail by the cliff rock is called Ragland Memorial if you can find it on an app. I don't track my rides or I would send you the route. I flirt with the idea of getting a GPS but it's just one more thing to tinker with and another $600-$800 set up if you get something like the Trailtech. Plus, my eyesight is somewhat crap now, I'd have to stop and get glasses out every time I want to read it, lol.

We are lucky to have a bunch of it. Thanks for watching!

I should have went over to see what they were up to but we were getting my buddy's KTM out of the boonies.

Are you recording at 1080p or a higher resolution? If you are recording at higher rez, try rendering the video at the same rez. You could also try upping the bitrate in the final render. What camera do you have?

@@Jhoffisdead Yeah, it's 1080x60 filmed on a Hero 10. The vids are super sharp/clear right out of the camera on the computer. I tried some higher bit rates last night with no success. I've even tried recording in 4k, the vid called exploring a new trail was recorded in 4k. Looks great on a cell phone but not a PC. Going to keep tweaking things. Just not sure how huge channels make their stuff looks so clear.

Then I would recommend to set the final edit/export resolution of your video in the editing software to 2560x1440 at a minimum (even if the camera source video is 1920x1080). I see on all of your videos I can only select 1080p as the highest quality, and it's likely that RUclips is limiting the bitrate because of that. Setting resolution higher in the render should allow RUclips to use a higher minimum bitrate.

@@Jhoffisdead I second this. Raise your camera resolution to the max and use 30 fps instead of 60fps. Your videos should be crisp 🤙

@@Jhoffisdead Thanks, I'll try that. I'm abandoning Clipchamp because their free version only goes 1080 and I noticed they compress the video as well.

Thanks for watching. We're lucky to have so much riding here.

Good question on the name. The uphill at the beginning of the vid is at the end of the trail and it pops out on LP10 jeep road if I'm correct. I know how to get there so I can probably find a pin for the start of it using satellite view.

@@Monkeybutt_ADV Thanks Monkeybutt. I need to hit the west side of town more often but I think I know where that trail is. By the way, you're really gelling with that YZ! Good stuff...

Good to meet you! I'm currently fiddling with some different free video editor to see if I can ditch some of the grainy look. Supposedly you can mess with the numbers in some of these programs to get a better quality.

@@Monkeybutt_ADV Sweet! Hope it works. You’re making that YZ look mighty good! I’ve wanted to try one of those things but never got the chance. Love the simple design and parts availability/cost.

@@GCSimons My try was a fail. I'll get it figured out at some point. My buddy Tony is a media guy so I'm going to pick his brain after he gets back from Moab. Here is the vid on FB, same exact vid from the same editing program, turn it to 1080 and see if it's quite a bit more clear. Maybe it wasn't a joke about being put on a list, lol. facebook.com/61558818970129/videos/1812128752658282

@@Monkeybutt_ADV ok sweet thanks

What mods do you have on that YZ, almost sounds like it has as much low end grunt as a 300, or you ride it better than most. Either way, strong work and nice vid!

My buddy Al just got a GPS but we usually just wing it and use the area landmarks to figure out where we are. Now that he has a GPS, we're starting to flag trails we are unfamiliar with.

@ gotcha. My buddy and I also live in PHX and are planning on checking this OHV stuff out. Pretty frustrating to see the SxS we witness ourselves be confirmed with others in the area.

@@Slov_ Some people aren't club people but if you want a great resource for riding, check out Arizona Trail Riders, lots of people to ride with and lots of trail knowledge. We do group rides all the time so you could always join us sometime. The UTV thing is frustrating, a few of them camping at one of our parking spots just left beer cans all around the perimeter of their camp and a burn pile of glass bottles, cans and it looks like they burned tires since there's a bunch of round steel belts in the burn pile. It's the kind of activity that will get the places shut down and motorcycles somehow get lumped in with them from the public's view.

I haven't tried the 31 yet but the 30 works well. The Artrax fatty works surprisingly well for a cheap tire but seems to have a thin carcass so it's best with bibs. It's a shame how many trails the side by sides are blowing out. They leave a ton of trash too, I'm seeing more and more beer cans along the transfer sections of jeep road.

My current tire combo I'm running is a Tusk Recon in the rear and a Bridgestone X30 on the rear with bibs in both. Let me know if you plan on coming out this way because we can show you around.

It is sizable and it's right out of a corner.

Boulders OHV in Arizona.

It's ready. I have it on my order list but I'm waiting to see what Black Friday deals I can add it to.

Partially, it's the Desert Vista portion.

It is!

It's Boulders OHV.

NW of Phoenix at Boulders OHV. I need to get down to Tucson to ride.

Stock other than putting in springs front and rear for my weight.

@@Monkeybutt_ADV Thanks, it looks like it's set up good for you.

The terrain looks like the mile markers. 👍. Just saw the new home development, south of the 74. I hope it takes them a long time to put those houses in. I like those trails in that area.

@@ml5955 It is.

One of my favorite places to ride.

This is NW of Boulders OHV.

Thanks dude! Much appreciated.

Yeah, the Beta's have been sitting since I got the YZ. I figured I would spend some real time on the YZ to get accustomed to the differences in the bikes. I've put 20 hours on the YZ now and it's super fun to ride and a great machine. I'm trying to decide if I should keep a stable of different bikes or just get a clone YZ and have 2 of them set up identically. Good problems to have I suppose. I don't know the names of them all but one of them was Cactus Trail. We were also on a trail where there was a concrete pyramid in the middle of nowhere by the single track, one side was labeled Maricopa County and the other Yavapai. Crazy to think someone walked all the way out there to build a concrete pyramid.

It's a 2023. Super fun bike!

They are quite sticky. Some areas are covered with so many of them.

Lucky to see one for sure! I'm sure one has seen me but I haven't seen one yet. I've seen a lot of Bobcat, some, like the mountain lion thing much larger than one would expect.