Great riding man, that was a killer trail! I know what it's like to ride with low energy and that's nothing to sluff off, you did great pushing through. Hopefully you got out okay!
I am totally impressed! Both by your skill, courage and by the capability of the Tuareg! I’m 67 & ride a DR650 but would find those trails very challenging even though my bike is 100lb lighter. Riding solo means the ride can turn into a disaster at any moment. I’ve been eyeing the Tuareg but just not sure I can handle the extra weight. Your video was exactly what I was hoping to see, a demonstration of what the Tuareg can actually do on tougher trails. I’m impressed how the Tuareg engine delivers that low end torque very similar to the way my old thumper does. I like your choice of tires, I run the Motoz RallZ rear & DV front. If you’re going to ride solo, at least carry some self-rescue gear..
The difficulty of this ride DEFINITELY CAME THROUGH!!!! I've seen most since your Scofield ride which was wonderfully sketchy as we all witnessed. But man I've LOVED your riding on this, and absolutely impressed by the difficulty level - which was a large bit of everything. And even if the steepness was not as pitched as you experienced, there was no doubt in my mind that IT WAS AN IMPRESSIVE INCLINE. I ride the Tuareg, no where as challenging as you are, but your footage makes me proud of it's capabilities undiscovered by me, lol. Fantastic! Loved it. Thank you.......
Dang, this comment makes me feel like the work that went into this ride and video was 100% worth it. I'm glad it was able to reach you and I'm grateful that you took the time to share your (extremely positive) thoughts here. I'm always happy to hear from any other Tuareg owner, whether it be a purely street driven Tuareg or a Tuareg ridden on terrain I would never consider touching. I think Aprilia absolutely nailed this bike and that this thing offers so much more value than its cost, and I am a huge fan of a company successfully giving consumers exactly what they've always wanted - and the Tuareg is that offering for me.. A wildly capable offroad machine (from the factory) that is still a great bike on the roads (pending tire choice of course). I love the thing, and I'm glad that it seems like you love yours as well. I hope the Tuareg is here to stay and that we get some cool iterative improvements over the years. Thank you for your awesome comment - It means a lot
Great video. I am really impressed by your skills. I knew Tuareg is very capable bike. Rider like you can show the real potential of this bike. I love my Tuareg and I enjoy every minute with this bike. I went with it to Alaska but my off-road skills are on MABDR level 😂
Hey thank you for the kind words! I describe myself as an average rider with too much confidence, and I think the Tuareg is an excellent (maybe dangerous) pairing for that. The bike is so capable that if you try to do something halfway reasonable with it, you likely can!! I am still quite uncomfortable/uncertain on terrain like this, but I've become obsessed with pushing my limits on the bike and expanding the areas in which I can take it. When I look at the bike, I experience the feeling of freedom it is able to give me - and that feeling of freedom is stronger and stronger as my skills and abilities improve because it has me knowing that I can take the bike even more places. I absolutely love the thing and need to stop abusing it like this, but I am stuck in a loop of endlessly pushing myself further!!
@@TROVids I am sure your spirit (skills) and Tuareg capabilities will get you great moments you can share with us. I wish to have a chance to ride some trails more often but unfortunately the closest one is 3 hours away from me. That’s why I watch more RUclips than to ride 🤣🤣🤣
On a dirt bike, that trail is part easy and part moderate. On the Tuareg, that's moderate to very difficult! I ride both. Yeah the Tuareg is capable, but you have really good skills. Great job.
Cam, quite impressive. Riding that beast through that must have been a handful and you did a great job, bad leg and all. That Tuareg is impressive as well. Reminded me of "riding the Rainbow". Nothing wrong with you're riding skills, think you did a great job. Snow is soon to come (already here now) so take some time off and heal. Nice job!
Awesome ride! Ans skill, it takes a lot of skill... reminds me so much of Crimea terrain - mountains, same chunky/loose stuff, even greenery. And white dust on rocks which transforms into pure soap with any single drop of moisture, as a specialty..
Hey I really appreciate that you think I may have something useful to offer in terms of tips! Unfortunately, I'm not comfortable enough in my skills or knowledge to provide any explicit recommendations for this. There are so many variables at play (the bike, the exact terrain, the suspension, the tires etc..). What helped me the most was my foundational experience from mountain biking. I was really into extreme downhill/enduro for a couple of years and it I find that the foundational stuff (body positioning, approach angle and overall occasional need to commit on line choice) help me a lot when off-roading with the big bike. It's an extremely different experience for sure, but it's something that worked for me. That being said, I don't think the best way to get better at riding terrain like this is to mountain bike it - but I think there's a ton of improvement to be had in finding difficult terrain and hitting the same stretches and/or obstacles multiple times. Sometimes the same stretches and obstacles can feel entirely different based on placements of small rocks, or exactly where knobs are making contact. I will heavily consider making the requested video, I just don't think I'm the right person to advise anyone on how to ride better!
@@TROVidsI really appreciate the humbleness and self awareness, very rare and always a sign of genuine value and virtue. I personally watch your videos and try to understand why you took a certain line and wish I could see how you're positioned on the bike or what you're doing cause you make it look so easy. In eithercase love you're vids and if ever you decide to just recut and upload sections with voice overlays of what you're doing and your thought process, that would be gold.. Just sayin :)
I rode with them for ~3,200 miles and actually had them on some pretty challenging rides (first vid on this channel is a good example). They were excellent tires and absolutely phenomenal on the roads (for a moderately capable light offroad tire). I have since switched to the Motoz Tractionator Adventure rear and Motoz Tractionator Dualventure front. I am quite happy with this setup, onroad and off. I did get a puncture in the rear and now have a RallZ rear on hand. I am willing to give up a little bit of the Adventure's road performance (which is great) for a little more offroad capability. I think the RallZ would have made a noticeable difference (for the better) on a ride like this (and also the ride on this channel where I broke my skid plate)
I was on the stock tires for a little too long - I have a pretty wild ride on here (my first video) which is on stock tires without airing down. It was stupid, but I didn't have the money needed to swap tires or gear up like I wanted at that time. In this video, I am running a Motoz Tractionator Adventure in the rear and a Motoz Tractionator Dualventure in the front (with about 1200 miles on them). I am very happy with this setup, but I do believe the Adventure rear is not adequate for this steep loose and rocky stuff. I have a puncture in the tire and it is currently patched - And I have a Motoz Tractionator RallZ on standy which I do believe would have been a huge improvement for this terrain. The spacing of knobs is larger and the compound is softer - I think it would have been much better planted in the loose rocky stuff. I also could have and should have aired down for this ride but I did not. Suspension is stock and I am around the ideal weight for the stock settings (~180 pounds with my gear). I have adjusted the rear to soften a bit, but only a click or so of compression down from stock. As for mods, I've got the outback motortek crashbars and outback motorek skid plate. The bike has been down on the crash bars 6 or 7 times now, and they've only really noticeably warped once (I bent them back with ratchet straps and trees, lol). The skid plate has been through hell, and I did break it on one of my rides (just a bracket, vid is on this channel). I believe the bracket was cracked and weakened and then it broke from a pretty minor impact. Outback motortek sent me a new bracket with just a phone call - no charge. Very happy with the setup. I also have a plastic AXP rear rack to pair with "rackless" luggage, but I now primarily use that to strap a little tripod down on my rides. I'd love to hit some performance mods eventually, but I will wait until my warranty is up for that!! Thank you for your comment - I hope some of this information is useful to you
IMHO: You need to do that ride with (one or more) partners. That bike is too heavy, if you get messed up and off the trail, or get trapped under it. Do you ride with a satellite emergency communicator ? If you don't have one, that is a good investment. By the way... you rode just fine.
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Great riding man, that was a killer trail!
I know what it's like to ride with low energy and that's nothing to sluff off, you did great pushing through. Hopefully you got out okay!
I am totally impressed! Both by your skill, courage and by the capability of the Tuareg! I’m 67 & ride a DR650 but would find those trails very challenging even though my bike is 100lb lighter. Riding solo means the ride can turn into a disaster at any moment. I’ve been eyeing the Tuareg but just not sure I can handle the extra weight. Your video was exactly what I was hoping to see, a demonstration of what the Tuareg can actually do on tougher trails. I’m impressed how the Tuareg engine delivers that low end torque very similar to the way my old thumper does. I like your choice of tires, I run the Motoz RallZ rear & DV front. If you’re going to ride solo, at least carry some self-rescue gear..
The difficulty of this ride DEFINITELY CAME THROUGH!!!! I've seen most since your Scofield ride which was wonderfully sketchy as we all witnessed. But man I've LOVED your riding on this, and absolutely impressed by the difficulty level - which was a large bit of everything. And even if the steepness was not as pitched as you experienced, there was no doubt in my mind that IT WAS AN IMPRESSIVE INCLINE. I ride the Tuareg, no where as challenging as you are, but your footage makes me proud of it's capabilities undiscovered by me, lol. Fantastic! Loved it. Thank you.......
Dang, this comment makes me feel like the work that went into this ride and video was 100% worth it. I'm glad it was able to reach you and I'm grateful that you took the time to share your (extremely positive) thoughts here. I'm always happy to hear from any other Tuareg owner, whether it be a purely street driven Tuareg or a Tuareg ridden on terrain I would never consider touching. I think Aprilia absolutely nailed this bike and that this thing offers so much more value than its cost, and I am a huge fan of a company successfully giving consumers exactly what they've always wanted - and the Tuareg is that offering for me.. A wildly capable offroad machine (from the factory) that is still a great bike on the roads (pending tire choice of course). I love the thing, and I'm glad that it seems like you love yours as well. I hope the Tuareg is here to stay and that we get some cool iterative improvements over the years. Thank you for your awesome comment - It means a lot
Great video. I am really impressed by your skills. I knew Tuareg is very capable bike. Rider like you can show the real potential of this bike.
I love my Tuareg and I enjoy every minute with this bike. I went with it to Alaska but my off-road skills are on MABDR level 😂
Hey thank you for the kind words! I describe myself as an average rider with too much confidence, and I think the Tuareg is an excellent (maybe dangerous) pairing for that. The bike is so capable that if you try to do something halfway reasonable with it, you likely can!! I am still quite uncomfortable/uncertain on terrain like this, but I've become obsessed with pushing my limits on the bike and expanding the areas in which I can take it. When I look at the bike, I experience the feeling of freedom it is able to give me - and that feeling of freedom is stronger and stronger as my skills and abilities improve because it has me knowing that I can take the bike even more places. I absolutely love the thing and need to stop abusing it like this, but I am stuck in a loop of endlessly pushing myself further!!
@@TROVids I am sure your spirit (skills) and Tuareg capabilities will get you great moments you can share with us.
I wish to have a chance to ride some trails more often but unfortunately the closest one is 3 hours away from me. That’s why I watch more RUclips than to ride 🤣🤣🤣
RUclipsrs usually say 'camera doesn't do justice' when they're doing tough tracks. Well, it was clear as day in this video.
Awesome technical riding!!
On a dirt bike, that trail is part easy and part moderate. On the Tuareg, that's moderate to very difficult! I ride both. Yeah the Tuareg is capable, but you have really good skills. Great job.
Great job ! Awesome track
Cam, quite impressive. Riding that beast through that must have been a handful and you did a great job, bad leg and all. That Tuareg is impressive as well. Reminded me of "riding the Rainbow". Nothing wrong with you're riding skills, think you did a great job. Snow is soon to come (already here now) so take some time off and heal. Nice job!
Awesome ride! Ans skill, it takes a lot of skill... reminds me so much of Crimea terrain - mountains, same chunky/loose stuff, even greenery. And white dust on rocks which transforms into pure soap with any single drop of moisture, as a specialty..
Great video! thanks for the upload.. keep em coming
Hey thank you! I'm hoping to get a bit more consistent with em
Love it! Please make video with your tips on riding rocky terrain like this.
Hey I really appreciate that you think I may have something useful to offer in terms of tips! Unfortunately, I'm not comfortable enough in my skills or knowledge to provide any explicit recommendations for this. There are so many variables at play (the bike, the exact terrain, the suspension, the tires etc..). What helped me the most was my foundational experience from mountain biking. I was really into extreme downhill/enduro for a couple of years and it I find that the foundational stuff (body positioning, approach angle and overall occasional need to commit on line choice) help me a lot when off-roading with the big bike. It's an extremely different experience for sure, but it's something that worked for me. That being said, I don't think the best way to get better at riding terrain like this is to mountain bike it - but I think there's a ton of improvement to be had in finding difficult terrain and hitting the same stretches and/or obstacles multiple times. Sometimes the same stretches and obstacles can feel entirely different based on placements of small rocks, or exactly where knobs are making contact. I will heavily consider making the requested video, I just don't think I'm the right person to advise anyone on how to ride better!
@@TROVidsI really appreciate the humbleness and self awareness, very rare and always a sign of genuine value and virtue.
I personally watch your videos and try to understand why you took a certain line and wish I could see how you're positioned on the bike or what you're doing cause you make it look so easy.
In eithercase love you're vids and if ever you decide to just recut and upload sections with voice overlays of what you're doing and your thought process, that would be gold.. Just sayin :)
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this looks sweaty. nice job man
It was rough and a little too hot! From everything I had seen, it was supposed to be an easy ride.. Definitely far from that!!
Do you still have the EOM Pirelli tires?
read his video description lol
I rode with them for ~3,200 miles and actually had them on some pretty challenging rides (first vid on this channel is a good example). They were excellent tires and absolutely phenomenal on the roads (for a moderately capable light offroad tire). I have since switched to the Motoz Tractionator Adventure rear and Motoz Tractionator Dualventure front. I am quite happy with this setup, onroad and off. I did get a puncture in the rear and now have a RallZ rear on hand. I am willing to give up a little bit of the Adventure's road performance (which is great) for a little more offroad capability. I think the RallZ would have made a noticeable difference (for the better) on a ride like this (and also the ride on this channel where I broke my skid plate)
Hey, great video ! Are you on stock tyres? Also, are you on stock suspension set up ? Any other mods? Thx man 😊
I was on the stock tires for a little too long - I have a pretty wild ride on here (my first video) which is on stock tires without airing down. It was stupid, but I didn't have the money needed to swap tires or gear up like I wanted at that time. In this video, I am running a Motoz Tractionator Adventure in the rear and a Motoz Tractionator Dualventure in the front (with about 1200 miles on them). I am very happy with this setup, but I do believe the Adventure rear is not adequate for this steep loose and rocky stuff. I have a puncture in the tire and it is currently patched - And I have a Motoz Tractionator RallZ on standy which I do believe would have been a huge improvement for this terrain. The spacing of knobs is larger and the compound is softer - I think it would have been much better planted in the loose rocky stuff. I also could have and should have aired down for this ride but I did not.
Suspension is stock and I am around the ideal weight for the stock settings (~180 pounds with my gear). I have adjusted the rear to soften a bit, but only a click or so of compression down from stock.
As for mods, I've got the outback motortek crashbars and outback motorek skid plate. The bike has been down on the crash bars 6 or 7 times now, and they've only really noticeably warped once (I bent them back with ratchet straps and trees, lol). The skid plate has been through hell, and I did break it on one of my rides (just a bracket, vid is on this channel). I believe the bracket was cracked and weakened and then it broke from a pretty minor impact. Outback motortek sent me a new bracket with just a phone call - no charge. Very happy with the setup. I also have a plastic AXP rear rack to pair with "rackless" luggage, but I now primarily use that to strap a little tripod down on my rides. I'd love to hit some performance mods eventually, but I will wait until my warranty is up for that!!
Thank you for your comment - I hope some of this information is useful to you
IMHO: You need to do that ride with (one or more) partners. That bike is too heavy, if you get messed up and off the trail, or get trapped under it. Do you ride with a satellite emergency communicator ? If you don't have one, that is a good investment.
By the way... you rode just fine.