TW200 and XT225 ride Idaho trails - Part 3
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- We continue with a creek crossing, then more singletrack along the creek until it opens up into a beautiful meadow with surrounding green mountains. It looks like a place where a bear might eat us. Following tracks we made from the Idaho map, we simply cannot find the trail we had planned to take to get up to the ridgeline. Apparently, it is abandoned, but we find an alternate and go up, up, up. It was over a half-hour of 1st gear climbing over 1600 feet to get to the top. Both of us have much torque-ier gearing than stock for our bikes. Hopefully, you can see how steep it is by Chad's clutch work and just how easily his front tire is coming off of the ground. Enjoy Part 3.
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Reminder to self: when riding single track in Idaho, bring a chain saw … or at least a foldable Silky saw.
Always when in the northwest.
Enjoyed this, beautiful scenery. Looks lots of fun. In lockdown in Scotland, so jealous watching this.
Glad you enjoyed it.
add a few more teeth to the rear sprocket, some new clutch plates and you'll be ready to do it again.
This is good example of why heavy BMW GS irrelevant.
Wow, I was feeling concerned for your clutch. Great views!
Wow he's burning that clutch right up..
At 4:23 when they crossed what looked like a muddy creek. I thought uh o... the guy on the XT is gunna get muddy. I learned a long time ago not to be that close behind another rider... seen too many rooster tails in the mud. This looks like so much fun. Thanks for the videos. I want a T Dub!!!
tough ride through thick stuff!
Dang, nice job. Those trails are nuts. You can only tell how steep they (due to the camera) by the amount of sky that is showing above you. Like riding up a staircase.
I really appreciate you watching and commenting on these videos. It was a very interesting ride, for sure!
Hi WaLarry, I'm glad you are showing this ride in a series. It would be a shame not to show all of the trails you've shown so far. When we edit & cut our Moab video's it doesn't do those trails justice. I've done trails like you and Sidekick Chad are doing and they are more difficult than non-trail riding people think. I don't know if you guys were having fun but I'm having fun watching. Trail-on! (Admiral)
We were having a blast! Of course, there were a few times getting uphill on that singletrack where I was really hot and pissed off that we were trying to take these little trail bikes where they probably shouldn't go. Oh, and there were some questionable times like when we couldn't find the trail we had planned to take to get to the top of the ridge, and when we were plowing through brush, and when we were in the meadow section refilling our camelback reservoirs with our water filter out of the creek, that was really when we had a conversation about what supplies we had because we were seriously considering that we might not make it out and that we would have to spend the night out there. But, we were really mostly having a lot of fun!
Nutz Braddah...
Dang is this a pack mule trail or what lol.
Threat level 1000 lol wow that is some tough stuff .
You guys are driving towards the gas station right?...lol
Those Yamaha's get great gas mileage. I have a XT 200 I ride all day up in the mountains here and never run out of gas. Great bikes. Gas station was probably hundreds of miles away! 😄
What was Doc said to Marty? Something about not needing roads. 😁😁
Glad you had hand guard on your bike! ATV trail my ass.lol!
I would not hang around that rock fall very long !! Helmet might get tested by a falling rock
What kind of phone mount do you have and what GPS app? That's a good mount to hold your phone through all that.
Phone mount is Ram handlebar mount, amzn.to/2AN3rmp GPS phone app is Avenza or Gaia.
I think you should change your channel to intense Larry lol
You better be careful man.
LTL I need some of those mirrors, what brand and maye an online retailer please. That is some ballsy singletrack. Subbed.
If you are asking about the mirrors on the XT225 they are the ktm folding mirrors from moto-science found here moto-science.com/collections/ktm-folding-mirrors-for-all-motorcycles.
On the TW200, I have Ken Sean Dual Sport mirrors. #970510 on the left and #970511 on the right. Get here... amzn.to/2GuA65H
What other users frequent that trail? It looked quite overgrown in areas and not much fun.
The overgrown sections don't get much use, I'm guessing. One of the trails we were trying to complete the loop on is simply GONE. Couldn't find it. It is on the states map as still being a trail, but I guess nobody used it. Thanks for watching!
@@LeisureTimeLarry I’m bummed, I’m wanting to buy a new TW 200 and my dealer can’t get one from Yamaha. Production has apparently been delayed. Hopefully they don’t discontinue them.
@@thatalaskaguy I don't know why they would discontinue them. They sell okay, the R&D were paid off decades ago, and they are still listed as Yammy's highest rated bike for fuel mileage. Hopefully, it's just pandemic supply line issues that get sorted out soon. Best of luck!
@@LeisureTimeLarry I agree with you about that. I spoke to two dealers here in AK about TW’s in January and neither could order any new ones. Both mentioned they didn’t know if Yamaha was discontinuing the model. I said they show the 22’s on their website. Hopefully I can order one this summer.
Bikes and riders did well. Some real jungle sections, should have had a machete.
How long have you had your TW and how many clutches have you put in it?
I've had my TW for 5 years. No clutches yet, but I'll probably add that to the off-season to-do list. Thanks for watching!
Did you carry extra fuel with you?
We had plenty. Thanks for watchin'!
first time dirt riding?
Just plain embarrassing