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I have no problem riding around in 3rd gear on slow road and trail sections, then be able to shift down to 2nd is a breeze....

@@TeamDNFracing cool, i always ride scooters ,this is my first shifting motorcycle,

I'm looking forward to the trip itself, lots of editing going to happen when we get back home..... We'll be looking for more video endings for you Vaughn....😁

@@TeamDNFracing Thanks! The editing will be a bitch with multiple cameras in action, but worth it. My earlier videos had 4 cameras.. one on my chest, one on a tripod, one for underwater shots and one on the quadcopter for overhead shots. I gradually evolved to just using a single camera and took it off my chest and put it on the tripod when needed, and rarely use the quadcopter or the underwater camera. Then at least all the clips are already in already in time order.

Robert is going on his Honda CRF 250 and I'll be on my Yamaha XSR 155. Woke up to rain this morning, not the way I wanted to start the trip, but it is letting off and is heading out of our planned travel. We'll be taking it easy this morning.....

@@TeamDNFracing Hope the weather improves. I was a little worried that you planned to travel too many kilometers each day. Good luck. 👍 🙏

Now we go ride the planned road trip.... What do you think of the ending?

Thank you very much, that means a lot to me what you said... Robert and I shot a prelude video today for a trip we are going on starting Monday, it's 5 day and 4 nights taking in the Northern parts of Thailand to the Golden Triangle. I'll be posting are set up video tomorrow that we shot today and then it will be over a week before we get back to edit out the 5 days of video material. Look for it in the next week after this coming week.... Again, thank you for the kind words. It does matter....

@@TeamDNFracing Thank you, Eddie! Am looking forward to your upcoming videos, and I sincerely wish you and Robert the best!!

@@user-jt4go6fy2b We are currently getting prepared to start a 5 day, 4 night adventure ride in the Northern part of Thailand from Chiang Mai to the Golden Triangle up by Chiang Rai and then back down South along the mighty Mekong River and back to Chiang Mai. This is Thursday evening here and we leave at 8:00 on Monday. I'm editing the entro video to that adventure now, should have it up by Saturday our time. Then it will be a couple weeks before the next video hits as we will be on the ride. Should be another 5 videos from the ride to go with this entry video. There will be some very interesting sights that we see and of course we'll try to be entertaining also.... Thank you for the kind words and enjoy the upcoming videos....

Yea I know, do you realize how many beer stops we had to make to get through that day? We also through a lunch stop in there.... I was exhausted after that ride....

We stopped at a roadside market that was just getting set up and the ladies all wanted their pictures taken, so I took them and thought why not just put them in the video. The little gal that made my Thai Tea for me is named Gee, I met her there years ago and she always jokes with me when I stop for one of her green tea drinks. They taste excellent and she always has a smile....

@@TeamDNFracing Something like that might make a good 60 second " Short " .

@@richardduke9788 I've done a couple short videos of some of Thailands lovely ladies. Those really didn't go over like I thought they would....

@@TeamDNFracing My Shorts are green corn🌽, watermelon 🍉 , pumpkin 🎃 , and racoon traps .

@@richardduke9788 I assume you are talking about your "short videos" and not the color of the shorts you wear. Although, I'd like to see a pair of shorts in raccoon traps color... Just kidding, I knew what you were talking about.....

Don't tell me you just had to know what it was like when it was raining so you watched it while it was raining... Oh Vaughn, you crack me up....

@@TeamDNFracing It's true.. LOL..

@@Vintage_Garage keep up your fantastic spirit my friend....

I've had mine now for almost four years and for some reason can't stop changing things out on it. The bike is so much fun to ride and now that we are going to ride a pair of them in a Thai Enduro, which I don't believe has been done before, it's going to really show what these bikes can really do if set up correctly.... I think....🤔

Just a couple more days and I'll start setting everything on it up for the Lampang Thai Enduro in October. Need to have everything set up so I can have time to get the feel of everything on it. I'll be shooting some footage of all the things I'm doing to it to prep it for the race....

We are still running our Toyota Revo as my wife just won't let me use it very often. This Champ will be my fourth Toyota pickup I've owned, every one of them never let me down. Great trucks....

Where in Thailand are you moving to? Love it up North in Chiang Mai. You'll be glad you moved here, I don't regret it a bit....

Have not been able to get those here in Thailand and I believe the SR 241 is similar to the Vee-Rubber tires that we run on the CT's as our daily tires. For this enduro, we definitely need a good knobby tire front and rear for it. Very pleased with how the Camel MX has performed so far....

Thanks Richard, every view helps my channel.... Greatly appreciate it.....

I definitely understand about the views ! My little channel isn't as entertaining as yours , but it is slowly coming along 😅.

@@richardduke9788 The cameras don't really show just how amazing the scenery is here in Thailand so I have to stop occasionally just to see what an amazing spectacle this country has to offer us....

@@richardduke9788 I like seeing the channel grow, but it has really surprised me how certain items make it go great and others don't do squat....

@@TeamDNFracing I started doing a lot of the 60 second " Shorts " , some do ok , and some of them people just scroll on by . But the " Shorts " is where I have been getting subscribers .

That is my everyday driver. I go all over on it, but it will be doing a different chore for the next two months and that is to get it set up for the Thai Enduro at Lampang. Once it is completely set up, then the rides will start to get me used to what it will be able to do and what it won't be able to do so I can go to the Enduro with confidence.

May I ask when and where the Enduro is taking place? I've always wondered how the 125 would do in an Enduro. Thanks. 😊

@@TheExistentialVegan The enduro is in Lampang, Thailand and is October 6. Lampang is about 100 Kilometers South of where I live and I rode in it last year on my Yamaha WR 155R. The tight terrain made it difficult for me to turn the way to heavy Yamaha without tipping over so I got overheated and it zapped my strength lifting that almost 300 pound bike up. I believe the much lighter and shorter Honda CT will be a better bike for that terrain and me. It will be interesting anyway and I'll be doing several videos on setting up the bike and then of course, the enduro itself.....

@@TeamDNFracing Thanks. Will be watching for sure.

My first thought on your question is "Why would I want a set of Shinko SR 241 tires to go ride in a Thai Enduro"? Not to be sarcastic, but those tires are very similar to the IRC and Vee-Rubber tires we can get here in Thailand and we run the Vee-Rubber tires on our bikes now for everyday use. They work very well on most every surface except, rocky, tree roots and rutted trails. We need a full on knobby tire and that is what the Camel Moto Cross tire is. We've done extensive tire testing the past four years on our Honda CT's and if all you are going to ride is pavement, then the stock IRC tire that comes with the bike is as good as any tire out there. If you want to ride pavement and off road, we have found the Vee-Rubber tires work the best on all conditions and will last longer than the IRC with the same tread pattern which is the same as the Shinko tires pattern. Thanks for the comment, but I need a tire that works extremely good Offroad, and the Camel Motocross knobby tire does that very well. I set the pressure at 10 PSI for competition with these and it flexes and bites exactly the way I need it to. The Shinko, just won't bite like a full knobby tire does.....

El' Diablo will be down for a while for the prep work for an upcoming Thai enduro. It should be a good looking bike once I get it finished....

Move to Thailand and bring Wilbur with you....

Needed to fix El' Diabo after my wacko mechanic screwed things up on it.... Lesson learned: Always inspect your returned parts to make sure they did what you said you wanted done....

In 1982 the Husqvarna race bikes came with a 17 inch rear wheel. The CT has a 17 inch rear wheel, I'd much rather have a 21 inch wheel up front, a little longer swing arm and longer rear shocks with longer front forks. No need to go to a LS engine, just need to utilize what this engine has to be able to keep it in the torque sweet spot, a manual clutch will do that. The Thai racers regularly modify the Honda Wave bikes and it's amazing what they can do with them and the places they can go on them. Suspension is the key to be able to go places and being able to keep the power at the right RPM's....

@@TeamDNFracing Cool information, I was just being sarcastic with the LS. Every time I hear someone wanting to do an engine swap on their car/truck it's either an LS or Cummins. I'm considering buying a cheap CT and putting electric hub motors on front and rear. I'd add a generator to the engine to power them. I'm liking the idea of 2wd and the ability to hold 65 mph up hill.

@@wantblackwolf Hey, if we can get a Cummins in this frame, I'm all for that. I can just imagine rolling some coal going up some of these hills.... Keep up the commits, we try to answer them all.... Still not through making this into a Thai enduro ready bike. As far as we know, nobody has ridden a Honda CT in a Thai enduro. We will have at least two of them in the October Lampang enduro....

He's still in Chiang Mai.....

On pavement straight roads it handle great, with the V-Rubber tires on it. Just a little more care is needed on pavement with the knobbies on it. On dirt roads, sand and mud as it is now, it handles very well also and I'll be doing a short video on the rice paddies to show that before we go to the Lampang Enduro in October. I did have the front tire wash out on me the other day on a paved corner that had a lip in it and a bit of loose gravel. First time for that to happen. As for the top speed it is now geared for off road and it will do 100 KPH but I don't like running it up that high. Normally, we keep them around 60 to 70 KPH and that's plenty fast enough for me.... The camshaft that came with the High Speed head really let it rev out and that was partly because when they installed that on it, they raised the limit on the Rev-limiter which I didn't know they did, but it was really fast with that setup, just had no low end....

This is the first off road ride I've had on the CT since I had all the work done. It is also in the process of being set up to ride in a Thai Enduro in October. Have to find out what works and what doesn't. Going to have a manual clutch installed on it so it is easier to get the RPM's up to the sweet Torque range. With the setup it has, on really steep terrain it is difficult to get it to power up. I've still got the Yamaha WR155 but will ride it in more open terrain events where the suspension and longer wheelbase shows off the power and handling. In really tight terrain like this was, it is extremely heavy at 285 pounds and is difficult for me to lift it up when I tip over with it. Different bikes for different terrain....

Can’t find any comment box to remark on your shameful LOMF! How on earth did that track find it’s way onto any Garmin mapping? Maybe it was some honey gathering grandma on a C50 who made those ruts and forced her way through!

Man, I needed that refreshment stop at the end..

@@Kathikas1 I wonder the same thing. The first part of the trail went to that shelter in the clearing, and someone built the bridge to get there. I wonder how many years ago that shelter was built and what was it's purpose?

@@Vintage_Garage That's one of our regular beer stops when we go ride. Just so happens that where the start of this trail is was close to that beer stop so when we came out of there, we had a cold Leo and then had a steak at another restaurant close by. All in all, it was a pretty good day....

@@Vintage_Garage Could be just about anything, but there are locals that travel these trails in search of items they can eat. Mushrooms, ant eggs, different types of vegetations, you see people out foraging all the time.

I'll do some more videos on it after we get the clutch installed on it and then when I set it up for the final test just before the Enduro.

I know there isn't, my wife found a place that sold them and she got us five trees, one got ran over by a friend who parked next to it and then. proceeded to back over it to turn around. I probably planted them a bit to close together and had my day workers transplant one to a different area and they just pulled it up by the roots and stuck it in the ground. Needless to say, it didn't fair to well after that, so we have three of them and they are doing great now. Much sweeter fruit than the yellow ones... Thanks for the comment...

We banter each other back and forth for 18 holes. I usually say she misread a putt and she says I'm drunk... My guess, she is right and I am wrong... Still, she is the best caddy they have at this course, I'll never play there if she leaves... Very hard to find a good caddy that speaks English, knows all the breaks on the greens and knows exactly where my golf ball goes even if it goes in the tall rough. She also has a mean hand wedge and a wicked foot wedge....😃

Na, I suck at golf, you should see my caddie hit the golf balls and her putting is pure skill. Of course she's been a caddie at this golf course for over 10 years, she knows every break in these greens and every hazard that I've managed to hit into... Still, she also finds my golf balls unless they went in the water..... She is a very very good caddie, been mine for the past 8 years.... I'll not play if she can't caddy for me that day....

Yea, I'm doing okay, just busy with getting some items done around my property. I've got a lot of footage shot, just haven't had time to edit it all. Will be making a long trip around the Northern part of Thailand probably in August. Will put some stuff out soon, promise....

@@TeamDNFracing 👍

I have to agree with you, we have had two Hilux pickups here in Thailand the past 11 years and when I get the Champ, it will be our third one. Nothing wrong with the Toyota Hilux pickups....

Glad you liked it and that it could help you out. This happens to be one of the most favorite videos I've done....

That's a good one. The one thing about this bike, is that it is so much fun to ride. It's not a rocket, a great handler or even a sporty looker. But, it is a blast to just ride around on....

Well geez Wally, who shit in your cornflakes this morning. The reason this exhaust makes a difference is it has a 19 mm head pipe on it. Yes, it is only 2mm larger than the stock one, but hey, where only talking 8 HP from stock here. So, with the Big Bore Kit, better air flow (much more O2 going into the combustion chamber) a larger fuel injector (again, much more fuel going into the combustion chamber) means you have to have a way for all of that combusted gasses to escape. So, we needed a better exhaust system, this one made a difference. Not just in performance but oh yes, the sound is so sweet. So, enough about performance or should I put up what that puny little 8 HP engine puts out now... Yea, I'll put it up. Here are the Dyno numbers: 12.08 HP and 11.74 NM of torque. I didn't do this to go faster, I could care less on how fast the bike is. What matters to me is where I ride the bike off road in the mountain areas around Chiang Mai, Thailand and to do it safely, it needed more Torque to go with that HP increase. Now I have it and I'll be the first one to admit. Honda missed the boat on this engine, it barely has enough power to get out of it's own way, let alone climb steep hilly single track terrain. You do what you want to do to your bike and I'm very happy with the way my bike now performs and especially the way it sounds.... So, let me know how your bike runs and what you've done to it to make it a "BETTER" machine, because mine definitely is better than stock....

When I get mine, I'll do another video on the Champ. I've got enough footage to do one on the dark grey, just need time to edit it. I will have larger wheels and tires installed and the model I want comes with an Automatic Transmission plus a few more things.... Still, have to wait till my TaTa sells first....

@@TeamDNFracing Cool. I am interested to know how much extra better wheels will cost. I ordered a Tesla Cyber truck 4 years ago but for 460 000THB the Champ is a better option.

@@magamike1800 It's going to be at least till the end of this year before I can get one. Living on my SS checks now, so I have to save up at least half the cost before getting a lone on it.... I'm looking at December or maybe January before I get one and it will be a good looking truck. Got a few plans to make it special for me.....

@@TeamDNFracing OK. I plan to get another year out of my Mitsubishi. Its not even 2 years old yet.

@@magamike1800 Yea, my TaTa is 12 now, time for a new truck....

Yes, it is. A knockoff type of a Baja Light. Looks okay I guess, but I believe the stock one is going to go back on it.....

Now, these are Thais, not Chinese....

It was on the bike when I bought it. It was used and I found out on two separate rides that it was not a good crash bar. I've never been one to really lean a street bike over and with this crash bar I hit the crash bar leaning in a tight corner, once on the left side and again once on the right side. That was enough for me and I took the crash bar off because of that. If I had of leaned really hard, I would have lost the front end as it was lifting it when the crasher rubbed the pavement. However, the guy I sold the Triumph to wanted the crash bar, so I gave it to him and told him the reason I removed it. He still wanted it though..... It was probably bought off an on line shopping network here in Thailand. Something like Shopee.co.th

@@TeamDNFracing I know you didn't have to reply considering this old video, but I really appreciate it. Thanks!

@@joeygoh8244 I try to answer all the comments. Some for some reason don't show up on my list on You Tube and I don't see them until months later in my comment section for my channel... The crash bars looked good, but if I'd of left then on there, I'd of had a bad crash....

I'm not sure of the name of it, but my wife is the one who buys the trees for our orchard, I just plant them and take care of them. I'll ask her the name of it and get it back on here for you.....

The orange jackfruit is called" Jumpra Grob At least that is what my Thai wife called it....

You're not going to like this, but you probably can't get it in the US. Most of the items we can get won't be available to the US market. Try Beezdeals and ask them if they can get the Murazaki exhaust pipe for the Gen 1 CT 125 for you. They are the only ones I know that might be able to ship to the US....

@TeamDNFracing mines the gen 2 , but thanks , found the Thailand shop , no translation, rats ....thanks for the ideas though 🤔

@@user-fe9bd7ec2r The only exhaust systems we've come across so far for the Gen 2 bikes are extremely expensive. Yoshimura is one of them. I've asked the murazaki guys several times about supplying a full pipe for the Gen 2 and so far all they have is the headpiece which then you have to have the stock muffler cut off and welded to the head pipe from Murazaki. Surprisingly it works very well. We did a video on the Gen 2 Big Bore Kit and the guy who owns the bike had that pipe set up on his bike.....

The Honda Trails have had big bore kits going back into the 60;s.