Honda CRF300L Winter Test Ride ends with Bent Handlebars ep1

Welcome to the Honda CRF300L winter test Ride series! This is video 1 of a 4 part back country, quad track, winter stock tire test ride in the Great Northern Back Country of Beautiful British Columbia. How about that description to get the video Rolling. Like always thanks for watching. If you likes the video please give me a big LIKE thumbs up, and hopefully you subscribe for more videos. Both options help the channel grow, and make me feel all happy inside. Have a Nice Day.

[@EffequalsMA]

Yesterday I got on me bike, rode a 1/2 block, turned left and dumped it on black ice. LOL, that's what the crash cage and handguards are for. 🤣

[@greatwhitenorthoverland]

@@EffequalsMA ah no way! Hopefully you don’t hurt the bike.. or yourself :) I need to buy a set for my 300L.. any recommendations for crash cage?!

[@EffequalsMA]

@@greatwhitenorthoverland Really only two: Outback Motortek and T rex Racing. Both use a different approach. OB has the bars high, covering the side plastics better, Trex mounts them low, which makes them less likely to bend in a spill. Both will work but, both need a set of wraparound hand guards to be totally effective. The OB is significantly more expensive than the T Rex. I wanted the high bars but, I did come to struggle a little on install, as the bars had a touch of weld walk. fiddling around with loosening and tightening got them close to a right fit. TRex, which I have on my other bike, fit perfectly right out. I have now dumped the CRF at least ten times, twice on road and 8 off. Bike is still perfectly fine with nothing broken. A few scuffs but that's it so, it speaks to the value of the OB bars as the bike would have been totalled by now without them.

[@EffequalsMA]

I have not, as yet, bent the stock cheese handlebars due to the wraparounds, which take the hit and don't catch like the stock bars will.

[@greatwhitenorthoverland]

@@EffequalsMA yeah those would be a good colour for sure. I think I’m getting the Acerbis ones pretty soon here.

[@EffequalsMA]

@@greatwhitenorthoverland I have Zeta and they have done well. The do tend to roll when down on pavement, due to the clamp force limit but, that's hard to avoid and they still do the job of protecting hands and levers.

[@seanmasse4002]

You must have filmed this a few weeks ago! We have had so much snow in the last couple of weeks, now it's raining.

[@greatwhitenorthoverland]

@@seanmasse4002 that’s 100% true. It was a couple weeks ago when the cold spell hit, following the snowfall. We barely made it back to Vancouver.