You're a great rider on a great bike. I love the sound of those old 360 degree British parallel twins. I wish you could ride our Southwest American mountains & desert (Utah, Nevada & Arizona) 100's of miles of trails that are way too far for any dog walkers or joy killers of any stripe. I have a 2021 KTM 790 Adventure that I've had got about 4,000 of off road and another 4,500 of highway miles on it so far. A lot of fun. Your green trails do look pretty narrow. Not sure I would do very well on them.
Awesome video, loved it. The Triumph looks and sounds perfect. Nice green lanes you have in your area, Kent? Up here in Oxfordshire you would have encountered 8,000 dog walkers who would berate you for Breaking the law (even though you are not) Destroying the environment (even though you are not) Ruining 'their' walking trails even though a green lane is a road (as they let their dogs crap everywhere and don't pick it up). But never mind, it was great to see the bike used and looked like a cracking day out. Best wishes, Dean in Oxfordshire.
Thanks mate appreciate it! Yes Kent, lots of lovely greenlane! Ahh yes that is not absent from down here either I'm afraid, many horse riders too. Its so so important we use our greenlanes else we face losing them! Whilst there is the occasional moan I tend to kill them with kindness.. I also take confidence from the fact I use the greenlanes far more than most the dog walkers or horse riders and am perfectly within my rights to do so!
People think they need the latest adventure bike or motocrosser to have fun off-road. In the U. S. we call this Cow Trailing, that is, no heroics, just getting out of town and having a bit of muddy fun. I had a KZ400 around '78-79 that i took everywhere. We didnt build scramblers then, but given the idea, i would have. Great video!
They used to have stock scramblers just a bit earlier than your bike. In the late 60s, pretty much every Kawasaki street bike except the H1 had a Scrambler version with high pipes. And, just like today, approximately zero of them ever went off road, but people bought them for the look.
@@JETZcorp Very true. I had a Honda CL 350 when I was 15-16. Fun little bike, but was quite heavy for a 350.I remember that 60 m.p.h was 6000 r.p.m's.lol
@@derekcollins1972 I think your CL was just heavy because it was a 4-stroke twin. Honda were pretty alone in the small Japanese 4-stroke market early on. When things like the KZ started coming out, they were all heavy. Not really fair to compare a "baby Triumph" like your Honda to the other 350s of it's time which were mostly 2-stroke singles.
Thanks mate! Absolutely it is ridden a lot, no use in having something you're precious about dropping! Thanks mate, hoping to do a vid in the near future with multiple British offroad machines!
Great to see and hear the mighty Triumph off road. I ride a few myself and really enjoyed it so have subscribed for more. Being critical, the video could be a bit slicker compared with some I see on UA-cam but it does not need to be improved as it adds to the overall feel of your video. Well done and hope you keep at it. Paul
@@ColemanCustoms even better to see young blood on classics. If the bikes aren’t seen and used they will become irrelevant and easy to legislate off the road. I am looking forward to riding a very old bike once things return to normal, going to be odd as it has two speeds, foot clutch and separate air, fuel, and ignition levers. Oh and the obligatory hand change!! Cant wait.
Absolutely agree mate, the knowledge needs to be passed on and they need to be kept on the road. What is this bike you will be riding? it sounds great! I have something similar for down the line which will be on the channel
@@ColemanCustoms very different. Generally an hour or more transit to get to some twisty roads, which are much wider than UK back roads, and probably a lot more bumpy due to low population and lots of roads to maintain. We dont have green lanes here, but lots of dirt roads, and thus big adventure bikes are pretty popular. We do have a fair bit of offroad riding here, which youd probably enjoy, as there's lots of desert type roads😊. And pretty rough mountain tracks too. And you can ride all year round. In fact, riding in winter is often fantastic here, when its dry...as we dont really have what you woukd call cold weatger, unless you go up into tge mountsins, or down to Tassie.
@@ColemanCustoms forgot to mention, long rides are pretty normal here. If i go for a weekend trip away, we regularly do 600 to 700km days...and thats a bunch of old farts who dont have the stamina we did 30 years ago. Back tgen, wed do 1500km in a day, no problems (which i now consider pretty dumb lol).
Long rides are something a bit lacking over here, we run out of county pretty quick although I have some mates that do that sort of thing. In 1983 my dad rode from parramatta to Brisbane on his 76 xt500, on the way back the rear wheel started to break up, 4 spokes lost and the rest tightened up! It sounds like a great time regardless!
@@ColemanCustoms thats a long way on an XT500 lol. I bet the rear tyre wasnt the only thing to suffer. His backside being the other thing!! As a teenager on my first bike (an XL175!) In the 70s, I used to regularly ride about 500 km in a day...but i quickly bought a sheepskin to save my butt. What was your dad doing over here in 83? My in laws used to live in parramatta at that time.
Great video, very cinematic shots. Constructive criticism ....... is there any way to allocate a higher bitrate to the video to reduce the compression artifacts? That said, I don't know anything about making video :)
Thanks John! Constructive criticism is welcomed! I have no idea how that works, it seems you know more than me! Haha, I will look into it and see what can be done, I'm not sure if it would have anything to do with filming on my phone and gopro as opposed to my usual slr!
Brilliant! From Oklahoma USA. I'm selling 2 bikes on order to build another Triumph!
Great video. Hopefully bump into you some time on those lanes.
Thanks for posting, Its always good to watch your short Films
You're a great rider on a great bike. I love the sound of those old 360 degree British parallel twins. I wish you could ride our Southwest American mountains & desert (Utah, Nevada & Arizona) 100's of miles of trails that are way too far for any dog walkers or joy killers of any stripe. I have a 2021 KTM 790 Adventure that I've had got about 4,000 of off road and another 4,500 of highway miles on it so far. A lot of fun. Your green trails do look pretty narrow. Not sure I would do very well on them.
Nice ride and bike , a lot better than people thrashing the nuts of their machines
Awesome video, loved it. The Triumph looks and sounds perfect. Nice green lanes you have in your area, Kent? Up here in Oxfordshire you would have encountered 8,000 dog walkers who would berate you for
Breaking the law (even though you are not)
Destroying the environment (even though you are not)
Ruining 'their' walking trails even though a green lane is a road (as they let their dogs crap everywhere and don't pick it up).
But never mind, it was great to see the bike used and looked like a cracking day out.
Best wishes, Dean in Oxfordshire.
Thanks mate appreciate it! Yes Kent, lots of lovely greenlane! Ahh yes that is not absent from down here either I'm afraid, many horse riders too. Its so so important we use our greenlanes else we face losing them! Whilst there is the occasional moan I tend to kill them with kindness.. I also take confidence from the fact I use the greenlanes far more than most the dog walkers or horse riders and am perfectly within my rights to do so!
Well played my good man.
People think they need the latest adventure bike or motocrosser to have fun off-road. In the U. S. we call this Cow Trailing, that is, no heroics, just getting out of town and having a bit of muddy fun. I had a KZ400 around '78-79 that i took everywhere. We didnt build scramblers then, but given the idea, i would have. Great video!
They used to have stock scramblers just a bit earlier than your bike. In the late 60s, pretty much every Kawasaki street bike except the H1 had a Scrambler version with high pipes. And, just like today, approximately zero of them ever went off road, but people bought them for the look.
@@JETZcorp Very true. I had a Honda CL 350 when I was 15-16. Fun little bike, but was quite heavy for a 350.I remember that 60 m.p.h was 6000 r.p.m's.lol
@@derekcollins1972 I think your CL was just heavy because it was a 4-stroke twin. Honda were pretty alone in the small Japanese 4-stroke market early on. When things like the KZ started coming out, they were all heavy. Not really fair to compare a "baby Triumph" like your Honda to the other 350s of it's time which were mostly 2-stroke singles.
Great video. Love the bike, looks like a 60 year old off road bike should. I want one!
Will check out some more of your videos
Thanks mate! Absolutely it is ridden a lot, no use in having something you're precious about dropping! Thanks mate, hoping to do a vid in the near future with multiple British offroad machines!
Great watch thanks. Think this compliments your more technical stuff 👍👍
Thanks mate! Got to show both sides to the story, I'm building to ride after all! 👌
I really like what I see. Your scooter is great.
Thanks mate, I love it!
Great to see and hear the mighty Triumph off road. I ride a few myself and really enjoyed it so have subscribed for more. Being critical, the video could be a bit slicker compared with some I see on UA-cam but it does not need to be improved as it adds to the overall feel of your video. Well done and hope you keep at it. Paul
Cracking vid, love the action shots.
Cheers mate! Wish I could of got more! Next time more old bikes and more action shots!
Nice one, always prefer to see bikes used for their intended purpose. Fantastic patina and every ride adds to the story.
Thanks mate! Me too, bikes were built to be fun so use them for fun! Agreed, battle scars and stories...
@@ColemanCustoms even better to see young blood on classics. If the bikes aren’t seen and used they will become irrelevant and easy to legislate off the road. I am looking forward to riding a very old bike once things return to normal, going to be odd as it has two speeds, foot clutch and separate air, fuel, and ignition levers. Oh and the obligatory hand change!! Cant wait.
Absolutely agree mate, the knowledge needs to be passed on and they need to be kept on the road. What is this bike you will be riding? it sounds great! I have something similar for down the line which will be on the channel
Looks like a lot of fun. Really enjoyed hoing for a ride with you. Very different to our rides out down under😊👍
It's the most fun you can have in my opinion! Wow I love it here but I can only imagine how great it must be riding in oz!
@@ColemanCustoms very different. Generally an hour or more transit to get to some twisty roads, which are much wider than UK back roads, and probably a lot more bumpy due to low population and lots of roads to maintain.
We dont have green lanes here, but lots of dirt roads, and thus big adventure bikes are pretty popular.
We do have a fair bit of offroad riding here, which youd probably enjoy, as there's lots of desert type roads😊. And pretty rough mountain tracks too.
And you can ride all year round. In fact, riding in winter is often fantastic here, when its dry...as we dont really have what you woukd call cold weatger, unless you go up into tge mountsins, or down to Tassie.
@@ColemanCustoms forgot to mention, long rides are pretty normal here. If i go for a weekend trip away, we regularly do 600 to 700km days...and thats a bunch of old farts who dont have the stamina we did 30 years ago. Back tgen, wed do 1500km in a day, no problems (which i now consider pretty dumb lol).
Long rides are something a bit lacking over here, we run out of county pretty quick although I have some mates that do that sort of thing. In 1983 my dad rode from parramatta to Brisbane on his 76 xt500, on the way back the rear wheel started to break up, 4 spokes lost and the rest tightened up! It sounds like a great time regardless!
@@ColemanCustoms thats a long way on an XT500 lol. I bet the rear tyre wasnt the only thing to suffer. His backside being the other thing!! As a teenager on my first bike (an XL175!) In the 70s, I used to regularly ride about 500 km in a day...but i quickly bought a sheepskin to save my butt.
What was your dad doing over here in 83? My in laws used to live in parramatta at that time.
More videos of the triumph riding green lanes please
That can definitely be arranged!
I really enjoy you’re videos! Could you please tell me where that headlight is from?
Great video, that bike doesn't just look the part it handles too.
Thanks mate, it has really surprised me with just how well it handles it really is a cracking little thing!
loved it!
Another great video Will.Who needs a 200 Bhp sportsbike?
Thanks Trevor! Absolutely, getting all the power out of mid cc bike and having fun is far more appealing to me!
Great video, very cinematic shots. Constructive criticism ....... is there any way to allocate a higher bitrate to the video to reduce the compression artifacts? That said, I don't know anything about making video :)
Thanks John! Constructive criticism is welcomed! I have no idea how that works, it seems you know more than me! Haha, I will look into it and see what can be done, I'm not sure if it would have anything to do with filming on my phone and gopro as opposed to my usual slr!
That’s awesome, I thought I recognised the place… I knew exactly the route. Where are you based?
Cheers mate! It's a great route, my local! I'm just down the road, bottom of Kent!
Surprised you don't come across dog walkers and hikers?
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