HONDA TRAIL 125 HUNTER CUB FIRST RIDE! | Initial impressions and Light Offroading Review
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- This is the first ever ride on my 2021 Honda Trail 125, or CT-125 to the non-US market!
After starting up my Rever app to track the ride (mostly for mileage and top-speed recordings) and heading out of my driveway in Central Florida, I knew exactly where I wanted to go, which was a little water management canal that's hidden behind a community near my house. I had one spot in particular I wanted to check out for future reference, which you'll see in the video. Along the way, I get a feel for the bike on the road, grass, and encounter some light mud while telling you my thoughts of the CT-125 and how it is performing.
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Good day to you.
I am grandpa and riding Honda Cross Cub at Japan.
Cub is so nice for touring and camping!
CT125 is so versatile motorcycle !
The video is so nice!
Have a nice day!
Hello from Japan 🇯🇵
The state of stepping on is Neutral.
So, to do a wheelie on Trail 125, depress the accelerator while you are in gear and then release the gear to make a wheelie.
(Be careful not to open the accelerator too much.)
I hope you will give it a try!
Thanks for the comment and tip! I’ve tried what you’re saying, and it’s hard to do! The bike is longer and heavier than the Monkey, so I need to clutch it harder.
Great review! I have come full circle after riding 1000cc liter bikes and considering purchasing one of these.
I’m really loving it after a few months now. I use it almost everyday to work around my house and am trying to highlight that in my #shorts videos. It’s not a commuter bike with the roads in my area, but it’s sure useful in so many ways
Keep on making these awesome videos man always fun to watch!
Absolutely! Got two more coming at 5pm in the next two days. Plenty of content with the trail and the monkey in the garage!
Very enjoyable! I wouldn't have gone through that stream with the bike being so new either! Congrats and I look forward to watching more trail adventures.
Thanks!! It’s always been a plan of mine to take the trail through that creek when I got it, I Almost couldn’t resist on the first ride.
good job mr. 5xr. "we will cross that bridge...." new saying 'we will cross that stream when it comes up"
😂 you watched till the end!! Thank you!! Yes I will cross that stream, just didn’t want to get my ice hockey coaching pants dirty that day 🤷🏼♂️
Your audio setup for moto vlogging is spot on! You should do a setup video too!👍🏽
Thanks! Already done bud!
ua-cam.com/video/v61H9cWYxSg/v-deo.html
Apparently you can blip these with practice.
Definitely can, I do it every time I ride
Your shifting smooth John!! Nice, I can't wait, stock at dealers by me, non-existent!
This was the first ride and I was shifting like I was on the monkey, it’s much much smoother now after riding it for a few weeks
You had me! Thought we were water fording for sure!!😀
Man I wanted to so bad! The only reason I didn’t was because I had my ice hockey coaching pants on and didn’t wanna get them muddy
Last week, told by 2 buds, all about your channel. They are getting trails also. Expect some new subs, from up North soon!! Then us guys could be your northern correspondents!! Ha! I'm off today, and searching dealers again. Some body has one somewhere.
Great! Every sub helps build the channel and I appreciate that! Trail riding up north is so much better I wish I could go up there more. Florida trails are pretty far and few between and mostly sugar sand.
Sweet video bro! Thank you.
Thanks!!
Surprisingly I've taken my Monkey through some gnarly offroad and never had headlight bezel issues. I was expecting it after watching your videos though. Got lucky with mine.
Wow, very lucky!
Wish we had this model here in Brasil or the supercub
I can't wait to get mine in a few weeks :D
I realized I am answering this 4-weeks after you commented, did you get the bike yet? How do you like it?!
How do you like it so far ?
@@gamebredduramax71 it’s great! I’m loving it :)
@@krissyleigh8885 nice 👍
Can it pull a dead deer
You can give it a throttle blip when shifting to help the tire's not slip
Argh. The build-up. LOL
Great video. Pretty jealous of the levee trails you've got available. Might change my mind when the mosquitos come, though...
Lol, yeah I know. I wanted to go through it bad, but had my expensive ice hockey coaching pants on and didn’t wanna get them muddy! Lol
@@John5XR My luck, I'd get water in the EFI right in the middle, get my boots stuck and have to walk it home barefoot and soaking.
Lol
Hi, actually you can smoothen your down shift, and so it will not jerking the rear tire.
I see when you shift down eg. From 4th to 3rd gear, you immediatley release the gear shifter back.
When you shift down is 2 step process, you press and release back the shifter,
To smoothen the down shift in this bike, press the shifter, hold it in half position before you release it, the trans will not engage the down gear before you release it. (Its like in neutral) you can blip the throttle.
Then release the shifter back slowly while balancing with the throttle. (Like releasing manual car clutch pedal)
Doing this, you can rev up/play with the throttle of the engine while holding the shifter halfway, to meet the gear speed so it will smoothen the down shift process..
Cheers
Thanks for the comment. This was my first ride on the bike and I wasn’t used to the auto clutch yet. Having ridden it for a few months now, I’ve gotten the throttle blip down pretty good. You’ll see in my video coming out tomorrow my technique is a lot smoother
if I tried to wheelie in that place i end up taking a bath with bike included
More!
More you will get sir! This was a big ride split into three videos, this one, the next was a backroad test and is up now, and today at 5pm will be the "can it moto?" test... lol!
Nice video. Nice Trail ride...
😉 yeah break in the bike first 😉
Take the CT125 to the Croom motorbike trails in Ridge Manor/Brooksville area.
You would love riding a Phatmoto gasbicycle on the trails too.
Haha, yeah it still smells like it’s breaking in and I have doubled the miles since this ride. Next time I’ll go through the water for sure. I’d check out Croom, the biggest issue with Florida trail riding is sugar sand, which I don’t think this bike will do well in based on my couple of trips through it already.
Yeah i talked to a Honda Dealer in my area. He recommends 150 miles as the break in miles on new 125cc engines. He also said he recommends rides of 3 to 5 hours long as a good break in for endurance testing the new engine.
With a 600-mile first oil change interval that sounds about right.
Nice little ride. To help the downshift. Slow down a little more and blip the throttle a tad slower and longer and she will downshift smoothly until you get to first and then it want's to jump a little. Took me awhile to train myself. I keep grabbing for the clutch myself. When you need extra power to spin the tires hold the gear shifter up or down according to what gear your in.rev motor drop gearshift and it will spin. There's a video from "retired Oakie living in Thailand" that demonstrates that for a guy. I've had to do that on some of my older hondas with auto sift clutches back in the day. Many days lol..Mini trail 50 ,Ct90 CT70
Thanks! I’ve been experimenting with the down shifting since filming this and have applied my “heel-toe downshifting” technique from race cars, which is just a fancy name for rev-matching. It’s hard to do on this bike and this was my first time riding it at speed, also being used to the clutch of the monkey, I was shifting wayyyy too early! It’s so easy to rev match with a manual clutch, I wasn’t remembering I didn’t have one. Suffice to say, I have been perfecting the technique and hope to highlight it in a future video. The next video coming out tomorrow will talk extensively about the semi-auto clutch where I backroad test it
@@John5XR This is the video mentioned if you've not already found it ua-cam.com/video/tB81Q9zcods/v-deo.html
@@John5XR with the down shift I have been using the shifter as the clutch by holding it up then slowly releasing it exactly like you would do with the hand lever hope this helps
Soooo...what do you like better. This or the Monkey??
Two totally different bikes really. I like the monkey better for fun riding, and this better for utility and task oriented stuff
Why do other reviewers say top speed is 60-65 mph?
Maybe they’re 125lbs and going downhill with a tailwind? Lol
I don't know how the semi autos are nowadays. But on my older hondas the clutch is engaged as you hold the shift lever up or down. So you could (in theory) pop the clutch to do a wheelie by holding the lever up while you rev the engine and then releasing the shift lever into gear while at high rpm. I don't recommend this ofcourse... lol that's probably hard on the semi auto clutch.
Anyone making high fenders for the 125?
Yes there are high fender kits they even come in red.
Yes there are high fender kits and they come in red.
Beez deals has the high front fender kits .Glowing red. Ebay or beez deals online. There is also a black one available. Ebay too.
I spotted a dirt bike style fender on Beez Deals that I really like. Just wish some of this stuff was stateside
@@John5XR I've ordered a few things from them. Shipping is high but fast .
After riding this then hopping on my XT250 I've discovered it can be shifted without using the clutch, very accidentally of course. My brain was still in Traik125 mode. The hand clutch vs centrifugal definitely offers up some brain 🧠 games.
Surprisingly most motorcycles can be shifted without the clutch if you slacken the drivetrain by letting off the throttle for a second. The key is shifting in that sweet spot when the gears don’t have pressure on them. Pretty cool stuff!
@@John5XR Yes it is. Great episode. Look forward to your next 👍
New episode up in 25-minutes!
@@John5XR Excellent!
I’m stoked about this bike!! I live in a mountainous area and was wondering if the torque could handle going up hill at very low speed, without having to take a running start and maintain a speed all the way.
I haven’t had it on many hills yet, but based on what I feel so far, it doesn’t have that tractor-like crawl abilities like an Offroad trail bike (ie: CRF or KLX). The semi-auto clutch seems a bit soft and slippy to me instead of grippy and strong. I feel Honda designed the bike with a very heavy road-going bias to where it “can” go Offroad, if you want
sir is this in Lakeland????
Close, St Cloud. Lakeland is about an hour away from me
The video of the CT125 wading is still on UA-cam here ua-cam.com/video/vsJ5taSCwnU/v-deo.html Somebody else may have uploaded.
Oh awesome! I’ve been wanting to show it in the videos when I’m talking about it, thanks!
Check your PMs on FB, nice Vid!
Will do! Thanks!
My only bitch would be top end speed isn't enough for highways. That's it.
Not even close here in Florida. Everyone drives 80 on the 70mph roads
He says he’s breaking it in, next thing I know he is full throttle for 20-30 seconds. Hehe. I did that when I was a wee tot.
Haha! I mean, can you believe that?! What did this poor little engine think when it went full throttle for 20-30 seconds, crazy! 🙄
Body weight?
200lbs
@@John5XR thank you, I’m 230 so that helps. Orders mine yesterday. Three months to five. Be safe .
You should watch A Retired Okie in Thailand, he shows how to up and down shift properly, as well as a good way to break in a new bike.
Can’t figure out if you’re insulting me, or you just love that guy... either way, thanks for watching and commenting!
@@John5XR no insult intended. The okie just talked about how the clutch is part of the shifter, and I had not known that before. And I’d always heard not to push a motor too hard in the first few hundred miles. He talks about heat and cool cycles he does on his bikes, the way he has for decades. I’m not sure what’s best, but I guess I lean towards an easing into high rpms and speed, because I look for longevity in new bikes. I’m really looking forward to eventually owning a trail 125. I’ll treat it a bit more like Vintage Garage treats his. I’m older too. Keep the videos coming.
Things don’t often translate well when typed, thanks for your patience in expanding on your thoughts. Being a racer I tend to push my machines hard from the get go, I’ve had a few engine builders for our Spec Miata racecars advise to “break it in like you want it to be used” and I’ve had a few advise on an easy break-in. Since I’ve done pistons and rings on both my Grom and Monkey (to upgrade, not fix) already, I put a lot of trust into these little 125’s as being pretty stout. Also, the time and cost investment to doing rings is super affordable, so that doesn’t help keep things easy going for me! Another thing is I’ll never put a lot of miles on my bikes because I just took around the house and neighborhood, if I took it easy for 500-miles, that’d take me about 2 years 😳
@@John5XR I bought a Datsun pickup new in 1977 from the Datsun/Mercedes dealer here. When I went to pick it up, the dealership owner went with me to drive before letting me take it home. I took off slowly and after a while he said to let him drive. He. Took. Off!!! He said break it in like you’re going to drive it from now on. Only kept it for three years so don’t know if that was right to do or not 🤔
Do you happen to have a family member or possibly you that has a UA-cam channel called NDYakAngler? He sounds so similar to you. Lol
Thank you for wasting 16 mins of not going thru the water....
Next time I’ll go through it on minute 15 chief 👍
Please don’t call this bike a scooter. 😃
Kinda is though 🤷🏼♂️😂