Fully Loaded Test Ride | New Motorcycle Luggage for my Honda Trail 125
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- Опубліковано 21 чер 2024
- How much camping gear can I carry on my Honda 125? Preparing for a long trip on my 2022 Honda Trail 125 motorcycle. New motorcycle luggage from Touratech.
Note: Pannier racks for the Honda Trail 125 can be ordered from Touratech Japan on eBay.
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As an owner of a 1970 Honda Trail 90, this video makes me smile.
I was wondering where you’ve been. Happy to see a new video! Keep ‘em coming my friend.
Proof that any bike is capable of an adventure👍. Thanks for sharing.
These small bikes steal your heart. I’m betting you have a one of a kind unique adventure that you’ll always remember.
Very much looking forward to your retelling of the tale 👍🏻
That’s a really good way of saying it - they steal your heart!
Boy oh boy..!. a new video after a long long time .. A big fan of your work .. 🙂
Being an ultralight moto camper, I'm usually not a fan of hard panniers, even on large bikes, but somehow, they work on the Trail 125. The Touratech aluminum panniers aren't cheap, but they aren't cheap panniers! It's obvious where the money went. There is value at any price point and this is some high end value. I'm cheap, but I can see spending $2000 for the Touratach frame and panniers, even on a $4000 Trail 125. This is the only Trail 125 moto camping video that didn't look like the Beverly Hillbillies with stuff bungee corded everywhere. This setup looked good and clean. In light of Moto Giant's recent 80 MPH high side when a sleeping bag went into his rear wheel, I'm even more fussy about how I secure loads.
I've always tended to think of moto camping as the faster and farther version of mountain bike camping. I'm not in a huge hurry so the Trail 125 appeals to me, even though I'm a big guy. I want the green one, though. 😀
I hope you do many Trail 125 moto camping trips. This is great! I'll never tire of this content.
Alot of so called light gear especially bags weigh in near what metal ones do. Weight always adds up. Always think light, like going hiking around the world up hill both ways and one will do well.
@@samhill3496 - I was a bit put off by the cost of good soft panniers but even more put off by the weight. 14 pounds... empty! I seriously thought about making improvised panniers using two 30 liter Givi bags but even though they're well made waterproof roll top bags, the attachments are not made for vertical loading. When it came time to implement that bad idea, I thought, "What the hell was I thinking?" That would be a bad accident, for sure.
What I'd *really* like is a pair of small low profile cases that can be securely attached to the frame in place of panniers, with my large tool roll and first aid kit in one side and my 3 liter water pouch and the yellow seam sealed Tyvek suit that I use as an ultralight rain suit in the other. I need some place to carry all of the stuff that I always need on the bike, plus water for camping, with that weight carried low, so the roll top waterproof duffel on the pillion and rear rack can be used only for camping equipment and supplies.
Jeeze thought you were dead 😅 good to see you back and biking!
Sterling is the man. Every video has these beautiful panoramic dreamscapes. Have a great trip - go a little slower and enjoy it more! ✨
Thanks, you too!
C90 adventures guy has ridin his bike around the world
Beyond the rock formations, these mountains were also the last stronghold of Chiricahua/Apache Indians led by Geronimo. The ones who surrendered were treated harshly as POWs by the American government and were later exiled to Oklahoma or NM. There is sadness there in those rocks too.
Cochse stronghold to the west too....
Sterling's Excellent Adventures !! Beautiful desert scenery! Thanks for taking us along...
You bet!
Loving it!!, glad you're back in the saddle, looking forward to the new trip👍
I’m glad to see you back. This is a great new project
Awesome episode,stunning scenery,glad to see you out and about again.
Great news Sterling. Look forward to your adventure. Nice to see "You Back."
Absolutely love the music and the feel of this video. Nailed it man!
Sterling don’t forget to record your cooking segments on your trip 👍
I for one enjoy that and it gives me idea’s for my trips
Have fun out there and keep up the good work.
I agree! I like the cooking segments.
Awesome, thx, Sterling!!!
the trip was great. The natural landscape of the mountains and forests is truly majestic, I love your videos
Thank you very much!
Good to see ya, be careful out there.
Looking forward to this one, Sterling🤙🏻
Have a great trip!
I am looking forward to your video series on your CT125. That should be a blast. Thanks for all the hard work making the videos
Great Video, I had asked about your touratech pannier racks at the Rally. Can’t wait to see the trip.
I love small bikes as my primary bike. Especially as I age and weaken. I'd rather you use a trailer. Less injury to you when those boxes magnify instability and hurt your leg. Also get comfortable fixing g a rear wheel pinched flat tire. Comes with the territory my friend
Love the music Sterling!
Godspeed sir. You are lucky to have such wilderness on your doorstep. Enjoyed the video, thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great to see you back Sterling; just goes to show that a big BMW isn’t totally necessary! Did you have to ‘beef up’ the rear suspension? All the best from Cambridge UK🇬🇧
So far no….
Very Cool, looking forward to seeing how it goes!
See you in less than a week..
Great video Sterling. Can’t wait to see the set up in person.
Looks great! Can’t wait to see your tiny bike camping video! 👍
Coming soon!
I missed your video's Sterling. Good to see you again.
Good vid Sterling. Like those bikes. Reminds me of times when that was pretty much all we had. Make the most of them and roll on. Life is an adventure.
Fantastic camera work....beautiful scenery. Looking forward to next chapter
Many thanks!
Truly enjoy everyone of your video's. I have learned so much as well. Looking forward to this one especially as I would like a little bike as well. Thanks for sharing.
I will let you know how it works out for me!
Thanks for sharing, cannot wait to see how the Honda behaved. Safe travels and greetings to Eva. Watching from Cape Town, South Africa.
Small bike, - small tires + full load, = may want to carry a spare tire. (depending on how remote you're going, but you'll be riding by now 👍🏼)
Hello from Utah. Nice to see you back in action. Cheers!
Cheers!
Safe trip and great episode
be safe as always,,look forward to the videos coming,,,,,,be well...
Love your videos.
Loving the CT125, it grew on me during a 2600 Mile Tour…Cheers Dean
You just popped up on my phone and I found it interesting to see such an adventure on such a small bike. I've got a R1250RS and recently added a RE 350 Classic and enjoy the smaller bike. I can understand the charm of even a smaller bike. 👍👍
These bikes are so so cool!
Nice to see you back on the road, I also have the same Marrakesh and love it and got a Touratech adventuro helmet ( even if i only ride asphalt) with no peak , thank you for sharing another one of your great video., will definitely be here to see your small bike adventure Alain & Yellow
I use a 110cc Chinese knock-off bike down here in Mexico, fully loaded in the open road. 9 Hrs a day are enough to cover 300 miles with 3 gallons of gasoline. Tire selection is important though, I replaced the tires with Michelin ones. Change the oil every 1,000 miles, clean and oil the chain after every ride.
Thank you.
Greatly looking forward to your next video on the extended 2 week trip. Be safe, don't spend too much time in the saddle, take lots of breaks 👍
Thanks, will do!
Sterling, your videos are informative, entertaining, interesting and really appreciate the work you do. Heading into NEBDR with the bro next month on our 125s loaded. This was encouraging!! Hope to ride Bisbee next May
Awesome, thank you! Have fun on that trip!
You videos are great thanks for sharing, irish guy watching from thailand .
Great Bike!
Thank you, Sterling. I look forward to seeing your next film. By the way, the Northern California BDR film is excellent.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video.
Awesome video, thanks for sharing this with us all. Trail 90 was my first bike back in the day. Been pondering getting a new one or a Ural.
So funny that you should say that, Eva and I are out riding a Ural right now and making a video for a future release! I think that a trip with a Ural motorcycle and a trail 125 together would be really fun. The Ural could carry all of the camping gear and the riders could switch back-and-forth between bikes to get the different experiences.
@@SterlingNoren Thank you, ride safe and have a great time.
This should be a fun one
Reminds me of my buddies trail 90, with low range. We went everywhere. See you at Touratech west thus year.
How exciting !! Can’t wait to watch your tiny bike adventure videos :)
Will be looking forward to your tiny bike big adventure series!
You and me both!
This place looks amazing..i am desperately trying to relocate to this area..motorcycle heaven. Searching for hospitals to work at all around this area. Shoutout from westmonroe la.
Safe travels
Thanks for another great video. I'm very eager to watch the video of the Trail 125 on a longer trip. Most of us make videos to extemporaneously document our moto camping trips. These videos are so much better because the primary focus is the video with the moto camping enjoyed in addition to that. Drone shots, ride by shots, careful framing of very scenic places... it all takes a lot of time as well as artistry, but it really shows in the finished product. #WorthTheEffort
Thanks for that! Glad to know it’s appreciated!
You are crazy I love it
Glad to see you back again. From another as we call them here, down under, Postie, rider, sure looking forward to some great videos. As for the weight of your gear, these bike often carry two or three people in Asia without any problems. See you soon..From Australia.
More to come!
I've taken my CT 125 on a few 100+ mile rally rides and a 250 mile over night ride. I've had it now for going on two years and I still haven't "clicked" with it but I am still trying. It's convenient when I need to run down the street real quick but I don't live in an area where it's easy to explore right from my home and I don't live in an urban area conducive to scooter type activities either. I'll keep finding excuses to hop on it and take it for a spin and it's not costing me much to keep it in the corner of the garage either so for now it gets to stay in my stable.
The Touratech panniers and rack are super cool for a bike like this but I agree, without sponsorship like you yourself have, very few will do the same. Looking forward to seeing videos covering your future trip on the Trail and I hope I am able to finally snag a ticket to the rally next year so that I can finally attend haha.
Stunning area south east Arizona
Wondering what all the storage racks weigh in addition to your luggage. All the best!
Will be interesting to see how this goes
That looks like a great set up but living in South Australia if I was going to get something like this I'd most probably just buy an ex postie bike. They come with most of that stuff already fitted . Another great video.
Looking forward to this series! People call me crazy for doing 3000 mile two week trips from my home on the central Oregon coast to Southern Arizona on my BMW G310GS. This is going to be fun !
If you've ever been to Asia, you'll know that little Honda motorcycles are capable of carrying tremendous loads. No worries, Sterling!
Really enjoyed the vid (as expected). Looking forward to your 2 week trip. Just curious on the time of year of the vids due to heat ?
Super! My first bike was a 1972 Honda CT 70 dual sport (which looks similar to this) and it hauled me and my dad up some gnarly off-road mountains, through swamps and on the pavement! That little bike has sparked a lifetime of curiosity and adventure. Now I'm keeping my eyes open for a 125 like this for the farm!
Question: What are the two black carrying cases you've got strapped to your engine bars? I looked on your Amazon site but couldn't find them. I would love to have something easily accessible to strap to my Norden 901 to carry my water bottles near the front of my bike. Thanks.
sterling, its fun riding a small light bike on adv rides as the adventure is still there and no one wants heavier bike, but I find when I'm away from NZ riding on hire bikes or on a organised tour thru other countries I really miss the fun factor of power and the comfort of my own setup bike, home its a KTM 500exc and overseas its xr150, klr650,etc. big difference. I find it safer riding a powerful, but still light bike, get front wheel over obstacles and way better suspension which helps keep me away from hospital food.
if I won lotto I would have a ktm500 in lots of different places, but that's dreaming.
good videos keep it up
Quite the contrast to a GS 1200
I learned to ride on a 1967 Honda step through my dad had looked basically exactly the same I was 4 yrs old in 1974 I stood up on the step through part didn't shift just rode it around .
I took mine from Tucson to Truth or Consequences NM (375 miles) last month loaded with 300# of total gear and rider with large windshield and got 102 mpg average with average speeds between 50 and 64 mph. I typically get 105 with average around town riding.
Wow, lol.
Enjoy
I have a 2021 Honda 125 trail and I have really run it through it's paces. I'm nearing 5000 miles on it and it is very useful.
Very nice!
Are you bringing the wee beastie to Touratech this year?
Very cool, Sterling! I'm looking at some used Zegas for my new old bike! I hope to get back out there more!! Is this the bike you were one when we talked at Expo??
Yes it is!
@@SterlingNoren looking forward the the complete adventure film then!
Lighter is better. Would you really need a powerful GS on those roads? You'd pass the lookout points much faster ;-) Those hard panniers are comfortable to load, but vulnerable once they fall. On ACT Croatia we had GSes tip over and bend their hard panniers, their lids wouldn't close. Several engineers pressing and pushing made them work okayish, while the other with soft panniers had no problem. Looking forward to your episodes of that trip, Günter/Nürnberg
Man that looks fun. How the scoot handle with the added weight? Looks like a work mule. Fun doesn't have to make since. As long as it's fun.
It handles surprisingly well. I had about 100 pounds of luggage I’ve since cut it back to maybe 60 pounds or so which seems to be where I like it.
Hey Stirling great to see you back 👌 , what do you think of the Marrakesh jacket and what was it like in the heat ? , I’ve just got one and I’m off to Southern Spain in a weeks time 👍
Love it, very comfortable!
Those are great bikes, from all I’ve seen in videos and read about.
I don’t own one and have never ridden one.
At a glance I think you’ll notice it could stand some suspension upgrades for hauling all your gear. It otherwise looked like it was doing fine!😀👍 You may have mentioned it but how much does all your gear total?
Thanks for the video.
I started out with about 90 to 100 pounds of gear and it was doing OK, but then I sent home about 20 to 30 pounds. That was partly to lighten my load, but also just to give me more space and my luggage so that everything was not packed so tight.
That water bottle looks familiar.
Those hondas are bullit proof i see allot of delivery guys buying them in thailand there a nice looking small bike that. Can go anywhere if it had grippy tires
Buy Happy trails aluminum panniers are much cheaper and just as good
Sterling, I’m wondering what you think the average mpg would be on your GS, under the same parameters as your 20 mph on the Honda 125, as an apples-to-apples comparison. Thanks, and looking forward to your upcoming ride video/s!
GS gets about 44mpg
@@SterlingNoren mpg or mph? I’m wondering about your average miles per hour traveling on the GS, when you take into consideration riding, film making, etc. That’s what you seemed to be measuring on the Honda 125, with the 20 mph figure.
Freedom 😊
Stock shocks? How much do the racks weigh? Thanks
Upgrade that chain. They stretch VERY easily
Will this little Honda be taking you very far north? Plain Washington?
Not this time! Eva and are on a Ural!
What brand are the front pouches? with the bottle in it. Seems handy
They don’t seem to have any branding on them, but they are basically some kind of water bottle pouch with some Molly straps on them
Hi, this is amazing, love from Pakistan...which pannier is suitable for long ride or cross-country, hard or soft?
Either one. If you are sticking to the pavement and going through more urban environments, I would go with a hardpanniers. If you are going off-road and more likely to tip over, I would go with the soft luggage.
Nice bike ; oil changes every 1,000 miles ?
Not at all, much longer!
I might have missed it but I'm curious what your motivation is for taking the 125 on a big trip rather than one of your bigger bikes. No judgment here, everyone should ride whatever they want, but I am curious.
Curiosity, I want to see what it is capable of and how it will do. I’ve been impressed with it for smaller rides and just wanted to see what it would be like on a bigger ride.
My Piaggio 250 for 5000 miles was, apparently, overkill !
sponsorship is a have really.
if any product was absolute rubbish and the wearer didn't like it at all would they say, "this is absolute crap, worst I've ever worn" NO
its hard enough getting people who paid full price for things to be honest
Hi moto giant
Mpg fully loaded?
113
Go to SE Asia to see what little bikes are capable of.
In an age of excess horsepower & overblown adventure bikes, this is delightfully absurd at the complete opposite end of the spectrum.
Can’t say I’d ever go there, but it’s amusing to see, when everyone else is drifting sideways in wheel spinning frenzied rally mode on 100+hp behemoths.