Solo Willamette National Forest Dual Sport Motorcycle Adventure + Riding Gear, New GoPro Mount, etc

Hello ladies and gentlemen. Welcome back to the dork side. It is I, your friendly neighborhood dork in the road. Although today I am once again the dork in the woods. And I am on my very first solo dual sport adventure in the woods. That's right, Duck Fan's at work today. And I am not. I am up at Canyon Creek. Same place you saw us explore in the last couple dual sport videos. The snow riding one and the one before that. But it is now June. And I'm guessing the snow that stopped us from reaching our destination last time is gone. That's my hope. I'm gonna try to get to that beaver pond we found on the map today. That's my goal. So got some woods riding. Pretty excited. I'm also testing out, you may see this bad boy right here. And believe it or not I had another Chinese company, Fantaseal is the name of it, asked me if I would test out a couple other products and do a review. So this thing on my handlebars actually is pretty dang slick. It's a aluminum handlebar mount. It's for bicycles I think mostly, but it fits perfectly right here on the CRF. Sorry I'm not going to gesture while I'm on these sketchy corners. But and it's real solid. I'm super impressed with the build quality and so put it through its paces today. But I told them I'd put it in the video so there it is. I'll put a link in the description so you can check it out. It's a Fantaseal aluminum handlebar mount. So far I'm really impressed with it. So that's not too expensive. I think it's 10 or 20 bucks. But it seemed better suited than the plastic stuff that came with the Icontex camera to this particular type of riding. God damn it's gorgeous up here. Look at this. This is why we're up here ladies and gentlemen. Gotta love this Oregon that we live in, that I live in. Got my visor up with my sunglasses on. I have my goggles in the backpack but it's sunny like this I prefer the sunglasses. I'm a little wary because we went on that Alcee Falls ride the last video I put up and uh and after the camera died on the way home I had my visor up. Getting all cocky because I'm behind my windscreen. I took a freaking bug right in the eyeball. Unfortunately I saw it coming quick enough to start to close my eyes so I took it in the bottom eyelid but god damn that hurt. So protect your eyes ladies and gentlemen. I wasn't really sure what to wear today because it's not really like trail riding where the dangerous slow speed falls onto a rock because I plan on mostly staying on these Forest Service roads. And I didn't want to get too warm although fortunately it's a really nice day. It's like it's not supposed to get hotter than like 72 with some clouds so it's a perfect day for being in the woods. So I'm wearing my my Bullet SR4. I need to just do a review on these things because Bullet SR4 stretch jeans have become my go-to riding pants for everything because they've got enough cord uh enough of that Kovac to give me some protection if I were to go down and the knee pads. I've got my Built Discovery boots which I honestly bought by accident thinking they'd be as good as motocross boots. They're not but they're perfect for this because they're you know they go all the way up to my calf and they have some hard protection on the front. They're not as like ankle bendy protect-y as a pair of motocross boots but that's good because you can get off and walk around in them and it's hard to do that in space boots. And my old built uh mesh jacket which I figure is gonna give me plenty of airflow but it's got elbow and shoulder pads and abrasion resistance along the arms and shoulders if I were to go down. So I think I did okay. It's definitely mostly street looking here but what are you gonna do you know? It's about safety not fashion. Safety, comfort, then fashion. The fashion piece is like if I know what I want for safety and comfort I might get a black one instead of a blue one. You know what I mean? Like you're gonna buy something based on what it looks like. Very small consideration but trying to use what I have. Thanks for coming along with me. I don't know how many videos this is gonna turn out to be or how interesting it's even gonna be. It's mostly just me riding under roads and talking to myself but hey what are you gonna do? These are my built sprint gloves that once I got better street gloves became my off-road gloves because they're fairly perforated and comfortable. But enough protection if I were to go down. I like them better than the photocross gloves which are like all about grip and not a person almost no protection. And my Ozark Trail hydration pack on my back with a couple sandwiches. Oh and I've got my inReach communicator. Maybe I'll put a link to that too. It's what I finally decided to go with for backcountry communication. The uh the DeLorme. It's pronounced DeLorme even though it looks like DeLorme. Pretty sure. Look at that waterfall. It's not falling right now. The DeLorme inReach. Garmin bought them and they make one now that's $400 but I managed to get the old model. The DeLorme which works pretty much exactly the same for $200. I'm also looking for camping sites while I'm up here. I want to find some out of the way dispersed camping sites. I didn't get in the video but I came up in my new truck. My Tundra. And I've been doing a little work to it. You guys aren't familiar with Plasti Dip. That stuff is like magic. I don't like chrome. I think it's a generational thing. I don't know. I just super like the understated. And it's that cement gray so it's kind of a dull. Although it's pretty gray but it's a it's not a bright color is my point. And uh oh ---- there's some debris. Or as I said in my Elsie Falls video, ---- that's recent. It's all gray. It's a chrome badges, chrome bumper accents, and a chrome grille. And thus far I have with the magic of Plasti Dip this stuff is awesome. I've made dechromed, blackened, used black Plasti Dip to make the badges. Actually a little cold. The badge is black and both bumpers are now all the way black. So there's none of that distracting chrome and I'm debating the grille. Leaning forward is doing it so that it's all black and gray but it looks really good. Talk so much you're gonna get a boring ass video of me talking and there won't be any time in the video for me riding. Can't believe I'm up here guys. When I bought this bike the reason I wanted it was to go ride around in the woods like this on my own when I'm with friends. When I go check out the woods, explore, just be you know out of civilization in the wilderness. Here I am doing it. Trail riding stuff's been like a bonus. That was not like something I super anticipated or thought about doing when I bought the bike. Honestly it was I thought I'd ride on forest roads and then I was looking at OHV park stuff. I was like oh we should check out an OHV park. Duckfan's a big fan of that. He likes the trail riding more. I like this stuff more. Trail riding's fun. It just stresses me out. We get ourselves hit over our heads sometimes. This I know we're going to be good because worst case you get to a shitty road and you just turn around. On the trails you get down somewhere where going back is just as hard as going forward so you're committed you know. Just how you learn. Gotta push it a little but we've been in some sketch ----. There's a stream and a waterfall here. It's a lot different I bet now without all the runoff. Yeah but look at it. Pretty cool yeah. I'm gonna stop and get pictures too for Instagram but that's pretty gorgeous you guys. Pretty cool what you find out exploring. Where is my phone? Oh this is my phone. Yeah so there's the problem. I have to take it off to stop navigating. That's a huge pain in the ass. So I may not get many photos today. I'll do screen grabs from the video. Pretty cool stream. Mountain stream. Yeah I need to get a tank bag because I have a cannon. It's not a DSLR but it's a digital rebel. All that zoom ---- for taking photos when I can just very easy in and out of the bed. But I haven't gotten around to that yet. All right here's that falling rock area. I'm ******* unlucky but you have to be hit by something here. This is that section that they closed a few years ago. See the creek down there? It's pretty awesome up here you guys. Pretty awesome. Some people are like hey those mirrors come off. Why don't you take them off when you're in the woods? And my answer is I like to see behind me. They're not in the way. It's not like they add a bunch of weight. If I was in like the tight branches and ---- I might not want to catch nothing. But out here on the road the convenience of being able to look behind me outweighs any inconvenience of having mirrors. There is almost no inconvenience. It is a little chilly. Almost wish I had the other jacket going up in the mountains. I anticipated that. I brought my brought my tarmac jacket. It's not vented or not mesh so it would have broken the wind a little better. But I did not put it on. I'm on with this one because it was hot at the bottom. What are you guys up to this summer? Some moto adventures. I hope I've not been making as many videos. I'm busy. I know I'm always busy. It's always my thing but I am busy. I get my kid to auditions every day. I feel like I need a whole day to get out and do this stuff. And so when I don't have a whole day I tell myself I can't. It is much more lush up here. I mean it's only been what was it that was late April early May. It's been a month and a half. I can't believe it's been a month and a half. My whole goal was to get up here all the time. It's been six weeks. Dust is definitely a car ahead of me. I think I'm gonna left up here though. Going left 2024. Oh yeah. I'm definitely catching up to somebody. It was a Forest Service rig that went up ahead of me. I wonder if that's who it is. Oh yeah. I'm gonna catch fresh dust. Yep. See that fresh dust. I'm using my keen, my keen observational skills. There he is. That is that Forest Service rig. Huh. It's going slow as ----. It's nice he'd pull over and let me by. Not make me be a dick and pass him Dust. So much dust. There we go. Oh that is a big log right in the shadow. That could have been bad. Could have been bad. I'm gonna let this down. Get my face warmer. Remember when I couldn't find my phone because it's attached to my bike right in front of me. Having a lot of technical difficulties lately you guys. Sorry. That ----'s super unprofessional. Just more focus on riding than filming. You know. Like I'm the talent. That's a douchey thing to say. I just mean I'm the stupid actor. Not the producer or the technical director. I'm the one that does all the talkie and is ignorant of all the technical ---- that goes on behind the scenes to make that happen. So I'm definitely more, you know I've been an actor, but that's definitely more me than the technical piece. So I don't think about filming. I think about riding when I'm up here. Let me get a look at this view for you guys. It's pretty stellar. Check that out. Not bad, huh? Not bad, Oregon. It's a cool rock over there. Not bad. I feel like I gotta keep moving so I stay ahead of that rig. But I put a hand up on the exact same road as me. Like I'm past like four junctions. Thanks for coming with me guys. Cool to be able to share this with you guys and gals. Human beings. Excellent!