I'm in Love, Where Have You Been all my Life?

Hey guys, how are you doing? Joe here. I'm super excited for this video, for this project. This is something I've wanted to do for a really, really long time. Camping off of a bike, teaching myself how to ride a bike. Up until yesterday, I did not know how to ride one. So my whole life, I've always wanted to ride a motorcycle. I always thought it was the coolest thing in the world. That's just the kind of person I am, right? Those are the kind of things that I think are cool. Mom's husband at one point rode a bike. I called him dad for a long time and I thought it was the coolest thing I always thought I'd get one when I grew up and last year I was able to pick one up I shopped around a lot and I did a lot of research and I landed up on a good used Honda CB500X it's a good mix of on-road off-road great quality bike and super super good condition with a lot of nice upgrades but there's a problem I never knew how to ride it right it never got taught and i'm kind of small and that's a 500 it weighs quite a bit so i was i plan on taking the motorcycle course then the right around that time was when my brother passed and i just didn't have any energy for it and it was canoe season and uh time went on i tried to take it out and teach myself and i i dropped it uh just softly and i bent the throttle so it was sticking that's like you can't learn on a throttle that's gonna right so finally after a year full year I got it repaired brought it home and I almost did the same damn thing so I decided it was time for me to get a smaller bike I was gonna get a KLX this is Kawasaki KLX 300 R I was gonna get a KLX 140 RT I think it was the taller one but hummed and hawed talked to a couple people and they said All said that I would outgrow it and be bored of it. So I got the 300 used for a decent price with 25 hours on it from Matthew. I don't know who you are. And I pulled up. I was like, hey, I'm Joe. He goes, I know. I watch it. Anyways, yeah. And then I taught myself two days ago, not last night, but the night before, how to ride it. And I rode all day yesterday in the rain and the mud and everything. Got really accustomed to it. Took me about 20 minutes to figure out how to do it properly. I wasn't afraid to drop this one. And I did. once but i've got it down i've been ripping around and feel very confident now so last year and i have to apologize when i got that that CB500X i talked to my buddy another fellow youtuber a dork in the road and he's got connections with the company Giant Loop so they sent me like a full package of off-roading camping equipment for the CB500X and i apologize i never got to use it but I want to showcase it in this video and build this bike up to a camping out of moto camping and Eventually, I'll end up getting it street legal and having a dual sport. All I have to do is look signals and lights Couple other things but it's super easy to do and this has enough pep for me forever But anyways, that's what this video is about Let's get this all rigged up to go camping and then I want to test it out beforehand before I actually go camping So we'll go rip around and see how it feels if it's any different fully loaded up But every single thing I'm going to show you today came with this kit and you don't have to buy extras for to attach it to anything No racks on the back. That's not a problem at all with this setup either This is again called Giant Loop and this is the Coyote Saddle Bag. I just got to figure out There we go. All right. Let's get this bad boy on here. This comes with it. You just feed it through on the inside on the inside here nice and easy it's just got a slot and then to connect it to your bike which is really ingenious actually there's just these two clips and they kind of you see there yeah they kind of just go there on either side and put the pressure on the clip pull it down hey bud that really see that yeah okay so we'll get that where we want it we'll wrench it on and then it's going to slide back or forward some rather so right in there wrench it down as hard as you can actually my bad you got to bring it back through this uh this loop here to come back inside okay feed it through there if i can do this anyone can do this you know old joe freaking figuring things out there's a little flap in here then you just take the strap feed through the belt buckle type thing. Yank her down and make sure the connector pieces are where you want them. You can always go back in and adjust it and you probably will have to after. Now it's just a matter of getting the straps all in place. So I'm gonna go away from the exhaust and all the hot stuff as much as possible. I'll pull it forward and down like on a 45 following the contours of the bike and the pack itself loose for now we get the other side done there's multiple different options of where you are gonna or you can possibly tie out to strap out to on different bikes it's gonna be different obviously see that's why it's gonna pull it forward I'll get all that pretty good so there's also another piece I gotta put on right now actually before I forget hey good boy okay so this is a heat shield obviously you don't want your stuff burning on the off there so um gently heat shield nice and easy put it on now take even a half of inch of air and prevent it from burning and melting you can actually put this that's why i want to put the salad bags on first to see where it should go specifically these seem like a good spot for this it's not going anywhere so this will go underneath the plastic or scratching them off where you can put some kind of material down but heat material but i don't care it's actually put there yeah We'll grab a drill. We'll be right back. Screwdriver rather That's not bush. Sounds aggressive. Comes with these compression bags with a little air valve if you want to use them. But this is heavy duty rubberized. Anyways, you basically pack them like two big saddlebags. One on this side, one on that side. I want to throw a little bit of stuff in it right now to give you guys a better visual because I know I had a hard time seeing what it would look like when it was just floppy. little floppy and empty here but with this and the other bag that I'm going to put on top of it it's a total of 60 liters and there's more there's attachment points and I still have a gas cap bag that uh that doesn't even count in that 60 liters so I could do quite a bit from 60 liters multiple days not a problem I also have this is a called the armadillo the armadillo bag and it's a fuel bag you can put gas in there and attach it too so it's not such a big bulky gas can kicking around so then you would you'd still fit all on the top here more gear just the saddlebags filled up just again for a visual obviously tighten things up and there's keeper uh strap keepers everywhere to keep the straps off the hot stuff as you can see like ain't going nowhere tighten it up a little bit more yeah she ain't gonna even better so that's just the coyote strap and then what you would do is take these two come around cinch everything down and call it good like obviously you can strap stuff onto here put under here or whatever that's pretty low profile again the straps will go up and out of the way but like pretty I'm trying to stand up on things I don't have great balance yet it's got a lot of room to slide back before or whatever with just this setup and I could go for definitely overnight two nights with this setup the rest on I can't remember the name of this off the top of my head I'll figure it out but this attaches and this is another 17 liters it's not like a normal dry bag where it's closed on one end roll top on the other it's roll top on both sides so you can access it all right when it's on the bag you don't have to take everything out you can access it from either side very well thought out you can tell these people actually go camping and do yeah lots of research and stuff about the gear this is also air purge air purge valve let's get this on here I've not put this on yet behind here straps now go up through the webbing and to here to the loop to the giant loop and there's actually extra there's actually more extra there's actually extra places to attach it to as well that's much better oh yeah Holy smokes, only thing is, what? Nice, always fun with the cats, eh? Okay, well that's on it regardless and then uh yeah get the cord loops going and sweet Okay so that's 60 liters just by itself with the whole bike with it What are you laughing at? Nice, right now? Yeah You're laughing at me? The next part is a gas tank bag which is pretty unique from these guys I think as far as this style so we'll get this on so we're gonna go with this front strap down try to not impede any kind of steering or wires what you doing Autumn it's been it's a lot of videos amount of time for what an amount of time for the video itself or for you to be able to edit it right so we're just getting the side straps on here and tight down. Ten minutes to play around with it. That seems like a long time. Three minutes. Probably, what do we like, seven or fifty-two minutes. What do you think, Autumn? It's part of the bike. You want to sit on it? What? The bike. Just while it's sitting there, I'll hold you. See how tall it is on you. Is it really tall? I can't even get up. Well, I will help you. Put your freaking tablet down. Yep, right there is good. You don't need to Hold on to her always. Come on. You want to film it too? What's it like? What do you think? Look at Autumn. Is this the gas tank? That's the gas tank, yep. That's where you fill up the gas with. This is the throttle. Got to start it. Clutch breaks. What is this for then? To start. To turn it on. Usually this is to turn it on and off. Yeah, this is like a key. This is on, this is off. Look at me. You got yogurt on you. Yogurt? You eat yogurt today? No. No? Yes. No, that's cream cheese. Oh, nummy, nummy, nummy, nummy. Come on. Hurrah! Oh, I guess you're stuck up there for life. Uh-huh. You'll get hungry sooner or later. This is your gas cap bag, gas tank bag. It goes on easy when you want. On and off easy when you want to go into the store or something. You can take it off with you, in with you. It's got a little handle. And it flips up just like that. So the top part, obviously, as you can see, and put my phone in and work it through the top part it's got touch screen capability obviously so I can use that as a GPS whatever and then when it comes time to fill up your gas he's not outside no no he's off his leash he's running around somewhere oh it's okay but okay thanks when it comes time to fill up the gas it's a little tight right now that's why it's it's time to fill up your gas you just unzip it halfway here's your tank easy access back up you're good to go she's all fully fitted out I still have my gas tank actually I can put on let's do that but got my phone here where I can see where I'm going gas tank bag which is pretty decent size my maps my wallet like some snacks whatever the case may be in there I can still stand it could stand I could stand anyway you get the point so can't take a second rider with all this on but that's fine i'm not ready to do that anyways so this looks pretty good to me cinch that down i'll be on top of that full of stuff i could put there's loops on top i got bungees around or whatever the case maybe some more straps i think that would work too cash made the chiller tip see how smooth i can make this we'll see go for a rip test her out now this isn't loaded up with as much weight as it can take significant volume and uh for a first run i don't want to load it up completely but uh in all honesty i wouldn't put more than another 10 pounds 15 pounds tops on there with with fuel maybe a little bit more but we'll see i'm so light already that the bike's capacity isn't even reached you know what i mean it's one good thing about being a little guy it's like i'm a buck 45 buck 50 if i'm lucky and uh yeah i pack light all my gear is pretty light so i have no no uh concerns it was like a good spot to stop pinned the whole time basically as fast as i could safely but budged i even had the tripod strapped to the outside of the bag here rub marks and the tripod is obviously still with us so that's cool we're gonna go take it down a lot more bumpy muddy ruddy a puddle rocky terrain than we just did but just wanted to stop and check once over make sure everything was solid and good which it is so on we go it seems like we might get some rain but that's okay that's what the whole thing is about and being protected from the elements you know I mean while you're riding that's what I gotta figure out too so yeah i love it like uh i don't know why i waited i'll be 40 next month i don't know why i waited so long i want to give a huge shout out to a dork in the road uh he helped me a lot with info and also getting the giant loop stuff and then obviously thanks to giant loop this this stuff is amazing i thought i was gonna have to try to get a back rack and for this specific model it seemed like it was gonna be impossible but as you can see i don't need it this is plenty i want to figure out a way to mount uh like a fishing rod rack actually i'll just probably boom from here to here that's the thing about this like there's lots of more tie outs and options and stuff too i'm freaking sold bud freaking sold and look it matches my helmet so that's something also they sent a backpack with it um hydration pack so i can drink on the go it's got a bunch of cool features in there and the pack goes together like this so you can use it with gloves and everything to get on and off easily nothing's even warm the heat shield is hot but like it's not transferring through the plastic and I don't feel it a little warm up here but not hot by any means so nice Giant Loop well I'm gonna head on freaking the Joe way She ain't going nowhere bud. All right, get over here. Thorns, yes, right through the thorns. What did I do? Nice, pretty muddy, too shabby for my third day. I don't know, I'm not great, but okay. Well, here we go. Not too heavy to pick up. Let's see what we did. Should be all right. Yeah, that'd be all right. There we go. Like I said, I will take the motorcycle class. I just don't have time in the springtime really. spray the hose while it's still wet like I said, she ain't going nowhere tighter, but one thing I've got to figure out is a better situation for the strap they recommended some ranger band style stuff, like inner tubes cut up and put on there zip ties will work, whatever if it's on there for a while, then that's cool on and off, easy, and obviously I'm not going to cut the strap, still put more on top like I showed, then there is even a handlebar bag I honestly don't need again, straps on the outside and stuff what I would like to know from you guys because I'm sure there's a lot more of you watching that know more about this than I do. Doing wrong when I'm riding and shifting. If I'm not doing everything properly, I need to know that. Also, is there groups? I've been looking, but it's hard to find legit ones. Are there groups of people around Northern Ontario that ride dirt bikes and camp together? We'll have it, but I can't go on road yet, so just it'll be camping more or less, fishing out of it and stuff. I think I got a pretty good deal on the thing. I'm really, really, really happy with it. Ready to take it on a bunch more adventures. What are some upgrades also that I can do to it I'm suited for me I know I can drop the suspension a little bit to see a little bit lower to get some bark buster Some hand guard type things, but what are a couple of light for the front real quick? So this isn't going to be like the focus of my channel by any means I'm just waiting on a canoe trip days here And that's like my biggest love my biggest focus canoe trip and we'll be doing that We'll be doing a little bit of moto camping some backpacking all the same stuff But we're gonna throw this in them into the mix as well This is really really a lot more my speed than say like the like the little camper type thing It's pretty cool, but I like doing this I can camp off this and have a lot of fun with this go some places where even the four-wheeler can't go and Go quite a bit quicker and takes a little bit more Thought to drive this than just the automatic four-wheeler, which I kind of like It's just a change for me. So really happy. I bought this this is going to Supplement me until I get my motorcycle license and the proper training done to ride the Honda 500 but until then this is more than enough bike for me It's super happy that I chose this one instead of the 140 big thanks to Corey for helping me out big thanks to Matthew for selling it to me and Yeah, I'm sure you guys will see this a lot more on the channel for watching guys