Solo motorcycle ride to Wahweap hoodoos. Hiking and exploring. 4500 miles on the Kawasaki KLR 650. Exploring the Lake Powell area. Horseshoe bend hike. Fell and bruised my rib and broke my brake lever. #motorcycle #dualsport
I ride solo too and have picked up a klr while hurt. I feel yiur pain (literally). If yiu dont have one get a garmin inreach or a spot gps for the real emergencies.
Fun video. I dropped a KLR in hard packed snow before. What a beast to lift. Lost my footing and fell on it, knocking it over to the other side several times and ended up breaking the radiator too. Was not a good day. Came home cold, soaked, exhausted, and wjth a screaming back. Luckily the ride home was mostly downhill so I could shut the bike off and coast most of the time so it wouldn't overheat. Had zero cell signal where I was. Needless to say, I fully intend to get a Garmin Inreach or Zoleo before I try something like that again. I do always have a survival kit with me though. I always recommend having survival gear in the event of things going sideways. It has saved my ass before
The ups and downs of solo riding. Broken and bruised ribs are no joke my friend. I broke 8 ribs and a sternum in a deer and me contest on my GS. Be careful. Very nice work on your video.
What a great adventure. That bruised rib may be a simple fracture my friend. I think you would know better than I though. I subscribed. And I can not believe you only have 324ish subscribers. That really did look like a good time. Be careful. Best wishes and happy trails from Ivine, California. Edward
I know the KLR well, rode it on many adventures for 6 years. It Sketchily gets you to some pretty places. Dangerous to ride out there by yourself I've done it myself. Ride on brother great video. Thanks for sharing....
Hey thanks! Yeah it’s a pretty good all around bike. It’s definitely heavy but it can handle about anything you throw at it as you know. I’m looking at getting something smaller but it’s hard to find the perfect bike.
I had a 22 klr for 4 months until a car cut me off and the bike was totaled. A month previous another 22 klr and I did Medano pass in Colorado and came out on the sand dunes side. I lost track of how many time we both dumped our bike, especially in the sand. Had it not been for our friend followning in a Jeep helping us right ourselves, we wouldnt have made it out of there. All in all an awesome experience.
Thanks for sharing another cool video. Sorry to see you put the big girl down. It really does look like another planet out there. Amazing landscape. Keep up the great work 👍🇦🇺
@@ridetohike Texas actually doesn't have a lot of real adv riding like this, just public gravel roads aside from Big Bend, but I've never been there. Texas is almost all private land.
Hey man, I just found your channel and wanted to say thanks for the great adventure riding content. I’m looking for an adventure bike and the KLR is at the top of my list. Great to see someone using it for some epic adventures.
@@jonny530 Hey Thank you! Glad you like it. I have really enjoyed the KLR. There might be better bikes but I love that it can do a bit of everything and is bulletproof.
@@ridetohikeyeah the Ténéré 700 is probably the perfect bike for the type of riding I want to do. But I’m not an experience dirt rider so the KLR will be better starting point for me
I have the same bike and dropped it in similar muddy conditions shortly after buying it - the stock tires are fine for gravel roads etc, but no good at all in mud
Very beautiful ride, I love that part of Arizona, and hope to explore more of it this year on the KLR. My first thought was you're on a different planet with the black rocks and red boulders, just amazing. I'm always by myself sometimes it makes you wonder, but also a better person. If you carry a crescent wrench, you can straighten the rear brake when it gets bent like those plus other uses. Cool video, Thanks.
Thank you glad you enjoyed it. Hard to beat the trusty KLR for sure. I have really enjoyed solo rides, you seem to really grow as a human and the amazing time in nature.
You’re a brave man. If you drop that bike and can’t pick it up you’re in serious trouble my friend. That’s what is scary about riding alone in places like that. I’m a short guy I don’t know if I could lift it by myself. Super dangerous
Yeah for sure, it’s easy to get confident in your riding ability and just go for it. After this experience I have tried to not push the bike in difficult terrains alone.
I have to agree with some of the other comments here. A person goes out solo in this kind of remote, rugged terrain without some sort of gps locator and he is courting disaster.
