Honda CL500 | ABR festival | Off road | Trailmax raids 

Well done, i love to see these things done with "whatever you have" so bored with the "you need a gs/ktm/africa twin" etc. If it,s a race and you think you,re good enough to win, you need a race bike. For 95% of us you can have fun on anything , and feel a sense of achievment when you do .👍👍

I’ve just bought a blue CL500 too!

I rode the Honda demo bike at the ABR around the manufacturers test track. Great fun and surprisingly capable, loved it!

I Think the CL did really well ! ... well ridden too !😊

Scrambler doing you proud there Mr Fish 👍 great weekend. Great video buddy.

That was some good going there, the CL did well. At that well timed dip just after you said "we haven't had any sump-busting dips", I bottomed out on that. Oops, hahah

Nice 1 Mr Fish

Bought the cl500. Nice capable for off road. Compete w other bigger adv bike. 👍

Always a good morning to wake up to Mr Fish.

I'm not committing to anything right now,but think I might give this a go next year! 🤣👍 Nice to meet you here...Well in the bar infact,which you deserved more than me after doing this to be fair mate! 😎👍

Thanks for letting me cross the road in front of you! 😁👍

Aww that was great, I didn’t realise that you could do a more basic route, feel I should have had a go now 🤦‍♀️ however having not done any serious off road I have no skills. Going to get me a little trail bike and have a go 🤩

Nice, l do wonder where to find these green country lanes to ride in South Dorset

Looks like the CL done you proud Mr Fish! I don't to slow anyone down as you overtake several misadventure bike riders🤣 I must admit when I saw the CL at the NEC I thought street bike, having watched a few vlogs on the ABR one with C90 cubs anything go's or was that nathanthepostman vlog? 👍

I have a feeling you were holding, I think you did well all things considered! great video

Quality, that first rut across caught me out still feeling it, very dusty still finding bits 😂, brilliant weekend, booked for next year 🏍👌👍

Considering that there is hardly any damping in those forks, you did surprisingly well! 👏

Very nice to see you getting so adventurous on the CL. I recently went on a mostly off pavement adventure on my SCL500 in central Pennsylvania. Its a 500 mile loop route through forest roads. The bike did excellent on the Heidenau tires. The suspension did great even over the potholes but this bike doesn't like the rough bumpy stuff. You get that loud clunk from the drive as you experienced in the video.

Great video 👍 After having a few adventure bikes over the last few years, I decided to get scl500, as a little alternative, yes I may need to upgrade the suspension later on, or maybe raise the bike a couple of inches to get a little more ground clearance, etc..but what amazes me is how easy it is to ride compared to a 700cc -1200cc adventure bike After all most of us would be doing basic off road stuff on an adventure bike especially when riding solo. Cheers from USA

Mate, that looked fun! I will have to go one year!

GREAT VID, I've got same, and a CRF300, put new metzeler Karoo on the CL, did a track (claerwen to Ffair rhos 16 miles) which is mainly flat but quite rocky, took a lot more concentration, and way slower even though dry, but the CL did ok, 😉 and I really enjoyed it, just worry about the clearance, good to see you outriding a lot of adventure bikes 👍

I wouldn't mind betting you did better than some of the cosplay adventurers there with their £20k plus bikes.Proof you don't need the very latest marketing w*ank special top of the line over complicated uber heavy panzerwagon to have an "adventure" (whatever that means nowadays as the marketing depts have hijacked the genre) 👍

Its a pretty decent length of off road course you got to ride innit. 'Ull' east yorkshire.

Hundreds of people gather to ride in a field Hundreds of similar videos ensue

Ya did great there John!! My fat GSA even made an appearance!!

It was a good trail this year, no idea if it was different from other years though? The hill climb at the end was fun, but yup... def want some suspension travel for it. Your Scrambler scrambled and did so perfectly. I saw another one there, not sure if they did the trail on it though.

Well done! Both you and the bike given a great account of yourselves. What are the Trailmax Raids like on road btw?

Be interesting to see how you get on with those tyres on road?

Can you make a video… Honda cb/nx 500 vs Honda cl 500…

Looks like fun. Going to upgrade the suspension, get new bars and brush guards?

Looked fun.quick question what have you on the seat is that to make it more comfortable as mine has the standard black seat and is the only thing that stops me doing more miles 😂