Alaska to Argentina on a Honda 90. Episode 14 - Colombia

previously on c90 adventures [Music] so at the end of the last episode i'd run out of road in panama and the only option to get to colombia was a 500 boat ticket for me and a thousand dollar boat ticket for the bike which on my budget i can't do i had however found a 500 backpackers boat that wouldn't take a motorcycle but they would take unlimited luggage commence operation what's the worst that could happen good work brandon thanks for helping out [Music] [Applause] [Music] pretty small yeah [Music] that is a very small motorcycle [Music] how are you feeling like luggage [Music] here [Music] so [Music] so i was now on the boat that would take me to columbia and i had successfully snuck my amazingly heavy camping equipment filming equipment and some bike parts on board nope no motorcycle that requires an extra thousand dollars here no the journey would take three days in total with it essentially having two parts the first part was tropical island hopping which kicked off with our spectacularly french captain presenting us with garlic [Music] lobster [Music] so [Music] so [Music] oh and i also managed to spot the car ferry that's supposed to be running this route i'm guessing that captain isn't employed anymore eventually though it was time to head off to the open ocean and i mean open [Music] ah and eventually everyone on board did kind of work out when my luggage was a motorcycle but it's always better to ask for forgiveness instead of permission [Laughter] is it the caribbean sea isn't it yeah i've ridden my motorcycle across the caribbean with my secret now known i could now talk openly about my motorcycle trip with everyone on board as we made our way through the night to colombia of course i did tell everyone once in colombia not to tell any of the officials i had a motorcycle because i was fairly sure panama hadn't documented my bike leaving correctly and i also didn't have any import documentation for colombia either once the sun was up it was time to try and get the two rather large bags that contain 90 in all my belongings off of the big boat over to the shore and then hopefully sneak smoothly past the customs officials and into the free world excellent filming sir robina capitano [Music] right managed to get the bike on land just got to sneak past customs [Music] [Music] [Music] get in there nice hot [Music] let's go and explore colombia [Music] now i had my camera i could ride off and with 90 reassembled it was indeed time to explore colombia okay so i was here in colombia and my ultimate destination was the southern tip of argentina but instead of immediately going south the plan was to have a proper explore of this country i'd heard such good things about not from the mainstream media of course from people that had actually been to colombia i'd been told there was a desert in the north and jungle awesomeness everywhere else and thus my incredibly specific plan was formed i was currently in a rather pretty port town of cartagena so i did a little bit of sightseeing before heading off although i was having camera issues so some of the footage wasn't usable sorry and i ended up at a carnival too oh and you know those camera issues yeah it was really weird the zoom got stuck on this is very good this random carnival was proving quite interesting and fun and a welcome break from being cramped on a boat or sweating while building a bike although things very quickly got weird like i'm sure it's just a reference i don't get but gyrating jesus made me feel a tad uncomfortable but in the end i guess it wasn't that weird not because i came to accept creepy hip thrusting jesus but because some cross-dressing men carrying doll babies with enormous penises turned up penie penises you know what i don't think me using the wrong plural is what matters here when they started asking me for money i suddenly remembered i don't like towns and cities yeah i got to experience a bit of hustle and bustle and saw some boobies but it was time to head off into the countryside which is much more me but before i could head off too far i had to get some fuel um well at least the bike's been degreased today fueled up and ready to go it was time to head to the desert actually first it was time to admire these guys making a fence out of cacti with my first exotic building materials now thoroughly quenched now it was time to head off into the desert i found a side road that headed bumbly north towards where the desert apparently was i didn't really know what to expect as i had very little information i also had some random desert dude point a machete at me i've got to go i need to use both hands to do this [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] that was not supposed to happen nancy did we survive we did survive uh i think i need more suspension carry on [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] yes [Music] i've got absolutely no idea where i'm going i think i'm gonna go this way [Music] [Music] ah yes one of the random things on my bucket list is to touch a cactus while it's raining in this very strange landscape let me cross it off [Music] this place was strange and i never knew what to expect next like this kid randomly sat in a tree in the middle of nowhere although it turns out it wasn't that random these kids and i have literally no idea where they come from hang out here because they've worked out that there's only so many roads through the trees and cacti so they put ropes across them and ask for sweets or money to let you past however i'm not a big fan of diabetes and obesity so i don't have any sweets on me and also because people have been giving these kids money for no effort they've cottoned on to this and the amount of checkpoints was beyond ridiculous so i didn't give them any money because if i continued their expansion eventually there'd probably be more ropes than road and also it was hot and i was frequently having to stop every half a mile so i'd gone a bit grumpy and i was not giving him my cuddly toys off my shopping basket either especially not with these jedi powers these aren't the droids you're looking for eventually the root blocking children disappeared and there was good reason this very strange landscape changed yet again i mean how are the kids gonna block your way across this [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] what is this [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] well it's safe to say i wasn't expecting to have a riding experience like this in colombia it felt like i was riding through a hybrid of mexico mongolia and the moon and after a full day's playing the sun was now getting low it was time to find somewhere to wild camp for the night well once i'd made it through an obstacle don't laugh at me i'm doing this one-handed because my gopros run out of battery so uh i think i'm gonna end up getting a bit muddy all right that way come on galaxy [Music] ah and unfortunately my main camera battery also went flat so all i have of that nice camping are these two phone photos of the pebbles i slept on and some blurry photos of the tin of sardines i had for dinner sorry but with charged batteries and an early start in the morning it was once again time to be amazed by this landscape and keep on pressing north the open expanses continued to impress but the soil was start to be replaced with sand and then the open expanses got replaced with single track roots through rocky undulations and then sand dunes yep the landscape had changed again [Applause] [Music] yeah 10 horsepower full luggage and deep sand don't go well together but 99 battled our way through making what seemed like endless progress through what was proving to be a very surprising colombia but it would turn out not to be endless because after two days of off-roading we had made it to the end of the desert time to celebrate [Music] well i had indeed run out of colombia in this direction and as 99 i had definitely conquered the desert i decided to treat myself by following the coast and searching out a restaurant i'd heard rumors about the sold fish and chips luckily the taste wasn't like something out of a horror movie and for dessert in the desert i had a fab ice cream or at least that's what i think it was it was a bit crunchy with my stomach full and my desert mission complete i decided i would camp on a cliff for the night and hopefully not have a stray dog piss on my face through my mesh tent as i slept [Music] good news i woke up piss-free had breakfast at the restaurant and i feel like a very [ __ ] pirate yeah ready for your 10 hours ride random cameraman number 2847 was indeed correct from here i headed back south towards columbia proper but decided to take the faster route along the coast which i reckon would be about 10 hours maybe longer depending on how many times i had to turn around and collect my tripod although it turns out in the edit the return journey actually only took 21 seconds which is weird it's it's definitely nothing to do with me not filming much except this bit where 90 and i actually do some decent sand riding well almost and then this bit where we like totally riding fast and stuff and it looks really cool and then we ended up back on the bumpy road we came in on but this time there was a train right we'd left the desert and that terrible segway and we're back in normal columbia now the next bit is actually quite abnormal you see i was now near the venezuelan border and i'd been told the border was closed and i couldn't enter venezuela because it was too dangerous with the whole dictatorship thing going on but i was like is it really closed so i rode to the closed border and asked some locals if any parts of the border were open and they were like yeah sure pay this guy ten dollars and he'll take you to an open border crossing so i paid him ten dollars followed him for a bit then he waved goodbye and rode off i then checked my gps a little bit concerning i've actually ended up in venezuela and i'm not supposed to be here uh the bike isn't supposed to be here either so uh i think i need to turn back and go to colombia before something very bad happens because uh right okay this seems quite dodgy okay right uh i've gotta go bye [Music] well at least i know it can be done i'm heading back to colombia so i've not been taken to an open border crossing i'd actually just been taken down a side road around the border crossing and was now very very illegally in an incredibly unstable country i actually feel a little bit worried because uh i have entered a country completely illegally and i haven't left the old country legally right i've got to go bye oh you know those kids with the ropes in the desert it turns out that's actually just training for their adult career of putting chains across the illegal border crossing road and yes the same logic was applied here where these tolls were positioned one after the other i counted over 20 of them in one mile of course i applied my same logic of not paying the illegal toll charges by either just riding through the pedestrian bit sometimes while being shouted out or just wearing them down with bad communication until they let their guard down i was only here five minutes ago i need to go through i need to go through yeah [Music] yeah i need to go i need to go that way i need to go that way after riding the world's bumpiest road playing a fun game with count the tolls i made it back to colombia and into the border town and back past the locals that had arranged my illegal journey about half an hour before that's pretty cool right i'm heading back into columbia i'm not going to attend that border for about a month or so but you'll find out why in a bit so uh i've got some miles to do cheers there were indeed miles to be done 300 down 600 more to go to get to the capital city of bogota and i had a couple of reasons to get there time for a road trip [Music] actually first let's get some colombian coffee actually let's get distracted by these fairly crap but ultimately very cool bike taxis they're basically just carts made from rebar attached to the bike frame with only a single m12 bolt unsupported at one end and only an untitan nut holding the trailer on holy crap that's dangerous i love it no ed road trip you've got miles to do or get distracted by someone with massive melons [Music] [Music] uh [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] you i only have one wheel why do i only have one wheel well i got a puncture because a massive great nail went through it repaired it went to pump it up and i don't have a pump anymore i've lost it uh and as soon as i was trying to work out what to do a guy pulled up and i think said he'd take my wheel to the next town get it inflated and then bring it back so um hopefully he does because otherwise i'm in the middle of columbia with a unicycle so um yeah i'll let you know really hope he comes back with the wheel my wheel is returned cool we're just gracias hey tubers on my wagon thank you very much i'm contoso right let's put it back together it was a pretty straightforward reassembly of the wheel nothing to report really but before i could get to refitting it i had to get some footage of my knight in shining armor riding off into the distance i'll just um i'll just reframe the shot of him of him riding off yeah so there he was my knight in shining armor riding off into the distance is he i don't know he's just got a oh he's he's just gotta kick that bit of wood first that's fine right yeah so uh yes there was my nightinga riding off in into the distance is no is i don't know why this guy took the time out of his busy schedule to help me just looking in this hedge alaska to argentina do you like this country it's really [Music] cool [Music] after 600 miles of awesomeness i got to the capital city and it was time to get some important jobs done the first one was to fly to vietnam to guide my first two-week tour did you say that you rode over his head yes i went over his head the second was to edit episode nine of this youtube series and the third was that rachel had stopped her motorcycle journey in guatemala and had already flown back to england so now she flew out to colombia to see me it was a nice change to be off the bike and have a different pace of life together and the scenery in colombia continued to impress what was impressing me the most was the sheer variety this country had to offer we decided to go kayaking in these gorgeous lakes and i surprised rach with a romantic kinder egg what did you what did your kinder egg toy do [Music] but brilliant thank you very much mine fires out a little purple thingy but if i fire it here it's just going to go in the water so we'll just have to wait for that bit of fun we then went on a romantic rooftop jeep ride with the end of this lovely smooth and relaxing journey being pablo escobar's house where we went paintballing and during a following match where we were against each other i might have romantically shot rach twice in the head well unfortunately for fans of rachel there's really not any more footage of her and none of us on the road together we spent two weeks together just having a normal holiday before she flew back to the uk and i continued my journey south well i say continued there was something i had to do first you see if you recall uh i think i need more suspension so i wanted more suspension it had been a while since i've done some engineering and i'd ridden to the bike districts in bogota this place was an awesome place for modifying bikes so it seemed rude not to so here we are random bike shop in colombia and i've had enough of terrible suspension so it's time to adapt 90 so uh this is the last time she's going to look like this yep 90 was going to get quite the upgrade i took the front suspension and wheel from this xl125 and got a c90 headstock stem welded him which was a fairly straightforward fit and raised the front but her ass was a bit low so i bought the swing arm and rear wheel off this hero honda 100 i tried desperately to buy this badge for a wanks in 125 but the owner wouldn't sell it even without that though things were coming together however you will notice a distinct lack of shopping basket and that will not do luckily if you ever find yourself in this situation simply get some cardboard sellotape and scissors to make a template then find a steel merchants and then give a fabricator your bike steel and cardboard templates list so this guy's just done the welding and he won't even take any money for it very sweet so uh thank you very much sir oh 490. [Music] look at her see what else right gotta go gotta carry on working all that remained was some finishing touches like modifying bodywork to clear the enormous suspension and browsing the near infinite part shops to buy something like a new chain and sprocket set or a cat or replace some broken tools with this high quality socket set or another cat or the exact details aren't important what mattered was 90 was now modified that's the old wheel went against a new wheel just to give you an idea of her new off-road capabilities and all that remained now was to say goodbye to my new friends and to get a large group video of them all together but they thought they were posing for a photo [Music] with 90 now complete we rode through the bike market for the final time before leaving the city and heading for the countryside this trip had actually been paused for two months while i edited tour guided and shot my girlfriend in the headed it was nice to be on the road again seeing the random things that overland travel has to offer but i wanted to be off-road again after all i had some new suspension to enjoy [Music] one-handed [Music] is [Music] adventure just a quick video from columbia i'm at about three and a half thousand meters and a nut has fallen off that holds the rear drake break break drake brum drake brum uh it's like drake but from birmingham uh there let's start that again welcome to columbia um about three and a half thousand meters and a nut has fallen off of the arm that holds the rear brake drum in place and it has made hell of a mess of uh my rear brake because that's really not supposed to look like that huge bent mess so i'm on the top of a mountain with no brakes but fear not cause i have the bg's and i'm gonna fix it so yeah made mole grips we're [ __ ] again [Music] can't fix this one ended up [ __ ] me 90 what have you done to yourself hell of a mess tragedy indeed boys [Music] the offending part was basically beyond repair for a reliable braking system but as we all know brakes are for [ __ ] anyway so i just didn't fit it although i did nearly enter a horse okay this is where i really wish i had a rear brake i decided to budget harder and got a reliable stopping system look aside cow please go left which kept the amount of times i've entered a farm animal on camera at zero oh colombia beautiful [Music] bye it's raining it's been raining for about [ __ ] off yes patience getting tested it's been raining for about four days now and uh i don't like rain in fact it not raining is probably my definitely my top five reasons of why i travel um i'm soaked through i've got my summer gear i've lost my waterproof trousers it's cold it's just a bit crap really um yeah there's lovely smooth terrain to ride on let me get some coffee or something trying to spice up confidence because this is just a bit [ __ ] really right coffee i should probably tell you that i was now on the second world's most dangerous road of this trip i gave up counting the bends on the map let's just say lots i also gave up counting the raindrops and the vertical drops but i was trying to keep my spirits high as 19 i attacked this dangerous road and i'll give it its dues this road was actually quite dangerous you do not want to fall down there what you do want though is a motorcycle that doesn't hate water i will buy you a new plug cap i promise stay that's a little deeper than anticipated oh foot yeah this was cold this was very cold we start now [ __ ] [Music] [ __ ] feet i'm getting some more water you're gonna cut out through as well you know [Music] bastard no [Music] thank you very much [Music] [Music] so made it to the top and i've been treated with a rather spectacular view it was all worth it of buckle because it's just cloud it's just like i'm rotating the camera now in the sky you can't even tell look i was doing that there's just nothing there's a little rock castle that way oh no really interesting renault duster and a dog that's that's the most detail i've seen in hours there's just um oh we'll go downhill i suppose i miss warm weather all right well i'm gonna cheer myself up and have a piss kill me now admittedly i'm not really grumpy yet anymore i'm now depressed dead depressed ed continued his journey through what should have been spectacular views as he navigated these twists and turns in sheer drops depressed ed really doesn't like rain and he really really doesn't like it when rain clouds obscure his spectacular views the raindrops on his visor obscure what little he can see and he's been so wet for so long that he's worried he's going to get trench dick that's much worse than trench foot in case you're wondering then depressed ed had to do a couple of water crossings and due to 90 being schizophrenic about not liking water depressed ed entered the water but depressed and grumpy ed definitely left it still it's not like it can get any worse right well i'm now shivering it's freezing cold and turns out i've had one last parting gift from bogota that the genuine did chain that i got for my bike is not genuine so although it was all tensioned and everything uh this morning and all lubes is now stretched so much that is jumping off the sprocket and i've got no more adjustment on my rear axle so uh got about two miles to go i think as far as i can tell of this lovely terrain um and about every quarter of a mile my chain jumps off at the moment so really slow going i can't feel my fingers um and yeah this won't stop pissing raining right don't pull down there that hurt and i'm so aware i haven't got any dried cloth to er on my clothes to take the bits off the lens so i'll just have to be blurry i'm not enjoying this at all welcome ladies and gentlemen to my top speed any faster and the chain jumps on at least the rain has turned to drizzle though so that's [Music] one thing that's slightly better [Music] all snap [Music] there was a development though grumpy ed was back and he had had enough dogs dive under his wheels and get run over in the past [Music] really not in the mood dog i'll kick you in the head sun's come out still raining of course bastard yeah things are leveling out a little bit and uh still can't go about five mile an hour but i'll get there chain is still about to snap but hopefully it lasts to the town we should be fairly soon i can't feel the hands um what great idea that was i slowly trundled my way towards the town bend my hand where i bought an actually genuine chain and got a dimly lit damp hotel room for the night being thankful to take my wet clothes off i then put my wet clothes back on in the morning and carried on hopefully towards warmer climes well the good news the weather the next day was warmer bad news my exhaust instantaneously snapped in half and tried to leave the motorcycle it took quite a bit of precision wiggling but eventually i helped it achieve its dream before scuffering its escape plans and putting it in my front basket saying bugger it and then just carried on riding without an exhaust and even more good news 90 did a water crossing and we even overtook something granted it was a lower day metis off-road but i'm still counting it although it wasn't all plain sailing really [ __ ] blood cat bastard and i got wet foot [Music] the journey continued with a fair amount of effort being spent trying to avoid water whenever possible and there was a lot of water to avoid like an unusual amount that seemed out of place in this country's climate and i was right it turns out i was currently riding through the windward side of a rain shadow and when i made it into the rain shadow there was another desert columbia is weird beautiful but weird now i'll admit this desert was only about 10 miles across so i only got a couple of shots in before it finished but it was yet another thing about colombia that i was not expecting before getting here like i also didn't expect as i rode back down a dead-end side road i found something i'd lost my air filter why are you on the block luckily 10 seconds with my motion pro trail tool that i keep in my pocket sorted that out and it was time to hit the tarmac and get some distance done me and my in my opinion unsociably loud motorcycle made our way through this gorgeous landscape before eventually getting to a town where 90 could get some necessary repairs the first port of call was a permanent solution to the rear brake mountain bodge by getting a very expensive new part cool perfecto one pound ten dunes workout perfecto is a word or i just sound like even more of an idiot see um suspension quite the crowd see ah me um mascotta okay once i'd fit the new brake part it was time to leave the amused crowd behind and head off to try and find a welder for the exhaust weird colombia had now been replaced with friendly colombia i'll actually scratch that it was now weird friendly colombia it wasn't long before i found a welder that could weld up my exhaust and it was now time to do the final miles of colombia the only thing to report really was this rather pretty gothic style church that's carved directly into the cliffs and while it was an impressive church and i did genuinely appreciate the design and the engineering that went into it because i'm me i was actually more impressed that in the car parked the church someone had trained a llama to piss in a bucket i'm not lying that was genuinely impressive to me but unfortunately i would have to leave the pissing llamas behind because those last few miles i talked about this was them welcome to the final road in colombia got 2k left according to the sat nav that was playing through my ears at the moment and it looks like this is the end of columbia um once i've got a couple of days of good weather behind me i think i'll be able to reflect on it a bit better because i'm still wet and everything's broken even my sun visor on my helmet's stuck but yeah looking forward to ecuador see what it's like i haven't done an international border crossing for bats i've just got a fly in my mouth so yeah that's so equivalent um i'll let you know how the border crossing goes if anything happens cool all right how well my bike happened lots of suspension and that was it colombia you've been awesome and i can't thank you enough next stop ecuador i take back what i've said before that is my new favorite video and in fairness it should be because it took six weeks to edit yes i've been in that mattress den in this barn for the last six weeks editing that video and i know what you're thinking yes this is a genuine c90 adventures hoodie and that is actually a photo of 90 and in the front wheel it does say there's a thin line between genius and insanity about the width of a c90 tire but no i do know what you're thinking yes there is also a c90 adventures t-shirt also in honda blue and they're also available in honda red uh all available from my store which i'll get to in a minute um but no in seriousness oh my god it's my award-winning feature film malaysia to uk this is 72 minutes long and i say award-winning i've won four film festivals with this uh yeah one hour and 12 minutes long tells the story of me riding from malaysia back to england on my first trip and while it contains a lot of the footage from the youtube videos that you've seen all that you've seen on youtube was edited by me on a 10 inch netbook when i had no idea what i was doing on the road it was the first thing i'd ever edited this had a lot of money spent on it to be professionally edited hence why it's one for film festivals it contains look it actually looks like a real one it's got a 16 page color booklet which has things in it and stuff and a genuine cartoon willy that i drew and this is on dvd but also and these are cool this is only the prototype but it's a c90 usb stick that also contains the hd version of the movie what's on youtube was only ever 480p so terrible quality this is hd so if you've got a smart tv or a laptop plug it in and you can watch the film and it comes with a better the long way around or your money back guarantee yes available from c90 adventures dot code uk forward slash shop but in fairness to get rid of all that stuff um genuinely thank you for all the donations in the past not even talking about the future if nothing else happens the only reason that this video happened was because you guys have supported me in the past because to do a six week edit means i can't work for six weeks i need six weeks worth of coffee i actually started to circumnavigate the stairs with mcdonald's coffee cups um i got my own coffee machine downstairs but yeah so thank you very much um this genuinely couldn't happen without you and yeah i hope i've done something to pay you guys back and yeah just that's exactly what it is really hope i paid you back thank you so much i hope the video is a good start um the next video will be peru and ecuador um nowhere near as brutal of an edit as this one because colombia was ridiculous the amount that i went all over the place and yeah that is about it thank you very much for watching um really sorry it's been so long since the last video but i had to go back into engineering to earn some money because c90 adventures doesn't really make any profit so yeah um i'm back now the next video shouldn't be too long because it's not as brutal and edit i did find an editor in that little video i put up a couple of weeks ago asking for an editor i found one he helped me turn the 12 hours of footage from columbia into two and a half that was the rough edit and then it took me about an extra five weeks to take that down into the 55 edit that you've just seen there so that's why it's so ridiculous because that's what happens when you lock me away for five weeks inside a mattress cupboard so yeah i'm gonna go now thank you very much if you do wanna buy some merch uh increase your sex appeal um buy dvds you know buy lots to tile the bathroom um yeah then you can uh help us all out um oh and if in the past you've donated before you knew that there was merch to support me i don't know quite how to do it but like if you donated send me an email and we'll work something out because it's only fair because if you didn't know you could have got a t-shirt and supported me then what not but yeah i'm gonna go i'm gonna stop waffling i'm gonna let the levels of caffeine now decrease in my system down to a sensible level now i don't need to edit for a couple of weeks so thank you very much hope you enjoyed it cheers guys you

Channel: c90adventures

Views: 2,161,550

Keywords: Ed, March, Honda, C90, Colombia, Adventures, ct90, ct110, round, the, world, adventure, south america, alaska, argentina, motorcycle, motorbike, camping, cub, super, passport, c70, c125, rachel, lasham, america, rtw, overland, darien, gap, sneak, smuggle, boat, desert, death, road, ecuador

Id: vPIkvp8_CNQ

Length: 58min 58sec (3538 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 04 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/AnonimKristen]

Ed always puts out great stuff. I just wish we didn't have to wait 16 months since his last video. It'd be nice to have more frequent 8-10 minute clips to give us something to watch and hopefully more opportunities for him to hit the ad revenue jackpot.

[u/Stazymoto]

Found his shows on YouTube by accident a few years back and enjoyed every one. Hilarious and fun. Captured some good essence of travel.

[u/unclelongbeard]

Seen it already and it's brilliant as usual ;)

[u/Ilubalu]

I would be inclined to think that a major adv-bike (like an Africa Twin) would be needed for that kind of trip, but, perhaps, the 90 was the best because (1) It started up again and again, (2) every bike repair person could work on it, and (3) it wasn't appealing to thieves.

[u/boredjosh32]

Ed was who got me onto this years ago and i could never be more greatful for him documenting how fun motocamping is. I wish he were more famous and didnt struggle so much with finding editors and money.

[u/Ilubalu]

I've been watching his videos today as a result of this posting, and that little motorcycle has really begun to appeal to me. I then learned that there's a variant called the "110" used in Australia in something called the "Postie Challenge", which is an organized ride in which nobody brings their own bike, organizers travel with spare bikes, etc. It seems obvious that I'd need a 125 on account of my weight. I go to the Honda USA website, and on the front page is their newest version of this bike, the "Trail 125 ABS". How odd is that? Has this utube guy promoted this category so much that Honda has taken note? Anyway, I'm not ready to buy a bike, but find all of this rather compelling. I wonder what others have to say about this newest version (like can it be repaired everywhere like the older ones).