Why I Had To Sell My Mini Truck

you read this title correctly i no longer have my mini truck i don't regret selling it and i want to tell you the five reasons why i got rid of it let's talk about it hey guys josh here again with daily mountain bike rider and i needed to make this video because the number one thing that you asked me about that people comment on every video where's the mini truck how's the mini truck what's the updates with the mini truck and it's time for me to let you know that i've actually sold it and it's not that i sold it like a week ago or a month ago or a year ago see i bought the mini truck in summer of 2019 and i sold it two years ago in the summer of 2020. now during that time i wasn't making a ton of videos so i didn't let you guys know why i sold it but i realized it's been too long and i just need to update you so here are the five main reasons i sold my mini truck the first one is one that came up a lot and that is that japanese import mini trucks just don't make great commuter vehicles you see there's a lot of things about this truck that made it kind of a pain in the butt for the day-to-day driving first up it only has two seats so if you ever need to take somebody somewhere if i needed to take my son to school i couldn't do it it's two front seats and it just doesn't work second is that it is very very hot in there the engine heats up and heats the whole cabin there's no air conditioning third is that the storage is next to none i put my backpack in the little black box in the back but i couldn't put much in the cab i really couldn't carry that much because the sides the bed weren't very big it just really wasn't practical not to mention it couldn't go over like 50 miles an hour safely or comfortably and so it made it where i had to stick to under 35 miles an hour i couldn't go on the freeway and it was just kind of a pain in the butt now the second reason that i got rid of my mini truck is a big one for me and that is that it wasn't very mountain bike friendly you see i like the ability to not take off anything on my bike including the front wheel in order to put something on a rack i like to throw it over a tailgate or put it on a nice bike rack but the mini truck had to take off the front wheel i had to kind of get up into the cab in order to put the fork into the fork holder became a pain in the butt and i would rather have something that's easier to transport my bike with now i know that's kind of a diva thing but the other thing is when i bring a bike pump and i bring my pads and my shoes and all these things i just didn't have a place to store them all because the cab is so small not to mention taking two people with all of our stuff it just wouldn't work so it didn't really work for me for mountain biking which is a big thing for me now the third reason i sold my mini truck is that it is kind of expensive to fix you see i had the snow tires that came stock on there they're like blizzaks which are great in the snow but terrible all year round and i couldn't find the small enough size in order to buy them so that was one issue but also it had a small leak and fixing it isn't that hard because it's a 600 cc engine kind of like a motorcycle but it's resourcing parts and finding them locally or mailing them to you on ebay or somewhere that makes it a challenge and then you have to go through all the labor yourself where around here if you have something wrong you can just go to an auto mechanic and he'll take care of it for you a mini truck means they have to put a lot more labor and time into figuring out how to fix it and to be honest i just didn't want to deal with the ongoing maintenance of an older vehicle that will definitely need it reason number four might sound odd but you'll understand if you've ever driven motorcycles or scooters or ridden your bike long distances on the street and that is that the mini truck kind of makes you stink and what i mean is since it is a motorcycle engine and it's right below you you kind of get the exhaust and the smell of the engine not only that you like the airflow makes like all the grime and dust from the street come on you so just like when i take my scooter places or used to ride my motorcycle all over i would end up wherever i was at and kind of have this smell of like an auto mechanic or somebody who's been outside near an engine and kind of needs to take a shower and i got tired of all the time i'd take a shower i'd be all cleaned and ready to go i'd show up at my job and i would just smell like grime which wasn't nice now those are all some small issues but the number one reason i sold my mini truck which is reason number five is that my wife told me to because it's extremely unsafe you see not only does it not go fast but if you were to ever get in a car accident and i'm talking a little fender bender your airbag is literally your knees i mean there is nothing on the front of that protecting you and if i ever gotten a car accident in it it would be terrifying and my wife was worried about that but more than that she just said hey you have a lot of dangerous hobbies that you like to do mountain biking being one of them and she's like i worry about you enough out on the trails i don't need to worry about you driving around town and i thought that was pretty fair and i also realized if i sold the mini truck for like the money i paid for it which i did then i could buy another mountain bike so i actually found a local buyer somebody who it was an older gentleman out in everson he's using it on his property and so far i've heard that he loves it and he uses it as like a sport utility golf cart which it's perfect for so i went to a good home i didn't lose too much money and is there part of me that wishes i could jump in the mini truck and drive around or show up to a mountain bike event in it absolutely but overall i'm happy that i sold it it was a great experience and i always carry that memory so all of you who have been commenting and asking and texting me i saw you the other day out in bellingham you can put that to an end because it's gone so rip mini truck until next time you know what time it is don't spend too much time watching a guy talk about his japanese import mini truck but get out there ride your bike make sure you do it every day

Channel: Daily MTB Rider

Views: 22,313

Keywords: mountain biking, mtb, daily mountain bike rider, daily mtb rider, bellingham, bellingham wa, mountain bike vlog, kei, key, van, japanese, japanese mini truck, japanese kei, suzuki carry, acty, import, imported car

Id: 0LecVWQwWvE

Length: 5min 38sec (338 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 02 2022