It's 3 generations of dual sport adventure when my dad, daughter and I head out to explore the snowy wilderness on our bikes: a Honda CRF250L, Suzuki DR200S, and a Honda CRF110F. We weren't sure how much of a dual sport snow adventure we were in for when we headed up the local logging roads, but we were pleasantly surprised by exactly the right amount of snow for three riders at very different riding levels on very different dual sport and dirt bikes to enjoy. This isn't my first Honda CRF250L snow adventure, but it's the first time we've had either the Suzuki DR200 or the Honda CRF110F in the snow, and all three bikes performed amazingly! Come along on our dual sport adventure, witness my dad's first DR200 fail as he drops it on a muddy descent, play along as I mess around on my daughter's CRF110F in the snow and find myself on the ground after being a little too overzealous. We also explore a few potential motocamping sites, get into a snowball fight, make snow angels, and build a tiny snowman. All in all, it was a fantastic day of dual sports in the snow!
She's very excited. Is this how much snow do you want? I'd be nice to find a little open area
Everybody fell down once today, so that's good
Hello everyone and welcome back to the dork side
It is I a friendly neighborhood dork in my truck and with me today a very special guest the one the only the amazing
Awesome little dork say hi little dork. Hi, you even like that name or do you want to be something else?
I like it and today little dork and I we've got our motorcycles in the back
Which you saw in the intro and we are actually headed to pick up the third member of our party for today
The ever popular Papa dork, that's right
We're gonna do another three generation ride in the woods today regular dork little dork and Papa dork. We're gonna head out
We're gonna pick up Papa dork. We're gonna drive to the woods
We're gonna ride around might see some snow. We don't know supposed to be cloudy, but not rainy today
It should be a good time. Thanks for coming along with us
Hello everyone, welcome back we are back in the woods
This is near Longbow campground for those of you that are local past Cascadia
So the plan for today is just a leisurely ride. This is little dorks first
winter riding adventure
And she's back there for some reason she's forgotten how to ride at a reasonable speed pop is back there too
But neither one of them ever wants to lead. So y'all you get is boring footage of me in front. It's about 40
42 degrees
We are up in the woods. We may get up to some snow, but it's a little chilly but not supposed to rain
So that's one of the reasons why we're up here today. It's it's late. This will be my last ride of the year
Probably it's December 30th a little dork got a new jacket for Christmas a built women's. I think it's a tempest
Maybe I think everything's a tempest though, so I could be wrong but built women's
Waterproof jackets just testing that out. Are you warm right now?
She says it's pretty warm and I got these new these are the tourmaster cold text gloves
And they're supposed to be pretty warm better than and they have touchscreen
Fingers, which my old gloves didn't have and my wife got me a climate tail bag from giant loop for Christmas
So that's on the bike. It's actually empty
I haven't had a chance to rearrange my gear at all
But I at least want to test out the mounting and getting on and off the bike with it and just feel tested a little
Bit so got some new gear some new Christmas gear
That's exciting
And we are headed up
Into the wilderness last time I was on this road. There was an RV on it. So we're not that hardcore
Oh, I can show you that one really awesome campsite if I can find the turn off. I
Want to show you this campsite? So there's a little bit of a pill right here, but it's not bad
So just go up the hill. It's not bad
There you go
Wow, it's a little muddy actually
Don't go on the right side. That's real muddy
This is a big party shooting spot. I think lots of and they're burning lots of garbage. It looks like
Interesting spot. So we burn up a camp chair
This fire pit some important concrete
But looks like a bunch of hey, don't burn like don't leave your trash in the woods at least burn it up
We really should pack it out, but not cool. Just not cool
Expansion everything is neat, but I would never camp here because
Judging by the garbage the type of people that normally camp here or not
Super awesome. You're gonna ride through this muddy stuff. That's what that's the most fun
No, you're gonna hit up all this mud on your way out. I
Don't know way muddier over there
You're not chin strap. I
Always forget that your grandfather's riding without a strap
Don't see him
Did you ditch him?
What the hell is he doing up there?
Okay, I'm about 10 seconds away from going back up there
Yeah, I'm gonna it's hard to turn around right here
I'll be right back
I'll be in touch
Come back up because it looks like he dropped his bike. Hey, right
Did you drop it I missed it what did you get a little squirrely there
You just what just slid out on you
So you were here. This is your tracks. Did you get on the front brake?
Well, you these tires are not mud tires. So if you got it all sideways, I'm sure it slid out on you. You okay?
Did you oh
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Gotta stop getting out ahead of you. Did you hit your head? Well now it's an adventure
Just goes to show you you could at any moment, you know should be easy slow speed
But the mud will get you now
I like doing the first drop and getting a scratch or two on it, then I don't worry about it anymore
You didn't hit the muffler. Did you go at which side did it go down on?
Yeah
You bend your brake lever at all. No, well, no, not really your peg is folds up. So you're good supposed to do that
Yeah, I mean did you would it even land on the end here? I think you broke you bent this lever
It's better actually it's less likely to get caught on stuff when you drop it
Well, it may happen again going down and then we can analyze it. Do you want me to go behind so we have video?
That gets hits I need you if you're gonna fall I need you to do it on camera that's dad's first crash
Yeah, yeah, I just it's so funny I just
Noticed that he didn't have a strap on and he just fixed it. So that's good
So you're a dual sport rider now before you were just a dabbler like a hobbyist now, you're like you're a rider like legit
Yeah, well good. I was worried this video would be boring. So we'll try to avoid this shitty mud with your tires
Yeah, so dad's got custom levers and we've discovered as I suspected those stock tires are shitty
All right, should we keep going up you don't want to go first
There we go, see now it's interesting video
So, how are you comfort wise on that bike because it really looks like you're starting out grow it feel cramped
Reasonably rideable at least for now. She's grown a lot. I swear she's grown six inches this year
Yeah, I can't believe dad fell feel bad
But that's like no way you could have predicted. It's not like I took him on something crazy. That's just a freak accident
That's a fun little road actually got down there and that's the the time where my GoPro fogged up when I try to change the battery
So I haven't done a lot of exploring down there as much as I'd like
Someday, I'll come back and explore it. I
Think my is what I'm toying with for a future video is I'm always talking about how you need to have all your survival gear
And I what I bring and all that
So I think I want to do a future video where I just ride up here a ways and then use it all
So there's four things you need to be able to do. You need to be able to build a shelter
Purify water build a fire and signal for help
It would be interesting to come up here and test out my gear for those
so it would be neat to ride up and put up a tarp shelter and just build a fire and
See how that all goes. So let me know if you'd like to see that
Survival gear video if that'd be something you guys would be interested in
There's some pond water
There's a neat little
rock quarry
Yeah, this is kind of one of the dumber ones, but we're getting to the snooze
Kids getting excited. I have to get up a little farther to get to into the snow snow
But we're seven miles up right now from the truck. Oh, so in the road right through it
I want to get video of you riding through it. Ah, you just went on the edge
She's very excited I don't you probably can't hear it right in the center. It's fun
You're doing it. You're riding snow
Is it slippery? Oh, it is a little icy
Well good I thought we'd have to go a lot farther up than this to get into some snow, but nope
Let's hope dad's okay with the shitty tires
like oh
You're sliding you're sliding. Yeah, let's take it easy. Yeah
Okay. Well you want to stop and turn around? It's getting pretty slippery
Is this how much snow do you want in your life?
Well, I want to take a picture while we're stopped about that
I'm sure your tires are the best on the snow that we have dads are probably real bad
Neat. Well, you got into some snow. So that's good. I'm gonna take a couple pictures
I got a video anyway between you falling and us finding the snow these gloves are
Pretty warm so far so good. Not surprised. How do you feel kid?
How's the snow treating you?
You like it. This is what you wanted
All right
So we're gonna ride up just a little farther and just see if we can maybe find a little open area to play around in
But I suspect we'll turn around soonish cuz it's gonna get a little slippery sketchy because all this snow is melted and refrozen
Shouldn't be any traffic up here, but just stay on this side of the road. Okay as much as possible. Oh
Yeah, I'm sliding. I'm definitely sliding. Just take it easy. Okay kid. Yeah, you're good
You let me know
Okay, well I'm literally riding sideways right now with my feet down so tell me what you see
Cuz coming down this will be hard because we can't break remember. Yeah, you're good
Tree thing got you. Oh, huh? Interesting. Well done. This will be interesting to come down. What do you think? How you feeling?
Well, it's up to you it's like your Papa wants to keep going there's a good spot to turn around right there
Right there where he's turned
Okay, do you want to park up there? Okay, you see this I can barely move we just don't have good tires for this
We're gonna turn around this is a good wide spot and we could park the bikes here and take a picture
Right here in the snowy spot, that's a good footage
There you go, yeah, at least we're off the road so if you want to play around oh
It's a good one if you want to poke around a little bit right here
I think it's good
And if you want to like ride around here a little bit you can but you need to wear your helmet if you want to play
in the snow a little bit
This child is crazy and she's gonna make a snow angel because she's wearing waterproof gear. I hopefully her stepmom doesn't see this video
All right, you want help out so you don't have to put a hole in your snow angel
It's actually really good
Impressive it's the right size too
Yeah, this is not exciting footage because we're going so damn slow. I'm gonna get my camera. Don't feel like you have to stop
You okay
Slip out from underneath you you always fall when I'm not right there. You sure you're good
Okay. Sorry kid. Sorry. I'm not there
Well, that's why I didn't want to go up much farther because I knew going down was gonna be rough
We'll take it easy. Okay, you okay? Give me a thumbs up if you're okay, she's good
She just decided to lay her bike down because she felt bad because everyone else had crashed today one of these
But you see where it's gravelly you try to hit that as much as possible. You'll have the best traction
Yeah, we're gonna be good
Doesn't get too bad. I'm glad we didn't go up much farther though. That was a good call
Yeah, you're doing good. It's got it's also melted a little more since we were here. So this is less icy more slushy
It's not as bad. All right. Well, that's fun snow ventures
Okay, little dorks first snow on a motorcycle and really she hasn't been in it a ton not on a motorcycle
Here we are. We're out of it. Just like that right around the corner
Crazy huh? I'm glad we went up a little further. You're back on bare ground now
So tell me what did you think of the snow? What was your?
Fun but hard to ride on because you fell down. Okay, but would you do it again?
Okay, what have you learned about snow riding?
Go slow. Don't break fast. Don't worry. Have fun. That's what she says. Well, she didn't say don't worry
But I think that's what you meant
Is that what you meant?
Okay, everybody fell down once today, so that's good
I fell down a little dorks motorcycle because I forgot to cover the brake and it got up from underneath me
Actually, that's the first time I just caught it the second time. It just slid a little more than I was
I was giving it way too much gas not having a clutch is weird
But I was worried I wouldn't be able to burn out and I was able to so that was fun
I would like to ride that around more on the snow a little bit. Actually, that would be super fun
It's a hiking trail up here on the right. Oh, there's a car up there and people up there hiking today
Yeah, people were up at the trailhead
Good for them
It's actually not a bad day for it. The temperature is not too cold
And it's not super wet. This is the time of year to be hiking you can if it's not raining
I don't want to help these guys are doing
Low bridge, I'm gonna go under it
Sweet me, too
I'm gonna sit down though because I'm too tall low bridge
That's going under it. Oh
Yeah
No, it could be a nice club
It was dad. I wonder hold on. I'm gonna stop and ask him just to be safe
You're not missing a glove. Are you there's a glove just like this on the side of the road
Okay, go down. There's a little road entrance. So you don't go off the edge right here
You could ride in there kid. You don't have to stop right here. It's a little muddy
You good?
This is I like this spot. I wish it wasn't this close to the road because I'd like to camp here
All right, why don't we just stop for a quick bathroom break
We're on our way down, but this little campsites cool
I'm just gonna ride up this little side hill because I can because it's fun
Absolutely, no other reason and because it'll be funny if I drop my motorcycle
Here we go. Oh, this is slipperier than it looks
Hey, oh
Should go back down. Okay
Hey, that's fun, you're gonna try it
She's not gonna do it you still like your bike
Getting used to it
Give me a burnout right there in the mud. Uh, no, you didn't do it. I
Think I got dead right here. Take the left. Oh, yeah get squirrely in the middle. You're better off on the rocks
I mean do what you want because it's fun, but
If you're looking for not squirrels
This is a neat little campsite that's not far from where we park. Yeah, you can park an RV up here. It's big enough
But the truck is literally right down there. Probably see it
So, what do you think lots of spots for lots of space to park? It's been cleaned up quite a bit
It was a lot nastier last time I was here. That's good. Looks like the Forest Service been up here
It's a decent trailer RV spot even
It's not very level but over there it's not bad and it's right like we're right around the corner from where we parked
Yeah, it was a lot nastier the last time I was here a bunch of garbage someone's cleaned it up so that's good
Yeah
What?
Yeah, that's like a third time in the woods
And I'm so happy you broke in your bike today
But this whole tree is the one that duck van and I cut down chainsaw
So this was all blocked in that video five reasons why dual sport is the best first motorcycle video
This is the where I came up and this was all blocked
So I took out my Silky and cut myself a path
Well, I cut myself a path through the first tree and then as soon as I got through there was another way bigger one that
I couldn't do with the Silky so it sucked
It turned out I was about a hundred feet from the top. So that always cracks me up to think about
Take a lift
Don't go off the edge you'll be bad
So ladies gentlemen fans people humans that watch my channel. Thank you all for coming along on this adventure with us
I had a really good time doing this three-generation Explorer. We got up to the snow
I dropped little doors bike. My dad dropped his bike little dork fell down. So
She got her first snow crash in so little dork. Do you have any any final farewell words of wisdom?
She says have fun don't be afraid to try new things and for example, if you get into a new type of terrain
Just be careful. Keep the brake covered, but give it a try be be brave
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