Chock full of fantastic tips and information about basic dual sport techniques after watching videos from the likes of Everide and Cross Training Enduro Skills, two complete dual sport beginners head out to practice dual sport skills such as slow speed maneuvering, figure eights, powerslides, riding while standing, and the "small, practical wheelie" with...limited...success. Share the pain of watching two guys who are completely new to off road motorcycling mostly fail but occasionally (kind of) succeed as they try to master these dual sport basics on the Honda CRF250L and Yamaha WR250R. Disclaimer: we're bad at this, and we know it. This was pretty much our first practice session ever. I'm only posting this mostly embarrassing content in the hope that some other pathetic dual sport beginner might watch and see that they're not alone. We are hoping that this is the first step in a long journey of off road riding skill improvement and that we'll one day look back at this feeble effort and laugh at how much we sucked.
Well, I can turn left.
Hello ladies and gentlemen
Welcome back to the door side. I don't know if this video is going to be any good
But Duff Van and I are out practicing some basic skills on our dual sport
In the lovely abandoned field near my home. So I'm hoping we fall down a lot and you get to watch some sweet video of that
Got a tight turns down. Oh
That's right, ladies and gentlemen
We're such big noobs that we have to practice riding in circles
Trying to do the old figure eight drill. I've read about
Many places on the internet good old Everide cross training enduro skills. Let's talk about it being the basic maneuver to practice
So that's what we're doing
Also breaking in my boots at the same time
Working on clutch control
Low speed maneuvering standing up while riding. Duff Van's also practicing the small practical wheelie
Either one of us are very good at but he's definitely braver than me
Either concrete or a big bees nest. Oh, well, you don't want to hit either one of those, but you had to pick
Which one would you take?
Well, I'm pretty well armored up for bees. I guess we could outrun bees. You can't outrun a broken foot
That's low speed maneuvering it's hard
Yeah
Gonna be a great video of us. It's riding around in circles
It's helping though. I feel like I just don't want to run into you. We need a set course
Yeah
Well, we could there's ******* tires over here. That's true. There's plenty of tires out here. There's no shortage of that ----
Do a figure eight course. What do you think?
Well, well, I mean put that like right there and maybe because I want to go through the mud still I think that's fun
Around this and then around that way. Well, yeah, I thought we'd figure eight in between them
Yeah, like I think what you're saying? I think we're saying the same thing this different way
Like this I
Also want to find a little kicker. Oh
Yeah, I gotta do small practical wheelie. This is good. I feel it good. I feel like good thing already
Like there I didn't put my foot down and I would have an hour an hour ago
Although my clutch hand is now good or my throttle hand is getting tired. I should probably be using the clutch and throttle
Left twitchy. I'm gonna go look for a stick
Are you doing small practical wheelies? I'm doing small practical nothing. Well, that's my nickname
All over over there
Trying to pick up a
Stick or something, but they all have nails in them. I don't do not recommend two by four with no nails
the kicker
very small practical we lay
Curious really practical
That's good. Yeah, there's no way that could go wrong
Okay, hold on. I gotta get this on video
So this is how duck man is elected to transport this piece of wood. Let's watch him get his nuts smashed into oblivion
No problem
Yep, you'll be singing soprano if you **** up
Where's the small practical wheelie thing, please?
Kind of my thinking
Whoa sideways, whoa, whoa cover the rear brake
That was ******* badass, but I don't think I was looking in the right direction with the camera
We have to do it again
Okay, well it is way way easier than I expected
Well, we're all on very soft ground at a very slow speed. I don't know
I was picking up speed pretty fast. That's not the point of the small practical wheelies
Yeah, this is a little baby one. I don't know what I'm doing that little wheelie I did
Actually, I did one that was I would say a small practical wheelie. The other one was a little out of control
I thought a good one. I
Got it on camera. I don't know if I got the other one
The other one was a lot of RPMs and what hanging on there goes
Did you ******* break it off? Well, that's problem smaller ones would be better. They're so huge
It'll stay on him if I kick it again
Don't do it in those blackberry briars
Get a little sideways. You're gonna regret it
That made my fan kick on. Oh, did you see that ----? What I just did like a ******* 10-foot power slide
click
The bike was it like
45 degrees. I
Thought I was going down for sure
Cool ******* around but that's the ----. We gotta learn
Gotta learn to deal with it. Oh
Oh
That's awesome. I don't think I want to do that again. I probably do but not on purpose
I'm sure it's not that badass, but it feels better
When I did it, I'm not I don't even know if I could do it again if I wanted to
Well, yeah, I ******* did it again. Oh
I'm not I'm not gonna be able to recreate
It's sliding a little in the dirt there. Yeah for sure
It was like that but like way longer and I just a little
Everybody always talked about your balls should be over the gas tank
So that the bars aren't pulling you, but I definitely feel like I'm being told
You said it's like a Segway like you lean forward and the bike goes forward
I'm not doing it, right. I don't have to hang up it yet
Guys in the videos never kill theirs. Yeah, well
They edit their videos. We're raw and uncut footage. That's true. Turning right ******* heart a lot harder
Why is that? I don't know. It's the same for me. Sure
I'm gonna try to stand up. I do not understand how to shift like this
Like how am I supposed to get my foot underneath?
What's the stand on the on the flat of your foot
Calm down lady. Thank you for watching. And don't forget to be excellent to each other
Oh
Shit Oh Kitty ----. Hope I got that on video. All right, buddy. All right. Be careful