Is the XSR900 the BEST Street Bike?

Hey guys, we're going to start off the video here. I want to talk about two things where the R1 has been, which everyone's been clearly asking me and two, I don't know. But two is why I bought this, uh, XSR 900. You'll see why. Um, if you couldn't tell from the first video and I'll explain a lot more on my rationale and everything, but, uh, let's go and ride. It's extremely beautiful out. We got some, some nice juicy sun and clouds and we're just gonna, we're going to go wheelie practice at an old spot that I actually took the FZ to nice desolate area where there's like nobody, there's a low traffic. It's a nice long Hill. Uh, he wants to learn how to wheelie. So he upgraded Spock. It's in the front. So now she actually comes up in second. So let's go have some fun. All right. So we just dropped off. Yeah, boy. If you ever see me, just ask me for a key toad. I'll probably have fun with me. Probably not actually. In the slim chance. I do. I'll give you one. Do I feel like sending them out individually to you guys? No, not really. I'm sorry. All right, we're good. Music troll. Oh, I don't want to talk about it. I don't want to talk about it. Ooh, that wind feels good. It's like 80 something degrees. I think, Oh, since we're kind of just going to do wheelies, I didn't want to wear the jacket. The jacket kind of restricts me in the slightest bit. I know it's weird, but I got to feel loose on the bike. You know what I mean? I gotta, I gotta, a little bit of that, a little bit of this, you know? So we're going to go out to this place, do some thick wheelies. If I can remember where it's at, there's a nice little back road out there as well that I want to retouch on. I went there. If I can find it again, I don't know. I'm going to get a long car to find it. I want to go kayaking. Kayaking looks like a bug. We got any fellow kayakers in here? Let me know if it's the move. Start off with why I bought this 900. He upgraded to rockets in the front. He went down the tooth. So now he has a little bit more acceleration in the second and on a 600 you need that because first gear is so short. We went out for a nice little night ride. I did not bring the camera because I hit a deer. I killed baby. We were on the back road. It wasn't fully dark yet. As I was coming around the corner, Bambi was sitting right in the middle. I was like, okay, you're facing my lane. I had a passenger with me, so I couldn't exactly move as fast as usual, but at the same time I didn't need to. So coming around, I saw that Bambi was facing him, right? So my instant direction is go opposite lane, right? There's no cars over there. Of course, Bambi had the bright idea to turn around and Bambi turned around and he just lost, I think the helmet to the dog on his bike. Bambi caught one of the pegs, either the passenger peg, my peg, or my brake lever, my rear brake lever. And it ripped. Yeah. It was really sad. Afterwards, like I turned around and I went back and Bambi was just lying there and yeah, it was a done deal. Like I, at first I thought like, maybe she was just not a cow, he or she. But no, no, no. Bambi had some damage. So I had to sit there and comfort Bambi, at least in our final moments. And then two cops came, right? And like they were just having to roll by. Cause the one cop, like eventually like they were very cool cops, but there was like a disregard. Clearly they've seen a million deers get hit. They were unfazed at all. But I mean, it's cool. This is their job. Still, I'm sitting there, like literally like rubbing Bambi's head. The cop literally just like grabs Bambi and just drags it like, like disregard for any of the pain that Bambi was in. And I was like, okay, you, you're not too in touch with mother nature, but cool cops. They made sure I was good. He was like, you want to file this? I was like, no. Get up out of here. We're not selling my insurance ----. But it was literally coming around a blind corner. I mean, ----. Like if I would've went down, like there's nothing you can do about it. I wasn't even excessively speeding either. You know, I was going at a good pace, but I was not ripping like at all. There's a lot of factors of why I enjoy this bike. I can't get over those pops. I really might actually keep this Acura. I'm not even an Acura fan because I don't think Acura is too loud, but I bought this bike because a it's in between a mixture of a cruiser as well as a back road king. It does fine on the highway. It's enough for the highway, which makes it the perfect mixture. If you ever need to hop on the highway, it's got enough balls to like get you on there, get to where you need to get at a good pace too. You know, you're not stuck doing 80 miles an hour the whole time. I don't cruise at 80 respectfully. I just don't. I like going faster than traffic. So it's what keeps your boy safe. Wait, where the am I going? I was like, hold on. Wait a minute. You ever just ride. You think you're going to the right destination. You're completely on the wrong direction. These MTL9's I've been missing out on man. Y'all been saying it for the longest, but I was just dumb enough not to do it. That's that's one big thing. It's very natural. I appreciate that guy. He was already pulling out by the time he saw me, but he stopped either way. I was ready. Thank God. Oh, that's a heart attack. Oh my gosh. You scared the ---- out of me. I was like, if I just said all that ---- and I didn't get none of it. Oh my goodness. Oh, that's a nice little guy. That's always a good feeling. It's seeing the people that you've been riding with for so long, seeing them improve, simply because they went to the f***ing track. So, I mean, imagine what you can do, you know? So, let's paint a scenario. You go to the track, right? None of your homies are like, Oh, f*** that, I'm going on the street. Bah, bah, bah, bah, bah. You know, the whole, you know, yeah. And then you come back and you're whipping all their asses, right? You look comfortable doing it, too. You know, you're moving good. They're like, oh, s***. Friends are like, oh, oh, no, man. Where did you learn all that? I need, I need, I need parts. You was in that corner and I, I saw your head drop down and s***. You were going after that. That's what you want. That's exactly what you want. Now, your friends are coming up to you saying, yo, I'm gonna buy a suit. I'm coming with you next time. Let's go. Now, you and your friends really rolling, you know what I mean? And you're doing it smart. The reason why, f***, what was I saying? F***! I'm mad comfortable right now doing a smooth 55. Oh, I sat down with myself after I took this thing to the city and I really questioned whether I really cared to go faster anymore. And it's been something that's been on my mind since I went to Cali and I met up with Brian. When I was with Brian, he spoke about how he used to do the exact same stuff I was doing, ripping canyons, the whole nine yards, especially while he was based out there in Cali. You know, that, that questioned me. I'm like, damn, like a stunt rider, you know, and I feel like I haven't talked to enough people. I just haven't interacted and seen where people riding journeys have come from. There's a reason on why he switched over, why he made that executive decision to be like, I don't want, you know, a 1000 or, you know, a sport bike anymore to bang corners. Presumably because of the dangers. And now, stunning, you know, he hit me with a really, probably the best question you could ever hit me with is, he said, he said, how many people in the stunt community do you know that die? Right? A million of them get f***ed up. Yeah, that's cool. You get your road rash, bada bing, bada boom, you might break something. It's cool. He said, how many die? And I really sat there and thought, and I was like, damn. I, uh, damn, I really have not even heard of a story of a guy dying, you know, stunt riding. And mind you, it's still very well possible. I'm sure they're, they're, they're out there, right? It has happened, but it's not frequent, not as frequent as you hear someone on a 1000 or a 600 hauling ass on a highway or a back road and something happens. When I was reflecting, sitting and watching all my Cali footage, and I let that sink in. Dude, that was rapid! And it is fun! It's so much fun! But, you know, I go based off of how I feel, and right now, I don't care to really go that fast. There's a reason why I'm not really riding it, why you're not seeing it. First, I mean, I just got this, and right now, I'm enjoying the hell out of this. This is exactly the type of energy that I want. I want to be cruising. I want to be chilling right now. I want to be, you know, hauling ass on my back roads, etc. You know, I got my highway pegs on this. I got that on the R1. You don't get the luxury of that. My back don't hurt after I get home. I get home and I'm actually energized. I'm like, whoa, that was a good ride. Let's keep going. Let's do more ----. I get home on the R1. I'm like, yeah, go on in the night. I'm out, boys. I am sleep. So, yeah, that's, that's where the R1's been. I still, I have it. I didn't sell it. Gosh, there's no reason to get rid of this Acura. Someone else, please send me an audio video of an MT-09 at different exhaust notes like the best exhaust if you guys have recommendations. Thank you. Let's, let's. Proof of loss claim statement. I don't want to litter now. You take it. I'm like this. I dropped my air pressure and now she's going to the right. Why? It's so comfortable. Like, is this the exit? I don't think. Bro, what's, what's up? Like, I'm about to mix my AirPods. Like, you can't just keep on turning on for 15 seconds and then cutting off for no reason. Like, that's, it's unacceptable, mate. UNACCEPTABLE! Really killing the vibe here. Wait a minute. Bro, I lost my frame slider. I didn't double check it once I bought it to see if it was tight. Also, didn't know it was loose at all. That is an issue. You know why? Because that is a frame mount. That's crazy. Side of his helmet says that people suck. True. Imagine getting stiffed on by a bear. There's so many bears! Yeah! They're everywhere! Yeah, they like bears here. Yeah, she said deuces. Just that side. Ooh, what is that? Uh, at some point in this ride, yeah. Because I was using it earlier. Those are my highway pegs. Oh, the frame slider. Yeah, but that's also the frame mount. Yeah. It's not that way. Yeah, we found her. Definitely saw the road one to the left. I'm not good at it. That's not allowed. And doing this ---- is a lot more fun with something that's way more dimpled. Oh! Look at that balance on point. I like actually got a lot of skill from that hill with the FZ. Only being here, I came here like on a solo like twice today. Yeah, I remember it flew off and I was like, oh! Yeah. Let me jigsaw bro this ---- real quick. Oh! That was my best attempt. Should I keep doing second or should I do first? If you want to get it up and learn how high you can get it up, you can try first. Just to pop it up, get it up there. Second gear, you'll have more room to play. Just, if it's not coming up as much as you need, you're either not giving it enough throttle or you're too low in RPMs. You got to find that sweet spot for where this gearing setup is going to want to pop up. It's practice time, baby. Damn, I wish I could, I really want to delete ABS on this thing. If I delete ABS on this thing, it's just Supermoto at that point. Do I wish that I could have went to lean back? Yes. I didn't even know when lean back was and then everybody was like, hey, are you coming? I was like, what? I was like, I can't wheelie at 30 miles an hour yet. I'm still working at like the 50 to 60 and that's on an uphill. If it's flat ground, I can wheelie at 60 consistently. Like I'm getting pretty solid at that now, which is good. That's actually a big bonus for me. So I guess if we were on the highway, I could do it. Oh, okay. Okay. Hold on. Yeah, that's what happens when you practice. You do a couple things over and over and over and then you're like, wait a minute. Want to learn how to wheelie? Go ******* wheelie. It's all I got to say. You're not going to wake up and just be like, oh, I know how to 12 o'clock. Like, no. You got to get out and just... Oh, okay. Hold on. Hold on now. Come on. Hey, I'm like, I get it. I get the drop back thing, but like I was talking to bro and Jake's a bro. I mean, he's like, you just gotta, you know, do it and I'm like, yeah, I know. Easier said than done. But like, we both know that. Like, he sent me a video of him on the MT-09. He's nasty on that thing. His drop back's insane. He's not even using clutch in, which is a good thing because I saw how far he can drop it back and it's all that rear brake control, I guess. If I can learn that, that means I can do all that because I think the clutch in thing is, that's another level. I've seen like the foreigner dudes on the 1000 like, wow, in first gear and then clutch in. Some dudes from the city do it on like 1000s and 600s and I'm like, how? First gear off the light, five miles an hour and just nothing. You don't hear anything. Bike goes quiet, but it just takes time to learn, dude. Like, it's possible. I never did. I think I'd be able to wheelie like this. I've been wheeling for like seven years though, so. Okay, too fast coming back. Whoa. So when I hit the rear brake, I'm giving it too much because I wanted to come back down, but that one, I missed it and I felt comfortable. It's just really, I got to reiterate that and do it again. This is awesome. Okay, so it's nothing. Don't use the rear brake unless you're like far deep back there. Okay, we are learning. That's going to be challenging on flat ground. No lie. That's going to be different. Oh, come on. You got more than that. We're on a up-hill too. Give her more juice. You got to put more sugar in the Kool-Aid, baby. Okay. I get the idea. I really do. Harder said than done. Now, let's go over there and take a break. Oh, what the did you do? How don't pick the bike up from that way? It's funny because I know you don't care. That's the funniest part, but but how I didn't get it, but I looked back and I'm just like what? You can only benefit spreading positivity. I like that one. Spread love not STDs. Oh, wait. There's some stuff down there. Love is fake. Two trucks. Let's ride. You got? But I don't know. It's time to get lost. No. I don't know this road at all. Never been on it. No. Oh my God. That's gorgeous. ------- mighty jumped off. Just eat it. That's what? Unacceptable.