Mate amongst the thousands of caravanning and 4x4 Chanel’s you are such a refreshing and inspiring presence on this platform,huge thanks for bringing us on your adventures and representing for all our adventurous bike community.

@The_Apprentice_Adventurer

Жыл бұрын

@Roamin Life, I see you have been working through my videos. I hope you have seen my improvements in filming and editing even though still today I’m totally winging it and at amateur level. 😂. I really appreciate the comments. These sort of comments is what makes it all worth while. Even if it just inspires a hand full of people to get out and chase some adventure. Cheers buddy. 👍

@ZX6R-w6y

Жыл бұрын

@@The_Apprentice_Adventurer I’m hooked mate,keep up the great work brother 🤙👑🤙

4 :18 very cool👏

Bloody awesome. Ive done all tha and i never get sick of watching it again. Well done

Awesome video as usual enjoyed it great to see you carry Heinz Beans made about 10 miles from me in the good old UK,ride safe.

@The_Apprentice_Adventurer

2 жыл бұрын

@artiexr222, haha mate you could live of those things if need been. Great invention. Beans in a can, who would of thought.

Great Stumpy lizard save!

Just found your channel. I’m in 🍿

Great going mate! Have a good one!

Wow what a great adventure 💪, keep on riding dude ✌🏼🔥

Man I did Cameron corner in April 2021 and coming over that hill to see a massive lake in the middle of the road made my heart sink. I actually thought the trip was over just a few kms from the end point. Luckily it seems to be a common issue and a bypass road has been cut around it. Must be nearly time to get back out there again

@The_Apprentice_Adventurer

Жыл бұрын

Haha I can certainly relate to that mate. Absolutely, I’d love to get another proper desert type ride under my belt. Hopefully soon.

THAT was really really good. Well effn done!

Great adventure! we here at VikingBags really appreciate your content!

Awesome trip. You have inspired me to plan my own trip. Never considered riding by myself.

@The_Apprentice_Adventurer

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Desmond. I do most of my adventures solo. Makes the trip that much more challenging yet rewarding I feel. Plus you can go fast, slow and change your itinerary on the fly and so on. Give it a shot and just go all out.

@kymstock1852

2 жыл бұрын

@@The_Apprentice_Adventurer I do a bit of solo adventure riding, but always take my Spot tracker/EPIRB and I wear a neck brace always. I got taken out by a Wallaby in SW Victoria that put me over the bars at 80 kph and knocked me out cold. Broken ribs and a collapsed lung. Luckily my previously damaged neck was unscathed. Even with the Spot tracker it took a couple of hours for help to arrive.

@The_Apprentice_Adventurer

2 жыл бұрын

@@kymstock1852 that’s sounds like a rough day. I have a PLB I bring as my backup but I guess that’s useless if your knocked out. Definitely need to be on high alert when riding solo hey.

Very beautiful place , I really like trekking adventure

hope you get your sd card back. your so lucky you have the get uo and go to do these rides. im such a lazy prick. i bought my drz 400 new in 2009 its only done 600 kms. your videos are great. no commercillised spelt wrong . rubbish. stay safe mate enjoy

@The_Apprentice_Adventurer

2 жыл бұрын

@Gary Winkworth, that SD card is long gone I’m afraid. All good there have be many great rides since then. Only 600kms. That’s brand new. Probably still be worth 8000 dollars. You need to set her up and hit the open road. Best motorbike for it.

Great vid! Bummer but the SD card. I make films too and have had similar issues in the past. I back up every night of the trip just in case. Anyways you'll be even more ready for the Simpson. Ride safe.

awesome vid mate done well :-)

Great vid!

Nice, i enjoyed that

Suscrip.Nro .80 Que viva el offroad. Australia la indomable

Fantastic! Just found ‘ya! Good luck on the Simpson! Your friend in Texas, John.

@The_Apprentice_Adventurer

3 жыл бұрын

@John Smircic thanks mate. Apart from new tyres and rear bearings to be fitted she is good to go in 8 weeks. Can’t wait.

Nice video.. well done..Be careful , adventure riding out in the west of NSW can become addictive

@The_Apprentice_Adventurer

3 жыл бұрын

@T7Rider mate your spot on. Every time I go I want to go again sooner and do something bigger or longer. It’s not good, I call it ‘The post ride grumps’.

I was a little worried that this would be a bit shit when you said you lost most of your footage, but you made it work. Well done.

That is brave doing it on your own. Just noticed you are from Quakers Hill. Another DRZ400E owner here in the Hills District. We often do the dirt track from Wisemans to colo. with some single track in between.

@The_Apprentice_Adventurer

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah it’s a bit dodgy on your own but easier as well in a way. None of my mates are keen on the long distance stuff. Yet I love it. I have done that track a few times over the years. Good mornings ride.

Looks like a lot of fun 🥴

See you in the Simpson. We have two DR's and two Dr's entering the Simson late May

@The_Apprentice_Adventurer

3 жыл бұрын

@Chris Preston. Nice I’ll be heading off on the 7th May, hopefully hit the desert a few days later. Currently though everything is under water out there. Fingers crossed that all corrects itself and it reopens. Good to hear that a few Suzuki’s will be hitting the sand.

nice ride

Nice adventure! Wish we had some deserts here in the Netherlands.., cheers.

@The_Apprentice_Adventurer

3 жыл бұрын

Mate I am a Dutchy myself. Just lucky my family moved to Australia when I was younger. You’ll just have to plan an adventure ride holiday to Australia.

@muppet000111

3 жыл бұрын

@@The_Apprentice_Adventurer That would be awesome, maybe in the future..cheers.

The Covid fence. Looks like a fun trip.

@The_Apprentice_Adventurer

3 жыл бұрын

@luke Clarke. Hopefully that ‘COVID’ fence is gone in a few months. I need to cross it for my next trip. Yeah I had a blast out there.

Bro this is sick! Massive shame about loosing your SD card. Me and a buddy are heading out for a 10 day trip around NSW in a couple weeks - recon my street scrambler can handle it? Haha. My main concern is fuel, I only get about 200kms out of a tank.

@The_Apprentice_Adventurer

3 жыл бұрын

Moto Feelz while your out there stop at Olive Creek campground and have a look for me lol. I only found out I lost it once I got home (1000km away) and was just gutted about it. Such a good experience and footage to share. You’ll be sweet, just strap a petrol can on the back and you’ll double your range easy. Keep it empty most of the time and only top it up on the big sections. DIY fuel solutions haha.

Cool video. Don't forget... You can catch COVID when you are all by yourself, so make sure you wear a mask while you ride! ;)

Looked like an awesome solo trip mate, shame about losing the SD card. 👍

@The_Apprentice_Adventurer

3 жыл бұрын

@bikerBytes. Thanks mate. Yeah I was so gutted about that when I got home. I was prepping to make my first ever video which had some great footage but BAM no SD card. Learnt a valuable lesson that week though.

@BikerBytes

3 жыл бұрын

@@The_Apprentice_Adventurer yeah, it happens. I have had no end of issues with my GoPro so I’ll probably switch to another camera shortly as I hope to be doing a big trip come autumn across to NSW and SA all going well. 👍

@The_Apprentice_Adventurer

3 жыл бұрын

@@BikerBytes likewise. Just bought a GoPro 9 and already it plays up. Ridiculous. In May I’m doing NSW to Simpson desert to Brisbane. Around 5000km. Might see you out there. If you see a yellow beast with a guy that’s to big for it that’s me ;)

@BikerBytes

3 жыл бұрын

@@The_Apprentice_Adventurer sounds like a plan mate 👍

Inspiring video, thanks for sharing. May I ask - what time of year was your trip for it to be so cold out in the desert?

@The_Apprentice_Adventurer

2 жыл бұрын

@John Bradley. This particular trip was July. The days were pretty nice but certainly some cold nights to be had.

Nice adventure mate 👍🏻

@The_Apprentice_Adventurer

3 жыл бұрын

JoshJB thanks mate. Next one will be the Simpson Desert. Can’t wait.

@_JoshJB_

3 жыл бұрын

The Apprentice Adventurer awesome! That is on my list also. Going off your trip map you aren’t too far from me. If you are ever keen on doing a trip together let me know 👍🏼

Love your vids brother I’ve been tossing up between the wr450f it’s the drz400 and doing the same thing what would you recommend

@The_Apprentice_Adventurer

2 жыл бұрын

@Carpo, thanks mate. For adventure type riding I’d go the DRZ for sure. The WR450f is an absolutely power house and great bike. However I feel that you’ll be dropping the oil and checking the valves all to often. On top of that the subframe is far less competent then the drz’s and you won’t be able to carry much weight at all. If you want a bike just for some over nighters and rip up the bush tracks then the WR will kill it. Just won’t last long on the highways after 1000’s of kilometres. Drz is half the price as well.

@scottytheexplorer2537

2 жыл бұрын

@@The_Apprentice_Adventurer righto thanks lance I will go the drz there are plenty up for sale at the moment I’m working in wa so I want to go riding on my days off but do the same thing you done ride through the Simpson desert from Toowoomba Qld so a big trip

Did you do the Simpson Desert in May 2021? I did.. it was awesome. 😁

@The_Apprentice_Adventurer

3 жыл бұрын

@Wanderer Moto, yeah sure did, just about to finish up the video for it. Looking back it was awesome but at the time, man I was hating on the desert at times lol. I didn’t give myself enough time to enjoy it I think, I only gave myself 1.5 days and really needed two full days.

@Wanderer1

3 жыл бұрын

@@The_Apprentice_Adventurer ahh damn so you basically hammered through it? I had a couple of mates with four wheel drives with me.. and they carried all my gear, so it was super easy for me to hammer it through.. also good company at nights when we had fires going while camping. I had to wait every 15kms for them to catch up which was frustrating and even then only took us three days to get through but we opted to stay the third night in the desert aswell coz of the amazing stars at night. Good sand riding practice. I'm gonna do it fully loaded next year on a tenere 700. The WR250R didn't have enough power to make it that exciting

@The_Apprentice_Adventurer

3 жыл бұрын

@@Wanderer1 yeah, I had only left Dalhousie Springs at 2.30pm and had to get out the day after due to a surprise 40th two days later in a Brisbane. I rushed it for sure which made it shit. Day two I was riding for ten hours straight and it killed me. It’s just carrying gear that makes it hard. It would be so fun with no gear. Good luck on your next trip. That’s a big bike. People do it though.

@Wanderer1

3 жыл бұрын

@@The_Apprentice_Adventurer Man that would've sucked coz you had to rush. Honestly you would have loved it if you got to do it in three days, or even two full days. The dunes are wicked fun hey. On the next one I plan on going through east to west first (steeper dunes this way) and then back again to birdsville. So going to run through it twice. Over about 5-6 days =D

You made the best of some shitty bad luck losing that SD card, e joyed it👍

I'm planing to buy one. A friend used to have one, I love it Off road. My doubt is the crusing speed. I'm from Argentina and usually i have 150 or 200 km of road between places I want to visit. 100/110 it's an sustaintable cruising speed?

@The_Apprentice_Adventurer

12 күн бұрын

@@markydayan yeah it’s perfect for that. Just put on a 15-44 gearing and check the oil levels often. You’ll be sweet.

Besides fuel tank what else did ya change? Seat? Rear / front sprockets? Suspension? What cameras?

@The_Apprentice_Adventurer

3 жыл бұрын

Hey mate. Check out my first video on my channel. I do a walk through of all the upgrades. Hopefully it helps you out.

Yo this is sick i have questions. 1. What model bike is this? 2. Could a royal enfield himalayan do this trip? 3. What level of rider do you need to be to do a trip like thus?

@callingrantham2553

3 жыл бұрын

Okay got the model

@The_Apprentice_Adventurer

3 жыл бұрын

@Callin Grantham mate I say just go for it. 1. DRZ400e Aussie version. 2. The Himalayan would do it fine. There was no crazy dunes or big hills. Just loose sand and desert type tracks. Just set the rear suspension to suit and have decent tyres like Dunlop 606’s. 3. You’ll get better at riding as you go on the trip in terms of the sandy tracks. Just be confident at doing 100km an hour in the loose stuff to cover the required distances and glide over the corrugations for smoother riding. Otherwise if you can ride a bike you can do this trip for sure in my opinion. You’ll be sweet. Just need to ensure you have enough fuel and water.

@callingrantham2553

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this, i have a few road bike things to learn on track then in the next 1-2 years I'll be definitely doing a trip. Keep it up bro, your videos get me pumped

@The_Apprentice_Adventurer

3 жыл бұрын

@@callingrantham2553 mate if my videos get you pumped imagine how you will feel when you finally hit the desert tracks. No better feeling. Good luck with your riding bro.

@callingrantham2553

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers mate

My pops pop built that pyramid it’s near milparinka

@The_Apprentice_Adventurer

3 жыл бұрын

@samuelsmith. That’s some Pretty cool history to have in your family. Well when I was there it was still looking solid as.