Awesome journey through the gnarliest bits of the UTBDR! Unfortunately that Utah weather will win if it wants to. No shame in calling it... the trails north would have been impassible in a 4x4 with all the mud. Still... the Lockhart Basin is no joke! Well done through there!!!

@backcountryadvmoto

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! It’s pretty much how a lot of our trips go. Even though Murphy is never invited he always comes along. Literally record lows and snowfall for that time of year.lol

I was in Moab May 14/15 2019 on my Tiger 800, just touring on tarmac. I hit Monument Valley on the 16th and winds started picking up. Checked the weather and tore down my camp and bolted to the warmth of a hotel in Flagstaff for a couple days while it poured, clearly the storm that caught you guys. Well done for riding it out.

What an awesome trip,the scenery is amazing, some places where very sketchy but it felt as if I was riding there and was a bit stressed out, but thanks for an incredible video, enjoy the outdoors and your beast of a bike

You and your buddy are truly great riders. Thanks for sharing. Glad you called it off. We need you for more rides and SAFETY is first...

Thank you and thank you!! Had a dirt bike when I was young (20) and rode the woods, strip mine and coal fields of Tuscaloosa and Brookwood Counties (AL) with a dear friend. That was 49 years ago. Over the years, I've driven motorcycles of all types - all owned by friends. It's been a dream of mine to take a cross country motorcycle trip since I was 13. Unless something remarkable happens, videos like yours are as close as I''ll ever get. Vicarious though they are, your videos are a treasure and better than any production from the Film Factory. There is an unseen uncool group of us out here who value your work more than you know. P.S. I don't claim your riding skills for one second. Day after tomorrow, my butt will unscrinch from watching your descent from the top of that hill.

@backcountryadvmoto

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words. Its comments like that that make the video process worth it. The whole point of me making these videos isnt to make the tiny bit of money youtube offers but to allow those as you said live through the experience as if they were there too and hopefully one day get out and do trip like this. I hop you are wrong when you say you will most likely never get out on a trip across the country. One think Ive learned, When there is a will, there is always a way! Just go for it!

Really appreciate the high quality and the high bar u set for other KZreadrs! Great video! I don’t think people realize what a workout it is to go through this terrain on a fully loaded bike.

That is the best most comprehensive video I have seen of Lockhart Basin, even the best video of any hard section on any adventure ride anywhere.

My utmost respect for these two gentlemen, thanks for taking the time to share. Wow, what a skill!

@backcountryadvmoto

Жыл бұрын

Our pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it

That was some bad ass riding! You guys rock ( no pun intended)! Excellent video too! Thanks for sharing 👍🏻

Looks amazing, definitely love how your twin is set up. Now if only I had the time to get out and ride.

Thanks for taking us along...U tuffed it out long as you could....Yea..Amazing Country we got..Tricky Bits to take a big, loaded A Bike on..Jolly Excellent Cool Work...Onward !

A lot of ride videos are about the bikes, gear and look at me. Your video is about the ride. Well done guys.

@backcountryadvmoto

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for checking it out. Glad you liked it

Man. One of the best edited videos I’ve seen. Thank you for all the work you put into it. It gives a very realistic view of the route and its challenges.

@backcountryadvmoto

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words. Definitely one of my favorites

@Freedom-xb4tg

2 жыл бұрын

I'm agree with you!!!👏👏👏 Totalmente de acuerdo🤘🤘🤘

My gosh. You guys are monster tough and have the guts to push on. Amazing skills

Very good video! I’m pretty sure that ride is over my skill level, especially on those tall bikes. Congratulations!

@backcountryadvmoto

4 жыл бұрын

+Irv Eichorst thanks for watching

Simply THE Best UTBDR video I have seen yet!!! Awesome job. Been through all those section at least 3 times and this video does the best job of capturing the moments of any! Wow. We were there literally a week later, and had 85 deg and sweltering through Lockhart. Saw a couple of comments calling it Lockhard, and YES, it is. While this video is about as good as it gets, the riding is actually harder than this video portrays. These guys are rock stars!!!

@backcountryadvmoto

4 жыл бұрын

+Stephen Barnes thanks for the compliments and thanks for watching 👍🏻

Great video and excellent riding. Hope you finish the BDR. A friend and I were on the So Cal BDR and snow stopped us as well. Adventure riding at its finest!

My hats are off to you guys, Excellent riders!! I'm an old dirt bike rider and here you guys are pushing those big ass adventure bike thru , awesome footage too.

@backcountryadvmoto

3 жыл бұрын

I appreciate the positive comment. Thanks for watching

Sweet 40 minute vid on the bdr I am doing I love it!

ADV riding at it's best, brings out the best in people too.

Fantastic video guys apreciate the skills you have and convinced me to stick to tarmac touring

You know the riding skills are awesome and the terrain is monster hard when you get sweaty palms just watching the video. Just an amazing job both of you. UTBDR is on my list and I would like to try Lockhart. You have given me some pause. Thanks for the riding and the work putting the video together.

Wow guys Mega empressive dirt Rider myself was riding with you the whole time you both did fantastic rate video very hard act to follow appreciate

That was flat out awesome! Loved the riding and the commentary!

Well done you guys! I think watching your videos here made me more anxious than when I did it on my Strom. Except I went the other direction and that means up Lockhart Basin. Best ride of my life! Will definitely do again.

A++++ guys. Awesome-ness !! One of the more realistic footage of UT BDR. Thanks for the incredible footage.

I live "back east" and do nothing but dream about rides like this... got the bike, got the gear, just ain't got the time... yet, but someday, hopefully sooner than later... excellent video, really shows what it's like

Spectacular nature! I've enjoyed the view and your ride, thanks!

Nothing really shows how difficult that southern approach to Moab is like this. Great job guys. I did this with the family in the Tacoma except we moved much..much slower. We spent a couple hours stacking rocks to get down the ledges. Let me tell you the fear of turning around really pulls a family together.

@backcountryadvmoto

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment. I get it man. Turning around for us is never an option unless we absolutely have too. It killed us to have to call it quits early due to the weather, but we knew there was just no way we would get over the La Sal Mountains

Wow. Epic route, epic riding, epic footage. Well done and thanks for sharing.

@backcountryadvmoto

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Wow! Amazing footage and raw narration. Thanks for recording and posting.

Just frickin awesome, you guys rock !

At 35:14... 2 singles in razors and a guy on a 4 wheeler. "Probably a tour" love it! Great video.

Magnifique....Merci pour cette belle vidéo ;)

You guys have mad skills! Love Utah and Moab especially. Well done.

@backcountryadvmoto

4 жыл бұрын

+J G thanks for watching and thanks for the compliment 👍🏻

Definitely looks fun but maybe not on my 1290. Need a 790. Great video!

Great riding , bad ass video what a adventure !!! I can’t wait to ride some bdr, thanks for sharing!!!

Great work in Lock Hart. As you said, it will test you. I broke my right collar bone riding my R1200GS about 15 miles in in Aug 2016. I won’t take that big of a bike in there ever again. You guys did great.

@backcountryadvmoto

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching. It is tough for sure. Some of the section can change drastically every year. Ive ridding the lockhart section both ways many times and its different nearly every time

Cool scenery and well done navigating that technical part.

Amazing job on video guys! And wow, truely impressive riding skills! I'm planning the UTBDR in 2024. But after watching this, I think i'll leave my Honda AT at home and pack up my FE501 on this one. Thanks again.

We did the UBDR in 2017. My hats off to you and your sidekick. Lockhart should be named Lockhard! Subscribed out of respect. Way to go. We did it in September and had very little rain.

Great video. Much respect riding those adv bikes through there!

@backcountryadvmoto

4 жыл бұрын

+Frank Smith thanks you.

That is one gorgeous area value of the gods I think that's one of the most beautiful places that I have ever been in I have been there 3 years ago and I loved it now I want to come back but because of covet restrictions I'm not able to great video

Great Video and drone footage! Nice riding an picking lines in lockhart basin. I wouldn't think much of the BDR north of Green River would be doable in late may. You guys are tough!

@backcountryadvmoto

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

Great video, thanks. Taking a loaded 500lb bike over those trails is an exercise in keeping them on 2 wheels. I hear the stress in your breathing...LOL. I've done these trails on a 250lb enduro without issue, but you guys have some guts taking such heavy bikes over this mess. My hat's off to you both.

Bloody good, and gutsy riding guys. Thank s and enjoy

Great video! Had to cancel my trip to Moab this April, due to Covid. Hopefully opens up in the fall. I dipped into the start of Lockhart basin on my 1200GSA in 2012, a month after major abdominal surgery. Wasn't planning to do it....just wanted to have a look. Glad I didn't try! I'll bring a smaller bike for that.

That was an awesome video, awesome scenery and especially awesome riding! I wouldn't do that on a 250 (well maybe) yet alone on an Africa Twin or F800.

Have ridden Lockhart Basin on a Yamaha wr450 dirt bike with day pack. Can't imagine doing it on fully loaded big bikes. Great job making it thru with no mishaps.

Wow! What a ride. Great video footage too. Bucket list for me.

@backcountryadvmoto

4 жыл бұрын

You should! It was a good trip. Thanks for watching

One of the best video that i ever Saw. GREETINGS FROM ITALY

Guys undoubtedly you are expert off road riders...

@backcountryadvmoto

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words. I don’t see myself as an expert, but I’m constantly trying to improve.

Respect. Gnarly stuff for any big bike. Awesome views when youre not looking at the track to be sure!

@backcountryadvmoto

4 жыл бұрын

For sure!

Nice video! I really appreciated the long uncut segments of video on the Lockhart section. People usually chop their videos into little chunks all edited together, and it's hard to get a sense of what the whole route is like. But with yours I felt like I got to see the whole thing. Thanks!

@backcountryadvmoto

4 жыл бұрын

+CrackedCanyon thanks. I do chop my videos otherwise they would be hours long, but for sections like Lockhart, there is just so much great terrain, I like to let it roll👍🏻

Great video, man. Keep up the good work.

Great ride, breathtaking scenery !! Hope you two will finish soon this route and film it !

@backcountryadvmoto

2 жыл бұрын

I hope so too!

Love these videos. Can't wait to hit some BDRs on my DRZ

Great footage, great action and great attitude. Live to fight another day!

Amongst the better ADV productions out there. Solid editing and dialogue. I like the vids you have where you narrate. Not a big fan of the music people put on as it's great to "hear" the experience and you sharing your thoughts. Thanks for putting these together.

Saved this for when I needed something inspiring, and it did not disappoint. 😁

@backcountryadvmoto

4 жыл бұрын

+David Hathaway thanks David👍🏻

Wow looked like quite the adventure with some difficult terrain to cover

My boys and I were just over the border in Colorado , enjoying the same weather 2019 - we went again 2020 much drier and sun

That’s great effort on big bikes,,,,,,, the video makes everything look 2D and flat but in reality it’s hard core...... nice work

@backcountryadvmoto

4 жыл бұрын

+advrider777 thanks , yeah the wide angle in the GoPro really makes things looks so much less than what they really are

Subscribed! Dang you guys had some weather extremes for sure! Can't wait to see what else you guys get up to.

Nice handling, Big bikes do not like to wander through rock spewed river beds and slick rock, well done control and trail picks !!! I'm glad you filmed it, thanks!

@backcountryadvmoto

4 жыл бұрын

+Steve Tolman thanks for following along

That crazy sh*t! I'd barely be able to do that on a 250 much less an 800. Mass respect. Thanks for sharing.

I watched the entire thing, and enjoyed it

wow ! good stuff man, i mountain bike Sedona for a week every year and we ride similar stuff, but I didn't know you can do that with a 500lb motorcycle ! I just got a Tracer 9 , unfortunately I think I'm limited to fire roads .

Just got back from a UT ride that place is off road heaven Good job on the video

I personally would maybe try it on a smaller dirt bike and with a riding buddy.Thanks for sharing your adventure.

Dude, you guys did SO GOOD.

The two of you did a fantastic job on Lockhart basin. I did it on a KTM 350 a few years ago.

@backcountryadvmoto

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the compliment and for checking out the video

Nice! We were on the BDR in May also. Got into the snow by Bears Ears pass and decided to skip around to Monticello and into Indian Creek. Called it in Moab and stayed to ride there were the weather was good. Did Lockhart N to S. amazing!

@backcountryadvmoto

4 жыл бұрын

Dr. Sober crazy, maybe we saw you. We did the exact same thing, but went over bears ears lol. Whoops

Awesome guys!!! Beautiful and great skill.

@backcountryadvmoto

4 жыл бұрын

+Kanwar Gill thanks! Thanks for following along

Some of that looked like TW200 turf to me. Good job getting through it. Nice video.

Great job. Looked like a great adventure.

@backcountryadvmoto

4 жыл бұрын

Sciberras Outdoors thanks! It really was

Welcome with a belated greeting from Utah. I think I'll stick with my Honda Reflex 250 scooter. Too old for your incredible machines. Wrecked on a bullet bike once and that kind of took the steam out of me. Much respect to both of you. Be careful out there. Lots of idiots on the road.

wow. you boys got some balls doing that trail on adventure bikes!

Absolutely the best UT BDR or any BDR video footage I've seen. A++++. Amazing footage. Extremely realistic. Almost as good as being on the trail. Thanks.

@GratefulOverlander

Жыл бұрын

Lol, you obviously don't watch many videos. Have you seen the videos the BDR group puts out by Noren Films?? They created this shit! Give them credit where it's due

@greatfallskam

Жыл бұрын

@@GratefulOverlander Absolutely. Credit to all parties. I am a BDR rider, past member, and supporter. Kind of know sterling. All good. I probably watch a couple hours of KZread a night.

AA+ video. Last July me and buddy blundered onto Lockhart from Monticello. We were on DR650 and Honda 650L loaded doing the TAT. We made it to top of canyon at dark. Out of water we pushed on arriving Moab 3:00am. Thanks to this awesome video I now can see what we rode. It’s no joke!

@backcountryadvmoto

4 жыл бұрын

Nice work! Sounds like an adventure for sure

We did Lockhart reverse from your trip last October and one thing we didn’t get was the trail footage. I am so glad to see yours. We had four Tacomas, an 80 series land cruiser, a guy part time riding a Yamaha 250, and a Jeep Cherokee. That ledge in the intro cost the Jeep a CV. We winched up 2 Tacos and the Jeep, and pushed the bike up. That trail is brutal I can’t imagine riding it either way!

@backcountryadvmoto

4 жыл бұрын

+Flyanb for sure. I’ve ridin it both directions a few times and the opposite direction is definitely the harder route. There are two sections, the one you mentioned about the CV and another one about a mile after that that are damn near impossible if you don’t hit it just right. Thanks for watching

Wow brothers....nicely done!! That makes the WABDR look like stroll through park with an ice cream cone. I'd love to ride it but man that is way past my pay grade on tech skill with my GS offroad. Maybe someday. ;-) Anyways man, awesome. Keep up the great videos! -cheers-

Incredible nicely done!

Wow beautiful views! This is what its all about!

@2WheelPursuit

Жыл бұрын

also, impresive riding! especially for such big bikes!

Awesome video. Just got back from VOG last weekend. That was pavement compared to Lockhart. Holly cow.

Beautiful beautiful country! I love North Idaho! You should do some rides around Sandpoint and give people a little taste of that local area 👍👍

Who would thumb down this video , makes zero sense . Probably jealous they weren't there . Some amazing country that Utah . Never been but one day soon hopefully . I can totally see the benefit of those Flex Bars . Trail so sketchy the drone turned around and tried to escape , haha .

@backcountryadvmoto

4 жыл бұрын

Hardworking American hahaha that’s funny right there. The flex bars do help for sure. As far as the thumbs down goes. I ignore it lol. Shoot, KZread considers any interaction a positive so even the thumbs down helps me out. Jokes on them 😂

Super awesome trip man.... loved.

@backcountryadvmoto

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Good job getting through Lockhart Basin, that's a tough section

Amazing - awesome scenery and great riding. Some of the terrain you were negotiating had my palms all sweaty😁... impressive how you dealt with it, especially on pretty heavily laden bikes. I was engrossed from the minute you turned off the tarmac.

@backcountryadvmoto

4 жыл бұрын

+Bob Duncan Thanks for the kind words Bob, glad you were able to riding along with us through watching 👍🏻

@jimwortham8634

4 жыл бұрын

But believe me I was riding right with you

i recognize that highway going through mexican hat. funny right angle turn. i've gone through there a couple times on a road bike travelling from South Dakota to Phoenix. i have a gs1150 now so can't wait to get to Utah again

@backcountryadvmoto

2 жыл бұрын

You'll have a blast on the 1150. So many options to explore with a bike that is dual purpose. Thanks for watching.

You guy's did some hard ridding. Great vide thank you.

@backcountryadvmoto

4 жыл бұрын

+Andor Koval thanks, and thanks for watching

Excellent footage.....good job!

@backcountryadvmoto

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks and thanks for watching. If you are not a subscriber yet, make sure and hit that subscribe button so you know when we release new videos.

Your videos are impressive; your adventures are incredible! 🌄 Could you provide insights into managing fatigue during those marathon rides and keeping yourself in top shape? Exciting topic!

woow congratulations bro ... an excellent route ... greetings from Mexico city¡¡

Great ride! I love southern Utah!

We ran Lockhart over Hurrah Pass, same direction you did. We had a 950 Adventure with us, but the other 4 of us were on lighter DS bikes. The guy on the 950 was waxed when we finished! Had a Yamaha break the crank gear and lock up halfway through! Spend several hours at the intersection just after you come out of the hard shit in the canyon decent. Finally got back to the hostel about midnight...fun shit, I’d do it again! Maybe not on my Twin though, but maybe! Enjoying the vids brother!! 🤘🏼

@backcountryadvmoto

4 жыл бұрын

Biker Sasquatch thanks for watching. I’ve ran this section the opposite direction 4 other times out of Moab, but never this way. This way was definitely easier than trying to ride up everything lol. I’m a bit psycho though, and love the challenge. Safe riding, and looks out for more videos to come 👍🏻

Awesome video 👍 thanks for sharing your trip

@backcountryadvmoto

4 жыл бұрын

+Matt Staci you are welcome. I just hope it helps someone some day get out on their own adventures

Que buena ruta, hermosa!! I have the same F800, epic bike!!!

I’ve driven Lockhart Basin in my modified jeep. Can’t imagine trying to do it on a motorcycle.To bad you have to focus on the road ahead of you and miss the Colorado River and all the beauty of Canyonlands.