This channel is all about off-pavement moto adventures. My first motorcycle was a KLR 650 that was affectionately named the Adventure Piggy. It was a bit clumsy and heavy, but it was eager to go where I wanted. The KLR had enough at 87,000 miles and suffered from a cracked head. It has been replaced with a Yamaha Tenere 700, which does everything the KLR did, but better. Well except fuel range...
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These are getting harder to find over the last 10 years. Love the looks and design like the Transalp has, timeless. But, I worry about sourcing parts. Have you encountered problems?
It belongs to a good friend of mine, but I don’t think he has had any problems, but he has also completely rebuilt a Kawasaki H1 so not sure if he is the best barometer 😂 He also says it’s the most dependable of the bikes he has. Plastics on the other hand may be a challenge.
Fabulous ride and scenery!
I just did that loop in April on my Africa Twin, such a fun route. I was camped right there by turn off to El Oso Rd. Thanks for the video.
It’s beautiful country. Did you get any desert flowers on your ride? That’s one thing I really want to experience. Thanks for watching!
@@AdventurePiggy I did, there is a lot of roads to explore on the NW side of the lake, as well as part of the AZBDR is at the NE side.
Thank you for the excellent video. I recently did a similar ride to Roosevelt Lake on my Triumph Tiger 900 GT Pro. After retiring 4 years ago, I moved from New Hampshire to the Phoenix area. I've ridden for over 50 years and always owned dirt bikes, sport bikes, and road racing machines. I recently bought my first adventure bike and I'm having a blast riding and camping in Arizona. The riding here is ideally suited to an adventure bike with their ability to ride on-road and off-road, and their 200+ mile range between gas stops. Thanks again for the video - it brought back some great memories of my Roosevelt Lake ride.
I’m happy you enjoyed the video! There is something very special about riding in the desert.
Most of those horses are ranch strays. I used to work out there on ranches and they are not all gathered up. Yet the myth lives on about their origin. Nice scenery, quite different environment than your trip last summer.
I live in a little piece of heaven in a green area of So. Jersey ,dense forest on 3 sides with no neighbors in eyesight in summer .Wintertime I can see the next home through the trees. I have lived in peace with my family in peace here for 20 years, we use our own well water & septic. We are hooked to electric , but burn oil or wood for heat. All we hear hear is the wild life, pretty strange for the most crowed state . About 5 years ago a land owner about a mile up the road sold about 15 acres & a home was built & we felt we would start to get some noise from the new house, no turns out they are not noisy except for a lawn mower once a week.
I really enjoyed your video. Thank you for sharing it! I've been hearing a lot about the Pine Barrens, but I understand the area is huge. Could you recommend a good starting point to begin exploring from? Thanks!
I'm glad you enjoyed it! The area IS huge! I think that Brendan T Byrne State Forest is a good place to start. The larger sand roads tend to be pretty well maintained and not too deep. There are some old cranberry bogs to see and Whitesbog Village to the north gives a pretty good idea of what the little towns in the area used to look like. It's a good idea to bring a friend. (I know, I know, this video was solo) Cell phone service is spotty so be prepared for that too. If you are new to sand riding, the Pine Barrens Adventure School has a good intro to sand riding course. Lighter bikes will be much easier. Wharton State Forest is really cool as well, but is more remote and tends to have deep sand and water. Oh, regarding puddles; ride around them. You never know what lurks beneath the surface in the Pine Barrens. And the Pine Barrens 300 or 500 event usually takes place in November and gives a 2 or 3 day GPS guided tour with food and a sweep crew to make sure no one spends the night in the woods. I typically avoid the pine barrens when it's above 65 degrees or so. Sand riding is hard work.
Thanks a million for your reply. Super helpful information. I'm sure others will find it valuable as well. Safe riding and I look forward to more of your videos.
you didnt wave.
I've been waving with my foot since I saw that riding around Ireland :)
Get yourself to Tuckerton. Find Great Bay Blvd., follow it east to the very end over a couple of one-way wooden bridges barely above water level. Park at the end. That's Rutgers Marine Research to the right . Walk ten seconds through the reeds. To your left is the very southernmost tip of Long Beach Island, the protected stretch that is part of the Forsythe Nat'l. Wildlife Refuge. No humans, just birds there, and look east to the A.C. skyline & Brigantine some miles away. Sit on the nearly deserted beach & eat lunch. Ride back to Tuckerton, visit the seaport museum, head north and west into the Pines to do hours on remote sand roads. Don't be surprised to drop it or get stuck, so...best not go alone.
The Great Bay Blvd is on my list of places to visit! I did go through some of the sandy bits of Bass River and Wharton later in the video. I know those roads pretty well from years of wandering around the pine barrens.
I've been there a couple of times but never on two wheels. Great bay Blvd is how you describe it . Then after the ride through the pines go to Christine's house of the King Fish Barbeque in Shamong. I think it's on 202. It's like you took a transporter to Mississippi. Old school, get wonder bread by the slice to go with your bbq beans and ribs....
@@charlesvanacore7459 I stopped at Christine's House of King Fish BBQ at the end of this ride! It was excellent :) I don't know why there weren't more people there. Pic-A-Lilli just down the road was packed...
Who knew there was such great riding in NJ! I live in FL and I didn’t picture the riding to be so similar. You were ripping it!
Lots of sand and pine trees in the Pine Barrens. No palm trees though :)
Good info
I’m glad you found it useful
NJ is an extremely beautiful state...too bad its been run to the ground by leftism.
Almost impossible to get the scorpions off with hand tools.
I have heard that the bead is really hard to break on the stock scorpions on the Tenere. I used a Raboconda tire changer for the first tire change and didn't notice anything out of the ordinary, but the bead breaker works pretty well on that setup. The tire changer is definitely easier than using the trail tools...
As soon as I see gravel, I turn off my ABS, and then it is off until I get home again :) Doesn't bother me that you need to turn it on after a rest stop. But can agree with you, smooth solution.
The ABS memory is nice to have, but the addition of disabling the rear ABS only is what convinced me to order it. I hardly ever turn off the front ABS now.
😂 they do follow the light.. this is also the hack how to catch them.. but I don't know how to cook
I suppose headlights are too new to have any evolutionary instincts 😂
I hate tubed tires. There is no reason to run these on a nearly 500lb, bike. Good job though.
I certainly see the appeal of tubeless. I guess I learned how to change tires with tubes and haven’t had many problems to sour my view of them.
How do I find these roads? Do you have gpx files?
Here is the track from the ride. If you don’t have deep sand experience, beware of Bass River State Forest and to some extent Wharton State Forest. The rest is all pretty tame. go.rever.co/yHzw93aP7Jb
I need someone like you who can show me around NJ. I am new to adv riding. I live in old bridge NJ. Let me know if anyone is interested in riding together. BTW, awesome video!!
Thanks! What are you riding? I'd be happy to go for a ride some time. @advpiggy on instagram
Great video! As a happy owner of one, i can confirm it´s a great bike. Not only for dirt roads but it´s excellent for travel too, it can cruise at 65 mph easily and top speed of 85/90. I´ve the MD21 engine (Same engine as the tuned up version AX-1, which was installed on late NX250´s getting the same engine as the Japanese version). A very capable and fun to drive machine that hold trough the years very good. (Mine has 60.000 miles on the clock and still going, like the first day)
I’m glad you liked it! I had a great time borrowing the bike from a good friend to make this. It’s funny how Honda saved the best version for their own market.
Curious if there is maps on apps for this.
Here is the track from the ride. There is some deep sand in Bass River and Wharton. go.rever.co/yHzw93aP7Jb
@@AdventurePiggy Guessing Rever is worth it?
It depends. It comes with the revzilla subscription, which makes it a much better value. It has all of Butler Map’s recommended roads, which is pretty cool. I still prefer to use a standalone GPS, for navigation, and I prefer basecamp for route planning. I did use Rever for my trip to AZ and it worked fine. It also saved my bacon when the stand alone gps was losing gps signal last weekend. Their base map is very detailed. The auto zoom can be a little annoying. It’s free to use, but the subscription covers the butler map stuff and offline features. You can definitely get a sense if you like it with the free version.
Awesome content! Can you also tell us what you think about the Acerbis tank, and how it affects handling?
Thank you! I didn’t notice a difference in the handling after installing. The tank itself is a little lighter so it only adds weight when it’s completely full. It’s a tiny bit wider than the stock tank so the side panels don’t fit as well around the side windscreens as with the stock tank, and if you want to put a steering damper on, you will need to heat and deform the tank a little.
Fairly certain that turtle #3 was a red-eared slider...not sure if they're native as far north as NJ
They aren’t native here in NJ, but they are a common pet that gets released.
Enjoy your content and quips. Looks like some Bucks County stream x’ings toward the end of the vid.
Thank you! And yes, those are the ones.
Thanks. Solid review. What seat is that? You do a lot of miles on that bike and after 3 hrs I’m ready to call it quits. Great job on the pinebarrens vid.
I got the seat cover from eBay. It looks to be a clone of the wind rider ones or even made in the same factory. There are a couple brands that look identical. I’m pretty happy with it especially since it was $35. I spent two weeks straight on it going out to the Black Hills last summer and the seat wasn’t really bugging me.
Turtles like to sit on a hot asphalt and you bother them!!
The ones I moved looked like they were trying to get across, but I'll keep that in mind in the future. I've just seen too many squished ones.
@@AdventurePiggy Yeah I get it but I guess that area is very remote and not many vehicles around?, anyway you're a good person, who knows maybe you saved a few turtles that day.
Due to some medical issues plus being 75 I don’t do overnight camping when riding my ADV bike. Is it practical to do a chunk of this ride in 4-6 hours? Looks really interesting. Did you get any salt residue rinsed off before damage?
You can certainly visit a good chunk of the Delaware Bay area in that time frame. It's a really interesting area to wander around. Fortescue and Higbee's Luncheonette are worth a visit too. And yes, the bike got a thorough cleaning after the trip.
This is an amazing adventure. Totally inspiring me to explore a bit more in NJ on my adv. What tires are you running?
I am using the Bridgestone AX41. They are light, pretty easy to mount, on the lower end price-wise of ADV tires (though they have all gotten so expensive the last couple years), and do well off road and on. I've had a rear last 5500 miles, but 3500 to 4500 is probably more realistic.
Watch out for ticks in the pines
Always! Those little buggers are everywhere!
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Very nice video. I like your presentation style. The history and local charms make me feel like I am there. I was stationed at McGuire AFB in the 80’s and would explore around southern Jersey in a Subaru Brat. There is some hidden adventure in Southern NJ.
My first car was a Subaru Brat and I went camping and exploring all over the pinelands in it!
South Jersey has some pretty crazy wildlife. The terrapins are one, but there's also some pretty aggressive muskrats that like to hop onto the road. There's also an awfully nice blue hole with some nice trails in south Jersey
I've never seen the muskrats. I'll have to keep an eye out for them next time.
My stomping grounds, down along the bay up to Wharton. Watching this vid as im getting ready to head out on my T7. Great job!
Thank you! Enjoy your ride!
Is there a route map?
go.rever.co/8RdxPZD0xJb
You are a good driver, but in my view, a little bit crazy boy. Thank you.
I will take that as a compliment :)
Wow I'll have to check this spot out on my triumph!
Enjoy! And watch out for side by sides!
@@AdventurePiggy Will do!
Great video! When did you record this/at what time of the year? What time would be ideal for such a ride, temperature-wise? Cheers :)
Thank you! I rode this back in January. It’s probably best late fall through early spring. The temperature is going to be the same or very similar to Phoenix.
I have a Honda AX-1, same as NX250, you can see how mono-shock works after change a recondition one. kzread.info/dash/bejne/qmFrlaSQpMqtd7g.html
I had the idle issue on a 2012 Tiger 800, the stepper motor that controls idle is exposed on that year and would get dirty and stop working. Eventually out of frustration, I removed the motor and mounted a locking screw hard stop for the idle and it never happened again, unfortunately cold starting was harder but it was a fair trade off. There are many videos explaining how to fix that. Your camera work is very good btw. Enjoyed your Vid.
Thank you for the detailed explanation! I suppose it got quite a bit of dust on it over a few days in the desert. Luckily it didn’t get me stranded. I suppose renting 10 year old motorbikes can be an adventure.
Thank goodness for tubeless, this is one reason I would not consider this bike for commuting. I like the bike but why do folks pay a high price then spend a 3rd as much again changing and improving? Well I think Yamaha need to up the game to keep up with newer bike on the market.
I almost bought a 125. Plastics were missing so I passed. Would have been an awesome looking bike!
Looks pretty cool!
Definitely a unique riding experience! I want to find more like it!
Love these bikes! Other than the rear shock I think they're fantastic.
Super fun little bike! They should have sold them all with the dual headlights that were on the AX-1.
Where was that train at the start of the video?
Just south of NJMP on railroad ave
Great vid! I live in S NJ and the Delaware River side and Pinebarrens are great…and, yes, sometimes, the google maps photo shows a road and then a gate…too bad. Can you post towns you hit? There are some that I did not hit when I rode and wold love to explore them
I'm glad you enjoyed the video! The route was Millville, Newport (Fortescue is a worthwhile detour), Turkey Point, Port Norris with the remains of Bivalve and Shellpile nearby, Heislerville WMA with East Point Lighthouse, Moore's Beach, Belleplain State Forest, Tuckahoe and the WMAs there, Mays Landing (Crabby's), Edwin B Forsythe NWR, Bass River SF, and into Wharton SF going near Batsto and ending by Atsion.
@@AdventurePiggy Thanks! Yeah, never hit Bivalve, Shellpile, nor the Heislerville WMA nor EWF NWR -those seem great! Thanks again!
I have a road named gay street not even joking
Unless the road was named in the last 70 years, it just means happy and bright :)
Hey! I just booked adv fest for this summer. Thanks for showing what to expect. I am flying into NJ from Sweden to pick up my dad and his bike. We are from south jersey too. How would you best give me some advice as a pine barrens rider on how to tackle the trails? Thanks for the video
First of all, have a great time! The terrain is certainly rockier than the pine barrens, but they have short loops on the first day of each difficulty level that give you a good idea of what to expect. There is also the BDRx in the area that does a big loop through all of the Black Hills if you have a little more time
Just picked up a 1989 nx250, pretty excited to get it in really good condition
Congratulations! Such a fun little bike!
@@AdventurePiggybuenas noches herm ,,,estoy restaurando una honda degree XL250S q es similar a la nx y la ax1 ,, me podrías informar donde comprar repuestos ,,, necesito los anillos del piston de 70mm gracias por la información,,,, saludos y bendiciones,,,, soy de Nicaragua
@@luisblandonmorales6629 I would use a site like www.babbittsonline.com/oemparts/c/honda_motorcycle/parts to find the part number and then find the parts one ebay or similar. Everything I saw for the XL250s said the standard bore was 74mm, but I don't know much about that model. Good luck on the rebuild!
i have an 1989 Nx250 its fun, i have had to change the jetting in it, do a valve adjustment, and that thing loves to be reved out to nearly red lining. if you want to do trails i recommend you puting an 11 tooth front sprocket o. :-]
It does love to be revved for sure! This one was on loan from a good friend and sees mostly back road and dirt road duty.
Great job on the video you put a lot of effort in. I really enjoyed watching your adventure ride. Love the T7. Cheers from Australia.
Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed the video. The T7 has been a great bike for me.
You need to ride the more tuned up version of that Honda NX250 Dominator aka AX-1. It is beautiful bike with 2 headlights.
I’d love to ride an AX-1! Where can I find one? I understand they were a Japan only bike.
importing one is the best option. Its a 1987 bike.
So true Adventure Piggy. You're an all around great guy!