Top 10 Off-Roading Mods For Your Adventure Motorcycle

Hi, I'm Ryan f9, ten miles here, get

your

dirt bike ready. You should know right away that this is an accessible list. My options cost between three and a couple hundred dollars and can all be installed by a half-drunk hobbyist. mechanic, because many of us are worse with wrenches than we care to admit, plus we're not that motivated to go to the garage unless there's beer involved and you really have the money for Rijos suspension and spoke wheels made custom anyway, and at that point just with a different

motorcycle

, so simple off-road mod, knobby tires number one.

I have made entire videos on the subject, link below, to summarize, the bump here, the tire, the better it will be in the dirt, the smoother the tire will be, the better it will be. pavement, of course, there are a lot of subtleties that I'm not going to repeat here, but I'm happy to repeat them there. A dirt tire is the best thing you can do to make

your

bike handle off-road and give me a brilliant target. in nabis and I will take it to the dunes, but with great power comes great responsibility. I mean, a knobby tire can take you to that epic rock garden or mud bog, but what happens when you drop the bike?

Nothing, as long as you have engine bars. and these protect your shell, your fairing, your tank in a perfect world the engine bar will touch the ground first of all, dropping your bike on its side is the most common mistake by the way as these scratches can attest to what it's worth My engine bars came from Suzuki but I wish they had them and they are too low to properly protect my fairing and things like they are cast iron and the best options come from the huge NSW Motech. Next is a protective plate. protective feature that will see the second most action after your engine bars See this is what the bottom of my engine case would look like if it weren't for this skid plate.

Now I'm pretty sure my V-strom has two millimeters of ground clearance, if you plan on taking a road bike off-road you'll end up feeling the same, so be prepared to obsess over things very often, which is More fun than it looks, as long as you're not turning off your engine every time you stop. My skid plate also takes a few shots from the front tire holding the pebbles back at a speed proportional to my right wrist. Was that more dangerous? However, it is the radiator and one. Sharp Rock gets thrown around here and this bike overheats faster than a Canadian and Kuwait one, that's what I installed a steel radiator guard to replace the one on the Duke, I didn't keep a plastic one, oh this comes from rave tech, By the way, just like my skate. plate rave tech manufactures accessories for some Suzuki, kawasaki and Ducatis.

Their products come from Thailand and shipping is on the geological time scale, but it is worth the wait. It is of great quality. Excellent client service. Super low prices. It is sitting in a safe place and very easy to install. The only drawback I notice is that the hardware that screws the bolts in is a little soft, mod number five and our last protection mod is a pair of hand guards. Your bike may already have something similar to this, but does it have this part because You'll need a decent bar if you plan on racing the woods, of course, hitting the trees with your knuckles first is sexy and, if we're honest with ourselves, It's not as common and this is more likely to save you from breaking. a Weaver clutch or brake when you drop your bike for the millionth time.

I should mention that there is a dark side to these things and everyone has a friend of a friend who saw a friend go over the handlebars only to get caught between the bar. and snapping barks and if we come out the other side with two broken wrists personally, I think it's a fluke crash and I've never seen it happen, I mean, while my hand guards have saved my own fingers and my own levers more times. From what I can tell the wrist breakers I won't keep them at half time five logs to five to go and now we're transitioning away from that boring protection and these are some cool little tricks that will turn you into a dirt god.

Like footpegs, aftermarket footpegs are invariably wider than the factory ones, providing a more stable surface to stand on. The other thing is this removable insert. I still have soft rubber to eliminate road vibrations but I can also have a serrated metal claw to ride a metal off-road quad it will not slip in the mud or harden in the dirt and when you control your bike by pushing your weight around the footpegs in that standing position is a huge benefit and great racing with huge, who is the manufacturer of this

adventure

footpeg? The 150 percent bike-specific adapter is sold separately.

Now tell me that wasn't a perfect product transition, and speaking of perfect transitions, if you're going to be standing on your new footrests, then you should also look at some bar risers. Chances are your handlebars are a little low for the standing riding position, almost all OEM setups are like this, when you ride like this for a while you will have shoulder, neck and back pain from having to slouch. To reach the grips, bar risers will lift the handlebars comfortably and are within reach and are fairly inexpensive to attach. I mean, there is no complex installation, no need to change the handlebars, usually no need to extend the table, just put this bit where the bar was used. to remove the handlebars up to here and that's it, it's the

motorcycle

equivalent of sitting in a phone book.

Now some of the more affluent

adventure

riders will tell you to install a high rise handlebar instead of just using risers as that also allows you to switch to aluminum and away from the factory steel on your bike. See aluminum has a nifty elastic quality to a given blow that could bend a steel bar and an aluminum one can spring back into shape anyway, upgrading your bars is good advice as long as you can afford it. Otherwise I would just use bar risers and only replace the handlebars if you bend them beyond repair number eight and our last mod that costs some money is the SW mo tech side stand foot over 60 bucks for this little one thing and that's officially it.

Big theft in most US states, but at least it keeps your side stand from sinking when you park on soft ground. A simple premise is to remove three screws that sandwich the foot of the existing side stand and you will have more surface area for more staying power. Anyone who's seen my Life Hacks video will know that an old hotel key card placed under your side fan works just as well, but it's annoying to dig into your wallet every time you have to take a break on the trail. Now let's finish this video with a couple of free

mods

for number nine, adjust the clutch and brake levers, you generally want them to be at a slightly lower angle for off-road use, which makes it easier to cover the levers while standing and therefore complementing the steeper angle of your arms, you also want to set a slightly shorter reach for off-road which makes it easier to precisely control the stick with just one or two fingers on packed terrain. of bumps, you'll want the rest of your fingers to keep their grip on your grips and finally mod 10 out of ten is a suspension adjustment here's the preload knob On my rear shock, now how I would do it depends mostly on if I'm wearing or not a tent and how many donuts I ate for breakfast.

Clockwise increases the preload for the fat Orion and counterclockwise decreases the preload for the thin Orion. Now this is the cushioning. screw which is more directly relevant to bumpy or off-road surfaces as softer cushioning, while concrete surfaces prefer harder cushioning; However, the dance needs to be toned down with the preload adjustment I already made because if I have increased my preload to account for the I spent a lot of time in tinnies and also need to err on the firmer side of cushioning. The same goes for my driving style. I tend to spend a lot of time in the air so I always set my compression damping a little higher or stiffer just so my suspension doesn't get to the bottom of it, obviously this topic is subjective for each rider and riding style, but those are the basic ideas to get you started and that's how I modify my motorcycle for off

roading

, thanks for watching.