I GOT MY NEW TOURING MOTORCYCLE!
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He's saying he's cheap but we all know he's gonna come back in a few months with a spec-ed out M1000XR 🤣🤣
You're not being cheap.
Liking the bike you already have and modding it to fit your needs adds character and I can respect that.
It's like seeing these pictures of dogs and their owners. That bike looks like it suits you.
Ha! I'm in the same boat. Decided to just make the best of what I have. The simple life is the best life.
Every bike is a touring bike ❤️. Adapt & overcome
Hearing your thoughts on these things is refreshing and seeing you get into touring at your age is affirming.
It's always about the feel when it comes to bikes.
I saw people with 90cc motorbike travelling the world while others with Multistrada and GS doing 600 miles per year.. as long as you ride and enjoy it, it really doesn’t matter what you ride
150cc is the best, you get cheap mileage, and still cruise at 100km/hour. Its lightweight at 130kg.
What can you not do on the Ducati Scrambler, well apart from race, but for everything else?
If I ever felt the urge to go round the world on a bike and that's what I had, I'd be happy enough to take that bike.
You're not a cheap bar steward Yam, just financially sensible. Plus, the big bonus is you have a bike that gives you a grin from ear to ear. What more could you want. 👍
being cheap at times is good and makes me like him even more
Love the honesty and creativity ... plus the fact that you do the mods yourself ! KUDOS sir .. I am also a believer ! Continued safe riding 2 U.
It's going to be fun watching Yammie as he gets older, and we see how his tastes change. Enjoy your channel.
Let’s goo, I love my desert sled, haven’t even watched the video but I’m just happy to see it get some spotlight!
Edit: why not wire the heated grips to the oem heated grip wiring under the tank?
Of course then you’d have to go see Ducati and have them turn the heated grip control on
Yeah I didn't want to visit the dealership at all and the Oxfords were cheaper!
I have been down that super upgrade road, too. Tubeless spoked wheels, upgraded suspension, heated grips, and so on. The most important part is to start with a bike that has all the stuff you cannot upgrade, and that has a strong aftermarket and community.
I was looking at the latest Africa Twin so I could get Apple Carplay, but lo and behold there are good-enough aftermarket units available for the moto now for $150. Upgrades win again!
After owning quite a few bikes and now riding the desert sled for almost three years now, i am finding it hard to find another bike to replace this bike with. This bike is just soo good! One of the first DIY mods I did on this bike was converted the stock wheels to tubeless by sealing the rims. Its working fine ! Totally mirror your thoughts!
the yams keepin real real w this one
That shift lever peg looks an AWFUL LOT like some handlebar inserts I just used to install handguards last week, along with a couple of washers... I'm impressed!
I totally get why you did this. I had a Triumph Street Scrambler that I absolutely loved and just modded it where I felt it was lacking until it was perfect for my needs.
No windshield tho ?
my same thought
I think you made the right call. Excited to see the adventures you get on!
One big issue with the sled is getting to the air filter is a huge issue. If you don’t plan on riding anywhere dusty, no biggie . If you do, and you need to change it often, it’s a massive disadvantage.
And changing that filter is important. If not, you can wreck your engine. Otherwise, the DesertX is so cool
The beauty of the Desert Sled is prrrreeeeetttyy hard to beat! Good choice amigo!
Great introduction, I was absolutely going to click away after the reveal!
Love the fact that you're a Ducati Scrambler simp. Last year was my first year riding and my first and current bike is a 2015 Scrambler Icon and def plan on keeping and upgrading it like this.
haha this is similar to the reason i daily the 1970-something CB 450 I found in my Grandpas basement. 400 dollars in work and it’s brand-spanking. Gotta love old hondas.
Recommend a windscreen for touring.
Are you mailing your luggage to it’s destination? Gotta admit, one of my necessities for touring is some sort of bag/case setup.
Less is more....love it.
I just downsized from a HD PanAmerica Special and a Kawa Versys 1000se....to now the Kawa W800. A lovely bike on which I can do the maintenance easily. Sure I lost all the performance but with some ohlins on the back it wonderful. Now I just need to do the front suspension and I should be set :)
Well done Yammie 🎉
… and that’s why we customize our bikes. It’s kinda nutty to think someone would spend another $7K to get what they already have, but with heated grips and a few other bells and whistles.
Im in love too with your motorcycle. You must not sell her. NEVER!
Meanwhile I swapped in my bike at $7500 for a $20k+ bike haha. I swapped my 701 SM for a 1290 SAS. I tried to make the 701 work for a couple of years, but just couldn't get out of it what I wanted. The upgrade made sense for me for what I was looking to get out of my bike. Enjoy your bike and look forward to see your trips.
I love the 1200 scrambler and have a 1200 Bonneville, but I think this is cooler.
I don’t disagree with your decision but the 7,500 Desmo service is a dealbreaker for me.
Do it yourself. It's not rocket science.
@@lrowlands53 a bit of a PITA if you’re touring
@@robynmolle5842maybe do the service before you leave.
Love the “run what you brung” comment. What about wind protection?
I was wondering the same thing. Until 10:20 of the vid "didn't like the look".
Good observations. I went through the same process with my 2013 BMW F700GS, which fits me perfectly. Ugraded the suspension and a half-dozen other elwments, and am ready for adventure.
Love what you did! We, motorcyclists barely ask ourself THE question (what do I need this thing for?) before falling prey to all the bells and whistles and becoming the next willing victim of the big brand marketing department. (Me the first!)
Your concept is how I toured for a few years on my 2017 Africa Twin happily enough while still hitting the forest service roads....till I wanted to get more radical off road and realized that I could sell my Africa Twin which allowed me to buy a 2015 XT250 with 4K on the clock, and a 2007 Honda ST1300 with 14K on the clock - both effectively pristine and still had cash in the bank. Atlas throttle lock worked fine on both bikes, and Oxford heated grips and wireless after market TPS system on the ST1300 only. I found a gent parting out his ST1300 and bought a formerly $800 corbin seat for $150. The ST1300 tours like a beast - huge mileage days can be pulled down with ease. We are not cheap, we clearly just appreciate good value!
The wind murders me on long trips... So I keep a naked bike for around the city, and use a BMW Rt for the road. I feel you being frugal. I am the same way. My bikes are older and cheap.
Get a "slip-streamer" windscreen. It pops on & off easily. You can stow it on tail when you don't need it. Super cool easy cheap (bastard) option.
I decided to customize my own ride. I purchased a used vespa and put a ducati v4 engine on it. I wheelie at 200 mph now while being comfortable. Best of both worlds.
In my humble opinion this is probably your best video in a while. I mean you should hear yourself laugh and being excited. Thank you for making this and hoping you will continue making such content. Respect from India 🇮🇳
Something special about the Sled that's hard to explain. Glad to see you make this your touring bike. Love the tubless mod. Let us know how it holds air over time. I'd love to do the same on the next tire change.
Love your setup and your decision making process. You will derive more pleasure from your efforts at modifying your bike you like than from the money spent on a new over sized bike. I need to take your approach for my WR250R....
I get this. I'm doing pretty much the same thing on my street triple R. Lacking wind protection and confort, with the fear of dropping the bike (not very cheap spare parts for these triumph) i'm fitting flyscreen with additional windscreen (motoforza touring set) and crashbars together with quickshifter.
I will see the results in a couple of weeks but pretty sure it's gonna be a nice - all around - trackday beast - parking lot driller out of am excellent naked little bike.
Cheers and ride safe.
I actually like that desert sled and am glad that you didn't sell it, I am a little worried that you had to mutilate the grip but am glad you kept it. It is encouraging to see someone stick by, defend and enjoy their choice of bike.👍👍👍👍👌👌👌👌👌👌
Shift lever peg: Gillette Mach 3 handle?
no wind-screens or anything? I run without one and after two hours on the bike my neck feels like it's perpetually moving forward.
Gonna test it without it, I'll probably end up getting a fly screen
Nice! Got ive been thinking about swapping my 636 to the 2024 ducati scram nightshift. Its a sign!
I rode a scrambler with some friends from Nîce to Tuscany and back (1300ish miles) and I had a great time on it. It does get a little hot on the right foot, but nothing proper riding boots couldn’t help (I was rockin some dock martins).
If you've got an amazing motorcycle that works for you, this is probably the better option than chasing the latest and greatest.
Nice to see someone just make some good mods to the bike they already have to make it more what they want. Especially nice to see it coming from someone who could easily just buy something fancier. Great example to set, sir! I feel the same about my Z900RS that you feel about your sled, minus any off-road....anything. Cheers.
Well done.
You asked the one important question we should all ask ourselves before buying a new bike, or any bike: 'What do I want this bike to do?'
Most of us get far too easily seduced by the marketing hype and magazine talk about all the features this or that bike has. It's the old Keep It Simple ... motto. What do we want or need a bike to do.
By the way, I settled on the Husqvarna 901 Expedition last year when I had to replace my old and trusted K100 RS. I'm surprised not more people include it in their short list. But, heck, yeah it is a very tall bike.
My experience with throttle locks (several including Atlas) is that they're not very useful. On the expressway if there are any hills I'd be anywhere from 65 to 85 MPH without touching the throttle.
Your ethos on money is good. You are right about bikes too, there is no such
thing as the perfect bike, but in my opinion the futher you go north of 650 cc and 400 lb the further you get away from it. True, really small bikes get intimidated by wind and traffic and lack the power that you think you need, but there really has to be a sweet spot these days around 50 to 75 hp and 500 to 700cc.
If you had been around 70's and 80's bikes you wouldn't have yearned for more engine power, just braking power. Bikes like the Duke 390 are great with less, but most will feel the need to try bigger bikes, some will be happier some won't, some like bigger girls....
I’ve owned my FZ07 since 2016 when I bought it brand new.
Over the last 8 years, I was tempted by so many bikes, a street triple 765, FTR1200, Duke 790/890, and many other bikes but I did the same thing you did, asked “what do I really need this bike to do?”
Most recently I was about to buy a new bike, but when I thought about it, I realized my gripes with it could be solved, and am in the process of addressing them and saving almost 8k by not upgrading to the bike I was thinking about getting.
Instead, im spending some of that saved money on my first track days ever this year 😊
There is a certain beauty to making your bike work for the task at hand. I have a Triumph Scrambler 1200xc and i wanted a tiger, but there's something cool making what you have work, like strapping all kinds of bags to the bike without burning them on the pipes haha.
1200XC is so much more exciting/exhilarating/enticing than a Tiger..
I'm paralleling you here, over in Aussie land where we have bazillions of long distances between pockets of civilzation. I have a Ducati Scrambler Icon - like your bike only different. To transmogrify mine I first made the gearing much taller - 1 tooth bigger on the front, 4 teeth smaller at the back. The bike now does 100kph @4krpm. Neat and still pulls like a buffalo. Rack on the rear with enlarger plate, lower, narrower bars - had to install a janky Chinese radial master cylinder to clear the speedo. Also fitted a cheapo friction cruise control. It's OK but you gotta realise, holding a throttle opening is not as good as controlling actual speed - like my car does. There's a screen with an extender so I really convey the dad-biker vibe. In terms of heated grips, the Icon comes with the wiring for factory ones, but you can use generic grips and get the controller turned on via the Ducati DDS system - the starter button turns the grips on once the bike is running. I'm going with heated gloves though. I also fitted Pirelli Angel GT tyres because of physics - the standard tyres will yeet you into guard rail or worse. Ask me how I know. Oh, a tank bag, horseshoe bag and 40 litre dry bag will get you and your gear to a pristine campsite with everything you could ever possibly need.
I like the TPM and also the full view garage door with privacy glaze.
I went into this off season ready to trade my bike but decided its all i need or want and its so satisfying to save the money and learn to love what you have
Use "Break Away" mechanical cruise control, it also disengages when you apply break
Welcome to touring. You've discovered the first rule of the touring motorcycle.
Find the bike you love and farkle from there. Good job!
I don't think you'll find that a flyscreen does anything for you without creating more buffeting and noise to your head. That said, Dart takes returns even if you try them, so you could order all three sizes and see if anything works. I believe clean air is far superior to anything short of a barn door on the front.
You're being less of a squid every year and more of a mature rider there, Yam. Hehe
Loved this video with all the fun camera work ❤
I'm glad you kept the sled. It's been a staple of the channel and it would have been sad to see it go.
No complaints about the range for touring? I initially figured that would be the first thing you had to adjust haha. When we were vanning, we did hit a ~100+ mile stretch without any gas stations in NW CO / SW WY.. BARELY made it 😄🤘due to lack of planning for such a stretch.
Yes cheap is good @ ten years ago I bought a lightly used and well maintained V Strom 1000 it ran down the road road comfortably and allowed me to travel two tracks and dirt roads with confidence and had forged wheels so the plug kit I carried in tool kit wouldget me out of a jam. Sorry I sold it two years ago. Look at used V Stroms there are plenty of 650s out there which are plenty capable.
Regardless cheap is good no matter what you are happy with.
but skateboard grip tape on the receiving side of the throttle lock. It keep her steady really well cause of the friction.
This is the same reason I'll always keep my KTM 690 supermoto. It's nice to have a "do it all" versatile bike.
I've borrowed a Husqy 401 Svartpilen and it rips, lightweight - quickshifter! but for distance ... the sheer comfort of a full fairing ZZR1200 - no need for heated grips - horses for courses. But, on the Husqy, I choose the slower B roads and it is wonderful - just depends, right?
Superduke GT -
I can't say it enough. Such a unicorn bike "Oh you want neck snapping torque and hooliganism... but want touring comfort, long range, heated grips (and seat), cruise control... but you want a sports bike not an adv bike".
If you want ADV then the SuperADV 1290.
For me it came down to the SD or the XR. I wound with the XR because I just love the howl of a 4 cylinder engine, but would love to have both, the SD and XR are similar in many ways, but vastly different in others. And while both look like they got the wrong end of a beating with the ugly stick, the SD kind of owns it; yeah, I'm ugly, and I'm wearing a color that makes it impossible to not look at how ugly I am; where the BMW tries to hide it's ugly (and fails). Good news, you don't need to look at either of them when you're the rider! ;)
I ride the Ducati Multistrada, but if I had the extra cash, my screw around bike would be the Ducati Scrambler.
Ohhhh now a throttle lock is ok....
He knows his audience is newbie riders, a lot don’t even have a bike. I wouldn’t suggest it for a newbie either.
@@joekavalauskas8767 makes sense. It was in his "stupidest mods" tho.
ADVENTURE DAD? Yammienoob is now my dudes...... Get ready for the brown textile gear reviews 😂
Its like my moto guzzi v7 850. Simple, basic little bike that doesnt particularly excel at any 1 thing but does it all pretty good at an affordable price. Looks cool, plenty of power and light weight with my mods and tons of character.
Nice mods thanks for the cruise control and front brake mod recommendations I just needed them!
I saw the thumbnail and was like "... He's trolling us, that's the Desert Sled with a bag on it".
You can call it what you like but I wouldn't want to tour on that. Looks fun for day rides though.
Exactly 💯 what I would do! Gotta make it last and make it what you love.
0:11 You can thoroughly enjoy yourself touring on any motorcycle that runs, but no amount of mods will turn a "dual-sport" into a "sport-touring" bike.
The next thing you'll be telling us is that you can turn the flotation device under your airplane seat into a boat.
I think this was the most smart and yet obvious choice to do this to the Desert Sled.
For the riding you want to do with it, this definitely will sufficient.
Also, genuine question, couldn't you just buy a set of tubeless wheels & tires as a spare set for the Sled?
I guess that would cost more then what you did now to make them tubeless though, so in that aspect I get it why you chose to do this. 😆
Good to see that you eventually realized you actually wanted an adventure bike all along Yammie 😎
looking foward to the adventures
No naked motorcycle is a touring motorcycle. You CAN tour, but you can also put you balls in a vice. The wind will drain you after a coule hours on the highway.
Love it, enjoy the moment.
Hmmmm....the tubeless conversion is nice...I declined to share how I did mine..fear of liability!
Something to consider
A mile crusher that needs valves adjusted every 7500 miles
Is that correct?
My DesertX is 18k interval.
Eh it ain't so bad!
As they say, "The best touring bike is what you have with you"
I challenge you to make a frame mounted fairing & windshield for this bike.
Yammie going from, "sport touring dumb," to slowly evolving to a dad biker.
Has anyone ever said you look like lil pump with no tattoos. I like the tpms, very useful with the realtime
I've owned my 2018 DS for over 2 years, bought it with 1300 miles and now have a little over 14k. I love it!
Do you complete your own DESMO services? I have a 2020 with 8600 miles and I'm thinking about getting rid of it due to expensive maintenance costs.
@adamelis7411 I ordered my shims off desmo times and did the belts, it wasn't bad and didn't have to replace shims everything was perfect. Keep your oil change ass some zinc will help if you gonna hear any ticking you're good.
Beauty and thx for the tips
Not surprised he didn’t spend money on a new bike, am surprised he didn’t put a windshield on it
"ReCycle" your cycles is the leitmotif/motif of Uncle Yam's today..... needed to rEcYcLe ConTenT & I'm gonna be doing the same
thing w/ any motorized vehicle b/c I don't have the money for new cH!T...... peace out yammster
Awesome setup - reminds me of my old Yammie XT500 on steriods!
I admire your skill, Yammie!
cool stuff and very sensible
Don’t fancy the cruise control 😱
Papa Yam, pioneer of the Universal Italian Motorcycle 👌
Seems to be the Ducati version of the MT07…. Just too fun to let go! BTW Gixxer Brah says your clutch ups still suck! 😂 🤙👆
Run what ya brung. I’d definitely get some sort of wind protection though.