Lots of very wise advice, Pavlin. Thank you for sharing them. I like to turn every gas fill-up time into time to do a few minutes of stretching too. Frequent stretching makes long rides much more manageable for me. I also like to place my attention on my breathing, every so often, to still my thinking. To feel the ride is much more pleasurable to me than to think through it.
I believe a lit of it is i your head. If the day does not seem to be going well I can always remind myself i could be at work or just simply that I am healthy enough to be riding my bike. Wherever I want, largely whenever I want. Not everyone is so lucky. And then even a cold wet day with bike problems doesn't seem so bad. So much to look forward to as things improve and we can travel again. Happy travels
That was very logical. Usually, I do not consider watching videos where guys who blabber, roaming around on their bikes. But this was different, insightful. Thank you!
Thanks! This will help me on my 10,000 mile trip coming soon. Plan A = don’t die! Plan B = survive today. Short answer, take everyday as a singular event with one goal in mind, leading to the ultimate goal of your destination. Physically, do a lot of stretching, before during and after. Break it up and try to eat the right foods.
Agreed. Pushups, pullups, situps you can do them anywhere and include some light stretching. Even during the day, stop on the side of the road for piss break, spend extra two minutes and strech, bang out a few pushups, jumping jacks, squats, whatever you like. Also stay hydrated, have earplugs or music to get rid of the monotonous noise of wind and you'll be good. Good point about mental health but I have yet to see a depressed biker
Lots of gratitude, Pavlin....have been watching your videos....thanks very much for sharing the most practical and absolutely honest advise for not so seasoned riders like me....this one certainly the best I received so far...am certainly that 'one' you wanted to help.....appreciate your spirit...have a great day, every day....!!!
I haven't watched the full video yet, but this is a very underrated topic. I passed my motorcycle test just before Coronavirus restrictions were introduced in 2020 so haven't been able to ride much (maybe 6000km total). The weather is improving so I'm going out on my bike more and I find I need a couple of days to recover physically and mentally from a long day in the saddle!
Agree that for adventure bikes, practicing on surfaces with a variety of traction is really important. The very point of riding one is to be able to ride all types of roads. Not the best at anything BUT can do all of it reasonably well. Good tips!
Good solid points there. These advices seem very reasonable and easy to follow. One thing about "mentality fatigue" of riding is simple, which actually affects the physical side too. You have to be confident with the vehicle you ride. Let it be bike, quad or heck even car. If you know how it behaves everything will just so-to-say "flow". But if one is insecure it'll affect everything in very fatiguing way. I'd urge everyone to push their limits in reasonable and safest ways from time to time. But I wouldn't personally ever try that on long trips. I don't usually ride long distances, but if I ride ie. half day on snow with bike, which I've not done too much. I can honestly say that I would be fatigued in every possible way for week. It would definitely ruin trip for me.
Mental strength is the important one in my book, if the body is weak the mind has to be strong. A good helmet and ear plugs go a long way to prevent fatigue and listening to music or even podcasts can relieve the boredom of a long ride. It also help if you set small targets, aim for the town 30 kilometres away and the next and the next not the one 200 kilometres away, small bites at a time. Great advice again PavLin. 👍👍👍👍👍
@@JUFFAIR101 good helmet speakers or replace ear plugs with ear buds , I have moulded earplugs with built in speakers. Lots of different ways, seek and ye shall find
Great video and thanks for commenting on something important: you have to practice on unfamiliar roads. Long-term goal is to train your mind to accurately figure out roads, surfaces, conditions, terrain, etc that you have not experienced before. One of the bad habits that new riders sometimes do is to ride familiar places only in nice weather and with their friends. We need to keep pushing ourselves in the other direction - new places, new roads, different routes.
I can confirm that you are 100% correct. I am very fit from weights and can pick up the 800GS no problem. It helps with brute force and slow speeds. But...I dread going on the highway because of how incredibly exhausting it is! In my defense, highways and drivers in Texas are very high speed, aggressive, and strong winds.
Another great video, Thanks for the advices, about trainning we have a saying here in Portugal "Treino dificil, combate fácil" that means "hard trainning, easy combat". Cheers to all from Portugal 🇵🇹 Ride safe "guys".
07:25 Pavlin! Speed limit 30 km/ hr, your speed above 60 km/hr (more than twice allowed) and same time you suggest ride “slowly around villages” ! Pavlin!
Good advice from the voice of experience, thanks Pavel. Running was hurting me, but walking has turned it all around. A basic level of overall fitness is worth working up to. No, you were not early! And the way I learned it: Early is on time, on time is late, late is unacceptable! ;)
Yes, but my wife prepares for 2hrs. That is just for makeup. Haha, all jokes aside, your videos have been saving me in my trips many times now. Thank you.
Thank you for the honest view and opinion. I find it practical and a precious advise. Reality is normally very different from miths or people’s imagination. I agree with you on mainly everything you said in this nice video. And the part of the Physical advise, is also simple, and nothing of complex about it.
So true. I have a little arthritis in my knees and had to go back to a cruiser, because the ergos of my adventure bike were uncomfortable for my knees on long rides.
If you swim more often then you become a better swimmer, if you run more often then you become a better runner. If you ride your motorcycle more often then you become a better rider!
Thank you for sharing your ideas, Pavlin. Sound advice for great travelling. Cheers from Nürnberg, Günter PS: I prefer stretching and yoga to your push-ups, but that's personal taste.
I've noticed that your friend has an interesting sw-motech tail bag - does he recommend it? I was considering to buy similar model and on top of that put some rollbag. Do you think that it may work?
I cant agree with You that fitness is not important..its cery important, but if You are practicing on the same kind of roads/terrain whitch You planning to travel, Your fitness is suitable to that type of terrain. If You practice on asphalt roads, and You go to desert, Your fitness will be to weak..Anyway its better to have more fitness than its needed, than to less fitness. Good job with Your chanell. Take care!!!
Pavlin how does ur Tenere feel now after 150k km's,any loss in power or mabye does it spend more oil ? Would like to know if theres anything going on thanks in advance
I disagree on the personal fitness part. You are correct nobody needs to run a marathon or lift a ton of weights or have the physiqe of Arnold. What you need is a general reasonable baseline of personal fitness and a minimum of stamina. Riding a motorcycle for a longer pegiod of time is exhausting mentally and physically especially when you ride lets say 4 or 5 days in a row in adverse conditions, be it hot weather or pouring rain. I have personally gone through that riding a couple of thausand km across the balkans weighing 135 kg and later 115. The difference of the personal wellbeing on the trips was astronomical. I am not saying everyone has to lose x amount of weight. Most people have pretty seditary lifestyles, sitting in cars and before computer screens all day. If you have a life like that and then go on a long trip it will be very hard for you. My personal advice in this regard is to take up a moderate amount of exercise, nothing olymic or super crazy, which will help you to build a decent level of stamina. Cardio exercises will most certainly help with that and if you put in a moderate overall weight routine even better. Motorcycling is definitely more emanding on your body than just sitting in the seat for hours at end.
If you can't sit in the saddle more than an hour or two without pain or stopping for an hour or two, watch Pavlin's video about riding comfort, or maybe long tours might not be for you
Age is just a number - irrelevant! ( I’ll never see 72 again🙂). I ride to defeat my depression when nothing else can🤯. Keep travelling and reporting Pavel🤗
Staying fit is a subjective concept. I have seen a muscular guy say no more and an overweight chap smiling and looking forward to the next day of riding. Sometimes I feel it's all in the mind. If u enjoy it u will find excuses to do it the next day.
Why do you spread your arms and hands in the cover of the video? Many do the same, I think is boring, I have followed your channel since your trip to Mongolia, so please keep your personality, cheers from Spain 🇪🇸
Lots of very wise advice, Pavlin. Thank you for sharing them. I like to turn every gas fill-up time into time to do a few minutes of stretching too. Frequent stretching makes long rides much more manageable for me. I also like to place my attention on my breathing, every so often, to still my thinking. To feel the ride is much more pleasurable to me than to think through it.
Thanks for adding!
Baba Vanga forever!!!!Thank you bratko!!Great video!
Glad you liked it!
I believe a lit of it is i your head. If the day does not seem to be going well I can always remind myself i could be at work or just simply that I am healthy enough to be riding my bike. Wherever I want, largely whenever I want. Not everyone is so lucky.
And then even a cold wet day with bike problems doesn't seem so bad.
So much to look forward to as things improve and we can travel again.
Happy travels
Agree!
Thanks Pavel for giving such a valuable information and motivating a common man .
My pleasure!
That was very logical. Usually, I do not consider watching videos where guys who blabber, roaming around on their bikes.
But this was different, insightful.
Thank you!
Glad that it helped!
Thanks! This will help me on my 10,000 mile trip coming soon. Plan A = don’t die! Plan B = survive today. Short answer, take everyday as a singular event with one goal in mind, leading to the ultimate goal of your destination.
Physically, do a lot of stretching, before during and after. Break it up and try to eat the right foods.
Good luck on the trip, Eddy!
Amazing Pavlin! Thank you for sharing this real awesome knowledge, hope to see you on the road someday!
My pleasure! See you on the road!
Agreed. Pushups, pullups, situps you can do them anywhere and include some light stretching. Even during the day, stop on the side of the road for piss break, spend extra two minutes and strech, bang out a few pushups, jumping jacks, squats, whatever you like. Also stay hydrated, have earplugs or music to get rid of the monotonous noise of wind and you'll be good. Good point about mental health but I have yet to see a depressed biker
Thanks for taking the time!
Lots of gratitude, Pavlin....have been watching your videos....thanks very much for sharing the most practical and absolutely honest advise for not so seasoned riders like me....this one certainly the best I received so far...am certainly that 'one' you wanted to help.....appreciate your spirit...have a great day, every day....!!!
My pleasure!
Very useful as usual thanks brother
Always welcome!
Very nice Thanks for adventure motorcycle movie
Glad you enjoyed it
I haven't watched the full video yet, but this is a very underrated topic. I passed my motorcycle test just before Coronavirus restrictions were introduced in 2020 so haven't been able to ride much (maybe 6000km total). The weather is improving so I'm going out on my bike more and I find I need a couple of days to recover physically and mentally from a long day in the saddle!
Thanks for taking the time!
Great information...
Glad it was helpful!
@@motorcycleadventures A lot lot.
Well said. Good knowledge and very well true.. Love u bro.
Thanks for taking the time, Tony!
Agree that for adventure bikes, practicing on surfaces with a variety of traction is really important. The very point of riding one is to be able to ride all types of roads. Not the best at anything BUT can do all of it reasonably well. Good tips!
Absolutely!
Love ya man, just came from my preparation trip. 2000 km Hyderabad to Lahore and back to my home on Hyderabad.
Great 👍!
Thanks again Pavlin ! - You gain the fitness you need for doing what you want to do.. by doing it !
Absolutely!
Good advise! Ride safe!
Great practical advice . Great to see a no nonsense biker making great vids and offering real world solutions 👍👍
Thanks!
Good solid points there. These advices seem very reasonable and easy to follow. One thing about "mentality fatigue" of riding is simple, which actually affects the physical side too. You have to be confident with the vehicle you ride. Let it be bike, quad or heck even car. If you know how it behaves everything will just so-to-say "flow". But if one is insecure it'll affect everything in very fatiguing way. I'd urge everyone to push their limits in reasonable and safest ways from time to time. But I wouldn't personally ever try that on long trips. I don't usually ride long distances, but if I ride ie. half day on snow with bike, which I've not done too much. I can honestly say that I would be fatigued in every possible way for week. It would definitely ruin trip for me.
Thanks for taking the time!
thanks for sharing these motivateing & honest words with us nice video and ride safe
My pleasure
Thank you for confirming my instincts!
My pleasure!
Mental strength is the important one in my book, if the body is weak the mind has to be strong.
A good helmet and ear plugs go a long way to prevent fatigue and listening to music or even podcasts can relieve the boredom of a long ride.
It also help if you set small targets, aim for the town 30 kilometres away and the next and the next not the one 200 kilometres away, small bites at a time.
Great advice again PavLin. 👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks for sharing!
How can you hear music with earplugs?
@@JUFFAIR101 good helmet speakers or replace ear plugs with ear buds ,
I have moulded earplugs with built in speakers.
Lots of different ways, seek and ye shall find
As usual you share wise words, Pavel. Thank you.
My pleasure!
Welldone Pavlin you always keep things real. Very good. Very helpful always
I appreciate that!
Thank you, Pavlin! Everithing you said makes sense!
Good! Thanks for taking the time, Mihai!
Great advise as always.Thanks Pavlin
My pleasure!
My have motorcycle yamaha xt660z tenere very good 1
Cool!
Mongolia trips motorcycle very nice
Cool!
Great video and thanks for commenting on something important: you have to practice on unfamiliar roads. Long-term goal is to train your mind to accurately figure out roads, surfaces, conditions, terrain, etc that you have not experienced before. One of the bad habits that new riders sometimes do is to ride familiar places only in nice weather and with their friends. We need to keep pushing ourselves in the other direction - new places, new roads, different routes.
Agree
Good INTEL mate thank you for sharing
Any time!
I can confirm that you are 100% correct. I am very fit from weights and can pick up the 800GS no problem. It helps with brute force and slow speeds.
But...I dread going on the highway because of how incredibly exhausting it is! In my defense, highways and drivers in Texas are very high speed, aggressive, and strong winds.
You just need practice!
Cheers buddy for the advice
Thanks for taking the time, Pete!
Very nice motorcycle yamaha xt660z tenere
It sure is!
Much good philosophy here.
Thanks, Albert!
Like a teacher you are teaching us, thank you for your effort Pavlin 🙏
My pleasure!
Brilliant, Pavel. 👍👍👍
My pleasure!
Another great video, Thanks for the advices, about trainning we have a saying here in Portugal "Treino dificil, combate fácil" that means "hard trainning, easy combat".
Cheers to all from Portugal 🇵🇹 Ride safe "guys".
Thanks, Paulo!
07:25 Pavlin! Speed limit 30 km/ hr, your speed above 60 km/hr (more than twice allowed) and same time you suggest ride “slowly around villages” ! Pavlin!
We need direction, not perfection!
That is deep!!
Thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it
I find that hands, wrists and forearms are the bits that suffer the most fatigue when riding on long difficult roads. Especially the clutch hand.
Try to improve the ergonomics. th-cam.com/video/0HC3vavO-8I/w-d-xo.html
Very true and interesting approach Pavlin.
Glad you liked it!
Good advice from the voice of experience, thanks Pavel. Running was hurting me, but walking has turned it all around. A basic level of overall fitness is worth working up to. No, you were not early! And the way I learned it: Early is on time, on time is late, late is unacceptable! ;)
Great!
Pavlin, thanks for your enthusiasm and sharing videos 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻❤️
My pleasure!
Yes, but my wife prepares for 2hrs. That is just for makeup. Haha, all jokes aside, your videos have been saving me in my trips many times now. Thank you.
Glad to help!
A tip : you can watch series at Flixzone. Me and my gf have been using it for watching a lot of movies during the lockdown.
@Rodney Edward Yup, have been using flixzone for years myself =)
Thank you for the honest view and opinion. I find it practical and a precious advise.
Reality is normally very different from miths or people’s imagination. I agree with you on mainly everything you said in this nice video. And the part of the Physical advise, is also simple, and nothing of complex about it.
Glad to help!
I find it hard to recover after one day! This is awesome 👌 thank you for the tips
Glad it helped!
You wise old sage, great view at the end!
Thanks, man!
Love the tips
Thank you so much!!!
You are welcome!
Great info & video as always Pavlin. Thank you! :)
Glad you liked it!
As always great advice 👍🏻
Glad it was helpful!
tall people have knee pain because most bike do not have great angle and distance between the seat and pegs.
True. It is important to choose the right model for you.
So true. I have a little arthritis in my knees and had to go back to a cruiser, because the ergos of my adventure bike were uncomfortable for my knees on long rides.
@@mr.solitude3352 after 4hours am done. i cant walk anymore. i am 2m so i guess people more "normal" size woudnt have so much knee problem.
Very informative
Glad it was helpful!
salaam Bro nice tips for long ride stay safe Bro
Thanks!
Rider, too.🥰
I hope you drive safely.👍🏻
I saw a good video.👍🏻
I'm still a beginner, so you look great.
❗❗❗❗❗❗
Thank you! 😃
If you swim more often then you become a better swimmer, if you run more often then you become a better runner. If you ride your motorcycle more often then you become a better rider!
Exactly!
Great video again! Please tell me for Airoh Helmet camera holder what brand!? Thanks so much!!
th-cam.com/video/EWz86nnTP9o/w-d-xo.html
You should take the trips taking the same route as Ewan McGregor in his documentaries. I wonder how you would deal with that hard terrain etc.
Well, I have more than enough trips documented on my channel, and do not forget that he did it with an unlimited budget and a big crew.
Thank you for sharing your ideas, Pavlin. Sound advice for great travelling. Cheers from Nürnberg, Günter PS: I prefer stretching and yoga to your push-ups, but that's personal taste.
Thanks for sharing!
250 cc is good for long trips or I should go for 400 cc ? I’m beginner
Both will do the job.
Hi, I think one should be mentally tough for long Motorcycle trip. Stay safe and drive carefully .
If you say so!
Any tips on how to get permission to go off on a long motorcycle trip from the wife 😀
Yes: th-cam.com/video/g10gwEL20hY/w-d-xo.html
And what about the shorts 🩳 of the cyclist? 😅 they will provide a very comfort seat. Thanks for the info and the Nice view. 👌🏽
The same story! I already tried. I removed it in the middle of the road and never used it again!
I've noticed that your friend has an interesting sw-motech tail bag - does he recommend it? I was considering to buy similar model and on top of that put some rollbag. Do you think that it may work?
Yes, it might work for many people.
I cant agree with You that fitness is not important..its cery important, but if You are practicing on the same kind of roads/terrain whitch You planning to travel, Your fitness is suitable to that type of terrain. If You practice on asphalt roads, and You go to desert, Your fitness will be to weak..Anyway its better to have more fitness than its needed, than to less fitness. Good job with Your chanell. Take care!!!
As I said the overall health will always help.
Pavlin how does ur Tenere feel now after 150k km's,any loss in power or mabye does it spend more oil ? Would like to know if theres anything going on thanks in advance
In fact it has 165,000km and so far everything is okay. Use some oil but only if I ride it over 100km/h.
@@motorcycleadventures Damn thats amazing ,hope you ll reach 200k :)
I disagree on the personal fitness part. You are correct nobody needs to run a marathon or lift a ton of weights or have the physiqe of Arnold. What you need is a general reasonable baseline of personal fitness and a minimum of stamina. Riding a motorcycle for a longer pegiod of time is exhausting mentally and physically especially when you ride lets say 4 or 5 days in a row in adverse conditions, be it hot weather or pouring rain. I have personally gone through that riding a couple of thausand km across the balkans weighing 135 kg and later 115. The difference of the personal wellbeing on the trips was astronomical. I am not saying everyone has to lose x amount of weight. Most people have pretty seditary lifestyles, sitting in cars and before computer screens all day. If you have a life like that and then go on a long trip it will be very hard for you. My personal advice in this regard is to take up a moderate amount of exercise, nothing olymic or super crazy, which will help you to build a decent level of stamina. Cardio exercises will most certainly help with that and if you put in a moderate overall weight routine even better. Motorcycling is definitely more emanding on your body than just sitting in the seat for hours at end.
Exactly what I said but with different words.
If you can't sit in the saddle more than an hour or two without pain or stopping for an hour or two, watch Pavlin's video about riding comfort, or maybe long tours might not be for you
Yes, it might help: th-cam.com/video/0HC3vavO-8I/w-d-xo.html
100% just any fitness helps with stamina but riding every day also helps with stamina.
Agree
Do you mentioned "Baba Vanga"? BTW, she was bulgarian?
Yes, she was Bulgarian. th-cam.com/video/ndbbmTD71nI/w-d-xo.html
The best kind of fitness, for motorcycle, is yoga. It combines core strength, balance, flexibility, and mental awareness.
Okay
Age is just a number - irrelevant! ( I’ll never see 72 again🙂). I ride to defeat my depression when nothing else can🤯. Keep travelling and reporting Pavel🤗
Cool!
👍🏻
Thanks for taking the time!
Staying fit is a subjective concept. I have seen a muscular guy say no more and an overweight chap smiling and looking forward to the next day of riding. Sometimes I feel it's all in the mind. If u enjoy it u will find excuses to do it the next day.
Agree
Why do you spread your arms and hands in the cover of the video? Many do the same, I think is boring, I have followed your channel since your trip to Mongolia, so please keep your personality, cheers from Spain 🇪🇸
Thanks for taking the time!
Romanian road looks much better than Bulgarian
Agree
Хахахха баба ванга good one :)
Good!