Nice to meet you too, Andrew.

Have a great time!

I flipped the axle around to make it easier to loosen the nut away from the garage.

It seems that they are a bit more plentiful outside the US since they sold them for much longer, so hopefully it isn’t hard to find one when you are ready. They are fun little bikes.

I flipped the axle so I can use body weight to loosen the nut if I need to.

@@AdventurePiggy thank you. I wish manf would have little pull handles on axles.

It’s a Garmin Montana 600 and it’s been good for 6+ years, but it the satellite signal is getting intermittent now so I need to figure out its replacement.

I have a montana 650 cant seem to update i also will be looking for replacement thanks for reply

Absolutely! I would stay out of Bass River and Wharton State forests. Lots of deep sand there. Don’t miss Fortescue. It’s a neat little town at the end of a dead end road.

Very cool! If only they kept selling them here until 1996…

Great tip! Thanks!

Yup! Super fun road and I’m glad the snow patch wasn’t deeper!

Try FR6234, Jenny Gulch Rd, and FR204.2G. Or message me @advpiggy on instagram and I can send some tracks

Oh, and get on adv fest has lots of routes curated for adv bikes. It’s worth attending especially if you are in the area.

I thought that this was a comment on the long video. The trail in the short doesn’t have a name I can find but runs parallel to the east of 385 just south of Pactola Lake

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.

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.

I’m happy you enjoyed the video! There is something very special about riding in the desert.

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.

I've been waving with my foot since I saw that riding around Ireland :)

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...

Lots of sand and pine trees in the Pine Barrens. No palm trees though :)

I used to live in Cape Coral, Fl, now I live in Millville, NJ. It is basically the same exact riding. When you fly over the handlebars into a huge puddle the mud even tastes the same😝

@@dangareau got used to that and then having the gritty sand in your teeth 😂 makes for a great experience.

I’m glad you found it useful

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...

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.

I suppose headlights are too new to have any evolutionary instincts 😂

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.

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

Thanks! What are you riding? I'd be happy to go for a ride some time. @advpiggy on instagram

@@AdventurePiggy I ride norden 901 expedition

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.

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.

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.

They aren’t native here in NJ, but they are a common pet that gets released.

Thank you! And yes, those are the ones.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Always! Those little buggers are everywhere!

Ain't that the truth! I have a Tick Tornado as a key chain on my 300 Rally cause I live in the Pine Barrens.

@@dangareau careful brother, those f'ers took me out for 12 years, and many others I knew who worked in the pines as survival instructors.

My first car was a Subaru Brat and I went camping and exploring all over the pinelands in it!

I've never seen the muskrats. I'll have to keep an eye out for them next time.

@@AdventurePiggy If you head south on 47 on the left there's a fish monger that sells "marsh bunny" if you're feeling adventurous. I believe it's called Bailey's Seafood but you might need the secret password if you don't sound local. Jokes aside muskrat evidently is a very localized delicacy.

Thank you! Enjoy your ride!

go.rever.co/8RdxPZD0xJb

I will take that as a compliment :)

Enjoy! And watch out for side by sides!

@@AdventurePiggy Will do!

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.