Sydney Blue Mountains Ultimate Motorcycle Adventure Route

This is my first ride where a KTM survives the whole ride along with two DRZ400E's.
This route is a traditional loop where you can start and finish in the same spot. Approximately 120kms long throughout some of the easiest and hardest tracks the Blue Mountains has to offer.
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[@Veedy]

love the grunt of that dizzer !

[@johnmignano7872]

Trials and tribulations, you all had a few close calls, but pissed it in, thanks for sharing Lance

[@jasonhookham7550]

great video love them keep it up

[@RastaRider]

Another upload! Heck yes, bub! 💯👏🏼

[@alanreilly9056]

I enjoyed every bit of this, great stuff!

[@CaravaningaroundAustralia]

Excellent vid 👍

[@doronmargalit]

Amazing video Extra exciting trip. 🎉🎉🎉

[@mullins6429]

Thanks for sharing your trip. Great video. Amazing tracks and scenery 👍🇦🇺

[@davidforeman2734]

What great riding. Good to see how the KTM rider made it look so much easier. Those hills look very. Steep on camera but in real life it must have been quite frightening.

[@The_Apprentice_Adventurer]

Yeah they are full on hills. Can be a real handful if you have to stop on them.

[@jamessparkes5492]

Some ruff ruts, plenty of rocks and challenging choices to make. Good choice of track to showcase for us, Great vid mate!

[@retiredwaterdoctor]

Everybody enters and everybody returns.....things looking better for you and Sally.....go Lantz go.....no one left behind!

[@The_Apprentice_Adventurer]

Yeah mate on this ride if anyone was being left behind it would have been me lol. Turns out my battery is cactus, so I’m glad I brought a jumper. New battery on its way.

[@Ozzy-DRZ-Adventures]

Another awesome ride mate, the camera never does it justice just how steep some of those hills can be. Awesome content!

[@_JoshJB_]

Nice work to the lot of you 👍🏼 Those hills must be something else if old sally and Lance are having dramas 😂

[@The_Apprentice_Adventurer]

Shannon had done the VIC previously and agreed these hills are much harder just shorter lived.

[@user-vd3rc5im9q]

cheap pair of knee guards are worth their weight in gold

[@jefftaswelder9154]

nice riding and the tracks looked quite challenging, glad that you lot managed to finish with no one braking down 🤣👍 keep well mate and ride safe-ish 😉🍺

[@MotoBloke1]

Fantastic video as usual mate. I personally find it very beneficial to riding with much better riders then myself, i believe it makes me a better rider. I think you rode brilliantly with the boys. Can't wait for the next adventure.

[@The_Apprentice_Adventurer]

Yeah it’s so good being with guys on another level to further my own riding. I love helping others but every now and again it’s good to receive advice and help myself.

[@kluthage421]

Look into antigravity restart lithium battery. Save 4lbs and automatically goes into hibernation mode when the battery gets low still allowing you to start it.

[@The_Apprentice_Adventurer]

Definitely will be chasing a decent battery. Although the one I currently have has lasted 4 years and went dead a hand full of times through me stop starting too many times.

[@joelsimpson735]

Another great video. You are right Rowan is s good rider. I have rode many ks with him. I'm sure there will be plenty more ks in the future.

[@The_Apprentice_Adventurer]

Yeah and he sits down all the time. Not sure how he gets up the hills so easily doing so. Unreal 🤙

[@timdudeney5072]

Yeah. Old enduro background riders tend to sit down when adv riders stand up. And stand up when adv riders typically Give Up 😂 And I'm definitely no gun rider 😂😂 just observations I've made.

[@stevenloynds3691]

Awesome video and scenery as usual....fuk bro had me going for a minute with that stick in your pant leg...mate I respect the fitness it must take doing some of those tracks listening to you puffing, I know your a fit bloke.

[@The_Apprentice_Adventurer]

Yeah I truly thought the stick went straight in my leg when I first glanced at it and didn’t want to know about it lol. Wait till my next video. No matter how fit I am, I was rooted.

[@garywinkworth3380]

honestly i dont know how you blokes ride in this rocky terrain. very hard work. great to watch .

[@The_Apprentice_Adventurer]

It sure is hard work but something I definitely had to work towards over the years.

[@NickBurchell-nx7to]

Gday Lance keen to give these trails a go next Tuesday. Thanks for posting . Would love to go for a ride with you one day . Cheers Nick

[@The_Apprentice_Adventurer]

Good luck mate. Probably a tad wet out there but you’ll be sweet. Hopefully the next group ride I post you can tag along.

[@melrodward]

As a Bathurst Boy.. 1 hour from home I still get lost. Tracks are hard they change from week to week. I’m a bit of an average rider but I just love getting out into the bush ..It absorbs you .

[@The_Apprentice_Adventurer]

Absolutely mate. There are so many tracks out there. Plus I agree, each time they are different, especially with these crazy rain storms we get now days.

[@melrodward]

@@The_Apprentice_Adventurer ..

[@ShannonJones-jf8ik]

Awesome ride Lance. Slept well after this one

[@The_Apprentice_Adventurer]

Thanks mate. I didn’t because my kid didn’t want to go to sleep. Hahaha.

[@adventureswithham2223]

19.minute mark. “Oooh what happened there?? “ classic Lance

[@The_Apprentice_Adventurer]

Haha I know right. Zero idea in Life.

[@dirtbike_viking]

Sensational gents 👍I will have to go hit this up on my T7 I think.

[@The_Apprentice_Adventurer]

Mate if you get up all those hills on the T7 your an absolute legend. Plus I’ll be jealous. 🤙

[@dirtbike_viking]

@@The_Apprentice_Adventurer yeah some look pretty tough. I wouldn't attempt till I change the standard tyres

[@whatsstefon]

Beautiful ride. I went out there with my old Royal Enfield Himalayan. I was laughed at but the bike didn’t fail at all. I miss living out there. I pretty much putted around in first gear only. It was the only way with such little power. But the torque pulled me through. Just. Probably won’t do that again on the little Himi. I missed some of that gnarly terrain you went on. No way the little nugget could’ve done it.

[@The_Apprentice_Adventurer]

Yeah mate it’s a great area to ride. They go hard the Enfields. I did a ride with one a while back. No dramas at all.

[@lukew6407]

Nice one Lance, looks like you had cracking weather and some gun riders!! Time for some Double take mirrors 👍 Lukey

[@The_Apprentice_Adventurer]

Mate in all my rides I have never broken a mirror hey. Not happy about it at all. Yeah I was definitely the weakest link in this ride. Sally was hating it lol.

[@nixxinn]

thanks for the video, awsome stuff, still some waiting for me to get out there, snowing outside today :( guess your winter comming up soon but you dont get lotz of snow I imagine, my spring will get here eventually hehe :þ best wishes

[@The_Apprentice_Adventurer]

Thanks mate. We get snow, but where I live it doesn’t affect us at all. Just always wet and slippery.

[@nixxinn]

@@The_Apprentice_Adventurer yeah :) just like our summers :) I remember once some years ago when it rained non stop for 5 weeks in summer :s hehe, but we have a really nice places to ride just like you do, when the weather cooperates :)

[@williamarango5289]

I love you Sally ,from coral Springs FL USA .❤️❤️

[@The_Apprentice_Adventurer]

Hahaha, she thanks you.

[@Morphic-Realms.]

Awesome trip mate, so keen to get my drz going that I just picked up, inspired by yourself and joshJB.. first bike... I'm diving in... if ya ever in the mogo area Lance..... Dr time

[@The_Apprentice_Adventurer]

Good to hear buddy. You bought a great bike. Enjoy and rip in. 👍

[@Morphic-Realms.]

@@The_Apprentice_Adventurer certainly the plan mate, no time like the present, keep up the quality content, its always good going on an adventure with Lance and Sally heh

[@TRAVERSE_ADV]

Rowan is definitely an offroad animal! 😅

[@Bairnsdale66]

I am watching this and saying out loud when you go up the hill; ‘come on Sally, come on Sally’ 🤣🤣🤣.

[@The_Apprentice_Adventurer]

Haha, it’s definitely a catch phrase in the making. I think my Sally is more liked than the rider lol.

[@RealHooksy]

Ktm ready to race 😂

[@ericdawson3425]

I would not want to be on a ktm 690 he can ride pretty good I love that track drz 400 e. Yes

[@N0rnagest]

7:00 when you dropped it in that rut, I noticed your clutch lever is broken. You have barkbusters! How the hell did you do that??? (Nice vid BTW.)

[@The_Apprentice_Adventurer]

I’m glad you noticed it. The day before I cut it down so I can now use it with two fingers and not my whole hand to change gears with more control. 🤙

[@budget-adventure]

Nice one man straight back on the saddle after the high country trip, dummy 101 question thou, when your on a steep hill, shouldn’t you get off and walk/run beside the bike as your letting off the clutch to get past that steep bit to the next flat section?

[@The_Apprentice_Adventurer]

Hmmm not that I’m aware of. The more your on the bike the easier it is and safer it is. As long as the bike doesn’t get away from you it’s best to stay on in my books.

[@budget-adventure]

@@The_Apprentice_Adventurer ah okay. It did look like some steep country, I wouldn’t have been able to run a metre beside it without dying anyway ha ha. Nice to see a Ktm not destroyed on this one

[@timdudeney5072]

@budget_adventure No. Definitely not. Go watch some Graeme Jarvis videos, and I think Brett Tkacs and Definitely Clinton Smout all talk about it too. Loading up the back wheel for traction to get going is the best way. Walking beside it totally removes all pressure from the back wheel, and hence lose traction and just spin out. Takes skill to do what Graeme does though. Actually pretty sure Chris Birch covers it in his training stuff too.

[@budget-adventure]

@@timdudeney5072 thanks man I’d just never heard anyone say yay or nay on if you can do it or not. I need to watch more videos lol

[@andrewgreen1181]

Hello lance. Have you changed your suspension since your high country ride???

[@The_Apprentice_Adventurer]

Hahaha ummmm no I haven’t. I have done two day rides since and now won’t be riding for a bit as it has been sent off to finally get sorted.

[@hakimozel1219]

just curious say you snap a chain, pop a tyre, blow your engine? what do you do your screwed? also would a yz250 be suitable for this type of riding?

[@The_Apprentice_Adventurer]

@@hakimozel1219 either fix it or walk to the nearest road. It all works out in the end. Yeah the lighter the bike the better for this sort of riding.

[@hakimozel1219]

@@The_Apprentice_Adventurer would love a brief essential items list in next video please. Im talking 2 stroke would be fine right?

[@babar69110]

nice video but i don't still get why foldable mirrors are never twisted inside. not mentioning it is fracking dangerous if you go over bars;

[@The_Apprentice_Adventurer]

Mate 7 years and never an issue. I blame the rock for jumping out at my bike.

[@babar69110]

@@The_Apprentice_Adventurer have nice rides, but foldable means to be foldable ;) ;) ;) and there is a reason for that.... same for handguards always put too horizontal / high and can catch hands....

[@diadeoff-roadcommarcel]

show, gás...

[@OMOBA666]

Bigger piston = bigger battery

[@richarddevaottien7724]

Most bikers have a serious injury,.. or will, later 🤣

[@Andrew-vz3qk]

Its such a joke when people say 'cape york edition' drz.

[@The_Apprentice_Adventurer]

Yep exactly the same as my bike which is not a cape York edition haha.

[@23smokeybear]

the other side is less travelled as is not as accessable. or well known. was there recently and was closed as there was rally cars practicing dislike grrr

[@The_Apprentice_Adventurer]

Rally cars, kind of awesome and frustrating at the same time I guess. Lol

[@keithquinn5624]

Damn it’s so ugly, no scenery, no mountains, no views, bad trails… I’m in the PNW this is 🤢🤮 compared!

[@The_Apprentice_Adventurer]

Mate don’t worry we have plenty of all of the above, just not in this ride. But a trail or two in the opposite direction and it’s completely different.

[@keithquinn5624]

@@The_Apprentice_Adventurer no you dont. Stop dreaming. I've been.

[@timdudeney5072]

Correct. No "Mountains" by Canada, Europe, Rockies standards. But you get that in Australia. Doesn't mean we don't have some good stuff. Like a lot of stuff, Gotta make the most of what you got. Ride the bike(s) you have, the trails you have, ski the snow you can access. Comparison only leads to disappointment in this sense.