Why You Should Buy A Small Capacity Motorcycle Right Now!

[@HelmetHead]

If you enjoyed this video then check out the bikes in action here - Strata Florida Small Bikes Adventure kzbin.info/aero/PLRUtR8JRmF7p-N2i1RVZlQa9AnbqdcQDy

[@jameswest3258]

Spot on I've been riding my Monkey to work for the last month and been saving around £30 a week.

[@WiltshireMan]

Yes my mate Nobby rode his 125 4000 miles around the UK:) Little bikes rule:)

[@conniewaite1371]

Would love to see that video! Amazing

[@HelmetHead]

Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment 👍

[@hachewie]

I’m sold. You can carry a lot of beer. No more needs to be said.

[@charliegrinnall2172]

Picking up my new Honda Monkey on Saturday whoop! whoop!

[@goldilocks913]

Enjoy 😊👍😊

[@QuietWalker]

Brixton.. A brand that is not so well known in Britain is producing some great retro 125cc bikes. They are popular in Germany. I just bought one, and it rides and sounds like a bigger bike... No small bike complex here.. :)

[@iansimpson8309]

Just ordered a new Monkey today! The fuel price is how I intend to justify it to the Mrs! :)

[@drdoolittle5724]

Too right Buster, just got a Honda SH300i! zoom-zoom!

[@bikerbuddy3166]

Exactly lol great minds think alike as I’m just doing a similar vid on why I’ve chosen a monkey 🙊 and I’m addicted to the little beast covered 400 miles on her now whoop whoop 🙌 as ever loved your vid and enthusiasm keep up the good work think we need to do a small bike epic trip 👌🙏

[@chestnut1969]

Almost the most fun to us can have on two wheels - a 125cc two stroke Vespa. Like a game of Mario Kart

[@alexzingo6952]

I have had many bikes. Last one was HD xr1200, quite rumbling machine. Now I got 2022 Monkey, fun to go around, peace of mind, no costly service, beatifull machine, love it. Thanks for your video, nice to see also that Donna Italiano (not sure if I spelled it right), Vespa.

[@lawrencedevine2767]

Hi From Ireland. Well Said,small bikes are Great/ pcx driver.

[@HelmetHead]

Cheers dude

[@_Davepocalypse]

TBH, this is really sound advice. Anyone can do their CBT and get on a £2k 125 in half a week. Mad fuel mileage and great for the majority of journeys! Makes a lot of sense in the current state of things.

[@jctoyou]

I love it when he says the guy was riding all over the UK getting 50mg !!! I get that on my Harley

[@captinslow7520]

Too right, love small bikes, smiles for miles. Love the channel!

[@kittywampus]

Welcome to being cheap 😆 I just sold a 2014 genuine Stella (lml star I think) last month and moved up to a giant 411cc Himalayan. I'd ridden the Stella for the last 3 years around my city, but I was afraid to take it any distance outside of town. I will miss having a spare tire though.

[@colinunderdown1758]

I've recently got a Scram 411, 90 to 100 mpg, cruise all day at 65 mph, loving it and it's got 140 hp less than my last bike 😃

[@jamesrowlands1943]

Got a Honda C90, bloody great bike. Did a ride from near Liverpool over the Cat and Fiddle to Bakewell and then on to Eyam. The Cub didn't miss a beat...

[@biking-northwest]

As a avid lover of 125cc bikes I know I'm going to love this vid. Edit: I was right aha. Picked up my cbr125r for a whopping £800 spent £300 on new suspension and breaks, handles like a dream now and puts a smile on my face every day.

[@altoncrane9714]

You ( should ) spell it " brakes."

[@biking-northwest]

@@altoncrane9714 oh you being that guy??? Grow up.

[@altoncrane9714]

@@biking-northwest part of growing up is learning things like how to spell, and it looks like you have some growing up and learning to do.

[@lilynorthover8378]

@Altonn Crane, ever heard of Auto Fill?👹

[@simontattley733]

why not indeed, I get 183 mpg out of my monkey bike and its thrashed everywhere

[@outcast533]

You guys definitely proved small bikes can do big things 👌👍

[@spshowcase2040]

Small bikes are fun!

[@MC-Racing]

I have been riding bikes for more than ten years. I have a BMW S1000R, an Aprilia Tuono V4RR and a range of track bikes. and this year i bought a 1990 suzuki GSXR 250. and its great fun, reving it out to 17000 rpm without going too fast. its totally a grinfest :-D and it does 25-30 Km/L and top speed of 180 Km/h

[@goldilocks913]

Small capacity are great fun and you can tour ANYWHERE in uk for pennies!👍

[@TheEdwardalbert]

+ the cost of the cbt that puts people off

[@harlanpepper]

Put a deposit down a couple weeks ago on a Monkey. Who knows how long I'll be waiting - maybe it'll roll over to the 2023 model by the time stock comes in? Looking forward to the ride!

[@paulbudford]

And let's be honest. They are both cool looking bikes too. 👌

[@mikecarr1484]

Try finding one right now. Damn near impossible. Back order . So I went and got a used xt225. Works great 80mpg.

[@isaachunt5799]

buy a honda 125cc 4 stroke. 100 mpg plus. if i lived in the uk that's all i would have.

[@TobermoryCat]

Question, guess you've seen lots of different monkey back racks. Could you say which one you went with please? Guess my hope is to have somewhere to sometimes mount a detatchable back box to store a helmet. Looks like you have such? Lack of storage on the monkey is the only issue.

[@HelmetHead]

Hello this is the link for the one I’ve got 😉 www.ebay.co.uk/itm/403611603710?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=JHIfvEpBSl6&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=JxAjEau_SYW&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

[@spydie]

You really should upgrade to a vespa GTS300. Lots more storage, especially with the rear trunk. And an 80 mph bike at almost 80 mpg. I love Vespa and Moto Guzzi (Italian bikes in general) but I just ordered a Monkey.

[@davidrochow9382]

In Aust. ,except for some places in the the N.T 130 kph, all you can do is a maximum of 110 kph so a 250 , In fact some of the Japanese 125/150 are quite fast enough, so why would you need anything else. Yeah for postie bikes for adventure riding .

[@joshisms2pesos711]

Love the drone shots. I'm just curious if you're using the Skydio 2+ drone.

[@HelmetHead]

DJI Air2 👍

[@TheEdwardalbert]

plus £150.00 for the cbt

[@landzw]

Just to note have you ever looked at your mph averages on your car? Apart from motorway riding these smaller capacity bikes get you from A to be B perfectly

[@brucegroom1929]

Love small bikes. And the Monkey is the best bike on earth 🌎

[@HelmetHead]

100% with you 👍

[@jamesrowlands1943]

I'd agree with you, but then I'd be wrong too... Honda c90 is the GOAT...

[@brucegroom1929]

@@jamesrowlands1943 Cub 50 was the original. But love the CT125 trail

[@jamesrowlands1943]

@@brucegroom1929 all jokes aside, the small capacity bikes are the best. Great mileage, cheap parts, can push them to their limits and still not get a speeding ticket... lol

[@chris_dowsett]

So Sidekick it’s a VesBeer 🤣

[@stanallen1072]

The problem, at least in any metro area in the US, is that you would have to chain the damn thing to a building everywhere you went to keep it from being stolen.

[@kittywampus]

I carried a NY noose for mine. I used to chain it to the gas line outside my apartment with a disc lock with an alarm. It survived and I'm in an auto theft hot spot. You just have to make it a harder target than the next bike.

[@terrazasaurus]

MonkeyRider74 from Los Angeles here! I love this video! Can you tell me what engine mods you have on your monkey?

[@HelmetHead]

Here is a playlist of mods I’ve done ✅ Honda Monkey Mods kzbin.info/aero/PLRUtR8JRmF7pL8KuLnKM2a2THzdX2gM04

[@landzw]

What’s the handling like once fully loaded with beer? 😂

[@gordon861]

I'm not sure the economic case for buying one of these 125cc bikes makes sense unless you have a very uneconomical larger bike and/or plan to replace it with a smaller bike. You quote 50mpg (which seems low for a small bike), my 600cc Hornet did 45mpg (when I use to check it, better if you take it easy), so with the £1.5-3k cost of the 125 how long will it take until you have saved the cost of the 125 and insurance/servicing costs? If I was looking to save money on fuel I would probably be looking at something like a second hand PCX.

[@jeffjohnon4223]

Honda Monkey gets way over 100mpg with ease.

[@varmintmaster]

There is no replacement for displacement 😜

[@MauriceTarantulas]

I own one! 300+ on one tank😂

[@steveclark..]

Looking at 125cc bikes takes me back to when I were 17 back in the 80's, I've not stopped riding since then, had all sorts, from the fastest sports bikes to huge touring bikes. Motorcycling is in my blood, not interested in EV's and this Great Reset plan that's being pushed on us citizens of the world,..I hope that the masses wake up, we must not go down that path.

[@steveclark..]

@Sylvia Campbell Exactly, apart from the rapid acceleration, they don't appeal to me at all.

[@233kosta]

Well that's not 100% true, there IS something you can't do on these - get a driving ban for speeding on the motorway in 4th gear 🤣

[@pbrooka9619]

Don't need to convince me, it's the wife.

[@playtime.5526]

Small capacity motorcycles have increased approximately 1000$ in price.

[@stevereilly]

If you live 3 miles from your work you should walk ;-)

[@TheEdwardalbert]

there is to much messing about to ride on with cbt what a load of rubbish

[@isaachunt5799]

been riding bikes since 1980. those small wheels are dangerous though.. buy a proper sized bike with normal size wheels

[@JustaboutMotorbikes]

Small wheels aren’t dangerous that’s nonsense

[@Haawser]

I wouldn't say it's the 12" wheels that are dangerous, more the massive potholes that local councils can't seem to be bothered to fix because they only have enough budget for more speed cameras and traffic calming schemes....

[@isaachunt5799]

@@Haawser so if small wheel were good why superbikes dont have them? why dont motorcross bikes have them? as a bike rider for 41 years i tell u know those little wheels are a death trap. do they still make the honda cg125? thats a better bike. or my sons aprilia sx125.

[@Haawser]

@@isaachunt5799 Well, the main reason superbikes use bigger, wider tyres is to spread the forces over a larger amount of rubber. So you don't go through them every 1000 miles (though I have friends who try tbh). Which is not so much of a problem when you only have 12-15bhp and a bike that weighs

[@isaachunt5799]

@@Haawser how long you been ridding dude.? i started 1980 and have probably ridden 500k miles. been there done it got the t-shirt. small wheels are dangerous period. i've ridden these types of bikes. proper size wheel is needed for me to ride it. these bikes in this video i wouldn't even sit on them. honda cg125.. built to last forever those things