great bikes keep me posted, i look forward to hearing more 🙂 Cheers for watching mate. Ride Free 🙂

Welcome aboard mate, and thank you so much for the comment, I do my best, just one bloke with an obsession for bikes lol, if its got 2 wheels thats fine by me lol. enjoy the ride and cheers for the support

thats made me smile mate lol, just back in from a sunny afternoon ride :-) glad you enjoyed it :-) have fun

I do what i can, it might not always be so often, i try and do at least 1 long form video each week, cheers for the support

@@barebonesmc hey man even if your video output speed is half of what it’s been lately, that’s still great output

@@rondobrondo your support and feedback are invaluable mate thanks, have a great week

the GP450 got a mention in here, kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fLOCnM2nra2rn58.html , i didnt realise they made so few, Cheers for watching mate. Ride Free 🙂

CCM need to take ideas from an over engineered engine like some here like Husaberg, MZ, Husqvarna or even the old BSAs with a very strong crankshaft, maybe DOHC like the Fury but with watercooling and a big sump and really good cooling. Hopefully Triumph in the USA are making a great new competition dirt bike that isnt overcomplicated and can be kept going. Theres a huge market for a very solid, over engineered motor and transmission with bargain parts bucket twin shocks, solid simple forks and nissin calipers that will be far cheaper and single rotor. TVS have the right idea in my opinion with their small capacity detuned engines that are simple real workhorses that are cheap to buy, simple and basic transport but make it a solid simple design but with the gearbox pinion sorted like a Suzuki DR650 but with watercooling, oil cooler, but built like a tank and practical adventure type machine that can take abuse like some of those MZ even enclosing the chain and putting protection on it like engine bars, fork gaiters, and stuff to protect like sump guard and something to protect shocks and linkages and stuff from grit, mud but build in grease nipples for swing arm, steering head bearings. AJP the portugese bike maker has done great with listing bearing and o ring and bush sizes so you can buy a bearing for example from NTN, SKF, Nissin or any maker cheaper and readily on the shelf in any part of the world whether Africa, china, japan, europe, asia or n or s or central america. It will take time for AJP to get well known but with a great reputation, reliable cheaper bikes that offer simple practical bikes that are a swiss army type bike they could be better than chinese bikes for a little more or go TVS, MZ or Royal enfield route keeping them simple but make them basic and good looking like those BSA dirt bike singles of the early 1970s but strongly built sorted new type engine design for modern times. So many of us dont want bikes with very expensive electronic complications and design thats expensive, with more to go wrong, expensive and overcomplex to fix. Put on good basic shocks like Girling or hagon, cheaper brake calipers not expensive Brembos and basic forks. A despatch rider type bike, rugged, simple thats easy and cheap to service with honda type reliability and durability and army type design would sell so well. Suzuki has done some good bikes and the v strom 800 seems good but its too expensive and couldve been a bit like the old DR650 crossed with V strom 650 but basic and cheap and easier to work on than v strom as therez too much panels and plastics to take off to get at stuff. Otherwise apart from v strom stator weakness and clutch weakness, the alternator could be beefed up as could clutch and with good engine protection. Apart from that, just strip down unnecessary heavy unneeded stuff but keep practical stuff with thoughtful design like greese nipples for the field.

@@Ian-bq7gp re - AJP the portugese bike maker has done great with listing bearing and o ring and bush sizes so you can buy a bearing for example from NTN, SKF - couldnt agree more, all standard sizes too, unlike Triumph, standard sizes and cheap parts are a rarity with Triumph from my experiences 🙂

glad I surprised you mate :-) Cheers for watching and the comment, Ride Free

Thanks, Going there helps lol

🙂Cheers for watching mate. Ride Free 🙂

Ive had a few like that lol, no one knew what the Navigator was, or the W12. it surprised me how many people had never heard of Laverda too, Sacrilidge :-) 🙂 cheers for watching mate, Ride Free

@@barebonesmc we grew up in a golden age for motorbikes.. just that.. like 99% of young riders.. lack the funds to persue dreams.. that as old men.. we now lack the bodies or sharpness of mind to perform to the bikes we ride.. life's peculiar like that.. cheers from NZ

@@Errol.C-nz aint that the truth 🙂

great bikes 🙂 Cheers for watching mate. Ride Free 🙂

as with sour milk, its not always the best that rise to the top :-) sometimes the best get lost in the Maelstrom of marketing :-) 🙂 cheers for watching, Ride Free

Strange that the SV1000 is so uncommon, because the SV650 is a bike that I see regularly around Glasgow.

@@ianmacfarlane1241 The 650s were REALLY popular almost everywhere. They are still a trackday bike of choice in the US. Not sure what happened with the 1000. All the bike reviewers cried "where's the 1000" and once Suzuki made one it got ignored by the media.

@@upsidedowndog1256 the TL1000R & it's funky failure f1 influenced rear suspension took the publics attention & the two very different bikes got ever associated together.. the Marketing men totally failed on this one.. & too much reliance in Suzuki on one engineer vs their usual engineering team approach.. they just could get TL1000R to handle.. great motor though better than Honda's VT1000sp or even Ducatis engine at the time.. though Ducati carried on evolving significantly

cheers mate, and glad to oblige :-) let me know what the lads at the club have to say :-) 🙂 cheers for watching, Ride Free

@@barebonesmc Will do. Next meeting is a couple of weeks away however they are already talking and I believe have also now subscribed to your channel. Half are older than me however they also came to watch the WSB events I was in at Phillip Island in the 90’s. As we now have a couple of members who weren’t even a thought in their father’s mind then. 😊

@@marcusgeorge1825 i look forward to it 🙂

glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂 Theres plenty more on the channel and the website, let me know what you think? hope youll climb aboard. We do have a great bunch as subscribers and i can thoroughly recomend reading some of the comments too, some funny and most informative too. Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂

welcome aboard mate 🙂 The Highland V2 is a special bike, such a pity what happened. The big MZ Streetfighter at the end is one of my all time favourites too. cheers for watching, Ride Free

off to the cafe 🙂 i think my 2 favourites up there are the ones people never seem to mention. Wrynose pass and the struggle 🙂 i always remember one of the roads down the west side of Windermere, From Hawkshead hill going south. Great roads. Cheers for watching. Ride Free

@@barebonesmc Haven't done Wrynose in a few years but we always used to do the Struggle as yoofs on our 125's, I prefer the long route to Windemere these days then Ambelside ,Grasmere,Rydal Crummock to Keswick 😎

@@JUDEEDWARD being honest ive not been up in a few years, but may be up that way soon as it happens, in general i look for roads i haven't done before and often just drift around following my nose, i found an awesome bit north of Barrow at one point and never found it again afterwards, no idea where i was lol, cheers for adding your comments mate, and have a great week

🙂cheers for watching mate, glad you enjoyed it, ride free

i just found the Suzuki engine gutless next to the Rotax, and yes re the Freewind, but I guess i see the Freewind as the same engine as the DR, just with a few tweaks 🙂 Cheers for watching mate. Ride Free 🙂

cheers mate, it is due a major update, but i do my best 🙂 glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂

glad you enjoyed it mate, i think the Spitfire took bits and ideas from everywhere lol, but the frame is very Nuda i think. but yes the philosophy similar to the Mulhacen and possibly both took inspiration from the Pegaso which i would say was inspired by the Nordwest.

:-) Cheers for watching mate and thanks for the comment, enjoy your weekend

it was mentiones in the Aprilia section in Part 2 of the Italian bikes video. I like both of the MZ's for different reasons, the Silver Star because its just so much "Just a motorbike" with no frills at all, The 1000 because it was so far ahead of its time. the 1000 SF would drop into any of the modern ranges of bikes now and not look out of place :-) back then it was almost "how dare they" build a parallel twin 1000cc sports bike, now its the dominant engine platform lol cheers for watching, Ride Free

hi mate and cheers, the MZ Silver Starr is quite a gentle soul really 🙂

...kind of like a wolf in sheep clothing...

@@maxxpretzy2557 😀😀😀

I would put the PGM alongside the Horex :-) they are on a different level in many ways :-) only in Australia :-) 🙂 cheers for watching, Ride Free

i have to say if an MZ 1000 SF showed up it would be hard to resist, rare in the UK though, Cheers for watching mate, Ride Free

the Highland story is a long and complicated one, parts of it are shrouded in mystery even now, Folan were actually central players with Highland and Husaberg, it is a bit of a complex soup and one side never having their say now would be a little biased i think

@@barebonesmc I would accept a little bias if it meant the story was actually told. Just be honest and as up front as possible when telling it.🤷‍♂️

@@sadwingsraging3044 ill put it on the list, but it may be a while, the list of requests has grown a lot lol, have a great weekend mate

keep bombarding the factory with emails mate :-) im sure there is a way :-) Cheers for watching mate and thanks for the comment, enjoy your weekend

Germany Holland and Belgium seem to be the places they come up most, very few in the UK, 🙂cheers for watching mate, ride free

i can relate mate lol Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂

It's called.. customizing.. small changes in tuning & seat change can in a lot of cases be dramatic.. annoying vibrations & throttle response glitches can easily disappear.. there're so many potentially mold setting bikes made that just lack the mass production minded brands vision to "refine" a result with just a little effort in polishing any or all those annoyances out.. rather than the mental persistant new models Hally luya marketing bs!

i guess that comes from using their chainsaws so often lol glad you enjoyed it mate. enjoy the ride. Im just back in from one :-)

although fairly small in some ways the Mulhacen seat height isnt too low, but at 6ft 3 you may be pushing it, the Husky is a special, a Nuda RR that was done as a limited edition run as a dirt focussed bike

@@barebonesmc the Husky looks bloody awesome!! 😍

@@fredtracy3931 indeed, if you look on Royal Jordanian channel you might find more about it

​​@@barebonesmcRJ is a saint! The dirt oriented Nuda is mind blowing 🤯, and gorgeous 😍!!

glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂

that sounds like an interesting build :-) keep me posted on progress mate

Im a Rotax man really but the minarelli/Yamaha engine is a good one, If I didnt ride 2 up so often I might well have gone for a Tenere 660, More Cheers for watching, have a great weekend

If they had not stopped the last iteration of the 660 Tenere, I might own one !

@@pateris i agree, what i dont like is just like the KLR The tenere 66o just kep getting heavier each year, it would probably weigh 200 kg by now lol

@@barebonesmc …which is also true. Cheers ! (There's no KLR in my neck o'wood, grumble grumble…)

@@pateris we dont get em in the UK except for grey imports, have a good un mate

Theres lots thats great about them especially the cycle parts and motor but maybe electrics had a few gremlins but i love them. Well done CCM theyve been making higher quality lower volume for a few years now and with good management, design and not being overpriced they could bring out a great Adv bike for round the world travel thats over engineered and detuned but bombproof or go for a purpose built Dakar type bike thats got works team of expert engineers behind it like KOVE have done with their 450 thats £9k for a works spec racing machine that seems to have done really well and shock surprise its a chinese maker with a expert rider engineers brains behind it.

@@Ian-bq7gp yes, it would be nice if CCM could return to making supermoto, enduro style bikes like they used to. Now all they make is the spitfire and it's many forms... 👍

a new GPX450 would be nice :-)

good point well put mate, ill take the Nuda though lol 🙂Cheers for the comment. Ride Free 🙂

@@barebonesmc I would definitely choose the older bikes too! Although my 2014 CB500X has a digital display, and ABS, I am NOT a fan of newer technology (TFT screens, LED lights, ride modes)!! Hell, I don't even like 270° crank parallel twins.

@@fredtracy3931 LOL, YOU ARE LITERALLY THE ONLY PERSON OTHER THAN ME THAT I HAVE HEARD SAY THEY DONT LIKE 270 degree parallel twins lol

@@barebonesmc there is an exception, I think the 2019 Norton Atlas Ranger & Nomad are gorgeous machines. It is too bad what that crooked bloke Stuart Garner did to the potential owners who put a deposit down on an Atlas! 😤😡😕

yep, the whole project was shelved in the end because there were so many gaping holes in the design TVS couldnt figure a way out to make it work, a conman of the highest degree

Dont forget the Dorsaduro :-)

@@barebonesmc No, not forgotten, it's a very nice bike, but, as its a 4 valve, water cooled, and heavier, it's lower down my wish list, the Buell is belt drive as well, for which it gets extra points from me😂.

@@MarkDaleADV if we all wanted the same one that bike would get very expensive lol 🙂 I do like the Buells, but i had a mate with a cyclone and he ended up with shares in loctite 🤣🤣🤣 i think hes the only person who lost more bolts than my old DR600 did 🤣🤣🤣

@@barebonesmc Yes, absolutely, and the fact that the reverse is true, is even more important. Maverick bikes can often be the bargains of the century!

@@MarkDaleADV indeed 🙂 I still keep my eyes peeled for the right Gilera 🙂 the RC600 was such a bike, the Nordwest still very underrated and undervalued 🙂

lol Cheers for watching mate. Ride Free 🙂

i can imagine they are great fun, we never got them over here 🙂Cheers for adding to the list, , ride free 🙂

🙂 cheers for watching mate, Ride Free

im sure i could find a spot for most of them too :-) I do love the Nuda in particular 🙂 cheers for watching mate, Ride Free

MZ also put the 500 cc Rotax motor into their old 2 stroke frames called Saxons various models I had the Country model ...one of my favourite motorcycles...I have had over 75 different bikes but that 500 cc Saxon was perfect for me 😊😊

@@willyrackham2957 Im just a sucker for Rotax engines lol 🙂 cheers for watching mate 🙂 Ride Free. contemplating doing a video of a new engine design i found that sounds interesting, you interested?

being honest the Harris Matchless is a new one on me, but anything Harris built was built well, and the air cooled Rotax is a solid old lump, its a plodder though, dont expect it to rev out like the Honda does. JDM?

@@barebonesmc sorry, Japanese Domestic Market

@@fredtracy3931 aaah 🙂 ill have a look when i get chance, they often keep the best for themselves 🙂

@@fredtracy3931 I like the look of the 350 Goose, where did they come up with that name though? lol

enjoy it mate 🙂Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂

elevating the importance of marketing to be more important than the engineering is a problem of the modern world. people just need to learn to ignore the hype 🙂

🙂cheers for watching mate, ride free

sorry mate, there are a few more shots right at the end, and yes i could have probably fitted more in, i was just hypnotised by the exhaust note 🙂

lol :-) Cheers for watching mate and thanks for the comment, enjoy your weekend

@@barebonesmc same to you Really love your format Looking forward to future videos Suggestions for vids: the gone 750 class , the gsx saga , rare collaborations and joint ventures, the evolution of geometries of motorcycles and the limits of what can be managed without electronics

@@abdelhamidbc cheers mate, have made some notes :-) have a great weekend 🙂