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I learnt something about putting it on the side stand and try to swing it around it might come in handle down the road great video .

Since that log's only about 8" to a foot or so thick, you could cut it with a tomahawk or a light hatchet easily enough. That plus a snatch block (or two) to drag it and you could actually clear that trail, probably.

I keep a folding corona saw in my bag. Cheap and amazing.

Hand chainsaw. Folds easy and doesn’t take much room.

I’ve thought about this, and realized that this can happen on any bike: Every bike + rider system has its limits, when that system is pushed to those limits, things get tricky. That meant that I didn’t need to get rid of my beloved GS, I just choose my trails and conditions based on my system’s limitations, and then it will get as tough as I let it.

That's exactly why I changed my 990adventure to g650x challenge and then to 2t beta 300 xtrainer. Way more fun and easier to manage.

and get it stuck in even more remote places 😀

@@arclay10 bingo!

@@SuperBardley yeah, except you can easily lift a 230lbs bike out of pretty much anything.

heavy bike heavy problems, light bike...

Oh, that’s so true!

i rode a CB300 on my course and it is just the perfect weight and size. also on the road 30HP is just enought to climb hills 90kph and things.

DRZ400...

@@Francois_Dupont i am of the opinion a 300 is more than enough, taking the speed limits etch into consideration, though i love my 600 Honda, it is an overkill in most road situations and weights 222 kg's Regards from rsa

There's no way you'd get a tire over that wet tree. Unless you can wheelie it on top it won't go. No bite. It's slick as all hell

Good advice... Ironically this was one of my "off" days. But I still gave it a good effort. If I was with a buddy and feeling hot I would have done the necessary legwork to make it hapen and done it again.

@@BretTkacs thanks and again great video your videos have helped me out a time or two when I get stuck or frustrated I have to recall what did Brett say ???? Like the deep sand one for sure haha.

From a newbie, when I feel it, I'll try it. I can always try it another day, but not if I injure myself.

It would be great to have the right Bret Tcaks video on my phone when we need it. Had I watched and practiced everything he posts, I would be riding today instead of nursing my broken foot. Let’s start with boots…

Be careful, the old side stand pivot trick has resulted in many broken engine cases and frames on these big heavy adventure bikes. Brett knows his stuff and not trying to knock him - I have used this technique myself at times. However, I now work on these bikes and this maneuver can be a very costly one! Trust me, it's not usually worth the chance in most situations.

@@riorica1 yep, anything over 400lbs is iffy to do that

he should add a wizard hat to his collection

And if that did not work, he would have pulled out his “Philosopher’s Stone” and used that to pivot on or float away with... 🧙 😜

you never saw somebody do this? i dont know where i saw this first, but it is quite a useful trick.

@@peterbrophy9442 sometimes i park on the side of the road and i use a beer can from the ditch to use as a rest. my bike is only 300lbs, i dunno about those big one.

I am going to use that on my dirt bike

600, no problem, 800 maybe, 1200 nope

I learned that one the first day I worked in a motorcycle dealership. It's essential for getting the bikes all in a nice line. 😂

New to me too.....

Yes, the side stand spin was interesting. I was expecting Bret to center stand and spin the bike

i do it all the time and people always look at me like im some kind of freak lol

First I saw that was a guy in parking lot who had no space in front but just enough on the side. I thought he would roll back but he just did his side stand thing and went off. Now I do that all the time

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or ask your donna for help

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Laugh but true... Now I'm Googling "Goldwing with knobbies"

@@brownies-midlifeadventure5333 you will find fun and amazing things

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You're never alone with a GS...

I thought he was going to push the bike over the log too.

That's what I was thinking.

Me too

i would have hooked the cylinder on the log and used it as a pivot point to spin the whole bike 180 over the log. just like he did with the kickstand.

I was sure Chris Birch on a Ktm 1290 was going to ride over that log any minute.

Yep, been there done that. The first time I took my GS off-road I managed to do everything wrong, this was years before KZfaq and Bret’s wonderful big bike vids, and sight vectored myself into a rocky pool off the edge of a water crossing on a logging road. The pool was well below the surface of the gravel road, and of course I was alone with no appropriate Moto self-rescue gear, duh, and even less knowledge, so I too had to haul the beast backwards a good 12” up to the road level, solo. My situation was better than Bret’s because it wasn’t rainy and the ground was firmer, but at first I just couldn’t make progress as the bike would simply roll back down to my start point whenever I reshuffled my stance for the next big tug. The trick that I employed was to use a combination of the front brake & clutch to keep the bike from backsliding while I muscled it uphill for a good 6’ in reverse, 1” at a time for my tugs. This allowed me to take rests and stay strong enough to do it. Like Bret said, I assessed my situation, broke it down into manageable pieces, and did it 1” at a time - I mentally prepared for extremely incremental progress, kinda like putting my expectations into first gear for a very tricky uphill scramble, no flying down the road on that one. 😂