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And then a local old lady comes by on her scooter, filled with vegetables, in flip flops, and does this all perfectly making you feel like a silly billy for thinking this was challenging. Happens to me all the time in Thailand.

Well that's just about the most spectacular backdrop for an instructional video of all time.

Rarely do I look at something and say “I’m definitely not doing that!”

I think I mostly impressed by how you did the bonus tips with such a straight face. Respect!

What a fantastic video!!! The way you combined such a visually stunning, terror inducing bridge with a lesson on slow speed maneuvers in tight spaces was truly masterful. I’ve watched all your videos. This may be your most creative. Great, great job!!

WOW!! The visual as you ride across and looking down gives me the chills!!

My palms were sweating just watching. Lol . Great lessons shared. Safe travels!

These are great tips! I don't think I'll find myself crossing a Nepalese mountain bridge any time soon, but it looks a lot like lane filtering on narrow roads: a slim margin of error and disaster on either side. I often end up second-guessing gaps and walking the bike between wing mirrors that I'd breeze past if they were two trees on a trail, or two cones in a parking lot. Anxiety can really degrade our bike handling skills, and it's important to be able to spot when it's happening.

one of the best videos you ever made so far.

Gotta love it…makes riding the NMBDR look like a pavement tour😳

I’m pretty nerve wracked about the thought of the San Francisco bridge. Either one. This here makes that look simple. Good job.

Rode across a similar suspension bridge near Kagbeni earlier this year on a KTM 390 Adventure. Once you have a bit of momentum its relatively simple. Just don't look down! Thanks for coming to 🇳🇵 Nepal Bret. Namaste and Dhanyabaad.

Relieved to hear the bridge decking was “polished steel”🙂

Dude. The bridge would make my soil myself even walking, I would not make it on a motorcycle. Vision up or not, prepare for maximum soilage. Great video though! Learned a lot as always.

Damn that bridge would be my nemesis. I have fear of heights and never could walk over that bridge. My motorcycle journey end in front of it.

Oh, how I miss driving around Nepal. Of course, the locals drive their little motorbikes across the bridge with mom riding side-saddle in her Sunday best Saree. The locals sure know how to ride off road.

Great Video Bret! “Waterproof on the inside, as well…” 😂

Bald tires, Tired rental bikes, Respect! Thanks for your advise

I love the smell of Nepal(m) in the morning! What a wonderful adventure, thanks Bret.

Glad you're back. We missed you 😁. Great video.

As always, you show the BASICS we practice so that they come naturally when we are in tight spaces and under stress. I was under stress just watching you guys! Its why I do, and stress to others, to take a minute and grab some parking lot or some dirt/mud/hill and do a bit of practice.I know as I get older my body gets tighter so practicing the way I AM is so important. You make everything look easy my friend and I always look forward to your advice and demonstrations. We never stop learning or practicing. Thank you for breaking down a scary ride into moments we do regular-just not a mile up in the air!! Take care and be safe in your travels!

Bret you're a pro and yet I sense you had some hesitation before mastering this climate. Thank you for sharing this.

Absolute gold Bret. So much to learn here!

Welcome to the country, my man!

Thank you, Bret. I get so much inspiration from your videos.

I'm not afraid of heights and am no stranger to adrenalin-filled adventures, but that bridge-crossing would still give me the heebie-jeebies, if only because of how narrow it is and having to pass people in the process. Man, imagine that on a windy and/ or rainy day. Holy Cow.

Great instructional video. What a cool crossing, for people with limited skillsets the rental himalayans made it look like a walk in the park

These are the novelties that make the journey worth doing. So much fun!!!

Good point about practice not being the same as in the real. I've had times where I screwed up in the real world on a maneuver I could do with ease in an open field

Beautiful scenery.....great instruction. Thank you for sharing.

Thanks for visiting Nepal🇳🇵 sir🙏🏻

Great video, Bret! The trip looked like an extraordinary adventure.

Wow! A truly breathtaking setting for this masterfully explained lesson.

Stunning scenery! Very useful real life challenges in various traction environments. I'm glad you're not just limited to the Americas. Good stuff 👍🏽

Great video, great scenery! That looks like a trip of a lifetime. Thanks for sharing those tips.

LOL! Waterproof both ways! Awesome. Love your videos, Bret!

These videos are so so helpful and beneficial! thank you!👍

Yep 👍🏾 you nailed it. I have rode across similar bridges and it was disconcerting to say the least for a first timer. As you eluded to, I also found and thought that you’d better have already mastered your riding techniques as well as your bike in order to get through unscathed. Bingo, you nailed it again with the vision thing. You have to take human bites on how much vision you choose consume in order to keep your balance and momentum. Beautiful 🤩 video Bret 👍🏾

Brilliant. I still have to keep reminding myself to look up and forward. The want to look down can be tremendous.

Brett, your channel keeps getting better and better! Thanks again.

Wh. wha.. what? This dude is selling tours?? Bret is the King, and I would be very interested in that! Dude is right. We can do a shit ton of practice in a parking lot with cones... but when confronted with the real-deal, the mind seizes.

Great advices as always

Great intel as always!

Having a smaller size/weight and CC (300 or less) helps. At least while learning to ride as a beginner in places like Nepal. You are comfortable leaning such bikes more than larger ones, and less clutch finnesse is required. That said, people do take larger bikes with no fuss in those places once they are well into their riding career. A lot of us learn to ride on a smaller CC (200 or less even) bike.

Awesome. Looks hard enough, then you add the people on the bridge too.

Yeah, excellent tutorial!

Merry Xmas Bret and all you adventurers out there! Keep the rubber side down, have a great new year too!

Just wow!!! Awesome location!!!

Really nice. I get sweaty hands while watching.

Buen video 👍🏻 Gracias por tus consejos Saludos desde Argentina 🇦🇷

Great video and point you made: practicing in a field with cones is one thing. Trying to do the same thing in a tight location with adrenaline coursing through your body is another! Though practicing with cones helps lay down muscle memory that might help in this situation? BTW almost to 100k subscribers the channel has grown alot! Safe travels and happy holidays!

Love from nepal 🇳🇵

Nice training Video. I've been riding in Napel with Hearts and Tears, an awesome place, with loads of bridges!

Amazing video.. Thank you mr Bret

Brilliant work Bret ;-)

I love the info you share here and on mototrek, I'm in the PNW area, just got a new dual sport and can't wait for the snow to melt so I can go up Mount hood

My hands are swearing just from watching this. Great video, Bret!

Dream trip. Guess I’ll have to ‘settle’ for the Rockies.

Great video. my littleone watching it and practicing on his 50cc and telling me to make recork him and upload the videos 🙂

Im impressed to say the least!

Terrific video with great explanation of real life scenarios. Did a trip in the Himalayas 2 years ago fortunately didn’t have bridges quite as terrifying as this. Really enjoy your videos , I believe you did a course down here in nz a while ago ,would love to do one of your training session. Keep a the good work

Upload more videos regarding offroad techniques Your contribution is greatly appreciated Watching from india 🇮🇳

Thanks for another great instructional video. It’s sometimes maddening how skills you can do in the front yard disappear when dangerous obstacles appear.

Great Video!

I love your videos and indepth teaching. See ya in Class Soon. Trying to schedule your for my Instructor. Hello from Ritzville WA

Impressive bridge, impressive riding tipps. Great video. You are such a good teacher. Thanks from Nürnberg/Germany, Günter

Hey Bret, god tips every time, thanks! To go down, there's always the option of jumping from the main road directly to the bridge ;)

Nine out of ten made this crossing with zero problems. (Some second-hand motorcycle parts stay for sale at incredible price... 😅😅😅)

I see Vishu is showing you the fun spots..... enjoy

beautiful place !

I am signed up. Can’t wait to experience Nepal in 2022 and learn from you.

nice movie enjoyed watching, in Asia we commonly attempt to do things like this, can it be done? should it be done? sometimes extreme conditions and pressures of life mean it has to be done. enjoy watching your channel. stay safe

Yes the ingress and egress takes some skills and crossing a narrow very high slippery bridge takes some concentration but just for kicks lets have some people walking across it at the same time. I'd have to have double layer water proof pants and maybe a stiff drink at the other side. Not that I condone that sort of thing.

Thank you for the tips. That would be a challenge.

awesome content

Muito bom, dicas preciosas. Obrigado! Abraço

Bret: *Talking about the psychological problems people face when crossing a bridge like this.* Me: Easy. Just start playing the DOOM soundtrack when approaching the bridge. :D Now I want to go to Nepal and cross bridges all day. The only simliar bridges around here are almost ancient and abandoned a long time ago so they're more likely to just collapse under me and my bike's weight. I'm crazy but I'm not mad enough to try. :) Thank you for another great video! I hope | have enough spare money to spend on such a group ride in 2023.

Great video Bret! I am not sure if I will ever have the opportunity to ride across a bridge like this, but when I come across one I will be good to go!

My hands just got wet just looking the video, but definitively something I would like to try. Thanks for the advice!!

I have a lot of 2 track wooden bridges I cross in the U.P. of Michigan. The Mackinac bridge has grates. The grates can make tires wobble.

As an Indian biker. Piece of cake 😎

Loved this, and especially the ending. Almost expecting a "Sponsored by Depend" ;)

I’m not a fan of heights either. That WOULD be a challenge. Ride safe and have fun. 🇺🇸

i know 2 things for sure: this is a great video and i will never try to do this myself! :-)

Love the content ... as always its top notch... not loving the bridge lol well done all who cross it, on foot, by bike, hell by any means! Far braver than i for sure

Look at the motorcycle at the 0:30 mark then try and use your tires choice as an excuse. LOL This was a fantastic learning video.

Stupendous views there. How about moving off in tight spaces when parked on an incline? I've made the mistake of parking with the front wheel pointed downhill and it's a huge pain to turn the bike around to face uphill.

I still struggle with a tight U turn in a parking lot lol. This bridge would have me paddle walking

Wow one day I hope to have the skills and nerve to ride a bridge like that

In other words, be prepared for every terrain, these examples for this sort of environment is for traveling in this area regularly... As these aren't common around the world

1:27 Not gonna lie. That scene transition got me good.

Smaller bikes are a plus for these kind of challenging rides.

Will email you a list of another 6 mistakes, out of personal experience that you may have missed. 😂 As usual, love your movies and your tips have already mentally pulled me through during this first year of wabdr training. I literally hear your voice in my head as I prepare for difficult challenges. Thank you for making us all safer better riders!!

The Tibetian bridges are so much better than the Indian ones!

Imagine driving that steel bridge in the rain...talk about a gut check

BRETT: The trick is...polished steel so limited grip...etc etc..... ME: Not in a million years.

Lovely video, I will hopefully do Nepal Tibet soon.. What adventure touring boots are you using for your Himalayan?

It's the passing pedestrians that would make me the nervous. That's where I would screw up.

Love it