Nice to hear someone has sensitivity to nature and wildlife. Thank you.

I feel you have done a nice honest report here, thank you for that! Always good to hear owners reports! Safe travels!

Thank you for making a great video. I have a 2018 Rally and I love it. I like all of your mods and comments. Have a good one.

Cheers I love how the bikes looks, you defivinitly had some fun with it. I own a crf300 rally and have done now 10k and i am loving it driving in the balkan countries. For switzerland, were i am living, i have a Tenere 700, more street more tenere, more offroad more crf, it's that easy for me. I hope you post more videos, looking forward to them.

Greetings from British Columbia, Canada. I enjoyed your video....I have a 2017 Rally...sure the suspension is a bit soft, but that bike has taken me places my Vstrom would never go...I love the backdrop to your review...where is that? Amazing landscape, not unlike here...I really need to go to Spain one day! I like your perspective as well on loud, obnoxious exhausts...we share these wild places with creatures and to move through mountains with little disruption to nature is important for sure. I see you don't have crash guards....I must admit they really helped save my plastics...but each to his own. Keep up the great reviews...looking forward to more.

Good review mate..I've done about 44,000km on my 2017 Rally, highways, offroad, camping, always good fun 👍

very insightful on this review, im planning on get this bike, this video convince me more to get this bike, thanks sir

Great review, i love mine as well, 38.000 on it now, but wish i had mine in Spain, i have the Thai version in Thailand and getting in between 320 to 380 on a tank, been riding it around Asia now 4 years, hope i can ride it back to Spain sometime, greetings from Alicante, enjoy and safe riding!

I'm planning to make a big trip in all South America and wanted to buy this bike for it, thanks a lot for this great review.

Nice video. Been looking to grab one of these 250s or 300 for lighter travels and researching a bit and came across your video. Well thought out video thank you. Kind of like Montserrat in the background. Well keep on riding and making good videos

Great review and video, Jorge !!

Excellent and accurate review!

wow! that was a lot of kms @2:00 Barcelona to Turkey! Bike you were using totally awesome. Very unbiased really based on stock bike. I have 300rally as well.

Good video, your spot on , I love my rally completely stock I'm 60 yr old ride like lightning, crash like thunder

Hello Buddy, first i realy apprechiate your real and honest review. I'm convinced without data about your hight and weight its very dificult to share your expirence. I notice you are came from a Africa Twin and, as a short rider, your are used to be "sit inside the bike" instead "sit on top of the bike". Specially on the CRF with a rear shock spring made for 60 Kg guys you enjoy the apehanger geometry sugesting you ride a lightweight bike...what the CRF absolute is. But, honestly, we are way behind a dynamic riding geometry as the developer it build for. Your Stearing Head angle is more like a choper rather tha a crosser, think bout that. If the rear preload and spring doesn't suit to your weight, your ride a tank instead of a agile adventure bike. Invest some money and look for a proper solution for your personal needs, which means to lower the back and front but keep a dynamic geometry in place. You have enough ground clearance to suffer a bit of los...

Well done mate, good honest review. I've owned my 250 Rally now for 5 years (from new). My mods are almost the same as yours but I did change the rear shock for a YSS which makes it much better for off-road riding.

Dude, I'm 168, I weigh 80 kg and I want to buy a CRF 300 Rally and you won't believe it, I also live in Catalonia haha. Good review and I'm glad to know that you have done so many kilometers without any problem.

To avoid "chopper" posture the simplest and free way is to adjust rear spring preload, set optimal sag. If you're heavier than 70kg, or carrying noticeable luggage/pillion stock preload is too soft.

Wow, 55,000 km is a lot! I've just hit 10,000 km on mine after 2 1/2 years. But I work at home, so don't have that 200 km/day commute. I weigh 50 kg more than you and I'm 180 cm so I upgraded the springs and valving (on the stock shock). No more sag. Max distance I've got was 311 km at mostly 90-100 km/h, waiting until it was literally running out of fuel (I had a couple of litres in my backpack). I feel 250 km is about the range at 110 km/h, with the 100 km/h range more like 275 km. It's perfectly happy at 110, and if you just want to get somewhere then 110 gets you there faster, even with extra fuel stops. I found the seat corners uncomfortable for my thighs at first, but after 10,000 km it must have softened up because I went for a 370 km ride a few weekends ago (including a lot of gravel road and 65 km on the sand on one long beach) and towards the end realised that I hadn't been thinking about the seat at all! Great bike. Of course the 300 would be better, but I already have the 250. I've had an XR600 before, and still have a BMW 1100. If I wanted more power I'd have bought a bike with more power. You say "not much torque", I say "keep the tacho at 7000+ and it's on the point of spinning the back wheel on gravel at any sensible speed, so what more do you need?". The XR600 had torque. It also had vibrations and 5 gears and no windscreen and I was exhausted after a 100 km ride on the highway when I was half my current age.

I'm the same about noise. I'm in the trails once per week on a vehicle, but I'm also in the trails hiking, running, meditating equally as much. I hate loud noises.

Great video...I just purchased a 250 rally here in the US.

Good review thanks. Lite and nimble and quiet.

That was one of my main questions about this bike, I’m 6’1’’ (around 1.80cm), I’m not sure if that bike is gonna be too small for me, I love the way it looks I just don’t wanna look funny lol

Nice review, I live and ride in Indonesia (150 cc bikes) and am waiting for my new Rally 250. Here there are tax limitations so we still get 250 cc, but we do get the new closer ratio transmission of the 300. The one thing I will not get is the longer stroke of the 300 motor. I think what you felt on the 300 was a combination of the longer stroke and the better gear spacing. I rented the 250 Rally on Bali few years ago, it had 30, 000 km and the suspension was comical especially with my small size girlfriend on the back (I am 75 kgs), but you made it 55k so thats cool. In the end it's simple physics, light bikes are so much more fun, little engines allows or dictates getting on the revs, shifting gears......all what makes riding awesome. Stay safe.

Thanks for the great review. I’m thinking about ordering a CRF 300 Rally as my first adventure bike. Up till now I’ve been dirt only and I feel like this would be a good steppingstone for me. Thoughts?

Great review, thanks!

Hola! Great video! Which tires do you have mounted on your bike? Thanks! And keep enjoying your bike!

The CRF300 Rally also has a bigger gas tank and it is at least 5 kg lighter despite more gas! Engine only had 26hp due to Euro5 emissions. The CBR300R ECU will give it 30.5 hp and 27N-m on Euro4 compliance. The optional ABS with switchable rear is something to consider.

I have a motorcycle friend in Spain now!

I am a new follower of your channel Greetings from Türkiye 😊

Dear Jorge, thank you so much for your informative video. I would like to ask your opinion for which one someone to buy? The 250 rally or the 300 rally? As an average experienced rider ,as I am, do you think does it make so much difference one or the other bike? Thanks in advance, Alexandros from Greece

Hi, very interesting video. How much do you think the Rally CRF 300 L would benefit from having some extra 50cc and/or about 8 to 10 more hp? Would that make a difference on the highway? TIA!

Great review! Can I ride with a passenger on the road for a short trip with this motorbike?

good review

You suggest it’s got a lack of torque because it’s a Honda not a KTM… Surely it has limited torque because you chose to buy a bike with a single cylinder 250cc engine not a bigger capacity bike with more power and torque. The make has nothing to do with it.

Mate where are you located ? Are you from Canada ?

Why did you go for rally version not a regular 250L version ?

Hey howzit, How is the bike on loose sand, I have to drive 5km's of it just to get from my house to the tar road.....currently have an Enfield Bullet 500 and it's proving a bloody nightmare for me and the poor bike.

Wonderful

Got one in my shed got 95000 km on it jus put new rings now

What are your favourite tires?

There isn't a perfect bike for all conditions and budgets. This is a great bike for fire roads and slower highway riding - just don't put too much money into it. Once or if you feel like you need more power and better suspension, then get another bike...like a KTM 500.

Why not a KLX? From all the research I have done, the KLX does everything the Honda CRF does not. With one exception; it feels more like a dirt bike. Why choose a CRF for a long Journey over a KLX?

It looks huge. A bit intimadating and I'm 6' 1"

It's not a powerful bike at all.. Waste of money

Dude just some aftermarket springs 300$ buck up cheap fix helps quite a bit

Great review! Thanks