Honda CT 125 Major Wreck On Mountain Pass
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2023
- On a trip to deliver supplies to a needy village in the mountains West of Chiang Mai, we had three of our five Honda CT125 involved in a crash. Lucky for them, only minor injuries, but it could have been much worse. Improper weight distribution of the weight on the rear of two of the bikes could have been the cause of the wreck..... We will be doing a video discussing the wreck and what might have caused it.....
Wow! Wild footage Thank you for sharing.
Children learning what really is important. Makes me want to take my kids with you guys. Good job.
I'm sure you heard Selma say she fells like Santa Claus..... These two kids have been brought up very well..... Great bunch of people we hang out with.......
Another great video. I watched it on the big screen TV last night. I read your crash analyses in your reply to one of the earlier comments. The back flip that started the crash looked like one from the Red Bull Impossible Hill Climb videos on CZcams! Glad everyone is ok. I do wonder why the village was located where it was. In the scenery shots it looks like rice paddy terraces created on the mountainside took a lot of work to make in a difficult location. Also, some of the women of the village seemed to be wearing unusually colorful dresses. Was that their daily dress, or was it special because they had your group visiting that day? I read about the history of the Lahu people in Thailand, and they tend to live in remote locations so that they can maintain the Lahu way of life. Is it possible that the villagers were Lahu or decedents of Lahu? I wonder if the Thai speaking leaders of the ride noticed a difference in dialect in the village from the Thai spoken in Chiang Mai?
Those are ALL Good Questions..!!
Inquiring minds want to know as we were wondering some of the Same things. 😎👍👌
Not sure what tribe background they have there, but I'll ask Natta to find out. They were told to expect us in advance, that is why so many of the women had on their very best skirts. They will only take those out to wear for special occasions. I guess we were special enough. Because we were expected, I didn't want any of our group to stop and wait till we came back down, that is why I kept telling them that I'd ride their bikes up and then the five Thai guys who were leading the group, started jockeying riders up and down so they could ride Shawn and Nattas bikes up for us. Good thing to because I was getting tired walking down to get a bike..... You'd of like this ride Vaughn........
@@TeamDNFracing All that makes sense, thanks. I also saw where you took to the dirt instead of riding up the concrete tracks.. I think that was a good decision..
@@Vintage_Garage That cement lanes where only a tad over a foot wide and you'll understand why I started riding the dirt when we get the video out about what happened to cause the crash. Those two bikes were very unstable when we got to the steep stuff and now we know why and the problem has been taken care of....... The dirt was just so much wider and forgiving if you got a little wide on the turns......
I like that every one took a trip to the village bringing them food and stuff that is good it s great ernest
Such happy people. Awesome video. Hope the battered are recovering.
All of those affected by the crash are healing up nicely. We will be doing a short ride this week and hopefully have the entire crew back next week.......
Glad to see that your back in the saddle again ! Be careful out there !
Glad to be back on the bike, just need to learn from this incident so it doesn't happen again.....
Great work Guys. 🙏 well done. See you in November 👍
When it gets close, let me know when you get here and we'll see about picking you up with Little Red....... I've only taken it out twice since you dropped it off, I need to pull the tarp off it and run it around the block...... See you in November Jonny.....
glad everyone was ok!
Out of the five people that went down, we had two of them that had minor injuries, the other three got off with a few scratches. We were extremely lucky on this one. Thanks for the comment....
Well THAT was a Good video of the trip, Eddie…!! ✅
You wanted to make good videos and This is one 👍
I would say the Editing was well worth it. 😎👏🥳
Only took me four days to edit this one. I'll be editing now right after we do the ride so I don't get so far behind on them. This video did show what all we went through to make this trip happen. The looks on the peoples faces made the entire trip worth it......
@@TeamDNFracing yes, it showed a good sampling of the whole thing Without showing the Whole trip, very good.✅
And W O W . . . Four days.!! 😱🫣 THAT is why we don’t film 🎥 any videos, it’s to much in our mid 70’s… Don’t know how Vaughn does it.
@@annafraley5388 Vaughns a brute for sure. I don't spend the entire day on editing, but after a few hours, 3 or 4, I need to take a break and do something else, like drink a cold Leo beer, which usually means I don't go back to editing. However, I was up past midnight getting the video set up on CZcams and my wife kept opening the door and saying in a nice way, "Go To Bed".......
great video. but i think after waiting 8 months to get mine i might trade it in soon for something a little faster and more power. not much but a little bit.
No need to do that, the bikes are to fun to not enjoy them. I've never ran into roads like the ones in the mountains around Chiang Mai anywhere in the US. I don't think you'll have the same kind of problems that hit us on this ride.......
What Model is the red honda that the thai guy was riding? semms like a mix of street and offroad bike, i like it
Honda used to make a bike that resembled their flat track bikes of the 90's. I believe they called them FTR 200, FTR 220 and the FTR 240. This is one of them, it's the FTR 240. It's a really good bike..... I wouldn't mind having one myself. It has a pretty low seat height and has a torquey motor....
She looped out, as we call it in MX happens all the time
Those bikes don't have enough power to "Loop Out" on their own. Something has to cause it and the weight distribution was way off and that is what caused the bike to go skywards. This was the second time that had happened to her. Once I got on it and rode it, the problem became very evident to me as the bike on any incline was horrible to control the front end. The weight extending behind the rear axle had the geometry so far off the when the bike was set on the center stand, the front tire was off the ground and the rear tire was on the ground. Totally opposite of any other bike in the group, except her husbands that was set up identical to hers. With the amount of weight she had in that box on the back, when she downshifted from second to first with still at full throttle it looped out. Now that we have taken the extended rack and the big box off of their bikes, it is impossible to get the front tire off the ground and the bike rides steady without the front tire hunting and searching all over the road. The only reason we showed the video footage of the wreck is so others don't make the same mistake of putting an extension rack on their bike and adding a lot of weight back there. Luckily, her and her daughter neither one suffered any injuries on this wreck..... Thanks for the comment
Has anyone checked out the new honda XR150L?
The new Honda XR150L is why I bought a new Yamaha WR 155R. It's a much better bike..... Sadly, that bike is not available in the states, but the Honda is......
what was it i back it up a couple time to see what happened and still couldn't figure out what happened. is it so steep that she just did a wheely and flipped over backwards and why did everyone crash
That is coming in the next video. What happens is when you put so much weight behind the rear axle, it messes up the weight balance of the bike. Her box on the bike was attached to an extended rack so the entire box was behind her rear axle. With 25 pounds back there, it was acting like a person setting back there and with the steepness of the road, it was very steep. When she downshifted from 2nd to 1st, the front end just went skyward. When she started to wreck, the other two bikes behind her made abrupt turns to the left to avoid her and the child as well as the bike. Bad thing about these very steep mountain paved roads is when a bike comes to a stop, most people will just put both feet down on the pavement and that is what Shawn and Daniel did. Neither one of them kept their right foot on the rear brake. The front brake alone is not enough to stop a bike on these roads. With the bike pointed up the hill, all of the weight is now loaded toward the rear of the bike. The rear brake would have stopped them from rolling backwards and into each other and then the crash. If you noticed, Robert immediately went to the right and behind Natta. As soon as he stopped forward motion, his bike started to skid back down the hill. What he did was to gas the bike and let the engine brake the skid for him. He then put his right foot on the rear bake pedal and controlled the bike. I was in the back of the group and when I saw Natta wheelie over I immediately stopped my bike with the rear brake pedal and then Daniels bike slid down into mine. I didn't fall because I had stopped and was firmly stable on the road. These mountain roads are dangerous and we plan on doing some riding where we can practice how to keep the bikes stable on these types of roads. The two big boxes you see on the backs of Natta's and Shawn's bikes will more than likely not be on there again.....
@@TeamDNFracing i figured it out by the end of the video. if we had places around here even close to this i would keep my trail. but we dont.