KLR650 on a really nasty hillclimb
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
- This hill is a piece of cake on a trail bike but feels like a major achievement on a KLR650. Had to have a go as the next day logging of this whole area was starting.
Track is located near Wellington, New Zealand. Bike with the helmet cam is a Yamaha DT230.
Great video! Well done to the dude on the KLR650. I'm just about to buy one and this video has really put my mind at ease on how the big donk will handle this type of terrain. Thanks for sharing.
That's what I'm talkin' 'bout!!! The 650KLR is a bad ass tractor that can do whatever a skilled rider can ask of it.
wow guys wr450klr650 im in awe. Nice ride and beautiful scenes...
Beautiful ride !!!
another nice video. nice to see some footage of the KLR from a different vantage point.
That trail is (was) a beauty! Nasty looking ruts.. Worth the views!
Just bought a 96 Klr 250 i love it
Excellent ride.... fantastic view from the top to the Harbour... Thanks for posting!!!
That looked very cool. Absolutely stunning view at the top.
Gotta love the KLR. Makes any trail look like a piece of cake
Loved the video. Wish I was there right now!! I had a KLR650 and Now ride a DR650. Both great bikes.
Good ride! U guys have been riding for a while! I can tell by way u ride & the guy on the klr[wow] Thats what I ride .. Make another one! Thanks
Beautiful ride area ...wish we had that here
Wicked trail for such a big bike. Nice job!
Verry nice trail. A lot of work with a KLR ☺
Excelente recorrido, que mejor para probar la KLR....
wow great trail it looks like nirvana for riding.i like the way yall work togther so neither gets left behind and you dont get to close either.keep cranking out them vids.
Looks like a fun ride.
I think the description is fine, Craig! Video never does anything justice.
Your helmet cam sure took a beating!
this is a nicely decent road. if u guys want adventure, come to Peru, Apurimac route Cuzco-Tambobamba, thats crazy stuff, rain, snow, thunder, not pave roads, avalanchs, some nasty rivers, everything btw 3000msnm and 4500 msnm. do it at night.
Awesome ride, that big 'ol KLR could have packed in camping gear too and you could have spent the night at the summit!
amazing video once again. :) I'm so jealous of the skill yall have.
I'm impressed. There were some seriously narrow and rutted sections -- would've been tough work handling the heavier bike, and you made it look easy.
Wow. That was stellar. Great climax too. I have a '03 Killer650 and I cant imagine trail riding it. I would much rather have a more nimble 250. This video further cements my desire to visit New Zealand.
Good riding! It sounded like the KLR barely had to work in comparison to the DT230
Thanks for sharing & nicely done!
very cool trail,great klr control.thumbs up!
awesome ride.
good riding,
Those guys know what they're doing.
Good riding vid. The KLR is a handfull on trails like that but the weight does give some pretty decent traction at times. I am curious what exhaust is on the KLR.
Nice ride. Finesse will get you farther than recklessness on that KLR. Like the way you use the torque of the 650... sounds great.
Interesting video. I was actually wondering if the KLR rider was new to riding, new to riding the KLR, or experienced on both. To me that looks like a fairly simple trail even if it were a touch muddy, and the fellow as all over the place. Not at all trying to be rude or critical here. It may just be that I started out on that type of trail and my first bike was a KLR 650. I do agree that 400lbs can be interesting to muscle around a hard trail. + I ride some hard stuff here in UT .thx4vid
the KLR rider sure has some skill.
KLR + good rider = success
An impressive feat on a cumbersome steed. Bravo :)
very nice video!congratulations!!
@ChaplainC One thing that helmet mounted cameras don't portray well is the grade of the trails. I'm sure you couldn't walk up some of the spots they were riding...
@moondaddyrc The trail is near Wellington, New Zealand.
Great job man!!..congrats..
@summerman2 Yamaha DT230, great little bike.
@cashstore1 Trail is near Wellington, New Zealand. Thanks for the comments.
Fucking brilliant. Great motorbike riding!
Another good title would have been (Not Nubes). Very good riding. I have done similar on a Honda Trail 90, but I certainly couldn't hop on a KLR and make that climb.
Great video. I really liked that trail you were on. Is that in the smoky mountains?
klr rider is a good rider, he keeps his feet on the pegs. (most of the time) I don't know about the yam-rider, he did the vid. Any way ,great vid, thanks
nice place, nice ride. kul man....
Klr650 is a capable machine in the right hands (not necessarily mine). Those ruts looked scary I bet they were a lot worse than the camera portrays .
Agree - probably not too bad on a 350 but for a 650, well done! Plus, there looked to be some serious consequences to failure.
that dude shreds on the klr
This is considered perfectly good road in my country
got dunlop d606's fron and back on my 08 klr, i dont even tell people what it will do or where it will go cause they dont believe it till they see it. just gotta take your time and have lots of seat time.
The dt 230might be a bit easier on those rough slow tracks. Nice ride boys. klrs are great bikes. wind protection on the 2008 onwards (same as video) is alot better. Can you get away from the dt on a straight line drag?
You are following a KLR 650 but what are you riding? Sounds like a 250 MX bike, Is it?
nice riding!
Theres no stopping the thumper haha :D
I must ride there! Can you please tell us where this trail is located?
nice road
The KLR sounds like its climbing at barely higher than idle with plenty of power.
thats an amazing view! worth the ride haha.
you bring a hibachi i hope?
good ride!
I think you over-did it on the description.... nice ride, didn't see a nasty hill climb!
MotoAtheist guess it's all relative to one's skill level...
MotoAtheist oh, I didn't realize you were the authority on the written word of Craig (blessings be upon him).
Craig may have not been talking about their skill level... I didn't think he was; thus my point. The relative nastiness of a trail may indeed correspond to a rider's skill level OR - to your point - to the pigishness of the machine they ride.
The supplementary corollary to this would be that the relative pigishness of the machine one rides corresponds to their skill level and/or the inherent nastiness of the trail.
Let me know if you would like to continue with a discussion of the semantics of 'relative' and 'inherent'... or of the pigishness of klr's...phht...
MotoAtheist ...but yet you use it as an excuse to bloviate about your riding prowess...
"downplay things to make themselves feel better"?! that's ridiculous. It makes more sense logically that you're sandbagging it just to make yourself "feel better". See it all the time!
to some maybe this was a 'nasty' climb... still, I recon 50% of guys on klr's would have laid it down in those ruts.
MotoAtheist awwww. haha. that may be, still doesn't make a single one of your assertions correct, unfortunately. alas, the only one here demonstrating idiocy, is you. I would expect more from a 'freethinker' like yourself... dense, stubborn and arrogant...phht.
Nothing is nasty to a KLR. I've ridden mine across the rubicon, took 4th in a hare scramble, and generally flogged the hell out of it with no issues whatsoever
Throw on a 52 teeth rear sprocket,then you will feel some arm jerk torque,stock gearing sucks for any SERIOUS off roading,Put on a giant rear sprocket,and youll start seeing the sky,I guarantee it.The KLR does make good power off the bottom.
bravo... very nice ride. if you ever come to greece call me for a ride!!!!!!!!!
I didn't say anything about it being a 2 stroke. My mother could tell that's not a 2 stroke.
excelente !!!
what was the other bike?
It's a little Yamaha DT230.
my bad thought u were talkin about 2 strokes haha
Yammy just waitin. HUNGRY !! :)
then you dont ride it right.. what year?
Mine goes over 70 mph... it has 6 gears ya know..
NEW-ZEALAND!
donsent sound close to a 250 2 stroke mx bike, way to quiet and not as responsive
i have a klr250 its verry slow
Living in New Zealand is like living in man land...
that 2 stroke kept up on the pipe,real well,the rider on the 4 stroke,was weak,at best
Rider on the 4 stroke KLR was doing just fine. These types of bikes are not meant to be run WOT. They are all torque in low RPM ranges. Different riding styles and techniques between 2 and 4 stroke bikes. I have ridden both types. Prefer the 4 strokes. Half the noise, half the gas same amount of fun.
@3:40 low birdge yikes
Rad
damn shame they decided to log there. it's a beautiful forest, reminds me of the pacific north west in the united states. (Washington, Oregon, northern California)
Watched the whole video. I didn;t see any "really nasty hill climb" just piss poor riding skills. Being scared and wetting your pants doesn;t make a hill "nasty"