I Bought a 'New' Bike for the Channel... (a quick 4-minute show-and-tell)

hi and welcome back to adventure bike troop.com in this video I'm just going to

show you my new bike that I've bought and this is mostly for my subscribers and

my loyal followers that support me in the last couple of months I really appreciate it and hopefully soon I'll get back to regular videos so before I

show you the bike I give you I'll give you a couple of clues and then please

pause and comment below to guess what I have bought so I've got my welding

gloves on, my safety goggles, this is my riding gear for this bike, I've got my tin cup for my

coffee for this video and I've got my riding boots, my wheelies on. So before I show you

please pause and comment below. I'd love to hear what you think I bought and then I'll explain just now

Hi, I'm Francois from adventurebiketroop.com and I just bought a bike. Recently I've made a video

or a couple of months ago weeks ago I made a video where I looked at a couple

of smaller dual sport bikes like 200s 250s like the TW the XT 250 the KLX 300 those type of bikes DR 200 and the reason was that the XR was a bit much for me it quite tall I dropped it

quite often and I ride mostly technical off-road these days so you can check that video out up here

and thank you for all the comments on that video so I bought a smaller bike one of the bikes was a

a TW 200 now that's an AG or agricultural bike now what is better than an

AG bike that's what I bought well let me show you okay so you might be asking

what is better than an AG bike so I'm sitting on one only thing better than an

air bike is two AG bikes yes I bought two Yamaha AG 200 and so let me show you

Okay, so this really wasn't planned. I was looking online. I almost bought a Gen 1 KLR that needed a ring job It was smoking quite badly And I was ready to pay the guy and then I just checked and the paperwork was not correct So I was very disappointed and I had a look online again and I found one of these AG200s

I've been looking at TWs and the Yamaha AG200 uses exactly the same engine

These bikes were started, the production started in 1984 so that was even before the TW and

still look exactly the same they're still sold by MR in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa

a lot of parts in Africa and in South America. So the bikes stayed almost exactly the same over the

years. Now it's very difficult to find one I've been looking at these as well but it's very

difficult to find one that was registered because they're used on farms same as TW 200s they usually

don't have papers they're usually not street legal so it's very difficult then to get them

street legal again or roadworthy and and the prices are ridiculous I've have looked at TWs

because they looked like awesome little bikes for what I need and I bought both of these for less than the cheapest TW that I could find in a good condition same year these are 2014 models so they not that old even 7 years old and the cheapest

TW that I could find for more or less the same condition was more than both of these

bikes and then it was without papers or registration and these two are both on the road, road legal

so I mean I just couldn't I just couldn't pass that deal by and and had a look I was going to

buy one and then decided well what the hell my wife also rides bikes you'll you can check out

our video where we did a Cape to Cairo trip 9300 miles on two Chinese 200cc delivery bikes

and and we've been meaning to do something similar again in the future so these are the

perfect bikes and the bikes we should have used on that trip. So anyway, stick around for more videos on what we get up to on these AG200s and thank

you for joining and thank you for watching. If you have any questions on these bikes or stuff that you'd love to know or see on these

bikes on this channel, please let me know and I'll try to include that

Thank you for watching. Cheers