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I am a very cautious rider with very little dirt bike experience, but I am determined to learn some skills on my 2012 Honda XR650L. The main purpose of these shenanigans is to become more comfortable on the bike in general. #HondaXR #XR650L #Jumping
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I know the XR650L can jump but can I? Let's find out
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Hi, I'm Francois from adventurebiketroop.com. This is just a short video on me jumping for the first time
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So I'm going to try to get both wheels in the air. If I can get it a foot off the ground, both wheels at the same time, I'm going to call it a day
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going to be happy. I'm going to do one run. I haven't practiced it yet this morning. I did it
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once before and I got both wheels off the ground but it was quite scary so I'm going to do it now
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I just got here and just one run and then I'll chat about how it felt and then we'll see if I
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can figure out what I'm doing wrong, fine-tune it a bit and practice it a bit. So enjoy and let me
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know if I if you have some advice for me thanks I don't know whether the wheels
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were off the ground I'll see later on but to be honest I am quite yeah I'm
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quite scared of going too fast and I know the main thing is to keep a steady
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throttle not to chop it not to rev at the last moment and so I think it's that
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anxiety of of going too fast and then flying too high and not being able to
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land it I'm gonna try it again this time a little bit fast and see what happens
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I think I had it off the ground there I know it a flat landing at the top We walk down the jump face just now But this time I went a little bit faster
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Try to keep it steady. The problem is I polished my seat or I
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Washed it and treated it with a protect the UV protectant. So I'm sliding around which is freaking scary
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I've found a better runway now because it's quite short at the bottom
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there's not a lot of runway to get speed so you have to accelerate and then try to
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hold it steady so let's do one or two more I don't want to overdo it for some
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reason I'm not feeling it today so let's do one or two more and then find
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something else to do That last one, that was fun
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I hope I caught it because I realized now if I go too far I might overshoot the camera
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angle but I'm gonna move the camera a bit and try it once or twice
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Yeah, it's fun! I think the key is to just hold it steady and just keep a
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neutral body position. Anyways, I'm keen to see what it looks like afterwards
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Whoa Woah Woo! Yay
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That last one! Oh, that was a... I felt like I went a bit skew there
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probably hit the jump face a bit funny Anyways, I'm going to show you what the jump face looks like
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And then what I want to try today is just to finish off is ride over a log to see if
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I can get over it with the X on. It's quite short, right over there there's a hill there and with very deep ruts
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So I come down here it's very short and then if you look at this jump face here it's quite
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steep and then right at the top there's a bit of a divot there so you either have to hit it here
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which I didn't or in the middle but it goes that way and you can see if you look closely the rocks
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that will kick your wheel sideways so it's not the best place to to practice
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But the reason I'm doing it here is because there's a flat top. All the other jumps in this area here
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are huge jumps but then you have to clear it and land at the bottom, whereas this is just a little uphill and then at the top it's flat
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I'm gonna keep practicing this but we're gonna find a log now and just ride over it
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Okay, so I couldn't find a log to ride over. We'll do that next time. I'm gonna to finish this video
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I'm gonna ride up a small little hill I did it last time. I just saw it and I thought let's try this because I saw
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Edel Towns, I'll link the video here Hills, hill climbs, short little hill climbs and I tried it and I made the stupid mistake of stopping right before the top or just slacking off
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And then the wheel started spinning and I stopped and I had to reverse it down and the bike fell twice
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and because it's a big tall heavy bike so I'm gonna just hide up there I did it twice before after that crash because I
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Just to build confidence so I gonna do this now but I haven this was about two weeks ago So there is a big chance that I might not make it again this time but it just a fun little See I gonna show you what it looks like now
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So we first have to ride over all of these rocks. It's like a
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Rock, I don't know what you call it It's very uneven you can see here
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And then we go up there just to give you an idea
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To give you an idea how tall it is or how steep it is, I'm going to put the tripod down and then I'm going to walk up there
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You can see how I have to clamber up there. Sorry about the wind, I hope you can hear me
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Okay, I'm going to walk up there and you can see how steep it is and then I'm going to ride up there and hopefully I'll make it
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Okay, hopefully you can see how steep it is
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It is a couple of bike lengths and there's no way, if you stop up there, there's no way
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to get going again. I'll have to reverse it down, break it against the gears
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Anyways, let's ride up the seal. okay so every time I do stuff like this if you just commit it's always easier than what you think it
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is the biggest biggest issue and I'm very guilty of that is to doubt yourself and then not commit
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for it let's ride one more time okay so that went well that was exactly what the experts always say is you don't
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use power to use momentum so it was so easy going up there and right at the top
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I almost... Whoops! Yo, the wind is hectic! Anyways, thank you for joining
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Let me know in the comments what you want to see, and thank you for watching this far. I'll see you next week
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