Honda X-ADV Long distance touring review
good morning everyone and welcome to the channel today is my second day of my road trip with my Honda X ADV I just have to pack now and then I'm heading forward to the next Waypoint thank you so I had a good sleep small problems with my back and my neck after the long ride yesterday but now I feel better it's already nice temperature 19 degrees today it will be quite hot 28 something like that so my first Waypoint today is the Turing Amir which is we can translate during our ocean it's um again should be a nice place there's also a dam which I will have a look at so a few points that I would like to see before I leave and of course nice small roads so I think it will be a great riding day perfect weather nice roads beautiful location [Music] I think Calimoto sent me in a round circle for 20 minutes because I'm leaving this is a city where my hotel was so what happened here I have no idea because this is the same way I was I was driving half an hour ago so never trust her navigation system always control look where you are going so now I am I'm riding the same road again I mean it was nice beautiful road but hmm same bro two times that's a little bit weird let's see what happens now second try yeah what can be better listening to some relaxed nice music and then riding through this wonderful Forest here like a mystical moment petrol is getting more and more expensive again one Euro 92 for one liter this one is really good I like it especially for this Smalls stuff that you are carrying with you like sunglasses drinks whatever very helpful so 251 kilometers since my last stop [Music] that's enough 9.46 liters two bottles of water perfect ah here we are this is the dam with a lake behind it oh cool oh very nice place here the next Waypoint is Weißenfels so I will stay on the country roads hopefully I will find some nice stops on the way but I think I will slowly go back direction of Berlin because I just checked the weather forecast look at this view isn't that beautiful yeah I just checked the weather forecast for the next two or three days because I normally plan to go more South direction of the Alps for a longer test of the xadv for touring but the weather forecast says rain and a little bit of thunderstorm again I had the same problem last week when I wanted to start the tour so I think two days in the hotel somewhere when it's raining that's not so interesting so I prefer today Sunday to take some nice roads take my time make a lot of rests and head towards Berlin weather is getting better and better 25 degrees already [Music] at half past 11 and I think it will be about 28 29 something like that so perfect riding conditions and these roads very nice [Music] so time again to put on some music [Music] and enjoy the ride [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] a small review of the Honda X ADV for long distance riding yesterday I did 420 case today it will be maybe a little bit more because I go with smaller roads so first seating position I just couldn't compare it of course with my Vespa which is something completely different which is more for City rides but I can compare it with my BMW c400 GT which of course is a scooter as just 350 cc engine but this is what I was writing before and I had a Triumph Bonville one and a half years ago [Music] which was for my taste absolute nothing for long distance riding because of the seating positions because my legs hurt after one hour extremely bad because of the ankle of my knees so for my size no good Touring bike yeah so what about the x80v sitting position is good now I'm in a cruising mode with relax a little bit to the front [Music] I'm in the rain mode which is my cruiser mode when I want to ride in a relaxed mode low reps not too harsh engine braking the seat is now okay because I upholstered it made it a little bit more comfortable for touring the original one is a little bit harder more step side so I didn't try this one for long distance riding but I think maximum after one one and a half hours you have to have the big rest because it was really really hard the handlebars are great I love them they are really very wide of course you can change your seating positions like I'm riding now with a more relaxed ride leaning a little bit backwards legs to the front bit like on a chopper and it can go completely straight also go a little bit more forward on the seat fields we are more like a scooter now you can relax your arms a bit now and your shoulders because if you are in this position here of course your shoulder muscles your neck muscles are a bit more Under Pressure because they are working this is why I had maybe the problem yesterday with my neck of course after eight hours of writing Which is far too long and the third one I mean maybe the fourth one because the third one is feet on the foot pegs [Music] on the adventure footpegs automatically you are a little bit more leaning towards the handlebars get a more direct feeling for the bike more sporty right this is the moment when you switch in sport mode [Music] and then you can have a lot of fun and because of the sitting position of course you have a more Dynamic riding position better feeling for the TV [Music] but I think this is just to have a little bit of fun maybe not the best position for for touring but there's always a matter of taste of your size what you prefer [Music] yeah this what happens in sport mode [Music] so this is a mode where you can have a lot of fun I have a sporty right twisties and the behavior in the curves absolutely amazing so chassis suspension everything really really good brakes perfect nothing to say [Music] double disc brake at the front [Music] and this is really not aggressive it's very good to handle if you just sup yep so it breaks good suspension is good oh yeah and I forgot the last seating position it's a standing position this means because of the adventure foot packs you can stand up especially when you are doing some soft off-road or some gravel roads it's very pleasant that you can stand bikes are in a good position so you're right in the middle of the of the bike I put some Rises also on my handlebars which brings it a little bit more up and towards me [Music] so what else could be interesting for touring of course the luggage system it's very good I don't have the original top box I have a gb1 but the side panniers are the Honda ones very stable a lot of space inside so okay for longer touring the tank is a 13.2 liters tank fuel consumption at the moment is 4.1 yesterday in a mix with Autobahn and Country Roads it was 4.4
so I'm not able to get the 3.6 liters yeah so all in all a very good bike for long distance riding gives you a little bit of weather protection not that much as other scooters because it's not that wide and the windscreen especially the original one is quite small [Music] so not the best weather protection my BMW c400 GT was much better in the weather protection because it was wider the windscreen was covering more also the noise on the helmet even I have a bigger windshield the GB one now and I have the puke tall windshield the noise on the helmet is louder and if I compare it to the BMW the sitting position and the riding comfort [Music] even if it's just a 350cc and it's just a scooter and suspension is not as good as this one but the overall behavior and seating position driving position was very comfortable on the BMW so this is absolutely all-rounder but if you just go for two ring you don't need the power of the 60 horsepowers here and you don't want to have the sporty ride you don't want to do gravel roads you don't want to do off-road you don't need the DCT then I would go for the BMW for sure 35 horsepowers was absolutely enough 150 kilometers per hour fuel consumption even with two up was about 3.6 3.8 liters we have a very good range riding Comfort also for the pillion perfect big seed flat foot boards for the pillion so this was my short impression of the Honda X ADV for touring very good all in all bike and all rounder you can do nearly everything with if you are just going for touring there might be some motorcycles or scooters that might be better have more Comfort better seating position but if you want something [Music] you can do some touring you can use it in the city [Music] you also can do some small off-road then it's absolutely a fun bike I mean it's a Honda so quality wise nothing to say about it it's perfect [Music] for me for term for touring I'm not sure I'm not sure because I'm more Cruiser not a racer I'm not doing off-road so my way of riding two wheels is enjoy the landscape listen to some nice music relax come down get rid of your stress have a relaxed seating position where you can do hundreds of case and you don't get problems with your neck and with your back and this was very good with the BMW [Music] yeah so I have to see how far my experience with a x ADV is going [Music] if I go for another one or stay with this one but for now I'm really happy have a lot of fun with this bike still 90 kilometers to my first Waypoint I think to Berlin it might be about 300 50 like that it's 12 o'clock 24 degrees will be time soon to make a rest have some drink because this is really important always drink a lot when you are riding a bike because you have to stay concentrated there are so many beautiful roads here in this area oh very nice small Castle over here directly on a small Lake time for time for a drink 26 degrees beautiful old buildings and a small River so one o'clock now 26 degrees [Music] still 65 K's to my first destination my Waypoint then maybe I will do a few kilometers on the Autobahn to pass Leipzig and then after Leipzig back on the country roads towards Berlin but these roads here this is so beautiful we don't have this in Brandenburg because it's very flat so it's really a fun to write these kinds of Roads so friends I finally did it half past four so I started at nine long trip again about 400 case but finally back in Berlin it's 29 degrees a little bit cloudy the last 100 case I did on the Autobahn if not I would be maybe at home at uh six or something like that but at the end I was a little bit too tired to stay on the country road so I decided to write the last 100 case on the Autobahn which was okay it was empty at Sunday no drugs so everything easy so all in all it was a nice trip nice weekend trip with my Honda x80v I enjoyed it a lot beautiful roads turingen is a nice place to go I hope you enjoyed the videos if you did please give me a thumbs up and please subscribe to the channel click down below it's for free and if you write write safe I see you in the next video take care and cheers
2023-07-08 15:13
