Will our $700 Bikes survive the TEST RIDE!? | Cheap Adventure Bike Challenge EP 2: THE SHAKEDOWN

Today we shakedown test our CHEAP adventure bike challengers to see how they perform and find out what problems can be uncovered before the upcoming 3 day challenge ahead of us... Stay tuned for next weeks episode where we set out into the great Canadian backcountry on these less-than-$1000 motorcycles to see which cheap bike can actually survive a REAL adventure ride! 0:00 Cheap Bike Challenge Recap 2:09 Kick Starts and Oil Changes 6:36 Cheap Bike Shakedown BEGINS 9:04 The XT125 is NOT a hill climber... or is it? 13:43 Bike swaps, FSR's, and Mountain Trails 21:37 Addressing the KLR in the room... 24:37 SINGLE TRACK SHOWDOWN! 27:46 Highway test (not good) 28:55 Post shakedown debriefing 29:51 Completing the Yamaha XT125 "Super mini-tenere" build