TW200 Dual Sport Riding the Rubicon Part 1 of 3

A 3 part video of riding the famous Rubicon Trail on my Yamaha TW200. You Tube's compresion kills a lot of the detail for rocks, ruts, and chutes. Best if you watch in high quality and give it a few minutes to buffer.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• TW200
• Dual
• Sport
• Rubicon
• Trail
• Tahoe
• Motorcycle
• Yamaha

[daisydela]

Great that this terrible video has 30K+ views. The video quality is horrid compared to GoPro and other HD videos. I'm still involved in all sorts of crazy outdoor adventures, but sold the motorcycles after breaking 7 bones in 9 months (t-boned by a deer on the bicycle at 35mph). Need to limit my high risk adventures to mountain bike, road bike, surf, backcountry ski, etc.

[daisydela]

Funny, 28,000+ views of this low quality vid. Just FYI, I've sold the TW200, all the motorcycles actually. Had a tweaked WR250R for a bit, almost twice the horsepower but the TW200 was easier to ride on the slow speed boulder crawling.

Sold all the motorcycles after I hit a deer on the road bike (bicycle) and almost died. Limiting my high risk activites to mountain bike, surf, backcountry skiing, roab bike, etc.

[richard44862844]

would this be easier on a ATV?

[daisydela]

I don't ride atvs, but I think a 4 wheel drive ATV with a winch (and a buddy) would be okay. There were some really tight slots I squeezed through. Plus you could do a light overnight with an ATV if you had to (sleeping bag, ground pad, bivy sack). There is a tour group in my neighborhood on the Tahoe side that takes people to the bottom of Cadillac hill & back . So it's totally doable by ATV. There is a lot of walking around and finding your line at the rough spots. Good luck.

[daisydela]

Oh, and it typically takes most people 2 days to get through by Jeep.

Riding the Rubicon is not about speed or extreme riding. It's about checking it out, staying out of trouble, and not breaking yourself or your bike.

[DivineJustice967]

this is pretty amature; not that extreme... sry to be the one to say it

u guys either need to learn the trail better and pick some lines or get a diffrent bike thats not dual sport and just offroad cause going 12 mph thru those is gonna get boring really fast

personally i wanna find out what these dual sport things can do at fair speeds on offroad like this; weither or not the suspension is gonna blow out or not if u bottom it out, weight ect

[daisydela]

True, it's not really that extreme. Nor was it represented to be. Plus I was riding with pretty inexperienced riders on a trail that no one had been on before.

I've heard that the unofficial record for doing the Rubicon on a motorcycle is about 40 minutes. That was by a ranger who patrolled in that area and new the area like the back of his hand. 40 minutes to cover 17 miles (7 of which are pretty easy fire roady stuff), for an experienced, fast local- around 20mph. Record pace.

[pokeysaurus1]

Awesome vid, thanks. Oh and stay safe dude! :)

[jstokely2]

I just want to say thanks for the videos and i'm glad the accident on your road bike was not fatal. I just picked up a used TW 200 to ride trails and sand here in Florida. If I can ever make it out there someday, I would love to give the Rubicon a try. I like the TW, Its not going to break any speed records and thats not why I bought it. I think its what I was looking for in a trail bike.

[4evermetalhead]

@4evermetalhead very glad to hear that... :) so how does it ride?i mean its 125 and i thing that would make a bit noise and kind of slow like the other 125 4strokes?or is it better than that? for me im still trying to find a tw225 or at least a tw200 to buy...:/ if they had a tw350 or tw300 or even better a tw450 with those big fat tires or even bigger would be f awesome....:) :P

[laktix]

@4evermetalhead I bought it like 2.5 months ago everyone who has a doubt I have to say you CAN'T go wrong with buying it!!!

[4evermetalhead]

@laktix as long as its a yamaha we approve and recommend anymodel...:)

[laktix]

I'm looking to buy an TW125 as a first street legal bike (I'm 16) would you recommend it?

[sqd8r]

Awesome, Sir Mix-a-lot and the Tw200. An unholy marriage. :)

[livindaabundantlife]

way cool!