 oh hey guys welcome back welcome back to another video today's video is titled I just bought my first motorbike and brackets don't laugh you're not laughing are you I hope not this is serious this is a serious moment this is a milestone my very first actual motorbike with gears and all the rest of it takes fuel it's got indicators it's got a stand it's got a motor a 125cc motor that is but still it gets me places and it's absolutely perfect for around here in Alice Springs so what I want to do today is take it out I'm gonna put petrol in it for the first time I've been riding it around for the last couple of days but it is it's on an empty tank so I believe it's a 16 litre tank so we're gonna fill it up we're gonna see how much it costs and then we're gonna take it for a blat and give it a give it a bit of a top speed test you could say that's gonna be that's gonna be a separate video and you know the reason I'm doing this is because I have not actually owned a vehicle myself for like three years it's been three years since I've actually owned anything the last thing I owned was a scooter actually a 125 or might have might have actually been a 150 150cc scooter prior to that I did have cars but you know being that I have minimized my life minimized my material possessions and minimized my trans my mode of transport it was only natural for me to continue in that fashion and and get another bike so I'm in Alice Springs at the moment it's absolutely perfect for around here the only thing it's not perfect for is obviously taking passengers I've got two little kids they do enjoy coming on with me just around the the car park here and you know just seeing the joy on their faces means the world to me so the ability to do that to take them for rides is wicked but for me I needed some wheels and you know everything is within five or ten minutes around here in Alice Springs so it's absolutely perfect I'm stoked you see a lot of these bikes around the Honda CB 125e I believe well this one's made in 2018 I believe it's called it a 125f now I don't don't don't quote me on that I don't know the exact differences all I can tell you is what I've experienced with this one and so for anyone else out there looking at buying a bike looking at buying an entry-level motorbike that's not a scooter that's not an automatic scooter I mean this has five gears it's been a while since I've actually ridden a bike with gears but it makes for a fun experience and yeah I'm really really happy with it so far so what can I say this is my very first motorbike like I said at the start it is it's a milestone and we can only move up from here now I'm not interested in having a rocket ship between my legs but I am interested in having some sort of motorbike and I've got that so it came with a helmet which I'm super stoked about the helmet is in size XL 61 centimeters and stupid me was riding it round like this for the longest time little did I know that I could look like an Air Force fighter pilot if I wanted to I've got the moustache for it and now I've got the the visor for it either way guys I'm about to get out fill it up with petrol like I said and take it for a blap but you know YouTube is all about creating memories and documenting experiences and and well this is just another one so I'm not sure what the thumbnail is going to be I'm gonna try and get the thumbnail now actually how are we gonna do that I'll bring this closer I mean the thumbnail is pretty important right I am out of practice on YouTube haven't made a video for a while but you know it is what it is I'm here now so let me do this up let me go like this and go like this like that something like that fuck if I know either way it's time to go for a ride all right first thing we do is just check the check the fuel so can it go up without me yes it is moving okay so what we've got is a failure to communicate but also what we have is just a bit of pocket change so I'm gonna use one of the best things about this is the fact that you know it runs on the smell of an oily rag you could say very very cheap to run petrol prices are only gonna continue going up so in my pocket I have 20 25 26 dollars 70 26 dollars 70 I want to I want to use cash I want to use use my my cash it's been sitting there for ages and this would be a good opportunity to do it so 20 26 dollars 70 let's see let's see if we can we can fill it up on that so that is the first assignment and I believe I'm gonna get into the petrol cat not that I've done it yet but should it be too hard should it all right guys the petrol tank is indeed full as you may be able to see now petrol for anyone wondering cost two dollars a liter and to fill that up just then cost me 17 dollars so it was eight and a half liters and originally I thought that the tank was 16 liters but being that it was almost empty and it only took eight and a half liters to fill I'm thinking more around the I'm thinking more along the lines of like 12 liters but I will have to Google that I haven't even looked 26 bucks in my pocket and lo and behold I've still got some nine dollars what am I gonna spend that on well only time will tell but yeah economical I've been told that a tank can get you upwards of 350 to 400 k's I will keep note of that in fact what will do is reset the speed I'm not exactly sure how I think this has got something to do with it see what happens here oh oh oh oh what are we okay all right so I'll keep a note of that and I'll report back when I when I run out of petrol I mean it would probably take a good couple of weeks to even do 400 k's around here that's one of the best things about living here is that everything is within you know 10 minutes and I mean look at the look at the look at the weather man this is basically the middle of winter and it's a breezy 25 degrees Celsius not a cloud in the sky absolutely perfect weather to be riding something like this and you know you'll be you'll do well to get like 20 days worth of rain here in any calendar year so it's it's it really is if you're not taking passengers it's got to be the perfect mode of transport and I'm super stoked to get it I paid $2,000 for it with the helmet cost me $2,100 these things go brand new I'm led to believe at $3,600 so we almost got it at half price it's four years old it's done 3,708 kilometres total it's been looked after yeah there's a little bit of fading on the sticker here but as far as scratches or dents or anything it's I mean it's in fucking good condition and it's all I could ask for so I saw a lot of these online over the last couple of months a lot of them were red or white or blue not a lot of black ones and I've got to say man I love it in black black silver white I mean look what I'm wearing black black and white you can't go wrong with black so I'm really really happy with it what we're gonna do now is head off down that way there's a nice long straight with minimal cars and I am going to give it a bit of a blat we're gonna get a top speed originally when I bought this I thought easy easy it's gonna get up to a hundred k's an hour but the more I ride it the less likely that seems either way let's get going so for anyone wondering it's it's a neutral at the moment it's one down two up three up four up five up and then all the way back down you can go into neutral from second gear if you are delicate enough and it's taken me a while to get used to the clutch to get used to how far out I want to extend it and that type of thing but I mean that's that's teething issues isn't it that happens when you get into a new car or a new motorbike I mean having a clutch on a bike is new to me that's why I called this video my very first motorbike I've had plenty of scooters before but those are all automatic so it's a new experience but I fucking love it and yeah let's take it for a spin that quite easily got up to 80 k's an hour will it get to 85 or 90 let's find out one thing I have realized is that it's not easy to ride a bike change gears and hold a camera at the same time in fact it's fucking dangerous this camera is worth almost as much as it no it's that's not true but it is worth about six seven hundred bucks last thing I want to do is drop it so I'm gonna get up to top speed and then I'm gonna show you exactly where we're sitting all right guys so that by my measurement was 95 kilometers top top speed I held it down for like I'm gonna say over a minute wanted to get up to 100 wasn't gonna happen but I guess that sort of brings us to a conclusion guys this is my very first motorbike a Honda a 2018 Honda CB 125 E with 4,000 k's on it yeah yeah this will do me this will do me nicely so I hope you've enjoyed the video it's just a bit of fun as you've seen in brackets don't laugh I'm probably a little bit too big for this I will say I'm sitting at about 100 kgs at the moment I feel like if you're a if you were I don't know 70 80 kgs you might actually get it up to 100 k's an hour in fact if anyone else has had one of these bikes before or anything similar maybe another 125 or a 150 let me know what the top speed is it's not as if that is the be all an end all but if you want to get somewhere and you want to get there fast it's good to know that you can actually keep up with traffic especially on roads like this either way guys that's enough from me I hope you've enjoyed the video it's just a bit of fun and well I'll see you soon all right guys who doesn't matter whether you're going 100 k's an hour or 80 k's an hour you still feel pretty pretty windswept when you get back all right so we've put 11.6 k's on the clock I know I said that I was gonna go and leave you guys before but there is a couple of a couple little notes that I'd like to mention for anyone interested in buying one of these the first is and this was surprising to me but it obviously shows my lack of experience with motorbikes there is no room underneath the seat now I've driven plenty of scooters before and they all have at least room for a small helmet normally my helmets are on the bigger side so they don't fit but you know I went to I went to open this and where is it I went to open it and I was I was a little disappointed so it comes off like that and basically well it's all it's also compact that and the wheel is a lot I guess bigger than a scooter wheel so it's gonna take up a lot of the room underneath the seat and that's exactly what we've got so that was interesting just place it on alright so that's on there again alright so that's the first point the second thing I wanted to mention is the choke and I've had to use the choke a few times at the moment middle of winter yeah the days are really nice but the the nighttime gets really cold well I mean it's not freezing or anything but you know two three four degrees and so in the morning it does take a little bit for it to get going and so I've had to use the choke pretty much every morning so far basically it's just as easy as going like that it ups the revs for as long as you need it means that you don't stall or well basically yeah it means that you don't stall when you come up to a light or something like that because if it is cold and it's still warming up there is the risk of doing that and then possibly not starting again so I have used the choke quite a lot the third and final point I wanted to mention is it's actually got a kill switch which I've never really had before and I actually I accidentally had it on off one morning and here I was trying to start it thinking fuck you know what's happened here I've just bought it and it's already you know showing issues and then I then I saw that and I thought oh let's let's just give it a flick so it was up there and then I went like that and boom it started so I feel like the kill switch is just to preserve the battery especially if you're gonna leave it for an extended period of time which lo and behold I am going to do so today I'm actually heading off to New Zealand for a month and so what I'm gonna do is take it through the house put it out the back put the kill switch on lock it all up and and say goodbye so today was fun this is the final time I'll use it for the next month but I've got it for the future I've got it to make living here in Alice Springs just that little bit easier that little bit more convenient unless I'm gonna take passengers in which case and if that happens too often I may need to get a car but for now this is perfect thanks for being here guys hope you've enjoyed and I'll see you in the next one