AROUND THE WORLD LANDON BISHOFF 21 KTM 500 EXCF

Added: 2026-05-19

[00:00:00]What's up, Moto Buddies? Mike here from Taco Moco. This is a one-of-a-kind bike we have here. This is Landon Bishoff's 2021 KTM 500 EXCF.

[00:00:10]This is the bike that he had previously done his Mexico and Central America journey on. So, you really want to sign up and go to his YouTube channel and you want to subscribe to that. It's absolutely uh to me one of the top one or two moto content YouTube channels out there. Lannon has done just a tremendous job integrating himself into the life and culture of the people that he's met with while he did his journey through Mexico. And it's just outstanding.

[00:00:41]The camera work is top-notch, the editing, the the way, like I said, he he speaks Spanish. He he has just absolutely inserted himself in the best possible way into the lives of the people that he knows and meets and and really like falls in love with down there. It's just tremendous and so much so that we have a lot of friends who have had occasion to go to South America, Central America, any of the Spanish-sp speakaking Latin American countries and are not motorcycle people, but they have told me repeatedly how much they get out of watching his content because of that those those attributes that I talked about. And the motorcycle stuff is just sort of like a a side angle for them. That's not really their jam.

[00:01:26]So, this bike completed the trip. He's also done a ton of US stuff. He's done some tats on it. And it had about 30,000 miles on it all in. And so, when this bike came to us with 30,000 mi, we decided L and I together decided that he's so he is going to launch a next chapter of his expeditions and he's going to go all through South America.

[00:01:52]And so, he's going to hit every country in South America. that'll probably take a year or two or three, who knows? And so before he launched that, he and I got together and decided that the the right thing to do to set off on that journey was to completely revamp, go through and rebuild this bike top to bottom. I think that he had a lot of sentimental um attachment to this bike, which makes sense when you go through a lot of experiences with, you know, a car, a vehicle, a horse, a motorcycle, whatever it is. I think that there is a sense of gaining an attachment to that um you know that vehicle and so I totally understand. I get it. And um doing a top tobottom refresh rebuild like a complete frame restoration on this bike was the only way to go. And so that's straight up what we did. We took this bike down to every last nut and bolt. There were no two things. And that's that's the truth. No two components on this motorcycle were left together untouched, unexamined, unexplored. And so that went from the well, let's start with like the wiring harness. That was kind of a um an an adventure in itself. So during the rework of this bike, there were no wire harnesses available in stock and so we couldn't replace it.

[00:03:12]We make a lot of um we talk to a lot of people who have a lot of electrical issues on their bikes and so electrical system maintenance is 100% a thing. It is probably the most overlooked part of any motorcycle, especially these light adventure half leader bikes because they have open connectors open to ambient.

[00:03:31]There's molex connectors on here.

[00:03:33]There's other types of brands of connectors that are subject to environmental corrosion, water, all that degradation and oxidation. And so electrical system maintenance, preventative maintenance, and then inspections is is a million% an actual thing that should be done as part of general routine maintenance. And we've done lots of polls. And there are really three things that cause a breakdown on a ride. The top three, the first one probably first and foremost is going to be tires. Anything tire related, tire infill system, air punctures, that sort of thing. The second thing is probably fuel. Fuel related. you run out of gas or you have carburetor issues, fuel injection issues. And then right there behind that is going to be electrical systems. So that could be batteries, wiring, ignition systems, switches, connectors, all of that stuff. And so, you know, people go out of their way to make sure that the fuel and fuel systems fine and the tire their tire system is up to snuff, but then ignore or don't know about out of ignorance the electrical system. So, um, backing up the wiring harness, we didn't have a replacement option available, so we opted to remove it and then to do a complete top to bottom inspection on that. And I have a video where I talk about specifically harness system maintenance. And this one had some issues. We had we didn't have any broken wires. We didn't have any bad connectors. Uh, we had the classic things that you see. We had a relay that we replaced just because we saw some heat transfer onto the to the terminals.

[00:05:02]the terminals for that relay. I replaced all of them. Um, we cleaned all of the contacts. There were a few that the mechanical grip of the connector itself wasn't as good as it should have been.

[00:05:15]So, we uh attended to that. We put ACF-50, which is an antiox solution, a wicking spray solution on all the connectors and so reassemble everything.

[00:05:25]So, the and then we retape the harness.

[00:05:27]So, we what I do is I cut open the harness and I look at all the wires and do a little pull tug test, make sure there's nothing, no wires that are broken or frayed. And so, we did that, stripped it all down, and then retaped the harness. So, that was done. Engine came out of the bike and was completely rebuilt. And at 30,000 mi, it wasn't terrible. I think he had had a top end done once before, if I remember. And so, this was effectively the second piston and cylinder on this bike. So, the second top end. And then we completely redid the bottom end. Um, I think we did the clutches. We did just everything.

[00:06:02]Valves, valve springs, timing chain, piston, rebuilt the cam, new rod, new main bearings, all of those wear and tear items were replaced out. And so that engine was fully fresh, and then we broke it in on the dyno. The suspension was gone through, uh, wheel bearings replaced.

[00:06:22]Um, it was just a complete and total and exhaustive restoration is really what it comes down to. Refresh this bike back to factory spec. Everything about this motorcycle right now is to factory spec as you would find it on a 2021 bike if it was new. And so with that, he's ready to head out and and go to South America.

[00:06:42]probably unless he finds his wife down there and decides to just stop traveling and live in a village and in the the mountains and get married and have kids like that's always a possibility, right?

[00:06:53]So, if that doesn't happen and he continues through, I wouldn't be surprised if he hits the bottom of South America and grabs a ferry and then heads over to Africa and keeps on going. He's got a great spirit and a great heart and he's he's a true adventurer and so I could totally see that happening. So, let's take a minute and walk through what what you see here on this bike. I'm not going to go through any more of the restoration rebuild process on this bike. I think we covered that pretty well. So, let's just talk about what he's added to this bike. Now, if you've watched his videos before, you'll see there's a lot of new things on here that he didn't have before. Some some are carryovers. Some of this some of these parts are exactly what he had, and then there's a lot of new stuff. So, I'm not going to uh my memory isn't good enough to remember what has been added, what's the differentiator. So, I'll just let you see if you want to go through and rabbit hole that and compare this bike to his past videos and see what's new.

[00:07:43]But, I'll just tell you that I'm just going to hit the stuff. I'm going to talk about it whether it's new or existing and we'll just cover all the things. So, uh I guess I could tell you this. This tower is new. This is 100% a new thing. He did not have that before.

[00:07:57]So, this gives him the opportunity to have a lot more by way of like the electrics, a lot uh of additional things that's going on here. He's got his phone mount right there with a with a base charger. And so that charging goes in and it and it's powered out of here. And there's two power circuits. One is a constant hot and the other one is a switched hot or engine on hot and that signal then fires off those electrics.

[00:08:20]So, he's got a USB charger over here and then his his quad lock which has a charging base on there and then underneath the and you have access to the other electrics here behind the headlight. But he's got the ability now to tap into those power taps and then to go and and pull anything else. So, as he wants to add maybe some GoPros or some other things with like self-charging capabilities, [snorts] he can do that all through the tower. So, it really simplified the ability to to get into those electrics. We mount the speedo.

[00:08:51]The original speedo is over there. And then he's got a Trailtech Vapor right here. And there's some nice features on here that give you a tack. And you can set up maintenance alert, maintenance reminders, and then there's coolant temp sensor. Uh it's it stores like high and low. And so that other temp was like a high. Here's the current ambient. It's a great The Vapor is really like a very very competent OEM replacement with some enhanced and added features. It's probably the best of the small screen.

[00:09:18]They make a Voyager Pro which is much bigger and has some added features, but if you don't need navigation and not that he doesn't need navigation, but he's going to have navigation through his phone and uh so he didn't need the Voyager Pro navigation. He's got that great features on there. You see that we relocated the key over here and there's his turn signal indicator. And then he's got a really nice generous windcreen on there. And you can ride this windcreen at highway speeds and it does a very good job of pushing wind up over your helmet. And he's going to have a this is like going to be a huge advantage to him because there are lots of highway sections and just long travel sections and there were in Mexico and there certainly will be in South America. So that's going to be a nice welcome addition. And then we've got our front flex turn signals on here with a nice bright run light feature.

[00:10:10]We rebuilt his forks and then inside we took out so this generation bike had the lackluster uh front forks and I think these were the Explore 48s and so those are pretty unimpressive and underwhelming. So we pulled those out and then we installed the sphere the Delagio sphere 3 inserts which are like a night and day. This is this is not quite a kit stuff. So these are not cone valves. their traditional shims and pistons, but this is as good as you can get without going over to to like a kit level stuff. It's really the best stuff out there. And we've had amazing and fantastic results with these. So, we like these a lot. His his night and day transformative experience.

[00:10:53]And he was telling me how much we spent a week in Moab. Um he and I as well as our team up in the Moscow Moto Dusty Lizard ride event a couple weeks ago.

[00:11:03]and and he had a big fat funny grin on his face just from how much better the front end of this bike feels with that upgrade on there. And so mile for mile this is going to be a tremendous improvement for him. We put on the Takamoto rally cal rally cable brackets here. So he's got a front hose now rally style P3 uh for the the disc guard. And this is going to be really helpful for him for mud. There's a lot of times where he gets into these muddy situation, muddy ruts. And so, you like to avoid packing up your front rotor and caliper with mud. And so, because of the good coverage on this thing, it's going to do an excellent job of that. And it's also good crash protection. And, um, it does absolutely, of course, protect the caliper. Does all that. The He's running the stock OEM wheels and he's got some Tusk tires on here. I'm not exactly sure what kind these are. D Sport Adventure.

[00:11:59]Not really familiar with that, but I know he's got a lot of Tusk and Rocky Mountain sponsorship parts on this bike, so you'll see quite a bit of that stuff.

[00:12:07]The A Cher's Zema, these are fork gators. Now, blowing out fork seals is a big deal, and especially, you can see when we were in Moab, there's mud, some mud residue right there. So, 100% going to get in mud. And having these on there, it prevents all of that from getting onto the fork seals, and it will extend the service life of those. And we just don't blow fork snails anymore with having those on our bikes. Oh, I do know that he had the we added the Emperor radiator guards on here. And so these are the beefiest, baddest guards out there. Nothing else comes close. They have six mounting points and they do full protection on the bottom, full protection on the sides. Um, added the Takamoto.

[00:12:48]This is the extended life oil system. So this is the static magnetic oil filter.

[00:12:52]And then inside of the air filter, he's got a PC Racing filter skin, PC Racing base gasket, and so running a really high-spec oil. Globally sourced. You can get Maxima 7100 everywhere in the world.

[00:13:06]And uh he'll probably be able to pull 60 to 70 hour extended oil changes because he's dual sport use and he's not banging off the rev limiter and he won't be riding in dirty air, not race conditions.

[00:13:20]And as if you don't have like really aggressive throttle inputs, so you're dumping a lot of raw fuel into the, you know, through blowby into the crank case, you will get really high life extended oil change intervals on that.

[00:13:32]So that's going to be critical for him for this bike. He's got the um trail jammer covers on the stator and the clutch. Those are cool because then they add a second layer of aluminum against punctures. That's a nice bit of insurance to have. molecule skid plate and then warp 9 foot pegs, promoillet kickstand, dirt tricks on the dome washer, and uh here you see a Golon fuel filter and then we've got hose clamps on all of the connection points because you need to have on a overland extended trip like this, you need to have field serviceability and so having a proper screw clamp lets you get access to any of the fuel system if you needed to do any type of repairs. Inside of the tank is a is a Takomoto 3000 hour fuel pump and then we have a 250 hour fuel filter on there. So, his fuel system is absolutely hardened off as good as you can get. Uh let's see. Notice Tusk bags.

[00:14:25]He's been sponsored by them. So, all of his luggage is Tusk. And I don't know if this is the stuff he had in Mexico or it's an upgrade. It looks pretty nice and pretty new. So, I'm going to go out and say this is probably not what he had in Mexico. And then there's a tusk rack back here that supports the weight having the bags. He's got it in mounted in such a way that [snorts] you really wouldn't need a rear rack because a good amount of the weight is is sitting here on the seat. And then this generation of bike, the 12 through 23 had an aluminum subframe which has a pretty good pretty stout weight carrying capability. But having a rack like this, see all these straps right here? you would have to fashion up some sort of attachment point if you didn't have a rack. So, getting the rack with the bags, it's a nice little tie up. The whole system kind of works together. Duro plate. This lets the plate flop around. So, if you hit the ground, uh, it'll move sideways and it won't bend or break off the plate.

[00:15:22]And BB girl, bad bodacious girl, I guess what he that's what he calls his bike.

[00:15:27]I'm not sure. He'll have to explain that. And then it's got the tidy tail light. That's the three in one. So, there's a turn run and brake light all together in one uh promo billet on the end cap. Now, before he was running a stock exhaust, well, he's still got a stock muffler, but before he's running a stock endcap, and I know he was in Mexico, I think Guadalajara, and had one of the dealers down there, a well-known KTM dealer, do a reflash.

[00:15:56]They reflashed his original US uh ECU and then they I think he just took out the bung the restricted bung in there and so he had a nice little step up in performance from that and then now he's got a significant step up because he's running the get ECU system and so that is really the hot ticket. So now he's got race map and then enduro map, single track map. 10 modes of traction control and then he's got quick shift. And having quick shift on these bikes for like long sections is very fun. It's super practical, too. It's a great additional feature to have. So that's a massive upgrade over the original stock setup from before. And this is a six days bike. So you see it's got a orange frame and then the orange anodized triple clamp. This fuel tank here is probably the 38 or 39. And I know that he carries the giant loop gas bag. So on those sections where he needs lots of extra fuel capacity, somewhere in here is a giant loop gas bag. And the beauty of that is you don't have to run a big massive tank. You can run a reasonable size tank and then the gas bag lets you add flexible capacity as you need it.

[00:17:04]Seat concepts on the seat. I think we put the anti-gravity 8 cell battery in there underneath. And you see his graphics. These are c custom graphics.

[00:17:14]We he did the design as far as like this is exactly the look he was going for.

[00:17:18]And then so we printed and produced these and put them on the bike. And we can do that for any rider on any of the KTM bikes. Let us know. Hit us up. We're happy to work with you on custom graphics as you like. Back here on the rear wheel. Uh looks like that Tusk tire again. And then no doubt our ultra heavy duty tubes in there. And then those tubes are going to have some sort of puncture resistant slime type product.

[00:17:44]And then we always lube our tubes with silicone oil or grease and that will absolutely help prevent pinch flats.

[00:17:52]He's got the Warp 9 Elite wheel sets which are the super heavy duty and then a Kush Drive hub. And so these wheels have any number of untold thousands of miles on them. I I am positive he ran these this wheel set through Mexico. So, these wheels are going to be racking up some serious miles by the time this is all done. And I wouldn't be surprised, too, if this was that original sprocket, too. So, I don't think this wheel set and sprocket has 30,000 miles on it. But let's say it has half. I I I don't really know. Maybe he'll jump into the comments and we'll answer that. But I can tell you that these wheel sets and these sprockets are real high mileage pieces and and some riders have these on for the life of their bike for as long as they own their machine. Tusk on the wheel spacer back here on the adjustable uh bracket. And this is a it looks like it's probably a BRP on the chain slider down there. And then bulletproof on this little protector right here to keep that um it's a little bit vulnerable down there to keep that from snapping off.

[00:18:51]And then I notice he's got like a little titanium post in here for the foot pegs, which is a little tricky bit. It's kind of nice.

[00:18:58]Jumping to the other side here. [sighs] Let's see if there's anything interesting going on. So STR, we put on STR uh shark fin fins. Now, I'm a big fan of the STR because of minimal weight, very good protection. You're really trying to find on a shark fin, you're trying to find the balance between uh optimal coverage and protection and weight. This is unsprung weight. So, some riders will hang out really heavy, highly durable, very, very, very stout guards, uh, discards, which I am not opposed to a strong, overbuilt discard at all. However, there's a ton of riders who that's just too much excessive weight, unsprung weight for the type of riding they do.

[00:19:37]So, it really helps when you reach out to us if you're trying to specs for a bike. Um, you can talk to the bros or you can talk to the pros. And when you talk to the pros, what we're going to uh do is uh ask questions. We're going to ask you what kind of rider, what kind of riding, what is your use case, and then we'll make some recommendations of specific parts that are the best and the most ideal for [snorts] your use case.

[00:19:59]We don't have a one, we don't believe in a one-sizefits-all model. We don't recommend the same part to every writer every single time over and over and over because that is to us that is absolutely the opposite of our philosophy. We want to recommend just the specific part to the specific writer for his use case.

[00:20:17]Nothing more, nothing less. And the optimal part will will help you pick that. Um because we have the the combined dozens and dozens of years of experience uh within our team and and and I personally have and I and I really actually do this and you can you can quiz me on this anytime I see you. I have in any use category, in any product category, I have no joke gone out and bought every single version of every single product there is pretty much throughout the entire motorcycle on these KTM bikes. Tested it, tried it out, and the things that we show on our website that we list are the the best of the best, the top of the the pick. And we uh don't sell, we don't offer, and we don't endorse or recommend anything outside of the best of the best. That's not to say somebody might have good luck with an off-brand component, an Alibaba component, because everybody's going to the results will vary, but we're not going to put those Alibaba components on our Baja 1000 bikes or the bikes that we go and do like really really deep um extensive adventuring on. So, just something to keep in mind when we recommend a part, it's because there's a lot of experience and knowhow that comes behind that recommendation. Um, so there's a little tangent, little sidetrack. So anyway, back to the STR.

[00:21:38]Why did I get why did I talk about that in the first place? We think that the STR guard is the the best balance between uh weight, cost, and uh protection. So there's that. The shock has been redone. It's been rerung. P3 is our favorite guard. This protects the entire header and exhaust. So, if you fall over and you've got your bike laying on you, your pants aren't going to be melting into your skin cuz your hot exhaust is laying on your leg.

[00:22:06]Takamato on the oil filler cap, which is super thin, and it fits. Uh, so it lets you take that put that on and off in that really thin area. Trail jammer on the clutch cover as well. And then let's see if there's anything interesting that's been put on over here. Oh, so Samco hoses, that is a nice upgrade. So the OEM hoses, we think that the OEM hoses, we feel comfortable running hoses the OEMs about 5 years on our bikes. No problem whatsoever. So if you replace out your hoses within the first 5 years, it's a nice bling addition uh update.

[00:22:40]And of course, these are more durable.

[00:22:42]But after 5 years, we think it's time to replace hoses. And pretty much every single time we're going to go with Samco hoses. And notice that we retain the thermostat. We leave the thermostat on 100% of our bikes. These are all use, all climate, all condition use motorcycles as far as we are concerned.

[00:23:00]And we really need to have proper cooling and then heat retention. You can overcool a bike when you take the thermostat off. And tons of riders will do that where they'll pull the thermostat and they'll go out and they'll do their all sport riding and they're out cruising around on a 70 degree day and the the water temps are down in the 120 range. And if you have your thermostat out and now you're running in like some 50 40 50, you know, some kind of light freezing temperatures, your water may be down in the 120, 130 range, which is maybe it may not even break a 100. I've I've been on a bike without a thermostat. Uh, and we in this a couple years ago, but I pulled the thermostat out and we put a water temp sensor on there and I was monitoring that and the bike the water temp never got like above 100 degrees on a on a cold chilly day. It was like a little frosty day. So, you know, everybody worries about over temping a bike or overheating a bike and nobody seems to think about the fact that you can overcool a bike and so leaving a thermostat on there absolutely is essential for us and we do it on every bike every time. Um, up here, I think I forgot to mention the handguards. He's got some of these from Rocky Mountain.

[00:24:11]The mirrors are double take and they have the new super beefy ball. And then this is he's got a long arm here. And then the ADV style mirror, which is the big version of the mirror. And he's got lots of opportunities. This is kind of a little homemade thing where he put a ball there and his GoPro goes there. And then he's got his threaded receiver here. And so, lots of opportunities. Oh, I should point out the Takamoto mirror adapter. So, this lets us pull the mirror over and then now that ball is mounted outside of the the conflict area of the throttle tubing and then Heimdel on this start kill switch and that doesn't take up any room on the bar space. So, even though he's not really fighting for bar space here on this one, a lot of bikes, you end up with some switches and some control areas where you just run out of bar room mount room and then you put this on here and that that doesn't take up any space. That's a great switch. We like it a lot. I do notice he's got aftermarket bars on here and it looks like it's a high bend and you can see that. You can see how upswept that is. Double take on this little mirror. This mirror right here is kind of cool because it gives you the opportunity to look under your arm. So, you just kind of move your arm up and you can do a scan backwards behind yourself.

[00:25:27]So, that was kind of a speed run through on Landon's bike. It's a it's a great machine and I've ridden it and it's super fast and it's very comfortable and it's the kind of bike that he will absolutely have success on on his trip.

[00:25:41]His adventure is going to be great. So, I would urge you to click over and subscribe to his channel.

[00:25:48]I think I failed to mention his levers, aftermarket levers. Those are bulletproof levers. And then over here, he intentionally turned that one into a shorty. So, it's kind of a one finger level lever on that side. And he's got some of this grippy uh friction tape, traction tape on there, or heat shrink rather. So, if you have any questions about this bike, let us know. If you want to build a bike like this, I will say that I will throw uh some credit to Paul RTW. Paul Landon is a disciple of the bike adventure that that Paul has done on his he had a 16 500 EXCF 6 days.

[00:26:29]So I know for a fact that Landon admired Paul and then you pulled a lot of energy and enthusiasm from his experience and trip and Landon borrowed that as the springboard for his adventure. And so there have been quite a few notable examples of people who have gone around the world on 500s and I keep my eyes open for those riders. There is a great guy. I'll link some of these people in their social media. So you have Aaron Steinman who went around the world on his 500 and in many instances we were there to help him and to support his bike. And then you have Frank Nikes, I think I'm saying that right. I might have said that wrong. He's currently going around the world on a 500. And so we've we've been able to help him quite a bit. Landon did his trip. Uh who else am I forgetting? Paul RW Paul. And so the 500 is not the first platform that you typically think of for these ultra long highend endurance uh trips.

[00:27:27]However, they make a fantastic bike for that. These are really the cream of the crop as far as the half liter single-cylinder bikes go in the sport range. Now, a KLR is a is a good bike to base a long-term endurance trip off of.

[00:27:42]There a DRZ 650. So, there's a a Honda uh 650 um the the any of the variants of those carbureted Honda 650s. So, there's quite a few bikes that make [clears throat] really good platforms.

[00:27:57]If if you're evaluating and considering doing a big mega long duration trip on a single, some of those bikes are ideal.

[00:28:07]They have very very long service life, extended service life. They're just really beefy and overbuilt machines.

[00:28:12]They're under stressed motors. They have very low compression ratios. I think those Honda XR 650s back in the day in the in the '9s, those had like a nine nine to1 compression ratio. So very understressed and you could run really weak fuel, globally sourced fuel in those. They were just a great workhorse tank of a bike for those types of riding. You pay some penalties though.

[00:28:37]Those have a really high seat height.

[00:28:39]They are they're heavy. They're considerably heavy. They're in the 350 range. This bike now, the naked bike was about 260. He's probably with his bags.

[00:28:50]I just put this bike on the stand a few minutes ago and and uh it was it it weighs now this bike as it sits, I'm going to guess it's probably about 315, maybe 320 lbs, which is tremendous for the capability and the endurance of this bike. So, that's not extreme at all. A Honda 300L doesn't weigh that much less than this stock with nothing on it. So, the fact that you've got like a 320 lb motorcycle this capable and equipped is absolutely fantastic. It's tremendous.

[00:29:23]Um, but this one has a little higher compression ratio, so it's like 127 to1, which means that a rider on this bike needs to pay a little more attention to fuel. This is a Ferrari of dirt bikes, right? This is a very high performance motorcycle that has the capability and endurance of really doing an adventure like this, but it is still a high performance bike. And so you can really it's it's so fun, so exciting.

[00:29:53]Some of these riders who like the 500 find those other bikes to be boring, and I totally get that. I do, too. If I was going to go out and if I had a life that lended itself to time and flexibility to go and do a trip, I would absolutely without hesitation load myself up a 500.

[00:30:09]Uh, what generation? I've been asked this before. May as well tap on this.

[00:30:13]What generation? So, there's a 12 through 16, 17 through 19, 20 through 23, and then the 24 generation. So, there's four generations of the 500 series bike. And which is the best? I would say that the 12- 16 has its fans.

[00:30:28]It's overbuilt. It's understressed. It has a lower compression ratio. I think it's like 113 to one. And so it's the it's the the weakest, not weak, it's just the lowest.

[00:30:39]Let's change the word. It's the lowest of all the compression ratios, which means it's very forgiving. If you get some sour gas and it has a kickstart, which for a lot of people is uh that's like the makeorb breakak item that it has the ability, well, it came factory with a kickstand. Then you get to the 17th through 19th generation bikes and they they didn't come with a uh I think I said kickstand, I meant kickstart. So the 17 through 19 came with the engine case that was capable of a kickstart. It didn't come with that to save weight on the spec sheet, but you could add it. By the time you get to this gen, which is the 2323, they they case, you can see there's no boss on the case to add a kickstart. So, you c you can't have a kickstart on this bike. And so, there are those who will say that the 17 plus bike is uh they're going to cross it off their list. I'm sorry, the 20 plus bike, they'll cross it off list because it you can't add a kickstart. Um Landon did 30,000 mi and you know, I'm sure he had his issues. Anyone would naturally, but it's not a deal killer. And uh whenever I go out on my bikes, I don't actively ride any of the generation that has a kickstart on them. And so I just bring a booster battery pack, which I've used for myself. And then I have it cuz I bail a lot of people out of scrapes by having it. I've started cars with it, started a lot of motorcycles with it. So I like to have that with me. They all have similar engines. They're all the 510cc architecture. So, they all have the same 1966 watt electrical system.

[00:32:16]Uh, so I won't, this video wasn't about which is the best generation. I don't know that there is a best generation.

[00:32:23]There's just different generations that have different strengths and weaknesses.

[00:32:27]So, if you have any questions about if you want to deep dive that, talk to me some other time. Maybe I'll maybe this means I need to do a video about the the that answer that question. Line up the bikes of the different generations.

[00:32:40]We'll we'll dive into it. Maybe that's something I need to put on my video shoot list. So, thanks for watching. If you have any questions about Landon, go subscribe to his channel. He's very active on his comments and really likes to interact with people. And so, I'm sure if you ask him a question directly, he'll get back to you with some information. And of course, subscribe to his channel, hit him up on Instagram.

[00:33:02]He's got a fantastic Instagram, which has just been blowing up. I'm really I'm really pleased for the for the I almost call him the kid. He's not so much kid, right? But I really uh I it's been exciting to watch what Landon's done with his presence on the socials and it's a welldeserved well-deserved kudos to the guy and kudos to everybody out there who's doing long-distance trips on the 500. It's been I take a lot of personal pride in supporting these guys and then and then getting them the kind of parts that they need to do a trip like this. One of the things I set out, one of the philosophies I had when we started Taco Moto from the very beginning is I only wanted to produce and and offer the parts that would be bulletproof and reliable for somebody doing an around the world trip. You know, failure is I wanted failure to not be an option on anything we offered. And so we've we just work really hard to maintain that track record and put out that kind of equipment. So, um, thanks for watching. If you have any again, if you have any questions, let us know. Hit us up in the comments.