I Bought A 2024 Honda ADV160 - My Initial Thoughts

Can’t believe I’ve been watching you since I was 15. Now at 26 I hear of the helix and it bring back fond memories. Glad to see your love for two wheels never truly escaped you!

Wow, thanks for the tour of the ADV160. I enjoyed it and picked up some useful knowledge. I just got my ADV160, new, in mid January. As of yesterday, I put 420 miles on her. Not a lot, but I am in the Northeast too (PA), and Winter is still a thing here. This is my first ever motorcycle, and I am 72. I figured a scooter would be a good fit for me. I chose Honda basically for all the reasons you stated. I paid $5700 out the door, but I had tax to pay. Delivery was free, or so they say. I take my skills test in 2 weeks, and it has me worried. Never rode a manual bike, U turns are still difficult even with a lot of practice, etc. But it's an MSF class, and I know they are really good. I just got everything I'll need for the first oil change at 600 miles - even that will be a new experience for me. Gonna replace the stock drain plug with the magnetic one by Gold Plug. The only other mod I am considering at this point is a brake light flasher. The wiring of the flasher doesn't really worry me, it's getting access to the brake light wiring harness that could be a deal breaker. The bike is only 2 months old, and I don't want to do a grand disassembly just yet. Anyway, thank you for sharing your knowledge, and I'll be checking back for updates.

Glad to see you get back to bikes I have been watching since before the Honda helix days and loved those vids. Look forward to future bike content.

Best review I found. I am buying mine next week here in Bangkok. 105,000 Baht, $2,866 usd. Includes rego.I had the adv150 in 2021. There seems to be a few differences between the U.S. model than here. Tool kit comes with it. A couple of other things, but will watch again after I get mine. They have 4 colours here, Black, Blue and like a Pearl grey and Red. It looks to me like your red is different. I dont like the red here, seems darker. Anyway, very thorough review. Thanks

$5600 wow that's 100% more than they sell for here in Thailand

I have 18,000 miles on my 2022 adv 150. It's an awesome lil machine no matter where you want to go! I commute on it and have ridden it half way across the country and back with 0 issues. Fuel mileage is between 84-105mpg depending on how fast you're going and hills and I am 6'3 210lbs. I might sell mine to a buddy of mine and pick up a new 24, always more fun riding small bikes with a group of friends

I called my local dealer and they wanted $6300 out the door! Of course I said no way. 3 weeks later they posted online a trade in with 850 miles for $3999. I payed $4485 otd and I feel good about that price

I purchased this same bike about a year ago. I love it so far and have racked up 4000+ miles. Thank you for showing me more about this bike than my dealer. I paid about the same.

Appreciate the long form review. US reviews are hard to find and most of them are riding reviews which don’t tell me much. I was curious about the screen and the settings etc which you went over in detail. Thank you.

It's very different here in the Philippines we have both disc breaks on front and rear wheel.

Concerning tool kit, I don't leave the house without air compressor and tire plug kit. I have yet to use a tool kit but used tire plug over dozen time, usually the rear tire catches a nail.

Great review, I’ve been riding a 2022 Adv 150 for two years, wish someone did a review like this. My bike starts every time, a real blast, I can ride up to 60 mph for extended periods of time, no complaints from the bike. Thank you for the info!

ThIs is the 1st time I have watched you! Thank's!....That was a brilliant review!🙂

I was kinda surprised to see a new scooter in the works. But I'm pretty happy for more videos on them. I had enjoyed the Helix videos back when, enough that I wanted one then and still want one now.

I'm temporarily living in the Philippines doing volunteer work at hospitals. I have this unit. It performs excellent on the road and off. Knobby tires are also available in the Philippines.

I really enjoyed your tour. I am taking delivery tomorrow of a 2025. I really wanted the Pearl blue color, but it seems that there are still supply chain issues looming from covid and they can be hard to find locally. I also paid about $5600 delivered to my house. A good chunk of that is the $600 destination fee.

I have a 2024 model in Thailand, don't understand why they have fitted such bad rear brakes on the US model, mine has disc brakes in the rear. Mine is a Kitaco model, it has a different exhaust system, it makes a good sound. I have also changed the centrifugal weights, so now it accelerates much better. Nice bike to ride on busy roads as it is small and handy and runs very well.

As far as scratches underneath the bike, you might be able to get away with ordering some thick vinyl decal sheet that you can cut to fit and place underneath. Better with some high-vis reflective down the sides above it for instance in case you lay the bike down in the evening/night so people can see the reflection of your bike on the ground. ECU boot could have better protection from the elements, yeah. but if you're paranoid about it, you can go to town with hot-glue on the connector body itself where the cables go in, and around it... will make it harder to get it apart in the future, but it'll help keep it better protected from moisture ingress. Ideally silicone would be better as hot glue will inevitably melt in too hot of heat, but once again, an order of magnitude higher in removal later, and that's not even taking account of any warranty issues that might arise. as far as the joystick, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a third party adhesive-edge condom boot for it in the future.

I swear Honda is the master of low friction small engines

Great video! I also used to have a Helix, and just got my ADV 160 about a week ago 😁. Looking forward to more of your content on these new to the USA scoots!