What's going on guys, Aaron here for another video. Today we're going to be talking about the 2020 Apollo RSC Pitbike. Let's get into it. Now if you guys do have any questions, feel free to leave them down in the comments section below. And I will answer them and get your response that hopefully answers your question. And if you guys are interested in seeing some trail riding of this bike, I will leave a card. I'll just click on the card and I'll take you over to some Pitbike trail riding. So if we are going to review the bike first things first, we need to know exactly what bike we are talking about. This is not the X-18, this is not the X-15, this is not a 007. This is not any of those Apollo their bikes. This is a completely redesigned frame. It's specifically for this bike which is the Apollo open. There is a completely different cradle design for the engine inside this frame. Now the differences between these bikes, the reason is the United States does get a different variant of this bike. Then Canada does, Canada gets the open model whereas this states continues to get the X-18 model. So there is a bit of confusion. I had the same thing when I was trying to look at this bike online. You're looking for videos of it and trying to find some information about it. And you see all these videos on the X-18 thinking that that is this bike and it's not. It's a completely different bike from everything except for the engine from the X-18 is the exact same inside of this open model. It's just a different frame design. I'm going to talk a little bit about engine specs here. We do have a 125cc 4-stroke carbureted engine which has plenty enough power to have some fun and get up to no good with. Now being only 125cc some of you guys are thinking this thing might not have enough power for you. It's about 9hp. Honestly for me it's been plenty enough to have fun and get around and get enough speed to scare you up. But not enough that if you're a white boat you're going to hurt yourself that bad. The bike has enough power to be able to be in third or fourth gear running down the road and just being able to give it a good wrap of throttle. And you can pop the front tire up and get over potholes or puddles. And it's the thing has plenty enough power that you can get around easily on these bikes and have lots of fun. It does come with a four speed transmission. So all of it at the bottom and you shift up one for first gear, second, third, fourth. And then all the way down for neutral. As well as a clutch on your left hand. The clutch itself is on the stiffer side of things. I do prefer to pull it with at least two fingers on this one. You can get away with it one finger sometime but it does become a little bit tough with the one finger. But generally speaking I've had no problems easily slipping the clutch on trails when you're trying to do some technical climbing on a bike. Even though it is a pip bike you can still go up some pretty rocky and hardly stuff with this. As long as you know how to slip a clutch and even then with the four stroke you can bog this engine pretty good. And just not even have to be in throttle just to let hair throttle and this thing will just keep crawling up the hill is no problem. What is nice about this bike is it does come with dual disc brakes front and rear which is nice. It's a lot of the older Japanese bikes that you'd get in the same sort of price range usually come with a drum rear brake which the disc is a huge, huge advantage over the drum. Now this bike is equipped with some volt suspension. It is adjustable in the rear. We do have a adjustable perch just like you would on a coil over in a car same delio here as well as at the very top up there. You can adjust PSI for stiffness and then when we come around to the front we have volk suspension as well. Not entirely sure on the travel here. But it's been plenty enough and it's the correct stiffness I'd say for my weight. I'm about 140 pounds and this bike seems to be like just set up perfectly for that weight which is convenient. Now this bike does only come with a kick start feature. There is no electric start. It is relatively easy to start and usually starts up first, second kick every time. No problem, I've never had any issues with cold starts. It just fires up every time. So I guess we'll just go ahead and we'll turn it on and just see if we can get too quickly boot up right from the get go here. Cold start hasn't been run at all today. I'm going to turn the fuel on, choke on, kill switch on, make sure you're doing neutral. Heat is on. No problem. Of course it's cold so it's going to die. It's not the right key to running. Now one point of confusion where the differences between the X18 or any of the other Apollo dirt bikes that I didn't really notice until I'd already purchased the bike and it started coming on its way to my door. The other thing that I didn't notice was that this bike is actually equipped with a 14 inch front tire and a 12 inch rear tire. So it's not the conventional 17 front 14 rear that you see on all of the other Apollo dirt bikes. So this does have the smaller diameter tires which is alright and it feels suitable. It is a really nice height which I've really enjoyed about this bike that when you're sitting on it I'm able to go completely flat foot which is nice for when you're in a more technical situation. Some things that I really have enjoyed about this bike are the ease ability for fixing everything. Everything on this bolt is like a 14 millimeter or just an Allen key, a 10 millimeter. Everything's just really simple and easy to work on on this bike. Just make sure you're not over tightening anything because these are just Chinese bolts so you will strip them out. So these bikes are quite modifiable and if you are looking for a bit more top end or wanting to change the gearing it is quite easy. You can just pop off this cover here which is a couple of Phillips screws. And then inside there you will find one of these gears. So on there comes stock with I believe it is a 14 tooth gear so I've got a 16 tooth here to make the gearing a bit longer. Just to test that out with the bike and see how that changes things. I really do like how it works currently when you're going really slow up on the trails is you're just able to just crawl this thing and do able to you know one to two kilometers like walking speed up a trail. And the bike does not want to stall out and it'll kind of just keep putting up along the hill easily so I want to retain that. But I do want a little bit more top speed as I say when I'm riding with someone who has a 250 tooth stroke like this gas gas here. He's in fourth gear kind of putting along cruising. I'm in fourth gear. I'm half on throttle and you know I got I got a bit more to go but I don't want me sitting revving it at 6,7,000 RPM the whole time or whatever. Rev limits that right. So I would like a little bit more top end so when you're cruising on the fire roads to trail you can go a little bit quicker for say just top end without revving it out so much other than that it's really nice gearing but we'll play around with that some more as well as I do still have the stock everything on this bike is still completely 100% stock. I do have a couple upgrades coming in the mail so I do have a genuine one of the McCuny carbs coming in to replace the OEM one as well as I do have a set of 17 and 14 inch tires coming in for it as well as some of the foldable levers so when you do fall these ones tend to snap because they they can't give away per se they will just break because there's no foldable action they just go the one way or the other ones can actually fold back so if you do a digger this won't bust off which happens like nine times out of 10 when you wipe out. I want to thank you guys for watching and if you have any questions about the Apollo dirt bikes make sure to leave them down below and if you enjoyed this review make sure to give it a thumbs up that really helps out the channel and like I said if you are interested I'll leave a card up above if you want to check out some trail riding with this bike because it was a lot of fun and there is some deep ass puddles and some gnarly rock vibe so you should check that video