[Motorcycle] [Slide Guitar] Narrator: Long before the days of the dual sport motorcycle.

Years before the thrill of adventure bikes, the western hills were calling out for discovery.

Their dusty trails, forged over time, were open for exploration.

Mike Uhl: Everybody just wanted to go out there and you wanted to get to that little lake and go fishing.

Narrator: It was a calling for innovation.

And it was a call for imagination.

Herb Uhl: Well, it had to be done.

The industry wouldn't do it.

Narrator: One man from Boise, Idaho answered that call and out of his invention was born a legend, a legend that engaged the human spirit, a legend that liberated people's confidence to take on the mountains.

Jack Snider: The whole off roading genre, really, I don't see how it would be what it is today without him.

Mike: He created a time machine, and all these people got to go and experience the backcountry and the wilderness and everything else over a weekend.

Herb: You have a chance to be independent and do something for yourself.

And that's really tough to find in this particular reality now.

Narrator: It changed an industry and it created a culture of adventurers who set out to conquer the weekend.

Mike: He changed the whole industry and saved it.

Because that whole new category of bike, that all came from the trail bike.

Narrator: It was a legend born out of desire.

A legend that fulfilled a demand.

Herb: It’s what the people wanted, that's the whole point.

The people wanted this.

Narrator: It was a legend born to be mild.

Jake Heusinkveld: Born to be mild is being able to go out and enjoy things at a slower pace, getting outside, riding the streets, I just take my time and that works for me.

Eric Stoothoff: There's trails that you can ride back roads across the whole U.S.

and it's just, you're going slow enough where you can see things.

Mike: And everybody can ride ‘em, you know, it's automatic clutch.

Herb: And the other thing is that it's just plain fun to explore.

Narrator: On this episode of Outdoor Idaho, we’re ridin’ trail, a Honda Trail.

Join us as we get to know Herb Uhl, the man who invented it, and discover from a group of rioting enthusiasts what makes this little bike among the best selling motorcycles on the planet.

Jake: What do you think?

Mike Slette: I think this is a good spot.