Let's Go To Vegas The Dumbest Possible Way

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[TheRealWTFGarage]

It's pretty clear you need to do LAB2V next year on the Grom.

[HKLA]

I appreciate the engineering integrity it took to plan a trip with equal time dedicated to each fun type.

[bedlamite]

After decades of riding motorcycles, I've noticed that the memorable rides are the ones where nothing went right. Like the one where you forgot your phone on the seat and it yeeted itself into the curb, or the brief rain shorted your buddy's ignition system. The frost on my visor from riding through the fog at 33 degrees at 11000 feet was fun too.

[RealBLAlley]

Mad props to the person who made it that far on a PWC.

[rexdink]

Funny how over time, the Brain can block out the trauma. We fondly look back at something we willingly did, that was undoubtedly miserable. Yet in the rearview mirror, as the aches and pains fade away, the thrills, chills, and comraderies end up being closer than they appeared, and hold endearments like our firstborn child.
But as soon as we try it again, we remember why we said we're only having one child.

[thathitauliagibran]

Well you know the dumber the trip is the funnier it will be

[douglasburnside]

Scariest ride I ever did was on a 600cc BMW R69-S, from Eugene, Oregon to Portland, 111 miles on Interstate 5.

How hard could that be, you ask? It wasn't just black ice all the way; it was black ice with water standing on it. At least once every half mile there was a car or truck in the ditch. Even so I was the fastest vehicle on the road, sometimes riding at an improbably reckless velocity of nearly 40 miles per hour. I passed a state trooper who had enough problems of his own that he pointedly ignored me.

I stopped at a rest area to catch my breath, and the moment those two big gyroscopes stopped turning, the bike just slid out from under me, leaving me standing there. I couldn't get enough traction with my boots to lift it back up, they just slid backwards and the bike slid forwards as soon as I tried to lift. A friendly bystander helped, we slid the bike on its side until the wheels stopped against a curb and then the two of us were able to lift it upright. Once I got going above five miles per hour, it stabilized enough to continue the ride.

Now *that* was a memorable ride that I remember well 60 years later.

[bigospig]

That wasn't a scrambler, it was a trencher.

[sadie]

A beautifully nuanced explanation of the motorcyclist mindset.

Interesting event, too.

[BlixenBlorp]

offroad motorcycles are actually the best and most fun vehicle you can pilot like ever. Also the man who decided a scrambler is the bike for the job is clinically insane I love it!

[RuslanVideoFilms]

I hate sand.
It’s rough, it’s coarse, and it gets everywhere.

[hashbrown]

8:03 this whooole section sounds exactly like snowboarding. Especially previously with the floating on clouds and terrain looking the same having different behaviours.

Front digging in, having to squat for days, hills being the most fun, getting tired and lazy and making mistakes. But doing this atop a heavy machine..crazy

Muscles you didn't know you had is so true though. Boarding you need to do a lot of lifting at the toes, which uses your biggest muscle (/s); your shin

[RonCovell]

Matt - what a great storyteller you are!

[darmichar]

I've ridden bikes all my life and have always done the 'stand up over the rough stuff' thing. I never understood the physics of why that worked until your 'decouples the mass from the bike' statement and explanation. Thank you for that.

[freddieguyote]

Great video. Having lived in Las Vegas before and rode those same roads and areas on a 701 enduro.. your lamentations on sand hells and especially the bit about type 1/2/3 fun really spoke to me. Perfect summary of what it’s like and why, despite that, you end up doing it again.

[paulnoneofyoir]

Hi Matt, I’m 67 and been riding most of all over the states and for the 17 years I lived in Europe . Road through all kinds of neat stuff, Rain, snow, tornadoes, hail, lightning, wicked cold . But the other night a simple 186 mile ride became type 3 fun as I left to late in the day and road straight into a cold front, even though I had what I thought was warm enough gear it wasn’t quite enough, for the first time just before my 11pm arrival at my friends house I caught myself thinking, I’ll never never do this MC ride at night in the winter again . Inspiration to finish my camper .

[dirty-moto]

The commentary about desert riding...you really nailed it! I started riding after moving to Vegas, so riding has only ever been sand and rocks and 113 degrees fahrenheit for me. But I do miss that lush forestry of Washington sometimes when I'm out there and craving a moment of shade. I used to always capture my "adventures" on video thinking I'd edit them for YouTube, but as you mentioned, it's just endless sand sometimes. Doesn't make interesting content.
I do appreciate that cell service travels really well through the desert! And I'm less likely to get lost.

[FeralPreacher]

In the early '70's i ran an endure on a Kawasaki 900, Z1.
Crazy? ABSOLUTLY.
But it sure was fun, and since I was a relatively accomplished rider, I finished the enduro on the Z1, and it wasn't even too badly scratched up.

I also had a Suzuki 250 Savage that I had previously run this enduro several times.
Ahhh the memories of youth and stupidity.
Thanks for sharing..

[virgulinoferreira]

Great video - as always. Love your sense of humor. Didn't know about the fancy tyre in a tyre.

[phila]

Like the shot of the jetski abandoned in the desert. I doesn't look like it would work that well on dry land, but he got pretty far before the dirt clogged the impeller for good.