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#199 - Frankie's Trip Across the Country Recap · After-Hours with Faction! Motorsports

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I'm like, dude, I got the bags in Arizona.
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I'll I'll grab those on the way back and I'll be able to ride
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the bike naked through California, which is what I
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want. And I'm like, this is going to
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be perfect. I get on the plane, Yo, bag
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sold. I'm like, you mind if I take it
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for a ride again? I'm like, I'm like, yeah, dude,
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take. Yeah, I get nervous with that.
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I I was dude, I was like, it's your motorcycle, do whatever you
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want. He's like, all right, cool.
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Yeah, I just want to, I want to go for like a last ride on on
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the bike. I'm like, damn, this is sad.
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Am I really gonna ride into the storm?
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One of the only vehicles on the road and there's lightning.
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I'm like, I don't know if this is a good idea and then starts
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coming down. Hail, big hail.
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I'm like come on, bro, give me a fuck break.
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He's like what? I'm like they fuck know us at
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thrash and. He's like, shut the fuck up.
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Literally, Was it worth the trip?
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Would you? Was it fully worth the trip?
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Welcome back to another episode of the After Hours podcast.
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This is kind of a weird one, but I just did a motorcycle trip
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across the country and Carl and some other people suggested that
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we do a recap podcast of my trip.
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So that's what we did on this one.
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Carl had a questionnaire on his Instagram and yeah, we, we just,
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we covered a lot. We didn't cover the whole trip,
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but we covered a lot of it, the majority of it.
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So some interesting things happened along the way and I
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survived. So it's definitely a fun
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conversation. Also, if you want to check out
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my actual trip itself, you can visit my Instagram.
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It's just my name at Frankie Bovino on Instagram and it's
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it's on my highlights. There's like 4 highlights on
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there is that's the whole trip. So if you want to take a look at
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only. 3 listeners, sorry, but welcome
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everybody to the Faction After Hours podcast.
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We're here to bring you another episode tonight.
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We have the best guest, not just any other guest, but literally
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the Co host to this podcast what and the funder of the podcast.
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So welcome everybody, Frankie. Bovino, are you?
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Really trying to make this the Frankie episode.
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This is the Frankie episode dude.
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Even the crowd is kind of late. Sorry.
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Malcolm no, this is not the Frankie episode.
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Also, we have Alex Goldstein, who's in the house.
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Yep. Drove by today.
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Hit the hit. But are we going to get sorry?
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Because Alex is not going to thank you.
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Yeah, dude, Alex was when we were talking on Instagram and I
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was like, dude, do you want to ask Frankie about his motorcycle
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trip? And then he was like.
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I I'm hoping that you're going to be able to calm this man down
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from the questions he's going to.
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Dude. He put he put up a questionnaire
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on and his his followers, they're a little crazy they're.
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My my followers are literally a sight glass into our listeners.
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OK, I talked. To every single one of these
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people. I love it.
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I love it so. Much but you have to admit.
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Some of them are a little crazy. I'm going to sum up a lot of
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them, but I did want to just, I'm not going to ask every
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single one. It was just going to help me
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direct what the conversation I wanted to have today was.
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Because obviously you rode a motorcycle for fucking How many
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days was that? A lot.
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When did you leave like? Well, like I got there and I
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didn't ride it home right away. So I would say Sunday.
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I would say Sunday to. Now or Tuesday.
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Tuesday. So over a week.
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But I spent basically a day to two days in Arizona hanging out.
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That's fire. Would you see your family and
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stuff? No, my friends, my friend Tyler
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and his fiance and his parents, they were they're that's like my
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childhood best friend. He, you guys are the ones.
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He was the one you rode with through the through Death Valley
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and stuff. Or was that Rex?
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That's Rex. Yeah, I saw you met up with Rex
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too, and I was like, God damn, he's working.
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Yeah, we just kind of like, I knew where the bike was.
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I knew Rex lived there. I said, can you go look at his
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bike? He said yeah, it's 15 minutes
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away from me. I said OK, cool.
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He went there. He has no idea about Harley's
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and he's like, he called me. He's like, I mean, it looks
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pretty cool. It's like a motorcycle I.
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Don't really know. It's got some marks on it, but
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not anything crazy. I'm like all right, I'm just
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going to pay the guy and gave him 500 bucks and then bought a
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plane ticket. How?
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Did you find this bike? It was kind of funny.
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I've been looking for Super Glide sport which is FXDX.
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I've been looking for that bike for like 4 years now.
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I was going to ask what kind of bike it is because I have no
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idea. Did you know what kind of bike
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it is? I don't know.
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We looked at it outside. We don't know what we're looking
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at, so. It's like it's, Malcolm said.
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It's like the Type X of of Harley's.
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OK. OK.
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So that makes sense. That's relatable.
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So I'll I'll give you a rundown real quick, but it's the same
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Malcolm's bike is the same year and it's called Super Glide.
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Yes, mine is a super Glide sport.
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So what they do is they put adjustable front suspension,
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front suspension and rear and it's 2 inches taller in the
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front than his and it's I think an inch or more taller in the
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rear from the factory. The engine casing is black.
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It's not, it's. Not a blonde, blonde, blonde.
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Yeah, I fuck with the yeah. The fact that they call it a
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blonde motor is so sick. Dude I want I want a blonde one.
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What else, Malcolm? I got, it's got attack and a
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Speedo instead of just the Speedo.
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There's not a lot of crazy differences like on paper so.
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Then what makes it so valuable? Because it says FXD.
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Well, first of all, that's the one that everyone wheelies.
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It's the hot boy. One.
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Yeah, it's the Hot Boy 1. That is the one that everyone
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wants the wheelie, so it's that they get kind of rarer because
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of that. And you're not going to do that?
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I don't. Want to, but those thrashing
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supply guys, I don't know they might change things if they come
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here and and we we do something with those.
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Guys. I cannot picture you.
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I don't want to do it. I'm like staring off in a space
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trying to picture. I mean, I'll really a motorcycle
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I'm down with trying to do that, but I'm not doing it on that
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motorcycle. That's not happening.
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Yeah, maybe like a little 110, like a pitter.
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I'll try it on hardly, I don't mind.
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No, I'm not trying it on because.
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I think and you can get the bike up pretty easy.
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It's just like keeping it up like that is going to be insane.
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It's going to feel so crazy so. OK.
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So it's a FXDX something something.
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Yeah, and there's another model called Malcolm.
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Could you bring up FXDXT? So turbo?
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No, the the T stands for Touring.
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This was another motorcycle. This is the really rare 1.
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So this is the Super Glide Sport Touring.
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It's only O1 and O2 comes with those bags from the factory and
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that fairing. So here, here's what I'm here's
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where you're losing me, right? Yeah.
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So you're telling me the differences of the, the height
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in the front, the height in the back and the casing of the
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motor. There's I can address all of
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those things in an afternoon if I if you gave me Malcolm's
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platform. Well, the one real big
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difference that you can't really solve in an afternoon is the
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adjustable front forks. That's not really something that
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you can just buy and you can't even really get them.
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Like Harley doesn't make them anymore.
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It's a pain in the ass. There's no like aftermarket
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solution. I'm sure someone makes
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something, but believe it or not I I don't see too much
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aftermarket versions of that. But I'm sure someone makes
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something, I don't know how much they would be.
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It sounds like there's a gap in the market there that needs to
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be addressed. Oh yeah, probably.
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But but yeah, I don't know. It's just it's the there's more,
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there's more to it too. It's an early model Dyna.
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So it's got 39 millimeter forks. It's got twin Cam engine.
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The early model Dyna were like 99 to 2004 or five carbureted.
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And yours is not. No.
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So that is one of one of them. So the fact that it's an early
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model Dyna is also good, good. But then it's one of the best
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ones of the early, you know what I mean?
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So it's not just that it's a FXDX.
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What kind of carb is on it? Makuni carb.
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He he had a Makuni carb on it. He's got under header exhaust on
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it. He's got a 510 Cam.
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I don't know who makes the cams. He says Harley-Davidson, but I
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don't think it is. So it's tuned up a little bit.
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Yes, it. Feels fast because I I don't
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know what the fuck I'm looking at when.
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So I realized something about motorcycles, at least Harley
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Harleys and bags like that. Bigger bikes like that, they
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they all kind of feel fast when you're on them.
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You don't realize if they're slow or not until you race
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someone else. That's what I've realized
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because like to me, this bike feels fast.
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Is it just with like the wind hitting you and everything?
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I don't know, I'm just like this, this thing fucking rips.
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But in my mind I'm like, I know it doesn't.
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There's no way it can because my, my other motorcycle is a new
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like 2/20/19 Harley-Davidson. That's what I'm saying.
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That thing was not slow. Either it makes 120 horsepower,
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this thing probably makes like 100 or less.
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Which is more fun? It makes like.
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Yeah, probably like 80909080 to 90.
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Wait, what? This is a downgrade.
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Power wise, yeah. Power wise, 100% yeah.
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So. I'm so proud of you that you
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fucking just did that though. Oh well, well, you said, how do
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you find it? So we I was looking for a bike
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or whatever. I was looking for a bike for a
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long time. I wouldn't do it every single
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day, but I would go on once in a while and say let me see.
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I'd look around. I see a clapped out one.
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I'm not doing that. I see something that looked
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pretty clean. I go, OK, let me go to contact
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him. Oh, it's too far away.
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Oh, he said yes, OK, let me send him an offer.
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Oh, it's gone. Like it.
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These things, no, they fly. They fly away like you can't.
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And there's this guy called the fucking Dyna dude on Instagram.
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Fuck that guy. Literally.
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Fuck you I dude, I don't even care anymore.
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That guy sucks. Why the last one?
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Which is why this happened. The last one is what ended it
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for me. He's he's bought bikes from
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under me like at least two times.
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And he just resells them or. Yeah, and this guy in PA, 4
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hours away, had a bike that's pretty the night of the concert,
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that's pretty manageable. The night of the concert, it was
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black. I always wanted a silver one, by
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the way, but this one was black and I was like, all right,
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whatever, I'll just deal with it.
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He wanted 9. I offered him 7 grand.
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These bikes were 13 new, by the way, and they're still yeah.
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They're holding. Fucking it's insane that's.
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Kind of. Nuts.
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And they go higher than that too.
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OK, so this guy wanted, he said yes to seven.
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I was like cool, I'm going to get the bike.
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It's 7 grand. It's a 2001 too.
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So 2001 and 2002 are the sought after years because like some
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kind of internal bearing was changed or something.
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It's the newest one, it's the newest revision.
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I feel like that's how it always just works with stuff.
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There was like a bearing or something, but like this guy
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already changed everything anyway.
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But so I was like, yeah, let me so let me come get it.
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I'll I'll get it whenever. That night of the we went to the
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concert. Oh yeah, I rented a trailer for
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the next morning and then he go. And then that night when we're
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at the concert, he goes, yo, work called me and I can't get
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it. I said, OK, well, I'm going to
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cancel the trailer. I guess I'll call you Monday.
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Hit him up Monday. Yo, when can I come get this?
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Oh, you know my work schedule this maybe tomorrow.
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Hit him up tomorrow. Yo, when can I come get the
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bike? Oh, some dude offered me like
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$500 more, $8000 or whatever and I was like, so are you fucking
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me over right now? And he's like, Nah, Nah, I'm not
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fucking you over. Like first come first serve.
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I said cool mother fucker when can I get the fucking bike?
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And he's OK. And I could tell, like, he's
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fucking me over and he's still bullshitting me.
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And I'm like, he's still acting like I can come get the bike.
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And then like Wednesday comes and he's like, Oh yeah, I
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forgot, you're far away. I said you know what dude, fuck
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you, go fuck yourself and whatever left him a fucking bad
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review on fucking. Facebook, this didn't matter to
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you? You're like, I'm like, dude.
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I never do that shit but I was like fuck.
15:15
You where did you find the button?
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Where? Where was that button?
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Is this marketplace PA Facebook marketplace?
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Oh yeah, of course, easy. This is this is a a standard
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marketplace experience. I was.
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Just fed up. I'm like, finally I get finally
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I'm like, oh, I might actually buy this motorcycle.
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It's finally going to happen. And I'm saying five years, but
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I've probably wanted this for like 6 or 7.
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I don't, it's been a long time and and I'm like, fuck, I'm
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finally going to get the bike. And then he fucking rips it from
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me and I'm like, and me and like me and like Dan Miyagi's
15:45
brother. We'd be talking about this shit
15:47
because we would see this guy buy these bikes.
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I said watch that bike be up on Dynodude's fucking Instagram
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tomorrow. So I forget about it for like a
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day or two and then I'm like, let me go fucking.
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I go on his website, I go on his Instagram.
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It's not on the Instagram. I go on his website.
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It's on the website and it's sold already.
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I would have two days later I would have suck.
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Started a shotgun so badly. Dude, that is so.
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Crazy the whole bike on there. Literally the same exact bike.
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Sold some petty shit and he sold dude.
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He bought it for $7500 and he sold it for what is it, $8500?
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He didn't even make a lot of fucking money on it.
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And I'm like, and you had to go get it from PA and he's in New
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York State somewhere. I'm like, yo, this guy fucking
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sucks. And then?
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Some people just want to like, control the whole.
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Space, that's what he's doing, which I mean, I guess, I guess
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props to you, dude. I don't know, but like you're
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kind of fucking everyone's shit up.
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Like we're trying to buy motorcycles and he's raising the
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market value. It's kind of nice and he's
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taking the joy away of actually. Buying yeah, he's looking it
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harder for the enthusiasts, but making it good for the bike.
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But it's even harder he had. A buyer lined up.
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Frankie's ready to go. Yeah.
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The $500 is not. That's not yeah.
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And Frankie is the type of buyer where I feel like if you said,
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look, man, I I got a guy coming for 88 grand.
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If you want it, you got to pick it up tonight, Frankie.
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Probably. Wouldn't would have won, yeah.
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Matched it, Yeah, you would have left if.
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I had to do something. Yeah.
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I mean, I was, I was talking to the guy and after he was like,
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no, I'm not fucking you over. I was like, OK.
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And I I I backpedaled and I was like, all right, my bad.
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When can I come? And he just kept bullshitting.
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Hey, he also couldn't even fucking speak English.
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Like not saying he's a immigrant, I'm saying he's
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fucking retarded. Like the shit he was typing to
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me, I'm like, yo. What did the bike look like?
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Maybe it's a blessing you didn't get that one.
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You know what I mean? After this, yeah, it is.
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But the bike was pretty OK. It wasn't.
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It wasn't. Like it wasn't like this one
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because this one is very. This one's modified, really.
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And clean. Yeah.
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So it's. Like.
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But. It looked like.
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Chris, did you wash it after the road trip?
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Yet I did wash it. Yeah, but I, I got to wash it
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again. It's like one of those
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situations where like you got to kind of wash it twice after
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that. It looks literally like Chris
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owned it or something. Or Rex.
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Rex owned it. Like that kind of person, that
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kind of Filipino, you know what I mean?
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Was the guy Filipino? No, the dude was white.
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Oh, OK, so so that happens, whatever.
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So after that happens, my mindset is now because you, I
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don't know how, no. No, no.
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I know your heart is set. You're you have narrowed your
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eyes. This money is burning.
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That money is hole in your head. I had 7.
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Grand in my safe for fucking six years.
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Literally sitting there, you're a.
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Psychopath. I would never even I'm like I'm
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going to buy a bike with this fucking every year would go by
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no bike. I'm like this is getting
18:24
annoying and then and I like my Harley.
18:29
I did a lot of work to it, my other one, but I don't love it.
18:32
Did you? Trade that shit in or where?
18:33
Where is that? Shit, I have that bike still,
18:35
but I'm probably. Going to sell it?
18:36
Yeah, I don't know. Because he's not going to hoard
18:38
it. He's.
18:39
Going to sell it. Yeah, we, we probably like, I
18:41
was like, I know him. He's going to fucking hoard that
18:43
shit for no reason. Here's the thing.
18:44
I would, but I don't actually really like that motorcycle.
18:48
The reason I have that motorcycle is I kind of got
18:50
caught in one of those dealership traps.
18:52
I bought a Sportster and a year later they were like, if you
18:58
trade in the Sportster, we'll give you all of the value that
19:01
you paid. When did you buy that?
19:03
And you got to buy a bigger bike.
19:04
When was that? 2016 or 17?
19:07
Oh so 17? OK, 17 or 18?
19:10
Yeah, they were. They were fucking lending to
19:12
Peep dude. Anybody that was.
19:14
A good fucking deal though. How was it you're going to give
19:17
me all of the money? What?
19:18
What was going on? Into into the bigger bike.
19:21
He's like, yeah, well here's what happened.
19:23
They just got rid of the Dyna when when that happened.
19:26
The Dyna they got, they rolled in the bit, the the thing that
19:29
you got, the Milwaukee thing. Yeah, so they got rid of the
19:32
Dyna in 2017 and then I had to buy a bike in 2019 and I was
19:37
like, well, I don't really want the new.
19:39
So they replaced the Dyna chassis and they made all of
19:41
them soft tails, which is another model, but they made it
19:44
a a better version of a soft tail.
19:45
So it so it's a good bike. The engine is amazing but
19:51
there's things that I don't like visually about it and I was
19:55
hoping I would it would change over the years but like dude it
19:58
this didn't fucking change. Like, I don't, I don't mean to
20:01
be a fucking negative Nancy, but I did not like your bike.
20:05
Yeah, I think a lot of, I think a lot of my fake, a lot of my
20:08
friends don't like. Silver one hits.
20:11
I think it's just because like when I think of motorcycles, I
20:14
that that's why I made the bike that I have look like that.
20:17
The next bike is not going to be far from that tree, but your
20:20
silver one now looks sick. It looks like a drift car, but
20:24
motorcycle? Yeah, something.
20:25
About Dinah's look good. And the other bike I did not I
20:29
did not like mainly just because it looks too bro Y like it was
20:34
blacked out and the tank was what threw me off.
20:37
I didn't like that. Yeah, no one likes the delivery
20:39
on the tank. I I don't hate the tank on that
20:42
bike, thank God, because I probably wouldn't have got it.
20:44
But when I bought that. Can you show them what my bike
20:46
looked like when I bought it? Oh no.
20:49
Why is you didn't? Like it either?
20:52
I want you to see what it looked like when I.
20:53
Malcolm was shaking. His head.
20:54
I had to go into the dealership and pay for this.
20:57
What? Salesman sold you on that.
20:59
They are good at their I. Sold myself I they didn't have
21:02
to do anything. I was like attentive was getting
21:04
everybody for a. Like, yeah, well.
21:06
Dude, it was like, am I going to pass this up 'cause I, I wasn't
21:09
going to have a Sportster forever.
21:10
I, I can't do it. I even riding a Sportster on the
21:13
fucking Turnpike, I'm like getting blown around.
21:15
I'm like, and then I would ride Miagi's Dinah back and I'm like,
21:17
this thing is fucking amazing. If you think.
21:20
You're getting blown over. That looks I would not buy.
21:23
That bike what I left the dealership with.
21:26
That looks like a police bike. Yeah, dude, missing the fairing.
21:30
Yeah, I had to ride home on that.
21:32
Right away I look at that and I do like it though, because of
21:35
the soft tailedness and 'cause you probably.
21:37
Just 'cause. You like just 'cause you know
21:39
what I like and that tank is so bulbous bro.
21:42
I would get rid of the tank, the seat, the Fender and the forks
21:45
and the headlight and the bars. Look up a Laidlaw.
21:49
Just put Laidlaw. It has a.
21:50
Good look to. It though it looks old.
21:52
Yeah, yeah, it looks old as fuck.
21:53
That one on the left. No, that this is what I saw and
21:58
I was like OK, this bike could be cool.
21:59
That looks a little better, but it's.
22:01
Also the angle of the photo, it's like the right.
22:03
Yeah. So mine basically looks like
22:05
this, but I have a bigger fairing.
22:06
I had that quarter fairing for a minute, but I sold it to my
22:08
buddy Dave and I got the bigger fairing.
22:11
I actually got the fairing that's supposed to be on.
22:13
And you went to this, you went to label.
22:15
I stopped by. Yeah, you did.
22:17
And we were like, when is this guy coming off anyway?
22:19
So that that that was that was Jy's question was why was this
22:23
bike so special to you? I guess six years of edging
22:27
yourself to get this bike would do that to somebody.
22:30
Well, JY will understand if you listen to this, he will
22:32
understand that when I say it's the type X of the Dyna, like
22:36
that's like the pinnacle. Very relatable.
22:38
That's like the Pinnacle Dyna motorcycle for an early model,
22:42
meaning the 39 millimeter forks, because after 2006 or whatever,
22:46
they go to the 49mm front end and it's bigger.
22:48
I'm trying to think of if I even have something in my brain where
22:52
I'm like, that is the one I want.
22:55
I don't even know if I have that.
22:56
Probably not because you like choppers and stuff so it's like.
22:58
I would have to make it into that.
23:00
Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, so that was it.
23:03
I mean, the other bike would be like a Dyna Low rider S, like a
23:05
201617, which is a more modern motorcycle.
23:08
Like if it was just two years earlier when I got that
23:10
Sportster, that's what I would have ended up with.
23:12
And it would have been a pretty nice fucking Dyna.
23:14
And I probably would have never bought this but.
23:17
Yeah, well. I would rather have this though.
23:19
It's all about evolving though. Yeah, your taste changes over
23:21
time. Sometimes you make mistakes,
23:23
but. But six years, it didn't change.
23:25
No it didn't. I've always wanted this bike.
23:26
This bike was like the quote UN quote club style bike.
23:29
Like the tall? You know you wanted our Sons of
23:32
Anarchy it. Really.
23:33
It really is like a Sons of Anarchy bike.
23:35
This guy. Do you know the show?
23:36
Yeah. Yeah, dude, this guy referenced
23:38
himself as Jax on his story. The music is too.
23:42
Good from that show I'm on. Tape I'm on this podcast saying
23:45
that this guy looked like Jax from.
23:47
But you started this whole thing I.
23:49
Literally said that you look like Jax.
23:51
You started. This whole trip.
23:52
Sam from Smoothbrain asked was it worth the trip?
23:54
Would you? Was it fully worth the trip?
23:57
So I wanted to do this trip anyway.
23:59
I wanted to do this trip since I was like fucking 25.
24:02
I wish I could have fucking do. You have like a fully planned
24:05
route. No, I, I love Arizona.
24:07
So like Arizona was going to be part of it.
24:09
That's all I knew. But I I didn't.
24:12
I literally didn't have. A single plan, yeah, like each
24:15
day, no goal stop about how far to.
24:16
Go. I knew I was gonna stay more S
24:20
than north. I wasn't gonna go through
24:22
Montana. How many?
24:23
Days of rain did you? It looked like you did only have
24:25
one. I was being as smart as
24:27
possible. You were avoiding the rain.
24:29
I was watching the weather every single night before I went to
24:31
sleep. I was trying to figure out what
24:32
I was doing and I picked the best route through the center of
24:36
the country that wouldn't be getting as much.
24:38
That's where you win. My retarded ass would have just
24:40
fucking put the GPS to home and just started.
24:43
I mean, I always went SI. Originally I was going to go Las
24:48
Cruces and go down and dig deep to Big Bend in Texas.
24:53
I want to go. To the.
24:53
Bottom. Jet.
24:54
I was potentially going to see Jet until I realized he is so
24:57
far out of the fucking way. Oh, corpus is really far.
24:59
So Texas dives down once, which is where I wanted to go, and
25:03
then it goes back up and then it dives down again and he's that
25:06
down in that little pocket and I'm.
25:09
Like, I don't know if I would have done that.
25:10
Yeah, I know. I know anybody in Texas would
25:12
have made that because, you know.
25:13
But I would have been, I would have been driving.
25:15
For them is like whatever. Yeah, I would have stopped at
25:17
Houston, in Houston again probably if I I would.
25:19
Have told you to hit Brad up or somebody?
25:21
Yeah. There's there's a lot.
25:22
Of butt cheeks a break. Yeah.
25:24
So I fucking bet them shits were blood red dude.
25:28
I really wanted to do 1000 miles in a day but I realized.
25:31
Timing wise, yeah. What was the cab?
25:33
Well, here's the thing I didn't I didn't want to I didn't want
25:36
to ride at night for multiple reasons, but I I getting stuck
25:41
on the side of the road at night is also like, it's just, it
25:45
could be really shitty. So I was like.
25:47
I could, my anxiety would tweak, I'd set up my tent right there
25:51
and you wouldn't see me till the next day.
25:52
Like mainly just because. Of not to mention like the.
25:55
Roads when you're in the desert. I mean, that would be that would
25:58
be the best case scenario. The bad The bad problem is like
26:01
the side of the road in Tennessee or Virginia when
26:03
you're on Mountain Rd. and you had no shoulder and now you're
26:06
it's like what? About cell service.
26:08
That too is a problem, but not everywhere.
26:11
I only lost cell service like maybe 2 times.
26:13
That's not bad, yeah. But yeah, that that that route I
26:18
took pretty fucking good, man. I would probably recommend that
26:22
did. You save the route.
26:24
I have it in my my mind, yeah, I could, I could, I could tell
26:27
someone, yeah. Fuck this guy, he's got the
26:30
secret. Best counter would just.
26:32
Plan out the night before, like, OK, I'm gonna have to see what's
26:35
happening. Yeah, like, OK, I'm gonna hit
26:36
this, this, this, and I'm probably gonna make it here, but
26:39
let's see what happens by like 5:00.
26:40
Yeah, like no stress where you. End up, Yeah.
26:42
What was the best state that was also follow up?
26:45
These are good questions by the way.
26:46
The best state you were paranoid about the questions.
26:48
The best state, no matter what, is California.
26:51
No matter what. California.
26:53
It is the one that you left first.
26:55
Yeah, no, no matter what. I guess Nevada.
26:59
No matter what, it's California and if someone says it's not
27:01
then they're going to name a state I never been to because it
27:06
California is the best state. It took you days to get out of
27:08
there, I feel like. I did not want to leave.
27:10
Yeah, it's so hard to leave that place because all of the roads
27:14
are perfect. But you also.
27:16
Shit talk the fuck out of California.
27:17
The government is terrible. The California government is by
27:21
far the most fucking retarded. It's I the revolution will start
27:26
in California That's I always said that the the revolution
27:29
will start in California That place will be burning before
27:32
anywhere else because the shit they do to small businesses is
27:36
fucking. Remember Malcolm, that letter we
27:38
got the other day? What was that?
27:40
Oh yeah, I forgot. We have to remit sales tax to
27:42
California if we sell products. In California something with
27:45
their batteries they have to every business who deals with
27:48
batteries has to like opt to get a battery like pickup service.
27:54
Tax. There's a They're taxing you for
27:55
batteries now, Yeah. Like dude, they'll just tax you
27:58
for any fucking thing that. Goes because there's a lithium
28:00
shortage. Dude, how about just don't
28:02
fucking do that shit? Like figure out another fucking
28:05
way like. Well their gas prices are
28:07
already astronomically dude. It's insane bro.
28:09
That place is that place is run like a gas.
28:10
Is just the beginning of the. Problem.
28:12
Yeah, it's it's, it's bad, but. And yet there's so many
28:16
enthusiastic. And people will stay there, and
28:19
I understand why they'll stay. There you know how many fucking
28:21
people who are in a cars and bikes over there too like.
28:25
And I get it because you drive there and you're like, dude, I
28:29
mean, I don't know if you've driven over there, but you've
28:31
driven there, dude. It's fucking crazy.
28:33
Like Angele's Crest Highway or whatever you.
28:35
Could get lost for hours and not if you like.
28:38
You could lap the same Rd. over and over.
28:39
It's empty. You can.
28:41
Yeah, it's empty. I'm like, where's all the
28:43
people? Oh, they're on the highway, I
28:44
guess, like, and then they're. On the 405 or whatever the fuck
28:48
that thing is. That road, the snake or
28:49
whatever, Apparently they just opened that up.
28:50
I didn't know they. Just opened that, they reopened
28:52
that. Dude, that snakes different.
28:54
The snakes different. It is near Mulholland, but yeah,
28:56
it's different. You got to ride on this.
28:58
I think me and you were on one of these roads.
29:00
Remember when we rented? That it did look familiar, the
29:02
CRV. Yeah, I was on one and I was
29:03
like, I think me and you've been on this road, one of the.
29:05
Roads drift, So many of them. That's Snake Rd.
29:08
If you go uphill dude, you could drift the shit out of that road.
29:11
Dude, you found the one spot. Was that in California too?
29:14
Yeah, so that was what, GMR? I don't fucking know.
29:16
GMR or something? Dude, they're adding cameras
29:19
though to all the good roads out there.
29:20
Oh yeah? Well.
29:21
They'll break them. People will break them.
29:22
Yeah, yeah, they have to. Please break them.
29:25
Yeah, but you must revolt that that GM.
29:29
I'm going to call it GMR. I think it was called GMR. Fuck
29:33
that road. Why?
29:35
I will not drive on that road on a motorcycle, maybe a car, but I
29:39
will not RIP on that road with a motorcycle.
29:41
It was that scary to me. Like dude, it's like.
29:44
You were probably in your head at that point.
29:46
Of course. I mean, I want a new motorcycle.
29:48
I don't want to crash it. Like I don't really far from
29:50
home. Yeah.
29:51
And I, I don't, I'm far from home.
29:52
I'm like, I'm kind of pussyfooted.
29:54
I'm being pretty nervous. But then like you're looking
29:56
around and you're like, I'm on a fucking edge of a mountain.
30:00
Like then that's the part I try not to.
30:02
That's the part you cannot, yeah.
30:05
And you can't. Not think about it because
30:07
you're going up there and now you're getting blown by wind
30:09
because you're on a the top of a fucking mountain and now you
30:12
have wind affecting you and you're looking out and it looks
30:15
like a fucking movie. You're like, dude, if I fucking.
30:18
Sounds awesome. It's insane, it sounds.
30:20
It's the right way to go out. Though, Yeah, you know, I went
30:22
there. Johnny texted me.
30:23
He's like GMR or some shit. I was like, fuck it, I I like to
30:26
type it in. I'm like, it's like an hour
30:28
detour. I'm like fucking I'll just, I'll
30:30
RIP up there and see what's up and I'm like, yo, this place is
30:32
crazy. And like you, you start going up
30:34
and then you see like the one section with all the drift Marks
30:36
and I'm like I. Saw the ground, I was like why
30:38
is this guy sending this spot and I look at the corner and
30:40
literally you could just see the tires of exactly where I would
30:44
be like if if I tried to hit the corner.
30:47
Yeah, it was crazy, dude. And I kind of like kept going.
30:49
What? The fuck?
30:50
And then there's a part where you get to like the top and then
30:52
you realize you're on the spine of the fucking mountain.
30:54
You're literally on the tip. Yeah.
30:56
And it's just both sides are drops.
30:57
I'm like dude, I'm like fuck this shit.
31:00
These people are crazy. This is why I.
31:03
OK, like that's California. I would have, I would have
31:05
burned through like 50 cigarettes just doing that.
31:09
Frankie doesn't have a vice, though.
31:10
So like you can't look cool coming off the bike and.
31:14
I the I wasn't looking cool on this motorcycle on this whole
31:17
trip because I was so nervous. Yeah, that's why you're
31:19
probably, it was probably so hard for you to really even.
31:22
Picking it up, I'm so scared, yeah, because I'm like, don't
31:25
fucking drop it. And then when I would get to
31:26
like dirt roads and shit, I'm like, Oh my God.
31:28
God fuck that. That would be nerve wracking.
31:31
Especially since it was silver. Yeah, so California is for the
31:34
best. That was for Sam.
31:35
Everybody is asking if your ass hurt.
31:37
This is like how many miles total was that like 4.3?
31:41
I did 30 I think I did. 3004 thousand.
31:45
Total 4500. OK, 4500, there's a lot of
31:49
people asking about the health of your cheeks.
31:51
Did you get a new seat for the ride?
31:53
He I got a new seat in Arizona. Oh, you did?
31:56
Yeah, OK. If I kept the stock seat we
31:57
would have problems right now. Oh yeah, dude, that really makes
32:01
a difference, huh? Yeah, I got 3600 miles to to go
32:05
from the West Coast to home. The cheeks are healthy.
32:09
But I did like a total of. Where'd you get the seat from?
32:12
So with Marketplace? The reason I went to Thrashing
32:14
Supply in California was because I was going to get a seat and I
32:17
was going to get saddlebags because I was like, oh, I'll get
32:19
the bags there. Yo Alex, this guy had no bags at
32:21
1st and I was like this guy's got no clothes.
32:24
He's got to have like 3 pairs of underwear on him so you.
32:27
Smell. So the night, the night before I
32:29
left, or two days before I left, I looked up the Leather Pro
32:33
Leather Pro's, a company that makes replica bags that look
32:35
like that FXD. Yeah, there's a one over there.
32:37
Yeah. I have them for my other bike of
32:40
course they don't fit, of course so are.
32:42
You going to fly with the bags? Well, I'm going to figure
32:45
something out. I would have shipped them.
32:47
So I'm like, OK, let me look it up.
32:49
I find them in Arizona. Some dude has them.
32:51
I'm like, fuck, they're the exact ones I need.
32:53
Facebook Marketplace. Yeah, I'm like.
32:55
Yeah, this is not going to work. This is already not going to
32:57
work. I'm like, dude, I got the bags
32:59
in Arizona. I'll grab those on the way back
33:02
and I'll be able to ride the bike naked through California,
33:05
which is what I want. I don't want to fucking have
33:08
bags on it. And I'm like, this is going to
33:09
be perfect. I get on the plane, yo bag sold.
33:12
I'm like fucking, I'm like, okay, no, we're on the way to
33:17
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33:19
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33:21
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I was like, OK, I'm going to have to buy some shit I don't
35:32
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35:34
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35:37
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35:38
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35:41
He's like, yeah, I'm like, OK, cool.
35:44
So I got the seat figured out. Employee.
35:46
And then the bags, I'm like, the bags, I'm going to have to just
35:48
make it. I'm just going to have to buy
35:50
some shit. Yeah.
35:51
So I look up their bags and I'm like, oh, they have bags that
35:53
mount to the side and they don't touch the paint.
35:55
I'm like, OK, that's perfect. That's what I want.
35:57
They look like fire bags by the. Way the quality of their shit is
36:00
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36:06
like how this place cares about. That's exactly how it felt.
36:09
As thirteens, but in their realm, which is fire because
36:12
it's also that they recognize Frankie, dude.
36:15
Yeah, that was crazy. That's fire.
36:16
This guy's a celeb. Yeah, goodbye.
36:18
Yeah, we'll get into that whole thing because that that was
36:20
worth the conversation, but. What happened that you just
36:23
walked in and they were like Frankie?
36:24
No, not at all. But like we've been waiting for
36:26
you. No, no, no, not at all.
36:28
And I I would never think that they would know because I was
36:31
like, these guys do stunts and shit.
36:33
Like they're not into the fucking cars.
36:35
Little did I know that those two worlds are pretty inter.
36:38
Yeah, they overlap. Yeah.
36:39
So. But yeah, the bags.
36:43
So I'm like, OK, so I'm going to leave Nevada and I'm going to
36:45
ride to California and I'm going to make the ration supply kind
36:48
of. Your your checkpoint.
36:50
The checkpoint. But when I got the bike, the guy
36:53
told me so the fairing on that bike is a Ventura style fairing.
36:57
It's a Arlen Ness style fairing. That fairing is a fairing that
37:01
was made for like a that's what I thought you were buying.
37:06
Yeah. That's like, that's like the
37:08
bike, the chassis. The chassis right before a Dyna
37:11
is called an FXR. They kind of back date them or
37:14
use parts from older bikes. Well, the whole thing with that
37:17
style of bike is like, it's kind of like a Hell's Angel thing
37:19
from California. They want it.
37:22
They call it like a high and tight style.
37:23
It's like you make the bike really narrow, you raise it off
37:26
the ground so you can like carve and fairings are just good
37:29
because they take the wind off you, but they're also ugly.
37:32
So you don't really want a big one.
37:34
So they like, I think that's, that's where I originally came
37:36
from that style bike, but it originally started on FXRS,
37:40
which is like a 80s motorcycle and it's like the best handling
37:43
Harley ever made. They made the frame look like a
37:46
jab bike. That was the trick.
37:48
They did the seat drop. They actually stopped making the
37:52
FXR because it was too much money to make is what the the
37:55
story is. So that's why they made the
37:57
Dyna, because it was cheaper to produce.
37:59
But anyway, so that's the style of that bike.
38:02
And that's, and then the guy tells me he's like, I'm from
38:05
Ventura. I moved here.
38:06
I was like, oh, OK. He's like, yeah, the bike was
38:09
built in Ventura at a shop. I was like, damn, this, this is
38:12
kind of cool. And I was.
38:14
Yeah, I was like, you know what, I'm going to bring the bike back
38:16
there and that's where I'm going to see the ocean and then I'll
38:19
start my trip back. And Ventura is very close to
38:21
thrashing supply. Yeah.
38:23
So I was like, all right, this is working out pretty good.
38:27
And he told me about the whole thing.
38:28
I don't think I want to really get into it on the podcast
38:30
because it's some personal business that I.
38:32
But I'll tell you afterwards. Like the story of the bike and
38:35
who owned it and like the guy who built it and all this shit.
38:38
But let's. Just it's cool that you have the
38:39
history. That's what makes it like the
38:41
attraction to the bike is. Yeah, like a.
38:43
It makes it worth, yeah. It made it worth the wait.
38:45
Yeah, it was like, it was like A2, technically 2 owner,
38:48
technically 3 owner bike, but 2 owner because one guy didn't
38:50
really have it for a long time, but this guy knows like kind of
38:53
where it came from. How long did this guy have it
38:55
for? It seemed like a pretty decent
38:57
amount of time. I didn't ask, but I have his
38:59
info, I can talk to him whenever, so yeah.
39:01
The bikes have like titles where you can like look up like a
39:03
Carfax. Probably do they.
39:05
It is a title, so you know you probably could look it up.
39:08
Maybe some like dealership maintenance possibly?
39:11
But. So you get to the ocean.
39:13
Well, yeah, we didn't even talk about the bike, but I just real
39:17
quick, Rex picks me up. We go look at the bike and I get
39:21
there and the guy's detailing it and I'm like, damn, dude.
39:25
And I get out and this is when I realized I've never even seen
39:29
one of these motorcycles. In person.
39:31
Oh yeah, just pictures. Yeah, that's a good duh.
39:34
That's. Because like I walked up to it
39:35
and I was like, I was like, holy shit, this.
39:38
I felt like I was in a movie. Like I was like.
39:40
I'm picturing it right now. It was so.
39:42
It was such. A real thing, the house and like
39:44
the driveway it was in. I don't know why I'm doing that.
39:46
And I know it's like he he even said it because he didn't want
39:51
to sell the bike. We didn't talk about the whole
39:52
thing, but basically real quick, it is a good story.
39:57
The guy I saw the bike on Facebook, random, I opened up my
40:01
face. I was kind of over.
40:02
You're looking Facebook everywhere.
40:04
Well, after that guy fucked me over.
40:05
I was you're changing your location or you're using?
40:07
Oh yeah, 100%. I've been doing that for five
40:09
years. I've been changing my location
40:11
every fucking 500 miles. You're a feat, like everything.
40:14
The whole. Fucking.
40:15
Yeah, cycling it over to the yeah.
40:17
Because in my head I was like, I want to do a cross country trip
40:19
anyway, so if I find one over there, I'll ride it back.
40:22
I would tell Malcolm all the time, like I'm going to be
40:24
fucking gone one day. And then the guy fucked me over
40:27
and I'm like, you know what? Fuck this shit, dude.
40:28
I'm, I'm done with this. I'm just going to do some
40:31
different mods to my bike and I'm just going to stick with
40:33
this because I this is getting annoying.
40:35
And then like a month later, I opened Facebook and it just is
40:40
there. And the, you know how to
40:43
suggest. Yeah.
40:44
Dude, my algorithm is so awesome.
40:45
I was going to show Malcolm something and I open it and it
40:47
comes up and I'm like, what the fuck is this?
40:50
I said. That looks pretty sick.
40:51
And we click it. Oh my God, it's Las Vegas.
40:54
I'm like, this thing's pretty nice.
40:56
He wanted $12,000 for it, and I was like, yeah, well, I'm not
40:59
paying $12,000 for it. FXDX, yeah.
41:01
That's what's like what was typical market on that bike.
41:03
Around here I want to say like $8000.
41:07
OK, so around where the first one was.
41:09
Yeah, like they're not they. I've never seen 1 / 10 that was
41:13
like unless it was like some. Crazy.
41:15
Engine build and some shit, you know what I mean?
41:19
I just I'm not spending over 10 grand on a fucking.
41:21
Old motors. Yeah, it doesn't seem right and
41:23
it's not a FXDXT is a different story.
41:26
Those bikes are fucking like 15 grand still.
41:28
It makes no sense. So anyway, and I didn't want one
41:31
of those because I didn't I like the tank design on the regular 1
41:34
so and I didn't know if I wanted that fairing whatever.
41:37
So I see this bike I'm like damn, I was like fuck it, I'll
41:39
lowball them, but I I'm very polite when I lowball these guys
41:43
because I'm like, you know what, I'm not trying to be a Dick.
41:46
So I'm like yo really clean bike before I even ask you any
41:49
questions. Straight to it.
41:51
This is the price I can give you.
41:52
And he's like, yeah, I'm looking for.
41:54
I need to get at least 10, man, I'm sorry.
41:55
I'm like, it's no problem. Whatever.
41:57
Fucking damn. Miyagi's brother fucking
41:59
messages him without even telling me.
42:01
He's like, yo, he said he'll do 9.
42:02
He said he'll do 93 for me. I'm like, OK, well, that's
42:06
pretty good. So then the next day comes or
42:10
something and I messaged him again, 'cause I told Dan I was
42:12
like, yo, it's a matter of fucking two days before the
42:15
Dynabro sees this bike and ships it from fucking Las Vegas over
42:18
there. Because this guy, I could tell
42:20
this guy's going to let it. Go Yeah, you, you, you, you are
42:22
like, this is going to happen to me again.
42:25
Type and at this point. Oh yeah.
42:28
So I was like, yo, what's up? Just checking in or, or I think
42:31
we were talking about it. And then another day goes by, I
42:35
hit up Dan. Dan goes yo, bike sold.
42:38
I'm like, oh shit, well whatever.
42:40
I was like, whatever. It's not meant to be.
42:42
But in my head I was like, I was no, I remember I was really
42:47
upset that night because I was like, I think I'm actually going
42:49
to get this bike and I'm going to fucking do this trip.
42:53
Mentally, you got yourself. There.
42:54
Yeah, I was kind of. Getting you're just.
42:56
Boiling all. Yeah, flights yet didn't fully
42:58
get there, but in your head you're like, yeah, I think I'm
43:00
leaving in a few. Days I was like fuck, I think I
43:02
might do this next day bike's sold.
43:03
I'm like oh shit, OK, well fuck. And then that was another round
43:07
of fuck this shit, dude. It's about to be 7 years now.
43:10
Yeah, I'm like, I don't want to keep looking for this fucking
43:13
motorcycle. It's annoying me.
43:15
And then next day Dan goes, bike's back.
43:20
I'm like what? The guy fell through.
43:22
I messaged the guy. I'm like, yeah, I thought the
43:24
bike sold. What happened?
43:25
He's like fucking Facebook marketplace people, dude fucking
43:28
me over. I'm like, oh, shit.
43:30
All right, well, my offer still stands.
43:32
If any changes, you know, just let me know.
43:33
And he's like, yeah, I got, I got a guy who seems interested.
43:35
I'll let you know if anything changes.
43:37
I'm like, all right, cool, sounds good.
43:39
Next day, yo, some guy said he bought the plane ticket.
43:43
He's going to come here and get the bike.
43:44
I'm like, fuck, I'm like, all right, man.
43:47
Well, whatever, if any, he's like.
43:49
If anything changes, I'll let you know.
43:50
I'm like, all right dude, thanks.
43:51
This guy looks like a solid seller.
43:52
Oh yes, I fucked with this guy. And.
43:56
That's that's what happened the day it it sold.
44:00
That's what he told you and then you were upset that night
44:03
because someone already bought the ticket to beat you?
44:05
No. No, no, that wasn't it.
44:07
It sold once before that. Oh, so it was twice.
44:10
Yeah, it was twice. The bike was taken down and it
44:12
was sold. And put back.
44:14
Up and then it was put back up because someone fucked him over
44:17
then he tells me someone's coming for 10 grand and I was
44:21
like alright dude well if he's going to give you 10 grand yeah
44:23
yeah, it is what it is and he bought the ticket he already
44:26
bought the ticket and he's coming yeah so then I go home
44:29
that night and I'm sitting there and I'm like bummed but not I'm
44:35
like in my head I'm like why do I feel like I'm getting this
44:37
motorcycle it was like some kind of weird thing was going on
44:41
where. Oh, your crystals were telling
44:44
you something. Dude, yeah, it felt like that.
44:45
Type of feeling. I was like, why do I feel like
44:48
usually I'm pretty negative when it comes to things like this?
44:50
I'm like, oh, I lost it. Yeah, dude.
44:52
That's how I That's how I. Am you have to be like that?
44:54
Yeah, because you. Don't want to now.
44:57
I got no expectation, yeah. Well, like, I, I hate being at
45:00
home. Like I'm about to buy something
45:01
and I'm losing sleep because I'm like, it's mine.
45:02
Yeah, I hate that. Maybe that's what I do.
45:05
I I'm like I get maybe. It's because it was sold once
45:08
already and then came back. I don't know, something in my
45:11
mind was like. Well, you've gone.
45:13
You've gone literally through this exact scenario before and.
45:17
Something about it, I was like, I'm going to, I feel like I'm
45:19
going to get this motorcycle, but it doesn't that doesn't make
45:21
any sense. So what happened next morning?
45:24
The. Plane gets grounded.
45:25
No next. Flight cancelled.
45:28
Flight cancelled. Next morning I don't hear
45:29
anything from him. I'm like OK well fuck it,
45:31
whatever. I'm dealing with a customer and
45:35
I hear the Facebook noise Ding in my pocket and I'm like I'm
45:39
like that's probably him telling me I'm I'm fucked.
45:41
And then I hear it again, Ding, and I'm like.
45:44
Double text. I'm like, OK, now it's probably
45:48
a good thing. It's real.
45:49
It's on real with the customer. And then I take my phone out and
45:51
he's like, yo, this dude's telling me like his plane got
45:54
delayed and this and that. And I'm like, oh shit.
45:57
Oh my God. That's actually what I was.
45:59
Joking. About and then he but he
46:01
honestly sounds like he didn't book a flight he's.
46:02
Like yo, like it was bullshit. He's like, yo, if this guy
46:04
doesn't fucking get back to me in an hour, the bike's yours for
46:07
9. I don't even care anymore.
46:08
I'm like. Yeah, he just meant all.
46:09
Right. Sounds good, man.
46:10
Let me know. And he's like, yo, can you give
46:11
me your phone number? I'm like, yeah, sure.
46:13
Here it is. He's like, yo, can I call you?
46:15
I'm like, yeah. Perfect.
46:16
That's what you want. That's literally what you want.
46:18
Buy or seller that I like that's.
46:20
Just a seller that cares. He's like he wants to feel out
46:23
if you're real, and he also may actually care where it's going.
46:25
Yeah, so I, I call him or whatever, we talk on the phone,
46:29
he's like, yo dude, you guys are fucking shitty as hell.
46:32
I'm like, dude. And I told him I'm like, yo, I
46:34
know what you're going through because I've been trying to buy
46:36
one of these bikes for like 4 years.
46:37
And this community like that are selling these bikes is just, it
46:41
kind of sucks sometimes. And he's like, I think this
46:43
guy's fucking with me. So I told him to go fuck himself
46:46
and I'm going to sell you the bike for 9.
46:48
And I'm like, all right, I'm in Jersey.
46:51
I got to come out there and ride it back.
46:53
He's like, all right, no problem.
46:54
The bike's going to make it. And I'm like, all right, cool.
46:58
I have a buddy that lives over there.
47:00
I'm going to tell him to come by and look at it, and then I'll
47:02
send you money to take the ad down.
47:03
And he's like, all right, dude sounds good, dude.
47:05
Yeah, you're not going to stunt this bike or anything, right?
47:07
I'm like, no, I'm not. He's like, all right, cool.
47:09
You could tell he really liked the bike and he's starting his
47:12
own business, so he need to get rid of it and and he's the one
47:15
that. Helps he's doing good.
47:16
He's the one that said on the phone that night he was like,
47:19
he's like, well, OK, so I I that happens.
47:23
I talked to Rex. Rex goes, the guy lives 15
47:26
minutes away from me. I go, OK, you can go drive.
47:29
He's like, yeah, drives there, looks at it.
47:30
Whatever calls me, he's like, yeah, there's some slight marks
47:34
on the. All I cared about was the pain
47:35
because I that's, that's what I care about it.
47:38
Makes that's like 90% of the bike, yeah.
47:40
Exactly, like if you fuck that tank up you're kind of fucked.
47:44
Yeah. No dents on it, no nothing.
47:47
You all of that's good. So there was little marks here
47:50
and there. No dents really, just little.
47:53
All marks looked like they could be buffed out.
47:56
OK. And I was like, all right, dude,
47:58
whatever. There's some rust on the front.
48:00
I was like, yeah, whatever it. Mind you, the bike has 33,000
48:03
miles. It's going to ask you how many
48:04
miles. Which, here's the weird thing in
48:06
New Jersey, that's a lot of miles.
48:07
I was going to say, it sounds like a lot.
48:08
Yeah, I'm not. I'm not super knowledgeable with
48:10
bikes. That's a lot.
48:11
Yeah, that's a lot of miles. You go to California, they're
48:14
like, I went one part of the belt, thrash and I, I go, yeah,
48:17
it's got 33,000 miles. They're like, oh, that's it.
48:19
I was like, oh. It's a totally different world.
48:22
The roads are long as. Well, they're nice.
48:25
Every day is Every day isn't doing paradise.
48:26
Like you're just driving around, riding around.
48:29
It's like a. Car over there, you know what I
48:31
mean? So it's like, that's not even
48:32
crazy. So I was like, oh, that's
48:34
interesting. But anyway, 33,000 miles.
48:36
That was the part I wasn't stoked on, but it was whatever.
48:38
It's a 25 year old motorcycle. Like it is what it is. 33 is
48:41
not. Yeah, so.
48:43
And it was 30 like that. The seller is where I'm like,
48:47
OK, yeah. You're going to like him even
48:48
more after this. So I call him up.
48:50
I'm like, yo, my buddy said everything's good.
48:52
Like I'm going to send, I'm going to sell you 500 bucks.
48:55
Can you take it down? He's like, yeah, no problem.
48:57
He's like, yo, do you mind if I take it for a ride again?
49:00
I'm like, yeah, dude, take it. Yeah, I get.
49:03
Nervous with that. I was, dude, I was like, it's
49:05
your motorcycle, do whatever you want.
49:07
He's like, all right, cool. Yeah, I just want to, I want to
49:09
go for like a last ride on on the bike.
49:10
I'm like damn, this is sad. This is pretty sad but is I am
49:14
also with Alex on. This like I get spooked.
49:16
But I get. Scored.
49:17
That. Yeah, this might get taken away
49:19
from. You right now if he crashes.
49:20
It I'm not fucking by two ways. It's not it's like they either
49:22
they either crash. Or they fall in love.
49:26
Oh yeah. It happened.
49:27
That's happened to me. Yeah.
49:28
That we talked about on the phone.
49:29
I was like, I was like, should I wait till you get.
49:31
I told them I was like, yeah, I'm gonna wait till you get back
49:33
before I send the money because you might get some buyer's
49:35
remorse or something. He's like, Nah, dude, you're
49:37
good. Don't worry about it.
49:37
I'm like, all right. And he goes, what was that part
49:41
I was going to say to you, are you going to stunt it?
49:45
I said no, maybe it was that, maybe it was that part.
49:48
That he wanted to take a last ride real quick on some Dom
49:50
Toretto shit. Yeah.
49:52
I. Thought it was something else.
49:54
Maybe it'll come back to me. But yeah, you could just tell
49:57
that he, oh, he goes, yeah, dude, I love the motorcycle, but
50:03
we shouldn't have connections like this to inanimate objects.
50:08
And I was like, I understand what you're saying.
50:11
I was like, that's I said. But we're men, and we do.
50:14
That's part of our hobby and our joy.
50:15
Yeah. That's why we do this.
50:17
Because I was like in my head, I was like, that is exactly what's
50:20
going on with me right now, like I have.
50:24
A thing for this motorcycle spent six years looking.
50:27
At yeah. And I need to own it.
50:30
It. There's no reason for that, you
50:32
know what I mean? But like, it's just that's
50:33
what's and he's trying to not give into that and I'm giving
50:37
into it. No, you're you're complete
50:38
opposite. You want it 'cause you're like I
50:40
need. This Yeah.
50:41
So it was a weird thing for him to say.
50:43
Anyway, that all works out. I buy the plane ticket, I figure
50:46
out the bag situation, I get on a plane, we go drifting.
50:49
One of the best drifting days we had in a long time.
50:52
Oh yeah, that's right. Was that a private day?
50:54
Yeah, yeah. So that was.
50:55
Cool. What a what a lot of people
50:57
don't know is the day that Frankie left.
51:00
I was having an amazing day with all of my friends that we all
51:06
worked pretty hard to get there that day.
51:08
Yeah. OK.
51:09
And then Frankie just dips. It's like 3:00.
51:12
The day is not done, Frankie. But it was over the right
51:15
drifting. Or no.
51:15
Kind of I was. Switching tires.
51:17
And then I was like, fuck. And then Frankie leaves and I
51:20
was like, what the fuck? I didn't really tell anyone
51:23
because I didn't. Want the question?
51:24
I remember just looking on Instagram and I was like,
51:27
Frankie's at a sick drift day and I was like, he's at Newark
51:29
airport. And dude, he left and then the.
51:31
Next day he makes a post and he's like about, he's like
51:34
talking a little bit about a crazy mission and I'm just like,
51:36
what the fuck is he about? Dude.
51:38
I asked and. Then the rest of the week I'm
51:40
just fucking glued looking at what he's.
51:41
Doing Yeah, I asked Jesus. He was the one who was like,
51:44
well, he didn't really want me to say so.
51:47
And I'm like, I don't give a fuck.
51:49
I found out. I will tell you.
51:50
The night before we went drifting or something.
51:53
I will tell him that that I. Bullied.
51:56
This out of you? No, I told.
51:57
Tell me where he's going. I told Wags and AJ like right
51:59
before I left or Jesse so I thought.
52:01
I thought everyone would know by that.
52:02
No no no, I like fucking bullied Jesus for this information and.
52:07
We were racing to the airport. That's why we were like, out of
52:09
there. And then I was like, that is
52:11
sick as fuck, Yeah. And then I was.
52:14
Like dude, I was. Hell no.
52:16
I was pretty scared. I'm not gonna.
52:18
Lie to you? Did the drift day distract you
52:19
from what you were about to go on?
52:20
Like did it? Did it not hit you till you were
52:22
at the airport? Got through security.
52:23
No, it. It hit me.
52:24
Yeah, right. Malcolm, I think it was hit me
52:26
the day before. I was already panicking.
52:28
Yeah, right. Yeah, I honestly was very scared
52:32
and probably the most scared I've ever been.
52:36
No, I mean it's all, it's an undertaking.
52:37
Imagine now that it's all done, but they just did a trans
52:42
rebuild on that car. If you guys haven't seen the
52:43
video it's on the YouTube channel, but they did a trans
52:47
rebuild. Imagine you're going to Newark
52:48
airport to pick up the dream bike right?
52:51
And the fucking trans. Just fucking.
52:55
On what? On what?
52:55
The On the On the Cressida. On the turn, on the on the way
52:58
home, on the way home. Yeah, what?
53:00
The trans went on the way on the way home.
53:01
No, no, no. No, they did a rebuild on.
53:03
It what if? What if everything goes wrong?
53:04
What if? What?
53:05
If there was a delay, there was a.
53:06
The thing is, The thing is, the guy was so nice.
53:08
He wouldn't. I would just leave the next day,
53:09
OK, like it was I. Think you had a locked in?
53:11
Deal. You were good.
53:12
Yeah, the guy was really nice. You spent an hour on the phone
53:14
with. Him.
53:14
You were close. Honestly, I probably didn't have
53:16
to leave right then, no. You had it but the.
53:18
Way it's April like. You, you're good.
53:22
And dude, they had ATSA shutdown.
53:23
I'm good on that, that you do. Did you wait long in the
53:25
airport? No, you were there.
53:26
You. Were longer than normal, but not
53:29
crazy. Wait, didn't you have to like
53:31
deboard the plane or? Something.
53:32
Oh yeah, you're right. No, I had a lot of.
53:34
That was the first time that I ever experienced that as
53:36
recently as I deplaned. Yeah, I did have a lot of
53:39
bullshit, actually. That was that was the most
53:41
bullshit I've ever dealt with in an airport.
53:42
I guess I just don't have. I have like a very easy going
53:45
attitude about airports. I'm I like to do the LAX method
53:49
do the. Airport.
53:49
Yeah, I. I'm like, I'm going to miss this
53:52
shit. I'm going to miss this.
53:53
Shit like everyone is so high strung at airports.
53:55
I'm like, do you understand the craziness that's happening right
53:58
now? You're travelling in a fucking
53:59
tube across the country. I get so nervous dude.
54:02
But it's but it's. Cyclane, dude, if something's
54:04
wrong and they need to postpone it, I'm gonna let them figure
54:08
that. Out.
54:08
No, no, I get nervous that I have something on my purses that
54:11
I should not have. Oh yeah.
54:12
Yeah, whole line in the airport, I'm like, did I take out that
54:15
water bottle? Yeah, yeah, The do I did I.
54:17
But you know how people are getting angry?
54:19
They're like fucking flights delayed this and that.
54:21
I'm like, well. What am I going to do about it?
54:23
I go walk around the airport for a little.
54:24
Bit and come back out like dude, yeah, I got food.
54:27
I'll be the last person on that fucking plane.
54:29
I. Don't me too see I'm I'm the
54:30
opposite. So you're.
54:31
More high struggle. I am the opposite.
54:33
I am the opposite. Yeah.
54:35
You're. 4 hours before. No, no, no, I'll.
54:38
Get to the airport like 15 minutes before boarding and I'll
54:40
sneak my way through quick and get on the flight.
54:42
It actually fucked me recently going to Canada.
54:45
Yeah, I missed my flight because of.
54:46
That I got, I got like pretty lucky at the airport even though
54:48
my flight was delayed and this and that.
54:50
Basically the plan didn't go. I thought I was going to get
54:53
there in the morning and and potentially leave that day, but
54:57
it turned into I thought I was going to get the bike that night
55:00
and start and start the next day.
55:02
Yeah. And then I texted the guy I'm
55:03
like, yo. And I was like, yo, sorry to
55:04
sound like the exact other guy, but my flight's delayed like and
55:08
I was just showing. I was like texting him photos
55:10
and shit and I'm. Like, yeah, but you had that
55:11
phone call and you sent the money already.
55:13
Yeah, he seemed totally fine about it, but I was like.
55:15
I would have sent the screenshots of this being
55:17
delayed. This thing like this is real
55:19
dude. I'm at Newark.
55:20
Right now, yeah, I was like, yo, this is happening so as.
55:22
Long as you're comforting him and saying that like.
55:25
Less is more, though. Yeah, if you're just like, yo,
55:27
it really got delayed. I'm here right now.
55:28
I think I think my buddy going to look at the bike is no.
55:31
This one's legitimized, and you? Sent him a deposit, yeah.
55:34
A deposit? Sometimes, yeah, sometimes
55:36
deposits. Get scammed on a deposit.
55:38
Not even scammed they just someone else shows up they got
55:41
money and. That's fucking crazy.
55:43
Some people aren't honest people.
55:44
See, but that's the thing, he already knows where he lives.
55:45
So I I didn't feel that crazy about it.
55:47
Yeah, I was like, OK, we should be good, but and he took the ad
55:50
down, you know. But anyway, get on a plane, get
55:53
get there, do all that. See the bike.
55:55
The bike is fucking. I get there.
55:57
I'm like, yo, this shit is crazy.
56:00
And it was just like in my head, I was like, that's when it I was
56:03
like, I've never fucking seen one of these bikes in real life.
56:06
I really don't. I mean, maybe I seen like a
56:07
clapped out one at one of these events, but like it's probably
56:11
all modified. Doesn't even look like it
56:12
anymore. This thing kind of looks like
56:15
how it it comes. And I was like, damn, this
56:18
silver is fucking perfect. Like it's exactly what I
56:21
thought. And then like he's going through
56:23
some stuff and I'm looking at it because I didn't really give it
56:25
a really, really good look online.
56:27
I looked at it, I knew the bike was clean and I was like, OK, at
56:31
this point, after five years, if the paint is good and the bike's
56:35
clean and it's stock ish, the motor, you're just going to get
56:38
it. I mean.
56:39
It's easy to. I mean, it's relatively easier
56:41
to work on. A on a motor definitely do
56:43
anything. The rust, it was a little the
56:46
33,000 miles, but whatever. And I get there and I'm like, Oh
56:50
my God, the guy's fucking detailing and it looks fucking
56:52
Immaculate. I'm like, Jesus fucking Christ,
56:54
this thing's clean, and I'm trying not to act like I'm
56:56
trying to geek out over it. Yeah, that was what I am.
56:58
I hope you fucking held yourself together, I.
57:00
Did but I he knew I was. Already done if you want to
57:03
geek. Out you can yeah I I mean I
57:04
basically told him and you just. Went through a pilgrimage to get
57:08
there, so like. Yeah.
57:09
You could be a little excited, you know?
57:11
Yeah, so the guy we signed the title, it's all legit.
57:15
I checked the VIN. Frankie hits one of these.
57:19
It wasn't 2000, it wasn't 2001. He sold it as 2001 and he goes,
57:22
I don't know why it says 2000, It's 2001.
57:24
I'm like, man, I don't think it's a 2001, but it's OK because
57:28
the modifications that were done, the cams and everything,
57:30
they usually change the problems.
57:32
Yeah. So I was like, I'm not really
57:33
worried about it. The 99 sucks because it doesn't
57:37
have the adjustable front forks. But this one does.
57:40
The 2000 does. That's a.
57:41
Noticeable thing. You'll see.
57:42
You would, you would. Yeah, that would be a problem.
57:44
But I was like, all right, whatever, sign it.
57:47
The guy, the guy was upset. The guy was upset.
57:50
You could tell. Like, you know when someone
57:51
sells something and they're they're not happy?
57:52
I've had, I've had those moments.
57:53
Yeah, but he was, he was happy it was me.
57:56
And I told him the whole thing, I'm like, yo, this is my
57:58
Instagram. So he followed me and progress.
58:01
Yeah, we told him everything. And we talked about like what I
58:04
do for work and this. And he's like, oh, that's cool.
58:08
And the business he's trying to start, like cleaning windows and
58:10
for like, corporate buildings probably and apartment buildings
58:13
in Las Vegas. And he's like, all right, get on
58:18
this thing. Let me let me watch it right
58:19
away. I was like, this is so sad.
58:21
Yeah. I feel like I'm stealing his
58:23
daughter or some shit. Like what's going?
58:24
On I've had that feeling. I feel like, yeah, definitely,
58:28
definitely had that feeling. Yeah, one car.
58:30
One car I bought I felt. Yeah, I know exactly which car
58:34
it is and I know exactly what time it was.
58:36
Like the seller or you felt the? I felt like shit, I didn't tell
58:39
him anything at the time. You're just a kid.
58:42
Yeah. But then you you look back on it
58:44
and you're like, yeah, that that one was really sick.
58:48
Yeah. That was honestly not even any
58:51
of the 240. Which car was it?
58:54
It was my first like tuner car. It was the Integra.
58:56
Oh, OK. I did like a lot of stuff to
58:58
that car. Yeah, that's one of your first
59:00
cars you cared about. That was the first car.
59:02
So then it's like you think about everything you had with
59:07
that car and did and if I saw probably.
59:10
Dude, if I saw my Mini Cooper or some shit in the street and it
59:12
looked kind of the same way I did, my God, I'd have emotional
59:14
breakdown. Probably, yeah.
59:16
Jesus, like I I did this and that and this and like seeing
59:19
the littler things about it. So that guy was probably like
59:23
fuck, and then imagine he follows you and then you just
59:25
see. Yeah, he's watching.
59:26
He's. Whole, yeah.
59:28
And he was kind. Of stoked on it.
59:30
Yeah, thank God. He was like when I got to
59:32
Ventura, he's like, holy shit, you made it to my hometown.
59:36
That's crazy. I was like, yeah, dude, I've
59:38
brought it back. Yeah, this is just the
59:39
beginning. This I'm like, yeah, stay tuned,
59:41
Yeah. And.
59:42
Like I have literally 15 other states to go through at least.
59:45
So we get the bike, we bring it back.
59:47
I'm fucking geeking out over this thing I'm calling Malcolm.
59:49
I'm like, yo, this thing is fucking mint.
59:52
I don't know what I'm doing. Like, I can't believe I'm about
59:54
to ride this across the country. I feel like an asshole.
59:57
And then I was like, yo, Rex, you want to go ride right now?
1:00:00
He's like, yeah. I'm like, yeah.
1:00:01
And Rex has a bike, so. Do you just have the weekend
1:00:05
off? Like you don't have plans?
1:00:06
He's like, no, I'm I'm free. We can do whatever I'm like.
1:00:08
This is awesome. Damn, dude.
1:00:11
He's like, yeah, let's go to the Valley of Fire and do all that.
1:00:13
I'm like, OK, so I get on this bike and he's on the Triumph and
1:00:16
we're riding and I'm like, I literally was having one of the
1:00:20
best days of my entire life. Probably.
1:00:23
Yeah, yeah, like I. I need me one of those again.
1:00:26
Yeah, it happens once in a while.
1:00:27
Yeah, it does. And then and and and you're
1:00:29
like. 40 shade when the shit just lines up.
1:00:32
Yeah, the weather, probably the air.
1:00:35
Yeah, I swear to God, the air sometimes when it lines up.
1:00:38
The wind, the amount of wind, it was probably fire.
1:00:41
Today, the that day with the wind was not good, but it was,
1:00:43
it wasn't really bad. It wasn't really bad, but it was
1:00:45
like one of those things where I was like we get to the park
1:00:47
entrance and the guy's like, oh, it's a windy day out.
1:00:50
I was like, oh, it is, thank God, because I didn't know if
1:00:52
like it's a bike just to the fairing was doing nothing or
1:00:54
like if it was windy, but they said it was windy out.
1:00:56
And then we go ride in like the fucking Valley of Fire, Nevada.
1:01:00
That ride is nice dude. The roads are cool, like it is
1:01:04
just awesome. And it wasn't.
1:01:05
Valley of Fire isn't even that big.
1:01:07
It's the other part. I forget the name of it, but
1:01:09
it's another park, a State Park that he brings me.
1:01:11
He brought me through that shit. Was cool.
1:01:12
Something with a lake or something.
1:01:14
People will know if they know about Vegas.
1:01:16
All right, so then you you. Do that.
1:01:18
You do that. Spend the night because I was
1:01:21
like, I'm going to spend the night here, Fuck it, Like I'm
1:01:23
having too much fun. This is let's just go, right?
1:01:26
Around, mind you, you have no itinerary.
1:01:28
I have no itinerary and I am so fucking scared.
1:01:31
In an hour I wasn't sad. At this point I had.
1:01:33
In an hour I knew you fucking. Did this guy's a feed for that
1:01:35
shit? Like real feed for it.
1:01:39
I'm fucking panicking, right? But but that night I'm good.
1:01:43
The next morning I'm fucking. I'm like, I'm dude, I'm
1:01:47
panicking now You're like. I'm far from home.
1:01:49
Holy. Fuck, you wake up like like you
1:01:50
wake up an hour earlier than you had planned and you're just
1:01:52
laying there and you're like. Oh, that was me.
1:01:53
Every single night, Every single day.
1:01:54
You're like, yeah. Today's about to be a day.
1:01:57
I'm like shit, God because I don't know anything about the
1:01:59
bike. So we wake up, we do oil change.
1:02:03
Oh, OK. You did some prep.
1:02:04
You're doing this. We did.
1:02:04
A little prep. We did oil change and you're
1:02:06
saying Rex's? Yeah, and I have.
1:02:08
All Rex's are very. I have a backpack bro.
1:02:11
I have a backpack with my computer and two days of clothes
1:02:13
in it and that was it. And the rest of my shit I
1:02:16
shipped to my buddy in Phoenix. I was like I'll ship you.
1:02:19
It was like 4 or five sets of clothes, 2 hoodies, shoes and
1:02:26
rain year. Oh, this is.
1:02:27
Literally what Kenny did. Is this like a normal fucking
1:02:29
thing? Like Kenny is flying here for a
1:02:31
trip to the pond next week. He sent me a sleeping bag and
1:02:33
like a bunch of other things. Well, yeah, if you don't want
1:02:35
like I can't, I can't carry it. Yeah, like so there's no way.
1:02:38
He can't. He can't check a bag.
1:02:39
It was cheaper than. Checking and I was going to get
1:02:41
the bags in Arizona, so it was. Going to work out now they're
1:02:43
gone. Now the bags are gone, so I'm
1:02:45
like, yeah, OK. I was like, OK, I guess I'll go
1:02:48
to Thrashing Supply and I'll I'll hit Angela's.
1:02:51
I mapped something out. Me and Rex mapped the first
1:02:53
thing out and I was like, OK, I'll go.
1:02:56
I'll go above the mountain range that's above Los Angeles County,
1:03:01
kind of by Apple Valley, and I'll go up there, which I've
1:03:05
done that road before. And then I'll come down through
1:03:07
the forest, Angeles, whatever mountain, whatever the fuck's
1:03:10
called. And then I'll get to trash and
1:03:12
supply and then ride the coast down.
1:03:14
And I don't know where I'm going to stay, but we'll figure it
1:03:17
out. And did that.
1:03:21
It was that that ride from Las Vegas when he's like, all right,
1:03:24
see you later and. I now you're.
1:03:26
Alone. I have like a.
1:03:28
Little bag with like a screwdriver, some zip ties like
1:03:32
dikes. Bare essentials.
1:03:34
Dude like fucking nothing and he gave me a charger which is the
1:03:38
bike. Has the guy wired a fucking
1:03:42
phone USB charger into it? Fire fucking amazing.
1:03:45
He also had I didn't mention this Apple Car play.
1:03:50
I did see that on your fucking thing, dude.
1:03:52
Like what the hell, A. Whole custom bracket made for
1:03:54
it. It was mounted on there
1:03:56
Bluetooth everything. Rex gave me Amazon headphones
1:03:59
before I left so I don't. Want that going to helmet?
1:04:02
Just the regular ones, but yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:04:04
So I had Bluetooth. I had to map right in front of
1:04:06
me. I was like, this is this is way
1:04:08
better than I thought it was going to be.
1:04:09
So far, if I had that on a motor, I wouldn't know what to
1:04:11
do with the motorcycle with that.
1:04:12
Yeah, I was like this is this is pretty convenient so far I got a
1:04:16
plug kit. What is that like?
1:04:18
Oh, for the. Tire, Yeah.
1:04:19
OK. I think I had that already.
1:04:21
OK, and that was it. And it was.
1:04:25
I had a backpack. What else you need?
1:04:26
That's it. And I had two water bottles.
1:04:28
Socks and underwear. 2 water. What was with the air freshener?
1:04:31
It was an air freshener. You talking about the red thing?
1:04:33
Yeah, that was a that was a Motul oil I had up there.
1:04:37
I had one quart of oil. I literally was like is this guy
1:04:39
have a Coronado cherry air scent?
1:04:43
So I had that up in the fairing strap down because the guy told
1:04:46
me, oh, you make sure you bring some oil, burn some oil.
1:04:49
And I was like, oh fuck, that's not what you want.
1:04:51
That's not what. I want to hear.
1:04:52
Yeah, So I was like, fuck. I was like, all right, whatever.
1:04:54
What oil do you use? He told me I got it, so I'm
1:04:57
going. And that that was when it hit,
1:04:59
when I left and I got on the highway or whatever.
1:05:03
I got sunscreen before I left. I went to Walgreens.
1:05:05
So I'm at the Walgreens and I'm sitting there and I'm like fuck
1:05:08
dude, I'm really about to do this.
1:05:09
Shit yes you are and you literally have no choice like
1:05:13
you have. Yeah, like, I mean, I do have a
1:05:16
choice. Technically, I want a canal.
1:05:17
I can give up. It's a mental.
1:05:19
Game you could live in California.
1:05:20
No, I want the choice back. Oh no, Fuck no.
1:05:23
Yeah, it's out of the question. But I'm like, dude, I wanted to
1:05:25
do this trip for fucking 10 years, like.
1:05:27
What would I? What would I?
1:05:28
I have to do this. What would I think of you if you
1:05:30
wanted to give up? You could rent the truck trailer
1:05:32
U-Haul. Boom, bring it.
1:05:33
Home exactly. Done.
1:05:34
OK. That's giving up because.
1:05:36
I I felt bad for the motorcycle too, no?
1:05:38
You can't. No.
1:05:39
That's what it's made for. I.
1:05:40
Know. It's literally what this is.
1:05:42
For it was just a car. Thrash on the track.
1:05:44
I know, but that car still like it's kind of fucked already.
1:05:48
This one was like kind of still. Was proper.
1:05:50
Yeah, and I was like, am I going to really be the one that dumps
1:05:53
this thing by accident? You know what I mean?
1:05:55
Like and I was concerned about rocks, honestly, 18 Wheelers
1:06:00
like just kicking shit at me. I'm like, dude, I'm this is ride
1:06:03
home is going to be chill because I am not fucking
1:06:05
tailgating people. I can't.
1:06:08
So I get on the fucking highway and I'm just like, dude, I was
1:06:13
not like good, like I wasn't panicking, but in my head I was
1:06:17
like this whole thing go South real fast.
1:06:21
Like I could fuck the bike up. The motor could blow.
1:06:28
I could have some crazy leak that starts, you know, I mean, I
1:06:31
could, a tire could blow out, you know, it's just a lot of
1:06:36
things. But then in my the other head,
1:06:38
the other side of me, I was like, fuck it.
1:06:42
I. Just got you're there.
1:06:43
You got to go for it. Yeah, like whatever.
1:06:44
And, and I really was putting my faith in this motorcycle that I
1:06:48
know nothing about. I've been there.
1:06:51
Yeah, I I mean, I haven't really been there before.
1:06:53
Like last time I was on the pod, we talked about like my Rd.
1:06:55
trips out in Europe and like I fly out there and pick up a car
1:06:58
that I don't know any services. Yeah, that's crazy.
1:07:00
Yeah, it's just I. Don't even a lot of them I don't
1:07:01
even put on a lift. I'm just like, I just pay the
1:07:03
guy, take the keys and. Go.
1:07:05
I even noticed you're still on what?
1:07:07
You're still on Cali plates. Yeah, he, yeah, he let me borrow
1:07:09
the plate and I insured it before I left, but he let me
1:07:12
borrow the plate, which I was like, that's pretty nice.
1:07:16
And yeah, I went and, and so I make it.
1:07:19
I don't know how many miles I did that day, but it wasn't that
1:07:21
many. No, because I left pretty late.
1:07:24
It was like the afternoon, it was late.
1:07:25
It was like 1:00. I was like, fuck, I'm leaving
1:07:27
late. I don't know.
1:07:28
And then I make it out there. I lane split in California
1:07:32
legally. Yeah, you could do that, but you
1:07:34
could do that legally. Yeah, I love that that and I was
1:07:37
still scared by the way. I was like fuck, it's illegal
1:07:40
but everyone over there moves. They move away when you're
1:07:43
coming the lanes. Are a little wider.
1:07:44
Yeah, And I was like, damn, this is this is kind of badass.
1:07:47
This fucking lane split in California with a Ventura style
1:07:50
dyna. This is kind of sick like.
1:07:52
From there. I started feeling kind of
1:07:54
badass, dude, when I was in California riding around, I was
1:07:56
like, this shit is sick. I would have got a tattoo.
1:07:58
Shit, I would have got a tattoo. That would have been a perfect
1:08:01
time for. You and I know.
1:08:02
Yeah, it would have been, yeah. You could have said like four O
1:08:06
5, two O 1 and you're going to be.
1:08:07
Like, Oh yeah. From the four O 5 to two O 1 zip
1:08:12
code or some shit I don't know. But so, so then it starts
1:08:15
getting dark and I'm on that road above, above the mountain
1:08:18
range, outside Apple Valley, wherever.
1:08:21
And I was like, I've driven this road before.
1:08:23
There's nothing on this road. It's a desert road and the sun's
1:08:26
going down. And I'm like.
1:08:28
You got gas. I was running out of gas and I
1:08:31
was like, I really hope there's A and there was a gas station.
1:08:34
I was like, OK, cool. And then but it's like the the
1:08:38
panic is kind of setting in. Oh, and I was having
1:08:40
transmission problems. Right away.
1:08:43
I noticed a little bit before I left.
1:08:46
What kind of problem? It wouldn't go in it at first.
1:08:49
I was noticing it wouldn't go in the first gear that easy.
1:08:52
Fluid slave bleed it. Done.
1:08:55
Cable. Oh no, it's a cable.
1:08:57
Yeah, it's it's. Adjust the cable.
1:09:00
I wasn't diving into any of that.
1:09:01
Let's. Put it that way, yeah, Once you
1:09:02
start going in, there's more like.
1:09:04
Yeah, I mean then you. Start questioning the bike.
1:09:05
More Yeah, I couldn't. I couldn't change the.
1:09:07
Fluid. That probably would have been a
1:09:08
good thing to do. Is it a hydraulic?
1:09:10
No, it's cable clutch. OK, so did you try adjusting it?
1:09:13
Nope. OK.
1:09:14
Because the proper way to adjust that clutch, you got to take the
1:09:16
cover off, Yeah. But it was only.
1:09:17
It was only. For well, you got to drain the
1:09:19
fluid and all this. Right now it's the primary.
1:09:23
It's on the primary side, right? Yeah, so I was like, I'm going
1:09:26
to have to do some serious. Work primary side is DRY, is it
1:09:29
not? No.
1:09:30
Then why do people run exposed primary?
1:09:33
They they convert it older. Bike, they convert it to be able
1:09:36
to run it like that, yeah. You could adjust the clutch with
1:09:39
just that. You know that little the smaller
1:09:41
cover on the. Primary.
1:09:43
It it's that little circle. The circle on the primary.
1:09:46
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the primary. Yeah, you could.
1:09:47
Adjust the clutch through there. But the fluid, there's still
1:09:49
fluid in there, right? No, it's if you tip it on the
1:09:52
bottom. If you stand it straight, you
1:09:53
you don't have to. It won't.
1:09:54
Tip it and it's usually I don't know, it's on on the excess.
1:09:57
This is what it looks like. It's it's a little twin.
1:09:59
Done. It here I just don't remember.
1:10:01
With a little screwdriver that you adjust the push rod with and
1:10:04
then you tighten the 10 mil again and then tighten this up
1:10:06
here. But everything else was
1:10:08
functioning. I mean it was shifting, it was
1:10:10
just what occasionally wouldn't go in the 1st.
1:10:12
But how often on the road trip were you going in the first?
1:10:14
Yeah. That's what I was.
1:10:14
Going Well, here's the thing, I didn't really notice there was a
1:10:17
problem until after I wrote it that first leg.
1:10:19
Well, after, yeah, 'cause you get the first, like the mental,
1:10:22
like first you're so excited about what you're on, you don't
1:10:24
think about. Anything.
1:10:25
Yeah, I'm not really thinking about it too much.
1:10:26
But also it got worse when it got really when it did like a
1:10:30
lot of miles, it got worse, getting worse.
1:10:32
And then I was like, oh fuck. We might not make.
1:10:35
We might have a problem so because then I then I tried to
1:10:38
get a second gear and it wouldn't go to 2nd gear and I
1:10:41
was like, Oh no, I'm like we might have a fucking.
1:10:43
Problem seems like a little adjustment thing then.
1:10:45
So I was like, so I get to a hotel and I'm like, all right,
1:10:49
let me do some research and I'm looking some stuff up and I'm
1:10:52
there is something that I thought it could be, I forget
1:10:54
the name of it, but it involves some specialty tools getting to
1:10:58
it as a pain in the ass. Obviously you're going to start
1:11:01
with a clutch adjustment, but I really don't think it was a
1:11:03
clutch. I I think it's a trans problem.
1:11:06
So I was like, OK, let me just see what it's like in the
1:11:09
morning. But that night, that night
1:11:10
sucked. I was very worried and I was not
1:11:13
OK. You're not sleeping well.
1:11:14
Yeah, it was, it wasn't. I was like, I think I'm in over
1:11:17
my head like this, this, this might have been too much.
1:11:21
Then that that California sunrise and and that feeling in
1:11:25
California's, everything's good, everything's amazing.
1:11:27
Here, now it's. Chill.
1:11:28
OK, cool. Literally, that's a California
1:11:30
vibe to wake up. Forget about the problem.
1:11:32
Yeah, I'm like, fuck it, we're yeah, we're going to go to the
1:11:34
Angeli's Crest. Fucking whatever the highway.
1:11:37
I get on the bike, everything's working good.
1:11:39
I'm like, oh cool, whatever it. Gets maybe we'll just when it
1:11:43
gets hot. When it gets warmer, it gets it
1:11:44
gets worse. Expand and shit and.
1:11:46
So I ride whatever I do. The highway.
1:11:48
That road was fucking amazing. Yeah, just crazy views the whole
1:11:53
time. The trends is still acting up.
1:11:56
Whatever I get, I eat breakfast somewhere or whatever you want
1:12:00
to call it lunch. And then I get to thrashing
1:12:02
Supply and that was my first stop.
1:12:03
And whatever. We watch these guys on YouTube,
1:12:06
me and Malcolm. And I watch thrashing supply
1:12:08
stuff, they have a lot of how TOS.
1:12:10
Yeah, they got like a good info there.
1:12:12
Their company's awesome, whatever.
1:12:13
So like I even told them, Malcolm, I was like, we ripped
1:12:16
some of your fucking showroom ideas, like the air vents and
1:12:20
everything. Like I got some of that from
1:12:22
them because I love the way their showroom looked.
1:12:27
And I I didn't say that yet when I got there.
1:12:28
But anyway, we got there and I'm feeling out the transmission.
1:12:31
I'm realizing what's going on. It's but I really didn't realize
1:12:34
it till after Arizona. If I would just bang first as
1:12:39
I'm coming to a stop, like kind of hit it harder, it would go in
1:12:42
first. And I'm like, what about if you
1:12:44
brought the Revs up? Not not that I noticed.
1:12:47
The only thing I noticed that it would do like if I if I
1:12:50
pussyfoot it like it would never go but if I give it a good it
1:12:55
would go in first. And I'm like.
1:12:57
OK. And then same thing with second.
1:13:02
Like if it if it wasn't going to 2nd, I would just hit it a
1:13:04
little harder and it would go down.
1:13:05
Yeah, it was weird, but and it never gave me any more problems
1:13:08
than that. And it's still doing it, I guess
1:13:10
technically, but and then I talked to Miyagi, he's like,
1:13:12
he's like, my bike's been doing that since day one.
1:13:14
And Malcolm's might be doing something similar, but I.
1:13:16
Don't know. I know that he does that when I
1:13:18
try to go into first. You guys bikes go into gear you.
1:13:20
Just have to go into first really buck aggressively.
1:13:23
OK, so it's the same thing. Yeah.
1:13:24
So it might have been normal. Punch.
1:13:25
Yeah. Next time try when you're
1:13:28
sitting there, instead of you punching it, like while you're
1:13:32
pussyfooting it, throttle it a little bit because I'll spin
1:13:35
that gear around a little bit. You ever try to shift something
1:13:38
without a clutch? Like my 240 slave cylinder went
1:13:41
and I was out of traffic? Like like finding the right RPM
1:13:44
for it to get into first and then it's just like cool.
1:13:46
And you're like, OK. Yeah, I gotta, I gotta at least
1:13:49
do the clutch adjustment first, see what's up, change the
1:13:52
transmission fluid, do all that, and then you know if it's still
1:13:54
gonna be a problem whenever. Whatever you go into thrashing.
1:13:56
Go into thrashing. I'm like.
1:13:57
Frankie Bovino, there you. Go No.
1:13:58
Not at all. OK, so.
1:13:59
I'm walking so right when I pull up.
1:14:01
So in my mind I'm like, this is probably gonna be like a faction
1:14:04
thing. Like I don't even know if
1:14:05
anyone's gonna be working the front counter.
1:14:06
Like, I don't know, because, you know, it's a smaller shop, they
1:14:09
sell a lot of parts online. I I don't know what's going to
1:14:11
happen. You don't.
1:14:11
Know what their presence is right there.
1:14:13
Yeah, so I, I ride in, some people are eating lunch.
1:14:17
No one's really there. I'm like, OK, it's going to be
1:14:19
chill. And then I already hear a bunch
1:14:20
of bikes coming. I'm like, oh boy.
1:14:22
And I see like fucking like 10 motorcycles coming in and I'm
1:14:25
like, all right, let me go get what I need now before this
1:14:27
fucking turns into some crazy shit.
1:14:29
And I and I get in and I'm like, yeah, I'm just looking to see if
1:14:31
you guys got a seat like, oh, we special order seats.
1:14:33
Like they're not like, fuck me. And then I'm like, you got bags?
1:14:36
He's like, yeah, we got those bags.
1:14:37
OK, cool. I'm definitely going to get
1:14:38
those. And then I'm going to look
1:14:39
around in a little bit. Then those dudes come in.
1:14:41
I don't know if they're visiting, I don't know what's
1:14:44
the situation, but there's a lot of guys.
1:14:46
Yo, is Lance here? Is, is Juan here?
1:14:49
That Lance and Juan are the 2 main guys on the YouTube
1:14:51
channel. And then they, they Lance comes
1:14:53
out and he's talking to them. Whatever.
1:14:56
And I'm just so introverted. I'm just hanging around.
1:14:58
I'm like looking at I'm. Like looking at you this is.
1:15:01
Exactly how I thought it went. Trying to not like, see what
1:15:03
they're doing and not have them do like.
1:15:05
Yeah, I mean, it's cool, but like I I'm not here to meet
1:15:07
Lance. I'm here to get bags and get
1:15:09
back on the road and get. Back on the road and.
1:15:11
Yeah, like I'm not trying to annoy anyone, whatever.
1:15:13
I mean, it's cool. He's a cool guy.
1:15:15
I would love to talk to him, I guess, but whatever.
1:15:17
So he's talking to them, I guess.
1:15:18
Maybe they're travelling and they're big fans of the YouTube,
1:15:21
so it's cool. And then they're like, yo, this
1:15:23
was a cool thing that I will say happened.
1:15:26
If anyone's in a motorcycles and thrashing supply, they were
1:15:29
like, yeah, it was Juan here. And he's like, he's like, yeah,
1:15:31
he's probably like in the back or something like that.
1:15:33
He's like, you think we could talk to him?
1:15:34
You know how some people are in the kind of pushy and this?
1:15:38
Yeah, well, they watch. They're literally probably like
1:15:40
us where they watch like an, I don't know, an example is like
1:15:43
fucking shirts tucked in. We watch shirts tucked in so
1:15:46
much. If if Casey was standing right
1:15:48
there, I'd be like, you think like talk to him.
1:15:50
Real fascist says thank him for doing stuff.
1:15:53
Or and they're like, yeah, I was Juan.
1:15:55
And he's like, and you could tell Lance is like, oh, this is
1:15:57
kind of slowing the day down, but, and he's like, you know
1:16:00
what, yeah, let me go, let me go see if I can grab him.
1:16:03
And he goes and grabs him, brings him down and they all
1:16:04
have a good conversation. And I'm like, damn, that's,
1:16:07
that's really nice. Because I, I already know, I
1:16:09
know what it's like, like being in a shop and having to do all
1:16:12
the day-to-day shit and you got to get these customers out of
1:16:14
here and then you got people coming in and they.
1:16:16
Just and it kills the flow. And I'm like, I'm like.
1:16:19
But those are the people that keep the business open, the
1:16:22
lights on. And that's the things you think
1:16:24
about like when you're home at night, not in the business and
1:16:26
you're like, that was a good interaction.
1:16:27
For the day, Yeah, yeah, yeah. So seeing that was a good thing
1:16:31
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So now those guys are leaving whatever and I'm on the phone
1:18:57
with places he's trying. The guy running the counter is
1:18:59
trying to help me figure out where the fuck I can get a seat.
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So I'm calling all around dude and then one place do.
1:19:06
They know now at this point what you're doing.
1:19:08
They know what I'm doing for sure.
1:19:10
They know. I told them I'm like, I bought
1:19:11
this bike. This sketchy guy standing in the
1:19:13
corner is not a threat. He's good.
1:19:15
Yeah, so this dude keeps walking, keeps walking around
1:19:17
and like he's like walking around the building sometimes
1:19:20
outside looking at me, whatever. And I'm like, OK.
1:19:23
And I go back inside and I'm like, I'm like, yo, I I'm going
1:19:27
to, I think I'm going to overnight a seat from this
1:19:28
company in Vegas to Phoenix. And then I'll deal with it when
1:19:32
it comes in. He's like, OK, cool, what else
1:19:34
do you want? I give him some stuff.
1:19:36
I was like, I was like, oh, my buddies are a big fan.
1:19:38
My buddies a big fan of you guys.
1:19:39
I'm going to grab him some stuff and this and that.
1:19:41
He's like, he's like, have you been here before?
1:19:43
I'm like, no. And he's like, huh, you look
1:19:48
familiar. And I'm like, OK.
1:19:50
And he's like, are you famous? I'm like, no.
1:19:52
And then I'm like, well, if you like drifting cars.
1:19:55
And he's like, yeah. And I'm like, I own Faction
1:19:57
Motorsports. And he's like, no way.
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Yeah. And I'm like what?
1:20:01
It's sick. This is sick.
1:20:02
And he's like good shit. He's like yo, I watch your
1:20:04
YouTube like my my Co worker is going to bug out.
1:20:07
I'm like what? And then he brings out this dude
1:20:10
Chance, which is like, I guess he's in the videos right now.
1:20:14
Rarely he he works in the upstairs in like the office
1:20:17
portion. Oh, is there?
1:20:19
No, no he's not. They're they're not a service
1:20:20
shop, they're YouTube and products.
1:20:23
Yeah, he's there, Malcolm. Yeah, probably, yeah.
1:20:26
Yes, he is. So then he brings him out and
1:20:30
I'm like dude, I've definitely seen this dude in videos before.
1:20:32
This is crazy. This.
1:20:33
Is like this is like. This is so.
1:20:35
Fire, dude, you know what I mean.
1:20:37
These are the. Experiences that I have and
1:20:39
whenever I have a little road trip and maybe not to that
1:20:42
scale, but when I'm telling you when they when they cross pads
1:20:46
yeah it's the sickest too it. Was so weird.
1:20:49
When we met you Alex, like crossing the pads is a sick
1:20:53
feeling. So he's like this guy Chance.
1:20:55
He's like, yeah, my brother has an S15 or some shit right now.
1:20:58
I'm gonna shit. Yeah, God damn, he's got an S.
1:21:01
15 He's friends with fucking TJ Hunt and Adam and I'm like oh
1:21:06
OK, so and those guys watched Jimmy and that's how they found
1:21:11
us and I'm like, OK, I see what's going on here.
1:21:14
Well, Chance might have known us anyway.
1:21:15
We're all connected, yeah. Yeah, and I'm like, so crazy,
1:21:19
this whole thing. And then, dude, Jack comes out,
1:21:21
young kid Jack comes out and he's like, Oh yeah, I know.
1:21:25
He's like, yeah, I knew when he walked in or something like he's
1:21:27
like, he's like, oh, you didn't realize who who I was like what?
1:21:30
And then we're telling about the bike and they're like, oh, let
1:21:32
me come check this bike out and we walk outside and I'm like,
1:21:36
yeah, I paid 9 grand for it. They're like what?
1:21:38
They're like, who did you rob? I was like Rob, OK?
1:21:41
I was like, I was what? Oh gosh, oh gosh, I was.
1:21:43
Like what do you mean? They're like this bike would be
1:21:44
like 12 to 15 grand here. I'm like, I was like, yeah, it's
1:21:48
got 33,000 miles out. They're like, that's it.
1:21:51
I'm like what? Like it was all ass backwards,
1:21:54
but they know more than me, yeah.
1:21:55
Yeah, they're right now. Yeah, So they're like, oh, and
1:21:57
then they see who built it and this, and they're like, oh, that
1:21:59
guy builds good bikes like this and that.
1:22:02
I'm like, oh, shit. So they're talking me up on the
1:22:04
bike. It was just a good experience.
1:22:06
Jack gives me a fucking air cleaner cover.
1:22:09
Like he's he's like, you need to thrash an air cleaner.
1:22:11
I was like, I was like, yeah, yeah.
1:22:12
And he disappears and he comes back and he's like, here I was
1:22:15
like, fucking seriously. He's like, yeah.
1:22:17
Just got that guy fired as. Fuck Nah dude, but it was, I
1:22:20
think it was. He was kidding.
1:22:21
I think it was used or something.
1:22:22
I'm just kidding. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:22:23
Yeah, but. You know how that should go
1:22:25
around here. Like, dude, it was, it was very
1:22:27
nice of them. Yeah.
1:22:27
Yeah, You know what I mean? And.
1:22:28
Those are the look, the way that you're talking about this, this
1:22:31
experience is how some people get to leave here.
1:22:34
Yeah, I hope so. Maybe they will now because I I
1:22:37
feel a lot better after. Depending on the day.
1:22:39
Yeah, but like. Just the hearing you talk about
1:22:43
this is so fucking magical. Yeah, it was.
1:22:45
I'm literally there. Dude, it was special moments,
1:22:48
yeah. Yeah, it was, it was crazy.
1:22:49
It was. It felt really nice.
1:22:50
They were talking me up on the bike.
1:22:51
They were making me feel like I made a good decision, you know,
1:22:54
they were. Talking about the trans problem.
1:22:55
What did they say about it? Yeah, they, they didn't seem
1:22:58
very concerned. I was like, I was like, do you
1:22:59
think it's going to grenade? And they're like, no, I was
1:23:01
like, OK, all right, you know, so that's good.
1:23:04
So that so then I'm putting they let me borrow tools and work in
1:23:06
the parking lot. Yep, I'm like dude.
1:23:08
This is this is what people this is.
1:23:10
He let me do that before he knew who I was, By the way, they did.
1:23:14
They just do that for customers. They special, they knew bro.
1:23:17
It's crazy. No, that's super special.
1:23:18
He's like, let me get you some tools in the back.
1:23:19
It gives me like snap on tools. I'm like, this is insanity, but
1:23:22
thank you. Is this still in California?
1:23:24
Yeah, this is that. Also just a California.
1:23:27
Yes it is bro. I'm not lending anybody outside
1:23:30
over here. Yeah.
1:23:31
No, no, they'll be gone. So, so they helped me with all
1:23:35
this shit. Whatever they give me that,
1:23:36
whatever. I I put the bags on.
1:23:39
As I'm putting the bags on, Chance and Jack are loading up
1:23:43
the van, the thrash and supply van you see in the fucking video
1:23:45
to go to Bike week, Arizona Bike Week, which is that week.
1:23:48
And I'm like, I guess I might see you guys there.
1:23:50
I don't know. They're like, all right, yeah,
1:23:51
hit us up. I was like, OK, so they're
1:23:54
fucking going to load up and go down there and set the booth up
1:23:57
and they leave. I leave, I go to Ventura, and
1:24:04
then I go to fucking Neptune's net.
1:24:07
I like that spot. Yeah, and I watch the sunset
1:24:09
there pretty much. And it was, it was cool, man.
1:24:12
I was at finally went to Neptune's net.
1:24:14
Never been there, what did you get?
1:24:15
I didn't get the fucking shrimp. I should have gotten the shrimp,
1:24:18
but I asked the dude, I'm like, yo, what's good here?
1:24:20
He's like the fish and chips. I was like, all right, good,
1:24:21
give me that. I kind of wasn't really trying
1:24:23
to. I was just.
1:24:24
You just wanted to go. Yeah, I was just vibing like
1:24:26
whatever, whatever you think. Is good parking up outside there
1:24:28
is just a vibe and you walk across and you go up on the dune
1:24:30
a little bit down your shit, you're like, yeah, you really
1:24:34
I've I've been there. Yeah dude it's crazy.
1:24:36
Fuck the the bike parking situation is wild.
1:24:39
They. Just saw and they're lined up.
1:24:40
And they're up on a little hill. Yeah, Yeah.
1:24:42
I'm like, OK, I guess we're doing this.
1:24:43
You know, I fucking put it up and leave it in first gear.
1:24:45
It's just awkward because you're like, kind of on a pretty crazy,
1:24:48
pretty crazy angle. Watch your bike.
1:24:49
Yeah, right. I'm like, all right.
1:24:52
So, but yeah, they, if they're actually hooked me up with the
1:24:55
bags, like they, they hooked me up, man, like they, they really
1:24:58
set me up nice and it, I felt good.
1:25:01
I was like, I felt, remember last night I was panicking.
1:25:05
Now I was like, OK, we're good. Thank God you went there then.
1:25:08
Yeah, no, that that gave you all the.
1:25:10
That gave you something good. Yeah, I was like, good.
1:25:13
Serotonin hit. Yeah, and it felt like, it felt
1:25:17
like I had people around me, you know, because when I left Vegas,
1:25:22
I felt like I was alone. You think people come here and
1:25:24
they feel that I, I, I wonder if they do.
1:25:27
I hope so. I mean, we're pretty welcoming
1:25:29
here. I was.
1:25:30
Going to say. Because like when people come
1:25:32
here. Literally what I picture when,
1:25:34
when people would come, if it's just not the same, it's it's a
1:25:38
different fruit, it's a different animal because like,
1:25:40
we're not going. People aren't going on road
1:25:41
trips on bikes. Yeah, yeah.
1:25:43
But like, maybe people do shop. By there.
1:25:45
People do show up here in cars and they're on trips.
1:25:48
Are they do that? Yeah, people come.
1:25:49
Here people do that. Yeah.
1:25:51
And they'll be like, yeah, we listen to podcasts and this.
1:25:53
People have come here. That's not that special.
1:25:55
Yeah, Canada, be like, I'm here to go to New York.
1:25:58
Or they're visiting New York. Go to New York for the first
1:26:00
time or see family in New York and they're from different
1:26:02
fucking state. Can they come by here?
1:26:04
Yeah, it's cool. Or people.
1:26:05
But the Viber, your shop has always been like, I don't know,
1:26:09
even like when I came here a little over a year ago, like I
1:26:11
felt like family when I walked in there.
1:26:12
I didn't see you for like 7-8. Yeah, yeah, that was crazy.
1:26:16
Like the vibe. But like, you know, when I, when
1:26:17
I think of your shop and like what you've built here, I'm
1:26:20
always like, this is like a family spot.
1:26:22
Yeah, you go here. That's good.
1:26:23
Like you may feel a little awkward at first, but like,
1:26:25
they're gonna welcome you in. Yeah.
1:26:27
It's always scary walking in there.
1:26:28
That's probably what you felt like.
1:26:29
I'm literally I feel you, like you.
1:26:31
Fill out a place. Yeah, yeah, a little bit.
1:26:33
But I was like, you know, I'm here for certain thing, you're
1:26:36
here. I'm not just showing up for to
1:26:38
hang out so. Then you dip.
1:26:39
From because we're still in California.
1:26:42
Oh, in an hour and 45 minutes, by the way, we're in.
1:26:44
Oh yeah, we're going. We're going to speed up, but.
1:26:47
I have a feeling there's nothing, There's a big gap like
1:26:51
the enjoyment that you're feeling right now.
1:26:52
That's why we're. Talking.
1:26:53
About yeah, yeah. And then all of a sudden it's
1:26:55
going to just be I needed to ride to here, I needed to ride
1:26:58
to here, I needed to ride. California's the best.
1:27:00
Part and then halfway through the road trip you're like, I
1:27:02
just. I need to get the fuck home.
1:27:04
You know, like I've experienced that's.
1:27:06
More towards the end, yeah. So Neptune's net was cool.
1:27:12
They gave me some roads to check out.
1:27:13
They gave me the snake. I was like, yo, how do I find
1:27:15
the snake? I don't think I typed that into
1:27:16
Google. They're like, no, you got to
1:27:18
type. Hold on 871 Highway.
1:27:21
Something like something like Little Spot?
1:27:22
No, it's not that. It's not.
1:27:23
Like that maybe. Maybe it's not.
1:27:25
No, it's not. It's not everyone.
1:27:26
Knows this road. They're like, yeah, Jay Leno
1:27:28
goes on. Then I was like, OK.
1:27:29
When that road got reopened, it was.
1:27:31
Yeah, but they told me the road going to the road was an amazing
1:27:35
Rd. Maybe it was Mulholland.
1:27:37
I don't know what it was. Dude, I was like, yo, the sun's
1:27:40
going down. I'm on this crazy mountain Rd.
1:27:44
I'm like looking at the houses. I'm like these houses look like
1:27:47
shit and I bet they are millions of dollars.
1:27:49
Well, yeah. Like, and I'm just going
1:27:51
whatever. And then I, I finally get to the
1:27:52
snake and I'm I'm going at it from the wrong way.
1:27:55
I'm going from a downhill and I'm like, fuck this shit.
1:27:59
This shit is crazy. You get brake fade on a bike out
1:28:02
dude. It's literally like.
1:28:03
Switchbacks the. Whole way down, like crazy.
1:28:06
Switchbacks. Yeah, I was like going up.
1:28:09
This would be nuts and you could drift the shit out of that road.
1:28:14
I want to drift it downhill I think.
1:28:15
Downhill. No.
1:28:16
Sounds. So scary that would that's bad.
1:28:18
Going uphill would be so easy then.
1:28:20
But I found a hotel when I was at Neptune's net that was I
1:28:23
could get to going through that road.
1:28:25
This is Frankie's fucking signature move, by the way.
1:28:28
It is booking a hotel when we are already there.
1:28:31
Oh. That's what I do is that.
1:28:32
What you? What is wrong?
1:28:34
What? Why would you book the hotel
1:28:35
early? You don't know if you're going
1:28:36
to make it there. I'm the.
1:28:37
Yeah, I'm the. King of like, I don't want to
1:28:39
schedule. Yeah, I don't schedule.
1:28:40
Anything and if there is a schedule, I'm going to be mad
1:28:42
about it so because I'm always late to everything.
1:28:45
So, you know, it's just. Plus also puts extra pressure on
1:28:48
that trip. Yeah.
1:28:49
And I was like, this is not about that.
1:28:50
Like whatever. So.
1:28:53
And I'm in California. I'm no, I'm going to find a
1:28:54
hotel. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:28:56
So nice ass hotel then. Rex Tech. yo-yo, Tesla shot a
1:29:00
rocket up. SpaceX shot a rocket.
1:29:02
Do you see it? I'm like, what?
1:29:03
I look up and I see like a weird smoke.
1:29:05
Show and. I'm like, what the fuck is that?
1:29:08
I'm like, is this it? He's like, yeah, I think it is.
1:29:09
I was like, this is crazy. They launched that shit from
1:29:12
like Florida too. Yeah, it was weird.
1:29:14
So whatever. That's what I call Malcolm of.
1:29:16
I'm like, yo, you're not going to believe this shit.
1:29:19
Yeah. He's like, I'm like, he's like
1:29:21
what? I'm like they fucking know us at
1:29:23
thrashing. He's like, shut the fuck up.
1:29:25
Literally. Yeah, so I was like, this is
1:29:27
crazy, whatever. So say the night leave, I'm
1:29:32
like, OK, I'm going to leave California today.
1:29:34
So I I fucking ride down another crazy mountain, Rd., Topanga
1:29:39
something, whatever that fucking Rd.
1:29:42
Is which is like just a normal fucking Rd. that you commute on.
1:29:46
And it's probably looks beautiful.
1:29:47
Fucking crazy. Like I'm like, this road is
1:29:49
amazing. It looks like you're in Jurassic
1:29:51
Park, like the mountains are. Fuck with that environment dude,
1:29:55
it's nuts. Dude.
1:29:56
Ah, and. Then it's come out for like. 30
1:29:58
minutes from civilization, Yeah, right.
1:29:59
There. So you're not you're not like in
1:30:01
the. Bumble civilization, it's like
1:30:02
not even you're in it, like people are living there.
1:30:06
It's just, it's why. And then you come out and you're
1:30:08
at at the ocean. I'm literally just thinking of
1:30:10
if I should blow that my fucking tax return on a motorcycle so.
1:30:13
Badly, yeah. She was so sick.
1:30:15
Honestly, fuck, the entire time that you were gone I was like,
1:30:19
do I meet Frankie along some of these journeys?
1:30:22
Real. Quick, you're on Facebook.
1:30:23
Just look at the bikes. Dude, but I couldn't even think
1:30:25
about the logistics to try to make this.
1:30:27
I'm going to tell you what we should do no matter what.
1:30:29
We need to get our motorcycle licenses and we need to plan
1:30:32
trips where we can go rent Harley Davidsons at Eagle Rider
1:30:34
and ride somewhere and then come back.
1:30:37
Have rode motorcycles. I'm I'm 31 now.
1:30:41
I've rode motorcycles for 12 years.
1:30:45
Yeah, you, you don't. What?
1:30:47
What? No.
1:30:48
License. No, I don't.
1:30:50
Think any of us do? None.
1:30:51
Of us in this room have one. Bro that's never even written a.
1:30:54
Light that's the only reason I would get a license.
1:30:56
So it was so that we could do that because people.
1:30:59
Write out a fucking 4500 that was.
1:31:01
Another reason I was nervous, I was like, dude, if I get pulled
1:31:04
over, I don't know what's going to happen.
1:31:06
You're a criminal. No, I'm a criminal.
1:31:09
The bike's not registered. He's on the Lam.
1:31:11
He's running. Yo, then, then when I get to
1:31:13
Arizona, I figure my shit out. I'm like, oh, I got to ship some
1:31:15
of this shit back. I I can't carry all this stuff.
1:31:17
Oh. You did OK.
1:31:18
Yeah, I shipped the title back by accident and I'm like how
1:31:21
the. Fuck do you do that it?
1:31:22
Was in my backpack and I and I'm like fuck, if I get pulled over
1:31:26
they're going to be Whose fucking bike is this?
1:31:28
No, it's simpler. I hope you always think that.
1:31:30
I've been, I don't know, I've been in Germany with some weird
1:31:33
shit that's crazy, but like you still get through it.
1:31:35
Yeah. If you you have the correct
1:31:38
intention, OK. No, he's, he's on a plan.
1:31:41
Yeah, I mean, I feel like by Virginia I would have been good.
1:31:44
Like the cops would have been like, fucking go home, dude.
1:31:46
But like in New Mexico, they might be like, what the fuck are
1:31:49
you doing? That's no, I would just keep
1:31:51
telling the exact truth. Bro.
1:31:53
I I live in New Jersey. I bought this bike.
1:31:55
Here's the bill of sale. Here's the picture of the guy.
1:31:57
Here's the phone Phone number, the guy, this that, this that
1:31:59
you didn't. Steal it.
1:32:00
I didn't steal it. So like.
1:32:01
Natural I do have. Insurance.
1:32:03
The world, you know, and I don't know if you believe in this, but
1:32:05
lately it's been happening to me.
1:32:07
If you put out good, you're you're literally just trying to
1:32:10
get home. You don't.
1:32:11
You didn't steal the bike. You didn't do that.
1:32:13
You will get home. Yeah, good things will come to
1:32:15
you. Good.
1:32:15
Things will happen to you, so it sounds like good things were
1:32:18
happening to you, so fucking get on home.
1:32:20
Yeah, but yeah, so hit that road.
1:32:23
GMR Crazy Rd. right through Joshua Tree which was on my
1:32:28
bucket list like I want to do I have.
1:32:29
AT Shirt, for that reason, has Joshua.
1:32:31
Tree really back at Dude. I don't know.
1:32:34
How people live in the desert like that.
1:32:35
Dude those desert towns are crazy.
1:32:37
Why do people like like being there?
1:32:39
Joshua Tree, I don't really know the whole aura thing with it,
1:32:42
but I think it's like more like a hippie.
1:32:44
Thing I thought that Alex would know some sort of.
1:32:46
Random. I mean, I love the desert, so
1:32:48
like it was cool for me to be there.
1:32:51
I I just don't know the the lore, you know, and all that
1:32:53
shit because don't they do those festivals down there too?
1:32:55
Like some like didn't the festival just happened last
1:32:57
weekend down there? Coachella, yeah, Isn't that in
1:33:00
the general same area? I don't know but.
1:33:03
I couldn't tell you, Yeah. I'm not sure.
1:33:05
Really, really cool environment. I wish I could have checked shit
1:33:08
out because there's like so many like oh, like skull rock and
1:33:11
like, oh you've. Been.
1:33:12
Gone already, Yeah, but you'll be back.
1:33:13
Yeah. You know, you always got to,
1:33:15
like, check off some. You're never going to do it all.
1:33:17
This was a sightseeing thing. You know what I mean?
1:33:19
Most of my things are sightseeing things because I I
1:33:21
don't really have enough time to like go adventure through
1:33:24
fucking Joshua Tree. But I mean, I guess I could
1:33:26
have, but I think the amount of time I was gone was right before
1:33:29
Malcolm was going to quit. So he was he was handling a lot
1:33:33
of shit here. Oh.
1:33:33
I came by, I checked on him twice.
1:33:36
Yeah, I came by. I recorded a hot lap.
1:33:38
He didn't want to leave his fucking desk.
1:33:39
His desk. Looks crazy, right?
1:33:41
I literally came by. I was like, yo, what's up?
1:33:44
I was at my mom's and then he's like yo and then gives me the
1:33:48
clipboard and it's this hot lap and I'm like the fuck is this?
1:33:52
And then he's like, I'm so busy right now.
1:33:55
Can you record the hotline? Cool.
1:33:59
I literally was covered in dust head to toe yellow on me.
1:34:04
I I mean, I told him before I, I Malcolm knew for a long time
1:34:07
that this might happen. So I think he was pretty.
1:34:09
Prepared, but whatever I left out, he held the deal.
1:34:11
He held the deal. Yeah, everyone did, Chris.
1:34:13
Yeah, dude. I was trying to get Chris and
1:34:15
Jesus to just chat with me and they're fucking just all
1:34:17
working. It's great dude.
1:34:18
And I'm looking at and I'm looking like every night I would
1:34:20
go on my computer and I'm looking and I'm like, somehow
1:34:23
we're making money right now. But also the last time I left, I
1:34:26
went to Japan was the worst month of this company's
1:34:28
existence. It was also in October.
1:34:30
I told them I said I'm leaving and it's April again.
1:34:34
So let's see what happens. The good news is though, I mean,
1:34:38
you know, Carl's right about like time wise, like April's the
1:34:41
time right now for car stuff. Yeah, yeah, you were going to,
1:34:43
but that's also a bad thing for me to leave.
1:34:45
You know what I mean? But this place up, what I want
1:34:47
to pride yourself on is your your whole this shit was still
1:34:51
moving. I know now, that's why I've all
1:34:52
think some out with the. Family vibe earlier you can
1:34:54
yeah, you can rely on like you got a good, like you got a good
1:34:57
team here and you have the right setup.
1:34:59
You cannot peel them away. It's awesome.
1:35:01
Yeah. I mean, you know.
1:35:03
I'm very thankful for that, obviously.
1:35:05
Everyone was literally still functioning and I was just like,
1:35:08
just literally. Yeah, I was just texting
1:35:09
Malcolm. Sometimes call him sometimes,
1:35:11
but he'd be like, yeah, I'm fine.
1:35:12
He doesn't have any questions. I'm like, OK, cool, I get back.
1:35:15
The place isn't burned down. I just got like over 200 emails
1:35:18
I got to go through. But I'm down to like 70 now.
1:35:20
So we're, we're getting pretty good.
1:35:22
I think tomorrow we'll figure it out.
1:35:24
But yeah, ride to Arizona. That ride was sick.
1:35:28
I love the desert so much. I love that whole environment.
1:35:32
And then get to my buddy's house, meet his fiance.
1:35:35
Never met her before. Look at their beautiful
1:35:38
apartment and spend the night there.
1:35:42
Yeah, dude, I don't know. I was sick.
1:35:42
Clean my motorcycle the next day.
1:35:44
That was cool and then hit them hit the thrashing guys up yo,
1:35:47
you guys out here yeah we're down at this dealership come
1:35:50
through. I was like, all right, cool, I
1:35:51
got a good, I got a good model bike for you guys with all your
1:35:54
fucking gear on it. And they're like, yeah, we got a
1:35:55
spot for you. I'm like, all right, cool, I'm
1:35:57
coming out. I.
1:35:58
Saw the picture, I was like what the fuck is this guy at?
1:36:00
So I went out and we just hung out for like a couple hours and
1:36:03
bullshit. And that's when we talked about
1:36:04
drifting and and bike stunting bikes and everything.
1:36:06
And Jack was telling me everything and like all the
1:36:08
tricks and shit about it. He's like, it's not that crazy.
1:36:10
Like you could just do what he's like, show me videos.
1:36:12
He's so stoked on stunting. Like it was, it was cool.
1:36:15
It was like drifting. You know what?
1:36:17
I mean, except, yeah, you get hurt if you follow.
1:36:19
Yeah, yeah, bro, you could tell. These dudes are like dirt bike
1:36:22
guys. Like they.
1:36:23
Have to be. Yeah, like I get out of a car
1:36:25
after I crash and I'm like, yeah, all right.
1:36:27
And then I'm talking to Chance, right?
1:36:29
Who's the older one? He's like 34.
1:36:31
And I'm like, yeah, I'm like, oh, you know a lot about
1:36:33
drifting. And he's like, yeah, I was like,
1:36:34
how long you been in a drifting? He's like, I saw, I saw D1 back
1:36:38
in California when I went to Irwindale.
1:36:40
I said what? That was like 2007.
1:36:42
He's the original. He's like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:36:44
I was there. I was really young.
1:36:45
I was like, you've been in the drifting longer than I've been
1:36:47
in the drifting. So that was cool to find out.
1:36:50
And then, yeah, hung out with them, left Arizona, and then
1:36:52
that's when I started the Grand Canyon.
1:36:54
That's when I started my. This is when you started to hit
1:36:56
the hit the hit the fucking yeah.
1:36:58
Holy crap, I got to drive home. Yeah, which I was also very
1:37:00
scared that time to kind of oh then I go to Ramjet Racing,
1:37:03
which is a motorcycle shop in Phoenix to grab spark plugs and
1:37:08
just. Maybe a funnel just called
1:37:10
ramjet? Ramjet really cool shot and.
1:37:16
A funnel. Some guy's leaving on a
1:37:17
motorcycle when I'm when I'm walking in and he's looking at
1:37:20
me and I'm like whatever, like I get it.
1:37:22
Like I'm a random dude walking in me and my work here.
1:37:25
I get I get in, I talk to the guy, get the spark plugs over he
1:37:28
he was getting lunch. I think he comes back in.
1:37:31
He's like, yo, nice shirt. It's the faction shirt with the
1:37:33
SR20. I'm like thanks.
1:37:37
I'm like you, you know this brand and he's like, yeah,
1:37:40
Faction Motorsports. Yeah, I'm.
1:37:42
Like. Are you fucking serious?
1:37:43
I literally was like, are you fucking kidding me?
1:37:45
He's like, no, I'm like, I own, I own the shop.
1:37:47
I'm, I'm coming from Jersey. Just ride a bike back.
1:37:49
He's like, oh, that's sick, dude.
1:37:50
Yeah, I watched, Yeah, I watched the YouTube or something.
1:37:52
I was like, what? That's.
1:37:54
OK. Dude, I was like, the fucking
1:37:56
two communities are the same dude.
1:37:58
I swear to God, I don't know why it works this way, but no one
1:38:02
gives a fuck or knows us around here, right?
1:38:05
And then we leave. Yeah, for some reason all the
1:38:08
listeners aren't anywhere but. Yeah, and California's always
1:38:11
been that way of factions. California's always been like
1:38:14
the but in the drifting community, you know, like those
1:38:17
people always show us a lot of love.
1:38:19
Yeah. Yeah.
1:38:19
But it was just dude in a bike. I was like, what's going on?
1:38:23
But I almost feel like though, like the bike community is like
1:38:25
very similar to like drift community.
1:38:27
Yeah, yeah, it. Seems like super tight knit
1:38:28
close. I was like, dude, I would get
1:38:29
into wheelies if there was more of this shit over here.
1:38:31
Like I'd be into this shit just just because of the community
1:38:36
these guys are. All my fucking God, I'm like.
1:38:38
Yeah, we'd be drifting bikes over here, but.
1:38:41
They do do that on them I. Talked to Chance before I left
1:38:44
and I was like, yo, what's up Faction thrashing collapse.
1:38:45
You guys are coming out here for an event and they're like, yeah,
1:38:47
we're going out twice. When I'm like East coasting is a
1:38:51
group of dudes that are in Connecticut.
1:38:53
Malcolm Connecticut's got like a wild yeah.
1:38:55
Harley bike crew and he, he was asking me, you know those guys.
1:38:57
I was like, no, I don't know him.
1:38:59
East coasting is sick. Yeah, reckless.
1:39:01
Reckless is the main guy. He's fucking the best stunter on
1:39:05
the East Coast. OK, so they they might come out.
1:39:07
Yeah. Is that the guy that had Daytona
1:39:08
Bike Week? Like did the wheelie across the
1:39:10
bridge and got caught? Probably.
1:39:12
I don't know. He's not.
1:39:14
You know about this shit? See.
1:39:15
Everyone know that? Really.
1:39:16
Look, fuck Alex. I don't know.
1:39:18
I mean, he's tipped in. I love cars and you know, bikes
1:39:22
are similar. I'm just like, I'm scared
1:39:23
shitless about getting on a bike.
1:39:24
But I like looking at people doing some hood shit, like doing
1:39:28
some serious shit. He's going across the bridge at
1:39:30
Daytona that's popping a wheelie the whole way across.
1:39:33
Like, not serious, Yeah. Malcolm did some fucking burnout
1:39:36
shit while we're moving and that shit scares me on its own.
1:39:39
And I'm. Like I know I'm so nervous on a
1:39:41
motorcycle. I'm good dude.
1:39:42
You already, you already took two out of the wheels under me.
1:39:44
Like I don't need to be on one. I don't know bro, that shit was
1:39:48
crazy though. I, I, I know we could just do
1:39:50
this all night. No, but so much.
1:39:51
OK, so you leave Arizona Bike Week.
1:39:55
This is kind of like one of the last things I saw before you
1:39:58
kind of started. Yeah, yeah, that was for the
1:40:00
real. I left everyone the real.
1:40:02
Mileage started going down. Yeah.
1:40:05
Did you see any characters to your entire journey cause a lot
1:40:07
of these questions. I saw, I saw a tweaker in
1:40:10
fucking Sedona, the one place I didn't think I'd see any fucking
1:40:12
tweakers. Yeah.
1:40:13
And he right away, I get to the gas station right away, bro.
1:40:17
He's like, I can't imitate his voice because he wasn't from the
1:40:19
South, but I keep using the southern voice and and he's,
1:40:22
he's like, you got a, you got a bail on that thing, brother or
1:40:24
whatever. I'm like, I'm like, what?
1:40:26
And I'm like, oh, no, no, I don't, I no, I don't have a bell
1:40:29
on it. Like the fucking bell.
1:40:30
Do they hang on the bottom of the bike or whatever for good
1:40:32
luck or whatever? Guardian bell.
1:40:33
Guardian bell. I'm like, no, I don't, I don't.
1:40:35
He's like, that's crazy, man. I'm like, OK.
1:40:38
And then he's like, yeah, I used to have.
1:40:39
It's just, you know, they always got to tell you everything.
1:40:41
They find a way to relate to you and you're like, Yep, I don't
1:40:43
even, I don't want to be here. Yeah, I used to ride.
1:40:45
I had this and that, but I got T boned and tell me the whole
1:40:48
story. I'm like, all right, cool.
1:40:50
I'm so. Fucking scared I'm going to end
1:40:52
up as one of them tweakers. But lately, bro, the way my life
1:40:56
is going, man, I'm just like, I'm going to be one of those
1:40:58
dudes at the gas station. It's like I used to have one
1:41:00
Jay-Z. It's parked Outback, riding away
1:41:02
at my. Buddy's Shop.
1:41:03
That was like, I can't pay my buddy's bill, so it's.
1:41:05
Just, I mean, he sits down at the fucking bench right there,
1:41:08
like smoking a cigarette. Someone just watching me and I'm
1:41:10
like, I'm going to leave now. Yeah, because I guess it's.
1:41:13
Just weird and I feel like this guy has a gun on him so.
1:41:15
No lot lizards everybody's asking about.
1:41:17
Lot, not any lot Lizards. I bet when you finally put that
1:41:20
fucking seat on it was probably awesome.
1:41:22
The I did get the seat. Wait, where did I get the Oh in
1:41:25
Arizona? In Arizona, Yeah, you said.
1:41:26
You yeah, I think the seat is like the the stock seat is so
1:41:29
low and it feels cool to me because like my height is nice.
1:41:33
And then not flush. It's not good.
1:41:34
No, but the thrashing seat is. Up.
1:41:37
Higher and like more forward because that's what they want
1:41:40
when they're stunting. And I, I didn't love it.
1:41:43
And then. But then as I wrote it, I was
1:41:45
like. Body likes it though.
1:41:47
Yeah. Oh yeah.
1:41:48
It's so it is a thrash at seat it is a thrash.
1:41:50
At you override the. Saddleman makes it thrash.
1:41:53
And Saddleman. Yeah.
1:41:54
So there's this company called Saddleman.
1:41:55
They they're the ones that produce a lot of these seats
1:41:58
that. People make they have that step
1:42:00
up seat that looks like that they.
1:42:02
All these different brands like collab with them and get them to
1:42:05
make them a seat. OK, that's but they're what
1:42:07
about like a la perra? Isn't that a comfortable one as
1:42:10
well? A La Perra is a good seat and I
1:42:12
might look into those too because I just want.
1:42:14
A different style? Is that the one?
1:42:15
I like the La Perra. Yeah, you like Lepera?
1:42:17
Yeah, I I kind of want a little bit of a lower.
1:42:20
Like back to the original look just like a.
1:42:21
Little. Yeah, just a little, maybe a
1:42:23
little more narrow. Yeah, because the original 1 is
1:42:25
like a really wide I. Don't like when it drapes over
1:42:27
the side, like yeah, yeah, for your like inner thigh.
1:42:30
Yeah, I'd rather my inner thigh. Be sore.
1:42:32
Everything about the direction seat is really good.
1:42:34
It looks amazing I. Fuck with how much they seem to
1:42:37
care about these bikes. I I.
1:42:39
Wish the other reason why I want to use the seat.
1:42:42
I wish I. Could they?
1:42:43
They're really cool. I don't know what I I'd buy for
1:42:47
my bike. I'd have to buy a whole new
1:42:48
bike. You gotta buy a fucking diner,
1:42:51
yeah? I don't give a damn about the.
1:42:52
Nah, you're getting one. Don't give a.
1:42:54
Damn about that shit. I don't know when, but you're
1:42:56
getting. One give a damn.
1:42:57
I'm gonna get a sporty chop. That's it.
1:43:00
Fair enough. You got more questions?
1:43:01
I do a lot of them are asking about the ass that's why I.
1:43:05
I got a question. I got a question real quick,
1:43:07
Carl. Yeah, go for it.
1:43:08
Yeah. So part of your body, which part
1:43:11
got like the most sore, which that's a good one, you know,
1:43:14
like. The one that bothered me the
1:43:15
most. I guess I have to say my ass
1:43:17
but. What's a close second?
1:43:19
Yeah, my fucking right wrist. I was about to say it's your
1:43:22
throttle wrist that. Carpal tunnel like crazy.
1:43:25
Vibrations for the bike or anything?
1:43:27
Maybe that had some stuff to do with it, but I don't know.
1:43:29
I really think it was just from being like this, yeah.
1:43:31
Is that what would be? How would I do right there?
1:43:35
And Harleys do have a kind of a cruise control little.
1:43:37
Thing that's gonna ask you about that?
1:43:38
Yeah, it. Wasn't working.
1:43:39
It was like something was broken.
1:43:40
So it was like releasing. You know what I would do?
1:43:42
You know what I do? I would get a worm clamp.
1:43:47
No I'm so fucking serious not doing it the way you think.
1:43:50
I'm not just jamming the throttle on fucking Max and
1:43:53
twisting it. I would twist it onto the grip
1:43:55
so that my thumb could hold it has somewhere to rest.
1:43:58
Good idea. Bigger than the throttle.
1:43:59
That's a good idea. Oh yeah dude, that's chopping.
1:44:01
I'm fucking ready. I'm too retarded.
1:44:03
For that shit, I'm like, now we're just going to suffer.
1:44:05
But it's. Such a big goal crossed off.
1:44:07
Does he feel kind of empty now? I mean, you have been waiting
1:44:10
for this for a while when I. First got back I I saw Malcolm
1:44:13
that night, I was really upset. That it was done, yeah, we
1:44:17
could, you know, you know, we can live that life like every.
1:44:19
Other week we could just give it up you.
1:44:20
Just got to think about other goals that you got to.
1:44:22
Do Oh OK like that. I thought you meant like just
1:44:24
sell the shop and just go for it.
1:44:26
Like just be a fuck. We got to, we got to work.
1:44:29
Like, yeah, so there are a lot of days where I don't feel like
1:44:31
painting. And then I'm like, oh, I don't
1:44:32
have any money. And then I'm like, oh wait, I
1:44:34
just simply have to work. Yeah.
1:44:35
But yeah, I did have that for the for that night.
1:44:38
I even like I went to New York City that night.
1:44:42
Because I was like, I was like, did this guy not have enough?
1:44:44
Yeah, I was like, I got back and.
1:44:45
That's the best way to. Yeah, with the times.
1:44:47
Square I needed. By the Radio City sign.
1:44:49
I needed to do something because if it was daytime I would have
1:44:51
went to Asbury Park and I would have got the ocean and that
1:44:55
would have been. Coast to coast.
1:44:56
Yeah, that would have been real. Yeah, but it knocked down and
1:44:58
that was not. The city's cool, but the city is
1:45:00
cool. That's a good.
1:45:01
Sign I was like, I was like, I was in Lai was I got to go to
1:45:03
New York City and and it was it was funny because I got back in
1:45:07
it and Malcolm had my keys for like my apartment and
1:45:10
everything. So yeah, I had to meet up with
1:45:12
him and he was like, yeah, I'll go to the city with you.
1:45:14
And then right when I get back, there's heat, lightning
1:45:16
everywhere, like crazy shit. And I'm like, I guess it's going
1:45:19
to rain. And I was so upset.
1:45:22
I was like, fuck, I'm not gonna really rain.
1:45:23
I'm not gonna make it to. The right when you get home.
1:45:25
Yeah, well, actually I did get hailed on in New Mexico.
1:45:28
That would make me so I would literally probably take off my
1:45:31
sweatshirt and put it over the tank.
1:45:33
I know, especially if it was a dentless rail, that's a very
1:45:36
idea. Dentless tank I would have
1:45:38
fucking I don't care. You should be with ABB gun for
1:45:40
an hour with the pallets. I don't care, I put it over the
1:45:43
tank. I put my whole.
1:45:44
Body over it. The hail they get those fucking.
1:45:46
It's big. That's.
1:45:47
I learned that that day. That's.
1:45:49
Serious. That's after I'm talking to
1:45:52
Brad, one of our best friends. We're the The hail damage is
1:45:55
real. I was very scared.
1:45:56
That was, that was the first time I was, well, I was scared
1:46:00
for a lot, but that was the first time I was, it was so
1:46:02
funny because like I, I'm riding in New Mexico or I leave
1:46:05
Colorado. I went through Arizona and went
1:46:08
to Colorado. I, I just wanted to go to
1:46:10
Colorado. I never been there.
1:46:11
I would say all these four states are close to each other.
1:46:13
I'm just going to do it. So Utah, Colorado, New Mexico,
1:46:17
and the next day in Colorado I was like, fuck, I was like,
1:46:20
today's the day. Today's the day I'm going to get
1:46:21
rain. Like I know, I, I knew I was
1:46:23
going to get rain at some point and I was like, it looks like
1:46:25
today isn't going to be the day. I'm not going to avoid it.
1:46:27
I'm not going to be able to avoid it.
1:46:30
So I ride out of Colorado. I'm like, OK, still good.
1:46:32
Part of me is thinking, part of me this whole trip was thinking
1:46:35
watch me not hit any rain because this is going way too
1:46:38
well. Stories were not looking like
1:46:40
you were ever going to hit. I was like.
1:46:42
I'm like, someone is watching over me right now.
1:46:44
Like, yeah, this is, this is this is this is happening.
1:46:47
Like I'm I'm doing this trip and it's going to go easy and.
1:46:52
Oh well, don't don't think like. That that's what I was thinking.
1:46:54
I was like in my head I was like, I think this is going to
1:46:56
fucking go easy. I don't know why, but it could
1:47:00
not. And I leave New Mexico or
1:47:02
Colorado. I'm like, OK, the clouds look
1:47:04
terrible. It doesn't look good.
1:47:05
And I'm like, still didn't get any rain.
1:47:08
Go to New Mexico. Finally I see something and I'm
1:47:11
like, OK, I'm not going to avoid that because it's so different
1:47:14
out there than it is here because you can see.
1:47:16
Everything I was going to say for miles.
1:47:18
You could see, you could see everything and and you're
1:47:20
following the road and you're like, this road is most likely
1:47:22
going to put me under that cloud.
1:47:25
Like there's some mountains blocking it.
1:47:26
You can't tell. But as you're riding, you're
1:47:29
like, OK, I might end up over here or I might.
1:47:31
So as you're on the bike, you're like.
1:47:33
Hey, fuck. I hope it, I hope it banks
1:47:35
right. I hope this road banks right, I
1:47:36
hope it banks right. And then you turn the mountain
1:47:38
and it goes the fucking left and you're like, fuck.
1:47:40
So you're going. And then I felt a couple things.
1:47:44
I'm like, all right, let me pull over.
1:47:46
I was like, I'm prepared for this.
1:47:48
I got my fucking rain gear, put on the pants, put on the booties
1:47:52
and I have my leather jacket. I'm like, I'm good, I'm good.
1:47:54
I don't need anything up here. And I start going and it's it's
1:47:58
raining a little bit. Saddest thing happened right at
1:48:01
that moment. I guess I'll tell it because it
1:48:03
is something that happened along the trip that made me pretty
1:48:07
sad. You know how I feel about
1:48:08
animals. I'm not a really big pet guy.
1:48:10
Yeah, why did you run over something?
1:48:11
There's a stray dog on the side of the road and it was like a
1:48:13
puppy and right when I got my rain gear on and started moving,
1:48:16
he came out of like the corner and I was like.
1:48:20
Fuck, fuck. I was like that sucks, but like
1:48:24
part of me was like, I've already seen stray animals in
1:48:28
the state. Like, I guess this is just how
1:48:31
it is here. And it there was a gas station
1:48:33
not too far away and I was like, OK, maybe maybe he lives there.
1:48:37
Maybe I was like, what the fuck am I going to do?
1:48:40
Pull over and fucking pet this thing?
1:48:41
Like I'm I can't do anything. So I was like, it is what it is.
1:48:45
It was just, it was just a puppy, you know what I mean?
1:48:47
So it was like kind of sad and it was fucking about to rain on
1:48:51
him. And I was like, all right, well,
1:48:54
see you, you see you. You see shit on the road and
1:48:56
that's just how it is. I'm trying to think of what I
1:48:59
would do in that situation. About to walk out on a fucking
1:49:01
highway I'm. Like the only thing that I could
1:49:02
think of is that I would I would have to.
1:49:05
Leave. Yeah, you have to.
1:49:06
I mean, yeah, I I went through real quick in my head.
1:49:08
I'm like I stopped. What are you going to do?
1:49:10
What pet this thing, bring it to the gas station.
1:49:11
And they laugh at me like I'm this is probably the life.
1:49:14
You know you're going to bring it there, they're just going to
1:49:16
open the door and he's going to run back.
1:49:17
Out. Yeah.
1:49:17
And I'm. It's a fucking Indian
1:49:20
Reservation, you know what I mean?
1:49:21
Like there's crazy shit happening.
1:49:22
Maybe if I bought a car I'd bring them with me.
1:49:24
Yeah, maybe I probably wouldn't have, but.
1:49:26
You wouldn't have. Yeah, I know I would.
1:49:28
I would have. So I I start going, I'm like,
1:49:30
OK, the clouds look OK, hail immediately.
1:49:35
I'm like, no, fuck, I'm telling you, sweat trick movie.
1:49:37
But it wasn't, it wasn't big, but it was hail.
1:49:39
And I was like, fuck, is this just how it is?
1:49:43
And then it stops and I'm like, OK, cool.
1:49:46
I ride for another long time, 4050 miles get into well, I
1:49:51
don't know where I was at this point.
1:49:52
I think I'm in New Mexico crazy mountain range.
1:49:55
I'm like, this is wild, you. Were in probably the San Juans.
1:49:58
Yeah, maybe. And there's like trees.
1:50:01
And I'm like, OK, things are changing.
1:50:04
And then I see another storm up ahead after a gas station.
1:50:06
I went pretty far. I left the town.
1:50:08
The town wasn't too far behind me, but it was, you know, I left
1:50:11
already. And I'm looking at the storm and
1:50:13
I'm like, but it's always fucking like, right on the edge
1:50:18
of where you might miss it. And I'm like, OK, just keep
1:50:23
going. I see lightning.
1:50:25
I'm like, OK, I'm like, now I got to make a decision.
1:50:28
Yeah. Like, am I?
1:50:29
Am I riding a motorcycle? Tires are on this thing.
1:50:32
Just regular wreck. I mean, oh, they're good.
1:50:33
They're good. Tires.
1:50:34
Yeah. All right.
1:50:35
All right. Am I really going to ride into
1:50:39
the storm? One of the only vehicles on the
1:50:40
road and there's lightning. I'm like, I don't know if this
1:50:42
is a good idea. Like I don't know the rules.
1:50:45
What do I do right now? What am I supposed to do?
1:50:47
So I'm going, I see more lightning.
1:50:50
I'm like, fuck. And there's a car like kind of
1:50:52
near me, kind of up ahead. I'm like, I'm just going to
1:50:54
stick by this car. Maybe it'll hit the car.
1:50:56
Because it's bigger. You know, and then starts coming
1:51:01
down. Fucking hail.
1:51:03
Big hail. I'm like come on bro, give me a
1:51:06
fucking. Break.
1:51:07
So what are your options here? What there's?
1:51:08
No options. There's nothing around.
1:51:10
There's nothing. There's nothing around.
1:51:11
And. And now, now I'm getting hit
1:51:13
hard and to the point, you know, yeah, it's like I'm playing
1:51:16
paintball, yeah. And I'm like.
1:51:18
Literally a BB on. Yeah, and I'm like fuck, but all
1:51:21
I'm thinking about is. But I'm like, I don't care about
1:51:23
me, whatever. And then like it's getting bad
1:51:25
and it's coming out heavy and I'm like, fuck.
1:51:28
And I start pulling over. There's a little retaining wall,
1:51:31
but there's no cover. But I'm like, maybe maybe this
1:51:34
retaining wall will help. I don't know.
1:51:37
Pull over. I'm looking down at my feet as
1:51:38
I'm pulling over. It's basically snow on the
1:51:40
ground. Now I'm like, are we fucking for
1:51:42
real? And I'm getting pelted now I'm
1:51:45
leaning over the tank and I'm just kind of like taking it and
1:51:49
I'm like, fuck, dude, I got. I hope this stops and it slows
1:51:54
down for a second and I'm like all right, fuck it.
1:51:56
Go keep going. I keep going, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:51:59
Picks up again and I'm like fuck, dude, my knuckles were
1:52:02
fucking destroyed. Like these things are just
1:52:04
hitting my hands. And I'm like.
1:52:06
God damn. And I'm like.
1:52:07
Fuck, I'm like. Screaming I'm like.
1:52:09
I don't. For the listeners who don't know
1:52:12
or have never ridden a motorcycle, when you're on a
1:52:14
bike and it even rain, rain feels like.
1:52:19
Oh yeah, it could, yeah. Needles and like going yeah, and
1:52:23
you have gloves on and it will still feel like.
1:52:25
And all I'm thinking all I'm thinking.
1:52:27
Is getting at you whole time. Yeah, I'm thinking if I'm in
1:52:30
pain right now, this has got to be pretty big hail.
1:52:32
Yeah. So I'm just thinking I'm fucking
1:52:34
this bike up. I'm just thinking about the
1:52:35
tank. Yeah, I'm like, this thing's
1:52:37
going to be dented and I'm like, fucking God damn it.
1:52:39
The Ferren could whatever. No, the Ferren wheels, the
1:52:41
wheels, whatever. I was.
1:52:43
I was worried about mostly the front Fender because that was
1:52:46
getting no coverage from me. And the this.
1:52:49
Yeah, yeah, I was pretty like I was like this.
1:52:52
Basically, he's hunched over. Because yeah, because I'm like
1:52:54
trying to, but the front of it, you know.
1:52:57
So I make it through that do cop cars are going by me.
1:52:59
A cop passes me with his lights on and I'm like, fuck the heck.
1:53:01
A motherfucker is going to turn around and be like, what the
1:53:03
fuck are you doing? But he keeps going and like it,
1:53:08
it clears up. I I don't know how long I was in
1:53:10
it, probably 10 minutes. But he felt like way.
1:53:13
Yeah, it felt like an hour and, and it clears up and I'm like,
1:53:17
OK, And I make it through and I look behind me, I'm like, holy
1:53:21
shit, that was that photo I put up.
1:53:22
It was just fucking darkness. I was like, thank God I was at
1:53:26
the. Edge of that storm because and
1:53:28
you kept going. Yeah, made it out whatever.
1:53:30
New Mexico didn't look any better.
1:53:32
Like I was like, I'm going to get stuck again.
1:53:34
This is going to happen again. I know I I was just looking and
1:53:37
I was like, but this is when so from I stopped at a gas station
1:53:42
in Albuquerque and then I, I really wanted to make it to that
1:53:48
Texas town, Amarillo, Amarillo, but it's but it's.
1:53:52
Far. I just thought of the song.
1:53:54
How far? At that point couple 100 miles
1:54:00
light maybe maybe 300 miles, it was far it.
1:54:03
Had freshly purchased FXDX. I'm gone.
1:54:06
But there's rain in the forecast, there's storms
1:54:08
everywhere. And then I start riding and I
1:54:11
realize, oh, wind is a thing over.
1:54:12
Here, yeah, because there's no trees.
1:54:14
And it's really fucking bad. Really.
1:54:16
Like really bad, really bad. OK.
1:54:17
So no excess 650 over there? Yeah, so I'm getting, but mostly
1:54:21
because the bags, I think the more shit you have, the more you
1:54:24
become a fucking sail. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:54:26
So because I learned that a long time ago when I did that Arizona
1:54:29
trip and I was over packed that anything I felt on this trip
1:54:34
does not compare to that one Rd. in Arizona I did that one time.
1:54:37
That shit was crazy all these chopper dudes be doing because.
1:54:40
Those bags are so light though and like nothing on them.
1:54:42
Yeah, but the the pack is behind them.
1:54:45
They don't light. Light is a bad problem, but they
1:54:46
don't. Have a bag on the side that
1:54:48
their bags are up. Here I'm also.
1:54:50
Wondering if that would be worse or better.
1:54:53
I'm also thinking that I might be a bitch a little bit too.
1:54:55
Because I'm talking about. I've seen some guys on bikes
1:54:58
ride by me and they didn't seem like they were getting bothered
1:55:00
by that much, but they usually they're on fucking baggers.
1:55:02
So I don't know. But like, I was like, am I just
1:55:05
a bitch? Some of the I was like, am I
1:55:06
just a bitch? Because this, this shit is
1:55:08
crazy. This wind, like it's pushing me
1:55:10
not into the other lane, but across a lane for sure.
1:55:13
Oh yeah. And I have to basically be right
1:55:15
like this. You.
1:55:15
You. You just lean into it a little
1:55:17
bit like. This And then it'll stop and
1:55:18
then you're in the other lane and then it'll come back and
1:55:20
then you, you know what I mean? And you're passing 18 Wheelers.
1:55:23
So I decided to make a decision in that point to stop somewhere
1:55:27
else for the night 'cause I was like, dude, this is bad.
1:55:28
And I'm like looking it up, I'm like, is the wind really bad
1:55:30
right now? And it was saying it was bad.
1:55:32
It was like tomorrow. Apparently in the morning the
1:55:34
wind is good in the Great Plains.
1:55:36
Like you have to go between like 7 and like 11 AM.
1:55:40
So the next day I made a a a lot of mileage.
1:55:43
You made-up on time, yeah. But it was still pretty windy.
1:55:46
The Great Plains is crazy dude. What was like the what was the
1:55:49
worst state to drive through or not to ride through that?
1:55:52
Oklahoma. Oklahoma.
1:55:54
I guess. Oklahoma.
1:55:56
What? Is even in there or Texas?
1:55:58
No, it was Oklahoma or Texas. Nothing's in Oklahoma.
1:56:00
No, actually, probably New Mexico, the first bit of wind,
1:56:04
yeah, it was New Mexico or Texas.
1:56:06
Those are the two that were really, really bad with the
1:56:09
Great Plains wind situation and. You're just stuck and you're in
1:56:12
the same state for so long just getting through.
1:56:13
Yeah, luckily I was in the shortest part of Texas.
1:56:16
Yeah, but oh, like, 'cause it's the.
1:56:17
Top of it. Yeah.
1:56:18
But what's, what are the control situation like on that bike?
1:56:21
Is it a mid? Yeah.
1:56:23
OK, yeah, my, my knees kind of. I was telling Malcolm I was
1:56:26
like, you could hang your. Leg The.
1:56:27
Only way that I would be able to do it is if I had the highway.
1:56:31
Right. Yeah.
1:56:32
Or I could put them up like. This you don't really need.
1:56:34
I mean, the older you get, I'm sure it's gonna be worse.
1:56:35
Like my my knees are still OK but.
1:56:38
Like on the chops, dude, I'm telling you, you could literally
1:56:40
be like this. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:56:42
With, like, I couldn't really do any of that.
1:56:44
You can't do that because I care too much about the tank.
1:56:46
I was gonna try to do some fuck boy shit and like, put my legs
1:56:48
up. Like I I, I care too much about
1:56:49
the bike. Yeah, like put it, put it right.
1:56:51
Up on the thing I did try to put a pad behind, I put a sleeping
1:56:56
or I put a tent behind my back. My lower back still was too far
1:57:00
away to rest on. Damn.
1:57:02
It's, it's like, no, that's a trick, yeah.
1:57:03
You would need a Sissy bar with a pretty big back.
1:57:05
Backpack the one that I have like.
1:57:09
But that, dude, that seat was enough.
1:57:11
That seat. Bag dude, but I never had the
1:57:13
chance. But you would literally put it
1:57:15
right there, and the idea of it is that you would lean back.
1:57:18
Yeah, yeah. And after which?
1:57:20
Would be which would be nice. Which would be nice because.
1:57:22
Then you're taking all of the wind resistance off your chest,
1:57:26
and now you can, and now it's on your.
1:57:28
But I after we were watching your stories, I just knew that
1:57:31
that wasn't an option. Yeah.
1:57:33
Like looking at. This.
1:57:35
I could have bought a Sissy. Bar and like did all this.
1:57:37
Bar, but I know you weren't going to buy a Sissy bar and you
1:57:40
already bought the. Bags.
1:57:41
I already bought the bags that I don't really want.
1:57:43
But yeah, but. But they're not ration makes it
1:57:45
sick, so you could have that one that goes over.
1:57:47
That was the key that I was like, yo, I'm buying that one by
1:57:49
the way, because I need that. Yeah, because now and they all
1:57:52
connect and I think that that's awesome.
1:57:54
And that bag is the best part of that whole system.
1:57:56
Why? Because you could just unhitch
1:57:57
it and bring it into the hotel. Yeah, you fuck it.
1:57:59
I dished my backpack in Arizona. I had this bag and then you flip
1:58:02
it up and straps can come out and it turns into a backpack.
1:58:05
That's sick. Fine.
1:58:06
Like you can just take this off and it's a backpack you go.
1:58:09
You use it all the time. That is so cool.
1:58:10
Definitely the best part. I think we had questions on
1:58:12
here, so let me. Just yeah, yeah, let's run
1:58:14
through your questions because obviously now you just rode all
1:58:16
the way home and then you're fucking here now, so whatever.
1:58:17
And maybe a maybe there's not too many things on.
1:58:21
Here. Oh, it's at 9:30.
1:58:22
Holy fuck. Yeah, Were you thinking about
1:58:24
getting on here? Three hours and we are at New
1:58:27
Mexico. Yeah, the the rest of the trip
1:58:30
isn't that crazy. In Albuquerque, we didn't.
1:58:32
Even talk about Arizona like I'm trying.
1:58:33
To think of a point of my life where I may have been able to.
1:58:36
I don't, I don't think I've ever had that experience.
1:58:38
I'm I'm going to mid pond in fucking two weeks.
1:58:41
That's why we're supposed to do tires today.
1:58:42
But you guys seem pretty busy in here.
1:58:45
I'll be back next week. Malcolm, am I fucking retarded
1:58:48
or is this thing not working? Yes, but what do you need help
1:58:50
with? OK, I'm on my faction
1:58:53
Motorsports account. I open up the story.
1:58:57
Yeah. And what like.
1:58:59
Bottom left, bottom. Swipe up.
1:59:01
Swipe up. Yeah, there we go.
1:59:03
Not there. No, no, no.
1:59:04
Are you on your faction account? Yes.
1:59:07
Go down, go down, bottom left. I like to.
1:59:09
Collect Faction Motorsports. Click the story again one more.
1:59:12
Time I just swipe it up and. Click the bottom left where it
1:59:14
says Activity. Swipe it back down.
1:59:17
Swipe it. Down.
1:59:18
Swipe it back down the whole thing I'm trying.
1:59:20
No. OK, up.
1:59:21
Swipe it up. The opposite of what you're
1:59:24
doing, yeah. Down one more time.
1:59:25
One big one. Yep, Yep.
1:59:27
Now click bottom left like the picture of the three.
1:59:29
Oh, activity, Same thing. Fuck.
1:59:31
Yeah, I got mine all right. OK, Malcolm, you ask them.
1:59:34
OK. Yeah, Malcolm.
1:59:35
Whatever, just pick the ones you want to ask.
1:59:38
Maybe each has three each. Yeah, I got a ride after this.
1:59:41
I'm about to fucking punch a wall.
1:59:43
Hey, what? Oh, you're drinking?
1:59:44
Yeah, shit. Well, this was a good story,
1:59:46
bro. I was fucking actually
1:59:48
intriguing. We could go into more, but you
1:59:49
know. It's a long time.
1:59:50
I was intrigued as fuck dude because I that is a scary trip.
1:59:54
I don't know if I could ride a motorcycle for that loan.
1:59:57
I think you could. Period.
1:59:58
But you would need a lot of time.
1:59:59
I would need a lot of breaks. I think that, but then you get
2:00:04
in like a flow state. Yeah, well, also the the I only
2:00:07
got about 140 miles to the tank, so.
2:00:09
You would. Have to.
2:00:10
Oh, you're stopped. Yeah, that's kind of rough.
2:00:12
That's it's kind of nice because you can get off the bike, you
2:00:15
know, so it's like. That's the point.
2:00:17
Yeah, but I feel like if I got off the bike, you're not.
2:00:20
I'm not. Yeah, but then your body starts
2:00:22
to feel it and you're like, oh, today's the day you're looking.
2:00:25
You're like, I'm only four hours in for today.
2:00:27
Yeah, that, that. Part sucks but the chopper
2:00:29
aspect adventuring thing of it. The joke is that the tank is
2:00:33
small so you have to stop. No, but.
2:00:35
That's like you get to stop. I think it's a good thing,
2:00:38
honestly. It's good because if it was,
2:00:39
yeah, you have to get off that fucking seat, dude.
2:00:41
I'm. Surprised my body was the second
2:00:45
I would get off the bike and like go to a gas station and
2:00:47
take a piss and then get back on my ass.
2:00:49
Was totally fine for like another 100 miles.
2:00:51
Dude, I'm just so used to my bullshit motorcycle I think, Oh
2:00:55
yeah, that's different. Fathom trying to spend more than
2:00:58
an hour on that fucking thing all.
2:00:59
Right, Malcolm? First statement Eric Ryan Our
2:01:03
good friend Eric Ryan says I'm proud of you.
2:01:06
Eric was fucking yeah. He was like on the trip with me,
2:01:09
fucking texting me every 5 minutes.
2:01:10
Yo where are you? What state you went?
2:01:11
You sending me things to go look at and shit?
2:01:13
Dude, I had this idea, Alex, bro, I had this idea.
2:01:16
I was gonna do the Frankie tracker, but Frankie actually
2:01:20
ended up doing it himself, which is pretty good but.
2:01:23
It was the day after. It was the day after.
2:01:25
That's fine. I that was my intention.
2:01:27
But Frankie was like, I was going to, I asked for Frankie's
2:01:30
location, denied and then denied.
2:01:34
And then like I was going to make, I had made like a little
2:01:38
template where it was like a drawing of like Frankie and I
2:01:44
was going to like, make it follow the United States and be
2:01:46
like, where are you now? Like I would screenshot it and
2:01:49
then make it. All I thought was that car was
2:01:51
going to send me fucking random people to be.
2:01:53
No, because sometimes I hate to fucking admit it that I would
2:01:58
use it this way, but if I ever ran into a fucking issue, a lot
2:02:03
of the followers that I have all over the country, there might be
2:02:07
a solution there. My fingers crossed.
2:02:09
I was like, if I run into problems, I'm just going to
2:02:11
throw something out there and hopefully someone lives in this
2:02:13
area. But.
2:02:14
I. Mean it was like it was the idea
2:02:15
that I was going to. I didn't know if you're going to
2:02:17
be on top of the social. So I was going to just.
2:02:19
Yeah, yeah. Do it.
2:02:20
My original plan was I wasn't going to be.
2:02:23
Then I realized what I was doing and I think I got the thrash in
2:02:25
and I was like. Yeah, you should be.
2:02:27
I talked to them and I was like, I should be recording this.
2:02:30
Yeah, this is a cut that was like Content City.
2:02:32
And then I thought about going, I talked to Eddie about going to
2:02:35
buy a GoPro thing or whatever, and then I was like, fuck.
2:02:38
I couldn't see, I couldn't see you having.
2:02:39
A. You would not be a vlogger.
2:02:41
I wouldn't try to push you that far I think though.
2:02:42
That week was probably the most posts you've made.
2:02:45
Oh yeah. Easily ever.
2:02:46
Well, and I did it for myself because I was like, I'm going to
2:02:49
want to see this. So yeah, let me just do it
2:02:51
anyway and hopefully other people will enjoy it and that's
2:02:53
it. And then I'll have like the
2:02:55
highlight thing and that's it. At least I'll have something,
2:02:58
you know. But recording, there were a lot
2:03:00
of moments where I was like, damn, that would have been a
2:03:02
good thing to have on camera. Like some weird shit happens or
2:03:05
some Rd., you know what I mean? You know what?
2:03:07
You know what would have benefited Frankie?
2:03:09
Well, some metas. Yeah, that would.
2:03:12
Be because then you could just you could have them on and in
2:03:16
the easiest, most mundane way possible, you click it or you
2:03:21
say, hey, meta record this and. You know what's funny?
2:03:23
I didn't even think about. That we have two minutes and 30
2:03:25
seconds or whatever the cap is, which is perfect for you because
2:03:29
you don't need to be recording the whole thing, but you could
2:03:31
be on like Angela's Crest and been like, hey meta record this.
2:03:34
Boom, you got a little thing. Hey meta record this on thrash
2:03:38
and 'cause I was like oh I'm. Going to have to get a camera
2:03:40
I'm going to put on. Him no, I I already know you're
2:03:42
not doing that, you're not doing that and on top of that meta.
2:03:45
Glasses thing was a good idea. On top of that, may the day
2:03:48
bless me, where I get another motorcycle that's worth riding
2:03:51
for more than 30 minutes. Yeah, I would.
2:03:53
I would get the metas because you can listen to music but more
2:03:58
importantly tell you direction. Wait, metas have sound?
2:04:02
Yeah. It's the weirdest way to listen
2:04:06
to it. It's like not in your ear.
2:04:07
Inside. Outside your ear.
2:04:08
But people around you can barely if any hear it and it's really
2:04:12
low. But on a motorcycle it works.
2:04:15
Is it just? Is it enough to?
2:04:16
Hear it's just enough and you can hear directions, which is.
2:04:20
Important for me, Yeah, that's nice.
2:04:21
Because like, I don't need to look at the map, but nor have I
2:04:24
ever had the fucking luxury of like looking at a phone while
2:04:27
you're riding, bro, that's. What I had this?
2:04:28
Trip. It was crazy.
2:04:29
It's. Probably crazy you're able to
2:04:30
like. Were you able to look forward on
2:04:32
some of the? Roads, not really, it's not that
2:04:34
good, but I could look at my fucking Spotify and change
2:04:38
songs. I was like, this is fucking
2:04:39
crazy because. Dude like that alone makes the
2:04:43
motorcycle experience if D times better for me and.
2:04:47
I could also hit the button that said add stop, look for a gas
2:04:50
station that. Was important.
2:04:53
That was pretty good. That is really good.
2:04:55
If I didn't have that thing dude, this trip would have been
2:04:56
a lot crazier. I mean. 140 miles on a tank's
2:04:59
pretty light, so yeah. That's.
2:05:01
Going on because whenever you're on good roads, having fun, the
2:05:03
biggest thing is you're going to like.
2:05:04
Grand Canyon was the closest one.
2:05:06
I was like, I was like, I looked down.
2:05:07
I'm like, oh, fuck this. I hope this gas station is here.
2:05:11
That's the other thing you gotta remember, like.
2:05:12
Somewhere closed. Gas station could be closed and
2:05:15
they. Could not be.
2:05:17
Yeah, I was like, if I get there and this is closed, it's over.
2:05:21
I I have to figure out a way. All right.
2:05:23
Sorry, Malcolm, what's the question?
2:05:24
No. Good, No, no problem, Josh,
2:05:26
Roloff says. Did you have?
2:05:27
No. You didn't ask Eric's question.
2:05:29
No, that was the question. He just said.
2:05:30
I'm proud of you. Oh.
2:05:30
OK, cool. Josh Roloff says Did you have
2:05:34
any emergency poop stops? Emergency poop stops?
2:05:38
No, but. Oh, that was one of the
2:05:39
questions, I think. That the Harley-Davidson makes
2:05:42
you think that you're about to shit your ass every time you're
2:05:44
on it. Like the what?
2:05:48
This. So the guy had a different seat
2:05:50
that I didn't like at all. Like I wouldn't even I wouldn't
2:05:53
even ride with him on the bike. Like I didn't, I didn't, I
2:05:54
didn't want it. Oh.
2:05:55
Had something poking up in it. It was just like.
2:05:57
Red and like it. It just didn't look.
2:05:59
I didn't want that. Oh, was it not red?
2:06:03
But it's I'll show you a photo. Like a darker had red trim on
2:06:06
it. Yeah, I was.
2:06:07
Just like, yeah, I was like, you have the stock seat.
2:06:09
He's like, yeah, I'm like fucking I'm going to get that.
2:06:11
And if it doesn't work, I'll get another one.
2:06:14
When I put that stock seat on that had no padding and I rode
2:06:17
that bike, I was like why does it feel like like I'm about to
2:06:20
like I'm Prairie dogging right now and my balls are just
2:06:23
vibrating like crazy. I'm like what the fuck?
2:06:25
Like the seat changes that bike so drastically.
2:06:28
What the fuck are you talking? About It'll literally make you.
2:06:31
Feel like you're Prairie dogging bro Fucking hold.
2:06:33
On like it's. Crazy because everything's
2:06:35
vibrating so much. It's like, I don't know why it
2:06:37
feels like that. And then I would get to the to a
2:06:39
rest stop and I'd be like, I don't even have to shit what's
2:06:43
going on, no. Way you're like riding, you're
2:06:45
like, I need to find a place to stop right now.
2:06:47
Yeah, what you doing tickling my prostate Your.
2:06:49
Prostate. Yeah, yeah, that's what it's
2:06:51
doing. I'm like, what's going on?
2:06:52
Facilitating. It's facilitating your asshole.
2:06:54
Literally. That's the most action I got
2:06:56
this whole. What's that thing they do to the
2:06:58
dogs at the groomer? Ohh, they pinch their fucking
2:07:01
glands or something. Yeah, it's.
2:07:02
They're expressing the anal glands.
2:07:04
Yeah, that Dyna, really, that's what.
2:07:05
He was doing. That's what he was doing to you.
2:07:07
Yeah, I swear to God, it was weird.
2:07:09
That's why them old folk like them Dinas.
2:07:11
OK, cool. Yeah, that's why I'm not a Dyna
2:07:13
guy. So that that was the only weird
2:07:14
thing. I didn't really have any
2:07:16
emergencies. That's good.
2:07:17
Raw lap three says what state had the worst drivers?
2:07:22
I don't know this guy's name but man, me and him talk a.
2:07:24
Lot the drivers get worse as you go East Coast.
2:07:27
Damn, shout out raw. Lap which?
2:07:28
Which I already knew that I mean the and by worse I mean they
2:07:34
don't respect anyone and they they don't understand how fast
2:07:38
lane works. OK, that's really what I mean.
2:07:40
New. Jersey.
2:07:42
It's just I can't, I can't say any, but I would probably say, I
2:07:44
would probably say New Jersey, yeah.
2:07:46
You've probably had a great time until hold on it's.
2:07:49
Literally the closer you get, yeah, the worse it gets.
2:07:52
I'm trying to think of when it probably started to get shot.
2:07:54
Probably Maryland. Delaware Memorial Bridge.
2:07:56
Right there, right right before. Once I got in the DC it was
2:08:00
over. Yeah, over.
2:08:01
Because also, the more of a city area, the worse, but not really.
2:08:06
Not out West. Like, yeah, they're kind of
2:08:09
better at doing shit right with driving.
2:08:13
OK, but I prefer Jersey drivers. I prefer you to be very
2:08:16
aggressive and get out of the way or do what you need to do.
2:08:19
I don't care if you break the law, just do it quick and get
2:08:21
the fuck out of my way. Yeah.
2:08:24
What else, Malc? A nefarious drivers club says,
2:08:26
you know, we like talking about food on this.
2:08:28
What's your best meal on the trip?
2:08:32
I mean really had a lot of option being.
2:08:35
The best meal on the trip was with my friend Tyler in Arizona.
2:08:39
He brought me to a really nice restaurant and he bought me a
2:08:41
fucking like $50 steak dinner like.
2:08:44
God damn. It was a really good steak W
2:08:47
Thailand dude. It had like fries that were like
2:08:51
tallow. What is that tallow?
2:08:53
Fries. Beet tallow.
2:08:54
Fries. Dude, Steak and Shake got that
2:08:56
shit, baby. Oh yeah, Steak and Shake.
2:08:58
I had that at 10 in the morning at a before Diego's we.
2:09:02
Didn't even talk about that fucking place in Tennessee that
2:09:04
you were at, dude. Oh my God, there's a question
2:09:07
here if you could. Talk about this place.
2:09:09
Oh yeah. Did you know about this?
2:09:10
Hold on, hold on. I got, I got questions about it.
2:09:12
What's it called? Dolly World.
2:09:14
No, no. What's the name of the town?
2:09:15
Pigeon Forge. You ever heard of Pigeon Forge,
2:09:17
TN? I've heard of Pigeon Forge,
2:09:19
yeah. Bro, OK, I'm travelling through
2:09:20
Tennessee, right? I'm like, oh shit, I'm going to
2:09:22
need a hotel. I'm trying to hit Knoxville.
2:09:24
It's like right before Virginia. I'm like, OK, I guess that's
2:09:27
where I'm going to end up. I'm driving through the night
2:09:29
first time. I'm like fuck it, whatever.
2:09:31
I I need to at least hit Knoxville.
2:09:33
I look up my sister gave me a hotel app, which is like pretty
2:09:36
nice hotels. I'm like whatever.
2:09:38
I don't really use this, but she was trying to give me points for
2:09:41
a hotel to, to use it didn't work, but I used the app anyway.
2:09:45
I was like, all right, oh, this one's $100 a $120.00 and it's a
2:09:49
little far off the path, which is whatever, but fuck it, book
2:09:53
it, ride there. It's it's dark.
2:09:56
Doesn't it seem like Orlando? I drive but no Orlando.
2:09:59
I'm on. What am I on?
2:10:00
I-40 maybe or something? I get off.
2:10:02
Yeah, everything's dark. I'm riding down these roads.
2:10:05
I'm like, I'm like, I'm seeing signs.
2:10:11
What's the mountain? I'm like, oh, cool, maybe I'll
2:10:15
end up in the Smoky Mountains by accident.
2:10:17
This is going to be kind of cool.
2:10:18
Oh, it's like they're great roads there.
2:10:19
Yeah, I wanted, I wanted to see the mountain range and
2:10:21
everything. I wanted to go there, but it's
2:10:22
always out of the way. So I'm going down this road at
2:10:24
10 O clock at night and I'm, you know, you're in the middle of
2:10:26
fucking Tennessee. I'm like, there's a lot of
2:10:29
people out here right now. Where the fuck?
2:10:32
I mean, there's a lot of people. And then you turn another
2:10:34
corner, more people, cops fucking pulling people over.
2:10:38
I'm like, damn, it's fucking lit right now.
2:10:40
It's fucking 10:00 at night and it's pretty lit.
2:10:42
Where the fuck am I? That's where we were.
2:10:44
And then I start seeing things that are weird.
2:10:46
I'm like, please believe it or not.
2:10:48
Oh. My God, that's literally where
2:10:50
we were. Dude, I'm like, I'm like where?
2:10:53
The fuck, Like, did you go to Where am I?
2:10:56
And then and then I'm seeing weirder shit.
2:10:58
I'm like, all right, dude, am I fucking bugging out right now?
2:11:01
There's am I, where am I? And man, Las Vegas.
2:11:04
Dolly World is literally Vegas. Yeah.
2:11:07
What's Dolly World? It's Dolly Parton's amusement
2:11:11
park. It's just a tourist attraction.
2:11:16
Did you visit? No, I drank around it though.
2:11:19
I think they. Have stuff like Sky Coasters
2:11:22
and. I think the term tourist trap
2:11:23
might be the best thing to use it's.
2:11:25
Just the best thing, tourist. Also, that area's got a bad
2:11:28
reputation. For.
2:11:30
It's a car show there. That's not good.
2:11:32
So I started thinking about. I was like, oh, it's
2:11:34
Gatlinburg's right here. I was like, isn't that a car
2:11:36
show or something? That's.
2:11:37
The that's the one that's like. Stance stuff, Yeah.
2:11:40
And then I was like, oh, OK, well, I, I know about that.
2:11:43
So maybe people come here because of this.
2:11:45
Anyway, what I'm I'm turning the corner and the last thing I see
2:11:48
is the fucking Titanic on the fucking Rd.
2:11:51
Literally. Dude like no it was.
2:11:54
Orlando minus Orlando, dude. Yeah, I started like, I
2:11:57
literally was like laughing. I was like in my helmet, like
2:12:00
what the fuck is going on? That's where we went.
2:12:03
Go karting for 50 bucks unlimited all day.
2:12:06
Oh yeah, I can. I can see it.
2:12:07
So I passed this fucking shit. I'm like, Oh my, that's a
2:12:10
Titanic. And then I'm riding and then I
2:12:13
get to my hotel and there's like 20 fucking mint vintage American
2:12:17
cars outside Fire. I'm like, what is this?
2:12:20
And I pull in under the awning thing.
2:12:22
I'm kind of talk about it Malcolm, because it was funny.
2:12:24
Pull in under the awning thing and I get I get off neon lights
2:12:28
everywhere, whatever. I'm like, this is fucking
2:12:30
insane. And I as I'm getting off my
2:12:31
motorcycle, I'm like, what if this is a fucking gay hotel?
2:12:35
Like one of those hotels are all gay people meet up at because
2:12:38
I've heard of this shit happening before on bike trips
2:12:41
where people just. Malcolm.
2:12:42
They rest, they'll they'll be like, they'll be like, yo, let's
2:12:45
find a hotel and they'll get some and then they get there and
2:12:47
they're like, wait. And there's.
2:12:48
Like fucking. There's like sex dungeons and
2:12:51
shit and I'm like, as I get off of it, I'm like, wait a minute.
2:12:54
You think this is a fucking I was like I love ballast or a
2:12:58
fuck shack. Exactly soup.
2:13:00
Kitchen that. No, and I'm like, fuck, because
2:13:03
it's already weird as fuck, right?
2:13:05
Because I'm I'm like different. I'm like what is this?
2:13:07
He's on high alert. You're far from home.
2:13:09
Yeah, like no. And he's in the 1st.
2:13:11
Place that's like not like what he wanted to ride through yeah,
2:13:14
you know, he wanted to ride through actual America.
2:13:16
Now he's at this fucking cesspool.
2:13:18
He's like. I get off the bike and I'm like,
2:13:20
great. Now I'm a fucking biker in
2:13:22
leather getting off and I think I'm at a fucking fuck shack and
2:13:25
then I first dude, I see gay dude.
2:13:27
I'm like, no, it's happening. I started laughing.
2:13:30
I'm like it's going to happen. This is happening.
2:13:32
So now he thinks you're laughing at him.
2:13:34
No, no, no. He.
2:13:35
Saw me laughing. I'm just like in my head, I'm
2:13:37
like, Oh my God, you're. Getting off your bike over to
2:13:41
your fucking room. So I walk in the guy, one of the
2:13:44
guys in there, and he's like, oh, how you doing?
2:13:45
I was like, I walk in like I go up to him.
2:13:47
I'm like, can you tell me where the fuck I am right now?
2:13:51
He's like, he's like, oh, you don't know about what is it?
2:13:53
Forge, Pigeon Forge? Do you know about Pigeon Forge?
2:13:55
I'm like. You're like, shit, I need to
2:13:57
leave. I don't.
2:13:58
Dude this is literally come. On that's from there yeah Oh my
2:14:02
God that moonshine is from there that's.
2:14:03
Crazy Old Forge distillery. Baby right there in Forge.
2:14:06
Forge Tennessee spirit. So he literally says it right?
2:14:08
Here. So he starts telling me
2:14:09
everything about it, and he's like, yeah, I was born and
2:14:11
raised here. I was like, oh boy.
2:14:13
And then he basically tells me, I don't even know if you know
2:14:15
about this, but it's it's a Christian Las Vegas.
2:14:20
Yeah, I mean, dude. Yeah, there's no, no, there's no
2:14:23
gambling in Tennessee, apparently.
2:14:26
But you can go down to North Carolina right there and gamble
2:14:28
or that's what you said. I was like, OK, I'm not, I don't
2:14:30
need to gamble, but. Everybody there, minus all the
2:14:33
weird stuff they were going through, is very.
2:14:36
Sweet. Yeah, it seems everyone.
2:14:37
There was so kind to us. We went to like a bunch of
2:14:39
restaurants down there and shit and it was.
2:14:41
I kind of want to go back. I'm not going to lie to you, it
2:14:43
was awesome. There.
2:14:44
Yeah, I had a good time. But I was scared, so I I, I
2:14:47
pulled in. I'm like, OK, let me go try to
2:14:48
find parking. I go around, there's like a
2:14:50
couple bikes. There's a spot.
2:14:52
I'm like, all right, I'll park right there.
2:14:53
There's like tons of people at the pool.
2:14:55
I can hear them. I'm like, oh, it's fucking lit.
2:14:57
Yeah, park the bike, get off, start getting my bags.
2:15:00
Stop for a second and listen, everyone's gone.
2:15:04
I'm like, what do you say? Is that normal?
2:15:07
Like, dude, it was lit. And then everyone's gone.
2:15:10
Well, they got tired. What time was it?
2:15:12
I don't know, but it was like I park and within two minutes all
2:15:16
the noise is gone and I'm like looking at my phone, I'm like,
2:15:18
is there a curfew? What's going on here?
2:15:19
Am I about to get killed? I, I walk up to my hotel, I, I
2:15:23
don't see one person. I'm like, what is going on?
2:15:26
Oh. They turned off the speakers.
2:15:28
I can't. I get it.
2:15:30
Yeah, right. When I get to my room, I'm like,
2:15:32
this room is so nice. Like where the fuck am I?
2:15:35
And I call, I call Princess, she doesn't answer or she was asleep
2:15:38
and I call my sister. I go where the fuck am I?
2:15:40
Frankie's just fucking like looking around the hotel.
2:15:42
Room, Yeah. And she's like.
2:15:44
Oh. You're.
2:15:45
That one called to me, by the way, she's.
2:15:46
Fucking ridiculous. Dolly World.
2:15:48
I'm like what? I would have told you all tours,
2:15:50
so I just showed about that. I would have told.
2:15:51
You about? I would have told.
2:15:52
You about Peeper Palace? I would have.
2:15:54
Told you about peeper. Palace.
2:15:55
It was actually Pepper Palace. It's a hot sauce shop, but I
2:15:58
thought it was a strip club. And what else did I learn about
2:16:01
down there? I would have told you where to
2:16:03
get a hat. I would have told you where to
2:16:04
get boots. The boots I would have told you.
2:16:05
About the Chocolate Monkey, which was a chocolate shop.
2:16:09
You would have loved it. I didn't have any time either
2:16:11
way. It was probably right next to
2:16:13
you. But I I kind of after walking
2:16:15
around a little bit, I was. Like you like the vibe a little?
2:16:17
Bit I was like, I could I could see us all coming out here and
2:16:20
hanging out for a weekend. Bowling.
2:16:22
Yeah, I would have showed you the best mini golf spot.
2:16:24
Yeah, it was it. It looked pretty cool.
2:16:27
I was. So shocked that's where you
2:16:28
were. I was like, no way, this is
2:16:30
where we were. Then I would have.
2:16:31
Told you to the mill they had good catfish in there.
2:16:33
Malcolm would. Have loved that.
2:16:34
Yeah, I woke up. I walk out first thing I see one
2:16:36
of those crazy fucking crosses they have all over fucking
2:16:39
Tennessee. Just big ass white crosses on
2:16:42
mountain tops. Oh, it's like.
2:16:44
And I'm like, give me the fuck out here.
2:16:46
I'm Fable describes he calls it cross country.
2:16:48
That's cross country. Yeah.
2:16:50
Oh, that's what he called it. Cross country.
2:16:51
Yeah. It's basically Tennessee that
2:16:53
does that. That's what.
2:16:53
Fable. And maybe Virginia called.
2:16:55
It yeah, right when you get out of our area, they just have.
2:16:58
Crosses. On I'm like, dude, I don't like
2:17:00
no offense, that's religious. I just think that's it's all
2:17:03
cultish to me. When you have big crosses on
2:17:05
mountaintops, I'm like, I don't want to be here.
2:17:06
This is kind of weird. So I'm like, let me get.
2:17:08
Over top of everybody. Just yeah.
2:17:09
So it's a little too much. Do you know that's the place
2:17:12
where I seen It's a Jersey Pizza Co?
2:17:15
Or something. That's why the worst pizza.
2:17:17
You don't want that. Fucking my culture is not your
2:17:20
costume. But yeah, I don't, I don't know
2:17:22
how you went there and you didn't tell us about that place
2:17:25
like. I had a good time.
2:17:26
I was there. I was there for a wedding, dude.
2:17:29
Like I I was fucking not for nothing.
2:17:31
I was fucking drunk as shit. Yeah, yeah, whole.
2:17:33
Time having a good time like I mean it looks like we were there
2:17:35
again and we were there again for a wedding so like those
2:17:38
things that that place had to offer were probably awesome yeah
2:17:42
like the like the like the mindless amusement park like
2:17:45
stuff like going mini golf there going.
2:17:47
Golf, this shit everywhere. Every corner you go there's a
2:17:49
fucking water park. You could ever you could get a
2:17:51
funnel cake on every block. It's fun it.
2:17:53
Literally felt like I was at Wildwood or some shit.
2:17:55
Dude, Orlando minus the Orlando. That street that we were on, it
2:17:58
literally felt like I drive the souvenir stores with the Wizard.
2:18:02
Did it have like a strip feel to it?
2:18:03
Like, yes, yeah, yes. Dude, it felt like I drive.
2:18:06
Yeah, dude. And I just came out of like the
2:18:09
woods. That's why it was so weird the.
2:18:11
Opposite of what? You know what?
2:18:12
Yeah. Literally, I'm driving down.
2:18:13
It's just trees everywhere. It's like, all right, we just
2:18:16
gotta get out of here, we gotta get home.
2:18:17
And then you turn a corner and you're in fucking Las Vegas and
2:18:19
you're like, what the fuck is going on?
2:18:21
It felt like I was in a fever dream.
2:18:22
That was the home of the craziest Airbnb I've ever had
2:18:24
and they have a crazy Airbnb community.
2:18:26
Over there. Oh, so that's the Airbnb you
2:18:28
guys had They. Have some wild homes out there.
2:18:29
Crazy house where? Indoor pool, Fucking ping pong
2:18:33
table this, Foosball that, arcade this.
2:18:36
I have to say it looks like a fun place.
2:18:38
I suppose it's really fun. It's like pretty affordable.
2:18:40
Yeah, super affordable. Oh yeah, dude definitely is.
2:18:42
That big ass house that we were talking about is was slept like
2:18:46
20 and we really only paid like a couple 100 bucks to stay for
2:18:50
like 4 days. Wow, it was awesome.
2:18:52
Hey, that's the only thing I wanted to mention.
2:18:53
Go out. What else were you reading?
2:18:55
Yeah. Were you reading?
2:18:56
That's about. It brother, that's about.
2:18:57
It OK, he wants to go. Home.
2:19:01
All right, all right. And I mean all the all the other
2:19:03
questions were kind of answered in Colin's question.
2:19:05
Yeah, dude. Frankie was worried about the
2:19:07
questions. I was going to have you, you.
2:19:09
You're worried about like Alan. Kyle, did you stop at the blue
2:19:12
McDonald's? I didn't.
2:19:13
I didn't know about the blue McDonald's.
2:19:14
I know where it is. How many lot lizards?
2:19:16
How's the new hog hoss? The bike is amazing.
2:19:20
That thing hauls ass. It's a fucking runner.
2:19:22
It wants to be a 3000 RPM. That Cam is crazy.
2:19:25
It's a race Cam. Did you listen to Mommy ASMR
2:19:28
while you're driving? No, I don't.
2:19:29
Know what that is? A good one asked that.
2:19:31
Are those ball are? Are those balls as smooth as
2:19:35
silk with all the vibration of the bike?
2:19:39
Sure. I think that they would be How
2:19:42
many senses failed tracks did Frankie have queued?
2:19:46
None this trip. Did you have a?
2:19:48
Did you have a set playlist for? Yeah, Did you?
2:19:49
Know, but I should have. Yeah, I should.
2:19:52
Where in the world is Carmen San Diego?
2:19:54
Why did somebody ask this? Did you post something?
2:19:57
No, no, it's just that. I mean, that's that old show,
2:19:59
remember? Where in the world is Carmen San
2:20:01
Diego? Can he ask?
2:20:02
Fuck, Marry, Kill. Harley-Davidson, Taylor Swift?
2:20:04
Ariana Grande? Pretty solid.
2:20:06
Funny marrying Ariana Grande, killing Taylor Swift, fucking
2:20:09
Harley-Davidson. OK, cool, there we go.
2:20:11
That was easy. Lot of lot lizard questions.
2:20:14
Why are they asking so much of that?
2:20:16
Is that popular? Well.
2:20:17
Dude I didn't. The only girls I ever met were
2:20:19
in restaurants and they're like hostesses.
2:20:21
Did you hang out at any bars? Like now just.
2:20:23
Like he doesn't. Drink.
2:20:24
I don't either, but still when I'm in.
2:20:25
Like, I mean, if I'm grabbing food or something, yeah, but
2:20:27
like. I feel like that's where you
2:20:29
meet some if you hang out at the bar and some random.
2:20:31
Yeah, I could have. I could have I.
2:20:33
Don't drink it also I mean, but I'd still go to a bar just to
2:20:35
fucking see what the fuck I'm so.
2:20:37
Introverted dude if I wasn't. So I like to get immersed a
2:20:39
little bit. Yeah, yeah.
2:20:41
How's. That.
2:20:42
Like when I road trip in Europe, like I didn't meet enough.
2:20:45
People. Yeah, that that would have been.
2:20:47
Good to do, but it was also, I mean, big mental trip to do
2:20:50
that. Yeah, kind of like when.
2:20:52
You went on that trip. I was like, it's a sick time and
2:20:55
you you learn about yourself. There's a lot going on.
2:20:57
Like it's a it's a good time to just get away.
2:20:59
Yeah, I did learn some stuff about people and interactions.
2:21:02
I did learn some stuff. Not anything crazy.
2:21:04
I didn't have any crazy different, you know.
2:21:07
Sure, if you broke down in the middle of nowhere you would.
2:21:09
Have. Then things would have changed.
2:21:10
You know that you. Would have ran into a bunch of
2:21:13
lot lizards you would have yeah, not maybe not even lot lizards,
2:21:16
but someone just pulling over and Yep, they come out like
2:21:18
strung out on drugs and I'm just.
2:21:19
Trying to help. Yeah, here's here's like, here's
2:21:21
a. One guy on a motorcycle I could
2:21:23
easily. Yeah, yeah, dude.
2:21:26
Take that shit, I. Didn't even bring a gun with me.
2:21:28
I was like, that's kind of weird not to bring.
2:21:29
How the fuck? Yeah.
2:21:31
But I was like. Can you?
2:21:32
Oh, you could. You could have a gun in almost
2:21:35
every state. California would have been.
2:21:36
Really. You would have had to, Yeah.
2:21:40
I would have been like, I would have maybe shipped that shit to
2:21:43
Stevie's house. I was considering shipping it
2:21:45
but that's also illegal so I'm like I don't know dude fuck it
2:21:48
we're just we're all dogging. This.
2:21:49
Even if you separate, you can't. Ship a gun.
2:21:52
Mag and. Clip No, you can't ship a
2:21:54
firearm. Or mag and firearm.
2:21:56
Unless it's going to like a FFA dealer like a yeah you can.
2:21:59
What if you separate slide and body?
2:22:03
Good question. I don't know.
2:22:06
Somebody in the Patreon's got to know about guns right now.
2:22:08
I swear to God, no. Some of them are quick.
2:22:10
That might be some of them might be a way.
2:22:12
That might be the loophole. Yeah, I would have.
2:22:14
Just break it down a little bit. I would have separated slide and
2:22:17
the body ship the. Mail them separately.
2:22:20
Mail the body mail separately. Like yeah, totally.
2:22:24
Also also you can just. Do it.
2:22:25
Yeah, You know, it is illegal, but they're not gonna, no one's
2:22:28
gonna fucking find out unless they go through the box, you
2:22:30
know what I mean? So.
2:22:30
I guess. And there's illegal shit going
2:22:32
through the mail, Yeah. There's tons of illegal shit
2:22:34
going through the mail, but that would that would have been.
2:22:35
I feel better about your whole journey if you had.
2:22:37
A little bit, but then at the same time it's like carrying a
2:22:39
gun is kind of annoying. So I don't know.
2:22:41
I was like, I'm just gonna raw dog this.
2:22:42
If I get killed, it's whatever. You wanted to send Iran or keep
2:22:44
you? Know plus what are they really
2:22:45
taking from you know, like what? It's a situation, The bike, I
2:22:48
guess that'd be it. I don't have anything else.
2:22:50
You're lying like your. Asshole.
2:22:52
Yeah, I didn't meet anyone too sketchy.
2:22:55
Called me sweet cheeks on the fucking Rd. then they follow me
2:22:58
down the road for X amount of miles and then ram me off.
2:23:02
I at 1 moment I did think someone was following me.
2:23:04
I remember that, yeah. I would at that point, Oh my
2:23:07
God, I would be fucking anxious. As fuck.
2:23:10
I was just like keeping an eye on it.
2:23:11
And then I saw them turn and I was like, all right, we're good.
2:23:13
Did you run into any cops like along the way or was it just
2:23:17
that one time when the one went by you on the hailstorm?
2:23:18
No, dude, I didn't. I didn't.
2:23:20
I got. So this trip was so lucky.
2:23:21
I got so lucky, dude. That hailstorm in the wind was
2:23:24
the worst things that happened. Everything else was pretty.
2:23:25
I bet you didn't run into a cop until he got into the tri-state
2:23:28
area. That's how it always works.
2:23:30
I also say like, I'm like, oh, this trip, I was really lucky on
2:23:32
this trip, but I also realized I'm also not fucking retarded,
2:23:35
so that plays a big part. You were doing a lot of common
2:23:38
sense, yeah. You're thinking steps ahead.
2:23:41
Before the closest thing to a cop was in Pigeon Forge, they
2:23:44
were pulling everyone. Pigeon Forge?
2:23:46
Yeah, they were pulling everyone over.
2:23:48
Dude, I was like, I was like making the bike quiet.
2:23:52
I'm in the slow lane. I'm like don't do anything
2:23:54
fucking retarded. Just or are they What?
2:23:56
Yours. DUI is that's.
2:23:57
You don't drink that's. You don't drink or anything,
2:24:00
you're good. Dude, I didn't know what was
2:24:01
going on when I got there. I was like, why are they pulling
2:24:03
everyone over? What's going on?
2:24:04
Meanwhile all of us leaving diegos wedding fucking clips
2:24:07
we're like. Driving out.
2:24:09
And it's like the craziest mountain Rd. ever like.
2:24:11
Please like I want to go home but.
2:24:13
Yeah, I was just always avoiding cops, like I'd see them up
2:24:15
ahead. I remember one time there was a
2:24:16
cop on a mountain pass in Virginia or Tennessee, and I was
2:24:21
catching up to him and I was like, Nah.
2:24:24
And I just slow down. I go in a slow lane.
2:24:26
I honestly. And I feel like that, OK, I feel
2:24:28
like that motherfucker motherfucking cop was waiting
2:24:31
for me to pass him because he slowed down so much.
2:24:33
He was going like 50 miles an hour on this road in the fast
2:24:36
lane and I had, I had to let off the throttle and coast and I'm
2:24:40
like he's, he wants me to pass him.
2:24:42
So. What did you do when you just
2:24:43
straight up pulled over? I fucking coasted.
2:24:46
I slowed down to like 40 miles an hour and I I let him go and I
2:24:49
let all these people pass me. And I was like, what is he
2:24:52
doing? Does he really want me to pass?
2:24:53
He's just. Trying to trap somebody.
2:24:55
He wants to run your plate. Yeah, and I'm like, no, it's not
2:24:57
happening, dude. And and he kept going and he and
2:25:00
I was with him for a while, a while if.
2:25:03
I ever did that and he dipped to a cop, we would have a fucking.
2:25:07
Battle dude. It felt like that.
2:25:09
It felt like that. And.
2:25:10
Honestly, if I was a. Cop wouldn't that make you want
2:25:12
to hit the brakes and just pull this pull?
2:25:14
Over, yeah. I was like.
2:25:15
He really wants me. He'll just pull over, I guess.
2:25:17
But he didn't. I was like, all right, I guess
2:25:20
he's just dumb. I don't know what was going on,
2:25:22
but I'm not taking the chance because I just don't want to
2:25:23
deal with it, you know? But yeah, that was it.
2:25:25
It wasn't really a lot of wasn't really a lot of sketchy
2:25:28
situations. Good to have you.
2:25:29
Back. Yeah.
2:25:30
Did you give the bike the beans? Did you RIP?
2:25:32
It yeah, not a lot when I was out there.
2:25:34
Because I was scared. What about the desert roads?
2:25:36
Dude, I'd be letting it. Fucking what?
2:25:38
Yeah, yeah, I just, I didn't bring RPMS up like to the
2:25:41
fucking moon, you know what I mean?
2:25:42
But I I was, yeah, I was getting on it.
2:25:44
But. You got to let it eat.
2:25:44
When when night hit in Tennessee and I was going to Pigeon Forge,
2:25:47
that was when I got a little and the fucking highway in Los
2:25:53
Angeles when I was on. I'm telling you, dude, when I
2:25:55
was in California, he was just. That guy was Yeah, dude.
2:25:59
This guy was feeling himself, dude.
2:26:01
I mean how? Dude, you're in California.
2:26:03
What? Road is that, I don't know what
2:26:04
Rd. that is but it comes out of like fucking what's that town
2:26:07
that everyone goes to for the boardwalk or whatever?
2:26:10
Santa. Monica.
2:26:12
Santa Monica comes out of there and I was like, all right, fuck
2:26:15
it, we're fucking lane splitting.
2:26:16
We're doing everything. Dude, you felt like a.
2:26:18
Criminal. Wearing all black dude.
2:26:20
Mind you we just seen Frankie's like fucking ride out pack in
2:26:23
the other room. It's literally not an ounce of
2:26:25
color in that shit. It's all black.
2:26:27
Down to the the shoes are black, maybe a little white on the
2:26:30
solo. Those are my backups.
2:26:31
Yeah, I noticed. They're brand new.
2:26:33
Yeah. Black pants, black shirt, pants,
2:26:36
socks, everything black. This guy probably felt like the
2:26:39
Antichrist going through Caliph. And I was.
2:26:40
Covered in the. Sleeping bag.
2:26:41
Even the sleeping bag. Was was was Mark Brown?
2:26:45
I was covered the whole time, though.
2:26:46
I didn't have any, you know, the whole Thai ride up till like
2:26:49
maybe New Jersey, But I took my jacket off.
2:26:51
You needed the jacket from the Great Plains all the way to
2:26:53
fucking Virginia. Dude, I'd be in California
2:26:56
probably if I could fucking ride in like these fucking like
2:26:58
hoochie ass shorts. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, this dude.
2:27:01
But I had the the I got the thrash and hoodie when I was
2:27:03
there and that was just, that was it for the rest of the trip.
2:27:05
I was like, dude, they got the thumb straps.
2:27:08
What? The fuck is that?
2:27:09
For the sleeves, so because when you're on a bike, your fucking
2:27:13
hoodie just pulls back and then you're fucking getting exposed
2:27:16
to the sun. I usually put hair ties on my
2:27:18
fucking hoodie so it stays up by the glove, but then their hoodie
2:27:22
has a little strap inside that you put on your thumb and then
2:27:26
the sleeve stays there so it doesn't pull back.
2:27:28
That's sick. And I was like, that is fucking
2:27:30
genius so. Maybe something to add for a
2:27:33
Panther there you. Know what I'm saying well it's
2:27:35
just like we don't need that shit for anything you know what
2:27:37
I mean as fuck it's definitely cool like I said if you like
2:27:40
motorcycles check them out they're they're awesome guys but
2:27:42
all right I guess that that's it I.
2:27:43
Guess good to have you back. Thanks man, jealous as fuck.
2:27:46
I'm glad everyone enjoyed this trip as much as I did.
2:27:48
That was. That was cool.
2:27:50
Yeah, We were literally all fucking.
2:27:53
Yeah, it was on. The When our lives are boring,
2:27:55
your life is sick. Yeah, like.
2:27:56
It was through you, we. Got nothing.
2:27:58
Going on I feel like. We're usually doing that with
2:28:00
you when you're in fucking different countries and shit.
2:28:02
Dude like everyone wasn't doing shit that week.
2:28:06
So. Frankie was the star.
2:28:08
Actually there was a. Well, it was, I guess, special.
2:28:11
Stage Northwest was going on. Oh yeah, people hit me up.
2:28:15
Yo, come up here. I'm like fuck no, literally.
2:28:17
You would have had to do the craziest I.
2:28:19
Wanted to see my cousin in Santa Cruz, but I looked at the time
2:28:21
and I'm like, this would add five hours.
2:28:23
It was just a Cruz. Very nice.
2:28:25
I love Santa Cruz, but like that would be a 10 hour detour.
2:28:28
I'm like, I can't do it. Nope.
2:28:29
So but yeah, that was happening. I picked the perfect week.
2:28:33
That was it was really awesome. Good to have you back, Alex.
2:28:36
Thanks for joining us. Yeah, thanks for hanging out.
2:28:38
That was a sick story. You got anything going on right
2:28:42
now or? Just dealing with these cars and
2:28:44
trying to get them ready to sell and.
2:28:46
Where can people check you out at?
2:28:48
They can check me out on my Instagram.
2:28:49
Goldstein A9. Pretty personal with how I sell
2:28:52
my stuff. But you don't have a business.
2:28:53
But it's kind of shadowed by me. That's kind of better.
2:28:56
Yeah, I care about the reputation.
2:28:57
People want to buy cars from a person.
2:28:59
I got I got mid pond May the weekend of special stage E I'm
2:29:05
sure you guys will be down there.
2:29:06
Are you guys going to be down there?
2:29:07
I. Don't know.
2:29:09
If you're not. Come on the trip.
2:29:11
Yeah, actually I. Don't know what's going to
2:29:13
happen. I think you've had enough of
2:29:14
camping. We're all camping.
2:29:16
Well, I mean that sounds fun to me.
2:29:17
We're making a refugee refugee camp.
2:29:20
OK. Yeah, that's sick.
2:29:21
Don't forget guys, we have Animal Z's event this.
2:29:24
Weekend Oh yeah, we'll be at World Tour LZ World Tour at E
2:29:27
Town. Raceway Park come out, we'll
2:29:30
have the booth. Frankly, we'll have the booth.
2:29:32
Yeah. And you know, we're going to
2:29:33
sell some new merch. We're going to have new merch
2:29:35
there. We're going to have basically no
2:29:36
old merch. That's sick.
2:29:38
Is that where all the stuff's getting debuted?
2:29:40
Yeah, fire. I don't even have any of that
2:29:41
shit. I'm going to be at the Katsu
2:29:43
Stand working with Ken Fuji. So.
2:29:45
Oh yeah. Check that one out I.
2:29:46
Got y'all What the? Fucking yeah, we need, we're
2:29:48
going to need that you. Would love the.
2:29:49
Chicken. I'm going to be, I'm going to be
2:29:51
cruising over there like twice. Yeah, dude, all.
2:29:53
Right, Malcolm's playing the music to the back.
2:29:55
Thank you guys so much for listening.
2:29:56
This has been another great episode.
2:29:57
Thanks so much for the support. If you got a motorcycle riding
2:30:01
in your yard, let me know and I'll come pick it up literally
2:30:03
tomorrow. Thanks for listening.
2:30:05
Thank you. Peace.
2:30:08
Oh my God. On All right, Frank.
2:30:30
Well, thank you for sharing your story with us.
2:30:33
Quite the journey. Quite the journey.
2:30:35
Thanks for asking. Yeah, it was fun.
2:30:41
Yeah, it was a good time. Yeah, I think everybody.
2:30:44
I don't know if we needed a whole podcast dedicated to that,
2:30:46
but maybe maybe people will enjoy it, I don't know.
2:30:48
Yeah, people like hearing. I mean, everybody loves to hear
2:30:51
a story. Yeah, so.
2:30:54
Yeah, maybe it's maybe it's nice to have a a nice little podcast.
2:30:58
It's like a little interlude. Get a little break from the
2:31:00
Drifting talk. Oh, I would love to have a break
2:31:03
from drifting every single day. But you know, this is a drifting
2:31:05
podcast, so. Oh.
2:31:08
OK. Yeah.
2:31:10
No, it was, it was nice. That was.
2:31:12
I guess that was enough of a vacation.
2:31:13
So at least you got to debrief, reflect, you got it, you got to
2:31:18
record it. So you ever forget you're?
2:31:20
Old. Laying in your bed, you said.
2:31:23
What did I do that one year? Let me listen to that that Paul
2:31:27
came. What, Eddie?
2:31:32
I don't know. I don't know.
2:31:33
You're going to you're going to move South when you get old.
2:31:35
You're going to grow the accent. OK, Yeah.
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