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

@v0idlike

5 ай бұрын

Do it and get a buddy to do it on a ruckus

@russellzauner

5 ай бұрын

@@v0idlike The Ruckus has been around longer and has a huge enthusiast community. The Grom is a reboot of a classic, and is gaining a new community. Both are valid but I would give the nod to the Ruck just to be even more contrary to the rest of the pack, but it really comes back to which rizz you want to throw; the leanback or the nosefront? I'm so dumb I'd give it 100HP and ape hangers with front pegs to blast the sand on cruise control. Supercharge it!

@v0idlike

5 ай бұрын

@@russellzauner have Will from Grind Hard go on his cbr1000 powered ruckus.

@rustypotatos

5 ай бұрын

Broooo lololol

@DansDrives

5 ай бұрын

That would actually be much easier. I'm not joking. Rides like this are a breeze on a tiny bike, you just need to add really good suspension, appropriate tires, and gear down 1 tooth on the front sprocket. I've ridden my Monkey on a few BDRs now and you can smoke just about every other bike on the trail.

"It looks like we're giving thumbs up, but our hands are just stuck that way" is the truest statement I've ever heard about long-distance motorcycle riding.

@franmcgowan4068

5 ай бұрын

Yep, going for the front brake into a corner and realising you can't open your hand...

@patricktrudeau1996

5 ай бұрын

I made have laughed so hard and suddenly that I farted and woke up my wife next to me in bed...

@davidrumsey3180

5 ай бұрын

Yup.. about 45 years ago I competed in a midwinter enduro of about 115 miles. After I crossed the finish line and was riding towards my van I wondered why people were running towards me... I soon found out: Like many others on that ride, after the adrenaline of the ride was running out, the cold and exhaustion had "frozen" my hands to the grips and my feet to the pegs.. if the other riders hadn't caught me I would simply have toppled over with my feet still on the pegs!

@davemcdaniel4856

5 ай бұрын

I've done a few stupid long runs. The worst was a 18 hour, 3.5 tanks of fuel, slog fest in one single shot. I can' t remember my mileage, but my hands kept curling up like that for a week afterwards. I stayed in the same state, but made multiple laps of i15 from st george to Logan ut.

@OnEst_Opinion

3 ай бұрын

🤣😂🤣 this is so true.

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

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

@bonovoxel7527

5 ай бұрын

the basics.

@davidsteinhour5562

5 ай бұрын

Top Gear science

@Iwannabuyabugatti

5 ай бұрын

Just a matter of which type of fun

@Brurgh

5 ай бұрын

dumb things are fun!

@Porsche996driver

4 ай бұрын

Type 3 funnier.

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

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

@abhimaanmayadam5713

5 ай бұрын

Pwc?

@Shady-Shane

5 ай бұрын

jetski@@abhimaanmayadam5713

@jeffreystacy867

5 ай бұрын

Personal water craft, or jetski

@eoinkenny3188

5 ай бұрын

​@@notsevenfeettallwhy aren't there more jet skis littering the area then?

@alistergoh9744

5 ай бұрын

​@@eoinkenny3188every jet skis can reach mach 3, only once

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

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

@d_rock_t

5 ай бұрын

Funny how that works right? My most memorable sxs riding weekend was the one where it caught on fire and burned to the ground and then all our tow vehicles broke down and cost us a million dollars to get home. Yep, definitely the most memorable weekend.

@rfwillett2424

5 ай бұрын

Yep! I still remember the ride fifty years ago when a truck got in the way. I don't remember the Truck itself, I was just told about it when I came to in hospital.

@kprice399

5 ай бұрын

Or you think… it’s not raining that hard. No need to pull over and cover the tank bag, and then all your electronics get shorted out including the GPS, and now you have no idea where you are.

@bedlamite42

5 ай бұрын

@@kprice399 That's why I keep paper maps, but then they would have been soaked too.

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

@markpitts5194

5 ай бұрын

Sounds like the girls in my town....

@patrickfreeman8257

5 ай бұрын

How weird is it that I never saw any of those terrible movies but still got that reference?

@patrickfreeman8257

5 ай бұрын

@@markpitts5194 I am NOT visiting your town...just sayin'

@PurpleCh4lk

5 ай бұрын

@@patrickfreeman8257 Quite popular meme, so not so surprising. How you know they're terrible movies tho, if you never watched them?

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

A beautifully nuanced explanation of the motorcyclist mindset. Interesting event, too.

Matt - what a great storyteller you are!

8:03 this whooole section sounds exactly like snowboarding. Especially previously with the floating on clouds and terrain looking the same having different behaviours. Front digging in, having to squat for days, hills being the most fun, getting tired and lazy and making mistakes. But doing this atop a heavy machine..crazy Muscles you didn't know you had is so true though. Boarding you need to do a lot of lifting at the toes, which uses your biggest muscle (/s); your shin

@GTAmaniac1

5 ай бұрын

as someone who has snowboarded exactly once (plan to go again this winter) i didn't really get tired on the toe edge in the whole day of mostly tumbling down the red slope, the heel edge however was much more difficult to keep balance on, especially for prolonged periods of time

@hashbrown777

5 ай бұрын

@@GTAmaniac1 yeah whenever I go, which is at least for half a week at a time, I try to do lifting exercises in the month/s leading up by putting random weights on my toes and trying to pull them up without moving my heels There are no good ways to try to condition for going heel-side :(

@jsquared1013

5 ай бұрын

@@GTAmaniac1 modulating the "bite" on the toe side (when the toe edge is the one digging into the snow) uses the calf muscles, modulating when the heel edge is digging in uses the shin muscles ("tibialis anterior")

@GTAmaniac1

5 ай бұрын

@@jsquared1013 well my shins are only good for taking impacts from the pedals on my bicycle and not much else

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

@hk74654

5 ай бұрын

Your legs basically become an additional set of springs, lowering the unsprung mass of the bike+rider combo significantly since the whole ensemble already doesn't weigh *that* much. It makes the bike a lot more nimble, which is nice off-road but not so much on-road where you'd want as much control as possible.

@machupikachu1085

5 ай бұрын

FortNine does a great video on it, I recommend checking it out. It's the same reasons tightrope walkers use poles to change the fulcrum.

@darmichar73

5 ай бұрын

I get it now, I never really thought about it before. That was a quick, succinct explanation that made it 'click' for me.

@nicksGLI

4 ай бұрын

It puts your weight into the pegs, which are usually very low on the bike, which increases stability... Plus by putting your weight over the left or right, you can steer from the middle not the front tire

@apancher

4 ай бұрын

Simply put, it allows the bike to move independently of you.

So we're not going to talk about the jetski in the middle of the desert?

@DIY-V12

5 ай бұрын

Yes we are. It reminded me of the sort of prop that Rockstar would put in a GTA desert environment.

@bgee461

5 ай бұрын

Def made me do a double take

@MikeMueller

5 ай бұрын

It's been there for years. Moves from time to time. There's also a half buried car and then a microwave oven way out in the middle of nowhere.

@chadwells7562

5 ай бұрын

@@MikeMueller😂

Type 3 fun applies to a lot of things you do, it appears. Enjoyble as always.

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

Scariest ride I ever did was on a 600cc BMW R69-S, from Eugene, Oregon to Portland, 111 miles on Interstate 5. How hard could that be, you ask? It wasn't just black ice all the way; it was black ice with water standing on it. At least once every half mile there was a car or truck in the ditch. Even so I was the fastest vehicle on the road, sometimes riding at an improbably reckless velocity of nearly 40 miles per hour. I passed a state trooper who had enough problems of his own that he pointedly ignored me. I stopped at a rest area to catch my breath, and the moment those two big gyroscopes stopped turning, the bike just slid out from under me, leaving me standing there. I couldn't get enough traction with my boots to lift it back up, they just slid backwards and the bike slid forwards as soon as I tried to lift. A friendly bystander helped, we slid the bike on its side until the wheels stopped against a curb and then the two of us were able to lift it upright. Once I got going above five miles per hour, it stabilized enough to continue the ride. Now *that* was a memorable ride that I remember well 60 years later.

@banzobeans

3 ай бұрын

Kudos! And thanks for sharing

I deeply love motorcycles as well, but this video is a perfect illustration of why I have always done my hundreds of miles of off-roading in a properly set up Jeep.

@krp-xe3hw

4 ай бұрын

In my opinion, offroad riding is the most fun you can have with your pants on. This dude just isn't that great at it and loves to blame his equipment.

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

As someone who has well over 300k miles on motorcycles, i can wholeheartedly affirm that "type 3 fun" is definitely a thing, and definitely not fun. For about 6 years, while I did own a truck, I could not afford to drive said truck- so my primary mode of transportation (year round) was my 2012 Sportster. I loved every single ride I ever took on that bike- even the ones to work- but especially the miserable ones. I took a sort of pride in riding in conditions that had the DPS troopers questioning my sanity, Snow- yep. Thunderstorms-yep, Tornadoes- yep, Hail (ouch) yep, Sub zero temps- yep, Ice torms- yep, freezing rain-yep. I learned really quick that you could complain and be miserable, or "embrace the suck" and ride on (whilst still being miserable). God I miss riding, but an unfortunate incident with a scared dog and some inattention on my part has left me with a left index finger that is largely ceremonial and zero strength in my left hand. I tried like hell to modify it to where I felt safe riding it in traffic, but no matter how light the clutch was, I just couldn't pull it consistently (safely). So I ended up selling her. O always said that if I ever got to the point that I was a hazard to myself, or I had to question my ability, I'd hang up my helmet- and I regrettably had to do so. My other bikes? yeah it hurt to watch them go, but I am not too proud to say I cried as I watched my Sportster get loaded up on the truck to go to her new home.

@Mach1048

5 ай бұрын

As a rider in Oz, Hail is the only stuff I won't ride in by Choice. Hail is the worst! It hurts, and it fills up tread so you can't steer. But for the rest of that? Hell yeah, nothing makes me laugh more than the crazy weather that you've just got to go somewhere in.

I believe this is the exact same thing that happens when you decide to have another kid… enough time has passed that you forget what it’s like to sit up in the middle of the night with a crying baby wondering what a full night’s sleep feels like.

"It looks like we're giving thumbs up here but that's because our hands are stuck in that position." MATT. KUDOS. My thighs and muscles I didn't know I had, empathize with your experience. I ride a 2002 KLR and I've taken it on some rough trails. Exhausting is an understatement. Thanks for pushing through and then further reliving the experience in order to edit and share it with us. INSANE.

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

In the lat 90s I was stationed at Ft Irwin right outside Barstow,where we spent 2 weeks a month, 11 months a year driving around that desert in tanks. Lots of type 2 and 3 fun there. We would frequent Vegas on our time off, and cutting through the military reservation in 4x4s and hitting I15 outside of Baker shaved an hour off the drive. I hated that desert for many years, but watching this makes me miss it just a little.

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

This year I retired and downsized and sent my bike to the scrapyard. But this video made me laugh out loud so many times with similar remembrances, and wish to relive such adventures again. Thanks for your skillful storytelling and most enjoyable sense of humor.

In the early '70's i ran an endure on a Kawasaki 900, Z1. Crazy? ABSOLUTLY. But it sure was fun, and since I was a relatively accomplished rider, I finished the enduro on the Z1, and it wasn't even too badly scratched up. I also had a Suzuki 250 Savage that I had previously run this enduro several times. Ahhh the memories of youth and stupidity. Thanks for sharing..

Man, your videos are so good. I love this channel.

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

Thanks for sharing. Good story/adventure 🙂

Love the eclectic mix of projects, engineering explanations that go way over my head, humour and random videos that comprises this channel. I am long since subscribed; all hail SuperfastMatt.

What a great video - this is such a mirror into my experience doing LA B2V on a KLR650 and then riding all the way back home to LA like you guys. And then doing it again a few years later ...

Matt, Another definition I’ve heard for Type 3 fun is the stuff that is fun for you when the stuff’s happening to someone else. So me watching you on Day 2 was type 3 fun! Love your work. Cheers Tim

As an adventure motorcyclist - this one hit home. Great stuff.

Great commentary! Looking forward to more of your content!

I did SFO to Vegas via highway a few times on my BMW 650 single, probably wouldn't do much better than the Triumph but man that ride through the desert looks like fun. Never even thought about trying that.

Thank you for sharing the story, even with all the struggle, it feels way too much appealing 😂

Great video and good job completing the ride. It looks like all three types of fun just as you described.

OMG I was there this year too! glad to see your video, best lab2V video yet!🎉

I feel some c90adventure vibes here! But I guess for Ed this would have been a fun ride on an off day 😂

Wow, Matt. You're a great storyteller. 'Love your videos. Thanks for sharing. Much respect to you, sir.

Give me a story teller every day of the week. Thank you very much! Time well spent.

Another enjoyable rendition of the SuperFastMatt experience, thank you. I know about the too-tired-to-enjoy-the-moment moments too. Brings back much fond memory.

Hughe respect for Chris! Took my Bandit 600 on a offroad day some time ago.. Far from this adventure.. Hard work, big smiles!

You can buy lens protectors for 360 cameras, highly recommend them!

@32BitJunkie

5 ай бұрын

Too late for this camera unfortunately. It's now $500 trash. Such a shame the lenses aren't replaceable

Great job on the video Matt! Thanks for making it.

I love everything about this video. Subscribed.

I work for a great engineer, but I would have loved to work with you. Your sense of humor is amazing.

@daleolson3506

5 ай бұрын

Work?you mean start projects.

I'm reminded of various 'Iron Butt' challenges of getting out of your comfort zone and riding from one place to another place a long way away. . .

Always a pleasure watching your vids. Thanks!

Great episode! I have done a LOT of sandy terrain on my XR400. I wouldn't hesitate to choose that for this type of terrain. Its fairly ligth and with a Mikuni pumper carb and sligthly open exhaust, it makes plenty of power for riders below 200lbs. PS well done to Chris!

I love your dry humor! Type 3 fun!

Sweet, glad you did a video. I've been off the bike all month being depressed, this makes me want to get out and ride.

This is the most hilariously entertaining narration I’ve ever heard on a moto channel. Brilliant sense of humor that any serious rider can appreciate and relate to! 👍👍

Loved the disquisition on types 1, 2 and 3 fun. This subject is very much worthy of further study.

Watching this have given me high level of respect for those who do this for competition, and those who do this in general

Dual sporting is one of my favorite pleasures. Put 30k miles on my two klrs in the last year and loving (almost) every minute of it

@rustymustard7798

5 ай бұрын

I've been riding a KLR for almost 20 years now, i lost track of mileage a long time ago. It's an awesome big dirt bike with the right mods.

@ColourGamingScheme

5 ай бұрын

type one, two or three type loving it?

Great video I really enjoyed your narration. I also did the ride and have done it for nine years in a row. My second year I got busted up pretty good in a gnarly crash. I ride a KTM 500 and I will say that I have had type one fun for eight of the nine years. The bike you choose to ride will definitely have a big factor on what type of fun you have. I’m already looking forward to next year‘s event and hopefully I will continue with type one fun.

Great video.... I made a similar ride from San Diego to vegas with a small group of friends. I used a DRZ400 which to this day I describe as a dog compared to my normal ride for off-road (Husqvarna TC450) mostly because the first thing I did on that DRZ was take a SMALL jump which immediately bent my rear rack because of the tool pack I had strapped on back there!

as a motorcycle rider myself this sounded like a perfectly normal idea

"Good thing we're going through the desert where there's no sand" *he said intensely sarcastically*

Great video! It reenforces my idea of switching to a Rally from an 01 F650GS

Love your humor; always look forward to your new videos!

I’m just here to hail the algorithm … Patreon for the win.

ALL HAIL MOMMY ALGORITHM

This has been lovely to see but also to hear you tell. ❤

Have been riding from LA to LV last year on a completely different route, which was a lot of fun the whole way. Didn't know about this event - great video! All I wanted to know and very entertaining.

Also, build yourself a standing off road scooter like mine... then just ride that for a few weeks before and you'll have the core and throttle control of the gods. I can stand riding off road for 3-5 hrs in TX at 50 yrs old. You can learn some interesting techniques for motorcycles too. Also the off road scooter loves the sand with 25kw and 175 lbs with most of it below your ankles. Easy mode on any sand. It just needs 8 more batteries and it would be ready for the trip 😂

how bad could it be

Great Video & Narration! How Lucky Can You Be!?! I've Read About That Event Since I Was A Kid. Thank You.

Hands down my favorite channel. Keep being awesome!

Bro! Great video! So much truth in this my face hurts from grinning!

Matt, your dry sarcasm is an unparalleled delight.

Amazing video as always Matt! Thank you

That was awesome. 👍 It reminded me of when I did the Baja peninsula back in the early 1970s, it was mostly type 3 fun. To this day I still hate sand.☹️ Thanks for sharing your adventure.

❤ that you rode the bikes back to LA!

This is one of the few channels that I immediately watch any new video… also I really need a dual sport.

We saw you and your buddy on the freeway riding home! I did the 2nd day hard routes on a Beta 300 2 stroke. See you next year!

Lovely video n brilliant commentary pick a prize from the top shelf

Definitely the most entertaining LAB2V video ever! Congratulations! I did it in 2022 with a big bike (DesertX) and I loved it! I want to do it again via hard ways

Always good to see a Chris on a Scrambler! Sincerely, Chris also on a Scrambler 1200...

I dont even like motorcycles but with every video I fall more and more in love with this channel.

Type 3 fun - I rode an XL500 on my own up Cape Weipa and back at the end of the wet season when the road was closed. My front tyre got caught in a washout down to a stream and I came off. Loads of blood from my knee. I got on and road to Cohen without looking at it because there was nothing that else to do. A great memory because I didn't actually die on a road in the middle of nowhere.

@Mark_Bridges

5 ай бұрын

You went by yourself to Cape York when the road was closed? On a bike? Sorta close to muddy season? I assume you mean you went to Weipa, not to the tip, which is a bit easier but still 'interesting'. You're much braver than me, I went in a 4WD while half of the population of Australia was there too.

The SuperfastMatt Fun Classification Scale is now a permanent part of my life. Thank you.

That ending came full circle and literally made me laugh out loud. Great job on this video

I love that you build stuff and then *gasp* you DO stuff with it!!! 😮 it's great to see people actually enjoying the fruits of their labor, even if it's bought instead of built.

Great story and narration!

Love it ! Levels 1,2,3 and life its a blast ! Love the images and your storyteller Matt ! Fist time i see your work :)

Matt, this was utterly delightful! I can relate on EVERY level. Damn, your videos are good.

Awesome! Done this before. Great ride.

I laughed all the way through this video - well done on doing something different and getting outside your comfort zone!

Great video! I saw you guys out there. I was on an uninteresting KTM 500 though. I can't imagine doing those sand washes on that Triumph.

Whew! Thanks for putting this "reality check" of a dirt/desert oriented ride video together... I had an opportunity to do a trip like this recently and after talking to my sister who is an accomplished and practiced dirt (KTM 1190 and a 450) with several rides from Colorado to the tip of Baja and back... she knows Im very good on the street/fire roads but warned me against the harsh realities you covered well in this video! Thanks and keep making fun/entertaining shows!

I’m so glad you made a video on this

This video reminds me of going to see a Warren Miller skiing or snowboarding movie in regard to the narration and the excitement involved with getting out to ski and snowboard after watching the movie! Spot on with the whole idea of doing this event...lol. It's gonna suck, but we cant wait. The part about forgetting all the crap involved a few years ago, same event. I've been riding most of my life and love it too! Thanks for such a great vid!

My last time riding a bike was 1974 across the Naches Pass from Tacoma to Yakima and back. No sand, just endless rocks, ruts and icy tree roots. Type 3 fun all the way and I never thought "that was fun" ever again.

Perfect timing Mr Superfast, I'm just back from my own mostly type 1 and 2 ride. The sand caused some type 3 fun, but I'm already thinking on next trip.

You had me at "I love motorcycles"... Great video. Very jealous of the ride.

Your storytelling style is right up my alley