The lady in the i was telling the lady that we bailed on the baja trip and she's she's like yeah. That's sad what happened down there. We have friends that had a house down there and they used to go there all the time and they were driving their truck and they got pulled over by thieves or whatever at gunpoint got him out of the truck made. Them lie down on the side of the road covered them in a blanket.
They thought they were gon na get shot and drove away, and they never went back to baja. They just abandoned their house, it's just happening to everybody and she said they'll shoot anybody. They don't care it's they're. Just they see they'll just walk yeah and they don't care, go after them yeah.
But don't they understand that i'm jewish? What happened purdue a couple guys should ride back down. There had an incident in a mcdonald's parking lot sunday quickly. What happened? He fell over and he punched a hole in his crank case. It's leaking oil, we're screwed.
Scott has to go home, i'm going in for an egg mcmuffin it's sunday and all of uh. Motorcycle shops are closed on sunday. So we have to figure out how to fix this ourselves. Purdue has a really good plan.
I mean i have uh springs and i said off-road. I'm astonished that i packed that so we matt plugged it up with this stuff. Scott dropped his bike again, scott dropped. His bike again and broke the crank case, so we got ta go pick.
His bike up and we're gon na reassess the whole adventure. Every adventure requires some suffering when you're learning to ride a motorcycle. You drop it a lot. It's part of the learning the end of the road baby got ta, get it ready for you hold on all right.
Matt, just tell us what happened. I forgot to shoot it. Scott fell over again and this time we're not in a mcdonald's. So i can't even get a milkshake yeah okay, so basically the thing started: spraying oil all over the place and uh.
This is the oil slick all right. So let me show you the problem when you drop the bike, this bashes into this smashes a hole. Sam has dropped his bike. Excuse me just leave it there, it's not your fault, he lost shoe.
Well, it's better than when it came out. That's the guard matt! This is not stop. Thought matt invented this to keep his pedal from pushing up keeping the lever from going through move the lever down and it's easy to shift. It's just spike's been scared, not worried about scott scott is my oldest friend we'd, been friends for five years already by the time this photo was taken dressed up as nerds from revenge of the nerds, which uh came out on video that year 1985 he's the kind Of friend who, when invited on a motorcycle trip, reserves half of his vacation time for it gets himself a motorcycle license then buys a brand new motorcycle and flies across the country.
This trip is more or less his first ride ever there's a canyon watch and the whole trail is through the canyons yeah. It looks really cool. There was a. I saw, the road you saw the road right to get to it down there. That's it yeah, oh, but i'm talking about the entrance to that yeah. So this is scott's first day of uh riding a motorcycle and uh he's about to ride through this, which looks very very far so i fell yes in the water as long as he doesn't lay it down. If that bike stalls it'll be fine trying to get started in, there, isn't the pipe up high on that bike yeah, but if he lays it down, it's going up the pipe yeah. Oh yeah he's going into the woods this kid is entertainment, entertainment, brother dude.
What do you think? Oh it's awesome, it's all united! Your knees like you have to do this. You have to you, need one of spaghetti western and you went straight through hardest part, hardest motorcycle riding i've ever done in my life, just that just a second ugh. This is what i remember best from this trip of a dozen years ago, the romance of it. We came upon two strangers fellow adventurers stranded with a dead battery in the middle of the desert 11 miles away from electricity all right.
So josh has this amazing. 66 jeep: what is this joshua comanche? It's uh glady jeep gladiator and he needs a jump start we're gon na see if we can jump it with our car, i mean with our motorcycles. So josh needs a jump. I can i hold this safely in my hand.
It's the only way we can get the leads on. Okay, i've got it yeah you're fine! I got it all right, don't touch the bike because you're wet nah, that's fine! Dude! All right! Where's, your hot right there, i'm gon na, take some stuff i'll. Tell you what you really think it won't just drain his battery? Well, he should you might. You should definitely have your bike on bro, but we can jumpstart his from yours for sure right, but but you'll get more crank and answer put on this thing.
What happened? Uh, his truck's battery was dead and we connected it to the bike and it started right up right up baby. Why did the truck die? Because we were watching movies all night, we're watching the wires yeah yeah, which season season four cool josh offered us his last two beers. I declined because i'm a gentleman but this guy rudely i accept well. How did i end up with this? Ladies first, you.
You make me wanna pack up my shit and buy a motorcycle and ride cross country
Some of the worst riders on the planet surely, constantly falling off or dropping bikes 🤣
A friend that gets asked to go on a motorcycle trip, and says yes, gets license and buys a brand new bike just to go with you? Impressive
I have never dropped my bike in 7 years of riding. The fact that Van said it is part of the learning process and happens to everyone and how often they are falling is quite surprising to me.
Sometimes people are so naive. Watching movies all night on a the 12V starter battery is a pretty good idea. 😉 Especially in the middle of nowhere.
Dude…you and Casey have the same laugh…so crazy to hear it behind the camera and know it's someone else.
I did LA to Cabo with 7 of my buddies on motorcycles! Best adventure ever! People of Mexico 🇲🇽 couldn’t be nicer!
Van I love you but the fact the Baja series is essentially just a chronology of things leaking or exploding or breaking makes me so anxious
Come on man! I used to love your videos now it's kinda boring. And please take this as a positive comment.
I'd rather listen to you talking about your hammer and how valuable it is to you than this adventure videos
their first mistake was taking a truck, that's the cartels' favorite vehicle..
Scott needed a smaller bike lol. Poor Scott. Keep em' coming! Love the vids! Tell Casey to shoot something sometime lol. Being all lazy talking on podcasts lol
Legends know that spirited man is currently traveling and a friend of his is uploading these vlogs.
I can totally see Van going on a new motorcycle adventure with Ewan McGregor (I love the two series he did traveling around the world on his bike).
Thanks for taking us on this time-travelling adventure Van. You are the OG vlogger!