51 “Let There Be Rock” That Moto Show

0:00That motto show, that motto show, take part just to win. Alright, that's it, Donnie. Moto show 51. You're feeling a little under the weather. I'm glad you sucked it up, buttercup, and are here for the show. I really appreciate it because I'm getting ready to head out on a trail trip, which you're not going, even if you were well, you weren't going anyway. You got other commitments, family stuff, all that kind of stuff going on. So right now, there's no Spencer. No Spencer bringing the flair, as the song says. That's right. It's just flair from afar. Yeah. So he's doing well. I'm actually going to be meeting up with him when I go up North. I'm taking my buddy Matt and Jim, we're going to go ride three to four days. I'm guessing you're sure there's not going to be a fourth day. It'll just be three days. Yes, right. And we're going to ride three days. Mountains and a little bit of desert stuff. So the weather's going to be perfect. It is raining there right now. Right. Right now. I was trying to figure out ways to work it out. I know. You get done doing it. So what are you doing on this day? And then you're going to meet us up there. And I'm like, dude, it doesn't sound like something to work out. Because we don't know what's going to happen.

1:00Right. Really excited for a trail trip. Before we get too far right behind you is a bike we actually shot today with Mordekross Action. 1995 CR125. It's my buddy, Brent's bike. And he has factory race coatings his little business. He's in the military in the Air Force up in Nellis Air Force Base. And he kind of came up with a scheme. He came up with the purple. I'm not a huge purple fan, typically, right? But it did come out cool. So he got the purple seat. And I'm like, well, we're kind of stuck now into embracing purple. Yeah, we were embracing the purple. So then I had Dekalworks make us up and Nick hit it out the park with this custom CR on there just like 95 on the shroud. And we got MXA on there and got all of our good sponsors. So the bike, I think, came out really cool. They actually really liked the bike. It actually ran a lot better than I was thinking it would. So it still looks cool. Yeah, yeah. Who is the 1995 MX-125 champion? Steve Lampson. Steve Lampson. So I was pretty good. He had a couple good years there. 1995-96. Yeah.

2:00And 2000, he was leading it for the first half of the series. Oh, it's right. Yeah, as a privateer. Privateer. Privateer. His own team. Yeah, that was cool. And then Donnie just got back last week from the KTM rally up in I say Canada. He was pretty close. It was pretty close. Donnie says, I don't know if I'm driving that far again for a ride. And it was about 18 hours from here? Well, you know, you say 18 hours, but 18 turns into 20. It's just 20. Right. So because an eight hour drive turns into nine, pretty simple. I mean, with some stops and a lunch, whatever. So it's never just straight. Even if you're going at a good clip, now Rado just told him he came back from Colorado from his ride with his brothers. And he drove 18 hours straight by himself. Yeah. And that's pretty good for being 40 plus class. Because I used to do that when I was younger. You get into 40 plus class. And that's a little harder to motor through. Last year I drove straight through from Breckenridge to home. Was that 18 or 20? It was 20 hours. 20 hours. I did it straight by yourself. Well, the dudes were there. No, but you have dudes.

3:01There's a difference when you have somebody else. There is, but nobody else did the driving. But still, there's other people there to talk to now and then keep you awake. You're right. If you had started to feel like you were going to doze off, you would have passed the baton. You know, I wouldn't. But if you were going to die. Yeah, but I just don't know. Nobody goes the pace I want to go. Right. Okay. You and I discussed this before about if somebody else is driving, I get a little antsy because why did you make that pass? Why are you sitting behind this car? Yeah. Well, that's the way it goes. So anyway, tell me about your rally. Well, first of all, you're since you're not feeling well, I'm going to summarize your rally. Go. Okay, because I saw tons of photos. You sent me photos. I posted some. First of all, you got some really cool photos with Simon. Took some photos of you. Make you look like a pro adventure writer. Okay. So let's throw those photos in here. So let's throw those in. A couple of good picks and Simon is amazing. And you've even got a picture of Simon shooting a picture of all the people. He gathered and I called it for their morning goodbyes where they were all held hands and saying, Kumbaya before they went on their ride, right? And then again in the afternoon when they get back, they have a welcome, you know, Kumbaya

4:04moment. Yeah. And then Simon rides out on the trail. So you meet up with him. So he does a lot of the trail right. And he go down. He heard his knees. He didn't fall. He stabbed his knee real bad. Okay. Easy to happen on that stuff and those big bikes. So you had the right there. You also got, there were some dignitaries, some ex-racers on the ride. And you got a picture with your man boy crush with number five. Ryan Dungee. Which number five is now going to be next year? Do you know? I am going to say, no. Cold Davies. Cold Davies. I thought he was switching between seven, five and sometimes. I've heard it's five, so it's a good number. Yeah. I think it's cool to take. It's really cool. It's funny because this is my third year in the row and also Dungee's been there all three years. Does anybody have two right now? Cooper Web. Oh yeah, dang. Okay. Sorry. Sorry Cooper Web. Yeah. Not that he's watching our show. No, he's not watching the show, but I'm really surprised at you. Yeah. Not knowing.

5:05Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I forget a lot of stuff, man. Yeah. Right. Nothing. I remember 90s numbers. Better than current numbers. Okay. And you had your bros. The main bros were going to say Jim. Jim and Scott. Jim and Scott, you're two main bros. We've got pictures of them here. Yeah. Ben Bruddy's bros buddies. Bros is a different term to use nowadays. You're right. Yeah. So maybe just buddies. Just buddies. Okay. Riding buddies. Riding buddies for a long time and they all had a good time. Yep. And what's his name? Scott brought it, Teneri. Yep. To the KTM row. That's right. Okay. He's a bit of an outcast. And Jim rode your EXC. My EXC. Just totally fine, right? On the right. And we, Travis made that comfort seat for it. It made all the difference in the world. For sure. Okay. And then we had John Anderson from W. And so good group of guys. And then Larry. I got Larry Bieber from Iowa. Larry. What happened was James Schuster texted me and said, I have a buddy going by himself.

6:05Can he join your group? And I'm like, yeah, sure. And he's a decent rider first. He's actually really good. Mid to late 60s. He's 70. 70, oh my gosh. Yeah. He's 500 EXC and he was ripping. Okay. So for most guys on those rides, you think you're better off on an EXC? 500 EXC? I think probably, yes. For a lot of the stuff, you'd probably be better off with a 500 EXC. But you had a good time. A great time. You know, it's really not that technical a riding, honestly. And it's just, there's a lot about views and hanging out and covering distance. It was beautiful up there. Right. And Rato just got back from a similar ride with Yamaha Teneri. And he had a great time on that ride as well. So you're not into it, but I'm going to have to try to convince you, but you need to go there and be calm and just go with the flow. Right. You can't. That's not right up my alley, dude. That's right up your alley. Right. Sign me up, dude. Go there, be calm. I'm going to do the one next year. I'm actually forced to do the next year because it's so close to home. Right. So if you get a chance to go to these things, it is pretty cool.

7:07There are limited entries. I think the one next year is going to be limited even more. Yeah. So they're pretty cool to go to. So I hope you guys. I wore the new six. Oh, yeah. Let's talk about that. That's the trail helmet. That's the trail helmet with their special goggles for it. Show that little lever. Pull the lever, Cronk. You know what that's from? From what? Pull the lever, Cronk. What's it from? It's from Imper's new groove. So the kids would always say, quote, that one. Those levers, it locks it in. And when you push the levers down, it pushes the, the, the, the goggles out and you get a lot more air. There's a ton of air flowing. So what's going to happen is these goggles, they are really cool, especially for guys that wear glasses. Okay. So if you're wearing glasses, this is, I think, ding your a must. It's going to be way better. You're not going to have goggles pushing your glasses to your face. Like that's what happens with most guys with glasses, right? I wore my glasses. Yeah. Just wore your glasses like normal, but you don't have, with most guys, when they put any type of big goggle on, it's still pushing the goggle, the glass against their face. This thing is no pressure on your face to the, from the, from the glasses.

8:09And so, but they can steam up a little bit quicker. So that's what those levers on the off road helmet help vent it. And then once you get clear that, what do you call, you know, steam up, you can just shut it like normal and ride like normal. Well, and there's more vents too. So you have two more vents up here in the helmet and one, you can turn the one off in the mouthpiece on and off. Yeah. But for me, the, the view out of the goggles, a game changer off road, just the peripheral vision system. Did Bob go from six? No, I didn't go. Oh, he wasn't there. That's pretty, turn that thing sideways so we can see that thing real nice. And he has also got his cardo mount hooked up, which also your boys hadn't ever done cartos on the trail. What, what do they think of that? They were basically insisting from now on that they need a cardo. And you know, they didn't realize that they're, at the beginning, they were kind of like, ah, what's the big deal? But then after you realize what you can say and give each other crap and warn about situations coming up, they were like, they were sold. They were hooked, right? Yeah.

9:09And the cartos were perfect. It's like once we connected the three into a group, every day we just turned them back on. They were still connected and we went about our business. And they lasted all day. You know, each ride was about, first day was 135 miles, second right? It was like five or seven hours, right? Yeah, five or seven hours. Yeah. And they last all day, we charged them at night and no problem. That's awesome. So it sounds like a good trip. You had a good time. We got some cool photos that have been hopefully pasting in throughout this. Hey, let's talk about something else. We kind of skipped over. And that is I stopped at the Evil Can Evil Museum on the way home from your trip. You guys are so excited. We got some photos of you in here and you did a little podcast with the guy inside the Evil Can Evil. I can't believe they spent money, good money to get all this stuff back in this condition. The truck was a wreck. So the truck, the photos were out of control. I know. They restored this thing to mint condition and they have tons of his, you know, memorobily there. And they had the bat that he used that sent him to jail and he said, no, he didn't see the bat.

10:10I asked for it. You showed to me. I asked if I could hold it. So that was a cool thing. That was in Vegas and kind of downtown area. Is, yeah, it's closer to downtown like kind of they call it in the art district. So it's funny because I'm walking through the museum and I walk into the truck because they do let you go into the lounge area of the truck and there's a podcast in there and I'm like, Hey, what's going on? I go, Oh, we're a podcaster and I'm like, I do it too. And he's like, you want to be a guest? And I'm like, sure. And I sat down and because he knew you could talk right away. I guess. I can tell him, Hey, Donnie, on that adventure ride of the KTM's and Jim was on the 500 EXC. You had the trials tire on there. Yeah, I can't say enough about how good that tire was. There was no like, like muddy conditions. Really, there was a lot of moisture. That tire, I can't believe how amazing that tire was in situations like this. First, not having a kind of a more aggressive knobby on the street and you're not tearing that thing up. It rides 10 times better. And then the traction was unbelievable in the dirt. It doesn't wear out that much, right? It doesn't wear out. And it's still, you wouldn't think that the bike would have like a lot of good, a lean

11:12angle stuff, but it works perfect. Yeah, it's funny. People that know, know that trials tires are fine. The ones that don't think it's, they're like, what's that? Like that's stupid, you know, it doesn't have knobbies. So trials tires, like a little hidden secret. Yeah, little hidden secret for a trail. Hey, what's funny is I went when I was at the Evil Keneval Museum, all of his tires looked like that trials tire. Right. And that's what some people think it is. They go, you got like a speedway tire on there and they're like, no, it's a trials tire. It's like all gummy material. And they also have two different versions. They have a K950, which is street legal. And then they have the TL01, which I'm not sure which one we have on there. I'll tell you that I'm not, I'm going to, I'm going to be riding that bike around here more often, especially as it gets cooler. I go for a little ride up behind my house. And I'm not taking that tire off. Yeah, I'm leaving it. That's awesome. Hey, so before we get too far into the show, I want to remind you guys to send your questions via email to me. You can go off our website to get there. It's very easy to do it by TV one. There's a contact. Also use our links from when you're shopping at Rocky Mountain right on our website. There's one that says shop Rocky Mountain and other good discount codes.

12:15Let's talk a little bit about SMX. So the sad part about SMX is that it's over. It's over. There's no more racing. And motocross the nations is next this weekend coming up. I don't know how to watch. I don't know how to watch it. We're at the pay for a stupid deal, which just so you know, the last thing I just paid for, World Supercross? Does it cover it? Well, World Supercross is gone. No, it doesn't cover it. No, it's not even in there. Of course. I got a 19% credit because I'm missing. They canceled the England round. Okay. So they gave me like $8. Oh, nice. 19% credit. I'm not saying. I'm crushing it. You can buy a breakfast for you though. A half a one, dude. Half a one. In California. In Del Taco, we could do all right. So anyway, I bought that package and it was like that first round was kind of fun to watch because there was nothing else on that weekend or something. So it was fun to watch. So, but with SMX, they had the three rounds. First one was muddy. Kind of a wash, man, because it was just kind of muddy and lame, right? It's still the Deegan Road amazing. He did. I have to grant him for that.

13:15He didn't just look at it. And Davey's too, right? Davey's too. Then second round. And second round. His bike messed up in the one of the motos. Yeah, he got a chain got stuck with a rock. With a rock. Okay. And then LA, no, there wasn't that many fans there. And this is a place that sells out Anaheim with 55 to 60,000 people, right? And that place holds 30,000. 30,000. And it was about, I'm going to say 15 to 18. 18 to, I would say you're probably right. Somewhere in there. A two third to three quarter. Pretty lame. I will say that the last, as soon as I saw pictures of the dirt going in at Branson, it's the court ridge deal, but it's Branson right there in Missouri. As soon as I saw pictures of the dirt going in at this is legit. This looks cool. It's a concert venue and it's terrace grass down. Now maybe it's not the greatest viewing for around, but I think they're going to probably work on some of that for people to get around further on the track. And the racing wasn't epic because there was too many sweepers. They didn't have it come back enough and one line. One line.

14:16So I think they can fix that in the future to help improve the racing characteristics of the track. But I was listening to somebody talk about it. I think it was Pope maybe had said that even Vegas, if you remember Vegas didn't have very much passing. Right. Because it was high speed, you followed everybody out of the stadium and all that. It was gnarly high speed. I certainly feel like this was the best looking round we've seen out of any of the SMXs of this. It was very unique to see an event at a place like that and it looked like it was packed. They did say it was sold out. I don't know what that number is, but it was packed. The only problem was it didn't rent enough lights. Nope. The big things I think they'll improve is lights and also try to get the racing a little bit better with the design of the track. The thing to remember is the other thing is I looked at the weather. Do you realize from Sunday that thing had a little bit of sprinkle Saturday night, right? Sunday through the next nine days, I think, showed a significant chance of rain every day. So the problem is that time of year in those areas, that can happen.

15:21As good as it was, if it had rained there, it would have been a bust and two. But anyway, it was cool. I do want to talk a little bit about the money. They came up with some big money. Prado ended up winning 1.175 million. Nice. And Deegan ended up winning 710,000. Not bad. Now I'm going to tell you something crazy. Did Jet Lawrence race this? No. He won 26,000 from the event. $26,000 because his points were high enough to have. I guess of his points. That's funny. Benny Bloss raised two rounds. Jet Lawrence made more than Benny Bloss. Do you think Jet is going to notice that $26,000? No, no, no. He does account. Not a insurance payment for one of his cars. OK. Yeah, he's not going to notice. Oh, the 26,000 came in. Where I think is cool is the guy's farther down the list. Mitchell Harrison and Michael Harap, they make 36, 38,000. What place were those guys in? They were, they were, they were, was it so? Right, 20, you know, not 18th, 19th place. And those guys are getting those kind of checks.

16:22Yeah. Very cool. So it was good racing. It was cool. Kitchen got a championship. He hasn't had a championship yet in that class. And Pro Circuit hasn't had one in a long time. It's not as, even they want to say it's a big deal. It's not as big a deal as winning a, you know, one, two 50F, a west or an east coast on a two 50F or a outdoor. Or would you suspect a manufacturer bonus would be for these races? I think it's nothing. I don't know that they even have it factored in it. I bet you it's something, but I think if it's a million dollars, let's say for a super cross, they're making 200,000. I don't know. I doubt it's even anything like that. I've heard that they weren't really planned out for this. No one knows how it was going to go. Because this is the fourth year, right? So they've third year. Third year. So they've probably put it into, I bet your Prado put it into his contract. Let's see. I guess Prado was a little bit more than I was supposed to say. Prado was happy to have it right. So let's talk about that a little bit. I, I, to me, that is the biggest story of this year of 2026 as far as Moto is that the Prado turnaround, there's nothing else. There's zero people, at least that I'm aware of you or where that would have been like,

17:23oh yeah, if he gets in a different bike, he'll be way better. I said he would. Way better. Like winning races. I just said he would be better. Better. At least mentally. I think I thought for sure he'd be better. Yeah. Okay, what's better? I think 10th to 12th in supercross. He got second place at the first supercross. He also, he also won two races and was fast, qualifier all the time was good in whoops in supercross. Outdoor, he won the last race. Now, there was a lot of stuff going on, but he won the last race. He was, was awesome at this SMX. He did everything he needed to do. So he's in a good position. He's going to denations for Spain and they have a decent team. So he'd have a chance there. I think, I think Belgium's going to win. That's just my opinion. Yeah, I don't know about those Kunen brothers, what the situation there is. They stay up there fast. Yeah. And, and, and Lucas is coming back. So I don't know the injury situation. Their mind might already be in California, getting out here to go. Point out here to ride. I was really happy for Prado. I like him as a personality and a writer. I like his kind of aspect. Well, I didn't like him at all last year, but now I always like the, the underdog or the

18:25come from behind. The come from behind the story of a guy who, you know, whatever you want to call it, but he's redeeming, he's redeemed himself from last year of complaining about the bike. You're just like, oh, he's just a complainer. But we don't have to get into the depths of this, but in your opinion, how does this make Kawasaki look? It doesn't look good because they're losing sex and it looks like that's a done deal. So the, it doesn't look good. And I've been a big advocate saying, I don't think it's the bike. I think these guys can do it. But we're going to see, I don't know when they're going to get that bike turned around, but they're not going to have a top three, four guy right away. Right. I thought they should move kitchen up. I don't think that's happening. So he looks like he's in state, pro circuit there. And right, I thought they should move him up. He's, he's kind of tapped out in there. Davies is still going to be the young kid. Give him some time to go in that class and get four through six places. Yeah, because of year after all things being equal, Davies has to move up next year, though year after this. Yeah. He has to move up to four fifty. After he wins, he can only defend his, okay, yeah, if he defends and wins, he has

19:26to move up. Okay, but if he loses supercross, he can go one more, one more year. And who anything can happen to get sprained his ankle the first week and he's messed up. Exactly. So say before I forget, I want to talk a little bit about donations and wow, like Deegan's not going and there's a lot of guys who, I don't say a lot, but there's a decimab that don't want to go anymore. And I, here's my problem with, with this deal is I'm all for fighting for your country or whatever, like in the Olympics, you, you would go, right? But this day and age, somebody's making millions of dollars in this event and it's just doesn't seem fair that the talent, the people showing up aren't getting anything for it. And this is even more unique because this is, you have three or four of the best, best riders from that nation showing up. So it's not like a big guy from that nation is showing up. It's all the best people. Right. And you're not paying all the best people to show up. And I would be fine if the event didn't make money. Let's say the event didn't make money, let everybody in free or everything. Or if all the money that was made went to these dirt world countries, it did something.

20:29Sure. Okay. If it did something different, okay? So people are like, well, you should just go ride for your country anyway, right? Well, sorry, this company that runs it, I think it's called Infront is the new name. You know, it's gone through a few, just, it's gone through a bunch of names, right? The people that run it, they make millions off this event, got sponsorship from Monster and all this. So they should be paying the top guys to go over there. And they're the ones selling tickets. That's what I think. Yeah. So it cost everybody money to go. Yeah. And at the end of the day, in the US, for the most part, the teams and most of the fans really only care about super cross and nationals and motor cross. Well, it's important to us when it's here. Right. That's about it. Yeah. So if we lose at this stuff, I don't know that it's a big deal. And as far as digging, not going and people being upset that he wants money, I'm have a hard time, you know, arguing with it. If it was me and I was in that position, you just raised a huge, you know, a bunch of races and then here, all of a sudden, you got to go race this race for free because you're proud of your America, which I totally get. I'm all for supporting your country and everything.

21:30The problem is in this case, it's not that simple because there is someone making big ol' evil guy is making a ton of money. Yeah, it's funny because it, you know, it's the most, one of the most dangerous sports in the world and you're not supposed to get paid for it. Yeah. Hey, bring that out in front of you, Donnie. That thing you were just holding. This is a shell from Donnie Metaguy. So this though is picture up here from you met him at the hotel. Anthony. Anthony. Anthony met him in San Diego and St. George. St. George. He was heading back home. Yeah. And he had a YZ250 in the back of his truck. He's been changed in there because he's parked next to my van. That's right. We're going out to get in the van to go to Idaho and he walks out and he's starting to load up and I'm like, oh, hey, man, you ride like where you go. And he goes, I just got out of the air for six years. I'm going back home to San Diego and I'm going to go ride, you know, and we're going back to our bike ride. And I'm like, oh, that's so cool. I'm from Marietta. We ride all the same tracks. Bob, Bob, Bob. All right. What were you doing in the military? He was a crew chief on an A-10 Thunderbolt to Warthawg and they shoot 30 millimeter

22:38depleted uranium rounds out of their big gun. And I go, I love airplane. And he goes, oh, I have a shell. Do you want one? I'm like, sure. So he ends up giving me the shell out of this thing. And I just, it's pretty awesome. He was an awesome guy. And we appreciate his service. The first of all, given six years. And hopefully you can meet up with us at Glen Helen or something. Yeah, I got his Instagram. I'm actually haven't hooked up with him yet, but I will say something to him. And yeah, I thought it was really, really rad that he gave me this. That's awesome. Well, we got some good, good adventures. That's what happens when you're out on the road. I run into people all the time out on the road, usually even at the gas stations at the Maverick. Just pulling in there. That's easy to be your favorite meeting spot. You're right. For sure. We even were, we're not on a trip and you met another kind of like Instagram guy that you kind of knew a few years ago. So that happens a bunch. So hey, I just want to remind you, this show is brought to you by Weisko since 1993, Donnie that I've been there. Dunlop tires FMF Cardo systems, which we just talked about.

23:39Decal works, blaster products, arc levers, works connection, Pro X, race tech. Remember, you can sign up for those seminars still in November. If you're looking for an engine or suspension seminar, they have a few different ones to choose from. And remember, on X Off Road. On X Off Road, we love this app. Here's why. If you're trying to make a full weekend out of it, find a campsite close to the riding, on X Off Road, disperse camping layers shows you exactly where you can find legally set up on US Forest Service Land and even BLM Land. No guessing, no getting kicked out. Make it a two, three, four, five, six, seven day ride. Start your free seven day trial on On X. Link in the description. Go DBTV1 to save. All right, Donnie, we're back. We're ready for some tech questions now. You like tech questions? I do, yeah. Okay. The good thing about this is you don't have to do much or say much. I'm kind of liking this today. Okay. This is from Caleb. He says, hey, Jay, do you have a general recommendation for lifespan and hours to change

24:39a piston in a KTM 250SXF for the average C class guy with good oil and filter change habits, which is good because they don't like to suck dirt. And if you want to keep up on those oil changes, he has a 2250 with 50. 58 hours on it that runs great in a valve's hardly a budge. And I'm wondering if I could push 75 hours on it or you should just change it out now. So what I told him is he can go 175 hours like these KTM engines as long as you don't suck dirt. And the way you could tell is if it gets hard to start, you could check the valves, then that would tell you got a problem. But otherwise these bottom ends and top ends go so long on the KTM bikes. So what happens to the valves? You know, we'll all suck in if they suck dirt. No, no, when they, when you have to check the valves other than that. Not, not then. They never get tight. That's what makes it hard. No, they don't, they don't ever really have a problem. They don't have a problem. Now, I'm not going to say the KTM Austrian bikes are perfect. They have other issues. Corkey stuff. They have electrical things that are quirky that I don't like. Other things. But as far as the engine, the crank, the piston and the valve stock, they're the longest lasting best bikes you can get.

25:39So I told me you can go much longer. So that helps out a bunch. Okay. So Dominic A. writes he has a YZ250F. Does a different intake make much of a difference. So what's a better option? I've seen people use the 450 air boxes, racetack air box or an dual injector air box. So yes, on a Yamaha, they want more air and there are different air boxes to run. But I told them, hey, if you, any of that stuff you do to change an air box, you would need to do a vortex ECU or a mapped, probably not going to be able to map the stock one. You're going to need a vortex like from twisted to do theirs with either just a single injector with a bigger box, which I've run. That's really good. Or a dual injector from them or like a racetack, somebody like that. Otherwise, if you just throw it on there, it's not going to run right with your stock ECU. Pee Pee says a few years back, I had an issue with my YZ250F drain plug. I stripped it out and had no idea how to, how I did it. I'm a skilled mechanic, but a non torn part repair was terrifying. Watching your video on time, certain repair in a YZ250F found it funny.

26:40It was the exact same bike. Drain plug gave me the confidence to do it without breaking the engine down. It helped tremendously and I can't thank you enough for that video. Now I will say, so one of the problems on this bike, the Yamaha, the material in the cases isn't that strong, but if you take care and don't over tighten it, you should never have to do this, first of all. But the bolt comes in from the back of the engine. So for him to do this repair, he had to take the engine out of the frame. There's no fixing this with it in the frame because there's absolutely no room to work on that drain bolt area. So first of all, one of the biggest tips I'll tell people, when you're going to drain your oil, when you put the new bolt back in, first of all, everything should be clean, contact cleaned off a little bit of grease on the washer and on the bolt on the threads. And make sure you use a new washer every other third time or whatever so that you're not, because if you have a crushed washer, you're having to tighten that bolt much more and that's allowing it to crush and pull the threads out of the case. Like you, I just buy like 10 at a time, crushed washers and then just like you said, just

27:41about every third, I just change it. So the other key is so when you drive out bolt in from the back of the engine, dial it in 95% of the way. It should go almost all the way in just by fingers. If it's not, pull it out, blow it out, clean it off, see what's messing you up. But it should go in by your fingers that easily. So that's really important to do. And I did do a good video on that that that helped, but you have to have the engine out and a time-sert is the only way to fix that correctly. Don't you feel like this is probably one of those areas that and the, I would say, the rear axle, everybody over-tightens these bolts. They're always afraid of them coming out. You drain bolt, they're well over-tightened because that they think and it's like, yeah, it's very common. I told you what happened to my generator. Oh, yeah, yeah, you couldn't get the bolt out. Even the dealership wouldn't work on it. The dealership that put it in, and I went to change the oil with them the next time, they wouldn't take it out because they couldn't get it out. This is in your motor home. My motor home, then they rounded it off and I had to get one of the socket sets that

28:41you gave me with the grip edge. The grip edge. And I had to put the longest breaker bar on it and thank goodness it came off. Yeah. It was nice. Yeah. Alright, so our next one's from Angus. You're going to guess what country Angus is from? You don't have the cheat sheet here. I know I'm going to say Angus is from Australia. Good job. That's easy, right? You nailed it. Hey, Clarky, busting for a ride this weekend, but I have a leaky forksil. Any suggestions to fix it so I can get one more ride out of it on the weekend. Cheers, lots of love from Australia. So you're good. And I just know Angus from ACDC. So this is an easy one for me. Right. And I just don't know that I've heard the name Angus a whole lot, you know, really. I've never heard it before. Is Angus beef an Australian thing? No. No, it's here. Okay. So anyway, Angus is from Australia. And so is Angus young from ACDC. So I thought that was cool. But anyway, to answer your thing, unless he's really good at prayer, there's no really

29:43good magic fix. We've tried, you know, their seal saver things you can flip around there or you can get a tear off because a tear off is actually one of the thinnest things. If you've ever done that, Donnie got a tear off in there. No, I use a filler gauges. Filler gauges. So you could pull the dust seal down. The copper one. The thinnest one you can. The thinnest one. Okay, so you pull the, first thing you have to do is pull the dust seal down. Put it way down. Spray it all with contact cleaner and then get one in there and you're going to try to turn it around whether it's that filler gauge or a tear off. Something very thin. Go around. What you're hoping to do is to pull a piece of dirt out of there. I've had this work about 10 to 15% of the time. I agree. That's about it. Now, if so, if it's on the brake side, I wouldn't even bother because you're just going to ruin your brake pads and all that. So, so no. So I told him that if it's on your brake side, it's going to soak into your brakes. The other thing it's going to do, if you run it really low on oil, you're going to damage stuff inside and cost yourself more money. But I understand with the guys at, I would be hard pressed to, we've done a ride like we've left knowing it's not good, done the quick fix and hope it's better and it's been

30:44like 30, 40% better during the ride and maybe at the end it's pouring out. I had this happen at a works race one time, years ago and it happened during the race and the brakes went completely away during the race and I could not figure out what's going on. And then the next race, because I was racing two races, I literally took a rag, tied it around the fork tube. Okay. I pulled the brakes out, contact cleaner, it's sanded him as best I could and it lasted and the rag was soaked with oil. Oh, geez. So, I'd still want to ride so bad. That's bad. Yeah. And it does ruin those pads when it's soaked in it. Or ruin them, but I got them through the next race. Yeah. Alright, I got a big one here from Bryant G. He says, hey, Jay, love your videos from time to time, just thought I'd share a little info with you. I haven't seen you do this, but for me it works very well. And I got these photos in the thing here, Donnie, you'll see these. It works very well. For us guys that are weekend riders a lot of times, we don't use the entire bottle of whatever it may be. So, I'm one of those guys, I always collect tops of bottles and make the best use of

31:46that I can find. And so he started making it, it makes a lot less mess and it's indefinitely better. And he uses electrical wire nuts. It worked pretty much well for the top of the little bottles, the squeeze bottles. And then those pictures are there. And he says, speaking from experience, I was going to break in an engine in a few years back and accidentally mix maximum FFT in the gas, thinking it was Amzoel Saber, because it's the same color to both blue. And so then he fixed that because he stopped putting in clear bottles. We use stuff so quickly at our place that we don't have this problem, but it is kind of cool. You can see these photos. He's come up with some good little clear tops there. So, we appreciate Bryant for sharing his cool tech tip. But Kaelin B says, hey, I noticed you on Instagram and I thought you might have some answers to my question. I own a two stroke. I was wondering if you might have an idea what could cause it to foul spark plugs. He has a 23125 XSX with only five hours. Brand new from the dealership. And he's gone through some plugs. He's tried plugs. ECU specifically. He says he's running 91 gas and he's running the recommended 40 to one.

32:49And this isn't the first time I've seen these types of problems on, yeah, don't need to ride faster. But the reality is some of these problems unfortunately happen on these TBI. These fuel injected two strokes are a little bit harder to deal with than a carburetor. So, some of this is going to be getting this stuff dialed with your local dealership. Yeah, it's just the nuances of each bike and they're that specific injector. Yeah, something's a little weird. Something's a little off. Yes, something's a little bit weird. So, just be careful. I just bought, which we're going to go over later. I'll mention it later because I want to get ahead like Donnie did earlier. But I bought a 300 another 300 carb bike that I'm fixing up. So that'll be a cool story. And I'm sticking on the carburetors. Joey B says, hello Jay. I hope life is going awesome, which it is. Thank you. I got suspension done. A question. My son, which is 185 pounds and he's got a 22 CR 450. The SAG is set up. But he loses the front end in turns. What would you recommend for clickers, shock and fork also?

33:51He's a novice rider if that helps. First of all, that's a key for question. Because to me, if you're losing the front end, I would look much more at tire. Where the forks are in the clamps. And what kind of pressure you're running. But where are you sitting? I get seats. I get guys saying they're losing the front end all the time. I think they watch Supercross. Yeah. And they see a guy like Sexton or whatever toss in the front end, James Stewart, whatever right. This is not the same thing. So for most of us, changing four or five clickers in the forks isn't going to make you stop losing the front end. That's where the first thing I go to. So if you're thinking that changing my clicker's five spots is going to help me save this magically, it's not. So first of all, you need a really good front tire. And I've had teams that are, I know guys and teams that are even sponsored by like a B or C level tire, right? But in the front tire, they will run. They'll get a dumb lot, right? Right. They're going to run a dumb lot. Because it's so important to have a good hooking up front tire, especially on moto. And if he's concerned about losing the front end, if he's riding, whatever it is,

34:53the type of terrain, but there's so many variables. So many. Loading the front end. Are you trail breaking? Are you pushing pressure on the outside peg? Are you like, yeah, my biggest thing is, first of all, what tires you running? What tire? What pressure? Like there's so many variables. Unless you watch a video and over and over again. And that's why you can move forks down in the clamps. And that will give you better straight line stability. If you move them up, then that will continue. Have you be able to turn better? Now turning better might make you lose, turn a little too quick for you. So you might want them back down again. So there's all kinds of things you can do like that. But I'm going to tell you right now that for most of us, four or five clickers, even on the forks, isn't going to help us stop losing the front end. We're losing the front end. It's something else usually. That's my take. All right. I want from Zach C. Jason. He says, Jay, stupid question. Do you think it's a stupid question? No such thing. All right. My good friend and I were riding deep in the wood. You're like this one's kind of funny. Deep in the woods and some serious ravines. It was hot and we were exhausted. Okay.

35:54First of all, I don't ride trails when it's hot, typically. Okay. That's my first thing right there. Yeah, but you can get hot riding trails. Yes. But usually I don't like to ride above 75 degrees. Exactly. A trail riding. People go, well, you're spoiled. Yeah, I'm spoiled. He stuck out in the desert or in the mountains hot and working hard like that. So for me, trail riding days are 50 to 70. What happens when it's going to be 100 degrees at Glen Helen? How do you ride there? We ride in the morning. First thing in the morning. First thing in the morning. We leave there before it's ever even 90. We left there one time. Was it 10? It was 9.59. Oh my gosh, you're right. Because we got there early. We did our motos. Yeah. And we were 9.50. And out of there so quick. I think Glen Helen with you and seeing many trucks coming in to go around. Almost yes. So many. So he says, as a novice rider, it hasn't ever crossed my mind. Well, you do if the bike grenades out there. Okay. First thing, none of my bikes are grenades out there, right? I knock on wood. But we're riding new bikes.

36:55Okay. So if you're, now we have the luxury of doing that. Okay. So none of our bikes. But I get what he's saying. Let's say it has a serious problem. It throws a chain. Whatever. What are you going to do? The bike, the hike back will not be only treacherous. But how could you retrieve the bike? Do you have to leave it and come back with an ATV? First of all, anywhere we go, there's no getting in there with an ATV. So I'm not sure where he's riding. But there's no ATV getting into where we're going at all. Like no or a course. Sometimes we have trouble getting out with running bikes. Right. Obviously, I'm trying to maintain my bike well. And I have zip ties in the case. I get a flat, which is good. All I know about bikes is no bikes break. Well, that's my new fear, thanks. And so yes, bikes break. But if you maintain them well and have newer bikes, they doesn't happen as often. So if you're on older bikes, then I think you need to carry more of a pack. You know, master link. Toes strap. Toes strap. And towing in difficult conditions could be a challenge.

37:57So I have heard many stories of guys who leave bikes will ride out double on one bike. Get the parts they need in the tools. Ride back, double, fix the bike there, bring it out. That's how most of the guys in the mountain stuff are doing it. We had one of our guys brought a motor cross bike. And what happened to his clutch? Oh, he smoked it. He smoked his clutch. And the worst possible place you could smoke terrible. Yeah, that was funny. We just, he was with somebody else brought him and we just said, hey, that's your responsibility. Yeah, they got him out, but it was still. Yeah. Okay, Wyatt C says, and I got some cool pictures of this in the show notes. He has a Y-U-Z125 Power Valve Springs that, and this is a 2002. So you have to remember this bike is like 25 years old. Okay. And the left, he says that the open flaps, the left spring is holding the Power Valve flat slightly. Even open, everything is bolted down. The arm comes up from the clutch cover, little Allen bolts in the springs to the shaft. Brand new springs in Power Valve's from Athena.

38:58I noticed the part that holds the springs has some grooves wore into it. The springs are at different angles, and he helped see the holders. Okay, so the parts were definitely worn out. He did get new parts and it went together and it still has a tiny bit of lag. Brad looked at it too on video and we kind of both agreed that sometimes you're over thinking it, but you can see that when it cuts wears grooves into a steel shaft, the spring, you're gonna wanna replace those. So, simple, simple deal. Luckily, they're still available from Yamaha because I think they're probably very similar to the current ones. Yeah, the motors haven't changed. Oh, too, yeah. Okay, we got Ron in North Carolina. You're like this one, Donnie, because we kind of already touched on this. Hey, Jay, what is the longest drive in hours you have done in one day for trail riding? Down and back in one day, no overnight stay. How far will you drive one way for trail riding? Two hours, one way, three hours, more, thanks. Okay, so to answer this, I told him, I basically was, I was pretty much at three hours. It would be the max I would drive for a one day ride, which is something we have done,

39:58and if you were to go to Beening, that could very well take nearly three hours to do that on a weekday, right? And different places like that. If you were to go out to the desert, some places, it could take close to that two and a half, right? So, for me, three hours would be max. I don't know why, but for me, that's why I like is to go and get two days of riding and spend one night. We don't have a place in between what he's talking about. That's true, for us and so on. It's either three or it's five, six, six, seven, yeah. It's not three than four than five to go ride. It just really is. I mean, you can go to Devs' Braings or Kennedy Meadows or something, which we could do. Kennedy Meadows is four from us. That's really it. Then the next lead. So I wouldn't do that in one day. I wouldn't drive eight hours and ride for four to six. In one day, there's no way. I'm too old for that. No. Yeah, the drive I just made to do two days of riding, it was four days of driving for two days of riding.

40:59And how many Glen Helen Day, we want to talk about that topic. We can go ahead. Okay, so I was talking about like how many, I'm not beating you up. I'm just saying how many Moto Glen Helen Day is it cost you that trip before, during, and after? Because then when you get home from a trip like that, you're kind of exhausted. It really cost me three going Helen Day's. No, it has to be four to five. We can say four, we will not say five. All right, all right. Okay. Because Tuesday through Tuesday is it. Okay. But you didn't ride that Thursday when you came back. No, I know, but that's your fault. Okay. I tried to ride Saturday and you heard me. I called you. What are we doing? It was shop day. And you fixed my elbow. Hey, and you blew me off. Yeah. All right. Jerry C says, hello, Jay, here's a quick question for the show. How and why does the counter shaft crush washer on my bike's move? I use a new crush washer, lock tight, the bolt, torqued it to spec, even paint it a little bit. I got photos of this Donnie in there, and there's a dirt tricks.

42:00He got the dirt tricks washer on there. He says, before too long, he puts a paint pin mark and it moves and you can see the washer turns, but yet the bolt doesn't come loose. What gives? He goes, I'm at the point, I painted the bolt and washer and you see it. So the problem with this, I've seen this and not just with the dirt tricks one. The dirt tricks one's supposed to have more tension on it. I noticed that the stock one does this also. I thought other guys asked me, so I don't know what to say other than, and maybe that's why I would just have a fresh stock one on all the time, but we've never had a problem with it. It does seem to resonate and turn a little bit, but as long as that bolt is tight, we've never had one come loose on a KTM bike. So I don't think it's a big deal. So Jerry's in a good, good hands and he's not alone. I did tell him he's not crazy because other people have noticed this too with the stock or in his case, this other aftermarket washer, which is supposed to have more spring tension, but that KTM bolt, I think when it bottoms out,

43:01that's all you get. So all right, and I got one from Ryan here. I think this is our last one. Yeah, here we go. Hello, I was, I see you're using a flat head to bleed your fork. So I was wondering if you could have a special flat head screwdriver that doesn't chew up the fork bleeder screws. I'm not sure if I put a video or photo in there. I don't think I did, but what I did for that, so on some of the bikes, like my Yamaha's, the air bleeder screw that you would undo with your flat blade, it's very, it's kind of fat, but yet it's skinny. So there's not a lot of screwdrivers. If you use a skinny screwdriver you put in there, you can start to gnaw up that little flat blade. So what I did is I got a couple craftsmen to screwdrivers that are chipped and broken. I've used them as punches, right? And we have that drawer just for those junky screwdrivers, I call it, I did cut one of those off and flattened it and made it just fit perfect in there. Cause now when I backed it up, it now it's a little bit fatter part of the screwdriver and it fits in there perfect. I have a client electrical screwdriver that is really long that works really well.

44:01And it fits in the groove nice. It fits in the groove nice. Okay. All right, new videos, we don't have a lot of new videos out. We have the Apex clutch video, we put in the YZ250F, so that clutch is for, it's a conventional, it's a torque drive clutch, it's not an auto clutch, and that's for guys that are looking for hardcore Moto, mainly especially on 250Fs, but looking for a really durable, heavy duty clutch, that's one of the best clutches you can get. Project bikes as of late, the KX500 has stalled out a little bit, but we did get further and that I actually did do some riding a little bit more with it, we fixed the water pump issue, I still need to ride it some more and get on that. So, and then we're gonna talk a little bit about that bike. I bought is the 300XC, I'm not sure if we showed it last show, but I have the 300XC, we are moving. I think we showed the cases last show. Oh yeah, welded, yes. So it is all fixed up, cases are going to, Sarah to vapor blasting with my buddy Isaac at the Terra Motorsports over by me, he does vapor blasting,

45:01and then Brent, the guy with that bike, and Vegas is gonna do some of the pieces, he's gonna just Sarah coat some of the pieces, and then what do you call him? Dallas welded up the frame for me, put some tabs for the skid plate, we put those on. Did you try welding? No, you didn't, no. I thought you were gonna try a little bit. No, okay, no, no, that ship is sailed. I got good guys, I say, always make a good welding buddy friend. That's great to have. So that's cool to have. We welded up the frame, and the frame is that San Diego powder coating along with Rattos frame and Pingri's 125 frame. He's doing a Suzuki 125, so he's all excited about that. The YZ250, I got pictures in there, we got the engine done from TMR last time, I think we showed the cylinder and the head modified by Tom Morgan. Well, now they're in the engine, and the engine's in the bike, we got it started, but I didn't have the radiators back on to have you further along, so I should have that. The radiators got modified by ICW, and those are on the bike, going on the bike next.

46:03And so I'll have that YZ250 go along further. And then my Husky FC250, that's a dual injector, that's a 27 bike, and I took the dual injector off of our gas gas version from last year, and that bike just rips. And Jamie just dynoed it, everything's really good, and I'll be shooting that one soon, I think with Kiefer with racerex, so it'd be a cool bike. So Blaster is a big, as you see, we use a lot of Blaster and Gunnk products, same company, and I had a good meeting with these guys, Gunnk, they have, there's some new regulations coming on, there's some, I forget that pack, or there's some term of this chemical that they can't have anymore. And brake cleaner. Yeah, it probably works too good. Yes, so they came out with this, I just got this today, and this is a very heavy can, donnie, they got a ton of fluid in here, so they got it really packed full of brake cleaner, so if you're working, it's acetone free, and clean AF, they call it. Whoa. Yeah, that's their like term, and you have that box right there in your desk. Well, this thing really shoots off like this, look at this, it's got a turbo spray, look at this, donnie.

47:05I think it's enough spray. That's pretty good, right? So I probably should catch our light on fire. Okay, hopefully we won't do any more, and the smell is decent, and it dries really quickly, I have not got to physically use it on anything yet, because I just got it today, so that's new from Gunk, really cool stuff there, and they have to deal with these regulations, and so that's what they have to do, so I'm not sure what's gonna happen in this stuff that's in California, but if you're, you know, going to Arizona and Utah, then you'll just buy whatever you need, right? If you're a mechanic. Here's that box, right? You're getting it. Powerful AF, it's acetone free, for those that are wondering about that. What do you call that, and use those letters? Yeah, we're not gonna use those. Okay. Writing trips, I'm going on a write, we already mentioned the writing trip, I'm going on this week, and then again later in October, I'll be doing another little one, desert one as well. So hopefully you can come on that one. I'm gonna try and go on that one. Okay. Product spotlight time, I wanna talk a little bit about the TUS skid plate. You modified that thing so well, I was really impressed because you, before,

48:07first of all, we shot a couple videos, maybe some oil change videos on the 530XC, and then your rally bike, your 890 before you left on the trip, and you had these big bars, and I had to take them off when I worked on the Rottweiler thing, which we'll get to. But we got this skid plate, and the problem is it doesn't fit with the center stand, which if I was to choose one, I'd want this center stand on. This center stand is ideal. On an adventure bike, I don't know why you wouldn't want a center stand, because it's pretty rad, right? Do you leave it on the center stand at night, like in the parking lot? Yeah. It's so cool. And then to be able to do tire changes and so forth, way better deal. So you cut up the, you did a good job of cutting that up, and right before you left on the trip, I thought you did a great job, and it makes it less wide, like two inches aside, maybe? Yeah, yeah, it took a bit off of it, for sure. And you noticed it just in the van loading. Yeah, it was amazing how much thinner the bike got inside the van. The bars would hit my wheel well. I couldn't get the adventure bike all, it was tough to get three bikes in the van, and this time it was quite a bit easier.

49:08I would like to use two inches aside. Right, I guess so. Yeah, that'd be nice. Yeah. So anyway, that was cool. And then it looks better too. The thing really looks slick, they did a good job, and I'm not trying to, I mean, I guess I am trying to pump them up. That skid plate for the money, Chemi is the best one out there. Yes, because there's nothing close in price range. No, and it has those, I don't know what you call that, plastic, it's a del-Royer. Yeah, del-Royer. So it's a bit of slippery stuff. And so it's pretty slippery. I mean, I had big rocks and stuff chunking underneath it. Nothing got, no chunks came out of the skid plate, it held up really well, it really did a good job. I think being wider would actually be more of a detriment to potentially hitting a tree or something. Well, I told you, in Deadwood, I hit a stump, and I almost died because the bike came to a stop, where it was like a flat surface that dug into the stump, and that wouldn't happen with this skid plate. Weisco Piston has over 80 years of experience manufacturing pistons in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Weisco Pistons are developed and proven

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51:10And then when you come back, we're gonna be right back after it. Back at it, okay. And then we got that rot-wireler intake. That was kind of last minute right before your trip. And were you really scared me? Yeah, because our buddy, we talked about this last show. We had some photos of it. James destroyed his 890 motor by sucking dirt. And there's a few things for that. Did you check out your filter after the ride yet? No. No, I figured as much. You wash your bike. I did wash it. Okay, let's take a look at that sometime. Maybe you could even pull the cover off and take a photo of what it looks like with that thing. Okay, you could show that in here. So the- We had a pre-filter on it too, which was good. Yep, I all did really good. And then I put the pre-filter on. But you're not in dust a whole lot because you were out front. I was in front. You were in the front of your group. I got no dust. Okay. All my friends had total dust face. I had none. That's the nice part about leading the group. Yeah, right? Because I was the one with the GPS. Nobody else had GPS except for me. So our buddy Jim went up to, he got the two red, 300s and 33 and I think 28 or 29. And he went up to Kendi Meadows with his son

52:11and sometime I'm gonna get back up there. They got their street legal. So the key up there is, it's not a, it's one of the few mountain places in Southern California. But there's a lot of whooped out junk in between the good stuff. There is some good stuff. What he's come up with is a really good dual sport route up there. Where you ride dirt road and asphalt to get to the cool single track sections, do those, makes it a longer ride, but you're doing a lot less of the whooped out junkie stuff. Now if you're from Utah, they love whooped out junkie stuff. They just line up for it. Okay. Then Mammoth Spencer and I went on a family vacation. Did you not tell you my story about years ago the Havasu works race? So my race was in the morning. And then my buddy said, let's race the team race, which is at the end of the day. And I'm like, here no problem. And I started and I'm not kidding you, dude, who's three foot whoops all the way around. I did the first lap. I gave the bike to my buddy and I said, I won't be here when you get back. When you come back around, I go whooped out, I'm done. And I literally walked out.

53:11It was his bike. I walked off. Anyway, that's what I think about whoops. Yep. So yeah, your back kills, everything kills. All right, people call us Wussi's. It'll be fine. I don't care. All right. So mammoth, Spencer and I took up the little dual sports. We have the Honda XR150L and then the Yamaha WR. And we had little dual sport rides. So fun. So got some cool photos of that thing. It's nice because you can tell the family, yeah, no, no, I didn't bring dirt bikes. Nope, I just, I bought these to get around. We didn't bring gear. We just bought our regular boots and then, and then helmets and so forth in our car. Those were cruise around. I got some great views and stuff, cool little videos. And then was the Glen Helen, we had the MXA dirt bike magazine high torque ride day, which you haven't missed in a few years. And you missed it in a long time. You missed it. So I was going to tell you to bring your shirt for that, but I got you a shirt. I appreciate that. It was my shirt because I didn't get it next one. So I just get it. All right. I sent it to a few buddies and pretended I went. Oh, did you have a break it?

54:12All right, we got the next one is Teddy Boyko. He's in Orange County. He helped me do a crankshaft rebuild, which he does a great job. Older guy, been around this industry a long time, racer from the 70s, 80s, and he rebuilds crankshafts. It's getting to be a lost art. So I shot a video with him doing it. So we'll have that up on our YouTube and the near future in the next few weeks. So showing people what it takes, the problem is it really takes a lot of decent tooling to press them apart, to put them back together. But that's the best way, like with a good Pro X rod that's from Japan with Japanese bearings, to rebuild a crankshaft. That was for this 300 build I'm doing. Do you feel like these components are better today than they were in the 80s and 90s? Yes, yes, as a whole. Like even cylinder, crank, rod, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. Stuff lasts longer. But you gotta be careful. There's some little things, and since COVID, some materials, things have been a little tougher. So we've seen some step backwards, but as a whole, yes,

55:15it's better. All right, I got a cool picture here. I think Pedro sent me this picture of me and Spencer. I think it went to the group, you might have already seen it. It's a retro picture, it's about 13 years ago or so. Spencer's around 12 years old on his super mini trail bike, and without trail riding in the mountains here, not too far from it. No, no one bike? Like in the winter. I don't think it was, I think it might have been that one, yeah. Somewhere in that range. It's an surprising, I remember that. And it might have been before that one, and it might have been just an 85. Well, like I said, it was an 85. It was an early video, so it had to have been around this time where we did a bike build on an off-road bike, 85. And it was 101, and we did it in a place that's in between your house and one of the other places we ride. Yep. And then we got the Yamaha Seats. Moto Seat has been modifying. On the Yamaha Seats, it is very curved. It goes like this, and it rides right up into your cracking. Goes right up there. So if you look at the star bikes, many of them are flattened out. They're custom at like Deegan's bike, and a lot of the guys, they flatten it out, like most of the other bikes.

56:15The K-TMs are really flat. The Honda's lot of bikes are flatter. And so Moto Seat has been doing this to our Yamaha. So if you have a Yamaha four stroke, and you're maybe sick of riding in the crack in there, you can get them to flatten it out, and it comes out. It's a custom deal, because he's got a glue on foam onto the sides of the seat and shape it, and make it really nice. So he did a really good job, as you can see on this Yamaha. That's for Spencer's 450 FX, which I'll probably ride a little bit when I'm up there. I bought a bunch of parts from a rich guy in Orange County. I think I might have told you about that. I got some forks and some different things. You said you were gonna sell some for me. I sold most of it off, and I still have a steering stabilizer and amount, because I don't ever go fast enough to need a steering stabilizer, I feel like. So if anybody, if I still have that stuff, I have it listed on Facebook, and I got a few other things, but the biggest cool thing was, I went and visited Brad on Saturday. Oh, that was a nice one. And he's getting up only a few times a week right now, but he is recovering for those that know Brad, he's a good buddy of mine for the last 20 plus years, and he's been paralyzed for a long time.

57:17And with that comes some really tough health challenges that can happen. So David Bailey was held back two to three years, dealing with some of these health challenges. This is a long time ago, he's been doing better. Some of that started with him trying to ride the dirt bike. Oh, really? Yeah, so he got some compression issues. So when everybody was hot on the guys that were, in chairs, back to riding bikes. So he's doing a little better. He's got a big doctors visit this week to get some more opinions on stuff. So I'll just go into that, that it's good to see him. It's gotta be tough to keep his spirits up. So I brought him over. He's getting up and he's just working a little bit right now, a couple days a week where he's just working a few hours. He's just basically working a few hours a week. So it's nice to see him up and going though. So we're all praying for him to get a little bit better. All right, so for our music CD this week, hold on, we gotta go over parts. You already went over the helmet. We already went over this. Let's talk about this weird looking cylinder right here. People are gonna go, what is this? You know what this is, Donnie? What's this for? You're gonna be swimming with it. Nope.

58:18What it is is Isaac, he's gonna vapor blast it for me. Oh, great idea. And this will keep you from messing up the bore. I don't wanna mess up the bore the cylinder, right? Great idea. So we don't wanna do that. I will probably touch it with the hone when it gets back. Is that KTM cylinder? Is my KTM 300 cylinder? So he's gonna vapor blast this thing and I learned this from Lassie and Puffer. They all had something similar. So it wasn't like I thought of it. But I looked over my shoulder when I, that's how you learn stuff. You put a pool noodle in there and that protects it's nice and tight in there. So I can. You don't realize in vapor blasting, like if you give, if you put a motor, a complete motor in the vapor blaster and I don't care if you tape everything up, that stuff still gets in the motor. It gets in there, people don't realize it. The other thing we got is a freshly cleaned and oiled filter from MX filter. Now Donnie's looking at this because it goes, I think that fits my EXC. I think it fits my XCF. I think it fits my SXF. I think there's no reason for you to take that back home. Right. So that's what Donnie's thinking right now is I open it up.

59:20It smells good, okay? So it's already, and it's got plenty of good oil and really good saturation. They have a little machine that spends them and so they get really good distribution of the oil and it's just taking. Yeah, so it doesn't really drip off. It's like a centrifuge for filters. Yeah, yeah, so it's really a good job. This is MX filter service in Southern California. So if you're out here, it's over by twisted and all the other shops and BP and everybody over there. The truth is I don't need it because you're already my filter service. Cause what did I do last time? I just got new filters from you. I cleaned them and then I gave you my old filters. So we got a new filter for Donnie. And if you send them a bunch of filters, it's cheaper. Obviously if you're shipping filters, you have to add that shipping cost in. But there's guys that stuff them in a mailbox. So how much is a system? It's like five bucks a filter. Oh, it's worth it to clean them and oil. If you get like over four or five done at one time. Yeah, why wouldn't you? No, so it makes sense. So that's MX filter service. They do a great job. Where are they at? And over by twisted. Right across the street. So Southern California, if you're going to ship them to them or if you live local, you can just drop them off

1:00:21and save you the shipping. So although gas is so expensive, you can't be driving too far, right? It's true or diesel if you have a diesel. I got to. I was excited to get out of a state to fill up my van. Right. I bet. I ran my, I didn't fill up here. I ran it until I got into Vegas. Yeah. And then I got fuel in vague at that maverick that we always go to. Yeah. And I'm like, I'm not, I'm not getting fuel in California. Yep. So our CD this week, I don't have a new music for you. But what I'm going to talk about is this right here. So for those guys, I'm not make, I don't want to encourage anybody to get Spotify. They don't want to get Spotify. There's other services. But here it is. This is Spotify. And I made a Dirtpack TV J Clark rock. And so that's how you have to search it. DBTV on caps. And then J Clark, J-Y, and then Clark is touching with rock. They're all touching. OK. I don't know why. And it's Donnie, you're going to like this. It is basically 23 hours. Holy cow. 22 hours and 57 minutes. I can listen to that all the way up to Idaho. Yeah, you could listen to it all the way there, all the way back.

1:01:25And only hear the songs, you know, twice. Hey, you know what the other reason I like driving to and from, like, place like that is, I pick the music all the way. Right. It's like, nope. All right. So Spotify, you can check out our playlist with that and lots of guys asked for that. At the end of the show, I don't think we're going to have anything special today, Donnie. We're just going to end it so you can end it sooner and get back to recovery. I've realized all my energy. Right. Right. So we get back to, so what am I wearing in the sweatpants? And I go, Donnie, you don't have to play like to make me feel sorry for you that you're sick and wear sweatpants. I think I'm making you feel sorry. Look, dude, I said no show and then what happened? We bullied you into a show. Spencer said, when he saw us driving over here, he goes, did you bully Donnie into doing a show? Do you think you bullied me into it? No. No. Because if I don't want to do something, I'm not doing anything. I think that I did pressure. If I hadn't have pushed you, you wouldn't have called me later and said, oh, we can do it now. I think that you'd certainly set off the thought. Like, can I do this? Am I going to? And then I wanted to do it.

1:02:26I don't want to not do them. Yes, exactly. So I like you dig and deep when you're not feeling well. Dig and deep. OK. All right, fun show. Can you think of anything else Donnie? You got anything else to talk about? No. Racing. So nothing much to watch the next three months, right? I will actually almost did it yesterday. I'm going to go back and probably watch the last SMX race again. Yeah. I do watch several races. I watch the race several times, usually, you know. It wasn't great racing throughout because the start was so start dependent. It was very few moving up. If you're going to move up, you weren't going to be able to move up into top three if you're way back. Like, I'm not some expert, but I do like going back and watching how these guys ride, especially Deegan, because if you look at Deegan at the beginning of MotorCross, compared to right now, and everybody's saying, oh, he's riding too hard. He's pushing too hard. He's overriding the bike. Well, now I feel like he's subtly settled down. Yeah.

1:03:27And he's gotten faster. I just want to try to compare early to what he's doing right now. How ready do you think he's going to be for Supercross? For 50 Supercross, Anaheim, is he a top two guy at Anaheim? For sure. Okay. I mean, top three, for a fact, he was top three in outdoors. Who else is going to be there that's going to be above, you know, there's going to be... We don't know what Chase Sexton's going to be. And we don't know if Roxanne's coming back or not. Yeah, I think Roxanne's for sure coming back. I do think he's for sure coming back. I think so. Do you think it's... He knows... Do you think this is going to be a, you know, a victory lap? Yes. And so I say that with the caveat of... I could see him getting third through six for the first half of Supercross. If he stays healthy, if you stay healthy, you could be in the top three easily in points and have a shot at the end. So that's how you win Supercross Championships. It's a 17-round series. That's one of the hardest series to stay healthy in ever. If you can make it through halfway, healthy and be top three in points, you have a shot to win.

1:04:27I think the biggest question mark is Jett because honestly, I'm surprised even with his foot that he wasn't... Honestly, he wasn't the champion. Not to take anything away from his brother. Right. But for outdoors, I mean... No, because you and I were always joke around, 90% Jett is gnarly. 80% Jett should win, you know, because he's just that good. But I think it tells you how bad that bone is and you saw the posts of how much hardware they took out of there. We assume they put some hardware in at the same time. I doubt they just took everything out and just left it. I'm guessing. I was talking to some guys. I told you I broke that tailless. And for two years, I gained like 70 pounds because I literally couldn't walk. And then what do you still have? Did they leave any screws in there? No. What they ended up doing was it was crazy. They took all the screws out and they ended up drilling a bunch of holes in it to get blood flowing through. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I still couldn't walk. I was on one of those knee scooters for like six months. Dude, this is terrible.

1:05:27I don't know this. Yeah. You told me the story though. Yeah, you got to put your eye number now. Well, you don't think about me in those terms. You just think about if I can do the show or not. Right. If you're going to be a quitter or not. All right. All right. So hope you guys enjoyed that. Remember to like, comment, subscribe. Keep those questions coming. Use our links from our good companies that help out. And we'll see you guys next time. See ya. Boom.