good morning welcome to today's video welcome to the first day running out
of las vegas through Death Valley and into eventually yosemite first leg is short one
we're going to poem we're starting off with a pretty big climb and then halfway through
the day turns downhill downhill all the way to one last time we got this cocky
in life suggestions I
Oh your legs feeling man to be honest I'm surprised they kind of feel a little bit
tired - shot yeah but I think they're gonna get better it's just when you have we've
done three miles man yeah when you have days off note they all tighten up yeah
when you find a shop out of ice again what all the ice she's realized smash [ __ ] how
much do you hate that to blur I didn't film what was going on this has happened
that's not much you hate about to get another sneak carefully the snakes man no a nice night
right I think we've made to the top dude that's the top forever oh we interrupt in your video
lines sorry you are like Foghorn Leghorn to be fair and that's coming from me and I'm
[ __ ] loud well this is proper cool we must have averaged about 35 miles an hour over the
last section it's been downhill straight road the whole way ah you are flat Lawrence has got
flat right we've stopped for two reasons Lawrence you're looking very color-coordinated to the sky
right now puncher Bay glass yeah we're not even on the freeway this time a lot of blood pouring out
my nose and you've never had a nose beat before never notably his kiss is so dry Lawrence was
saying that before we came out here the apparently people do getting those boobs out there it's just
so dry yeah so I'm going to cut up this sock and stop it up my nose is that psycho sock
he brought those hopes with him and then I gave mr. Stackhouse measure stuffing warm
socks up your nose so judging by how quickly we're doing this section we're gonna arrive in
Perham probably about 10:30 11 o'clock we should give us a bit of a chance to do a rundown on the
equipment we using because I know a few of you guys have asked that so bear with us we're gonna
ride there and I'll show you what bugs are it's lurid the bike just killed the bollard
you know that man yeah I know it felt it felt
it had it coming right you get bitten by a rattlesnake
I'm really [ __ ] over riding in the desert now you came we
saw got burnt how far away until we get out the desert three days
I ordered all the breakfast carp loadings it's one of those trips where I'm not sure if we're
gonna finish it in and then we started oh I will bloody [ __ ] I've lost a shitload of
weight already it's mostly because I've lost all of the water it was residing in Makati it's not
there you look like a skeleton doing anything in this heat is just it's so much harder like
you take a bottle out your cages and your heart rate goes through the roof but that's just it's
just unbelievably that's quite cool it's very cool what are our sucks it really really sucks
Gatorade it's cool to say said Gary sandwich what's a sandwich pierced I've seen you in
this whole trip no I think it's more just the fact that he's hot dog you said had much sleep
I got nice seven hours sleep last night seven hours mmm no what are you doing
you got a [ __ ] before 5:00 yeah didn't get a bed at 10:00 10:30 yeah that's enough sleep No
this is a nice huh yes sir I'm it yeah compared to some look even though the I even though we've
stayed in some free then I went to about everybody no I mean I haven't stayed in anywhere I thought
oh Jesus Christ this is a bit gnarly no but they've all been clean the first night was a
bit that's a sunburn every new sunburn update [ __ ] so what do we want to do run down the equipment
so you guys have steamed my bike already we've already covered the pannier rack carbon fiber
from tailfin so far it's been absolutely brilliant super sturdy quick to take off for punches and I
couldn't be happier on the front is my only other bag it's made by eight bar and it's basically got
waterproof housing that you put whatever you want in stuff it in there and then you do the
clips up and then it's got a small pocket at the front where I've kept all my stuff that I need
to get out quickly like inner tubes any extra food that I don't want put in my pockets Bale
itself because the weather's been so dry that means I've got all the space in the frame for
big bottles which has been really useful and we've had to carry extra water I've just been showing in
the panniers cuz they just have an endless space compared to the two other guys the only downside
to the sub is the aerodynamics and all of the way is pretty much over the back wheel Lawrence
has been using a frame bag a front bag and a rear bag on the seat post as well the seat pack
obviously sticks out quite far but it's more Aero you carry about the same weight as me on you that
made a difference I'd say between the two setups is probably similar space but mine takes about
an hour to pack every morning and it's really really actually quite frustrating for me to see
you peripherally in your bag and I'm already done in five minutes because I'm just like strapping
things to the outside and trying to stuff things in it's just they cook bags but yeah I mean this
there's a bondage and disadvantage with both you know didn't you step on your bags no James kicked
one of my bags and broke the buckle so now I've got a uni buckle instead of a do old [ __ ] do
blue book world and Nicole in France James has got exactly the same setup as you he's carrying
different stuff like medical things instead of drones cameras cable salad and laptops and stuff
like that I've been carrying Lawrence's laptop because this is the only setup that lets you
carry a square kind of book shaped item and I've given him some cables in return which are really
heavy like with the power block of a laptop and all that stuff he's bigger than a brick
itself man you know what Francis gave me when we first got to here he gave me a shaver like
look how like with Charlie he gave me a shaver like an actual shaver and a mouse did you just
use the shaver Lawrence a mouse's did you use it I don't just use it oh hi just been chilling out
there what do you got the mo is back yep my name is inigo montoya you'll give them my father so you
have food yeah yeah nuba where we go we can get over but we're middle of the desert we can't get
over good is Chinese food gonna be in the desert don't be really bad mate it will be really bad I
won't get [ __ ] food poison you know right across bloody Death Valley the healthiest meal any of us
have had in the whole time we've been in the more I didn't know vegetables existed what's the plan
for tomorrow dude 70 miles 2,000 feet climbing so it's a it's a short day it's a small day for us
it's it's bizarre isn't it how you kind of look given them given the ride that we've been doing
over the last week or so when you look at just like so files at home sorry hills that's like cool
a whole weekend what 2,000 feet you're climbing it sorry hills that 70 miles and sorry Hills is about
that isn't it no it's probably little bit more ice peak for all three of us here we're all a little
bit sick and tired of riding in the middle of the day it's just biblically hot I think we're we're
probably we're just gonna we're gonna get up early tomorrow it's gonna be a 4 a.m. star 4:30 roll out
and get some of it out I'm gonna get the lion's share of the ride out in when darkness more or
less so it's about 25 degrees in the early hours of the morning I think the main problem for us
it's just the Sun because it is cereal I've got blisters on my neck and like we are the three
of us are burned I mean Lawrence has got horrific burns on his back from from through the having so
much worse Jersey I've got it all over my neck I'm sure how I've got away with it so well he
hasn't helped the fact that you've been off the bike for a month I've been off the bike for a
month so a lot of the excuses that the views the views of through Mojave would make you weep away
it's just I'm completely humbled and speechless by the whole the whole trip so far and and some
of the stuff that we've seen I'd recommend it to anyone probably doing December though it's