(suspenseful music)
- [Q] Brake, brake, brake, brake, brake, brake!
- I'm ready to just like go on dirt and bike on top of it.
(upbeat music)
- Hi, my name is Joyce
and today I'm going to be riding a dirt bike.
Basically, because of my height
and my size people think I do a lot of sports
but I am a rinky-dink bottom.
I like musical theater.
I like taking pictures of my boobs.
I like walking slowly.
I invited Q along today to try something new.
I mean, after the year I've had,
I really feel like life is all
about new opportunities and new experiences.
So, I want to be that dirty ho
and I'm going to ride some dirt bikes.
- What's up guys? I'm Q and today we are out here
in the middle of the desert.
I have no idea what we're doing.
I see some bikes. I love bikes. I'm excited.
I'm used to this. I ride motorcycles now.
I've got my license.
Riding dirt bikes shouldn't be too much different.
- So, the plan for today is our instructor, Mercedes,
is going to teach me and Q the basics.
All right, let's go! It's time to gear up, baby.
(upbeat music)
(school bell ringing)
- Hi, my name is Mercedes Natmeg.
I'm going to be the instructor today and we are
in Colton, California at the Honda Rider Education Center.
We'll be taking the intermediate steps
to riding and operating the motorcycle in a safe manner.
The motorcycle doesn't have a mind of its own.
You make it go, you make it stop, you make a turn.
So those are the basic fundamentals
that they will be learning.
We'll start off with a series
of exercises just to build up the basic fundamentals,
and I'm pretty confident that I can get Joyce and Quintin
to that point and then the fun starts.
We're going to go out on the trail system.
So, we go from an open area to a much more condensed area
where you're dealing with trees, rocks, turns, bridges,
and it's beautiful, it's green, and it gives them a sense
of what trail riding and dirt biking is really about.
Okay, now let's see if you're in gear. Go ahead and sit.
Yep.
- I mean, for me as a student growing up,
I was a great student,
but I have this thing of getting in my head,
and so I can be going really well and then it's like,
(Joyce mocks gibberish)
"What are you doing?"
Like I completely forget for a second and I mess up.
I've always been like that.
- Now neutral is?
- Half up.
- Okay, clutch out.
You got it, sister!
- Mercedes was such a great instructor.
I feel like she's really patient with me,
and I really, I'm excited for this.
I know that once the engines start,
I'm going to feel really intimidated.
I mean, it's a boy and it's kind of a big boy.
- So, off the bat, I came in super confident
and I feel like Mercedes is letting me go
because she knew what was going to happen to me.
- Quintin is amazing. Natural talent.
He had a lot of on-road experience,
but he didn't have off-road experience
and found out very quickly the differences
between on-road and off-road.
(producer laughing)
- [Producer] Hey.
- Hey, man. It's hard out here for a pimp.`
Hey, we're just going to keep going.
(producer laughing)
- She knew that I would learn through experience
and I was going to fall and eat some dust
and then, you know, figure things out.
So, once I fell, it kind of hurt my confidence a little bit.
You know what I'm saying?
Because I thought I knew so much,
and then I realized in that very moment, I knew so little.
- [Female] Get it, Joyce! (engine rumbling)
(man laughs) - Ah!
(group claps) (engine rumbling)
- I think this trip taught me to believe in myself again
and to be a child again, and to explore new things.
- When she first got on the bike, she was very doubtful
and I just kept assuring her that we were taking baby steps
and that she would be riding a motorcycle
and she still didn't believe it, and she did fantastic.
- And to not let society tell me, or my body,
or how I'm supposed to be in this world.
Like who gives a crap?
I'ma live and I'ma be a dang motorbiker or dirt biker.
- And ultimately it came out to the final test,
and this is where it got real for Joyce.
- [Q] Oh, hey. Brake, brake, brake, brake, brake, brake!
- You know some people say
that your life flashes before your eyes,
but for me I only thought of the words, "Oh, (bleep)".
- [Q] It's okay.
- [Mercedes] You okay though?
- [Joyce] Yeah!
- Okay. - I got the knee pads.
What was really great about working with Ms. Mercedes
and working with Q, more experienced drivers,
is that they were like, "This happens.
Take a deep breath. Calm down, you got this."
- [Q] No, you got it. Don't over think it, you got it.
So, we keep going. We keep going.
We get to another corner, Joyce fell again,
(record needle scratching)
and this time I knew for sure this time, I felt it for real.
Like she was ready to quit.
Brake, brake, brake, brake, brake, brake,
brake, brake, brake, brake, brake, brake, brake!
(engine rumbling)
I think falling hurts your ego more
than it actually hurts you, and like at that point,
it's really on you to decide like,
do you want to stop because of that
or do you want to keep going?
Stopping is gonna be the worst pain
because you'll never know how good you could have been
at that thing, so gotta keep going.
She picked it back up, she got back out there,
and we rolled back around that loop. Easy money.
- I would honestly give Joyce an A plus
for effort, overcoming fear,
and just in trusting that she could do it.
Riding wise, she's probably like a C
and can definitely come back and get better at riding.
Quintin, definitely an A student all through and through.
- Learning how to let go and learning how to relax,
when I spent most of last year very tense,
it's something that was really, it's kind of addicting,
where it's like, I am in control of this.
I am the reason why this happened,
and I can change the outcome.
- This was a great experience.
Shout out to Mercedes,
shout out to Joyce for being out here, and yeah,
I'm excited to see what's next for motocross for me.
- I actually realized that falling down
wasn't the scariest thing in the world.
It's okay for the fat girl to fall,
and there will be people there who are going to ask you
if you're okay and give you advice on how not to fall again,
and I'm hot, and look at my ass in these jeans.
Wait a minute, look.
(behind slaps) Double cheek clap.
(upbeat music)