(upbeat music)
(upbeat country music)
- [Ari] So we're those jerks that roll up to
the red light really slowly but this is one where,
well I guess you could bump off to the side if you had to
but there's nowhere to go.
My dreams could be dashed by a simple traffic light.
Are we about to go right on red?
- [Zack] There's a cop.
Just uh
be cool about it.
- Got to be polite about it.
- All right and then I'm going to go left
on this little 18th street.
- Copy copy.
This guy in the Subaru is going to screw me.
We're doing a thing here guy.
There we go
much appreciated, much appreciated.
- Oh shoot this might not have been a great idea,
seems like a busy intersection with a stop sign.
- We might have to go right again.
- Go right again?
(laughs)
- Oh (beep)!
Oh (beep)!
(beep)!
All right we're getting pretty far off course here.
- We are.
- Maybe backtrack and then...
- Nah I think just flip a u-ey.
- But look at that intersection.
- Oh yeah that line's bad,
yeah maybe just turn around then or
go back go to the right.
- I'll follow you if you have a map that's
zoomed in enough that you can see.
Ah it's just blocks.
- We're literally going out of our way...
- In order to fulfill this challenge
- In order to fulfill the challenge that we made up.
Where the bike has to keep rolling.
Uh oh red light.
- Yeah yeah I'd bust a u-ey here or
can we go right on red?
- We can go right on red but we can't uh
we can't get by that truck.
- Can't get by that F-150.
- Jeez Louise we're trapped.
- I'm going to turn around right now and
just kind of linger at the intersection.
You with me?
- Nope.
- Coming back?
- Yep.
I'm with you now.
- Still green still green with another green after it.
- Green light green light green light.
(exclaims)
We got to get out of Hondo,
We got to get out of here Hondo.
- (exclaims) That is stressful.
There's a lot of situations
where you have to stop on a road trip and
you don't realize how many of them there are,
until you're trying not to.
(upbeat music)
(motorcycle engines roar)
- [Ari] Coming up on Del Rio, Texas
meant we covered 500 miles and
we're just about halfway through
our thousand mile journey.
Ari's refueling system was working great,
and despite running under constant throttle
for almost 10 hours,
neither bike showed any signs of slowing down.
Ari and I however,
couldn't say the same.
- [Ari] As you might expect,
we're getting pretty weary
uh not feeling great.
How are you holding up Zachary?
- [Zachary] Uh my neck hurts from crouching into the
bubble of this arrow,
otherwise my helmet is super loud, but
all things considered my butt doesn't hurt quite
as much as I thought it would.
My knees hurt more than I thought they would.
- Yes (laughs)
- And speaking of more,
your bike is getting kick ass fuel mileage agreed?
- Yeah I don't know whether it's because
we're riding slowly and gently or
because I put 45 psi in the tire but
we estimated 175 miles per gallon.
I'm getting more like 200 to 210 to a tank.
- That's miles per tank not miles per gallon.
- You know I guess I'm getting delirious.
(laughs)
(upbeat rock music)
- [Zachary] We are along the Mexican border.
Del Rio, Texas I need a blackbird.
- [Ari] (laughs)
- Blackbird I need a blackbird,
this is concourse 1000,
can you fuel up to please?
- There she is your big tanker in the sky. - Yes.
- You guys are getting good at this.
- Hose 'ems.
Uh clear to pump blackbird clear to pump.
- I see fuel flowing that's a good sign. - Yes,
yes here we go.
I feel just like Tom Cruise.
I'm very sad that my bomber jacket did not
come in the mail.
- Oh that's too bad.
- Got to feel good about this.
I mean my knees don't feel good about it but
aside from that. - My body's not doing great.
- Okay let's shut it off blackbird.
(engines roar)
(upbeat country music)
- It wouldn't be a motorcycle road trip or
really a Throttle Out episode these days
without a little bit of rain.
- We've been bringing the rain on the episodes man,
I'm surprised. - (laughs)
- And of all the places it's going to rain,
we're now officially in the desert of Eastern Texas
and now it starts to rain!
- I know but how about that smell?
- Uh so good that petrichor smell.
- It's lovely.
Hopefully we don't get too wet,
fingers crossed but into the abyss we go.
(upbeat country music)
(engine roars past)