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GRANT RAY: We're here at Hungry Valley, about an hour
north of LA.
We've three of the Suzuki Z400 quadsports.
We've got the massive Kingquad.
And we've got a whole bunch of dirt and mud.
Welcome to RideApart.
MALE SPEAKER: Grant and I have been toying with the idea,
both of us toying with the idea of buying a truck
personally.
Two F150 Tundras and things are just too big for us living
in a city like LA.
We don't have anywhere to park them.
We can't keep them in our garages.
They won't fit.
I can still fit four of my friend plus me in it.
I can fit a full size quad bike in the back.
This RMZ4 edition will go off the road with [INAUDIBLE]
suspension, nice tires.
And it's affordable.
This thing cost $23,000, and that's a hell of a lot of
truck for the money.
GRANT RAY: There's not really a whole of people here.
It's just been--
it's been really fantastic.
All we have is open trails pretty much to ourselves.
I think I've seen maybe five other guys on motorcycles for
the most part.
But otherwise, it's just go as fast as you possibly can.
MALE SPEAKER: Riding these things is just so physical.
Like you have no idea if you can just ride a machine, and
just like cruise along.
And it's like moving your body weight and landing jumps and
shifting around.
I'm sweating like crazy right now after
like five-minute sections.
And I go slow.
It's still super physical.
GRANT RAY: I almost ran off a couple times, but the brakes
on these things is actually really good.
The tires have been working well.
And I'm not dead yet.
So it's doing great.
SEAN MACDONALD: Well, Wes isn't dead yet.
So it's doing awesome.
GRANT RAY: Exactly.
That means it's a really good machine.
He did have to go pee himself, but otherwise, he's fine.
MALE SPEAKER: All right.
Let's go to the next one.
GRANT RAY: You ready?
MALE SPEAKER: Yep.
MALE SPEAKER: I did this the first time I
ever rode a quad bike.
I almost killed myself, but I got to the top.
SEAN MACDONALD: How about you do it first?
Then he does it.
Then I do it.
MALE SPEAKER: I'm just scared to go down.
Going up's no problem.
Going down is [BEEP]
scary.
GRANT RAY: Don't forget to call for help on the way up.
More power, Wes.
More power.
[INAUDIBLE], More power.
More power.
SEAN MACDONALD: You got it.
You got it.
MALE SPEAKER: Wow.
Oh, Jesus.
GRANT RAY: You're kinda wet right here.
MALE SPEAKER: Well, there's a reason for that.
MALE SPEAKER: So this Sean MacDonald character is a
special need feature.
He's not terrible good at the whole motorcycle thing.
He's a pretty good dirt biker, a respectable dirt biker
GRANT RAY: Well, he's a great dirt biker compared to you.
But that's not really saying a whole lot.
MALE SPEAKER: Yeah, this should be interesting.
This is his first time riding a quad bike.
GRANT RAY: He has been in a quad a long time.
And he's going to try to do a show out of it.
[INAUDIBLE].
MALE SPEAKER: He's never had a bad motorcycle accident.
MALE SPEAKER: Do it again.
GRANT RAY: He skips it.
Come on, man.
You got to keep moving.
MALE SPEAKER: You can't park there.
You OK?
I think I might have gotten that.
GRANT RAY: Because what happened exactly?
It's like you went up.
You stalled.
You started.
You went up.
SEAN MACDONALD: Well, the problem was-- was that.
OK, so I'm trying to go off this jump, but I wasn't sure
which one I was supposed to hit as the jump.
There's all these little steps.
So one of them you're supposed to pop up and jump.
So I was kind of like indecisive on which one to hit
or how fast.
So I, finally, picked the biggest one.
Which does not make sense on my first time
on a quad in forever.
And I gunned it too late.
Barely popped it up.
Landed on top of the jump.
Stalled.
GRANT RAY: You looked at us like oh my [BEEP]
god I'm going to die.
SEAN MACDONALD: I never actually thought I was going
to get hurt.
At that point, I was just like I got myself into this mess.
How do I ride this out now?
I'm on this thing.
How do I ride this out?
And then it started to slide.
And then I grabbed all the breaks.
And then it started to slide more.
Then things got shitty.
Today was a huge ego boost.
Are you kidding me?
I ate shit.
So what?
I also--
MALE SPEAKER: Nothing feels better than crashing anyway.
SEAN MACDONALD: No.
No.
Nothing feels better--
GRANT RAY: It's also crashing and getting up and still going
faster than--
SEAN MACDONALD: Nothing feels better than pulling up to
where two roads meet, stopping, taking my helmet
off, undoing my jacket, eating a snack, and then you pulling
up, going, holy [BEEP], that was scary.
MALE SPEAKER: All right.
So this is what's known as a sport utility quad, which
unlike the cars is actually an apt description.
It's fast.
It's easy.
It's fun to ride.
It's great.
And here's the other thing about this type of quad,
because it has four-wheel drive, they're pretty much
unstoppable.
I might be speaking too soon, because that's
a big ole mud hole.
We have no idea-- we literally, we literally have
no idea how deep that is.
We have no idea what's in it.
We haven't poked in a stick it in.
We haven't thrown a rock in it.
All we've done is look at it.
But we have some sort of reasonable degree of certainty
that these things are so good, I can just throttle on in
four-wheel drive and it would just go
through no matter what.
So that's what we're going to do.
I'm a little scared of this.
Uh, this is a terrible idea.
I'm going to get hurt.
MALE SPEAKER: It worked.
I'm not dead.
Oh man, that four-wheel drive is great.
It just got stuck.
And the front wheel started to spin, and it
just pulled me out.
GRANT RAY: Now this is coming from a guy who says that
four-wheel is bullshit.
MALE SPEAKER: Four-wheel drive is bullshit.
I'm going to do that again.
And I'm stuck.
And that's what low range does.
Pulls you out of the mud.
GRANT RAY: That's what four-wheel drive does.
MALE SPEAKER: That's awesome.
GRANT RAY: Well, a lot of motorcyclists are like, you
know, stupid quad is not as cool as motorcycles.
You can't really do anything.
Kind of boring.
But, man, I've got to say, it's a kind of fun day.
It's not as stressed out, for coming from a biker.
You just come out here, and you have boatloads of fun.
And with motorcycles sometimes, there's a little
bit more danger that's involved with that.
So to be able to come out here with quads and just completely
go crazy and still be kind of within bounds of oh my god I'm
not going to die is truly something special.