I was about to send this to my wife as a pitch to get an adventure bike again after injuring myself with the last one and selling it to “be more responsible” now that we are child rearing. Guess this ain’t the video for that…
get an electric mountainbike, they are much lighter, so if you mess up the chances of saving yourself are much higher. but of course you can still mess yourself up pretty good.
I did all this before I turned 30, before the term 'Adventure bike' was even coined, and that included a few years of racing motocross. I'm good. Got it out of my system. Also have a lot of great memories. I don't criticize people who want to do this later in life. It's just that the body takes longer to heal.
Yep, such is the two wheeled life. I rode motorcycles before I had kids. Got in some very minor wrecks, nothing more than abrasions and bruises (GEAR WORKS). Had kids. Gave it up. When the kids are out of the house, my ass is back on a motorcycle. Now I ride mountain bikes. _SLIGHTLY_ lower injury risk profile than riding a motorcycle on the street, haha.
Huge props to Matt for using a thumbnail and title that makes you think this is a bike review, where most youtubers would have called it "STRANDED in the MIDDLE OF NOWHERE in CRITICAL CONDITION!!!!" With a thumbnail of a rescue helicopter. Exceeding expectations as usual. Wishing you a superfastrecovery ❤
That last leg, where you broke your leg, is just like skiing where you say "just one more run" then end up getting hauled down the slope strapped to a sled. Adventure!
this is the same w skateboarding. you land the trick clean after trying for an hour, look at your homies cheering, tell them “imma do one last try land it cleaner,” and proceed to get broke off horrendously
That's why you call "two minus one" instead of "last run", you are saying you will do two more but not bother with the second so you never do your "last run" because the last run you did was actually your second last run.
A man who dives into danger, hops back on the horse and rides to the hospital, deserves my respect. And best wishes for speedy recovery. If I could subscribe twice, I would.
You mean, the man who decides not to sit in the middle of the wilderness with no ability to communicate to the outside world? I guess that's admirable, in the sense that he kept a cool head. There was no logical alternative, no matter whether he prioritized safety or convenience. Riding to the hospital probably halved the time it took to get there, versus using the emergency beacon.
@@Temporary_yesyes Good enthusiasm! However, stale subscriber accounts actually hurts a channel, because RUclips will think you lost interest in Matt's videos whenever you abandon that account.
What I’m about to say is rare but true. My Dad taught me and my brother how to ride motorcycles when I was a kid, the same summer I learned to ride a bicycle, I learned to ride a motorcycle. We rode every weekend we could. He was a Tulsa Trail Rider and we helped work the first and only ISDE in the US, this was in the 90’s. When I was 12 he started taking us on these week long Colorado rides that he had been doing for decades with his riding buddies. I remember my Dad actually stopped us before descending Black Bear Pass for the first time and he said, “ok boys, this trail has some steep parts at the beginning so go slow” that was all the instruction we needed lol. Admittedly it was a little unnerving but we never had trouble getting down it. Craziest thing I saw going down that pass though, mind you this was in the 90’s, was a huge square body SUBURBAN taking one of those switchbacks and hanging the front wheel off the edge, why a suburban you ask….it was a tour vehicle! People paid money to go down that pass in a suburban! I wonder if they know how much closer they were to death in that than I was as a 12 year old on a motorcycle! One year we were caught in one of those hail/lightening storm coming over the top of Black Bear, I’ve never been more afraid of being struck by lightning in my life but we made it. We rode Honda XRs btw. My Dad rode a 250, me and my brother started on our Colorado rides on 80, 100, then 200 and 250 then the all mighty 400. We ended up with 3 400’s and those things absolutely rocked. Absolutely blasted past everything off-road. Cheers Matt and I hope you heal up quickly, getting old sucks.
Ha! I have my cousins' collection of XRs stored in my shop now, and they've gone through the same progression from the little 80 and 100, through a CRF230, and now they both ride their mighty XR400s!
Having ridden an XR80 as an adult (with my knees over my elbows), that must have been interesting up there! Not exactly high clearance or suspension travel!
My dad was a mountaineer in his day, and one thing he told that really stuck with me throughout the years is about how a lot of mountaineers died not on accent to the summit but heading back down. You've acomplished your goal, you've relaxed, the hard part is over, you made the journey once already. You lose a bit of focus, a bit of awareness, and thats how you get hurt, or worse. Wish you a speedy recovery Matt, great video.
Matt is rapidly becoming one of my favorite story tellers. He tells the whole thing with humor, even the bad part, and leaves that to the end in proper narrative style. Heal soon, Matt.
I twisted my right foot on a track in Australia in 2000 and had to do 300 km to go to the nearest hospital, after refueling in the middle. It is part of the adventure. Good luck for your recovery.
Be careful or life will pass you by. I have seen people break ankles & legs stepping off curbs. Buy the motorcycle, learn to ride it, and embrace life. If you break a leg, arm, ankle then oh well. At least you stepped out and created an experience.
@@Low760 Ha - have had three bikes over a decade. Got married, have two kids. Can’t shake the urge to hop back on. Wife doesn’t get it. Lost my dad when I was young. I respect the risk and want to be there for my family. One day when they’re grown I may live the dream again, but for now I’ll live vicariously through SFM! Cheers!
I ride almost everywhere with my CB500X, from single tracks to river crossings and places almost with no sign of civilization besides the road but the only crash i had was in the paved road due to a defect in the pavement and water that made it too much slippery.
Just a heads up: RICE is actually falling out of favor for first aid. Turns out it’s good for treating pain but the swelling that it’s tries to alleviate is your body knowing how to fix itself. Now the recommendation for non-severe sprains (that RICE applies to) is to support it and take it easy, but still use it. Breaks are different though, you wanna stop those bad boys from moving till you get somewhere that can put the bones back together correctly. I’d recommend grabbing a SAM splint or two, they’re thin roll up metal strips that you can put a crease in hotdog-style and then they hold their shape well enough to stabilize a break. They’re pretty compact and light, could roll them up and keep it in your spare pair of shoes if you are pressed for space. Also ibuprofen+tylenol can be used in conjunction and supposedly have the pain relief combined as mild opioids. Obviously use responsibility, if you can tough out the pain it’s better to do that as it helps with diagnosis and you’d just have to inform the hospital you took those meds, which is an extra step. But still a useful tidbit of info.
I will never be able to unsee the "Harley Starfish"... 😂 Also, I'm a native Coloradoan. Little hint... there's a Burrito Tour that takes you to the top I think 25 best burritos in the state., and the drive is a road trip all the way up to through the front range and back.. Highly recommended... Would have made a nice side quest for your adventure.
How long is that tour supposed to take? I’m not a small person and I love Mexican food, but I’m pretty sure I still have limits on how many burritos I could eat per day.
Great video Matt. For me it was very well and ironically timed. This past weekend, some friends and I went out on our own little day off road adventure. I was riding my way too big and heavy Yamaha Super Tenere. I was having a bit of fun roosting and sliding my rear tires every chance I got. Weeeeee! I haven’t ridden off road like this in the last twenty years! That is until I got a little too judicious with the throttle on some fairly deep and lose sugar sand. Well, the expected happened. The rear tire kicked out violently to the right, I chopped the throttle, the bike dug in, suddenly stopped and face planted me on the ground. The BIG Yam fell on top of my left leg and promptly broke my ankle. The big girl taught me a lesson; “I will be RESPECTED!” I also rode my bike back to civilization but nowhere near as far you did (mad respect for you) I quite literally am sharing your pain Matt. Did I mention I just turned 60? Of course some of family and friends are giving me the old; “you’re too old for this” and “when are you going grow up” speeches. To which I responded; “I need a smaller, lighter bike with better tires and better boots.” They all just shake their heads and walk away. As I wrote this laying on my couch with my two pups next to me, right after watching your entertaining video, I felt a sense of solidarity with you and every other injured MoFo who refuses to age out of life in a safe but boring manner. Get well soon and let’s look forward to new adventures.
All hail the algorithm As an old man in the twilight of my life I can say I do not regret any of the broken body parts I endured while chasing every adventure I had. And if I can , I’m not done traveling the path less traveled. Never give up Matt.
Sounds like when I broke my ankle/leg on an adventure bike. My foot was pointing 90 degrees in the wrong direction when we came to a stop, though. Five years, three surgeries, a $4000 insurance deductible, a $9000 "surprise bill" later, and I think it's all behind me. All that's left is pain. Good luck navigating our nation's great health care system; you might find it harder than some of those mountain passes.
Agreed. Layers rule. One of the best layers I always keep with me is one of those nylon windbreakers that we all used to have as kids. They are hard to find, but work wonders with a jacket. Highly recommended. Cheers!
Nice video. A friend and I did a motorcycle "adventure" in India in 2018 on Royal Enfield's Himalayan. After three weeks and 3000 km they were basically total wrecks. I fell into rivers (big ass stones underwater), puddles (I love mud in my bags), crushed frame guards on rocks in dusty construction sites, crushed shifters and windshields and I even crashed into horses on a mountain road (behind a curve) and fell onto the hood of a car right after that. As I was waiting on a cliff of death for an oncoming car, the driver stopped and asked me where I was coming from... that was fun. Get well soon.
I respect you could have used a much better clickbait title, but you didn’t. And as a long time viewer I really appreciate it! Broke my wrist Memorial Day cleaning my garage. You had a much more adventurous adventure!
Terribly sorry about your leg but this ADVenture was SO much fun to share with you. Thank you for taking the time and energy to film and edit it for us. My son and I can never get enough SuperfastMatt
Enduro means offroad trail bike as opposed to a motocross track bike. A lot of older dual sport bikes were marketed as Enduros, but dual sport is term you were looking for. Streetable offroad bike
I'm recovering from a jump off of a ladder, which I broke my heel into 5 pieces. Now I have 4 screws and am going through physical therapy for 3 months. This adventure looks amazing. I would definitely do this. There is a slight chance I would be going through 3 months of physical therapy after orthopedic surgery, but I could see myself doing this ride. I may be a masochist, but I love a good adventure and this looks like a good one. Keep up the good work/videos, and I will keep watching your escapades.
Slightly off topic, but I think you're someone who'd appreciate an electric mountain bike. SO much fun. Quiet, light, and you can carry them over obstacles too tough to ride on a motorcycle (fences, boulder fields, skinny foot bridges). Opens up a lot of trails, and makes unrideable climbs doable. On really narrow, twisty singletrack they're arguably just as fast as a dirt bike.
Well done Matt. If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space. I've been in the same boat, having to ride with a broken foot, and like you, on the shifter side. It was remembering a comment by Ricky Carmichael that he used to get good starts by not wasting time getting his foot under the shifter to shift up. instead he would just kick it up with his heel. That eased a huge amount of pain for the rest of my trip home that day.
😂 I need to go for a dual sport/Adventure ride sometime. I'm still focused on the off-road and moto stuff, though. Agreed, too - I turn 35 this week, and I'm feeling it!
@tylerruckdeschell you've been faster than me since you had that 200sx and weren't tall enough to start it, so every time we stopped you leaned against a tree. That said, my old B rider ass just wanted to grow up to be a "fast" dualsport rider
I feel like the 950/990 is like the the common ancestor of all modern ADV bikes. It's big, but so cool and Dakar. Bikes after it became big fat fatties. Gold Wings with knobbies. The bikes before it were basically an XT500 with more complications.
@@bennyb.1742 it goes back to the original GS and the Dakar Rally in 79. The Dominator, Teneré, Afrika Twin, DR Big.... then the LC4 dominated, and the 950 is the evolution of that. Built as a dedicated Dakar Racer with a license plate. As a KTM nerd, it's the penultimate. The 990 is quicker, but the carb version is more true to the Dakar Lone Rider concept. Anybody that's never ridden one, it's a religious experience
One of your best videos yet! I absolutely love your editing style. Even the simple or less interesting topics, like suspension geometry can be fun and entertaining when described the right way. Heal up quick! Best wishes!
the pacing, delivery and narrative are outstanding. the whole thing. your finest work, i think, that's not a build video. heal up, matt. thanks for taking us on your adventure.
I got a big welcome to Colorado in 2019 when a rock slide closed i70 eastbound, making me back my tractor trailer up for 7 miles, good times, and that was interstates, I can imagine how fun the dirt roads can be!
Honestly, backing a trailer down that for 7 miles sounds like hell. Challenging, definitely, but that definitely fits with being called an actual adventure. Honestly, I'd take the dirt roads any day. That is one of those experiences that suck real bad at the time but are kind of cool to look back on in a 'i did that' way. I've definitely seen enough drivers that have issues backing into a loading dock, so being able to get out of that without needing a rotator called definitely is an accomplishment.
When a mudslide did the same thing in 2021, I was riding a motorcycle just east of it, didn't know what had happened, just ran into completely stopped traffic. While waiting, I got an electric shock from lightning striking a nearby tree. Because I was stopped, it went up my left foot and out through my right pinky. It was a deeply weird feeling, knowing that if I was just a few hundred feet over, it would've done more than just hurt a little.
The BMW GS was not the first adventure motorcycle. The 1885 Daimler-Maybach Reitwagen probably was , being the first two wheeled petrol engined motorcycle. From 1885 to when the BMW GS was first put on the market , all motorcycles were adventure motorcycles because many people rode them anywhere.
Oh man...I had to replay it several times to believe my eyes seeing you riding your bike and managing to shift gears with a broken left leg. You must be the most like minded guy I follow on YT. Absolute respect, get well soon and may this be your last broken one. Thank you so much for the awesome concept. I discovered you due to your off road Viper and haven't lost a video ever since :)
Your comment reminded me of a bad day on motorcycle in Colorado. Instead of shifting with a broken left leg like Matt, I found myself getting very creative operating the clutch with a mangled left hand and dislocated left shoulder. I couldn't do it. So I got started by using my right hand to engage the clutch, after turning up the idle speed to avoid stalling. Then I stayed in second gear for ten miles to get back to camp. I was sure thankful to have friends who could load my bike on the trailer for me that day!
@@Andrew_Fernie The friends I was riding with were impressed too, but they were even more impressed when I popped the dislocated shoulder back into place! I did it by holding a tree branch with my mangled left hand, and leaning outward to re-align the socket so it would pop back. While that reduced my distress a great deal, it made the pain worse. Somehow the dislocated shoulder didn't hurt much until the socket popped back together. The next couple days were awful!
@@tedpreston4155 Yep, those are shoulder dislocations for you. It just feels really weird at first, then you pop it back in, and it can even not hurt that bad for a few hours. The issue with dislocations, isnt the first time, but it's every time after it because the shoulder becomes more susceptible to future dislocations. Once I dislocated my shoulder in my sleep, woke up in horror , popped it back in and fell back asleep in about 5 seconds as I just couldnt be bothered 🤣🤣 So strengthen your shoulder, unless you want more dislocations.
@@--LZ--- I'm thankful that I have never dislocated my shoulder since that day, in part because I got the same advice from my brother in law that you just gave me: strengthen the surrounding muscles to help hold the joint in place. That same brother in law is the reason I knew I could pop a dislocated shoulder back into place by grabbing the tree branch. He's dislocated his shoulder so many times through the years that he described the process to me, and as luck would have it, I needed that knowledge less than a year later. 😄
Well it is always the last day you break your foot. Unless you are absolutbear and just carry on. It is like with planes. All crashes happen during landing. But not all landings are intended.
@@NineSun001 If it never even took off, does it count as a landing? Some crashes do happen before takeoff. And to put in a quote of my own: Any landing you walk away from is a good landing. If you can reuse the plane, it's a great landing.
I always enjoy your videos. Stay healthy, SupercastMatt. :) Oh, to everyone who likes adventure riding, I can wholeheartedly recommend the series _Long Way Round_ and _Long Way Down_ with Ewan McGregor _(The Serpent's Kiss, Star Wars, Trainspotting)_ and Charley Boorman _(The Serpent's Kiss)_ where they take on the challenge of circumnavigating the globe/traversing the length of Africa on adventure bikes. Lots of fun times/bad times. :)
I watched those documentaries several years ago and thought, "the really looks like something I would like to do", after which I thought "are you freaking crazy, you're too old to do stuff like that ( I'm 64 now). The adventure you did in this video, I would do now. The one that Ewan Mcgregor and his brother did back then, I would definitely would not do now. Keep on "adventuring" and I will live vicariously through you.
@@matsuwesty2 Yeah. I agree wholeheartedly, even though I'm not Matt. :) Ewan & Charley were well funded, well prepared, and had a large team behind them - and they struggled at times, with quite a few near misses. Today unfortunately brings another reason against such a trip: The current "climate" in "certain" areas of the world, which isn't exactly what I'd call "hospitable". Times were different back then, I guess… :)
The dry sarcasm in your explanations is priceless (and why I subscribed). Hilarious, well except for the broken leg part, but informative as well. Great content!
Thats so cool you can talk to other bikers on the channel, like back in the CB days. I used to have that silver Yamaha 250 in the vintage group! Was like riding a refrigerator but good learner bike and two stroke fun, crazy to see one on a real adventure in 2024
I wish you to heal SuperFast, Matt💪🦶💪 Adventure brings scars. Scars brings memories, and are a living proof that you managed to get out of it alive, thanks to your skill and endurance! (And always to a bit of luck!😅) Thanks for sharing your experience mate
@@hydra_mc2313 Ja, er hat's echt auf eine ganz ungewohnte Art und Weise falsch ausgesprochen :) *He really found a completely new way to butcher the pronunciation
This was the most refreshing YT clip I have seen as an "on hold" ADV rider in the longest time. Great sense of humor I can resonate with. I hope your leg recovers 100%. Thank you for sharing your adventure. What I saw once again. . . Solo hiking and solo ADV riding could become tricky without a buddy to help. God bless. Many safe miles ahead.
I consider my diy Trek awd ebike an "adventure" bike. It's got over 100km throttle only range, doesn't require a license, and a ton of storage. And it only weighs about 70lb and is near silent. It is good for hunting. It is good for trail riding. I pull a camper with it. I take it on 60km trips into town to do groceries with a trailer behind me. It's comfortable. It has gps, speakers, phone charger...pannier bags and racks all over it. I love it. It looks more like an "adventure" bike than the MTB it started as. It "only" has 2500W right now, but might go to 3500W next season. That's as much as I can put to these geared motors I have without worrying about destroying the nylon gears over and over. It can climb better than I can pedalling, that is for sure, and with awd, it handles mud and sand like nothing. I am nearing the 1000km mark on the odometer, so it is still pretty new and exciting to me. I have mounts on my bike for fishing rods, a pellet rifle...lots of other stuff.
Ahh, my favorite youtube doing my favorite activity :) I just got a new bike this spring, an AJP PR7. I decided to do a shakedown run a few weeks before leaving on my two week trip and got water damage to my navigation tablet. Fixed that and went on the actual trip. Spend two days on the road, getting to france, then crashed on day one and broke my brake lever... got some super nice guys to fix up something temporary in a bikeshop and continued on my adventure Crashed a handful of times going solo offroad - pretty happy I didn't break my foot 😂
One quick tip for breaks. Keep checking for PMS, Pulse Movement and sensation. If you broke it and it cuts off circulation that's bad news bears, and same with sensation. Also WFA, wilderness first aid is a weekend long class and covers a lot of really good content. Cheers!
Am I the only person watching this all the way through the end and still thinking, "yeah, I would love to do that!" Great video, as always. Thanks Matt! Wish you a superfast recovery.
When somebody says break a leg you're not supposed to actually do it.... But if anything you know it was a good adventure because the bike is slightly more scratched and you're slightly more broken so overall I would say mission success.
NGL the sights in this vid have motivated me to get a DR650 for my first motorcycle, I was in Boy Scouts and love camping, I'd love to see this sights. I hope your leg is feeling better Matt, great vid!!
Eight years ago, I did Black Bear Pass in a 2009 FWD Mazda CX-7 while wearing an ankle brace on my right leg. Interestingly, this wasn't even the most challenging trek I've taken the CX-7 on. Did the backside route of Mingus Mountain to Jerome in Arizona, much to the astonishment of a group of Jeep's that held up progress repeatedly. I asked to pass them, and they each assured me that I would fail, miserably. They walked into the Jerome bar we were in, two hours later, and could not believe we'd finished unscathed.
Did you see my waving from PV? I would have opted for a Haunted Hamburger personally. We had a similar experience going to a primitive seaside camp site near Sinkyone. The "road" just to get to the ranger station was a muddy Jeep trail down the side of a cliff. We encountered several Jeeps having problems navigating it, but our 1999 AWD CR-V had no trouble. We parked it at the ranger station and backpacked north to the "campsite", which was just a semi-clear spot on a shelf overlooking the ocean. We even encountered a herd of elk passing through the next morning.
Awesome! I lived in Prescott and have done that road half a dozen times in a Subaru outback. I think the jeep crew massively overestimate equipment needs and under estimate basic skills!!
When I lived in WY, I did a ton of adventure riding on my 07 ducati 695 monster. Yes, definitely not an adventure bike by any means, but it's what I could afford (salvage title+good deal anyway) and the suspension was, for whatever reason, actually super stable on dirt and sand. The only big issue the bike had was street tires and low ground clearance, so I had to be super careful since the first thing that would hit would be the bottom of the engine cases. That being said, driver/rider skill is honestly a bigger factor than having the most extreme vehicle, since at the end of the day even with a super-capable vehicle if you don't have the experience you will get stuck anyway. Funniest story I had was I was getting fuel in a small mountain town somewhere around estes park in the morning, there was a group of 3 jeeps also fueling. I got to chatting, and it turned out we were headed up the same trail. They were pretty sceptical and offered to tow me out when I got stuck, which I would have definitely taken them up on if needed. However, as it turned out they ended up ahead of me (I stopped for early lunch since I didn't have space to haul anything), and when I caught up I ended up spending 1.5 hours helping them get unstuck. One of them went off trail and partially rolled, not all the way over but on 2 tires and wedged against some trees. Shouldn't have been a problem, since all 3 had winches, but none of them had ever used their winches. So a bit of rigging help later, we got it out and thankfully they had great senses of humor about it. Pretty sure they still owe me a beer...
Grew up in the area and I've seen everything from a Ferrari to a Mitsubishi MiEV on the passes; plus my fair share of twisted hunks of metal being winched up. Whenever I saw something like a cx-7 going up the passes it would be fifty-fifty if they had a pavement princes and not a clue in the world, or if they would beat up the 80k lifted rubicon in front of them. Good on ya for being the latter. I'd love to modify an old beamer with knobby tires and a lift and go cruise the mountains again.
We just finished this same trip a few weeks ago but in reverse (heading south) and also did black bear. In jeeps. We were not part of the backup you had but we did see that group of classic bikes doing the trail. Probably passed you going the other way… thanks for taking all the video and photos I did not take. :)
The most hilarious thing is when adventure riders try riding along with dirt bikers. Invited some people over, knew they had bikes, didn't know they were adventure bikes. They still came. They didn't even make it 100ft onto the trail 😂
It's okay everybody has their own scale. Those of us who ride small Enduro bikes on steep muddy or exposed rocky terrain are really a different breed from everybody else.
In mountain biking we never say “last lap” or “last run” or anything to the effect of making the next run the end, exactly because of accidents 😭 soon as you said “we were feeling good” my instinct was like ooooo you shouldn’t have said that and poof broken leg. Never call last lap. Great ride though! And hope you have a speedy recovery!
Was worried you’d talk through the great footage you put together, but enjoyed your wit and delivery. For that I give kudos and thanks. As an “ADV” rider for over 20 years you captured it all very well in a trip. To the question of Why the answer is Just Go Already and find out!
Only thing missing from this adventure were plastic bags. I learned at the army that the cheapest way to impermeabilize something inside of a bag is to just put it inside of a plastic bag and tie a knot (or use a rubber band on the open end). Worked like a charm for every single camp and mission I went, and as armored infantry, we went through some muddy places and lakes that got up to my chin, and all the stuff on my backpack was fine as long as I put everything inside of a huge (and if possible, reinforced) plastic bag, some of my comrades even used those huge bags from pet food which really work well (if you clean them nicely and/or ignore the smell). It's a little bit annoying when you have to take stuff out, but the benefits outweigh the annoyances by a lot.
Any excuse for not completing something he started. "I've got too many projects", "I'm waiting for parts", "I've snapped my leg like a twiglet"...... Any excuse. :D But seriously, get well soon Dude. The world needs the up beat escapism your videos provide more than ever at the minute.
So, does this mean the medical bills are out of your pocket as you are not insured by your employer, as you are self-employed? Or did you have insurance? My rule of thumb for adventures: get there the hard way, come back the easy way 😅 Your adventure just solidified this idea 😆 Anyways, hats off to you riding 130+ miles to the hospital with a broken leg🤘🏼 Speedy recovery!
Matt, this is an excellent video. Great storytelling and comedic bits, beautiful footage, and useful info throughout. This adventure has earned its way on to my bucket list (without the leg breakage part, of course). Get well soon!
Great video! In 2020 I got to experience some of this area riding the TAT with 2 buddies. We left the truck & trailer in Trinidad and road for a week over a buch of the passes with Monticello as our furthest location. What a great adventure! Hope you heal quickly!
Amazing vid Matt! I was just in the process of texting this to my friends when the busted trotter came up. Busted my leg in the same way in 2016 slipping on ice. Do not. Repeat. Do not avoid the physio. Learned that the hard way....
Thank you, that was amazing. Your stoicism is impressive and was enormously entertaining to me here. sitting at my desk , not having any kind of ADVenture at all.
Bones will heal, but the memories of the great adventures you'll have forever, your video didn't turn me off adventure riding, keen as to get a 690enduro 🤙
The 4 corners monument reminded me of Breaking Bad. The mention of Wyoming reminded me of the Bruce Springsteen line 'through to the Badlands of Wyoming'. As a sarcastic English man, with deadpan delivery, I love your presentation style and erm, deadpan delivery. Colorado looks absolutely fascinating - 4 seasons in 1 day, and breathtaking scenery - especially the hi viz dirt road... Subscribed from all the way over here in Manchester. Heal well - you're one tough cookie riding with that leg broken. Respect.
OMG - no I did not expect that.... and maybe I'm even more relatable. Great video for me to watch just prior to a rally in British Columbia where I broke my Tib/Fib last year. Even days later while sitting in the local hospital I was planning my return to do this rally ride in 2024. Good luck on your recovery!
Grew up in Ouray--I can't afford it now either lol. You're spot on in this one about different people being good at different things. Black Bear is, to me, one of the easier passes around, but if you put me on something in moab on hard rock with crazy inclines I wouldn't be doing so well. Generally going in the mountains on a summer afternoon is asking for a rainstorm and its slippery consequences to cause problems. Glad your injury wasn't worse, good luck on your recovery! Side note: side-by-sides really are the worst.
Great video Matt, we just did the northeast BDR. 7 days 1424 miles. All on a CRF250L. Keep up the great work and hope your leg is better. From Shelby’s Dad.
Whoa I can’t believe you ran into the guys doing the Colorado vintage1000! I’ve done their mountain route on my ‘72 CL450 a few years ago, it’s a great time!
First time seeing Matt's upload, and i have to say i learned a lot and has made me think twice of buying a T7. This upload was as nice to see, as to hear Matt explaining everything along the way, and he also was a bit sarcastic from time to time which made me laugh a lot. I would like to see more of these kind of uploads please. Thank you for sharing, and try not to stop inspiring.
One has to remember not to forget that the head that can come up with so much funny mischief is attached to a such a vunerable body! Still ... one has to play! And never ever change your fantastic sarcastic cheeky way of commenting your endeavours! With the best of wishes, and a hope of a speedy recovery!
I watched this even though I swore off motorbikes after breaking both legs in two different accidents on the same adventure bike (once on road, once off road). Imagine my surprise* right at the end. Hope your recovery goes well!
Kudoes for doing Black Bear Pass, there's been a few bad wrecks with fatalities there over the last few years. My one and only "Adventure Bike" was a 1978 Honda XL250 Which I rode throughout the remote Canadian Rockies, mountains of the Okanagan valley, and the Coastal Range 40+ years ago.. We had no GPS or cell phones, just a handheld CB walkie talkie with a line of sight range of maybe a mile or two. I don't remember if we had Gore-Tex yet but in any regard we all wore wool since it keeps you warm even when wet. Some of the trails were so steep and our drum brakes so poor that we shut the motors off and went down the trail in first gear using the engine as a brake. There was blood and bruises every ride. Those were the days!
I recently finished PT from shattering my knee, ACL & tibia at a vintage moped rally! A surgery & $42k later, I'm going to check that box labelled "adventure" and get back to woodworking. Great video!!!
Man this was a great episode. I'm not a rider but I do backpack/hike/snowboard. Didn't know Telluride had these biking routes and I've always wanted an adventure bike. Maybe mix in a day of snowboarding and biking in Telluride in the future, it is one of the best places for snow sports in the winter.
As a 4-wheel inclined person, the name and shape of the adventure bike are 100% telling of what it should be/do It "looks" like a regular moto/dirt bike that was beefed up to last the weekend, not just the afternoon. It also seems like a quintessential hobby for motor-based folk that don't want to save for a Miata Cup Car. Edit: What a beast for making it that far under worsening conditions. Matt, thank you for showing what an actual adventure looks like, good and bad
I was about to send this to my wife as a pitch to get an adventure bike again after injuring myself with the last one and selling it to “be more responsible” now that we are child rearing. Guess this ain’t the video for that…
I wanted to but didn't like your comment because it had 69 likes.
You just need to make a "wife edit" version that ends 3 minutes early, at the Wyoming sign.
get an electric mountainbike, they are much lighter, so if you mess up the chances of saving yourself are much higher. but of course you can still mess yourself up pretty good.
@@yashaswisharma9064nice
Yep😂
not click-baiting the broken leg is wild much respect
Only real fans get to see the broken leg
lol sad linus pfp in the wild
"oooh these bikes look fun!"
>leg turned into slinky
"nah I'm good"
I did all this before I turned 30, before the term 'Adventure bike' was even coined, and that included a few years of racing motocross.
I'm good. Got it out of my system. Also have a lot of great memories.
I don't criticize people who want to do this later in life. It's just that the body takes longer to heal.
Simply don't crash lol
Yep, such is the two wheeled life.
I rode motorcycles before I had kids. Got in some very minor wrecks, nothing more than abrasions and bruises (GEAR WORKS).
Had kids.
Gave it up.
When the kids are out of the house, my ass is back on a motorcycle.
Now I ride mountain bikes. _SLIGHTLY_ lower injury risk profile than riding a motorcycle on the street, haha.
Thanks for the heads up, honestly
@@valinhorn42 finally someone knows what's up. Skill > gear
Huge props to Matt for using a thumbnail and title that makes you think this is a bike review, where most youtubers would have called it "STRANDED in the MIDDLE OF NOWHERE in CRITICAL CONDITION!!!!" With a thumbnail of a rescue helicopter. Exceeding expectations as usual. Wishing you a superfastrecovery ❤
Matt also doesn't have millions of subscribers. But he's a shower, not a grower. And I like it that way.
Paramedics DO NOT WANT YOU TO KNOW THIS ONE SIMPLE TRICK!!111
I actually thought this was a fortnine video from the thumbnail and title.
Wait so it's clickbait?
That last leg, where you broke your leg, is just like skiing where you say "just one more run" then end up getting hauled down the slope strapped to a sled. Adventure!
It's ALWAYS that last run where you get a faceful of snow...
never call your last run
this is the same w skateboarding. you land the trick clean after trying for an hour, look at your homies cheering, tell them “imma do one last try land it cleaner,” and proceed to get broke off horrendously
@@Jumbojet776 Well, by definition, it is always the last run
That's why you call "two minus one" instead of "last run", you are saying you will do two more but not bother with the second so you never do your "last run" because the last run you did was actually your second last run.
Right before he died; my grand daddy told me that a good adventure is " the perfect ratio of discomfort and inconvenience to extraordinary experience"
A man who dives into danger, hops back on the horse and rides to the hospital, deserves my respect. And best wishes for speedy recovery. If I could subscribe twice, I would.
You mean, the man who decides not to sit in the middle of the wilderness with no ability to communicate to the outside world? I guess that's admirable, in the sense that he kept a cool head. There was no logical alternative, no matter whether he prioritized safety or convenience. Riding to the hospital probably halved the time it took to get there, versus using the emergency beacon.
make a second google account and subscribe again
I once had to ride 350km back home after a crash with the knee completely bruised and without the footpeg on that leg, worse than torture.
@@creativecravingespecially in bear country! 😳
@@Temporary_yesyes Good enthusiasm! However, stale subscriber accounts actually hurts a channel, because RUclips will think you lost interest in Matt's videos whenever you abandon that account.
What I’m about to say is rare but true. My Dad taught me and my brother how to ride motorcycles when I was a kid, the same summer I learned to ride a bicycle, I learned to ride a motorcycle. We rode every weekend we could. He was a Tulsa Trail Rider and we helped work the first and only ISDE in the US, this was in the 90’s. When I was 12 he started taking us on these week long Colorado rides that he had been doing for decades with his riding buddies. I remember my Dad actually stopped us before descending Black Bear Pass for the first time and he said, “ok boys, this trail has some steep parts at the beginning so go slow” that was all the instruction we needed lol. Admittedly it was a little unnerving but we never had trouble getting down it. Craziest thing I saw going down that pass though, mind you this was in the 90’s, was a huge square body SUBURBAN taking one of those switchbacks and hanging the front wheel off the edge, why a suburban you ask….it was a tour vehicle! People paid money to go down that pass in a suburban! I wonder if they know how much closer they were to death in that than I was as a 12 year old on a motorcycle! One year we were caught in one of those hail/lightening storm coming over the top of Black Bear, I’ve never been more afraid of being struck by lightning in my life but we made it. We rode Honda XRs btw. My Dad rode a 250, me and my brother started on our Colorado rides on 80, 100, then 200 and 250 then the all mighty 400. We ended up with 3 400’s and those things absolutely rocked. Absolutely blasted past everything off-road. Cheers Matt and I hope you heal up quickly, getting old sucks.
Ha! I have my cousins' collection of XRs stored in my shop now, and they've gone through the same progression from the little 80 and 100, through a CRF230, and now they both ride their mighty XR400s!
Went over all those passes in the 70s and 80s in my grandpas suburban. They're big, but very capable.
Having ridden an XR80 as an adult (with my knees over my elbows), that must have been interesting up there! Not exactly high clearance or suspension travel!
Damn I was just looking at xr400r’s on market place to go with my 2016 crf250r😂
You and c90adventures would make a lethal duo.
Edit: I wrote this before I finished the video, I stand by what I said.
That would make for an interesting video.
Yes please, both engineers to boot
i would watch that so fast
C90 Adventures guy is brilliant, i cant figure out if hes missing some screws or just loves a challenge.
OMG this would be a road trip for the ages
My dad was a mountaineer in his day, and one thing he told that really stuck with me throughout the years is about how a lot of mountaineers died not on accent to the summit but heading back down. You've acomplished your goal, you've relaxed, the hard part is over, you made the journey once already. You lose a bit of focus, a bit of awareness, and thats how you get hurt, or worse. Wish you a speedy recovery Matt, great video.
Your dad was right, injured myself like that while mountain biking this summer.
Well said. That is sound advice.
Poetic tale, beautifully shot and masterfully narrated. Sorry about your leg, hope it heals quickly.
Hear hear.
@SuperfastMatt, heal heal.
Matt is rapidly becoming one of my favorite story tellers. He tells the whole thing with humor, even the bad part, and leaves that to the end in proper narrative style. Heal soon, Matt.
I twisted my right foot on a track in Australia in 2000 and had to do 300 km to go to the nearest hospital, after refueling in the middle. It is part of the adventure.
Good luck for your recovery.
Had five browser tabs open looking at adventure bikes. Closed them all in the last two minutes.
Be careful or life will pass you by.
I have seen people break ankles & legs stepping off curbs.
Buy the motorcycle, learn to ride it, and embrace life.
If you break a leg, arm, ankle then oh well. At least you stepped out and created an experience.
And? You wanna be lowered into the ground with a perfect body, or one that has lived?
Said by single guys I bet.
@@Low760 Ha - have had three bikes over a decade. Got married, have two kids. Can’t shake the urge to hop back on. Wife doesn’t get it. Lost my dad when I was young. I respect the risk and want to be there for my family. One day when they’re grown I may live the dream again, but for now I’ll live vicariously through SFM! Cheers!
I ride almost everywhere with my CB500X, from single tracks to river crossings and places almost with no sign of civilization besides the road but the only crash i had was in the paved road due to a defect in the pavement and water that made it too much slippery.
Just a heads up: RICE is actually falling out of favor for first aid. Turns out it’s good for treating pain but the swelling that it’s tries to alleviate is your body knowing how to fix itself.
Now the recommendation for non-severe sprains (that RICE applies to) is to support it and take it easy, but still use it.
Breaks are different though, you wanna stop those bad boys from moving till you get somewhere that can put the bones back together correctly. I’d recommend grabbing a SAM splint or two, they’re thin roll up metal strips that you can put a crease in hotdog-style and then they hold their shape well enough to stabilize a break. They’re pretty compact and light, could roll them up and keep it in your spare pair of shoes if you are pressed for space.
Also ibuprofen+tylenol can be used in conjunction and supposedly have the pain relief combined as mild opioids. Obviously use responsibility, if you can tough out the pain it’s better to do that as it helps with diagnosis and you’d just have to inform the hospital you took those meds, which is an extra step. But still a useful tidbit of info.
I will never be able to unsee the "Harley Starfish"... 😂
Also, I'm a native Coloradoan. Little hint... there's a Burrito Tour that takes you to the top I think 25 best burritos in the state., and the drive is a road trip all the way up to through the front range and back.. Highly recommended... Would have made a nice side quest for your adventure.
Like I said....Colorado is BETTER! than Switzerland....Why? Because there's GREAT MEXICAN FOOD THERE! 🤣
How long is that tour supposed to take? I’m not a small person and I love Mexican food, but I’m pretty sure I still have limits on how many burritos I could eat per day.
can you please link this tasty tour! I must know!!!! namaste, fellow native coloradan
Maps and dates please 😃
@@skaughtmc6591 A girlfriend and I did it in about a week, and we squeezed in some camping on the way to Dinosaur National Monument and back.
The "Just 1 more trail/time/run/lap" always gets ya. Thanks for letting me live safely and vicariously through your adventure.
I love your dead pan narration. Get well Matt.
Thank you for not click-baiting the leg. Glad you got to complete the ride before the unfortunate ending.
That standing bit was absolutely hilarious
Breaking a leg and still riding? SuperfastMatt, the manliest engineer on RUclips! HAIL BROKENLEGMATT!
Self-rescue is best rescue. Sometimes it's the only rescue.
That is some MotoGP shit though.
Great video Matt.
For me it was very well and ironically timed.
This past weekend, some friends and I went out on our own little day off road adventure.
I was riding my way too big and heavy Yamaha Super Tenere. I was having a bit of fun roosting and sliding my rear tires every chance I got.
Weeeeee! I haven’t ridden off road like this in the last twenty years!
That is until I got a little too judicious with the throttle on some fairly deep and lose sugar sand. Well, the expected happened. The rear tire kicked out violently to the right, I chopped the throttle, the bike dug in, suddenly stopped and face planted me on the ground. The BIG Yam fell on top of my left leg and promptly broke my ankle.
The big girl taught me a lesson; “I will be RESPECTED!” I also rode my bike back to civilization but nowhere near as far you did (mad respect for you)
I quite literally am sharing your pain Matt.
Did I mention I just turned 60?
Of course some of family and friends are giving me the old; “you’re too old for this” and “when are you going grow up” speeches.
To which I responded; “I need a smaller, lighter bike with better tires and better boots.”
They all just shake their heads and walk away.
As I wrote this laying on my couch with my two pups next to me, right after watching your entertaining video, I felt a sense of solidarity with you and every other injured MoFo who refuses to age out of life in a safe but boring manner.
Get well soon and let’s look forward to new adventures.
All hail the algorithm
As an old man in the twilight of my life I can say I do not regret any of the broken body parts I endured while chasing every adventure I had. And if I can , I’m not done traveling the path less traveled. Never give up Matt.
Sounds like when I broke my ankle/leg on an adventure bike. My foot was pointing 90 degrees in the wrong direction when we came to a stop, though. Five years, three surgeries, a $4000 insurance deductible, a $9000 "surprise bill" later, and I think it's all behind me. All that's left is pain. Good luck navigating our nation's great health care system; you might find it harder than some of those mountain passes.
We all ignore wage and health slavery , why ?
@@eflanagan1921 more important matters to worry about obviously....
"pointing 90 degrees in the wrong direction" ... isn't any direction, that is 90° off from normal the wrong direction for a foot?
I broke my thumb getting into bed and it was snapped right around facing back up my arm literally touching my wrist
@@BIGSMOKE-bl2lqhow did you manage to do that lol
137 miles on a broken leg is brutal. Fair play. Good luck with your inevitable bankruptcy from the hospital bills.
I too have adopted your approach to layering, and it works very well. I wear the rain jacket on the outside, not inside though.
Ted did this. seems like a better approach.
Agreed. Layers rule. One of the best layers I always keep with me is one of those nylon windbreakers that we all used to have as kids. They are hard to find, but work wonders with a jacket. Highly recommended.
Cheers!
@@SuperfastMatt Of course you wear the rain jacket as the outer layer 😄 -thats just common sense.
I'm loving the new SuperToughMatt.
Breaks his leg and still keeps riding. Absolute legend.
Nice video. A friend and I did a motorcycle "adventure" in India in 2018 on Royal Enfield's Himalayan. After three weeks and 3000 km they were basically total wrecks. I fell into rivers (big ass stones underwater), puddles (I love mud in my bags), crushed frame guards on rocks in dusty construction sites, crushed shifters and windshields and I even crashed into horses on a mountain road (behind a curve) and fell onto the hood of a car right after that. As I was waiting on a cliff of death for an oncoming car, the driver stopped and asked me where I was coming from... that was fun. Get well soon.
I respect you could have used a much better clickbait title, but you didn’t. And as a long time viewer I really appreciate it! Broke my wrist Memorial Day cleaning my garage. You had a much more adventurous adventure!
Terribly sorry about your leg but this ADVenture was SO much fun to share with you. Thank you for taking the time and energy to film and edit it for us. My son and I can never get enough SuperfastMatt
At least you didn't plunge off the cliff of death. May you heal quickly. Thank you for the adventure.
These are my favorite kind of videos you release. I love the adventures/journeys! Best wishes for your (off road) recovery!
Enduro means offroad trail bike as opposed to a motocross track bike. A lot of older dual sport bikes were marketed as Enduros, but dual sport is term you were looking for. Streetable offroad bike
Yes, Dualsports ❤ The best kind of bike (IMO of course).
ADV bikes are more heavy
3:07 lucky you, if he had "preferred the sitting position of an SUV", your entire body would be a slinky
I'm recovering from a jump off of a ladder, which I broke my heel into 5 pieces. Now I have 4 screws and am going through physical therapy for 3 months. This adventure looks amazing. I would definitely do this. There is a slight chance I would be going through 3 months of physical therapy after orthopedic surgery, but I could see myself doing this ride. I may be a masochist, but I love a good adventure and this looks like a good one. Keep up the good work/videos, and I will keep watching your escapades.
My 80 year old Uncle fell off a ladder in his 50's.
Shattered his knee and still can't walk very far today.
Slightly off topic, but I think you're someone who'd appreciate an electric mountain bike. SO much fun. Quiet, light, and you can carry them over obstacles too tough to ride on a motorcycle (fences, boulder fields, skinny foot bridges). Opens up a lot of trails, and makes unrideable climbs doable. On really narrow, twisty singletrack they're arguably just as fast as a dirt bike.
He has a Specialized Turbo Levo you know, ruclips.net/user/shortsuZcovZWdbg4?si=o210nfh42bCN7o4q
I swapped my dirt bike for one. But that's mostly because I have far more cycle trails than road trails local to me. Love it and haven't looked back
I wouldn’t consider them light. I’m on a massive Trek Slash 9.7 and it’s still only 28lbs.
I think I've seen a Levo in the back of shot before
@@blurglide he has a Specialized Turbo Levo, just look at his shorts, in one of them he makes a bikestand for it
Well done Matt. If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space.
I've been in the same boat, having to ride with a broken foot, and like you, on the shifter side.
It was remembering a comment by Ricky Carmichael that he used to get good starts by not wasting time getting his foot under the shifter to shift up. instead he would just kick it up with his heel. That eased a huge amount of pain for the rest of my trip home that day.
I've had my 950adv since 2010, a plated 525 since 08, and 5 other KTM previously.
I haven't sat down since January
😂 I need to go for a dual sport/Adventure ride sometime. I'm still focused on the off-road and moto stuff, though. Agreed, too - I turn 35 this week, and I'm feeling it!
@tylerruckdeschell you've been faster than me since you had that 200sx and weren't tall enough to start it, so every time we stopped you leaned against a tree.
That said, my old B rider ass just wanted to grow up to be a "fast" dualsport rider
I feel like the 950/990 is like the the common ancestor of all modern ADV bikes. It's big, but so cool and Dakar. Bikes after it became big fat fatties. Gold Wings with knobbies. The bikes before it were basically an XT500 with more complications.
@@bennyb.1742 it goes back to the original GS and the Dakar Rally in 79. The Dominator, Teneré, Afrika Twin, DR Big.... then the LC4 dominated, and the 950 is the evolution of that. Built as a dedicated Dakar Racer with a license plate.
As a KTM nerd, it's the penultimate. The 990 is quicker, but the carb version is more true to the Dakar Lone Rider concept. Anybody that's never ridden one, it's a religious experience
V-twins and adventure go together like chocolate and peanut butter
One of your best videos yet! I absolutely love your editing style. Even the simple or less interesting topics, like suspension geometry can be fun and entertaining when described the right way. Heal up quick! Best wishes!
The scars from my motorcycle tell many painful stories and I love them all.
the pacing, delivery and narrative are outstanding. the whole thing. your finest work, i think, that's not a build video. heal up, matt. thanks for taking us on your adventure.
I got a big welcome to Colorado in 2019 when a rock slide closed i70 eastbound, making me back my tractor trailer up for 7 miles, good times, and that was interstates, I can imagine how fun the dirt roads can be!
Honestly, backing a trailer down that for 7 miles sounds like hell. Challenging, definitely, but that definitely fits with being called an actual adventure. Honestly, I'd take the dirt roads any day. That is one of those experiences that suck real bad at the time but are kind of cool to look back on in a 'i did that' way. I've definitely seen enough drivers that have issues backing into a loading dock, so being able to get out of that without needing a rotator called definitely is an accomplishment.
When a mudslide did the same thing in 2021, I was riding a motorcycle just east of it, didn't know what had happened, just ran into completely stopped traffic. While waiting, I got an electric shock from lightning striking a nearby tree. Because I was stopped, it went up my left foot and out through my right pinky. It was a deeply weird feeling, knowing that if I was just a few hundred feet over, it would've done more than just hurt a little.
Man that's a long way, especially if it's got a beeper, lol!
The BMW GS was not the first adventure motorcycle.
The 1885 Daimler-Maybach Reitwagen probably was , being the first two wheeled petrol engined motorcycle.
From 1885 to when the BMW GS was first put on the market , all motorcycles were adventure motorcycles because many people rode them anywhere.
Wow, what a plot twist at the end there! Well here's hoping for a speedy recovery and more adventures soon.
Sorry to hear about your leg. Thank you for taking us on a journey with a few laughs! Speedy recovery!
Oh man...I had to replay it several times to believe my eyes seeing you riding your bike and managing to shift gears with a broken left leg. You must be the most like minded guy I follow on YT. Absolute respect, get well soon and may this be your last broken one. Thank you so much for the awesome concept. I discovered you due to your off road Viper and haven't lost a video ever since :)
Your comment reminded me of a bad day on motorcycle in Colorado. Instead of shifting with a broken left leg like Matt, I found myself getting very creative operating the clutch with a mangled left hand and dislocated left shoulder. I couldn't do it. So I got started by using my right hand to engage the clutch, after turning up the idle speed to avoid stalling. Then I stayed in second gear for ten miles to get back to camp. I was sure thankful to have friends who could load my bike on the trailer for me that day!
@@tedpreston4155 I can't imagine how you could do that without falling off instantly. Onto your injured side. Well done !
@@Andrew_Fernie The friends I was riding with were impressed too, but they were even more impressed when I popped the dislocated shoulder back into place! I did it by holding a tree branch with my mangled left hand, and leaning outward to re-align the socket so it would pop back. While that reduced my distress a great deal, it made the pain worse. Somehow the dislocated shoulder didn't hurt much until the socket popped back together. The next couple days were awful!
@@tedpreston4155 Yep, those are shoulder dislocations for you. It just feels really weird at first, then you pop it back in, and it can even not hurt that bad for a few hours.
The issue with dislocations, isnt the first time, but it's every time after it because the shoulder becomes more susceptible to future dislocations. Once I dislocated my shoulder in my sleep, woke up in horror , popped it back in and fell back asleep in about 5 seconds as I just couldnt be bothered 🤣🤣
So strengthen your shoulder, unless you want more dislocations.
@@--LZ--- I'm thankful that I have never dislocated my shoulder since that day, in part because I got the same advice from my brother in law that you just gave me: strengthen the surrounding muscles to help hold the joint in place.
That same brother in law is the reason I knew I could pop a dislocated shoulder back into place by grabbing the tree branch. He's dislocated his shoulder so many times through the years that he described the process to me, and as luck would have it, I needed that knowledge less than a year later. 😄
This guy could give a masterclass in ride video narration! Informative, insightful, funny!
The second best time to break a leg on a trip? The last day.
The best time to brake a leg on a trip? Never.
Good luck and a speedy recovery.
Well it is always the last day you break your foot. Unless you are absolutbear and just carry on. It is like with planes. All crashes happen during landing. But not all landings are intended.
@@NineSun001 If it never even took off, does it count as a landing? Some crashes do happen before takeoff.
And to put in a quote of my own: Any landing you walk away from is a good landing. If you can reuse the plane, it's a great landing.
Enormous credit for self-rescuing.
Seriously impressive.
I always enjoy your videos. Stay healthy, SupercastMatt. :) Oh, to everyone who likes adventure riding, I can wholeheartedly recommend the series _Long Way Round_ and _Long Way Down_ with Ewan McGregor _(The Serpent's Kiss, Star Wars, Trainspotting)_ and Charley Boorman _(The Serpent's Kiss)_ where they take on the challenge of circumnavigating the globe/traversing the length of Africa on adventure bikes. Lots of fun times/bad times. :)
I watched those documentaries several years ago and thought, "the really looks like something I would like to do", after which I thought "are you freaking crazy, you're too old to do stuff like that ( I'm 64 now). The adventure you did in this video, I would do now. The one that Ewan Mcgregor and his brother did back then, I would definitely would not do now. Keep on "adventuring" and I will live vicariously through you.
@@matsuwesty2 Yeah. I agree wholeheartedly, even though I'm not Matt. :) Ewan & Charley were well funded, well prepared, and had a large team behind them - and they struggled at times, with quite a few near misses. Today unfortunately brings another reason against such a trip: The current "climate" in "certain" areas of the world, which isn't exactly what I'd call "hospitable". Times were different back then, I guess… :)
The dry sarcasm in your explanations is priceless (and why I subscribed). Hilarious, well except for the broken leg part, but informative as well. Great content!
Thats so cool you can talk to other bikers on the channel, like back in the CB days. I used to have that silver Yamaha 250 in the vintage group! Was like riding a refrigerator but good learner bike and two stroke fun, crazy to see one on a real adventure in 2024
I wish you to heal SuperFast, Matt💪🦶💪
Adventure brings scars. Scars brings memories, and are a living proof that you managed to get out of it alive, thanks to your skill and endurance! (And always to a bit of luck!😅)
Thanks for sharing your experience mate
As a German, I didn't understand poop untill you further defined the "Geländestraße" 1:39
Klang für mich zuerst als wäre es französisch.
@@hydra_mc2313 Ja, er hat's echt auf eine ganz ungewohnte Art und Weise falsch ausgesprochen :)
*He really found a completely new way to butcher the pronunciation
This was the most refreshing YT clip I have seen as an "on hold" ADV rider in the longest time. Great sense of humor I can resonate with. I hope your leg recovers 100%. Thank you for sharing your adventure. What I saw once again. . . Solo hiking and solo ADV riding could become tricky without a buddy to help. God bless. Many safe miles ahead.
I consider my diy Trek awd ebike an "adventure" bike. It's got over 100km throttle only range, doesn't require a license, and a ton of storage. And it only weighs about 70lb and is near silent. It is good for hunting. It is good for trail riding. I pull a camper with it. I take it on 60km trips into town to do groceries with a trailer behind me. It's comfortable. It has gps, speakers, phone charger...pannier bags and racks all over it. I love it. It looks more like an "adventure" bike than the MTB it started as. It "only" has 2500W right now, but might go to 3500W next season. That's as much as I can put to these geared motors I have without worrying about destroying the nylon gears over and over. It can climb better than I can pedalling, that is for sure, and with awd, it handles mud and sand like nothing. I am nearing the 1000km mark on the odometer, so it is still pretty new and exciting to me. I have mounts on my bike for fishing rods, a pellet rifle...lots of other stuff.
That sounds pretty dope 👍
thats the way to do things nowadays. plus it opens up so many other routes you can take that a regular motorcycle isn't allowed on.
Great videography and editing as always, and the deadpan dry humor of the narration makes it even better. Wishing you a speedy recovery Matt!!
Ahh, my favorite youtube doing my favorite activity :)
I just got a new bike this spring, an AJP PR7. I decided to do a shakedown run a few weeks before leaving on my two week trip and got water damage to my navigation tablet.
Fixed that and went on the actual trip. Spend two days on the road, getting to france, then crashed on day one and broke my brake lever... got some super nice guys to fix up something temporary in a bikeshop and continued on my adventure
Crashed a handful of times going solo offroad - pretty happy I didn't break my foot 😂
The navigation tablet on the AJP is old-fashioned and internally badly wired/connected to the bike's power. Get a waterproof Samsung active tab3 or 4
One quick tip for breaks. Keep checking for PMS, Pulse Movement and sensation. If you broke it and it cuts off circulation that's bad news bears, and same with sensation. Also WFA, wilderness first aid is a weekend long class and covers a lot of really good content. Cheers!
0:19 correction Hazardous not specifically risky, that depends on what you do with them :) You're forgetting your Risk analysis Matt :)
Damn dude! You really surprised me dropping the leg thing like that.
Thanks for all the entertainment you provide Matt.
Please keep up the good work.
Brilliant tale Matt - sorry about the 'off' - but Future Matt will have great stories to tell 😎 Algorithm tweaked...
Am I the only person watching this all the way through the end and still thinking, "yeah, I would love to do that!" Great video, as always. Thanks Matt! Wish you a superfast recovery.
When somebody says break a leg you're not supposed to actually do it.... But if anything you know it was a good adventure because the bike is slightly more scratched and you're slightly more broken so overall I would say mission success.
One of your best videos yet. I didn’t skip through anything to get to the action. It was all action.
Damn man, sorry to hear about your leg! Rest up and heal fast. Also, big fan of “rubicongress”
I watch a lot of motorcycle content and this was THE most interesting story told in the most refreshingly honest and humble way. Thank you.
From SuperfastMatt to "Plastercast Matt" in one episode... Impressive!
NGL the sights in this vid have motivated me to get a DR650 for my first motorcycle, I was in Boy Scouts and love camping, I'd love to see this sights. I hope your leg is feeling better Matt, great vid!!
Eight years ago, I did Black Bear Pass in a 2009 FWD Mazda CX-7 while wearing an ankle brace on my right leg. Interestingly, this wasn't even the most challenging trek I've taken the CX-7 on. Did the backside route of Mingus Mountain to Jerome in Arizona, much to the astonishment of a group of Jeep's that held up progress repeatedly. I asked to pass them, and they each assured me that I would fail, miserably. They walked into the Jerome bar we were in, two hours later, and could not believe we'd finished unscathed.
Did you see my waving from PV? I would have opted for a Haunted Hamburger personally.
We had a similar experience going to a primitive seaside camp site near Sinkyone. The "road" just to get to the ranger station was a muddy Jeep trail down the side of a cliff. We encountered several Jeeps having problems navigating it, but our 1999 AWD CR-V had no trouble. We parked it at the ranger station and backpacked north to the "campsite", which was just a semi-clear spot on a shelf overlooking the ocean. We even encountered a herd of elk passing through the next morning.
Awesome! I lived in Prescott and have done that road half a dozen times in a Subaru outback. I think the jeep crew massively overestimate equipment needs and under estimate basic skills!!
When I lived in WY, I did a ton of adventure riding on my 07 ducati 695 monster. Yes, definitely not an adventure bike by any means, but it's what I could afford (salvage title+good deal anyway) and the suspension was, for whatever reason, actually super stable on dirt and sand. The only big issue the bike had was street tires and low ground clearance, so I had to be super careful since the first thing that would hit would be the bottom of the engine cases. That being said, driver/rider skill is honestly a bigger factor than having the most extreme vehicle, since at the end of the day even with a super-capable vehicle if you don't have the experience you will get stuck anyway.
Funniest story I had was I was getting fuel in a small mountain town somewhere around estes park in the morning, there was a group of 3 jeeps also fueling. I got to chatting, and it turned out we were headed up the same trail. They were pretty sceptical and offered to tow me out when I got stuck, which I would have definitely taken them up on if needed. However, as it turned out they ended up ahead of me (I stopped for early lunch since I didn't have space to haul anything), and when I caught up I ended up spending 1.5 hours helping them get unstuck. One of them went off trail and partially rolled, not all the way over but on 2 tires and wedged against some trees. Shouldn't have been a problem, since all 3 had winches, but none of them had ever used their winches. So a bit of rigging help later, we got it out and thankfully they had great senses of humor about it. Pretty sure they still owe me a beer...
@@zrobotics 695 best start for a Terra mostro imho !
Grew up in the area and I've seen everything from a Ferrari to a Mitsubishi MiEV on the passes; plus my fair share of twisted hunks of metal being winched up. Whenever I saw something like a cx-7 going up the passes it would be fifty-fifty if they had a pavement princes and not a clue in the world, or if they would beat up the 80k lifted rubicon in front of them. Good on ya for being the latter.
I'd love to modify an old beamer with knobby tires and a lift and go cruise the mountains again.
We just finished this same trip a few weeks ago but in reverse (heading south) and also did black bear. In jeeps. We were not part of the backup you had but we did see that group of classic bikes doing the trail. Probably passed you going the other way… thanks for taking all the video and photos I did not take. :)
The most hilarious thing is when adventure riders try riding along with dirt bikers. Invited some people over, knew they had bikes, didn't know they were adventure bikes. They still came. They didn't even make it 100ft onto the trail 😂
It's okay everybody has their own scale. Those of us who ride small Enduro bikes on steep muddy or exposed rocky terrain are really a different breed from everybody else.
ADV bikes are to 4x4 Explorers as dirt bikes are to rock crawling buggys.
I haven't changed my oil in 4000 miles and have never rebuilt a top end.
@@chadpunte1731 haha that's the beauty of twins!
@@CommieHunter7 gotta take my little wins where I can. 😂
In mountain biking we never say “last lap” or “last run” or anything to the effect of making the next run the end, exactly because of accidents 😭 soon as you said “we were feeling good” my instinct was like ooooo you shouldn’t have said that and poof broken leg. Never call last lap. Great ride though! And hope you have a speedy recovery!
I am once again requesting an update on the ham sammy in the vertical stabilizer. What is its current condition?
I would wager, currently non-edible.
Was worried you’d talk through the great footage you put together, but enjoyed your wit and delivery. For that I give kudos and thanks. As an “ADV” rider for over 20 years you captured it all very well in a trip. To the question of Why the answer is Just Go Already and find out!
Only thing missing from this adventure were plastic bags. I learned at the army that the cheapest way to impermeabilize something inside of a bag is to just put it inside of a plastic bag and tie a knot (or use a rubber band on the open end). Worked like a charm for every single camp and mission I went, and as armored infantry, we went through some muddy places and lakes that got up to my chin, and all the stuff on my backpack was fine as long as I put everything inside of a huge (and if possible, reinforced) plastic bag, some of my comrades even used those huge bags from pet food which really work well (if you clean them nicely and/or ignore the smell). It's a little bit annoying when you have to take stuff out, but the benefits outweigh the annoyances by a lot.
Key Note : on the cliff of Death - don’t look at it or fixate on it - you will go off. Look where you want to go and that helps a lot!! Great Video!
Any excuse for not completing something he started. "I've got too many projects", "I'm waiting for parts", "I've snapped my leg like a twiglet"...... Any excuse. :D
But seriously, get well soon Dude. The world needs the up beat escapism your videos provide more than ever at the minute.
So, does this mean the medical bills are out of your pocket as you are not insured by your employer, as you are self-employed? Or did you have insurance? My rule of thumb for adventures: get there the hard way, come back the easy way 😅 Your adventure just solidified this idea 😆 Anyways, hats off to you riding 130+ miles to the hospital with a broken leg🤘🏼 Speedy recovery!
Matt, this is an excellent video. Great storytelling and comedic bits, beautiful footage, and useful info throughout. This adventure has earned its way on to my bucket list (without the leg breakage part, of course). Get well soon!
Great video!
In 2020 I got to experience some of this area riding the TAT with 2 buddies. We left the truck & trailer in Trinidad and road for a week over a buch of the passes with Monticello as our furthest location. What a great adventure!
Hope you heal quickly!
I did not see that coming. WTAF?! Thanks for the adventure story. Outstanding work.
Amazing vid Matt! I was just in the process of texting this to my friends when the busted trotter came up.
Busted my leg in the same way in 2016 slipping on ice. Do not. Repeat. Do not avoid the physio. Learned that the hard way....
Thank you, that was amazing. Your stoicism is impressive and was enormously entertaining to me here. sitting at my desk , not having any kind of ADVenture at all.
Bones will heal, but the memories of the great adventures you'll have forever, your video didn't turn me off adventure riding, keen as to get a 690enduro 🤙
The 4 corners monument reminded me of Breaking Bad. The mention of Wyoming reminded me of the Bruce Springsteen line 'through to the Badlands of Wyoming'.
As a sarcastic English man, with deadpan delivery, I love your presentation style and erm, deadpan delivery.
Colorado looks absolutely fascinating - 4 seasons in 1 day, and breathtaking scenery - especially the hi viz dirt road...
Subscribed from all the way over here in Manchester. Heal well - you're one tough cookie riding with that leg broken. Respect.
OMG - no I did not expect that.... and maybe I'm even more relatable. Great video for me to watch just prior to a rally in British Columbia where I broke my Tib/Fib last year. Even days later while sitting in the local hospital I was planning my return to do this rally ride in 2024. Good luck on your recovery!
Grew up in Ouray--I can't afford it now either lol. You're spot on in this one about different people being good at different things. Black Bear is, to me, one of the easier passes around, but if you put me on something in moab on hard rock with crazy inclines I wouldn't be doing so well. Generally going in the mountains on a summer afternoon is asking for a rainstorm and its slippery consequences to cause problems. Glad your injury wasn't worse, good luck on your recovery!
Side note: side-by-sides really are the worst.
Great video Matt, we just did the northeast BDR. 7 days 1424 miles. All on a CRF250L. Keep up the great work and hope your leg is better. From Shelby’s Dad.
Whoa I can’t believe you ran into the guys doing the Colorado vintage1000! I’ve done their mountain route on my ‘72 CL450 a few years ago, it’s a great time!
First time seeing Matt's upload, and i have to say i learned a lot and has made me think twice of buying a T7. This upload was as nice to see, as to hear Matt explaining everything along the way, and he also was a bit sarcastic from time to time which made me laugh a lot. I would like to see more of these kind of uploads please. Thank you for sharing, and try not to stop inspiring.
One has to remember not to forget that
the head that can come up with so much funny mischief
is attached to a such a vunerable body!
Still ... one has to play!
And never ever change your fantastic sarcastic cheeky way of commenting your endeavours!
With the best of wishes, and a hope of a speedy recovery!
I watched this even though I swore off motorbikes after breaking both legs in two different accidents on the same adventure bike (once on road, once off road). Imagine my surprise* right at the end. Hope your recovery goes well!
Kudoes for doing Black Bear Pass, there's been a few bad wrecks with fatalities there over the last few years. My one and only "Adventure Bike" was a 1978 Honda XL250 Which I rode throughout the remote Canadian Rockies, mountains of the Okanagan valley, and the Coastal Range 40+ years ago.. We had no GPS or cell phones, just a handheld CB walkie talkie with a line of sight range of maybe a mile or two. I don't remember if we had Gore-Tex yet but in any regard we all wore wool since it keeps you warm even when wet. Some of the trails were so steep and our drum brakes so poor that we shut the motors off and went down the trail in first gear using the engine as a brake. There was blood and bruises every ride. Those were the days!
I've watched several BDR videos, this is THE best one! Loved it.
I recently finished PT from shattering my knee, ACL & tibia at a vintage moped rally! A surgery & $42k later, I'm going to check that box labelled "adventure" and get back to woodworking. Great video!!!
Man this was a great episode. I'm not a rider but I do backpack/hike/snowboard. Didn't know Telluride had these biking routes and I've always wanted an adventure bike. Maybe mix in a day of snowboarding and biking in Telluride in the future, it is one of the best places for snow sports in the winter.
This takes the cake for the best video I've seen all week. What an adventure, and I hope you have a speedy recovery! What a twist though, literally
11:17 - Imagine being ALL THE WAY OUT THERE and STILL getting stuck in traffic.
I couldnt believe the video was 27 minutes long! Awesome work, awesome adventure, and wishing you a speedy recovery!
As a 4-wheel inclined person, the name and shape of the adventure bike are 100% telling of what it should be/do
It "looks" like a regular moto/dirt bike that was beefed up to last the weekend, not just the afternoon. It also seems like a quintessential hobby for motor-based folk that don't want to save for a Miata Cup Car.
Edit: What a beast for making it that far under worsening conditions. Matt, thank you for showing what an actual adventure looks like, good and bad