a KTM 990 Adventure and a Yamaha Super Tenere.

We're about an hour outside of Los Angeles proper, and we're

going to go ride some dirt.

Welcome to "Ride Apart."

GRANT RAY: Right now we're running at about 36 pounds of

pressure on the tires.

20 to 22 is good for multi-use for all the gravel on the road

to keep the tubes from popping and pinching.

There we go.

Just trying to get some grip off-road, get those tires

squishing down.

WES SILER: We're out here trying to focus on the goal.

Getting a beer at the end of the day with all my arms on.

I did this in one piece, a nice normal, straight arm.

GRANT RAY: You don't have a normal straight arm.

You got rid of that a while ago.

WES SILER: Straight as my arm can be.

GRANT RAY: Wanna race?

WES SILER: No.

GRANT RAY: Come on.

WES SILER: No.

GRANT RAY: Come on.

WES SILER: And don't go burning out in front of me, it

gets [BLEEP]

pebbles in my eyes.

GRANT RAY: Neener, neener, neener, neener.

WES SILER: Just go.

I've just started learning how to ride dirt bikes and this

[BLEEP]

thing weighs like 550 pounds.

Normal dirt bikes weigh like 250.

So this is just scary and terrifying, and it slides, and

the front end does things.

And the whole time, I'm just like, death grip on the bars,

like close my eyes, keep the throttle on and

hope for the best.

So nobody should stand in any direction where I might be

headed, because I'm not looking.

GRANT RAY: No, he's looking, because you can see the whites

of his eyes when he's coming.

WES SILER: So right now I'm wearing Sean's Aerostitch

Roadcrafter.

He's hurt, so I'm borrowing his suit

because it's really nice.

This is as safe as I could be as a motorcyclist.

I'm protected from the weather, I'm protected from

impacts, I'm protected from abrasion.

I have really good armor on all my joints, my

back, and in my chest.

But unlike every other suit on the market, there's other safe

suits, none is this convenient.

This is literally just put all that on, chest projector.

Then here's the trick.

And there you go.

If I had an office, I'd be ready to work in it.

But instead, I'm at my office right now riding bikes.

GRANT RAY: Aw.

That's pretty special, buddy.

Unlike Mr. Fancy Pants over there wearing Sean's suit,

mine is not nearly as fast but it is really awesome.

This is the Long Range from Alpinestars.

It's a two-piece, it's super dry, it's also very modular.

I used to wear something called The Suit by Rocket.

It was leather, but I think I maybe found better with this.

One of the good things about what this suit can do, even

though it doesn't zip on and off fast, is it's

extraordinarily capable in terms of what you need at any

given temperature.

So if I get hot, I can really just peel it off and use the

underjacket for the rest of the day so that I don't have

to carry multiple jackets or anything like that.

This guy's done, and then I've got a down jacket that I can

wear from now on.

And then when you get out here to go camping, they can do

double-duty.

WES SILER: I can carry a nice, big, fancy tent like this.

Key is how much space they can give you for the weight.

So you can see this one's really tall.

I can sit up in it, I can change clothes in it, I can be

inside where it's warm and not too windy.

GRANT RAY: Is that done yet?

WES SILER: Yeah, yeah.

GRANT RAY: There's actually a considerable difference

between his.

He's running the Poler two-man with poles.

WES SILER: one-man.

GRANT RAY: one-man?

Oh, it looks like a two-man.

WES SILER: Yeah, it's big.

GRANT RAY: Fatty.

WES SILER: I know.

GRANT RAY: So I'm running a tent from NEMO.

This is the NEMO Moto which is a one-person.

And I really love certain things about this, one of

which is that there's no poles.

There's a little bladder that connects to the inside, and

the main beam will actually inflate.

And then I just take it down, and I'm done.

From here, you've got tons of room on the inside to be able

to move around and sit up and do, whatnot.

WES SILER: If you think you hear an animal, you can call

me and I'll get out and I'll look around and

I'll keep you safe.

GRANT RAY: No you won't, you'll just sit there and cry.

WES SILER: Once time in the Adirondacks, Grant and I got

into a fight with a bear.

So now we're just scared [BLEEP]

of bears in the outdoors.

GRANT RAY: We did not get into a fight with a

bear, you big liar.

WES SILER: Well, we ran away from one.

GRANT RAY: There, that's a little bit

more like the truth.

WES SILER: So now we carry-- we don't have it with us

today, but now we carry a flare pistol to shoot at bears

in case one scares us again.

Because we're [BLEEP]

girls.

GRANT RAY: It sits basically here, like this.

Is that what I'm supposed to do?

But it must have done this, come under, and then I just

grabbed it and [INAUDIBLE].

KTM has one of the best tool kits when they [INAUDIBLE].

But this one's just a little bit touch over and it

literally has everything you possibly need to work on a

motorcycle right now.

Well, basically we're just keeping the lines off the

[INAUDIBLE] so that if I need to stop there's brakes.

We're just taking off some of the plastics.

This guy was still on, and that is a really good recipe

for a puncture as well.

So we're just taking off everything and kind of

cleaning it up and getting it back up to par as much as we

can so we can keep going.

You can stand back just a little bit.

WES SILER: Ugh.

GRANT RAY: All right, open up the other side.

WES SILER: [INAUDIBLE].

He does a jump as he's [BLEEP]

passing me.

He's just a [BLEEP].

And then we get down there, he's like I hope I

didn't scare you.

GRANT RAY: I'm getting comfortable on it.

WES SILER: Good.

The suspension's great, especially if we don't land

anything, especially when we take some bumps.

But I'm scared anyways, because I'm scared off-road on

a big bike like this.

And to have the stand going like that, I'm going to back

off a little bit.

GRANT RAY: How's the compression on the rear?

WES SILER: It's good.

I've got the pre-road run weight way up.

This thing has great suspension.

Unlike most motorcycles, it was actually has something

called damping, not just springs.

GRANT RAY: So, you didn't die.

WES SILER: I didn't die, which I feel very fortunate about.

Last-- what was it, June, Sean?

It was June, I fell off--

SEAN SMITH: That was July.

WES SILER: OK, last July, I fell off a

sidecar up by Big Bear.

And you can probably see my arm is still

crooked as a result.

And that was off-road.

I've been a little timid on the whole

dirt thing ever since.

And it's fine on a 250 or whatever dirt bike.

That thing outside weighs 550 pounds.

SEAN SMITH: It weighs 636 pounds.

WES SILER: It weighs 636 pounds,

which is a lot of weight.

GRANT RAY: Did your voice just squeak?

WES SILER: Yes.

Because I was terrified the entire time.

Really, really, like probably [BLEEP]

my pants terrified.

GRANT RAY: What did you think about traction

control in the dirt?

WES SILER: Traction control was great in the dirt.

On a big heavy bike like that, you just want to throttle out

of any trouble, and with traction control, you just

open that throttle.

You're not going to get into any trouble because it just

drives you forward, not much sliding.

It is switchable traction control.

You can switch it off, you can switch it to a

less sensitive mode.

I had it in the most sensitive mode, because I need help.

I left ABS on, too.

GRANT RAY: I think for me at the time right now, there's

going to be that one bike.

It's probably going to be the 990.

I don't know a whole lot of motorcycles that can do that,

that can allow me to really start going quickly in the

corners on the canyons and the pavement and then immediately

transition that into corners on dirt and sand and grit and

rock and going to the [INAUDIBLE] as well.

It just does everything, it's really special in that sense.

MALE SPEAKER: Tell them about the catheter.

MALE SPEAKER: Oh, the catheter, yeah.

MALE SPEAKER: Before breakfast?

MALE SPEAKER: Before breakfast, yeah.

MALE SPEAKER: Yeah, lay it on us.

MALE SPEAKER: OK, so I wake up after surgery.

It's like 5:30 AM in the recovery room, and I'm about

as aware as you can be after coming out from general

anesthesia.

Six and a half hours of surgery, like they cut my

wrist and my arm and my leg all at the same time.

And there's two guys that are like moving around me and

doing stuff.

And checking things out, and cleaning up the last things.

Just kind of handling loose ends that the surgeons didn't

really take of.

And so somehow this guy, he's on my right-hand side and

there's a catheter.

There's like a tube that goes from here to here, and like

it's taped on my leg right there.

So there's a loop, it's real short, maybe like

six to eight inches.

And his hand is on my inner thigh and he gets it

underneath the catheter.

And then someone says something to him and he goes

like this and turns around real quick.

And it slides up and is looped around his elbow.

Mind you this was only six to eight inches

long to begin with.

And I watch as it stretches out to about two feet long.

MALE SPEAKER: And how do they ensure catheter retention?

There's a mechanism for that, right?

MALE SPEAKER: So the way a catheter works is a silicone

tube that has another tube inside of it with a little

inflatable ball in the end.

That inflatable ball is like inside your bladder.

And so I screamed and [BLEEP]

yelled as loud as I could.

Which was like [BLEEP]

you, you [BLEEP]

little-- oh my God, this hurts so bad.

It really was the worst pain I'd ever experienced in my

life, and that was the best I could muster.

MALE SPEAKER: Dude, that's so sick.

MALE SPEAKER: Yeah, and the guy's like huh?

Oh, [BLEEP]

yeah.