 It's a pizza Good morning Dana, how you doing? We're gonna ride bikes today. We are gonna ride bikes. I was so excited. I had like filled trip tummy last night You couldn't sleep. I couldn't I couldn't sleep either What about you Chewini could you sleep? He slept fine. Yes. Good morning mom. Good morning Ryan. So my mom brought us some donuts. You're the all-star of the day Thank you so much Santa good morning. I slept great That's the mom Dana what is this machine you have? Well, it is my priority 600 But because you scared me to death with all the climbing on this route I decided to go with the 600. You know why the beauty right here the pinion gear system Gears in there. So I took the front fender off I took the back fender off because we know there can be like a serious mud issues sometimes Dana, there's nobody I'd rather be stuck with than you. You know what? We got this. We got this We got this. I re-tape the handlebars Some racing orange. I like the orange. You got your Colorado made slap bag You got your Kai venture bag over here. I love it my new favorite bag You got your beefy tires in there. Yep. I'm ready for anything ready for anything if you get tired You could just sit right here That'll be it. I'll just take you on up over sounds like a deal Yeah, I realized that not all of you know who Dana is so I'm gonna give you a quick background Dana is one of my absolute favorite people on the planet She's one of my best friends without a doubt and she's also my adventure buddy We once rode bicycles from Boulder to Burning Man in Nevada Going over 100 miles a day for 10 straight days Until Dana fell off her bike and broke her collarbone But Dana being Dana she was still in pretty good spirits. We've also ridden our bikes around Cuba We rode rag bride together and she along with Xantha have supported me during some of my most difficult 100 mile races Dana is without a doubt the best of the best and I'm very grateful to have her in my life Thank you for lending us your beautiful wife. Absolutely. I love it. I love that she can do these adventures I really do with you. Yeah We'll take good care of her water Water keep her hydrated Dana your hair looks really short. It's Fresh Ryan Yeah, that's night. You shaved it last night. Yeah, it makes my helmet fit better Dana are you wearing socks with your sandals? I am only because it's gonna be gravelly and I might take them off. I'm not sure but You know sandals are like they're the comfort for me. No hot spots But you know that socks with sandals is the height of dorkiness not on bike trips You can't be a dork when you're bike trippin No way Look at that. So Dana and I have been Planning this for three or four months now when I decided to do this ride. It was always with Dana Now she's here. This is so great. We've been waiting for you. We haven't this is our new This is our UK ride. Yeah, that's right We were gonna ride the length of Great Britain this summer, but obviously we can't be there and We had to do something else and this is it I'd rather be in the UK Gremlin, Colorado Zanth is gonna get some comments on YouTube and how you feel this morning Kevin now I'm very full, but I'm pumped full of donuts Donuts burrito a second. How long have you guys been together? We've been together Crazy So today's an anniversary of sorts. Yeah, it is. You know, we've been married like five or six times So we just kind of averaged all right today. Yeah today. Today's the day Out for seven days Love you I'm really glad that you're here. Thanks. I've been missing you while I've been on the road And we are gonna have a time of our lives. We're gonna have a blast. They can't wait. It'll be so good Here's to some road magic. Let's do it. Let's do it Love you We'll see you later today in Silverthorn. Bye mom and Santa. I'll see you in Silverthorn I can't believe that Dana is here. She's right there. This is so cool Here we go, let's do it. No crash. She's no flatties. No whammies It's a good day to be alive It's a beautiful day. We've never seen this one. This is the day we haven't seen. That's right So not only is today exciting because Dana is here But we are riding into Silverthorn Where my middle brother Logan lives with his wife Haley and their two super cute kids brindley and carter And I haven't seen them in a long long time and we're gonna have a little backyard Camp session with s'mores and all that good stuff And it's gonna be great seeing family is really something special and especially Since quarantine I haven't seen a lot of my family members besides my mom Silverthorn is about 55 miles away about 3000 feet of climbing So it's not going to be nearly as hard as yesterday Which is kind of nice So we're riding along and we see this smiley guy in the other side of the road head in the other way What's your name? Where are you coming from? My name is Tom Hoskins Today i'm coming from Crimling and rode up to uke pass and back I'm using my electric bike today the rad mini so I've got to do out in backs Yeah, tell me how that works. You started in new mexico I started the end of the first week of may at antelope wells rode For about three weeks because again, I rode it all twice Rode up through new mexico to the colorado border And then from there I rode up as far as Breckenridge Great up through it. And so you have two bikes one is electric one is not electric How do you do the electric bike? How do you charge it? Well, uh with difficulty sometimes I I have a generator, but it takes six hours to do a charge So you have two batteries, right? And I have two batteries and so I'm probably staying in regular campgrounds a little bit more, you know, so I can hook into the juice Yeah, but when there's passes, I just can't write it because I don't have enough battery power So then I get on the orbay and And have a good day doing that So you said you're 71. How long have you been riding bikes and doing this type of adventure riding bikes since I was a kid But I uh, I'm one of the original post marine county mountain bikers I had a one of my first mountain bikes was a tom richey teague welded. That's how far back I go into the late 70s early 80s and Uh used to ride moab when moab had no stop lights when the slick rock trail was A motocross ride. That was all. Yeah, so I'm old school. And what do you love about it? Well, look So where is your extra battery? Uh right here. So your battery is right there. Yeah It's right there one right there. You said you can go 115 miles if it's well, it's flat I can because I don't use the I don't use the pedal assist a lot. It was so good to meet you my friend You too. You guys have a great trip. All right. Bye. Bye, buddy. Happy trails I really enjoyed meeting that tom guy really smiley friendly dude and It just goes to show there's There's no right way to bike pack However, you can do it. However, you can move your body It's all good Climbing now ryan. We're climbing It's what we do best COVID high five Your first hill Dana. Yeah, how's it feel? Good. Yeah Loving the bike It's awesome What have you most been looking forward to you? You know, you've you've known about this for a couple months Yeah You know, we say this all the time just like messing around but There is really something to waking up And all you have to do is ride your bike All day What are you doing today? Just riding my bike. That's right. Yeah Plus, you know what else I really love It's not like an out and back. It's just Riding we're going somewhere. We're just going For as long as we want Far as we want fast as we want It's great. Love it. We get to talk all day. Yep Yeah, we still have so much to say Oh, I'm so glad you're here and love it. I love you. I love you too We got zigzag coming. Looks like he's going straight. He's not zigzagging Kevin's been a trooper. So I think it's the 12th day His body's never been through anything like this before He's always full of good spirits though So about five miles ago and we saw a guy with a broken down truck on the side of the road And I don't know anything about cars so I can't fix his car But I rode by and said hey, do you need anything any cliff bars? And he's like no, I'm good. The tow truck's coming But he's like I live down the road and I leave water out for the cyclist I see you guys all the time. He said and sure enough he left a whole little booth here With some fresh water for the cyclist. Very cool Trail angel water We are chugging up ute paths And it's not that steep But it's pretty steady And we have asphalt Which makes it easier And it's just a nice quiet ride Just slowly pedaling Go Dana go go go Dana was in all of Montana put together for 10 days of riding This road is horrible But we're almost a silver thorn So that's good. All right. I am here with two very very important people. Who are you? Carter and Brindley and they're gonna show me around the neighborhood on their bikes, right? Let's do it. I love riding bikes with my niece and nephew Even after my I ride all day my butt hurts. All right, we did it So brindley, why do you love riding your bike? You don't know. I just like riding it. You just like riding it. That's a good as answer as any How about you Carter? Why do you love riding your bike? You don't know, but how does it make you feel? To make you feel good when you ride your bike It just makes you feel normal. Makes you feel normal. It makes me feel normal too What do you say that again? It makes my legs hurt. Makes your legs hurt You're doing exercise. Yeah Well someday you two can come with me on a big bike adventure. What do you think about that? That'll be fun. He says no. She says yes. We can camp in the middle of nowhere We can chase bears We can eat lots of beans I love beans Oh, yeah Having a pizza party You know how much pizza I can eat after riding my bike for three weeks? A lot of pizza. I told my brother buy a lot of pizza. Hi, sweetie. You want to buy the pizza? Yeah, eat some pizza Wait, you can't leave. I'm leaving, but give Dana water. I'll give her water our keeper hydro I love you so much. Thank you for coming up and seeing us. I appreciate it. We'll be careful Mom is leaving now. It's so fun to see you. It's so fun to see you. It's very short, but I'll be home in no time And uh, thank you so much for thank you for um giving me life I wouldn't be on this planet without you and I appreciate I'm really having a great time on planet earth That's true. Thank you to dad too, but he's not here. He's not here right now Hi guys, do you want to come ride with me tomorrow? We can go about 75 miles into the mountains You can't do that? No, why not? I'm too small. You're too small? My legs are too weak. Your legs look great for riding that No, they don't. They don't? So you think maybe someday you want to come with me on a bike adventure? Yeah Yeah, someday that's not 70 miles I'll do 75 miles. Oh, yeah? All right start training. How do you put up tents? Well, I'll help you. How's that sound? Oh, it's s'mores time Whoa, so what do we have here? Roasted marshmallow. Look at that's perfect I haven't had s'mores in a long time So we got we fired up the old campfire here And all the neighborhood kids are teaching us how to make the perfect s'more And I think that's probably pretty good biker food, you know graham crackers chocolate marshmallow I'll take it. How you doing bro? What's going on? This is trail magic. This is trail magic right here