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(electric guitar music)
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(motorcycle revving)
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- Lately, a lot of people here at Donut
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have been riding their
motorcycles to the office.
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(motorcycle accelerating)
(upbeat music)
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It's got me thinking, how do I do that?
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Well, join me as I figure out how we get
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into the two-wheel scene together.
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Grab your notebooks and
commit this to memory
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'cause at the end of this episode,
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we're gonna get our motorcycle licenses.
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I've been interested
in getting a motorcycle
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ever since I was a kid.
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And if you were a teen in
the late '90s or early 2000s
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and weren't in the motocross,
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you probably didn't have a pulse.
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(upbeat music)
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Travis Pastrana was jumping his
bike into San Francisco Bay.
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James Stewart invented the Bubba Scrub.
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Man, these guys were awesome.
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Motorcycles are an entirely different side
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of being a gearhead and it's a community
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I wanted to join for some time now.
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First things first, before we even get
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to talking about running
down to a dealership
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or nonstop browsing Craigslist
to buy your first bike,
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it's a good idea to find out
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if you even really
truly want a motorcycle.
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Motorcycles are alluring.
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The sense of freedom and
the low cost for high speed,
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the idea of never having
to look for parking.
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Sounds amazing, right?
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Well, all that can quickly
disappear if you take a ride
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and realize it's not for you.
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So if you decide to follow through and get
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your motorcycle license,
the next step is to get
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some motorcycle training.
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(upbeat music)
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We went with a private lesson
by Class: M1 here in LA.
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It's a little more
expensive than a group class
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which is the cheaper option.
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Today, we're gonna learn
how to operate the bike,
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we're gonna learn how to ride the bike
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and then we're gonna
run through a mock test.
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(relaxing synth music)
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I got my gear.
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Let's see if we can ride this thing.
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(upbeat rock music)
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- [Commentator] Six, five,
four, three, two, one.
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(motor engine rumbling)
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Liftoff, we have a liftoff.
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(motor engine rumbling quietly)
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- And motorcyclist training course
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does a few things for you.
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First, it teaches you the
fundamentals of riding, braking
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and using the clutch, et cetera.
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An instructor will go
over all that with you.
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The course covers street
riding skills and strategies
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and rules of the road and
you'll get actual experience
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by riding a motorcycle.
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A bike is even provided for you to ride.
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Steve is setting up the course right now
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to do a mock DMV test.
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This class has definitely
made me want a motorcycle
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even more now.
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I can't wait to do more bike content.
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So you took a training course,
you went down to the DMV,
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you got your motorcycle license.
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You are now a legal motorcycle driver.
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At this point, I'm sure
you've been browsing the web,
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looking for bikes that fit your fancy.
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Let's start off with narrowing down
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what you're gonna be using your bike for.
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(playful music)
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(party horn blows)
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(playful music)
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Is it gonna be your commuter?
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Are you gonna do some
weekend canyon carving
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or do you want something you
can take a longer road trips
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and highway cruises?
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Once you figured that
out, it'll be much easier
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to narrow down which
models to start looking at.
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It's probably not the best
idea to go buy a touring bike
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if you wanna hop around the city.
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- [Rider] Oh, he almost hit the mirror!
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Oh, he hit their mirror!
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You hit that mirror, hey?
- Yeah.
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- The second consideration
is to figure out
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how much bike you can handle.
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And before you jump to full
boar testosterone fueled status
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of believing you can
handle any size motorcycle
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which I'm sure you can, Dylan.
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Maybe you think of it like this.
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Was your first car closer to
the likes of a Corvette ZR1
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or a Camry?
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If your parents were responsible adults
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who cared for your wellbeing,
I'm sure they didn't op
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to give you a 755 horse
powered sports car.
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Treat buying your first
motorcycle with the same caution.
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The easiest way to get
yourself hurt is to buy a bike
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outside of your skill level.
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I know it's tempting
to buy a used Hayabusa
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that'd go 200 miles
per hour for six grand.
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Don't do that.
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(motorcycle accelerating)
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(motorcycle crashes)
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- [Cameraman] Holy shit.
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- Aside from the performance
of the motorcycle,
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the actual physical size of the bike
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is an important factor too.
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You want something that fits your build
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and that you're also capable of handling.
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A 313 pound motorcycles are pretty heavy.
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I look up the weights of
a few and they range a bit
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from a 313 pound Honda CB300F
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to the 943 pound Harley CVO Limited.
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That's a thick boy.
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Obviously, I'm jumping
categories of motorcycles here
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but you get my point.
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Physically bigger bikes
can be harder to handle
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and your first ride should be
easier, not harder to wrangle.
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(motor engine rumbling)
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(mumbles)
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Also, like your first car,
it's a learner vehicle.
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It's gonna get scratched
and dinged and learned on.
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Your first motorcycle
will see the same fate
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no matter how good you
are at taking care of it.
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You're new at this, remember?
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You're gonna make some mistakes
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that will inevitably
end up with you yelling
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a few choice cuss words while
the bike lays on its side
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after a tip over in a
Brunswick bowling parking lot.
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That happened to Jeremiah,
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who wrote this episode.
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There are pros and cons
to buying new versus used.
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Figure out what you can
afford and don't be afraid
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to ask for help.
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If you do end up going the used route,
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just like you would if
you were to buy a car
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from a private seller,
do your due diligence.
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If you can, bring a buddy
who's got some more knowledge
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than you to look it over.
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Don't have any friends?
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Well, one, I'll be your friend.
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And two, ask a seller to
bring the bike to a shop
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that will perform a bike inspection.
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Usually it costs around $100.
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It gives you some added insurance
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that a qualified mechanic
made sure everything is okay.
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There are online forms where
practically every specific
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model out there, and a lot of those forms
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are people who have gone
through this experience before
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and they're willing to offer
up whatever help they can.
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They even go on the
Donut subreddit and ask.
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We have some motorcycle moderators
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who might offer up their opinion.
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Two wheels?
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Four wheels?
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The Donut family welcomes everyone.
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So, I'll go through the process
I went through when choosing
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my first ideal motorcycle.
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I've always wanted a cafe racer style bike
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so I started on the web.
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Seeing what models are
currently out there.
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I found a bike I liked,
searched some forms
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to see if that model would
be a good beginner bike.
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Lo and behold it was.
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Then I went over to a dealership
and sat on a few of them.
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I wanted to make sure
the bike wasn't too big
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or too small for me, see
if they fit my stature.
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I'm part of that big boy nation.
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So regardless if the bike met
my expectation aesthetically,
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I needed to make sure it
fit me physically as well.
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Getting involved at any
new hobby can be daunting.
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Trust me, I know the feeling.
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Just ask me about my
snow cone machine fetish.
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(beeps)
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It's intimidating to join
a group of enthusiasts
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to have been indoctrinated
into the group for years
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before you have but the
motorcycle community
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like the car community is
a pretty welcoming bunch.
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A majority of motorcycle riders
want to grow the community
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and do so by helping
out and being welcoming.
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Now that I've got my motorcycle license,
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hopefully this video has inspired you
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to go out and get yours.
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(playful music)
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