Traveling To The Least Visited MTB Trails In America

The Navajo Nation, a place most Americans only learn about in their middle school history class, and a place rarely traveled to by outsiders. With its rich and at times troublesome history, coupled with the extreme isolation and vast expanses of empty but beautiful land, it's no easy place to get to. But when I found out that there was a vibrant mountain biking community on the reservation, I knew I had to go check it out. But to get there, we first had to travel a thousand miles on one of America's most isolated and desolate highways. This is the least visited mountain bike community in the world. We're literally in the middle of nowhere in Nevada right now. Dude, we are so, literally so far, look at this, look around us. So far from absolutely anything, look, semi trucks coming right there, but there is nothing. We've been passing a bunch of little towns, military bases. It's always a very interesting feeling being all the way out here when all you have is just a road and maybe a few cars every once in a while, but you're just alone in the vast, vast expanse of nothingness. We have like 600 miles to get all the way to Arizona, to the Navajo nation. So we got a long ways of this basically. And I know that coming up, there's going to be some pretty insane, oh, I got to put my seatbelt on. You got to follow safety first, guys. Nevada is mesmerizing, but hidden within its beauty and vastness was a brutal reputation for something otherworldly. Something that I was really excited for. All right, so we're in the town of Tonopah. This place is insane. I've wanted to come here for, dude, how many years, years and years and years that we wanted to come to this place. Not only is it like super historic as far as, you know, military, for anybody who knows about the military, there's the test range that's just over the mountains from here, which we can't go to, unfortunately. But this town is also known for two things. Number one is the amount of UFO sightings that people see here. Like this is one of the biggest hotspots in the world for UFO sightings. The second thing this place is known for is what's right here behind me. The Clown Motel. I am not joking. This is a hotel that's entirely based around clowns and it's known to be like really, really haunted. This place has been on a bunch of ghost hunting shows and stuff. It's crazy. The wildest part is like you have the Clown Motel here, UFOs in the sky, and then over here, it's going to be really hard to show it. Right over here, literally right next to the Clown Motel right here, is the cemetery. The creepiest cemetery. I'm sorry. No disrespect to anybody who's buried here, but this is so creepy. Checking all the boxes off my list. This is amazing. All right. Bikes are good. Check. All the stuff in the back. Check. Jersey and the passenger seat. Check. All right. Let's get the hell out of this town, dude. After a quick rest stop in the wild city of Las Vegas and a massive disappointment of the infamous Hoover Dam. The frickin' Hoover Dam. Oh, we can't even see it. We can't even see it. We banged out the last 400 miles and made it to the town of Gallup, New Mexico, the only place close to the reservation with hotels and supplies. I haven't really explained to you guys what we're doing in full detail. We've got two kids, Kelsen and Kalia. We're going to be giving away these bikes right here. I just realized while editing this that I haven't even told you guys what I'm doing yet. So here we go. So about two years ago, I met my buddy Terrence. Now he suggested we come out, hang out on the reservation, do some riding, all that good stuff. We were never able to make it happen until recently when Specialized, our main bike sponsor for the channel, does a thing called Get the Ride every year where they give away bikes to kids, people in the community who just don't have the nicest equipment or could really use an upgrade. So we suggested, hey, why don't we go out to the reservation, give some kids some bikes, make people smile, all that good stuff. And they said yes. So Terrence helped me find brother and sister, Kelsen and Kalia. We're going to be giving away these bikes right here. We've got the Specialized Chisel and that thing is pretty sick. Over here, we've got the Specialized Status. This thing is legit. So these kids, they live out further on the reservation. We have to drive about 20 to 30 minutes kind of out away from the city that we're in right now. We have no idea what's going to happen. They have no idea that we're going to be giving away these bikes. We've been talking to their mom and that's about it. We're rushing over right now. We're on the reservation. We've got Terrence in front of us right here. The kids are apparently on a bike ride right now over here at this amazing rock formation. And we're going to go there and surprise them. Dude, my heart is pumping so much right now. Dude, the amount of work that has gone in to make this happen is insane, dude. Insane amount of work. It took months for us to set this up and we're finally making it happen. I cannot believe this is about to be going down. This video was filmed in short form style with the intention of being posted on Instagram and TikTok. However, if you guys want to check it out, I'll link below my Instagram page and you guys can go look at that. I promise you're going to be heart warmed. You guys thought we'd leave you without any proper riding? Well, you thought wrong. Not only were we about to ride with a sick crew of shredders, but we were going to be shown trails that only a very, very small handful of outsiders have ever stepped foot on. It was truly a once in a lifetime opportunity. This has got to be one of the most majestic places I think we've ever ridden. Dude, we're so far out here right now. We're like, look at this, giant maces over there. On this side over here, we've got this beautiful forest and then behind you, look behind you right now. Look at that. Oh yeah. Just vast expanse, dude. Unreal. Crazy. How did we find this? What decisions in life were made for us to end up here right now doing this? Incredible. So cool. We found the spot, dude. Oh, there we go. Dude, how long has that been here for? What did you say? It's called a Hogan? Yeah, a Hogan. A Hogan. Yeah. Dude, that's legit. How old do you think it is? Double E. Oh, so it's old. Dude, that's legit. Dude, some punchy climbs. Even on an e-bike, they're pretty gnarly. Oh, damn. Oh, that's pretty. Dude, these guys are so gnarly. There's some of these lines here. Gnarly? Look at that. Oh, that's gnarly. Oh, bro. Yeah. We get the fist bump. Yeah. Something amazing just happened. We got a flat tire over here, and they grabbed some tree sap from this tree right here. Dude, they literally plugged it with tree sap. Oh, my. That's amazing. There's no way, dude. Oh, that totally works. Yes, dude. Nice. Alright, let's get it. Oh, that's a massive cliff right there. Oh, my. Oh, it's getting chunky here. Oh, that's sick. Oh, that's super sick. That was sick. In all my travels, I have never seen such a raw and welcoming community as the Navajo people. I feel truly blessed to have witnessed a small snippet of what mountain biking is on the reservation. I cannot wait to go back and see what this epic part of the world has to offer.