Hobo Trail with Andrew Jackson

You start you need to know my name. Yeah, that's that's sad. Yeah, I'm not that big a deal yet. This is Andrew Jackson. We're in Los Angeles today. We're going to do something a little different. Keep it chill. Oh, relatively chill and just go around like the local city loop that I always ride. Kind of get back to the roots of like just looking for spots and I don't know riding like Safa came Should be cool. We got a good route, some trails, street. up messengering and I did BMX so. Yeah, we're in Boyle Heights right now. We're going to roll out of Boyle Heights, kind of hit downtown Chinatown, go through Elysian. Thank you very much. Thank you. That's like the famous Hobo Trail. Yeah, Hobo Trail. I never knew that. We've been doing a lot of work over there. It should be good right now. I've seen you've been doing trail maintenance. Yeah, it should be good. Should be a good rip. You're on the canyon travel? I'm on the canyon. Canyon, uh... This way's the better way. Yeah, Canyon, SRAM set up. What's new? Tire clearance. What tires do you have on? Oh, I got these Zip tires. Zip Goodyear tires. I don't know what size they are. They're good though. They look like they're 45s. I think they're 45s too. Yeah, me too. All right. And you got UDH. Yeah. The 13's good. I know you need to step it up. I know. I got out of gravel. Last year, I would flip it around, but I don't want to flip it on my stuff. I've got SRAM on there too. 50 on the front, 45 on the back. Yeah, a gravel bike, see the gravel things. Yeah, it should be good. Do whatever you want, really. Right, 100%. We've got the bolts. Oh, man. All right, bro, let's get rolling. All right, let's roll. I haven't made any gear changes yet. What's going on? I'm starting to speak now. Are you shifting or is it just jumping? Have you ridden this thing before? I think it's not a good look for you, that's for sure. I didn't even do anything, I literally took the wheel off and I changed the brake pads because it was squeaking and I didn't want it to squeak on the video. So you got brand new brake pads in there? Oh, there it is, it just jumped. Maybe it's because I tightened it up and it wasn't straight yet. I'm keeping that in the film. My first gravel bike with Andrew Jackson. I like that tool that pops out pretty quick. It's pretty sick. Man, it is so hot for the middle of January. And it was just freezing cold and raining. I know. Alright, let's try this thing again. Okay, so you gotta put the clutch down before you put your wheel back in. So how long have you been riding in this area for? 15 years ago. Okay. This building used to be a big skate spot. It's funny, we shot my signature VMS frame promo. Right here. Yeah. Oh, we've got some nice banks there. They keep building quarter pipes right here. Gotta ride these things. Oh yeah. Up, up, up, up, up, up. Yeah, but you're doing it on a climb. I'm only giving you 7 out of 10. I've been trying to get them up, but I'm trying to get manual. That's tricky on this geometry. This is perfect wheelie gradient. Yeah, this is the best. I haven't been riding this bike at all. Pretty bad. All that from the video until I get one good one. Perfect every time. I'm just doing janky wheelies behind you. Thank you. Hold up, I got SRAM boozled. Chain came off. My chain. This is a really bad ad for SRAM today. I can feel I haven't been riding gravel bikes for a while. Where's the grip? Where's the feel? It's bad with me because this is like my go-to ride every day. You being off the gravel bike a bit too? Uh, I go back and forth. When I'm trying to get in shape, I ride the road bike a lot. So you've been doing that? I feel like it's like, you know how it is. You do the training and just do your actual work. But I've kind of ride this for fun. Like I want to like either go out on a really big bank and just get lost or just like mess around like this. But it takes a little bit to get like the feel back. These things could be kind of cool on the side here if you built the track coming down. I definitely want to do it. There's a couple guys that have been working on it. You'll see there's some big hits. Hey. Hiya. Yeah this park is cool because it's right in the city. You can kind of do, like, everything, dude. You want to have, like, a little, like, short workout, like, little 10-minute intervals and stuff, this row is perfect. Thank Like, all the work, like, on the bike, like, anything except for, like, the long days, then I'll go out. So much of it you can do right here in the city, and people are probably going to love it. Yeah, if you're not from L.A., this is where Dodger Stadium is, too, right behind Andrew. Let's take this. you. We're going to go through this light date. All right. All right. You're way back. AJ. I feel like you just fall into the freeway if you mess up. Yeah, right. You see the video of the dude now? It's very much his back. It's like, it's your fault? I've definitely fallen off the freeway. Did you slip down the bank? Oh my gosh, that part when I was like a bit sketchy. Oh yeah? Two sides? You used to have to go on the bottom side. You couldn't do that with a switchback. And there's like a... You have to jump over and it caught my foot. Just full over the bars. Over the edge of the... I landed in, like, a bush, like, like, like that. Thank Well, you're lucky there's a bush like that. 100%, yeah. Otherwise, you end up in all this ----. I was fully, like, upside down. Dang. I wasn't taking it that easy on you, though. Like, that was pretty fast. For your first time, it's like... I'm a rider on the bike. No, I know, yeah. That's what I'm saying. you. The corners throw you off, you know. What'd you say? The corners, once you see it coming, you start thinking about it, and then... This is the whole thing. I'm telling you, I came a long way. I couldn't do them at all. I can do it on like a BMX or mountain bike, but these I could never get in there. All righty, let's drop in. This one's like a bunch of like breaks left. I fell for what? The raindrops. My favorite. The rocks are gnarly now. Barely fit under there. I was going to make a run in there, but I don't know how to do it. I left this on my chest, otherwise I wouldn't have. I get the view, but until you take it on the phone. Three miles away. How overgrown do you think it is? Like is it low ---- or is it like hitting you in the face? It makes it hard to follow too. Can't see ----. Shit, what are you supposed to do there? You need like a, yeah, you need a one, two, five to get up there. Nice and smooth, little highway. Oh ----, seeing this ---- on your videos, taking the group ride around here. You don't wanna crash on camera? Come on, take a moment. This is the worst stuff. It's so hard to get grip on the bigger gravel stones on hardpacks. Have we got any flats around here? Don't think there's any. There's a lot of glass and ----. Sometimes I come through and try to like sweep it out a little. Like in the parts I know I ride on. Yeah. You ride here at night? Yeah, I do. I mean, I do. You probably shouldn't. This little strip gets a little sketchy. Yeah. Nothing like too crazy. Just don't like stop and have a chat. Same in Mexico. I'm just like, if I just keep going at least 30k an hour, I'll be fine. By the time they like register and like try to like steal your bike or something, you're gone. Wrong. I think that he's a bird. You just don't know where a giant hole is because it's overgrown. You're on. End up riding over somebody you don't even know. No, you're going to go right, you're going to go left. You just gotta believe, trail's fine. Nice and bushy. You gotta bring your something different ride out here, so you can wear it in. Someone's been doing something. I can't believe this is happening. This one from coming to Dodger Games. Parking in Chinatown. All right, you gotta wheelie this bridge. I'm just a little alright on the way down. Oh, I've seen that one too. Yeah, oh, holy crap. Oh my god, I just did that for the first time. Hi. I'll be doing that anyway. You've really got to be in that little pocket, otherwise you... If you hit it fast enough, you can ride up on the wall. I'm in the same boat as you. I was like using brake, and then sliding, and hitting the wall, and off and on. And it helps if you have a spotter, because we had no idea if that was coming or something. Lucky that was just clothes on the ground, not somebody. This giant staircase goes forever. Yeah, that's not going to be that much fun. It's fun. Get in on that little section. Come on, get in there. So comfy, so nice. It's not bad if you go fast. No, that felt great actually. Don't try to get in front of me, we're both like speedy. Yeah! I used to go down to that spot at the wall when I rode BMX, and I'd be like, how do I get a job messenger? And everybody would be like, **** you. Yeah, it's a pretty unfriendly wall. Yeah, yeah, 100%. But I would always give him a hard time, so I'm like, I'm not here as much as you guys. Like, we would always argue. The first time I ever came to LA, got off LAX to Union Station, and rode straight to the wall. All I had was somebody's name, like, find Guy Bagley, he'll hook you up. And he wasn't there, they're like, who the **** are you? And I'm like, yeah, he'll be here eventually. I had, like, a huge bag. That was fun. And guys like, he'd stay at my house. No way, so you had nothing. That's before smartphones and ----, we just had like email addresses. You had nothing. Like a MySpace account or something. He's like, you're gonna have to ride through Skid Row, don't stop. Yeah. And back then it was sketchy. I'm like, how do I know when I'm there? He's like, oh, you'll know. And then it was like Zombieland, I was like, oh, I know. Back then it was definitely, I mean it's still sketchy, but back then it was marvellous. That must have been like more than 15 years ago. Like even that little strip where we rode along the bridge, that used to be pretty good. Now we're like retracing my first steps in LA. I feel the same like now that I'm on this bike. I come for all the loading dogs. You come here for all the loading dogs. They don't let you in the front door. Oh, when you're messaging? Yeah, and then you always see them doing the photo shoots down here. All right. Right through the sun. They don't let you get a job. Like no, you just gotta hit it. How are we gonna go? I'm ready dude, I'm always ready. Look at this little curb though. But I'm saying, don't listen to them. Colorblind! Now we're doing alley cats, I tell you. Now we see the real LA. This ain't the one I've seen in the movies. Catch's kitchen. I got one. What's the sign? Watch out! Oh he's gonna ride. Ride down one of these things one day. Back in the old days, we used to tie it. We'll be sitting here. Oh these little ones in the middle aren't that bad. You can walk up it and then ride down. Yeah, he did it before they put the finch on it. Right. You could do it for sure, wouldn't you? I'm afraid of heights, man. I could ride that middle one but just being up there, I'd just be like, I feel so ----. I told you on the old bridge I climbed up it and it's scary. Because you're looking straight down into the concrete. Yeah, you're not surviving that fall straight to concrete. Alright. Kind of a crazy bike path. Clouds are moving on this bridge. I've been in the drops all day because my back brake comes so close to the bars I can't brake. I switch back and forth. Sometimes I do hobo chill in the drops, sometimes I do it on the wheels. I can't really figure out which one. Maybe we can end it here. Yeah, yeah. These are the homies over here. Alright. This one, dude. Okay.