[Jason Momoa] This is my dream.
[soft music playing]
It's a quest,
marked with all of my wildest most ambitious ideas,
impossible pursuits...
that I've had in my head for decades.
It's living on the road...
always on the roam,
endless searching.
I'm a vagabond,
a dirtbag,
I'm a roamer,
hungry for inspiration wherever it presents itself,
training my eye to see the world
through the lens of individuals
who have inspired me greatly.
Legends,
mentors,
and friends.
Their obsession is the story
and their art is the gift.
This is On the Roam.
["Wherever I May Roam" playing]
♪ And the road becomes my bride ♪
♪ I have stripped of all but pride ♪
♪ So in her I do confide ♪
♪ Off the beaten path I reign ♪
♪ Roamer, wanderer ♪
♪ Nomad, vagabond ♪
♪ Call me what you will ♪
♪ Wherever I may roam ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
[Jason] For as long as I can remember,
I've always been drawn to, like, old bikes
from the '20s and '30s.
Since the moment I heard my first bike
and I rode on one, I was like,
"That was freedom."
The way that I feel when I'm on the bike
and how focused and...
I really sink into my machine and I love it,
and you get in tune with it, so...
I want to do that with the bikes that...
are broken, let's bring them back to life.
Most of them are in museums or private collections
never to ride again, just to appreciate.
That's a thing of the past,
and I, I just...
I love that,
but I want to ride it.
I've been searching for builders
to revive these machines
that have been sitting for a century.
I want to see these bikes rumble and come alive,
and I want to ride them like they're meant to be ridden.
[soft music playing]
This all started in Maggie Valley,
where there's one of the most prestigious collections of rare bikes,
Wheels Through Time.
♪ Good times, Moonlight raising From the grave ♪
So, you're just saying where you're just, like,
look in that cabinet and go, like,
"All right, I'm overwhelmed."
[Matt] Oh, yeah, man, there's a...
-[Jason] You need to spend so much time -shop in the back.
and you can see it,
and you don't actually see it yet.
Matt Walksler is now the owner of Wheels Through Time
and he has such a wealth of knowledge about bikes.
I'm lucky to call him a friend
and learn everything that I can from him.
I grew up riding dirt bikes as a kid,
and just always had kind of a need for speed
and you know that
thrill that you get from going fast
can't be replicated.
[Jason] When I walk through Wheels Through Time
the amount of inspiration that comes from these 100-year-old bikes
is just surreal.
[Jason] Hey.
You guys see this?
Whoo!
It's, in my opinion, it is the holy grail to me.
I love this one.
[inhales]
Is it 1930?
[Matt] 1930. That's number nine,
and the one in front of its number ten.
They're consecutively numbered.
Nine and ten. This is...
How many are there in the world?
[Matt] I think they made 20 of them
and there might be ten of them left.
-Ten of them? -[Matt] It's hard to know.
Ten of these left in the whole world.
I think most of the things that I really love happened,
you know,
in the '20s and '30s
where there was board track racing,
and these hill climbs and...
[indistinct commentary]
I never got to experience any of that and...
generally, I'm too big of a guy
to ride on any of those bikes anyway, so...
The DAH was built by Harley-Davidson
strictly for the purpose of racing and climbing hills.
It was and still is an incredibly powerful bike.
The factory made a certain amount
and then a lot of them get scrapped.
I think there's probably like eight of them left in the world.
A lot of people have never even heard of this.
I mean, this is so specialized.
-Guys like us... -Yeah.
...we couldn't even buy this back then.
Still, why has this not even been duplicated or replicated?
Is that because, like, the valves,
the people who had the eight-valves
who had JDH's could,
you know, they patented it all out,
so they keep replicate those,
because, you know, I mean, like,
how... how does that...
How do you go about doing that?
-It's huge cost. -[Jason] Yeah, huge cost.
It's huge cost.
No one would voluntarily take that apart...
-[Matt] That's right. -to go make the motor.
Yeah, and if you got one,
-you don't want to let somebody copy it. -Right.
Because if you do, then,
what there was only four of, now there's five of.
Well, in order to pull this design off,
you gotta buy a DAH
and have to take it apart,
pretty much...
3D cast everything?
So while visiting Maggie Valley,
I realized I wanted to recreate
one of these DAH bikes,
and then race 'em.
I brought my friends, Nick Toscano
and Brian Charles,
two amazing humans
two amazing bike builders.
I mean, at first, when Jay asked if we could do it,
I think we both said yes
thinking that it wasn't really actually ever gonna happen,
and then all of a sudden, we're like, "Oh, shit.
We have to do this." [chuckles]
[Jason] Nick and Brian's passion and knowledge of bikes is so unique,
and I've been looking for a project
to do with them for a long time.
I think it'll be so much fun to be able to take something
and not have to...
These are sacred, you want to keep them,
maybe start them up every once in a while,
but I want to, I want to ride them.
-[Matt] Yeah. -So, I wanna make a...
-[Matt] Mm-hm. -...make a group of homies
that just get to go ride these things.
I just love the idea of bringing that type of event back.
But we needed the blueprint,
a bike we could reproduce,
part for part,
and that led me to Jeff Decker.
Well, even before Jason told me
what he wanted to do,
he wanted some motorcycles that I wanted,
and I didn't know what... why he wanted them,
and I told him they weren't for sale.
I thought he was crazy. I thought, you know,
"Yeah, I know you got a lot of money but,
you know, it's not happening."
[Jason] I saw these two bikes at his house
and they floored me.
They were just like this mirror image
of what I would want to be if I was a bike,
and I was very afraid to ask,
because I didn't want to be insul...
I don't want to insult him in his home.
I think over time he kind of saw
where my passion was and... and, uh,
he understood what I wanted to do.
[Jeff] I don't know what it is about the slant artist
and hill climbing,
but it's always been the most romantic
of all the racing for me.
Maybe it's the ugliest.
If you think of a bull rider,
that's hill climbing.
[Jason] People would come from all over
to witness these events.
They were some of the most dangerous races that were happening back then.
There's nothing about the geometry
that make them street friendly ever.
They weren't sold to the public.
There were a dozen of these made.
[Jason] There's a generation gap
with a lot of people who ride that
you just don't get to see these board tracks
and it's such an older generation.
I think Jeff has really,
he always embraced it.
[Jeff] My dad was a car guy and I always got to,
you know, learn how, like, dirty and despicable
and horrible motorcyclists were,
so that's what I dreamed to be, you know?
[Jason] Jeff's, uh,
like an artist through and through.
He's just like a living...
He does everything with art and passion.
I feel like I try to do that.
Probably a little dirtier version of him.
[Jeff] I'm no athlete,
and certainly not a mechanic but,
there's something about that that I've always been drawn to and so,
the way I could express myself was art.
I didn't have art galleries that ever supported me.
I had to go to swap meets,
and just trade my art for dirty motors.
You know, I was Jack and the Beanstalk,
I got... never cash,
I got motorcycle parts,
but I was clever enough to get the right motorcycle parts
and then I could trade up.
I failed for 20 years and then realized
I was doing pretty good as a failure.
[Jason] Jeff's art just blows me away.
We share the same passion for hill climbs and DAH's.
And you can see that come through in his work.
[Jeff] I've had these things
and I've put them on a shelf and let them gather dust
but I never imagined
that they'd get dust on a hill climb.
This team he assembled to put 'em together,
is really mind-boggling.
[soft music playing]
I don't think it's been captured since the 1930s,
and if you even look back to then,
it was on some film camera that was, you know,
probably shot pretty poorly and that's all we had to go off of.
To be able to use my talents,
my crew use their talents
to be able to direct and shoot it in the...
the way that I want to and make people feel it
and really be a part of it,
that's it.
[soft music playing]
Just the thought of doing a period accurate hill climb
with all original bikes,
and all my friends together,
it's something I never thought was possible.
You know, when you look at an old bike,
it's had so much passion and love and hard times and,
they've seen so much and I just feel like
I want to hear them.
And I know I can't ride all of them but...
I'm gonna try.
[soft music playing]
[engine starts]
I've been lucky enough to be welcomed into the bike community
and introduced to some amazing craftsman along the way.
There's just so many people that I've met
that have opened their hearts and I... I love...
And you find at the root of it how...
what kind of artist they really are
and their stories and so...
that's just, it's just so beautiful.
We raced quite a bit against each other
-and became friends. -Oh, yeah, yeah.
You're the, probably the only guy I talk to...
-So... -[chuckles]
We don't have time for anything...
I don't have time for anything,
it's just like talk to you,
and then talk to my wife. That's it.
Nick's funny. Nick's always like...
Nick kinda has like a...
Soprano/De Niro face, like...
And he always kind of like doesn't want to say that he can do it.
"It's possible.
It's possible."
And Brian Charles are like,
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we can do that."
Yeah, he's very positive, like, he said,
"Brian Charles is, like, game."
Jason's great.
[chuckles] Um,
he's like, uh, energy,
he's like a force of will.
Working with Jay,
he's such a lovable guy,
he's got this awesome vision of, like, everything.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Fuck, yeah, I want to do that."
But then, like, you get home, you're like,
"Fuck! Why did I say that?
Shit! That's gonna be stressful."
His character and motivation helps,
you want to,
you know, make yourself better.
[soft music playing]
[Jason] These guys,
they need to make four of these bikes a year,
but there's such a one-off and a small space,
I want to celebrate that.
I want to celebrate those artists that are just...
doing it out of their back shop.
[soft music playing]
[honks horn]
In my journey to create rare bikes to be ridden,
I was led to Mike Silvio
to build a never before seen 1936 bike.
[Mike] No way!
[Jason] Yeah, yeah. There's only...
There's only a little bit left,
[indistinct conversation]
Hey your place is beautiful.
-This town is just... -[Mike] Yeah, get over here.
[Jason] When I got to meet Silvio,
he was just so...
He's hilarious, man.
He's so much fun,
um,
wealth of knowledge.
I love him to death.
[Mike] When I met Jay,
I had an absolute blast and...
and met a guy who is
overly passionate about antique bikes and
in love with them just like I was
and we immediately hit it off.
Jason's been in and around the industry for a good while
and his name's coming up left and right.
Holy moly!
This place is beautiful.
[Jason] He's built this museum.
He's uh,
he's wonderful at his craft,
and he's got a museum of...
One day, he might inspire me to have a museum.
That's original paint?
[Mike] That's original paint.
That's the bike that started it all for me.
Oh, man!
When I was little, I always wanted to have, uh,
you know, I wasn't really raised by my father but...
and wanting to build a bike,
um, build a car and wrench on that,
you know, I didn't have that opportunity growing up.
Yeah, I think it's one of those things I always wanted to do,
and so definitely building a bike
was something huge to me, and at 19...
is when I'd saved up enough money
and I bought my first Harley,
and, um...
and when you get old Harleys,
you learn how to work on bikes.
And then you also get to meet a lot of friends,
and it brings you into a community
and takes you around the world and meet more friends.
[Mike] The antique motorcycle community
is a very, very small close-knit group of people.
And that's the best part is,
you're growing relationships with people
that are like-minded,
that are curators,
that are builders.
-Right here. -Here it is.
I've never... I've never seen this.
I bought it and had it shipped straight to him, so...
pretty goddamn excited.
Whoa!
How does it look?
My gosh!
Look at that.
[Mike] I've always worked with my hands.
I've always been the...
I used to get in trouble when I was a kid
for taking stuff apart.
I'd get a new toy and I'd...
had to take it apart to figure out how it worked.
When I got involved with motorcycles,
I wanted to
know everything about it.
[engine starts]
[engine revving]
[inaudible] I love it.
[Mike] I get just as much satisfaction
out of working on a bike as I do riding the bike.
-[Jason] Food! -I know, it smells great.
-It smells good out here. -So how was the house?
-How was it? -God...
Was it... Was it like...
[Jason] Me and Mike Wolfe are both from Iowa.
You know, I respected his...
his art form, and just,
he is such a wealth of knowledge
and, you know, he perpetuates and keeps...
all the information from all the old timers,
but now, just like, it... it sucks
because of a lot of people that are just passing on
with all these beautiful history and stories and, um,
I think Mike is definitely that connection to it.
[soft music playing]
[Jason] Good.
-Whoa! -[Mike W laughing]
[Jason] Holy shit!
We all walked away alive.
The bikes are good, we're not.
Bikes are good.
-Too much fun. -[indistinct conversation]
You know, I get to spend time with these guys
and they open up their homes,
and and you get to see what inspired them
and inspired their styles,
and ultimately, it's just all these artists.
All right. First time I'm gonna see this, Mike.
[Mike W] I've never seen a pink '36.
I've been asked to build a lot of different bikes
a lot of different colors, man.
Bro!
Yeah.
I've always wanted Pepto Bismol.
Oh, okay. That looks beautiful.
-[Mike W] I'm trying... -I know you don't like it.
[Mike] No, I do like it.
-Don't lie, don't lie. -I do.
No, here's the thing, you...
you, you... I...
-I've never... -[laughter]
[Jason] "If you've got a bunch of spare parts,
would you be cool if I buy 'em off you
and we'll go make a '36?"
"Hell, yeah!"
"Awesome. Who's your builder?"
-"Silvio." -"Who's Silvio?"
"Mike Silvio, look it up."
My momma raised me on Elvis, right?
I have a '55 pink Cadillac that I've had in my whole...
that I've had since I was early 20s.
I still have it.
I've always wanted a '36 knucklehead.
You have two,
you have the original paint.
Well, when Jason showed up and...
presented this opportunity to me,
I was floored. I was stoked.
I couldn't have been more excited
because he's a great friend of mine.
I got a little nervous
when he told me he wanted a pink '36.
[Jason] I think out of all the '36s I have,
I don't have an original frame.
This is the first.
-This is a... This bike will be... -[Mike] This will be...
...every single piece on this, thank you to Mr. Wolfe.
[Mike] That was one of the first things
that really stood out. When I first met Jason,
everything was pink.
His shoes, his clothes,
his jackets,
his keychain to his car.
He was the one, like, "Let's build this '36.
I wanna make it pink, it's my favorite color."
Um,
he's like, "Yeah." I'm like, "Are you cool with that?"
Then he's like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah,
let's do that."
[Mike W] I can imagine,
the people, they're going to find this bike
and they're going to look at it and go, like,
"Who the hell painted a '36 knucklehead pink?"
You know? [laughing]
[Mike] That is a...
original '36 knucklehead speedometer.
-That is a rare essential part right there. -Bro.
-Muah. -[Mike] Yeah.
I've always wanted one of them.
Just being with my friends too and watching them do it,
there's a certain satisfaction you get out of using your hands.
[Mike W] Silvio is a guy that people come to and say,
"I want to do this. I want to build that."
And they'll usually hand him a transmission, a carburetor,
or an engine,
or sometimes he's lucky
and he gets a whole bike.
I can just imagine him going by,
65 miles an hour,
and somebody standing on the corner going,
you know, "That was...
That was like a tsunami of badassery."
[Jason] I mean, this bike is like,
it's that ultimate moment where you go like,
"I can't believe I have an original.
Every part on it is original."
I love the idea of taking all these little pieces found by Mike Wolfe,
gathered from all over this beautiful country,
and then bringing them together with Silvio.
With Wolfe and Silvio, it's...
He's got a phenomenal place, too.
This guy's just a... He's a whiz, man.
I love him.
I'll see you in six months,
and you better have my fucking shit done.
-Do you understand? -[laughter]
[soft music playing]
You know, the idea of taking a very expensive 1930s bike,
disassemble it,
scan it all,
and then have to do all the castings
and basically build it from scratch.
No one would buy a bike like that
and take it completely apart,
but we did.
-[Brian] Oh. -[man] How's it going?
-We got the motorcycle. -[man] Yeah, yeah, it's here.
-The parts are here. -Finally. Tell me about it.
-1930 DAH... -Whoo! That's pretty sweet.
...Harley-Davidson.
Super rare.
[Brian] You gotta think, like,
you know, these bikes back then
were handcrafted and handmade
with the entire force of the motor company
behind a small group of people.
I mean, every single part of this,
for as much you might have worked on,
100 motorcycles before,
but this is such a challenge because nothing existed.
♪ Feel like you ♪
A digital representation of a part that can't be,
-you know, uh, reproduced easily. -Yeah.
Getting that digital footprint or fingerprint in is always really smart.
So then we're going to be able to copy these
and even get the original casting marks
and everything right down to the T.
[soft music playing]
♪ Let their hearts hangout so they can write you... ♪
[Nick] As we're building these bikes,
you run into little things that don't quite add up
or don't fit right.
You know, every little part was handmade
and all right, you put something together,
"Oh, this part doesn't fit.
All right, we'll get these scanned
and we'll have the prints
and then we'll go to the foundry and make that."
[man vocalizing]
[Randy] Hey, uh, we can be anywhere else on this planet,
any other square.
But it is right here where we stand. This is it.
This is what we do. This is it. So, appreciate it.
As my wife say and I always say,
"If it's not sketchy, it ain't fun."
-[all laughing] -That's not how we live.
[Jason] I think having all these bikes together
and all these men who I call friends
together is actually... You know, that's the accomplishment.
Building this world for my friends
to capture this and we can put together something,
that's amazing and that right there
is like... done. Accomplished it.
I had this dream to be able to take all of my friends
that I have ever met in this community,
bring them together,
and then race each other.
And what came out of it
were the Roamers.
[rock music playing]
♪ Fire for the hills Pick up your feet and let's go ♪
♪ Head for the hills Pick up steel on your way ♪
♪ And when you find a piece of them in your sight ♪
♪ Fire at will Don't you waste no time ♪
[Jason] They are an incredible bike group
whose brotherhood and love for bikes runs deep.
They have an unbelievable sense of camaraderie
and when I met them,
it was like being welcomed into a family.
I wanted to make my own...
something for my buddies, something special, so...
-Brian Cannon, -Is there a smaller outfit?
We got medium...
Medium there-ish.
There's a rebellious nature to the motorcycle community.
I'm just a fan, really, of it all.
♪ The trees can't grow without the sun in their eyes ♪
♪ And we can't live if we're too afraid to die ♪
[engine revs]
♪ Hold on tight Yes, hold on tight You're too slow ♪
[Jason] We all have a deep-rooted love for bikes.
And I love the idea of building an event
where we could all share this passion together.
One of my favorite parts of the bike community
is how small it feels.
You meet one person and suddenly
you have all these people who share the same love as you do.
[inaudible]
Through Matt Walksler I met Buzz Kanter,
a legend in the bike community.
He published in a lot of top motorcycle magazines.
And he has a deep knowledge of vintage bikes.
So, this is... Tell me a little bit about it.
It's an original paint,
original 1927 Harley,
with under 800 original miles.
It's over 95 years old
and it's travelled less than 800 original miles.
It's a holy grail bike.
-You guys ready? -[Nick] I'm ready.
Dream come true.
[Jason groans]
Original everything.
Holy shit!
The 1927 JD is just unbelievable to look at.
It's hard to explain just how rare this bike is.
It's like looking at a time capsule from 100 years ago.
[Kanter] Anyone who gets close to this bike and looks at it
can see the amazing paintwork, the craftmanship
that can be duplicated today,
but without the feel,
without the soul.
[Jason] I love things from the early 1900s
in every way.
I think there's a whole different
way of just things being built.
[Nick] You know, first dirt bike I think I had it is when I was 13.
I saved up enough money from cutting lawns
and bought my first dirt bike. Of course, it didn't run.
So, I had to take it apart.
Learned that way, put a new piston in.
So, like, right off the bat, I was a mechanic.
[Jason] Something I love is taking a museum piece like this
and not just staring at it, but starting it.
To do that with a bike this rare is unheard of.
-[engine sputtering] -[Jason] Oh.
-Oh! -[all cheering]
[engine revving]
[screams]
[groans]
The bike was preserved so well. It had vegetable oil
in the tank so that wouldn't rust out overtime.
We fired it up and it just smoked up the entire shop.
How many races was this in? How did it get the paint like that?
There was the soul it holds and how much sweat and friction.
Just knowing that Nick brought that bike back to life
with his son there
experiencing his first ride,
uh, that's beautiful.
[inaudible]
And that feeling,
that's what I'm chasing when I find an old bike.
[gentle instrumental music playing]
Oil, right there.
I hear it, hear it.
[Mike] Coming in.
It's in here.
[Jason] Love you, brother.
-Shit. -[laughs]
-Let's oil it. -You guys ready?
-Yeah. -All right.
-Yes. -It's ready.
Oh!
-Wow! -Wow!
Holy shit!
Look at this.
[Mike W] I mean...
[groans]
Ooh. Boy it look good.
Lookin' at the Pink 36,
I was blown away.
Pickin' all these pieces,
and then having Silvio put together my first stock 36...
and then you design it the way you want it.
To go from a wild idea
to this finished bike...
Then, I get to rip it around with my friends
on their 36s...
there's nothing better.
[gentle music playing]
All right. So...
This is the first time I'm gonna see the DAHs.
Little surprise for me.
[man] Rule number one.
[chuckles]
Oh, damn!
Bro...
I've built and seen so many beautiful bikes
and this is the most amazing moment I'm seeing, these bikes.
That's beautiful.
It's hard to believe that this all started from one idea
of just seeing a DAH brought back to life.
But now, standing in front of them,
being able to ride them,
it's an absolute privilege.
[inaudible]
It's pretty amazing to go, that bike right there.
We got Jeff Decker coming in to buy that from him...
"Can we make some of these?
Cause if we can... If we have this, we can make our own bikes.
And if we're making our bikes, we can make DAHs and DARs
and there's only one DAR out there."
Sixteen months later,
just so we can race 'em.
-Yeah. -So, we can all get together
and race these 'cause all those pictures you see of...
All those guys in 1937 having a good time on these bikes,
I'm like, I wanna do that. Why can't we do that?
Seeing these bikes lined up in front of me,
ready to race with all my friends,
I just can't believe we pulled it off.
[engine starts]
[indistinct chatter]
I just wanna say thank you for... for selling me this
and then also passing down the history, and, like,
you know, I know you love this bike,
but it means a lot that I... you know, I feel I have
the vision to make something like this, where we're all together.
-So, just thank you for-- -No, absolutely, man.
And I'm happy that it turned out this way.
-So beautiful. -Yeah. And this is probably the only time.
Uh, there's never been four DAHs
running at once together. Never.
[Nick] Building something that nobody's ever done before
turned out to be a hell of a lot more involved
than we actually thought.
[Brian] Nobody's ever ridden these things.
Maybe a handful of people in the entire world
over the course of time have ridden one of these.
It was just like a pipe dream.
It's one of those things where you're, like,
"Uh, wish we could do that. Can we do that?"
"Oh, we're gonna do that.
All right." And then, it all sinks in for everyone.
[inaudible]
[Nick] You know, I get my own vision of a bike
and to put a motor together and that whole anxiety,
like, how's it gonna run and then when it fires up,
like, uh, it's the greatest feeling.
[engine misfires]
[engine starts]
They are so rare and the way it feels,
they're, like, in a way they sound, they sound like these lions.
We woke up at 5:30 this morning
and we started 'em up and it just sound like this...
It's just this...
pride of lions
growling in the dark.
[Nick] It's been a lot of buildup.
It's, like... What are we gonna be doing with these?
What are we gonna be doing, like, where are we gonna be riding?
How are we gonna set 'em up?
[Brian] I mean, whether or not it was on our end,
or on, you know, the filming schedule,
or just, you know, the logistics of everything,
I mean, I think anything could have gone right, so...
It's been very challenging and obviously taxing on everyone
because we wanna make all these things come true.
And here's the big thing. Like, it's all me.
It's all my heart. It's everything I wanna do.
You're literally watching everything that I love.
And, so, that's scary.
It actually got to the point where I didn't know
where we were gonna race these.
I knew I wanted to race these.
I figured it would be easy to find a hill 'cause we've done it before.
But it actually all kinda opened up
with, uh, a dear friend of mine.
I was over at his house at Thanksgiving
and he told me that he had a track.
And I was, like, "What?"
And we went and saw his track.
And it just... I called... I called my partner Brian.
I said, "I got it. We have the track."
And I'm telling my friend about it.
And he's going, "I don't know if you can race these old bikes in through it"
And also, the risk is, there's so much dust here
that it's very fine dirt
that it gets in the motors you're blowing up 100 plus thousand dollar bikes.
You risk a lot for, uh,
you risk blowing them up, to, uh, to show the world.
But it's worth it.
[engine revving]
I had this crazy idea to take uh,
this one very rare bike, the DAH.
Took it apart and we made three of 'em.
This hasn't happened, uh, since probably the 1930s.
♪ Generals gathered in their masses ♪
♪ Just like witches at black masses ♪
♪ Evil minds that plot destruction ♪
♪ Sorcerer of death's construction ♪
♪ In the fields the bodies burning ♪
♪ As the war machine keeps turning ♪
♪ Death and hatred to mankind ♪
♪ Poisoning their brainwashed minds ♪
♪ Oh, Lord, yeah ♪
[rock music playing]
[music stops]
[engine whirring]
[Jason] Getting to see Decker do a hill climb with the bike,
that started the entire journey, it was surreal.
The slant artist.
[shouting] Hey, Decker!
That was so cool, man.
He didn't think he was gonna be doing that two years ago. [laughs]
All right.
First one of the top out of these three between Ken and Charles,
and, uh and Toscano, five grand,
and it goes to wherever you wanna donate that to a charity.
Five grand on this one, all right?
It's the first one. You guys ready?
Let's get cameras ready.
-[engine starts] -[rock music playing]
♪ I'm growin' up ♪
♪ I'm gettin' real big ♪
♪ They're gonna put me in the goddamn redwoods next to ♪
♪ Next to General Sherman, baby ♪
♪ I got a Ma that hides under the staircase and she don't wanna come out ♪
♪ She got the brain but I got the biscuit ♪
♪ Come on, lady Open your mouth ♪
♪ I found a number called into the doctor ♪
♪ Givin' her the pills for free ♪
♪ She's at the bottle shakin' from the handle ♪
♪ Tie a little arm 'round me ♪
♪ I'm growin' up ♪
♪ How many times you're hidin' in the basement ♪
♪ Hangin' from the bathroom floor? ♪
♪ Lookin' at your back and lookin' to the ceiling still you gotta ask for more ♪
♪ Well, I found a number called into the doctor ♪
♪ Givin' her the pills for free ♪
♪ And she's at the bottle shakin' from the handle ♪
♪ Tie a little arm 'round me let's go ♪
♪ Tie 'em right around me ♪
♪ Tie 'em real good ♪
♪ We're getting real right here ♪
♪ Let's get it all right up now ♪
♪ That's right ♪
♪ Come on ♪
♪ Stand up Stand up straight ♪
♪ Stand up straight ♪
[music stops]
[gentle music playing]
[Jason] These bikes, they're like paintings.
These incredible works of art,
and they've just been sittin' there.
This is, uh, it's really a dream come true for me.
'Cause I wanted to make this show about all these artisans,
and, um, you guys are the top for me.
You know, I love all these old bikes.
I don't... Sadly, I don't know how to...
build these by hand. But I appreciate you guys so much.
And I love ridin' and really being a filmmaker,
I love having my friends... What I'm good at,
capture what you guys are great at.
[Jeff] I treat these like delicate things that aren't to be touched.
And you guys are hammering these things.
And these are better than the originals. It's unbelievable.
And to see them treated the way they were meant to be treated,
you know, it's something of another level.
[Terry] The group that you've brought together
that we got to play with a last few years,
it's just family. It's amazing!
The... the people from all over come together, like-minded,
and it's just... you guys are amazing.
-[Jason] Thanks, Terry. -[man] Yeah.
-Absolutely. -We love you, man.
[Jason] Taking something that's never been ridden since the '30s
and then making four of 'em and racin' em,
they've never even had four of 'em together, ever, to race.
It's so cool. And so much fun
and the people that are creating them are just,
I can't believe I'm doing this, and I'm, like,
I can't believe I'm doing this.
And I hope people get inspired by that going, like, "Yeah. that shit's possible."
It's not possible? I'm, like, "Hmm, is it?" Let's go do it. Let's try.
[Brian] I hope my memory is good enough that I never forget it. [laughs]
That's pretty much. It's been really, really amazing.
I mean, when I'm gone, it'll still be there, hopefully.
Like to leave something to my kid.
He gets to see this. 'Cause he's only one years old now.
So, he also sees the process of what we've done,
and, yeah, something to... for my kid to see.
It's really wild to see 'em all come alive.
And, especially, when you've got, you know,
a dozen motorcycles firing at once,
they're, like, hyper tuned.
And it really is, these monsters, you know, barking at each other.
[Jason] Before I got into acting, I was bussing tables,
and I was working at a surf shop.
I was 19 years old,
just wanted to climb and surf. When I, you know,
got into acting on the show,
I didn't make much money. And I lived with my dad.
I was, like, all I wanted was a Harley.
And I wanted a Panhead and I finally got it.
I just knew I wanted one.
I've ridden tons of dirt bikes biked my whole life.
But I didn't know anything about it. I just knew I loved that sound,
I loved the way it felt.
I wanted to learn it,
I wanted to, like, just dive into the culture of it.
But all I wanted to do is go across America.
And I wanted to just, to go to all these destinations
and just be, like, all right, here's just...
my life is in the saddle bags
and I was just this vagabond I wanted to have my Harley.
You could be on a new bike and I could be
on this old one we're on the same road at the same moment and it's just,
it's such a high to be on something that's so old.
I think there's nothing like it in the world.
[gentle music playing]