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Northern California is so much
different than Southern California.

- It's different.
- It's such a different energy.

Epic cliffs and huge
ocean underneath it.

Just from right here we
can go ride the ocean,

get the sun, and we can go right up
into the redwoods and be in twisties.

I kind of feel like
this is the future.

Cali's the mecca, man. So many great
little excursions on the way up.

Ah! Whoo!

This is so crazy.

I'm so happy we found this place.

Anything that makes noise attracts zombies.

Is your dog snoring right
now? Is that what that was?

Are we gonna ride or what?

Let's do it.

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I was in my early 20s when
I moved to Los Angeles.

Just a kid trying to
figure myself out.

Dreaming of being an artist somehow.

It was in the late '90s, and I kind
of fell into this underground scene

of outsiders and rebels and actors.

And then there were the bikers.

I'll always feel at home here.

This is the place where
everything came together for me.

The first place where
I felt I belonged.

And now? Now I'm pretty damn lucky.

I have a cool job where I get to
ride motorcycles and kill zombies.

On the weekends, I
just ride motorcycles.

Even though this is where I
really learned to love bikes,

and I rode all the time,

I never really had
the chance to explore.

That's why I'm so
excited to be back.

Taking my first ride up
the Pacific Coast Highway.

From the Mexican border,
the highway runs parallel

with the Pacific coast
through California.

At times the highway winds

along the sheer cliff
face above the sea.

I've heard that the
Pacific Coast Highway

is one of the most savagely
beautiful roads you can do anywhere.

I'm starting out in LA, then
winding 400 miles up the coast,

stopping in Santa
Barbara and Pismo Beach

before ending up in the
ultimate biker town, Santa Cruz,

where I'm gonna talk bikes
and "The Walking Dead"

on one of my favorite podcasts.

Before heading out, I'm
stopping in Long Beach

to pay homage to motorcycle
guru Roland Sands.

Roland's an award-winning,
record-breaking road racer

turned custom bike artist.

He's got a solid rep and towers over
the innovative California biker scene.

There's no way I'd miss a chance
at finally checking out his shop.

- Hey, what's up, Norman?
- Hey, nice to meet you, Roland.

- Absolutely.
- I've heard great things about you.

Welcome, man. I've heard some
great things about you as well.

Yeah, I came over here on this sucker.

- This Hypermotard.
- Sick, man.

I'm riding a Ducati Hypermotard 939.

It's got a sleek minimalistic design

and sweet "Blade Runner" curves.

That makes it great for navigating
through mangled city traffic

and cutting loose on the open road.

These bikes, man, to
me, they're just, like,

the sickest hooligan bike ever.

Show me some of your stuff,
man. I want to see everything.

This is our home, dude.

Wow, it's like a museum.

Man, there are so many
bikes crammed in here.

- There are 75 bikes in this building.
- Wow.

We build cafe racers out of Sportsters.

So we have a whole line
of hard parts that we sell.

That's a Hypermotard
slash 999 Ducati.

This is so "Mad Max" right here.

Super zombie killer bike.

That's one of the first
customs I ever built.

This is beautiful. You
pretty much do everything.

Is there anything you don't do?

Sleep.

I know that very well.

What's up? Good morning. Hi.

How's it going, everybody?

When people see your bikes, they
automatically know they're yours.

- Kind of, yeah.
- What makes a Roland Sands bike?

I think primarily, like,
I want to build bikes

that work better than the stock bike.

We increase the performance
level, better brakes,

better wheels, you know, and I
think the blending of styles, too.

Like, this bike kind of just
kicked off my career in a sense.

'Cause this bike
was, like, the blend

of sport bike and chopper culture

smashed together in one motorcycle.

And people just had never seen that
type of approach to a bike before.

Wow.

- Is this your pop right here?
- Yeah.

My dad started a company
called Performance Machines.

So, I mean, when I was five
years old, I was at drag races.

You know, I used to go to Laguna Seca
and go watch the grand prix back then.

Seca's awesome.

So I can ride one of these?

This is the fleet, man.

So we got flat track
racers. Harley softails.

Cafe racers. This is a Superleggera.

What about this guy? How's this one?

This is a BMW nineT.

- It's so pretty.
- It's a fun bike.

We did a number plate on the front,

moved the oil cooler up so
we exposed the breastplate.

Ohlin suspension front and rear.

Custom exhaust, one-off exhaust.

- It's a badass-sounding bike.
- Yeah.

I'll grab your bike and
I'll meet you in the back.

All right, cool.

Roland's taking me to one of
his favorite spots nearby.

Never thought I'd get a
chance to ride alongside

a legit championship racer like him.

The dude makes crazy,
mindboggling stunts look easy.

- I've never been here.
- This is my old hood.

- This is your hood right here?
- This is where I grew up.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That was awesome.

Yeah, I like to mess around a little bit.

I'm kind of an idiot.

I will not be doing that.

- Loving this.
- You like it?

I like the way this handles
and rides. It's so nice.

There's nothing like being
on one of Roland's bikes.

It's clear that he takes
pride in every single detail.

The machine fits your
body like a glove.

This is beautiful, dude.

Where are we right now?

- Palos Verdes.
- Palos Verdes.

This is beautiful up here, man.

Yeah, this is like a ride we do
on the weekends. We come up here.

- And that's Catalina.
- That's Catalina right there.

Spend a lot of time over there.

Is PCH like this? This sort of vibe?

It's even a little bit more grand.

It's like the mountains just got...

like God cut the mountains off

and it drops straight down into the ocean.

- Wow.
- It's amazing.

I could live here in a
heartbeat. This is great.

Well, dude, right on. I'm out.

I'm gonna go head up
and go back to work, man.

- I wish I could go with you.
- That would be great.

I would love it. I might steal
your motorcycle and take it with me.

Go for it.

- I think it likes you.
- Can I take it?

Yeah, as long as you get
it back, I don't care.

Eeee! Done.

- Thank you, bro.
- All right, Norman. Be safe.

- Have fun and take chances.
- I will. It'll be fun.

As soon as I was on the bike,

I felt buckled down to the road.

That kind of connection
is super rare,

and I was honored that Roland let me
borrow it for the rest of the ride.

Now I'm heading to West Hollywood

to pick up one of the
dopest bikers I know.

Imogen Lehtonen.

Imogen's from New Zealand... who
came here to open the LA outpost

of her family's
shop, The Great Frog.

Imogen's family invented
the skull ring 40 years ago,

and they're still
churning out handcrafted,

one-of-a-kind
pieces to this day.

We met a year ago when
she tore through Georgia

on a cross-country trip.

She invited me to come
ride the PCH back then,

and I'm stoked we're
finally gonna do it.

- Yay!
- Hi, sweetheart.

- Hi.
- How are you?

- Good, how you doing?
- I'm good. I'm good.

- It's been a minute.
- Hell, yeah.

- Look at this thing.
- Yeah, right?

I took a Ducati to Roland Sands' place,

and I liked this so much I
kind of stole it from him.

- That is a crazy looking bike.
- Yeah.

So we'll take this up the coast with us.

- I mean, this is yours, right?
- Yes. Well, it's not mine.

I'm borrowing it, but I love this thing.

Imogen is riding a custom
Harley Dyna T-Sport

made by LA's own
Powerplant Motorcycles.

With high-set T-bar handlebars
and a blacked-out powder coating,

this bike is as badass as she is.

This'll be great going up the coast.

- I know, and this has, like, an adjustable windshield.
- Oh, it goes up and down?

I'm excited to get on our
bikes and start the ride.

- But first...
- Show me your shop.

...I got to pick up a
ring Imogen promised me.

- Come in the shop.
- This is awesome in here.

Did you... I mean, this is all you?

Yes. So my uncle and my aunt started it,

and my parents... my mom and
dad met working there together,

So I have a jewelry family.

Wow. Tell me about that creepy
skeleton up there in the corner.

- Real or not real?
- It's not real.

This is actually our resident
only real skull in the shop.

Our London shop is actually
built on a plague pit.

So when there was, like, the Black
Plague and they had mass graves...

and they excavated in the basement
of our shop, and it was a mass grave.

And a lot of the original skulls we
have in our London shop are from there.

What? What? That's sort of creepy.

You need to pick a ring as well.

You've got to have a skull ring.

Can you pick one for me?

- I can do that.
- Yeah?

I feel like you need
a gnarly looking skull.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is perfect for me.

Let's see if he fits. Are you excited?

I'm excited, yeah. This
is my first ring ever.

- And it fits.
- Yeah, this is badass.

Were you wearing all your
stuff in Atlanta when we met?

On the cross-country trip
I wore some of my stuff.

I wasn't as heavily loaded as
I usually am when I'm around LA.

That was really fun when
you guys all came down.

I had such a good time.

And we're going up
PCH to Santa Cruz.

Okay, that's the most beautiful
ride in California you can do.

There's a podcast up there
which is "Motorcycle Misfits."

Really? I'm scared to hear
my voice on a podcast...

- Your voice is great.
- ...but it'll be fun.

Tonight, there is an Airstream motor camp

- that would be so cool to stay at.
- Oh, nice.

- They deck them out to make them look awesome.
- Where is that?

- In Santa Barbara.
- I love Airstreams,

but I've never been in an Airstream.

- All right.
- Cool, let's go hit the highway.

All right, let's do this.

All right.

You ready, babe?

This changed so much here. There used to
be this place called Damiano's right there.

A pizza place. It's where
I first became an actor.

- It was in that pizza place.
- That's cool.

It's true, I really did
become an actor at Damiano's.

It's a long story,
but let's just say

I was in the right place at the
right time, and the rest is history.

Now it's time to head north

97 miles to Santa Barbara.

- This is fun.
- I like riding around with you.

It's gonna be even better when
we're on the open road, too.

And it will be, like, daytime
and, like, beautiful coast.

We'll be picking up
the PCH in the morning,

so we just need a place to bed down.

And the Santa Barbara Autocamp
with personal Airstreams

couldn't be more perfect.

- This is so cool.
- They match my bike.

Oh, yeah.

I love that they put AstroTurf around, too.

- Yeah.
- All right.

Oh, my God. They have a bathtub.

- Coffee pot, check.
- It's even got a little kitchen and a mini fridge.

- I'm having this one.
- This is yours? You got it. Done.

Tomorrow's gonna be, like, PCH.

Beautiful, no LA traffic.

- Yeah, let's hope so.
- It'll be the pretty part.

Yeah, good. I'm gonna go
take a bath in an air bubble.

Bye!

What the (bleep)? You peeper.

Little peeper.

- The ocean! Whoo!
- Oh, the ocean.

- Are these electric?
- Oh, cool.

He built this whole place out of junk.

- He was a garbage man for 30 years.
- Wow.

Oh, my God!

Are you having a party in here?

This is so cool. I like
sleeping in an airstream.

It was pretty cool except for
every time you walk by a desk,

you clear the desk by accident.

- You know what I mean?
- I didn't have that problem.

Yeah, well, you're skinny, that's why.

- All right, let's roll.
- You're not exactly fat.

Not exactly fat? What
is that supposed to mean?

- I'm excited to ride.
- Yeah, it's gonna be nice today.

Ready?

Wow, it's so pretty.

- So beautiful.
- Yeah.

We're headed north on the PCH

104 miles from Santa
Barbara to Pismo Beach.

Can you hear me?

When do we get to the ocean?

I can't understand you.

How'd you sleep in that Airstream?

I'm just gonna guess at what you're saying.

Something about an alarm clock.

Nothing about Alaska.

A baked Alaska.

- The ocean! Whoo!
- Oh, the ocean.

- Yeah. -
Whoo-hoo!

The Pacific Coast Highway

is one of the most
breathtaking roads ever.

It opened in the late 1920s

as part of the Roosevelt Highway,

the first road to link the
Mexican and Canadian borders.

With its snaking
curves and sharp drops,

people travel from
all over the world

to see what makes it so
uniquely Californian.

- Look how sparkly it is.
- Yeah.

With the ocean right
there next to you,

man, this is how you're
supposed to ride.

I mean, check out that view.

Pismo Beach, 15 miles.

Yeah.

Pismo Beach is five and a half miles

of pristine sand dunes and
one of the only beaches

in America you can
actually drive onto.

Let's go to the beach.

Which is right up our alley.

I'm down to see what kind of
off-road action we can find.

Look how pretty this is.

Yeah, this is beautiful.

What are these little birds called?

Oyster catchers. They're cute.

Catch one.

How cold you reckon the water is?

- Freezing?
- I bet it's freezing.

Stay away from me.

That looks like a dune buggy, right?

That's cool. Have you ever dune-buggied?

- Never.
- Me either.

- Let's go dune buggy.
- ♪ Little dune buggy. ♪

Dune buggies on the beach? Right on.

There's no way we're gonna
let this opportunity pass by.

How's it going? I'm Norman.

- Glad to meet you. Robert.
- Hi, Imogen.

- Oh, cool. Thank you.
- Your first time out here?

- First time ever here and on a dune buggy.
- First time dune-buggying.

Part of our protocol too is you
have to watch a safety video.

Okay. What did you do to your screen?

- Well...
- It's beach modified.

It's kind of scary to watch
a safety video on this screen.

- You know what I mean?
- We're a little hard on things out here.

Avoid all wildlife.

Can you imagine trying to
run over these little birds?

- Do people do that?
- They try.

You are assuming all
risks for any damage,

- injury, or loss of life.
- This is gonna be fun.

- Loss of life?
- Animal life.

Now you're ready to drive the dunes.

- Shall we hit it?
- Let's do it.

What's the fastest one you have? This one?

Have a good time.

- Yeah, I'm excited.
- Thank you.

Everybody say "whiplash."

You guys can go.

Whoo!

You ready? Check this out.

Are you serious? Oh my
god that looks crazy!

Yeah! Whoo!

This way. Go right down this big mountain.

Aah!

- Whoo!
- Whoo!

Hold on, I got stuck. I
got stuck on this hill.

I'm over here.

Whoa.

Whoa, I don't know if I can do this.

Whoo!

Whee! Whoo!

- Aw!
- I'm coming!

- I'm sorry, Norman.
- I got you, babe.

I'm driving like a grandma, aren't I?

Whoo!

This way. Here we go.

Follow me.

Ah!

Oh! Whoa, airborne. I just went airborne.

My God! Whoo! Whoo!

I got some air.

Let's go to the big one.

- Oh, (bleep).
- Oh my god.

And good-bye.

Ah!

Oh, my God, I want to do
this for, like, five hours.

All right, all right.

- That was awesome.
- That was so cool.

I could seriously ride
these dunes forever,

but we've got miles of
highway in front of us.

- Was it good?
- Oh, it was rad.

- Any time.
- Thanks, man.

So it's time to get off the
beach and back on the road.

It's basically a place
built out of junk.

There's stuff in here
from, like, the '30s, '40s,

- up until the '80s.
- Wow.

- This is from "The Walking Dead."
- That's rad.

- This bike is running right now.
- Wait, it's running right now?

- It's running right now.
- Shut up.

- Let's do it.
- All right, all right, all right.

You look so cool.

You're a ninja right now.

Yeah, dune buggies are awesome.

Yeah, dude. I had no
idea it was that much fun.

I feel like I've gained weight
in my palms on this trip.

My palms have become meaty.

I think that the dune buggying...

like, whacking your hands
on the steering wheel

I think makes them swell 'cause
my rings are all real tight.

Yeah, I couldn't get the thing on my thing.

That's why I put the thing on your thing.

- Know what I mean?
- Yeah.

- Know what I'm saying?
- Know what I'm saying?

We've ridden 200 miles with
another 50 to go tonight.

And this next leg of
the ride is magical.

Wow, California sunset right there.

See, that's one thing I
don't get to see in New York,

an ocean sunset that rolls over
the waves to the end of the world.

- So beautiful.
- So beautiful.

When I first got to LA,
I worked at a Harley shop

called Dr. Carl's Hog Hospital.

I did a lot of grunt work,

but on the plus side, I got to
see a lot of different bikes.

Back then, I always wondered what it would
be like to ride up the California coast.

And this is exactly
how I pictured it.

I start to daydream.

I just start like, "Ah."

I have ADDDDDDD. You know what I mean?

No.

- Good-bye, sun.
- Oh, yeah.

- Feel the cold creeping in.
- Yeah.

It sounds like a tornado right now.

I can't hear what you're
saying, but I'm happy.

I can't hear what you're saying.

Is that an abandoned house?

Yeah, it looks like it.

That looks amazing. Can we go in there?

What the hell?

- Hey.
- What the...?

- How you guys doing?
- How you doing, man? Norman. Hi.

- Pretty good. My name's Mike.
- Nice to meet you, Mike.

California is full of
weird tourist attractions

like Nitt Witt Ridge in
the small town of Cambria.

The man who built this place,

his name was actually Art Beal,

but they gave him a
couple colorful nicknames,

and one of them was Captain Nitwit.

- Oh, wow.
- He started building in 1928.

He lived in this place till 1989,

till he was 92 years old.

Wow.

- I love all the stonework.
- Yeah, that's cool.

- See all these handrails?
- Yeah.

This was the plumbing system.
They all carried water.

There's handrails throughout
the whole property.

He also had a lot of toilet seats,

which he would actually
use for picture frames.

Oh, my God.

He called this his woman's room.

- What the?
- Wait, who are you?

Like, how are you involved here?

My wife and I bought this in
1999 from the Art Beal Foundation.

I thought I'd give the
Anti-Hearst Castle tour.

William Randolph Hearst
built this place in 1919

out of his massive amounts of money,

and this is the anti. This
guy was a garbage man in town

that took all the garbage from town...

Oh, so he collected garbage
and put this together from it?

He got paid as a garbage man.

But now watch your head and
I'll take you up this stairway.

Art claimed this stairway
stayed 50 degrees.

- This was his refrigerator.
- I feel the chill in here. It is colder.

- That's his stuff.
- What is that?

There's peaches, there's apricots.

There's stuff in here from, like,
the '30s, '40s, up until the '80s.

This is so crazy. I'm so
happy we found this place.

As you guys can see, his
clothes are still in here.

Oh, my God.

People said half the time

all he'd be wearing is this bathrobe

with nothing else on under it,

and he'd walk around town in that thing.

They tell me he got
older and it'd get windy.

Oh, my God.

And this is his two-seated outhouse.

He said he put his and her toilets in here.

He could sit here and have
conversations with people.

What a crazy guy.

He thought he was a swinger,
but then he never had kids.

- He has no family?
- And he never had any family.

I thought by now, after
15 years I've been up here,

"I'm his grandkid. I'm
his..." no. It's weird.

But he liked ladies, and ladies liked him.

- He's, like, an enigma.
- He's kind of a romantic.

- Yeah.
- Yeah.

And then a guy with
no family or anything

created his own legacy
with nothing but junk.

This dude literally built his
whole life into these walls.

Coming up with a way to
turn trash into treasure.

There's a toilet on top of the roof.

And people said that's his throne.

He's the king of the castle up there.

Even toilet seats.

Thank you for showing us all of this.

- Take care, man.
- Yeah, you, too.

This is just the kind of wacky stuff

I've been expecting to
see since we crossed

from Southern to
Northern California.

And just a couple miles away from
where we're going to call it a night.

Bye, cool house.

Day three.

There's nothing better
than waking up in Big Sur,

home of the Bixby Bridge.

260 feet high and 700 feet long,

this bridge is a beast.

One of the tallest single span
concrete bridges in the world.

And finally, after 400 miles,

we're here in Santa Cruz.

Santa Cruz is a little
town tucked between

the Pacific and the
Santa Cruz Mountains.

I just like the way the air
smells up here. It's so clean.

Surrounded by incredible
natural beauty,

and with a close proximity to
the San Francisco counterculture

and Silicon Valley tech scenes,

it's the perfect spot for
anyone coming to California

looking for reinvention.

- Look at that crazy house.
- Yeah, that's beautiful.

It's got a nice eclectic feel.

I hate when cities start taking over

and making everything look the same.

We're here to drop in
on a local podcast.

but first, we're headed
to Zero Motorcycles,

a pioneer manufacturer
of electric motorcycles.

- Are these electric?
- Oh, cool.

For some reason I imagined them
looking all crazy different.

California is a hotbed
of environmental action.

So it makes sense that
they made their home here.

- Ready to check this out?
- Yeah.

I used to have a dog named Zero.

- Really?
- Yeah.

Zero's Scot Harden is
gonna show us their bikes

and take us for a spin.

- Nice to meet you, too. Welcome to Zero.
- All right.

All right, let's go on back
into the belly of the beast.

This is where all of the
main assembly is done.

It's weird to go into
a motorcycle shop,

building motorcycles, and it's not loud.

- It's just super weird to me.
- Yeah.

This is where it all started for Zero.

- This is the first electric motorcycle ever built.
- It's like a dirt bike, right?

It was kind of cross between an
overgrown mountain bike and a motorcycle.

I think it's cool. I really like that one.

Well, it was the idea of what could we do

to change the way the world
experiences motorcycles.

What kind of bike did you ride before
you got into electric motorcycles?

I was a dirt bike rider.
I was born in Las Vegas,

and I rode dirt bikes.

And then I started doing
all the big desert races.

I kept taking on bigger challenges
in Europe and then Africa.

Scariest moment in my life
on a bike was in Senegal

going down these roads at
80, 90, 100 miles an hour

with these bushes that
are this tall on each side,

and there's animals running out in
front of you. Pigs and ostriches.

You're just thinking, "God, don't step out

- in front of my front wheel."
- That's terrifying.

It scared me to death. I hit
a cow at 80 miles an hour.

- You hit a cow?
- I've bounced off the hoods of cars.

- That would mess you up.
- You are so lucky.

I could tell stories.

How's it going, guys? Do you
guys all ride electric bikes now?

- Do you?
- I have ridden some before.

- Yeah?
- I ride my own motorcycles mostly.

- What do you have?
- Got a Harley and a couple dirt bikes.

Is that, like, the enemy, or is
it everybody loves everything?

Everybody loves everything
around here, yeah.

- Have you gone on one yet?
- We're about to try one.

Yeah? Sick, dude. I hope you like it.

Yeah, I'm excited. Nice to meet you, dude.

- Nice to meet you.
- Yeah, it's a pleasure.

- How's it going, man?
- Good. Since you're here.

- Oh, my God.
- Uh-oh.

- No way.
- This is from "The Walking Dead."

- That's rad.
- So...

- Big fan of yours.
- Thanks, man.

Have you guys ever thought about
doing an electric dune buggy?

- I want a hat.
- All right.

- Great Frog!
- Whoo!

That's when I had short
hair. That was way back when.

I feel like I'm the only person
whose never (bleep) seen this show.

- I need to watch it.
- Get out of here right now.

Bye, guys. Go to work.

- Go to work.
- Get back to work.

- Okay, I want to see if I can touch the ground.
- Try it out.

See what fits you best. What's your
favorite color? What's your favorite flavor?

This is a straight up
dirt bike right here.

That's an off-road trail bike, yeah.

- I'm taking this one.
- This is the FXS.

This is the inner
city hooligan bike.

- It's very lightweight.
- It feels light.

It's only 290 pounds.

I think you'll really like that one.

All the stuff's where
you'd normally expect.

- Your turn signal's here.
- Okay.

Brake where you'd normally
expect it. Foot brake.

And then the last thing
you do to arm this thing

- is hit the throttle switch.
- Okay.

Now that means this bike
is running right now.

- Wow. Wait, so it's on already?
- It's running right now?

- It's running right now.
- Shut up. Wow.

- Wow.
- Away you go.

- Ah!
- I think we've chosen our weapons.

- Let's go out and give them a whirl.
- All right.

- All right?
- Cool.

I can't believe that that was
running while we were standing there.

It's weird getting on a bike

and not knowing how it's gonna feel,

but that's what I love
about trying out new bikes.

- Are we ready?
- I think so.

Scot's taking us up to see

the legendary California redwoods.

Whoa.

- This is so crazy.
- Yeah, this is nuts.

It's gonna be the perfect way to
find out what the Zero is all about.

I'm just... this is blowing
me away how smooth this is.

It's like your ass is sliding on ice.

Santa Cruz redwoods.

- Hi.
- Oh, (bleep)!

I just creeped up on
you and you had no idea.

No, I didn't. I was like, "Where's Norman?"

Sometimes I get on a
bike just to escape.

The roar of the motorcycle
creates this wall

between me and my surroundings.

- It smells really fresh.
- It does.

- Healthy and green up here.
- Like mossy.

Yeah.

That's what makes being
on this bike so strange.

There's no wall.

It's just you and the world
feeding off of each other.

I mean, it's perfect really for, like,
going through this beautiful forest.

You're just kind of gliding.

I kind of feel like this is the future.

- I really do.
- Yeah, imagine in, like, 50 or 100 years

when, like, cities are smogged
up, everything will be electric.

Whee! This is crazy 'cause
I can't see the bike.

Does it feel like you're flying?

Yeah, it does.

And there's nothing like
riding it through the redwoods.

You should try it.

Amazing.

Go to sport!

Whoa!

Whoa!

Have you put it in sport mode?

Yeah, dude, it's like, oh, my God.

- It's terrifying.
- All right.

Whoa! Whoa! I put it in sport. It's crazy.

You feel the extra tug. It's like, whaa!

I swallowed my Adam's apple for a second.

- It was great riding with your guys.
- You're awesome.

- Thank you so much, Scot.
- Imogen, it was really nice meeting you.

- I want an electric motorcycle now.
- Yeah, me, too.

We got more converts. That's cool.

Cool.

Yeah, of course.

Yeah, tell me.

This belonged to my late brother Chris.

He was a huge, huge fan of yours.

Used to have posters of you guys
up in the room and everything.

- Oh, man.
- He loved you guys a lot.

And this was actually
in the wreck with him.

- That's why it's all mangled like this.
- Oh, dude.

I wanted to see if you could sign
it. It would mean the world to me.

Come here. Come here. Yeah, dude.

- Thanks, man.
- Of course.

- Sign it to Chris if you would.
- To Chris.

Of course, man.

- It was a pleasure to meet you, man.
- You, too, man.

- Thanks for coming.
- Yeah, dude. Yeah. Be well, dude.

- Ride on.
- Yeah. Take care, man.

- Later.
- Bye.

Hearing something like that
just rips me to shreds.

Reminds me that life is fragile.

I'm honored that I
got to meet that guy

and hear his brother's story.

Ride on, brother.

This is a pretty town. I like it.

Yeah, it's really cute here.

You know, Santa Cruz has
some really cool streets.

This is cool. Look at this wall.

So it's nice to get off our bikes

and check out the details
we might have missed

when we're riding by it.

Hi. Oh, shut up, hi.

- Good to see you.
- Nice to see you, too.

- Congratulations.
- Do you live up here?

- Yes, this is where I live.
- Shut up.

- You guys know each other?
- Shut up. How are you, dude?

Nice to see you, sweetheart.
Yeah, what a pleasure.

That lady that just said hi, she
was a director on "Walking Dead."

- What a small world. Santa Cruz.
- She's awesome.

Still have to watch it.

I'm gonna send you every disc.

- Okay.
- Then I'll send you like a little...

you'll have to write an essay or something.

How long have you been riding?

How did you get started riding motorcycles?

I'm into riding because of my dad.

I used to hitch a ride on the back
of his bike to university and to work.

He had a BMW Dakar dual-sport thing,

and I would jump on the back of that.

And now it's carried on

as the inspiration as
to why I love to ride.

It's because of my dad.

He died, like, a year and a half ago.

So whenever I ride, it's like...

- my special time.
- Yeah.

That cross-country trip was, like,
the one-year anniversary of his death.

- I remember.
- So it was very, very special thing to have happen.

I like how your family...
you pass the torch from...

like how you do your rings and the store.

- Unintentionally, but, yes.
- It's great.

People don't have that. It's great.

I like that they have
shrubberies everywhere.

- A shrubbery.
- Shrubbery.

- Do you like Monty Python?
- Oh, my God, I love Monty Python.

"Monty Python and the Holy Grail"
is my favorite movie of all time.

- With the little rabbit?
- Yeah.

It goes after his throat.

- "We are the Knights that say Ni."
- Exactly.

It's nice to be back on my own bike.

Yeah, I agree.

Kind of like the rumble, but those
bikes were cool, I got to say.

I like how he said, too, he's not
trying to replace other motorcycles.

- It's just another experience, you know?
- Yeah.

Last stop, and I
couldn't be more excited.

We're headed over to
the Re-Cycle Garage...

I like Santa Cruz.

...home of this really cool podcast

called "Motorcycles & Misfits."

Who doesn't like
geeking out on bikes

with a bunch of misfits?

Welcome to "Motorcycles &
Misfits" at the Re-Cycle Garage.

You guys are getting all
Batman on me and stuff.

What's the best bike for
the zombie apocalypse?

I'm gonna tell you, and you're
not gonna like my answer.

Wow, I love it up here,
I got to tell you.

Love it.

Northern California is so much
different than Southern California.

- It's different, yeah.
- It's such a different energy. You know what I mean?

My first big California
ride is winding down.

But first, Imogen
and I are gonna make

one final pit stop at
the Re-Cycle Garage

where a bunch of local bikers
put on one of the coolest

weekly podcasts on the West Coast.

It's called "Motorcycles & Misfits."

- Hello.
- What's up? Hi.

- I'm Norman.
- Liza.

- Nice to meet you. Hi.
- Hi. Imogen.

- Hey, Imogen.
- Nice to meet you.

These are some nice little rides you got.

This is a little bit nicer
version than mine, but you know.

- This is awesome, though. That's beautiful.
- Thank you.

- I built that one.
- Did you really? Right on.

Yes.

Do you teach people that don't know how
to work on bikes how to work on bikes?

Yes, but nobody here is a mechanic.

- Oh, wow.
- Everyone helps each other work on bikes.

We teach people how to ride,
help them buy their gear,

teach them what are the
cool movies to watch.

Expose them to the entire culture.

- How cool.
- Yeah, so we've kind of built up this crazy community.

I like that you have such an
eclectic mix of bikes here.

- Hey, if they can ride, we'll let them in.
- How did the podcast start?

When you get a group of people
sitting around the garage

working on bikes, you
have conversations.

We play pranks, we tell
stories, we share rides

and experiences and opinions.

Wow, that's so cool.

So we thought, "How can we bottle this

and share it with
everyone? Podcast."

- We're ready.
- Check, one, two.

- Microphone check.
- Oh, oh, oh, oh.

We are gonna go in
five, four, three...

Hey, there. Welcome to
"Motorcycles & Misfits"

at the Re-Cycle Garage here in...

...sunny Santa Cruz, California.

- Warm and sunny.
- It was quite sunny.

Let's get to one of our topics.

What's the best bike for
the zombie apocalypse?

And we have a special guest here.

Somebody who actually has
experience in this field,

and I want to get their opinion.

So I'd like to welcome
here Norman Reedus.

What's up? What's up? What's up?

- Hi, thanks for having me.
- Hey, dude. Welcome.

I'm gonna tell you, and I think
you're not gonna like my answer.

- Oh, yeah?
- I think what I would do

is I'd get one of these Zero bikes,

and I would put a solar
panel on the back of it.

'Cause anything that makes
noise attracts zombies.

- Right.
- Right? And I caught a lot of flack

for having that Triumph
with the ape hangers.

I caught a lot of flack, and
then I built another bike,

miraculously in, like,
six hours on that show.

And I get a lot of flack because
that one makes a lot of noise as well.

How did you come to have that bike?

That's supposed to be Merle's bike.

Did he customize the frame up that high?

I guess. I don't know. What the (bleep)?

Um...

- So I would like to make some suggestions.
- Uh-oh, here we go.

First you should consider an
anti-theft device of some kind.

- Oh, I like it.
- Just saying.

Second, more mirrors, I would suggest.

It would be nice to maybe see
something coming up behind you.

Yeah, I... yeah.

Lastly, a machine gun on the front

because what bike isn't cooler
with a machine gun on the front?

Yeah, we've thought about
attaching weapons to that thing.

You could just drill a hole in your exhaust

and squirt some soap in
it and make a smokescreen.

You guys are getting all
Batman on me and stuff.

How's motorcycling changed you?

A bunch. It's changed me a bunch.

Like, I ride to work every day and
I think about what I'm about to do

and it really gets me in the mood.

And then I ride home. I
think about what I did.

I don't know. It's almost like
yoga or something at some point.

- You know what I mean?
- It's therapeutic.

The best rides I think
are the spontaneous ones.

I gave an award at the Country
Music Awards in Nashville

when I was down in Georgia and, you know,

they booked me a flight
to go there and everything.

And I'm sitting there watering my plants

and I'm looking at my bike,
and I'm watering my plants,

and I said, "(bleep) it."
And I grabbed the suit,

I shoved it in a backpack, wrote
all my directions on my arm.

And then I kept going through
rainstorms, and I just kept losing them.

But that ride to Nashville
is one of my favorites.

Is your dog snoring right
now? Is that what that was?

Oh, my God, that's adorable.

Thank you, everyone, for listening,

and thank you guys for joining us.

You guys are so much fun. Thank you.

I was looking for a group
ride when I first moved here,

and I ran into Zach.

He had a crappy motorcycle

but a nice jacket, so I asked him...

I was like, "So where's the ride?"

And I asked him if they could
show me how to change my oil.

- And this is where we are now.
- Yeah.

- That was three years ago.
- Nice.

When I fist showed up, Liza
just shoved a broken moped at me

and was like, "Here, fix this."

She does that to a lot of people.

That's how she hooks you in. She's
like, "Oh, here's this free bike.

Just get it running and it's yours."

- And two years later, I was still here.
- That's cool.

And she's all, "Hey, Dad," when she was 13,

"I want to ride motorcycles."
I'm all, "Hell, no."

And she's like, "Whatever. I'll be
18 someday." I'm like, "Ugh, yeah."

So you guys are father and
daughter? That is so cool.

Yeah, so then I started hanging around.

And then I just got hooked.

You guys all know what it's like.

You hop on the bike, you're
rolling the throttle,

- and everything melts away.
- Yeah.

So we're chasing the sun.

- Let's saddle up and do a quick ride.
- Shall we hit it?

I always feel at home

surrounded by a bunch of outsiders.

And California is a magnet.

It attracts people who
don't fit in anywhere else.

Everyone's got a totally
different vibe here,

but their love of bikes
ties them together,

and I love that.

And the Misfits are doing
the rest of us a huge favor

bringing these unique
bikes back to life.

That's the kind of passion
for motorcycles, for life,

that has made my ride up the
California coast so incredible.

It's not just here.

California is a place where
all of us misfits can fit in.

And sure, you're not gonna
find roads like the PCH

anywhere else on the planet.

It's empowering to learn
how to do something.

If you can build or fix something,

what else can you do
in your life, you know?

But California is more than
just breathtaking beauty.

It's the people here.

The sense of rebellion you
find everywhere you go.

The creativity. The freedom to
try whatever the hell you want.

That's the California
I found on this ride.

And that's the California
I'm gonna keep coming back to

for the rest of my life.

You guys are awesome. I really
love what you guys have going here.

This is really cool.

- Bye, guys.
- Bye!

- Bye. Thank you so much.
- Thank you.

Thank you so much for coming on this trip.

- It's been a blast.
- You are very welcome.

That was awesome. Dune buggying.

- Dune buggies, yes.
- Yes, and the coastline and the sunsets.

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