No matter whether you’re a casual trail rider or the hardest of the hardcore racers, getting out in the dirt and enjoying the wide open spaces is what attracts most people to the sport of dirtbike riding.
Few people start their dirt riding careers behind a starting gate the very first time they climb aboard an off-road or motocross bike. Instead, it’s about family and friends getting together and sharing some truly epic rides while criss-crossing some truly amazing scenery. Of course, sometimes the terrain exceeds our own skill level, and we end up in some truly interesting pickles. The People Who Eat Dirt video on Enduro KeX’s YouTube channel chronicles several of these comical circumstances.
The 12-minute and 23-second video showcases groups of friends out on what are probably supposed to be challenging trail rides, but when the woods get deep and the hills get steep, all hell breaks loose. Engines are revved to within inches of their useful lives and clutches get smoked like a joint at a Willie Nelson concert. The results are rarely tragic, and mostly laughable.
What we mostly like, though, is that the sounds we’re hearing on the video are much more the whine of the two-stroke variety than the thump of four-strokes. There’s nothing that screams, “I’m in trouble,” quite like the piercing panic rev of a ringy-dingy.
In what appears to be footage shot mostly in Europe, People Who Eat Dirt isn’t just about crashing. There’s even a handy tech tip that appears around the 5:41-second mark, in which a creative dirt rider uses a truly garden-variety tool to help straighten out a severely tweaked rear wheel on his KTM 300. As the fellow shooting the video confirms, watching this technique may be more painful than the actual incident that put the rim in that condition in the first place. But hey, if you want to survive in the dirt, you do whatever it takes!
Check out this entertaining clip.
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