The South Rim on a Harley-Davidson - A Road Trip Documentary
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- Опубліковано 5 сер 2024
- The Laidlaw's Crew sets out for the South Rim of the Grand Canyon on their Harley-Davidson motorcycles. The first night they make the push to Lake Havasu City then the next day into Williams, AZ and into the mouth of the southern end of the Grand Canyon. The crew is runnin' deep with nine bikes and ten riders. Two Road Glides, Road King, Low Rider ST, Super Glide, and four Pan Americas. You can't beat the scenery of one of the most visited National Parks in the US and the history on the way there is covered with old route 66 relics and mining towns. The boys (and girl) visit two of the most popular stops at the Grand Canyon Np then enjoy the night in Williams, AZ. The next day they take the 89 south through Prescott to head back home to southern California.
Into - 0:00
The Riders and the Bikes Headed Out! - 2:27
Headed out to Indio - 5:57
Arriving in Lake Havasu City - 11:30
Starting Day Two riding over London Bridge - 13:00
Arriving at Topock on the Colorado River - 20:00
On the Road to William's AZ - 23:12
Heading up the 64 into the Grand Canyon - 29:36
Hitting up the Desert Watch Tower - 34:18
The Sunset Ride back into Williams - 36:59
Night Life in Williams - 40:10
Start of Day 3 traveling down the 89 - 44:07
Outro - 45:38
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The best videographer , best narrator on UA-cam, should be on Netflix... Amazing work, amazing bikes, amazing guys, amazing dealership.... much love !
🤙🏼 Thank you!! Thanks for the support.
Finally the Laidlaw crew on the road again miss these videos of your travels!
It's to know people look forward to the travel videos. Thanks for watching
Good to see that the only Dyna was holding it down with all those M8's and Revmax Bikes...👍😎🏍️
The Rider made up for it. Roue is a badass. It's good to have the token Dyna bro on the rides.
@@MattLaidlaw Dyna riders are hardcore...He looks like a young guy....I am 62 and still a Dyna rider...I have a FatBob that i tour and ride everywhere....Just got back a few weeks ago from Laughlin/Bullhead City/Oatman....I live in Fresno
Dyna power!!!!!!!! Represent brother!
I love taking my '05 Dyna on road trips. My wife also loves it and rides with. Sometimes I think I'm more comfortable on that then my Steet glide CVO.
Very few people have travelled over 600,000 miles of long distance motorcycle riding over the years and only those who have can truly reflect and identify with exactly what Matt was talking about at sunset as they left the Grand Canyon. I’ve been all over the southwest. I love it the best because in some areas it’s extremely remote and not many people especially if you’re riding through the night. Great video Matt.
That’s some serious mileage. I’m probably only at about 150,000 - 200,000 miles or so.
Absolutely beautiful ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Another great video. Also very timely. My wife and I are 10 days into a 43 day ride from Florida to California (current location), then to Prescott, South Rim, Page, North Rim, Grand Escalante, Monument Valley, Spearfish, Yellowstone, etc etc. Many areas we will hit have been featured in your videos. My wife is on a 2017 Street Glide, I'm on a 2017 Ultra Classic. Thanks for the many great tips and suggestions on places to visit. It has added much value to our trip!
FINALLY A VIDEO!! One of the best RIDING content creators. Everyone else is selling parts not riding. I love it!!
Thanks Ben 👍🏼 much appreciated.
Your video and content is the absolute best! I’m 64 years young, riding on the street since I was 16. Nothing beats getting out on the open road….your description of the touring experience is RIGHT ON! I am riding to Laconia, Americade, and Sturgis this summer ❤ from North Texas….and I hope to squeeze in a trip to the West as well. Safe travels to all!
Wonderful to see the Laidlaw crew again! Good to see young(er) blood members joining the crew! As expected, another well crafted and well edited video that was a joy to watch. Thank you!
Thanks for watching 🤙🏼
Thank you for the video Matt. I’m laid up at home with cancer, but I love to ride. I have a 23 SGST in Fast Johnny. Can’t wait to kick cancers ass, and get back out riding. The Grand Canyon and Zion are always on my riding list. But living in Bullhead City AZ, I get to both several times a year.
Get well my friend and get back on the HOG. I wish you well.
You guys rode right past my home in Prescott. I bought 3 bikes from Laidlaw's when I lived in Glendora. 80's Sportster AMF (what a jewel..lol) 2000 Dyna and late 2000 Road king. I got to meet your Grandfather, the old man himself riding an early 1900 H/D around the lot when I took delivery on the Road King. He came up and shook my hand with a thank you, nice guy.....Ride on.
Oh rad🤙🏼 thanks for your business. That must have been his 1911.
Matt, great production, you put the experience into words. The young mans explanation of how the canyon doesn't look real is so accurate, thanks for sharing.
Matt, thank you for documenting your travel & adventures. I always look forward to your videos, the time & care you put into your editing really shows!
That cowboy hat is a thing yall are gonna get started…Big Lance has the hat harness for riding with it on your back now…think I’m gonna start sporting my cowboy hat too..I do see where Andrew is not there now but always notice who is missing..Danielle and Mickey!
Yea big Lance is the king of the Harley cow boy hat. We’ll get Andrew back on a ride.
Another Matt Laidlaw masterpiece! Fran
Matt, you never disappoint.
I really dig your trip vlogs. Always puts me in a mood. I lived in southern AZ for 12 years and never made it to the G. Canyon. Missed opportunity. Live in CO now and plan to hit the North Rim in a year or 2. Keep em coming Matt. ✌️
Yea, it's a cool spot you should definitely check it out. The North Rim is better IMO
It's best experienced on 2 wheels!!! I love it!
I love your motorcycle trips, the view is unmissable
What a true gentleman swapping his seat for a lady! Fun trip, I'm glad to see you out on the Pan Americas. Wouldn't mind seeing more adventures with them and see them out where they excel.
We will be doing more off road adventures with the pan Americas.
Diana was super thankful for the swap, now I just need to get a better seat for her before the next trip!
What a beautiful way to summarize motorcycle touring
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Awesome storytelling and map illustrations to help with the visuals. I agree with everything you said about the experience of these locations on motorcycles is unmatched. Thanks for sharing your experience. I can't wait to make it one of mine!
The Grand Canyon is Amazing! I tell everyone, don't wait as long as I did to go see it in person. It's one of those places you have to see it in person to really understand how Grand it is! Great video!!
You guys make the best touring videos. Making it look so easy
Thank you. Creative editing and you can make anything look easy. Haha.
Fantastic production! 🎂
Another epic drop, Matt. Love your work! Great content, great footage amazing backdrop. Thank you for bringing us along.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for the comment man. 🤙🏼
"The conspiracy theorists will say it's a painting..." Good lord, is that really a thing??? Great video, Matt. You always make me want to get up and hit the road!
How can we miss the biggest hole in the earth? Clark griswold (Chevy chase) in national lampoons vacation. My all time funniest movie ever made. Great ride, great video, thanks for sharing.
Haha. Love Clarke Griswald. Thanks man.
Matt, one of the aspects of your videos I appreciate is that you not only show the awesome portions of your trips, but you show the warts as well. Your honesty is refreshing because anyone who has ever taken road trips knows that they are not always great.
I have always liked the Street Glide more than the Road Glide, but my son and I visited our local dealer last weekend, and we are on board with the Road Glide over the Street Glide at this point.
Thanks for the feedback. I think sometimes people are more interested in the bad parts too. Haha. I just try to paint a true picture of how the trip went. Thanks for the comment. Yes, the road glide is a sharp looking motorcycle.
Matt, i love your take on Motorcycle touring! It is spot on! You are soo right the risk is worth it! So many epic memories!
I appreciate Pat. Thanks for checking out the video.
Can’t wait will be there in a few months !! 👊👊
Nice vid. Always like the aspect of your videos Matt where you have a lot of different years and styles of Harley’s instead of just newer bikes.
Thanks man. 👍🏼
1987 Low Rider. first major ride. South Rim, Canyonlands, etc. great ride. Met a rider on the south, I had a camp spot, he had a six pack. August, Persoid Meteor shower. he was on a Rebel 250. He wondered why I ran up the hills so quickly. --- Dude. My Intake valves are bigger than your pistons. He did good, hope he made it to Colorado.
Hah that’s rad man.
Great job Matt! That Watch Tower view was stunning!
⚡️Dang! that’s amazing! I gotta go ride across the London Bridge now⚡️
Yea man. It's a cool spot
❤ awesome trip brings back so many beautiful memories thank you thank you there is nothing like riding ride safe take care❤
Glad you enjoyed it thanks for the comment and I agree!
Matt is best UA-cam videographer, fantastic work! Missing Andrew ….
Thank you and I’m missing him too. He will be back.
Loved your words Matt I paraphrased you!…To those of you who are thinking about getting into Motorcycle Touring, it isn’t always easy, and it isn’t always comfortable. You may have to get over the intimidation of riding a heavy motorcycle. There may be times out on the road where it is really, really, hot or there may be times when it is really, really, cold. There’s going to be times when the weather just doesn’t cooperate. Maybe you hit an unexpected rainstorm, or maybe you hit other unfavorable road conditions. Sometimes there will be unfortunate mechanical issues, maybe you hit a nail and you get a flat. I guess I’m saying, sometimes motorcycle touring isnt the most easy or predictable thing in the world! But I tell you what, all the time and effort and risk is worth it!When you have a moment, when you’re riding over the High Desert and the sun is setting. Sometimes these perfect moments only happen once or twice on a motorcycle trip. Sometimes it’s only for an hour. Sometimes it’s for three or four hours. But these are the moments that you never forget about. What I have learned in motorcycling is that if you can put yourself in the right place at the right time with a little bit of luck, being on the road on two wheels has easily brought me some of the coolest memories of my life. And at these moments you are reminded why you are a motorcyclist. Why you go to the effort to endure a long road trip in the heat and in the cold and in the rain and you swing your leg over a raw engine and blaze down the open highway. I think those of us that will do things, that very few people will do will also get rewarded in a way that very few people will ever be rewarded in! I think that Motorcycle Touring is one of those things that a very low percentage of people are willing to do, and because of that a very few people will ever be able to experience.
Dude!!! I was rewatching the whole series of "best on 2 wheels" last night and was saying"I need more of this series!" Thanks Matt and Laidlaw's crew!!! 🤘🤘🤘
Haha. Perfect timing. 🤙🏼 Thanks man.
Thank you thank you thank. Matt and the Laidlaw Crew. Your hard work and enthusiasm is outstanding. And so motivating. Your BIGGEST FAN here in New Zealand 👍🏼
Thanks man! I need to make it to New Zealand one day!
@@MattLaidlaw absolutely mate. The South Island is the best. I’m originally from the north but live in the south now. Amazing scenery and people. Please do visit 👍🏼
Glad y’all enjoyed our little state and props for the proper way to pronounce Prescott 😎✌🏽
great to see you out on the road again with the crew Matt! next trip: KONA!!!! waiting for ya here! 🌈🏍
Yes! I need to make that trip. One day
We miss Andrew on these trips!
I also saw the Grand Canyon from the South Rim. Brings back memories. Videos don't do it justice how magical and vast the area is.
God I LOVE 🙌🏻 the awesome ML productions 🎥. Time to relax, prepare a meal, pour me a pint and sit down to enjoy this mini film ☺️
I was just thinking about when we'd see a new video from you! Love from the 🇬🇧
Always love the road trip videos Matt. Gotta get the Grand Canyon on my ride list for sure.
I live near that Air BnB and thought they had lost their minds renting to a biker gang when I saw all the bikes......I had the opportunity to visit your dealership a few years ago (2015) and get my picture taken with my "scoutmaster" Bob Laidlaw while he suggested I should trade in my Deuce for a newer Motorcycle......Looks like you guys had fun!..... I love the video!
Haha. The owner of the Air BnB said that we were the cleanest renters she’s ever had.
The Bob days were good. 👍🏼
Dude, this weekend ( mothers da s weekend)- I was at the Grand Canyon, South Rim. We rode about 876 miles in total for the trip.
Such a beautiful trip on a motorcycle!! Being in a car is different
SO very glad to see that my notification indicated a new travel video from you. Awesome.
I’m glad too 👍🏼 thanks for watching
Wonderful production Matt, I've been to the Grand Canyon several times and I'm always amazed how stunning it is
It’s a great spot to ride to. 🤙🏼 absolutely stunning scenery.
Happy to see these videos again Matt.
You guys have the best traveling videos. As an east coaster I wish i was with u guys. Kept riding and remember ruber side down
Another great video Matt. If Harley doesn’t work out for you . I think you got the talent to make films
Hah! I’ll keep that in mind.
Love your videos!!! I drive a Street bob and live in the Netherlands. Watching your videos motivates me to one day make such a road trip in the states.
Excellent video, thanks for sharing your journey!
Thanks Matt and the crew. The thoughts offered about the effects of long distance motorcycle touring absolutely chime with so many of us, I am sure. I was lucky enough to experience Monument Valley, Grand Canyon and Mesa Verde on consecutive days with all of the life affirmation you could imagine. Keep going Matt. Loved the film.
Matt you and your crew are very professional and respectful people, no stupidity. Love and respect all your videos. Love those Harleys for Life, we can only dream of westcoast being on the East. Hopefully you will come to Laconia NH. Nice riding east and cape cod. Be safe all of you and God Bless.
Thanks man. I’d love to do Laconia one of these years. I still gotta do a lot of riding and exploring on the east coast.
Big Sky Days are the Best
Great video! Good edits too...nice music, good use of labeling the bikes etc. Thanks a lot for sharing this adenture Matt!
Thanks for the feedback !
I've watched several of your touring videos over the last couple of years. You and your crew have ridden tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of combined miles in those videos and I can't recall anyone having a mechanical problem with the Harleys you and your crew rode. This mirrors my experience with the quality and reliability of Harley-Davidson motorcycles. I've been riding since 1999 when I bought my first Harley (a 1999 FLSTF (with an Evo motor) in Seafoam Green and Birch) and have owned 6 Harley-Davidsons in total (1 Evo, 3 TC88s, 1 TC96 and a M8) and they have all been mechanically sound and extremely reliable. I currently own a 2006 Softail (TC88) and a 2022 Touring Model (M8) Harley and they are just awesome motorcycles. The Motor Company deserves credit for building bikes that look great and perform well.
Always amazed by the level of production on your videos.
This Video was greatful Matt ... it is a inspiering Piece of Art ... and showes a Life Style ...
That gives a wunderful catched in Feeling
Thanks so lot man 😊
👍👍👍
Love your videos Matt!!! Keep em coming! Ride safe!
Thank you, thanks for the comment!
I was waiting for a new video of you guys back on the road like a weekly episode from a favorite TV show! Great content as always, Matt! Stay safe!
Thank you sir. I wish I could release these weekly.
Yet another great video Matt! Well done!
Love these videos
Another awesome video!
Great roadtrip with a awesome group😊 of
Good to see you on the road again guys! Not the same without Andrew.
Agreed, he will be back though. He is still a good friend.
I will soon return! 🥰
Awesome mate from Australia 🇦🇺 🇺🇸 👍
Always look forward to these videos. Visited Vegas and Southern California (San Diego and LA) for our honeymoon a few years ago and really enjoyed my time out there. Lots of beautiful scenery and would love to ride out there someday. Basically living vicariously through you guys and gathering trip ideas to ride if I ever come back that way.
It’s a great area with a TON of good rides. Time it right and don’t go while school is out for the summer.
Another awesome video.Thankyou
Can’t wait to see more videos on your guys adventures!
We try to do atleast 3-4 a year. Stay tuned.
Very well.said Matt. The reward for riding the open roads are priceless. No money can buy that fucking shit hands down!!!!
100% you can’t duplicate it.
Thanks Matt, Love your video… you guys awesome👍🏻
Thanks Matt & The Crew
Fantastc Ride Awsome Views Westher seemed Perfect...That Sun Set Section was Magic.
Thanks 👌🇦🇺👌
Awesome video as always. Me and my buddy are flying out to Vegas tomorrow and then branching off to Zion, Bryce and the GC. Going to be amazing 🤘🏻
Good timing man. Hit Zion early.
Matt, your vids are the best on YT. The editing, the narration, and the subject matter are all top notch. Thank you for producing such enjoyable vids. I’d love to ride with your crew one day. Stay safe out there
Started throwing my leg over a Saddle on a desert broke ranch horse, then the Harley's. Hat Pack is Perfect. great idea.
Oh man, I love these videos Matt. I just wish I could make it out there to experience it on two wheels. That Dyna is a beautiful scooter!
Yea it was cool to have Roue on the Dyna this trip. Come out and ride!!
@@MattLaidlawI’m working on it! I’m trying to get my bike dialed in and money saved for that long of a ride. I’m in central Indiana so it’ll be an epic trip. 🤘🏻
Always switch to Theater view..great stuff Laidlaw crew!
Theater view or TV! Thanks man
Thanks for the video, Matt. ALWAYS look forward to your presentations as it makes taking two-wheels the most engaging way to experience how a road trip should be taken.
That’s a huge compliment for me. Thanks for the comment.
Utah, Arizona and Colorado really offer some the best riding in the US. If you can, get the AAA map called ‘Indian Country’ for some great detail on the 4 corners area.
Another fantastic film Matt!!!
Thank you.
I remember walking across London bridge as a boy with my cousin in 1967. They were numbering the stones ready to dismantle it before being taken to America. Great to see it again after 57 years now in its 'new' home.😊
Awesome video guys love the comments why we ride motorcycle.
Absolutely love your videos Matt, hopefully I will get back to the USA for some riding in the future 👍
Thanks for the great video and ride 👍👍
Thanks for checking it out.
Cool video as usual! Just rode 3800 from San Diego County to the Midwest at the end of March. My first long distance ride.
Best way to explain it is that it was Everything (but hot). Headed out for 5000 next month!!!!
Going there with my riding group at the end of June, love Matt’s videos, narration and the crew!
great show thanks
Great 👍🏾 Thanks for the North rim advice... Grand Hole is a go to...
Yes it is. North Rim is my preference but south is really cool too
Great trip..Was in Williams around the same time as you, over from the UK. Had a great time at the Sultana bar and Canyon Club! 😵💫
Haha, I'll have to look those places up for next time. Too bad we didn't cross paths
Matt, I just want to say a sincere thank you.. a year ago I went to HD academy and got my license.. I have a little HD sportster.. and man.. I just find your videos so inspiring.. I can’t wait to ride in your confidence level and truly look forward to adventures with my buddies just like you do!!!!! Thanks man from the bottom of my heart for inspiring not only me but most definitely a bunch out there ✌🏼 amen to your statements about motorcycling
Another killer road trip video. Love it! You always knock it out of the park with your productions.
My wife and I rode from Colorado to Arizona last May. Stayed in Flagstaff. Went to Sedona, Seligman, Prescott, Payson, Winslow, and yes, the south rim of the Grand Canyon. I’d been there before, but that was her first. What an awesome trip among many multi-state trips we took last year.
Looking forward to seeing your next trip!
Great Video!! Thanks for sharing..
Thanks for watching.
Wonderful video: i've done the same trip on 2018 (by car.....) and now your bikes make me dream ... Thank you guys
Well done Matt.....
Thank you sir.
Amazing journey!!! Well done Matt and crew.
Two rims down, two rims to go! Q - What has 16 cylinders and 10,000 decibels? A - This road trip lol! Ya know from the top of the Grand Canyon you could really hock a lugie on someone!
Nice Trip!👍👍👍
Thanks! 👍
I enjoy watching your videos, specially myself being a cruiser rider I can relate to the vibes and feels you and the guys experience while on the roads, I wait for 'vlogs' like this one, where it has good shots, good place, good company and stories attached into the vlog.. such a superb 47mins that just went by... Love it, Love from India! , God Speed!