Holy s***
See this hotel?
Triumph is going to pay for me
to fly to Arizona, stay there,
and test ride their bikes.
WHAT!?
Okay, so let me give you
a little bit of background
on what this whole thing is.
Triumph Immersion, it's the first year
that Triumph has done
this event like this.
Previously, Triumph
Immersion was just a demo day
that anyone could go to.
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This year, they decided
to invite 40 select people
to come to this event,
and test ride the bikes.
So, it was a wide range of people.
There were some YouTubers,
riders, photographers,
people who were Insta-famous, racers.
My YouTube Channel is about
1/10th of the size of most
of the channels I watch,
so I never thought I would be offered an
opportunity like this, especially from
my dream motorcycle company.
If you've been watching
my channel for a while,
you know that in 2017 I test rode about
10 bikes over the year because I'm nuts.
And after that, Triumph has been
my favorite motorcycle brand,
and now I'm gonna love them even more.
And towards the end of this video
I'll tell you how I potentially ruined
any possibility of a relationship
with my dream motorcycle company.
So, stay tuned for that.
Anyways, when I first got the email,
I definitely thought, this
is too good to be true.
And I didn't believe it was.
So, I double checked
the email address URL,
made sure it linked to the
official Triumph website.
I called Triumph headquarters,
made sure that person worked there.
And I didn't realize it,
but I actually had met
that person before at a friend's wedding.
How in the world I forgot that I met
someone who works at Triumph,
really tall, good looking
dude, don't ask me how.
I've been forgetting a
lot of things lately.
I haven't slept through
the night in a year.
I forgot to put deodorant on today,
that's been happening a lot lately too.
So, after I was so excited about this,
I had two main fears:
One, my makeup is not gonna survive
the helmet in front these 40 people,
and two, dropping a bike in
front of all these people.
(exhales sharply)
More on that later.
So, I packed two nights before the trip,
straightened my hair the night before.
And earlier that weekend I
picked up a winter jacket
from Chic Riot, which they
loaned me for the trip
since I didn't wanna
travel with a track suit.
Packing all my motorcycle
gear was already a challenge.
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Look at the cacti!
So, I had no idea who
was going to be there,
but when I got on the
bus that had like 1/3
of the people who had arrived,
I saw Kat from itsKatKam,
screamed when I saw her,
and Zander was there too.
We took a bus to the
Westin in Tucson, Arizona,
ate lunch, didn't even
have time to check in,
went straight on the bikes to go.
At first I got on the Rocket 3.
I was so excited to
test out that beast, and
within the first three minutes,
we stopped to turn right somewhere
and I dropped it.
I was the first one to drop a bike.
(exhales sharply)
They offered to put me on
the Triumph Street Triple RS
'cause they were like this girl
obviously doesn't know
how to handle a bike.
And I was like, that's
really similar to my bike,
yes, let's do that, and I
was pretty terrified and
embarrassed and self-conscious
the rest of the trip.
But it made me realize
when I am tip-toeing a bike
I am so awkward and clumsy.
I don't know what I'm doing.
So, I decided after this trip,
I actually already took
my bike to get raised
back to stock height because
I have got to get used
to tip-toeing bikes because
it's time to take off the training wheels,
it's like having a crutch all the time.
Everyone else who is
used to tip-toeing bikes
are handling all these things just fine.
KatKam is like, going side to side,
stopping like no problem.
People can do this you just
have to get used to it,
so I am done flat-footing my bike.
Also, unfortunately, I don't
have audio recorded for you.
My audio recorder was in my tank bag,
and a few days before the trip,
I was riding on the highway
and the tank bag just flew off of my bike.
It got run over and the
voice recorder was destroyed.
I ordered one on Amazon two-day shipping,
it got here the night before,
I was playing with it on the plane
and it turned out to be a dud.
It would not turn on.
So, it just wasn't meant to be.
After we got out of the city we were...
I'm not even kidding, we rode
through desert mountains,
surrounded by rocks and cacti,
and then I realized,
I have dreamed of riding
through desert mountains.
Like I am living my dream right now.
Triumph has given me my dream.
Ah, my gosh, I cannot believe it.
(laughs) Ah.
We stopped and pulled over
and took some pictures,
and then when we stopped I realized
I didn't know anybody here.
I wanted to jump off my bike
and go up to someone and shake 'em
and be like, that was awesome!
(people chattering)
- I fell in love with--
- Just finished riding that
(people laughing)
through some Arizona
desert mountain curves.
The most gorgeous ride I've ever been on.
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I had met Grace that day,
so I found her among the
people and said that to her,
but that was a tough part that I was like,
I don't know anyone one here
to scream my excitement to.
Oh, and Ninja Natalie was there,
and she started doing
stunts on one of the bikes
as we were all sitting
around taking pictures.
I fangirled way too hard on her,
killed any possibility of a conversation.
Shelina Racing was there, too.
I actually never saw her again after,
I saw her getting on the
Rocket when we started
and then I never saw her again.
So, I don't know what happened.
So we got back to the hotel
just in time to change
and get ready for dinner.
I had my own room.
It was so nice and big
and it had a balcony.
The introvert in me was so
tempted to just stay in the room
and get all cozy in bed.
But I didn't, I was kinda good.
I got ready, I changed, I went to dinner.
Sat by Kat
and Zander and talked with them and
talked with a couple other
girls that were there,
one of the photographers.
And at the dinner I just
kept looking around the room
and I was like, how did I get in here?
Am I allowed to be here?
Like there are so many people that
I've looked up to online for so long
like Ninja Natalie, Shelina
Racing, Yammie Noob,
Suburban Delinquent,
Jake the Garden Snake,
SnowCat, Stan the Moto Man.
EN187 was there, too.
So many cool people were there,
I'm gonna feel really bad
if I forgot some names.
I'm sure I did, I mean,
that's not 40 people,
there were a lot of people there.
But of course I got really
tired and really intimidated
so I was probably one of the
first to leave the dinner.
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Acne scars are covered up.
It is 6:30 a.m.
Time to get some quick breakfast,
I might have to skip it though
'cause the ride is at 7:00 a.m. today.
So, today is day two riding.
I slept so good last night.
I got shy so I didn't say
hi and I was so tired.
Maybe one day I won't be
such a nervous little wreck.
But, yeah, day two riding.
Actually, SnowCat called me
out on not saying hi to him.
He sent me a message
this morning on Instagram
and I was like, oooh!
I didn't even know you
knew who I was (laughs).
So, if I see him this morning I'll say hi.
Okay, I better get
going, I think I'm on...
Yeah, I better get going, bye!
And the next day, decided
to ride the Thruxton.
So fricken beautiful, ahh!
- [Stan] Put yourself on the bike
I can go behind you and
(drowned out by motor).
- [Doodle] What, oh, thank you!
I'll try to get you out,
I'm rolling.
- Let's go
back and forth, yeah.
- All right thanks.
So then we road these bikes out to
this gorgeous national park,
like it looked like we were
in a computer desktop background.
I am so mad at myself for not having
a better quality camera.
This footage is not doing justice for you
of how beautiful it was.
Made sure to get pictures
with everybody there.
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And then after that it was pretty much
a rush back to the hotel.
Just finished day two, last day of,
whoo, riding bikes with Triumph.
I got like 15 minutes before I gotta
get on the shuttle to
catch my flight home.
So, I'm gonna get going on that.
Some did, but I didn't have
time to even eat lunch,
just had to check out and get on the bus
to go to the airport.
Oh, and I almost forgot,
how I potentially ruined any opportunity
with my dream company ever again.
So I told you I dropped the Rocket,
well I also dropped the
Thruxton that second day.
When we were at that
computer desktop background,
Jerry Palladino, if you're watching this
don't worry I did not drop it in a U-turn.
Actually I was too scared,
after the first drop I was too scared
to do anything risky like a U-turn.
So, I didn't even care,
it was a point where
we did have to U-turn,
I duck-walked my bike,
and I didn't even care what
a big fool I looked like.
If he's watching this video he's like,
did I teach you nothing, Doodle?
But yeah, that second drop was,
again, just standing still,
and I was just trying
to walk it backwards.
So embarrassing.
So, they may never contact me again.
But I will never forget this.
(Doodle sobbing)
Don't worry I won't cry on camera.
I'll wait till I go to bed tonight
and cry myself to sleep about it.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Triumph,
for pulling off this amazing event.
I really hope other companies follow suit.
I think this was pretty much organized
by just two people at Triumph.
I don't wanna say their names
in case you all decide
to blow up their inbox
and say, "Invite me next!"
They may not forgive me for that.
Those two people and
the rest of their team,
thank you so much for including me,
I will never forget it.
Ahhh.
And I will see you in the next one.
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