LAB2V 2022 with the Ducati Desert X - Full Feature

Full Feature video (1 hour 12 minutes). Highlights is also available. Links in video.
Great fun in the desert on this ride (former desert race) starting in Palmdale, California (I guess people consider Palmdale as Los Angeles?), stopping for one night in Barstow, Calif., then finishing in Las Vegas, Nevada.
There were 400+ riders this year, the great majority on 500cc dual sport bikes. Only a few of us on big adventure bikes. Amazingly, there were 4 Ducati Desert X's, including mine.
The rider chooses easy or hard ways (from the perspective of a dual sport dirtbike). This was my first year and I decided to take the easy ways.
It's a lot of dust, speed, and fun.

[@douglasfrantzen3011]

At 5:48 I yelled "you just passed it!" It looked like one of the adventure jackets, white and grey with a little red. That Ducati sounds sweet, such a nice deep sound compared to the usual 350s and 500s.

[@merloti]

Yeah, it was the first thing my wife said when she saw the video! The funny thing is that I probably saw that video 10 times while editing and still couldn't find it! LOL

[@ozmodius12]

Wonderful ride. Great video!

[@merloti]

Thank you!

[@rollyman3754]

Very nice

[@merloti]

Thanks!

[@NMS.SuperDuper]

What was the temp?

[@motomortgageguy6882]

Great edit Padu! Looking forward to talking about this over a beer.

[@merloti]

Let's do it!

[@MeerkatADV]

Day one was so much fun. Day two I made the mistake of taking the "easy" powerline road. 40 miles of deep gravel and sand hell ate up my time and had to divert from Baker to get there in time.

[@merloti]

Sand wasn't lacking, for sure

[@jjleroux5442]

Very dusty! I liked the video but think it’ll be nice to see what you’ve done to prep the bike for the event

[@merloti]

That's a good idea. That might be my next video.