Common Tread XP

How far would you go to save your dad’s favorite motorcycle? In this episode of CTXP, Ari and Zack are on a mission — from a barn in New Hampshire to the Barber Motorsports Museum — to get Todd Henning’s famous Drixton Honda out of boxes on a shelf and back on a race track.

These days, $20 is hardly enough for lunch out, so the idea of tackling a 500-mile road trip for that sum seems impossible. Or is it? Zack and Ari set out on a Honda Grom and a Zero S electric bike with hopes of making it all the way from Los Angeles to San Francisco — for just $20.

The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is the biggest gathering of bikers in the world, but it’s taken nearly nine decades to become what it is today. What would it have been like to travel to that very first rally in 1938? To find out, Zack and Ari climb aboard two 1930 American V-twins — a Harley Davidson Big Twin Flathead and an Indian Chief — and try to ride some 800 miles from Salt Lake City, Utah, to Sturgis, South Dakota. It’s an epic road trip that tests the boys’ stamina in nearly every way. Sturgis or bust!