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Is This Crazy Custom Ducati Panigale Snowbike The Ultimate Dune Blaster?

Snow and sand aren't the same surface, but Matt Spears isn't letting that stop him with this snowbike-converted 2024 Ducati Panigale.

RideApart · Oct 29, 2025

Sticking a Suzuki Hayabusa Engine in a Honda Dirtbike is a Great Idea, Right?

All bikes are enduro bikes if you have the skill, at least according to Matt Spears. But what happens if you take a Hayabusa engine and put it in a Honda dirtbike frame?

RideApart · Sep 9, 2025

Here's What It's Like To Build a Ducati Panigale V4 Snow Bike

Motorcycles are joy; full stop. If you're reading RideApart, you probably already at least suspect this to be true. But beyond even that basic observation that we like to treat as fact, there's an extra-special, super-secret (or maybe not-so-secret) joy in the forbidden.

RideApart · Mar 5, 2025

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Watch a Ducati Panigale V4 Snow Bike Get Stranded in Freezing Temperatures

Ducatis, like Ferraris or MV Agustas, should never find their way into a scrapyard. So, seeing someone take a wrecked one and get it rolling again is heartwarming for us gearheads. But what Matt Spears did to his Panigale V4 goes far beyond getting it rolling. After showing the world how…

RideApart · Feb 26, 2025

What Happens When a Paddle-Tire Ducati Superbike Hits Deep Snow?

If you've kept up with mad enduro rider Matt Spears in recent time, then you know he's game for a whole lot of wild creations that pretty much no one else would build. Most recently, he got his hands on a totaled Ducati Panigale. The motor was still very much…

RideApart · Jan 24, 2025

So You Want a Sportbike-Powered Trike for the Snow? Sure, Why Not?

The guys at the YouTube channel BUM are known lunatics. Emerging from the YouTube channel Grind Hard Plumbing Co, they've taken the platform by storm with increasingly chaotic videos full of custom insanity and wanton abandon toward their own health and well-being. I mean, these are the folks who took…

RideApart · Jan 17, 2025

Yes, This Is a One-Of-A-Kind KTM 450-Powered Antique Buggy

If you've spent any time in the past year hanging out in the motorcycle corner of the internet, you've probably seen a Matt Spears video or two by now. If he's not enduro riding his old Gold Wing, he's taking a Hayabusa to Moab just because he can.

RideApart · Dec 2, 2024

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Watch An Off-Road Gold Wing Haul a 19th Century Buggy 100 Miles, Because Why Not?

By now, you've probably seen riders (including Matt Spears) take their Gold Wings off road successfully. But have you seen them haul a buggy from the 1800s?

RideApart · Oct 14, 2024

Can the EV Stark Varg Handle the Hardest Off-Road Trail in the US?

Can the Stark Varg handle the toughest, most challenging dirt bike trail in the US? Matt Spears puts this electric motorbike to the test.

RideApart · Sep 26, 2024

Drag Race: Hayabusa Dirt Bike vs Stark Varg vs Built KTM 450 On Sand

A Hayabusa dirt bike is mad enough, but in the right hands, we've seen that it's far more capable than you might expect. How does it do on sand, though?

RideApart · Sep 3, 2024

Can A Hayabusa Beat A Stark Varg Up A Series Of Hillclimbs? Find Out

Can a Hayabusa dirt bike (really) beat a ridiculously torquey Stark Varg electric bike in one or more steep hillclimbs? The Varg has ridiculous torque, so

RideApart · Aug 25, 2024

Off-Road Suzuki Hayabusa Finally Conquers Moab's Hell's Gate

After failing twice before, enduro rider Matt Spears brought his off-road Suzuki Hayabusa sportbike to Moab to tackle Hells Gate once more and succeeds where he's failed.

RideApart · May 9, 2024

Watch a Honda Gold Wing Take On Montana's BDR Treacherous Off-Road Trails

Watch Matt Spears, a hard enduro wunderkind, take his girlfriend along for a wild off-road two-up adventure aboard their modified off-road Honda Gold Wing.

RideApart · Apr 15, 2024

Watch What Happens When You Take A Honda Gold Wing Ice Fishing

In the right hands, a Honda Gold Wing can apparently be not half bad as an enduro bike. At least, if you're Matt Spears. What about ice drifting and fishing?

RideApart · Apr 12, 2024

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RideApart · Apr 3, 2024

Watch a Honda Trail 90 Be Rescued and Then Climb Mountains Like a Proper ADV

See a Honda Trail 90 get rescued from a barn, restored, and then pretend its an adventure motorcycle and climb a mountain.

RideApart · Jan 10, 2024

Does A Suzuki Hayabusa Make A Good Adventure Bike?

Off-roading a Hayabusa is one thing, but what happens when you load it up with gear and take it camping in Canyonlands National Park in Utah? Take a look.

RideApart · Dec 18, 2023

How Does A Honda Gold Wing Handle Hell's Revenge In Moab?

If you didn't picture a Gold Wing or a Hayabusa as making good dirt bikes before, Matt Spears taking both bikes to Moab might make you reconsider that notion.

RideApart · Dec 11, 2023

Watch A Hayabusa Fly With Dirt Bikes On Sand Dunes

When you think of sand dunes, you think of ADV, dual sport, and dirt bikes. Not Hayabusas. You might end up changing your mind if Matt Spears has any say.

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RideApart · Dec 4, 2023

Watch A Rider Reach The Top Of Hell's Gate On A Busted Hayabusa

Enduro rider Matt Spears, whose latest projects involve off-roading a Honda Gold Wing and a Suzuki Hayabusa, took both of them to Moab. Here's what happened.

RideApart · Nov 27, 2023

What Happens When You Hit Hell's Gate On A Hayabusa?

After getting a Gen 2 Suzuki Hayabusa prepped for its new life off-roading, Matt Spears and his buddies head to Moab for a serious test of its capabilities.

RideApart · Nov 13, 2023

If You Ever Wanted To See A Hayabusa Hill Climb, This Video Is For You

Enduro rider Matt Spears is at it again, and this time, he and his buddies prepped a Gen 2 Suzuki Hayabusa for some off road fun on a steep hill climb course.

RideApart · Oct 24, 2023

Taking A Suzuki Hayabusa Off Roading Seems Like A Fine Idea, Right?

Ever since Suzuki introduced the Hayabusa, it's owned the drag strip and streets where it was built to roam and set new speed records. What about off road?

RideApart · Oct 16, 2023

Can This Totaled Honda Gold Wing Make It Up A Steep Hill On Its Own?

Honda Gold Wing enduro rider Matt Spears is on a mission to recover his totaled bike after a nasty tumble down a massive hill. Can he and his friends do it?

RideApart · Oct 13, 2023

7 Questions With Gold Wing Enduro Rider Matt Spears

If you've seen the words "Honda Gold Wing" and "offroad" in 2023, it's probably because of Matt Spears' highly entertaining YouTube videos. Here's an interview.

RideApart · Oct 9, 2023

Watch This Honda Gold Wing Do Some Serious Hill Climbing And Tumbling

If Honda Gold Wings and off roading aren't usually things that go together, then Honda Gold Wings and hill climbs seem even more bonkers. Watch what happens.

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