Mason Klein Talks Rally - Dakar Dreams - Kove Honda KTM and More

This is an exclusive interview with Mason Klein. He talks candidly about KORR racing, The Dakar, his hopes and dreams and his latest ride. News of his win in Brazil and stories from the Bivouac.
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[@DatBikerDude]

Really glad to be a part of this .

[@barebonesmc]

I look forward to many more projects and some adventures together my friend :-) and thanks again for the help with the subtitles

[@DatBikerDude]

​@@barebonesmcfor sure. My pleasure

[@Free_Ranger_CT110]

Mason is truly a superstar in the making, thanks for putting this together.

[@barebonesmc]

he is a gem, I just hope the video gets a few more views and sends him some extra viewers

[@819jt]

You two guys introduced me to Dakar on a motorcycle. This is on another level of expert skills and thanks for showing us what it's like🤘

[@barebonesmc]

bless you mate, because of the Copyright strike this video has been hidden a lot, so hasnt been seen by enough people, thanks for the support

[@jacquesnel8384]

Great interview ! Kove will miss him if Honda picks him up for Dakar. Mason is a future star of World Rallye.

[@barebonesmc]

glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂 He is indeed. Kove should have had the contract signed before they had even left Saudi this year. Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂

[@ogasi1798]

thanks both for getting this done - always wishing Mason luck , he is a great young man to follow

[@barebonesmc]

he is indeed, a stand out

[@chris_mastro]

Thanks for putting this content out here!

[@barebonesmc]

🙂Cheers for watching and for the comment mate.i thoroughly enjoyed doing this one 🙂

[@BraapTales]

Great interview and video, thanks for doing it! It's so cool to hear that Mason is super motivated by exploring and seeing new things and places. That's something that goes far beyond racing, and it really means a lot to me as well. That's a major reason why I ride bikes. Rally racing, especially Dakar, just combines so many of my passions and looks to be the same for Mason. Mason is also a great mechanic. Maybe someday, after he's won like 5 Dakars, he'll make his own custom rally bikes. I would love to see one!

[@barebonesmc]

i have to say, i was most pleasantly surprised by many of his answers. and what drives him. i wish him all the luck in the world, I wish it had brought in more viewers for him

[@Pompomgrenade]

This 🏁Mason kid is super gnarly. Great interview 👍🏾

[@barebonesmc]

Glad you enjoyed it mate, i have much more respect for him than most racers these days, old school

[@riolonghorn]

Great stuff. Thanks for the interview.

[@barebonesmc]

glad you enjoyed it mate hope there were some surprises 🙂Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂

[@clc251]

Great interview like Mason. First found him on Itchy Boots channel. He was showing her about notebook.

[@barebonesmc]

He is such a genuine guy, something rare these days, i love the fact he tore down the engine literally in the desert

[@right_on_riggins]

Insane interview 🏆🏁 Listening to ya in southern UT barebones! 🏜️🇺🇸

[@barebonesmc]

glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂 Welcome aboard. Theres plenty more on the channel, hope you will look around and find something your interested in. there is more on the website too. and there will be more to come. Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂

[@ClintElmore-es3mr]

My grandson turned me to Mason and his brother back when they were racing as youths in the So Cal desert they were classmates and my grandson would also talk about them I’ve watching this kid for a few years now he a local guy and I’ve watched him in every Dakar he’s been in the last guy I watched so intensely was Kurt Caselli he was also a local guy I will continue to support Mason in what ever he does hope to see him at Dakar next year

[@barebonesmc]

im sure he will be there, whatever he gets as a ride 🙂 he is such a genuine young man, refreshingly so

[@Paul-67]

Great interview with Mason. Thank you Barebones.

[@barebonesmc]

Cheers Paul, several firsts for me with this one and i am hyper critical of myself, I do just hope I did Mason justice and get him a few more followers

[@robertscarisbrick7245]

A really good interview with Mason !! He’s a really cool dude and has a great attitude and outlook !! Enjoy your coverage very much , your doin a great job 👍 Not many people out there covering these stories so well !! Great stuff and very inspirational, just makes you want to do something epic on a motorcycle 😊💪👍

[@barebonesmc]

cheers mate, and yep, he is a genuinely nice guy, I do hope we can push some more viewers his way, and what is it they say, every ride is an adventure waiting to happen

[@Pompomgrenade]

The future looks😅 fast Clean and proper young Man, with natural Speed🪄 It entices going riding 👍🏾

[@barebonesmc]

an old school racer with real passion, hats off to him

[@jonwoodworker]

Mason looks so much better and faster on a Honda.

[@barebonesmc]

I wont argue, being honest though, I think i would like to see him and Noah in a Sherco team together, add Rui Goncalves and that would be one formidable team

[@hahayouareanoob]

Great interview, honestly Kove got me more interested in watching Dakar then Klein riding really sucked me into it. I was checking for updates daily on Dakar but once he dropped I was like "Meh, the other riders are good but I liked Mason..." I saw one video of Mason rolling into the pits bloody with a bike broke to hell and was by far my favorite vid of things as a rider, that was why I was watching to see another rider being a badass. One of the Kove engineers was asking Mason if he fixed part of the bike during the race and Mason's face made me laugh as he responded, "Yea....it's how I got here!" :) Ride on guys.

[@barebonesmc]

you have to give it to him, stripping an engine in the desert cant be easy :-) i would say that the whole Malle Moto class have my respect too though, watching Cesarre Zacchetti stuck in that bombhole and then watching Tizziano from Rally POV and the others help get him out was a classic. as was the way Cesarre just shrugged his shoulders at the fact Carlos Saintz hit him coming over a dune in the final stages as though "that sort of thing happens every day lol"

[@BraapTales]

@@barebonesmc So when is the interview with Cesarre coming?? : )

[@barebonesmc]

@@BraapTales give me chance lol hope you enjoyed this one mate, have a great week

[@BraapTales]

@@barebonesmc You as well!

[@barebonesmc]

@@BraapTales some time on the Nighthawk this week, its been off the road too long and needs a refresh 🙂

[@mikerider58]

Probably the most physically demanding sport in the world 🌎

[@barebonesmc]

yep, Harith Noah is a demon in the gym lol, it all looks so effortless

[@charliem5332]

Joey Dunlop used to struggle with other people working on his bike.

[@barebonesmc]

a giant of a man, RIP King of the Mountain. I met him once on his way to the races in the Czech republic as was then, his van with his bike in the back, the whole of the rest of the van full of donations for a kids home he had visited the year before because he didnt trust the charities to do it properly.. he wouldnt leave the bike in the back alone, so slept across the front seats so he could take more donations over. If only the world had more like Joey. What a man

[@davidrose3669]

Johnny is crazy not to have you on his squad.

[@barebonesmc]

Johnny?

[@prairiedog879]

Campbell. As I understand it the brazilian honda team feeds into the HRC factory rally team.

[@barebonesmc]

@@prairiedog879 I am sure they do, but the progression can never be guaranteed

[@travelfrog888]

Great kid. From the very first moment I heard the Kove 450, I thought "gutless". All the sales in the US were hype and frenzy KZbin over selling hype. Chinese stuff is getting better by the day. Some watches made in China are of a higher grade than most "Swiss made' overpriced watches. Yet, on a mass produced item, Chinese companies will cut corners in order to be price competitive. So, a 450cc that is gutless and needs to be rev over 9000 rpm to get you to feel anything, is going to fail on the Dakar race. Imagine a motorbike, needing 50 HP at the back wheel to power through the sand and ride at over 100 mph. The Kove has less than 30 HP and needs to be at over 9000 rpm. Fine for everybody else. Chinese bearings and things can't cope with that stress. So, they all failed. It will be a long time before Chinese manufacturers win anything. It takes great engineering, great manufacturing and GREAT RIDERS. Kobe might be gone within the year 2024. My advice, buy Chinese made motorbikes only for their cheap price. Never expect performances.

[@barebonesmc]

too many generalisations for me there mate, they rarely have more than a grain of truth in my experience, what i will say, is a 20HP tune on a 40HP bike will always likely cause issues, the journey is long, many will fail, we will see if Kove is one of them

[@BraapTales]

Written like someone who has no idea what they are talking about and obviously never ridden a Kove. By the way, the race version of the Kove has 54HP and my own Kove with the race exhaust and race ECU can keep up with a fully modded CRF450L no problem and comes alive around 4500 rpm. Not even close to 9000. Please stop spreading ridiculous misinformation on something you know nothing about.

[@DatBikerDude]

The standard version is 52HP and the pro version is 54 HP. The one Mason raced was the untested 65HP EX but customized by his own team rather than Kove Official team. It also had a much better power/weight ratio(65/128) than a KTM (68/139). So....

[@colinbowman8816]

Obviously, you haven't seen too many motorcycle dyno charts... Most 450 mx bikes make peak power @9000 and rev out to 11,500-12,000...