Charles Worden Returns: Bikes, Tequila & Cleannuff 2.0 | Hard Parking Ep. 333
Hard Parking with Jhae Pfenning
Charles Worden Returns: Bikes, Tequila & Cleannuff 2.0 | Hard Parking Ep. 333
Hard Parking with Jhae Pfenning · Jul 10, 2026
Annotations will appear as you listen
0:00
46:38
Car
Chevrolet C8
“C8” is the name for the Chevrolet Corvette’s newer generation. It’s famous because the engine sits closer to the middle of the car, which helps handling and makes it feel more like a track car.
Car
2016 R1
The Yamaha R1 is a fast, sporty motorcycle. The 2016 version is especially performance-focused, so it’s not usually the easiest bike for someone who’s never ridden before.
Car
Jeep Renegade
The Jeep Renegade is a small SUV from Jeep. It’s meant for regular driving but with features that fit outdoor activities. The podcast mentions it because people often know it as a practical vehicle for carrying gear like bikes.
Term
burnouts
A burnout is when you spin the tires on purpose so they slip and heat up, often making smoke. People do it for show, not for normal driving.
Concept
stunt lock
“Stunt lock” here means the show is centered on bike stunts. Instead of regular riding, it’s about things like wheelies and other tricks.
Term
wheelies
A wheelie is when you ride with the front wheel lifted up in the air. It takes balance and throttle control to keep it from falling over.
Term
full fled drift
Drifting is when you go through a turn with the tires sliding, but in a controlled way. The rider keeps the bike pointed where they want to go while it’s sliding.
Term
weight
In stunt riding and drifting, “weight” refers to how the bike’s mass and the rider’s shifting body position affect traction and stability. Moving weight changes which tires are loaded, which strongly influences whether the bike can slide or lift the front wheel.
Term
drifting
Drifting is when a driver intentionally makes the car’s rear end slide while still steering through a turn. The point is to control the slide instead of just crashing or spinning.
Term
bars
“Bars” means extra metal protection on the car. People add them so the car doesn’t get as badly damaged when it falls over or drags during stunts.
Term
takeover guys
“Takeover guys” is slang for people who show up to do loud, stunt-style driving in groups—often burnouts and drifting—while drawing a crowd.
Term
motor
Here, “motor” means the engine. If it “blows up” during a burnout, it usually means the engine overheated or got damaged from pushing it too hard for too long.
Concept
no-play, no case
It’s a saying that basically means: if you don’t play by the rules, you don’t get help or a good result. In this segment, it’s being used to talk about safety and accountability.
Term
DPS video
They mention a safety video made by a government agency (DPS). The host is saying it’s part of how they try to encourage safer riding and driving.
Car
BMW S 1000
The BMW S 1000 is a fast, performance-focused sport motorcycle. The host is saying this is the bike he was on when a warning light came on and things went wrong.
Term
ABS malfunction
ABS is a safety system that helps stop you without the wheels locking up. If the dash says “ABS malfunction,” it can mean the bike’s anti-lock safety isn’t working, so braking can cause the wheels to lock and lose control.
Term
clutch
The clutch lets you separate the engine from the bike’s gearing. Riders use it when they’re changing gears or trying to reduce how much the engine is affecting the bike during a stressful moment.
Term
bike locked up
“Locked up” means the wheel stops spinning and starts sliding. On a motorcycle, that can make the bike unstable and much harder to control, which is why it can lead to a crash.
Car
Morgan Six Plus
The Morgan Plus Six is a sports car made by Morgan in the UK. It’s designed to be driven for fun, with a traditional-looking body and performance aimed at the road. The podcast brings it up because it’s a distinctive car that stands out in real-world situations.
Term
endo
An endo is a stunt where you lift the front wheel up and balance on the back of the bike. If you don’t land it right, the bike can slide or fall the wrong way.
Term
cage on the bike
A cage on a bike typically refers to a protective frame/guard (often called a crash cage or guard) that helps shield the rider and key components during a fall. It can also help prevent the bike from rotating or contacting the ground in a way that causes more damage.
Term
carbon sliders
Carbon sliders are protective skid pads made from carbon fiber that mount to a motorcycle or bike to help the rider slide without damaging critical parts. In crashes, they’re designed to reduce friction and prevent expensive bodywork or frame damage.
Term
crash
Here, “crash” just means a fall while riding. They’re saying their setup and gear helped them avoid injuries and damage.
Brand
R1
“R1” is a Yamaha sport motorcycle model. It’s built for fast riding, and anniversary versions usually come with special styling and sometimes upgraded parts.
Term
fully adjustable shocks
Shocks are what keep the bike from bouncing too much. If they’re fully adjustable, you can change how stiff or soft they feel so the bike rides better for your weight and the kind of riding you’re doing.
Brand
S1K
“S1K” appears to be a shorthand reference to another sport motorcycle model in the same conversation, likely the Yamaha YZF-R1’s sibling/alternative. However, the transcript doesn’t provide enough context to identify the exact model with high confidence.
Term
cloud bike
“Cloud bike” here is slang for a very common, popular motorcycle that a lot of people ride. The host is basically saying it’s the mainstream choice.
Car
BMW S1000
This is a BMW sport motorcycle line. It’s known for being fast and aggressive, and the host is specifically talking about how its braking system (especially ABS) feels.
Brand
Ducati
Ducati is a well-known Italian motorcycle brand. People often associate it with sporty, high-performance bikes.
Place
road America
Road America is a famous race track in Wisconsin. Car and bike people talk about it because it’s a great place to test speed and handling.
Place
Elkhart Lake
Elkhart Lake is a place in Wisconsin known for racing. It’s near a well-known track called Road America.
Car
NSX
The Honda NSX is a well-known sports car from Honda. It’s mid-engine and has a reputation for being a serious, high-performance machine.
Concept
livery
A livery is the car’s graphics and paint design—like the racing-team look with logos and colors. The host is saying this NSX’s design is well-known.
Brand
DDE
DDE is a car-content creator brand that makes videos and photos of modified cars. In this clip, they’re being credited for the famous NSX-related shoot.
Person
Larry Chen
Larry Chen is credited here as part of the team that filmed or photographed the NSX. People like this help make modified-car content go viral.
Person
Roger Nakata
Roger Nakata is the person the host credits with having an especially cool NSX. They’re basically saying his car is famous among enthusiasts.
Concept
rest in peace
“Rest in peace” is something people say when someone has passed away. The host is using it to acknowledge that someone died.
Term
first generation
“First generation” just means the original version of a car model. Later generations can look different and may drive differently too.
Term
Star Wars feel
They’re describing the car’s look as having a sci-fi vibe like Star Wars. It’s about style and graphics, not how the car works.
Term
Macross, Robotech
Macross and Robotech are sci-fi anime series. They’re being used here as references for the car’s futuristic, anime-like styling.
LIVE
My ass cheeks will cook.
This is Heart Park and brought to you by Wright Honden, Wright Toyota, out of Scottsdale,
Arizona.
I'm your host, Jay Finning.
Coming up on today's show, Charles Wharton back in studio to talk about his latest ventures.
Clean enough, has gone to two wheels.
He's been doing a lot of stuff in the bike community.
We get into all that.
It's a great conversation, but, but I realized when I went to edit this that I didn't pull
over his audio file.
And so I did the best that I could.
You guys know that audio is my obsession, bringing a good product to you is my obsession.
But there was too much on there to try to do all over again.
It takes away from the organic nature.
I have had to do that before in the past, but I've been sitting on this conversation since
the beginning of June.
So keep that in mind.
I actually had to use, okay, so how did I do it?
I pulled his audio from, because I'm a loud voice, right?
I pulled his audio from spillover from my own microphone, as well as what little the
recording camera was able to pick up, ran it through a bunch of AI that I couldn't have
done a year ago, and I had to edit it like I did back in the day with what I had.
I think when it's all said and done, I think I did a bang up job, not bad.
It's not perfect.
It might sound a little muffled at times, but the content is really good and find out
what unique, weird, alcoholic beverage cocktail that he drinks.
I've never heard anybody else mention drinking this before.
Before we get to this word from Arcus Foundry Spark Force, just wanted to take a victory
lap really quick.
Remember when the C8 was like all the bees' knees, because it is an excellent vehicle,
no matter what way you look at it.
The Corvette C8 is an awesome car.
However, I did say, and I think it was with Drew Bunkley on, I did say at some point you
were going to start seeing Z06s.
I said ZR1s.
It's still too early for ZR1s, but I did say you're going to start seeing Z06s all over
the place.
And a lot of the Corvette faithful were like, Oh, you don't know what you're talking about.
Blah, blah, man.
How many Z06s have you seen?
Those of you who live in Corvette country, especially how many Z06s have you seen?
I've seen a bunch of them here around Gilbert in the Phoenix area.
And every time I see one, I think to myself, man, that is a badass looking car.
It is a badass performing car.
And I was right.
Coming up, Charles Wharton.
If you're on a business and you're tired of juggling tools, chasing logins and constantly
feeling like the tech side of things is heavier than it should be, this might hit close to
home.
That tech fatigue usually shows up as an outdated website, reviews slipping through the cracks,
missed calls when you're busy, or social media that's always on the back burner.
Most business owners know something's off, but fixing it feels like a bigger project
than they have time for.
Sparkforge is just to take that weight off.
It handles the tech behind the scenes, helps clean up how your business shows up online,
makes sure calls and messages don't get mixed.
Keeps reviews from slipping through the cracks and wrangles social marketing so you don't
disappear for weeks.
If you're curious, there's a short discovery session and it comes with 90 days free to
actually see if it makes things easier.
No pitch, no pressure, just a real conversation about what's working, what's broken and
what you can simplify.
So head over to getsparkforge.ai forward slash hard parking to get started.
Charles Warden, welcome back.
Mr. Cleaner of himself decided to come over and drink some of my tequila today.
Yep.
Hey man, it's all good.
So I gave you your option and we ended up going with twos.
We have both reposados.
We have the Siete, I always say it wrong, Siete leguas and people are going to kill me for
that mispronouncing.
And then of course tequila ocho, which is, you know, those who know me know that I drink
a lot of ocho, usually Blanco.
But like I said earlier, if it's on my shelf downstairs, it's worth drinking.
So cheers.
Cheers brother.
Cheers.
Thank you for coming by and making the time.
Hopefully we're all still in focus.
Hopefully.
So at the time of this recording, at the day of this recording, you're getting
ready to embark on a big road trip.
You're doing a lot of stuff with bikes now.
You kind of do it all.
I think I, I think last time you were here, you would kind of talked about getting
into the bike game and doing more.
I mean, you've always been in the bikes, obviously, but can I tell us what you've
been up to?
Kind of did a total shift.
I mean, been doing cars for a long time.
Everyone knows me for cars, but no one really knew the bike side.
I mean, my first bike was a 2016 R1.
Freaking love that little, you know, piss missile.
Granted, I don't recommend you.
Isn't that crazy for your first bike?
Yeah.
I don't really recommend it for like, I don't know a lot about bikes, but I know
a lot about the bikes that are going to, you know, not for people like me that
have never really gotten on one.
Yeah.
No, it's not a good starter bike, but, you know, I started as a kid riding like
450cc's.
Okay.
So it's something familiar.
Yeah.
There are bikes and stuff like that, but that was my first bike and freaking love
that thing was a piss missile through all hell.
And then obviously I did my shift with cars, kept my focus there.
And I don't know, I started working around like a lot of bikes.
They've naturally started coming to supercar stuff.
And I was like, fuck it.
That's cool though, right?
Because we've been doing this for a while.
And I feel like just recently, you know, with Kaylee and the RevanConnect and
all the other groups out there, you as well as being part of that glue, they
just been showing up everywhere and I freaking love to see it.
In fact, last time you just got done doing the event with Strat Pizza.
And then after that, we had one less and then you were part of that with them.
And then you just been, I feel like every time I look on social media,
you got another thing going.
Yeah.
And averaging probably is three to four events a month.
Are you supposed to be slowing down?
I think we talked about that last time.
I was supposed to be slowing down, but I took a total shift.
The bike stuff, honestly, as crazy as it sounds, it's easier to manage.
And then the standpoint.
Why the car stuff?
There's a lot more that I got to worry about with the takeover scene.
Oh, sure.
And, you know, the takeover scene, we all know it's yeah, it's a headache.
But the bike scene, you don't really have to deal with that.
Yeah, you're up to deal with people being stupid doing a wheelie down the road
or something like that.
But that's really it.
Yeah.
Now here, just like ripping absolute freaking tarmac, doing donuts in
the middle of intersections.
It's just wow.
Yeah, because we talked about that for the people who are into that and
that do do those things to the non car people, we're all the same person.
And, you know, and I guess with bikes, of course, you're going to have
those renegades out there, but it seems like most people know how to act.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, the good thing is obviously you know, I always host the
proper property.
So the red bombing and stuff, it's okay.
It's property.
Not saying go out and like, you know, blast it out, but it is not a problem
because I always host the way it's an intention.
Yeah.
I host the where I'm not going to sit there and be like, oh, no, don't do this
because what, like, you know, I understand my boundaries with them.
And most of the time I make sure, you know, the revving stuff like that is
going to be okay.
Now I'm not going out just doing burnouts or doing anything reckless.
You know, promoting all this crazy stuff.
Now, I want to do my stunt lock or, you know, we have bike invasion
where the stunts are there.
It's different versus just the regular beats.
Explain stunt lock to my regular viewers or listeners that aren't
really into bikes.
Uh, stunt lock.
So guys doing wheelies, guys doing like, that's what I envision.
Yeah, it's all stunts.
Okay.
Um, you know, rolling burnouts, just crazy shit.
And I mean, if you haven't seen yet, these guys can actually like
full fled drift these bikes even, you know, these guys in these.
That's pretty bad ass.
And it's like, you've seen a car drift.
Yeah.
See, you know, big old whale, like hardly just drifting around you.
That's, it's cool.
That makes sense because it's like, it's all weight.
Yeah.
It's all weight.
And, and, and, you know, you just have these bars and this, and this tire
up front and this wheel up front, but it's nothing compared to everything
behind it, including the rider.
You know, it's just amazing to be able to do that and recover from it,
not just keep drifting until you're sliding on the ground.
I mean, they may drop it a couple of times.
Of course.
And then they'll end up continuously doing the burnout while it's on the
ground because they got bars to protect it.
Oh, it's crazy.
It's, it's the coolest thing.
I mean, it's not like a car when it's like, oh, it's rolled over.
Like no more.
Like some of these guys, if it falls to the ground, they'll just sit there and
hold that shit and let it just keep burning on the ground.
That's like the version of the less destructive version of the drifters.
I don't even want to call them drifters.
Like the burnt, like the, the takeover guys who just keep doing it.
Next thing, you know, they're bumpers on fire and they're still doing it
without knowing what's going on.
Yeah.
Which we had a guy at the stomach.
He literally blew up his motor in the middle of a burnout because we were
trying to take photos underneath the clean of canopy.
Uh, so he's sitting there.
He's both sending it.
He's like, oh, I'm just going to finish it off.
It's almost the end of the night.
All he, he finished the tire and his motor in one go.
So what do you got, uh, a plan coming up?
Um, so we're going to be hosting with cycle gear, the supplement Tuesday.
And then follow up, which will be like June, I don't know, eighth or ninth
rate.
I'm doing nice.
And then June 12th to the 13th.
I'll be in Dallas hosting events, bike invasion.
The first part of my tour, which is crazy to say I'm on tour, but.
Cause you envision this years ago, this is what you wanted to do.
So it's kind of like a weird journey because it's like, I started from cars
and all he said, like I want to travel and, and it turns out I found a home in
the bike road, you know, I love it.
It's fun.
It's everything that I feel comfortable.
I don't have to worry about, oh, you know, if it's this car or that car, I
wouldn't be there type thing.
It's just, yo, if it's bikes, let's pull up and these guys pull up the, I mean,
every meet usually we're averaging minimum 600 bikes, right?
Which in retrospective is almost unheard of, which is a lot of bikes.
Yeah.
But we have the capability of doing it, which is so fucking badass.
And then obviously with Cali coming up, I'm going to Cali twice.
She can go to Texas, then back to Cali.
Texas, Cali, and then host July 4th of that in Arizona, 711 bash.
And then Cali again.
The 711 thing is kind of interesting, right?
Um, I don't know who's, if it's like a regionally, I would assume
they're all owned by, by 711, but I guess they're franchises, right?
But it seems like a lot of them lately are like, Hey, if you want to do something,
you can do it here.
Yeah.
Whereas before it's, it's no loitering and they're calling to get you off.
But, you know, I think so far no one's fucked it up.
But I do know they do have a lot of 711 meets.
There's a lot of different 711 meets, but.
Um, I've consistently tried to host on every 711.
I mean, my first one was back in 2023.
And that one was freaking massive.
First one, everybody's out there is crazy.
We had to get two parking lots to fill everybody.
That's wild though, man.
Cause it's like, I think of an, and the name of the event escapes me.
What was that big event last year?
I want to say it's maybe South Carolina.
It's somewhere over there where they end up having to shut her down and
basically cancel the event.
And it wasn't necessary.
I don't think it was a 711, but like the adjacent gas station got taken over
and there were kids everywhere on the rooftops and all that shit.
The slam enough of that slammed.
That's right.
Clean enough, slam enough.
Right.
And so how do you, how do you regulate that when you, when you're not doing it on
your compound, on property, right?
It's always got to be in the back of your head.
Like someone's like, please don't screw this up.
Uh, it's in the back of my head, uh, consistently, but I mean, the bike
community, they, they're fucking awesome.
Right.
Respectful.
You know, if they see somebody, you know, fucking off over too much, they're
not going to just sit there and be like, they self-police like, dude, get out of
here.
Right.
Yeah.
I mean, it's pretty cool.
It's, I don't really have to worry so much about the bikes.
There's a lot of mutual respect because the bike community has had a lot of
rough goes, um, and you know, I've been working really hard with people like
Kaylee, uh, just everybody along the way.
And it's been really fucking awesome because, you know, we keep pioneering
and doing stuff and she's been promoting it.
The track would break free, like doing a great job there.
And, you know, we keep covering back and forth and paths and stuff.
It's really fucking awesome.
But, you know, being able to have good pioneers through the bike scene is important.
Yeah.
You know, having Rabin connect, having, you know, break free cycle gear hosting us
hosting just those consistent meats.
It makes a difference.
And you know, it's organized.
It's not just like a couple of guys that, hey, let's go through a parking lot.
Right.
Uh, so then what do you have going on?
Is that, is that take you basically to the end of the year?
Uh, yeah.
So I, uh, cause it's going to be, it's like dog days of summer.
I know.
Yeah.
It's going to be, yeah.
So let's see.
We got this month almost completely booked cause the 20th I'm hosting another
start lock.
Yeah.
This month completely booked July.
I'm almost completely booked August, September, October is the bike invasion
finale main event and then November and December, I'm going to take a break.
I'll still host like regular meats in that timeframe, but I'm going to go all out
just because it's the holidays.
People are going to go out and enjoy themselves, want to be with family and
stuff.
So no point of like putting themselves in a situation where they're like, well, I
want to go, but then 20, 27 setting it up.
I'm opening it up to locations like Nashville, Tennessee, Florida, Colorado,
Texas again, we're opening up a couple more areas.
Why bikes for you and are you not worried?
Cause we were just talking the other day on, on one drink Wednesday, you know,
there's a, in the bike world, it's maybe people know how to behave better, but
there's also like tragedy after tragedy, close call after close call, you know,
that's got to be, and then there's probably taboo to talk about, you know,
it's almost like what's, what's, what's that saying that you never tell someone
leaving a racetrack, you know, there's some, I can't, some play on words.
You're like, don't ever say that.
Yeah.
It's just like, you know, make sure you don't do anything.
It's too good to be home or make sure you don't crash or.
Yeah.
But then a lot of times it's not even up to you, right?
I mean, this is, if you, if you can't stop in time because some, I wouldn't
say asshole, but someone that just isn't paying attention.
It's not easy.
I mean, being a motorcyclist, you become part of a statistic in the
lake and it's not RV.
It's what everybody else speaks.
It's not funny.
We lose a lot of people, people just being negligent, you know,
Kaylee, me, we're trying to figure out something along with, you know,
ELG and a couple other people.
Sure.
On how to like shout out to ELG and we're in their shirt right now, actually.
Trying to figure out ways of how we can promote safety.
You know, even after like the DPS video, like, you know, the no-play, no case,
you know, that I'm showing it.
It's funny.
It's fun, but at the same time, we're not going to promote.
Endanger.
Of course not.
No, and I think it's good that you, that the community has gotten, for lack
of a better term, gotten in bed with local law enforcement, you know, that,
that can only help.
You know, and we've talked about that even from the car scene, right?
I mean, if, if the law officers are on your side and they understand the
good car person versus the shitty car person, a lot of times it's going to help.
Yeah.
Versus, you know, certain cities that are never friendly.
Yeah.
Yep.
Certain college cities that aren't very friendly.
Yeah.
Still paying the ass to the bike scene, the car scene, everybody, it doesn't matter.
But no, it's really cool.
I mean, I was expecting the worst backlash possible from DPS from that video.
I was like, oh man.
All right, here we go.
Like, you know, I was prepared for it, but instead it's more or less like, you know,
I was actually coming to a good turn and they're seeing what we're doing.
We're trying to get people off the streets doing stupid shit instead.
Like, Hey, here's a spot you could do burnouts.
You could have fun.
Big ass parking lot, food trucks, vendors, all that stuff.
What else could you ask for?
And honestly, anyone that's been to my events, they know, you're never going to be bored.
I'm always going to have some sort of entertainment there.
People are always excited, chatting and, you know, just having a good time.
So it's about standing out from the crowd.
And you guys do foot races of the bike events.
I haven't yet.
No, I should bring that back.
It's been a while since I've done foot races, but I don't know.
It's just, I like to make it fun.
Life is so short in the bike from me sometimes.
And it's like, you got to make the most of it because you never know.
And I mean, I can show you some of the messages.
It's, it's so badass how much of an impact I'm making.
Not even realizing it.
It's almost moving because it's like, damn, like, am I doing enough?
Like, what else do I need?
And then I don't get messages of like, you know, people talking about, like,
they love the events.
Yeah, excited.
They're all for it.
It's fucking badass.
Like, it gets me excited.
Like, I think this is the first time I've smiled about the meats and stuff genuinely.
Ever like this.
You know, to get a smile on your face, you usually have to bring up your son.
I know.
No, I mean, I'm pretty like serious on these, but yeah, I love it.
It's it's such a joy.
It's good because you've kind of gone through a journey.
Yeah.
You know, and and thank you for coming through the journey or going on your
journey, even through the show, you know, and for more, we were years ago.
I mean, the time flies, dude.
This is the seventh year of the podcast, you know, so the time flies.
Damn, I didn't realize.
Right.
So what happened in April with that bike?
So bike invasion night one.
What was it?
I'm a way back home.
I had it in my BMW S 1000.
Before that, I was doing wheelies and, you know, I had my fun.
But at the moment of the accident, I wasn't even doing anything but speeding up.
And then I got this little light, my dash said ABS malfunction.
I tried to pull in the clutch instinctively, pull over and instead the
bike locked up six plus an hour and.
Line up over top and, you know, so about 200 feet.
Single bike incident.
Yep.
Locked up.
Yeah.
I mean, I can see how locking up could be a problem on a two wheel vehicle.
I actually Jesus was at the front.
It was, I couldn't even tell you.
Oh, yeah.
But before I could even know what was going on, I was already, you know,
flying over the handlebars and.
Do that had to have been the front, dude, because, um,
she think about the bicycle days, right?
When you do an endo, you stick your foot right there and you lift up the back
and then, you know, you land if you do it right.
And if you don't do it right, I just want straight up over the bike, landed on me
a little bit, slid over.
Luckily I had a cage on the bike.
So the bike didn't like do one of these numbers.
Sure.
Instead of just tilt it over, slid all the way over.
And I was sitting there for a second, like, thank God, you know,
I'm wearing my gloves that I was, um, you know, my sponsor, Seren Racing.
He's got some bad ass dogs that really protected me.
Shout out to them.
They have the carbon sliders on, on super good material.
I'm like, dude, I didn't even get a single scratch on my hands.
And I use my hands to ensure crash.
Yeah.
To really, that's crazy.
Now a single scratch.
My hoodie didn't rip, which was another crazy part.
Cause anyone that knows me, I like materials.
I'm very big about quality.
Right.
Didn't rip my hoodie.
The only thing I had.
Yeah.
Helma didn't get damaged at all.
Um, my ass cheeks will cook.
Oh, well, yeah.
Uh, like, I don't remember putting on chaps.
Dude, it was, I, I didn't even realize it at first.
I just, I really had to go pick up my.
Your body is your adrenaline's gone and you don't realize what's going on.
Ran over, clicked on my bike, pull it over to the side, called my parents.
Hey, come pick up the bike.
Make sure I just dropped.
No thoughts, nothing.
Ass on fire.
It wasn't even ass on fire.
I just collapsed.
I was in pain.
I was like, fuck, this sucks.
Yeah.
And then get to the hospital.
I can't even sit in the wheelchair as they're pulling me back to the trauma.
I'm like hugging on the chair.
Got a cat, got a case of rash ass.
Dude, it was my ass is my entire back all the way up my shoulder.
Oh, Jesus.
Cause I didn't have my shirt tucked.
You know, normally I told them I didn't tuck it or nothing.
So my entire back all the way up my shoulders was all of road rash.
My arms were all road rash.
My knees, my foot, you know, messed up my toe pretty bad and my top of my foot.
Not even just from road rash, just from the impact because my
calf both got stuck for itself and then didn't you do an event?
Like immediately thereafter next day still showed up.
I was like, yep, what's up, y'all?
I was like, screw shading, paint, pop a couple of meds.
I was like, I'm good, you know, this is bike invasion.
There's people that came from everywhere for it.
It's like an event.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So like there's people from way out of Colorado, Utah, Texas.
There was a couple of guys from Florida, people from Canada.
Now my first bike invasion.
So the pressure was already out.
Right.
No way I'm missing this.
So popped a couple of meds.
Shut up.
What's up guys?
Still got a couple of bandages all over my body and stuff.
I'd rather show up and still make that impact.
Cause you know, I literally asked them, I was like, do I need surgery or anything
like that?
They're like, well, no.
I was like, okay, I was a cabbie discharge.
I just started thinking because you're here with your helmet and we're
drinking this really nice tequila, which by the way, what do you think about
the sea at day?
It's pretty smooth.
Actually, I'll give it that.
Speaking of which, I need to tell you, yeah, now it's all ice water.
But what I say that to say that Charles drove a car over here today.
He brought the helmet just to have it on the table.
And so he didn't ride his bike over here because I mean, sure, someone could say,
well, you're still in a car, but it would be an easy argument to win to
say, well, it's a little bit different.
You know, you can kind of be chilling in the car and on a bike.
I mean, you have to be like on point, point, point.
I'm sure there's people who may be ride on bikes high, hopefully not.
Well, but we know people drive high all the time.
But anyway, but that was just saying that you're, you know, you didn't come over
on a bike, you came over here in a car.
No bike today.
I'll be revealing the new bike soon though.
Super fucking excited about that.
Do you know when?
Uh, actually, I should be revealing it right before Texas.
So then you could tell you now, technically, because this isn't going to
come out till after you've probably come back.
So shout out to the National Power Sports.
They're one of our sponsors.
We worked out a fucking amazing deal.
Seventyth anniversary R1.
So it's got the fully adjustable shocks.
It's gorgeous.
Probably one of the best R1 looks you can get.
Full circle through the R1, by the way.
Full circle, yep.
Um, sure, I could have went back to S1K, could have got any other bike, but
it was kind of paying homage to my first bike.
Mm hmm.
I'm fully in the bike scene now.
I was like, this will be kind of cool.
Start with scratch with them.
Even though people are used to me with the S1K shooting big ass
blames and shit, but sure, because I did a poll and people, I had what?
Over 300 votes on the poll of different answers.
And I mean, literally it was 0.4 or 0.5% difference between every single answer.
For the first time, I've never, I was like, that is the closest
poll I've ever had with that many votes.
I was like, I'm so excited to fucking announce this.
Granted, you know, people were probably expecting, you know, the
cloud bikes and stuff like that.
The S1K, we all know is a cloud bike.
Everybody has them.
We love them for fucking badass flame throwers.
But I didn't want that.
I don't even know what an S1K is.
BMW S1000.
Oh, that's what you had.
The one you laid over.
Oh, I heard the breaks.
I heard the ABS sucks on those things.
The ABS is you know.
BMW Lodorad, what's going on?
They make some nice bikes though.
You know, it's somebody who I don't know a lot about bikes, but I know
what I like when I look at it and they make some gorgeous bikes.
The S1K, every time you look at it, God, it's gorgeous bike.
I'm one of those, those weird rich assholes that I want.
I'm not even rich, but if I was, I'd have, I'd probably have a bike collection.
Yeah, I'd have like a bunch of them like, OK, so that's my, that's
my Ducati and that's my BMW S1K and that's my, there's a place in
Wisconsin and I'll have to, I'll look it up and I still have the photos
and I'll show you when we get done here.
And you may already know it, but it's, it's, it's close to road America.
It's an Elkhart Lake.
And I think it's a, it's like a car storage place, but they also have a
passion for building bikes and it's a showroom.
So they have fucking bikes everywhere and they're kind of up in a frame
on the wall, like I think there's two or three levels of bikes in the main room.
And then you go in their other room, they have all the racing bikes and all
that shit and this is the fattest fucking thing I've seen when it comes to bikes.
Dude, you gotta sell me that.
I will, it's, it, that place is sick.
Yeah.
Cause on the backside, they have like a few cars for storage, like they
probably have like 50 cars, you know, that people are paying for storage.
But even in that room, they have like, this is like the first crotch rock and
this is like their first super bike winner.
And I was like, holy shit, this is badass.
I'm pretty sure I saw those photos.
I'll show them to you.
Yeah.
I mean, it's cool cause even, uh, so many people don't know.
So daily driving the XOX, you know, David Pryor, he got back in the bikes.
Okay.
Dude, his bike is fucked.
They have an NSX.
Yeah.
They've, that they've done the livery and it's pretty famous because it's
DDE and Larry Chen shot it and it looks like the Castro Mugen NSX.
Um, but my boy Roger Nakata has the sickest super GT NSX, you know, on the
planet outside of Japan, but you know, shout out to DDE for doing it.
Yeah.
But, uh, Rogers is pretty sick.
You've probably seen it online.
I'll show it to you right here.
You've seen, have you seen this thing online?
The lucky strike.
It's out of Florida.
Yeah.
Um, I know you post this and bring bad ass NSX.
Just like the one that cut an NSX or part of it and use it as a trailer.
Yeah.
That's a rest in peace.
And it's extra.
Yeah.
Chris cut.
Yeah.
He passed, uh, I think two years ago now.
I was a lot of rude, but man, I mean, it's, it's yeah, but then I mean,
there's, there's people who are even into the, you know, the NSX is in
Honda scene that may not even know that.
But yeah, he passed and actually I have a picture on my computer and one
of the most viral pictures of him is he's, he's sitting on top of his NSX,
like off the camper thing and he's petting his dog, Cassius.
And he's wearing the first generation hard parking shirt.
That's fucking.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I still have my hard parking shirt.
Good.
It's probably all worn out.
A little bit, but yeah, we'll have to, we'll have to figure out how to get you
another one.
But yeah, that was Chris cut.
But yeah, it's a, that was a cool car.
But I mean, that Rogers livery is, is, is probably my favorite first gen
livery, even outside of my own that I used to have.
I mean, yours is pretty fucking sick.
It was, it was sick for sure.
But as a Star Wars geek, I love it.
Yeah, I mean, of course, it's got a Star Wars feel, even though, I mean,
you know, it's Macross, Robotech, but, but Rogers is pretty sick too.
Like mine, mine still has, I'll fight anybody.
Mine still has more detail than any other NSX rap ever.
But his is pretty cool.
Yeah, yours did have a lot of depth.
Have you, I got a question for you.
Yeah.
Two questions.
Number one, do you want to see it?
That's clean, right?
I mean, that's, here's the thing with good tequila.
Most all good tequila is additive free, but they don't all taste the same
because some are more peppery, some aren't.
But when you're done with it, it's a different type of buzz and you shouldn't
feel bad the next day and you should never have a headache.
Yeah, it doesn't feel like raunchy feel like.
Yeah, there's no funky aftertaste.
As of right now, there's a tequila called Lost Lore, which has been voted
like number one, and I have a reposado downstairs.
I just finished a Blanco and I have a Blanco in the closet.
This is like my overflow closet over here of stuff.
So I have a Blanco in the closet, which shout out to One Drink Wednesday.
Shout out to One Drink Wednesday.
Fuck, I got an empty bottle of Lalo over here.
I don't even know how I got down over here underneath my work desk,
but it's over here, you know, but yeah, I love my tequilas.
And then also to anybody that follows clean up,
please make sure you guys shout out One Drink Wednesday.
These guys are fucking awesome.
Me and Mr. West Tankersley.
Yeah. We've been doing that for like 56 years almost.
That's crazy. It's always good.
I mean, you know what happened and this is where everybody,
everybody who's watching this, because I know you have a lot of people,
this is where they can really help.
They can go to At One Drink Wednesday on Instagram and follow.
We don't care if you don't fucking watch the show.
Last year and in August, Instagram rolled out a new policy
where you can't go live.
You can't host a live unless you have a thousand followers.
And so is that one you've been on the second third?
Yep, that's exactly why.
OK, yep.
And so, you know, West takes primary
because I said I don't want my entire because I don't post that much
to my main page anymore. I post podcast stuff.
I mean, yeah, podcast stuff, like stuff like this.
He goes live primary and I go secondary from One Drink Wednesday.
And that's exactly the reason why.
I'll tell you what, let's make it interesting.
They get you to a thousand and we'll get a deadline.
They get you to a thousand.
Her deadline will do a giveaway since they know.
You guys heard them.
Yep, you guys heard them
because when we were hosting, we were able to get.
I mean, we've had like we've had Koenig distillery on with us
because they're there in Idaho with West, which is great.
But we've also had Whistle Pig on,
but we had Whistle Pig on when we were able to host.
And so we want to move forward and be able to do that type of stuff
with more and more brands because you've been on there with it.
You shoot the shit.
You catch up is basically a virtual bar.
You can drink with us and not drink with us.
You may or may not have a picture full of stuff
that you finish on one of your first appearances like Charles here.
Still legendary, by the way.
People talk about that and people talk about Dallas Walker
with his handle of fucking vodka.
And he was drinking out of that, too.
So you two are the most legendary
friends of ours that have joined because of those silly acts that you both did.
But, you know, we should be able to get more and more brands on there,
but we have to get to a thousand first.
So I said, I'll do a giveaway.
I'll make something.
We'll try it about it and I'll make it special.
So you guys get a thousand metal.
We'll see what happens.
Let's get you some.
Let's try this Tequila Ultra Reposado.
Have you been to Pony's Mechas yet?
Yeah, super.
The new location downtown?
Super.
You won't find any shit to kill there.
Their bar manager, AB and, of course, Sergio
have curated that and they have, like, the best of the best.
And it's, you know, not everything is expensive.
This is an overly expensive.
In fact, the funny thing about Tequila.
Is everyone thinks, well, 1942 or class Azul.
That's what you buy.
But class Azul's 100 and eighty dollars.
1942 is 100 and sixty dollars.
Those Azul went out.
Well, it's closer to 200 now, right?
Yeah.
Neither one of those is additive free.
They're both delicious, but this shit costs significantly less.
And it's 10 times better.
Yeah.
And I mean, just like Diamante, another good brand that I like.
Fuck, I love it.
I have like a weird taste.
I like Diamante.
You like what you like, though.
That's what I tell everybody who drinks and like, well, that's just shit.
And that's like, look, someone's got to drink it.
But these two, I'm not going to lie.
They're definitely the smoothest, probably Tequila's out there.
I'm just able to sip up because I like, you know, Tequila with Ripple.
That's I've never I've never heard of that before.
Don't sue me.
But yeah, you OK.
So let me ask you this.
Do you know?
No judgment here.
What do you mix with it?
Do you mix Banco, Reposado, and then do you know the brand Tequila?
Does it come in a plastic bottle?
No, I'm always the last ball.
I'm going to get a drink.
I'm going to make sure it's a drink.
I always do Reposado.
Plata, I'm not really crazy about.
Plata is better for mixing.
And because you can, you it actually hides better
and you get more of the flavor of whatever it is you're trying to drink.
But that's not the goal of why I mix them.
I don't try to hide it.
It's more that's just adding a little flavor, which is why I do Red Bull.
I don't do all those sugary, crazy ass flavors.
But you're not going to get much more sugary.
But it's like a liquid sweet tart.
I don't know. I like it.
It goes smooth.
It keeps me with.
But what do you because Reposado?
OK, so here's the deal.
So you probably you may or may not have this.
But with Tequila is there's basically four main ones.
The Plata, Reposado, and you know, and extra and you know.
And so the Reposado, what, you know, the Reposado,
or do you just order at the bar and take whatever they give you?
Oh, OK, yeah, that's I stopped drinking as much at home.
Because you were kind of hitting rock bottom for a while.
Yeah, I think we talked about that.
So yeah, so I like really straight away from drinking really at home
while I have a few drinks or if there's a UFC fight.
No empty bottles of Lalo next to your desk.
Yeah, I'll definitely end up drinking
if I'm at home because where I'm doing my advanced stuff,
like I like that a fair amount.
I don't, you know, drink really smoke at all.
I don't do anything that really clouds my mind.
I already got you.
You see a closet, not me.
I got seven different directions at once
and still trying to tackle one task at the same time.
But yeah, no.
Typically, you just go to the bar, ask for, you know, Reposado.
Typically, as far as I like the Amate, that's why I like the
probably the weirdest person to ask for Red Bull and Reposado.
But I love it.
If they have it, it is what it is, right?
It's always an offer.
Yeah, I mean, it's like drinking vodka, Red Bull, Hennessy, Red Bull.
I haven't heard of Hennessy, Red Bull.
You brought up Hennessy on One Drink Wednesday.
Yeah, it's good.
You know, I may have said this on One Drink Wednesday,
but since we're talking about this and we can wrap this up,
but when I was going through Total Wine the other day, you know,
and I was going through the row of tequila as I always do.
And I got to Cosamigos and they were just tags.
They weren't bottles.
There were tags you can grab and you take to the front.
And it's not because Cosamigos is expensive.
It's just because it's the hip hop fucking thing.
And then it's the same thing with with Hennessy.
And I've seen a Patron like that now.
And I always laugh when I see that because I'm like, God damn, like.
It's not even the best ones either.
Not even close up.
Patrons actually is not bad for something that's that's popular.
Patron, like if I'm at a bar, it's almost like, let's do a shot of tequila.
And they have Patron.
I'll take it because it's added to free.
Yeah.
You know, so Patron is not bad at all.
But like Cosamigos, not good, the Rocks tequila,
Teremani or whatever, garbage, but someone's got to drink it.
Yeah, but it's just funny for me to see.
That's the first time I've seen tequila not available.
And you have to grab a tag because I'm used to seeing the Hennessy locked up.
And I'm used to seeing the other stuff locked up and I just laugh at it.
It's it's too bad.
But for tequila being locked up is actually pretty fucking.
Oh, it was funny as hell.
I was like, oh, Cosamigos.
I just started laughing and kept walking.
Yeah.
I hopefully I get you out to one of the events there now.
I would love to.
And at some point I will.
I don't know if I'm going to go to Texas or California,
but some of the local stuff, I feel bad, honestly, because, you know, it's it's
I I'm so busy here in the studio doing all sorts of shit.
And then I look, I'm like, oh, shit, there's an event.
You know, it's it's an algorithmic thing, if nothing else.
But when I see him, I at least try to share him and repost them.
All right, so don't get mad when I share up to you.
Y'all read that.
Great.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Um, have you I think I ask you this all the time, but have you talked to Chris at all?
Uh, yeah, we kind of chatted weren't the AZ AC.
Oh, that chat group.
Yeah.
Which was by edit that part out.
It's just a chat group.
Yeah.
Um, but no, are you guys in a better place?
Yeah, I mean, I was super excited.
He's bringing back UTI and stuff.
And I was where we had our foundation.
So that's super fucking cool.
I mean, you both have always been great to me, even when you guys were working
together, you know, so I was like, God, that'd be, that would be cool.
One day to look up and see like the collab.
It would probably shock everybody.
That's why you do it.
Like, and truthfully, both sides can figure out how to make it work.
I think that would be awesome.
So well, I mean, I'm always open to it.
It's not a person to close door policy.
Oh, I mean, we both are in different directions with stuff, but, you know,
he's got his car stuff doing the drift scene stuff now.
And, you know, he's hosting that side and I'm by scene doing
the dressing bikes.
So I got to get Kaylee on here.
We've been talking about it for months and it's getting hot.
I'm like, I guess at this point, I'm just going to have to go to her and I'll
go to her, you know, but yeah, I'll snuggle over here.
It's, it's far for her, you know, and then, you know, her husband's super cool.
But then I know they have a child or she has a child.
So, you know, someone's going to have to watch the baby.
But I'll sit both of them in front of me.
But that'd be really cool because she's so awesome.
And, you know, she'll get up there and she'll talk and she does the track stuff.
And it's just, it's so incredible.
And then she's up on the fucking billboards.
In fact, she's on the billboard near downtown, the EOG billboard.
But then when I was on the 60 last week on the digital billboard,
I saw her up there too.
I was like, oh, shit, there's Kaylee.
Yeah, I know, looking like super woman up.
Looking like exactly just like this.
I'm like, man, that's awesome.
So, um, we've seen some cool shit, but I don't think we've ever seen anybody
in either community up on a billboard.
No, no.
Shout out to the EOG for that.
And, you know, it's really fucking cool for Kaylee because anyone that knows
her, she's fucking cobalt sweetheart.
She's cool.
She works her ass off.
Yeah, she's legit.
And that's why I want to get her in front of me, you know, just to tell
more of her story.
And a lot of her followers probably know more of her story, but I want the
people who are very loyal to this show and even random casuals to be like,
okay, this is someone we have, just like I do with you, just like I platform
all my friends and even some people I don't know, you know, I just, I want
to immortalize people that I have relationships with, you know, and she's
definitely on that list.
And so, you know, we got to work together to get her in here.
Yeah.
I think Kaylee would definitely be something special for a lot of people.
I mean, you know, we all know bikers and all that stuff.
Like, cool.
She's probably one of the most badass biker girls I've ever met.
Not even just put her as a biker girl, but biker in general.
She's fucking always working her ass off.
Hosting with her.
It's really like smooth as butter because we both are a little chaotic, but
we work together well with it to where it makes sense.
Uh, I don't know.
I think it'd be really a good treat for everybody.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, you got anything else before you roll out?
Not really.
Besides, you know, we're just going to sit here and drink anyway.
So besides, you know, just full send and get ready for bike and vision
because we're taking over.
Thank you for coming back to the studio and enjoying a couple of drinks with me.
And hopefully you walk out the door with a couple more tequila as you can
grab when you're out and about.
Because a lot of bars have Ziette, but you have to kind of find it.
And then tequila, Ocho, those who know know that, but some bars, I think,
still don't have it, but you see Ocho, you see G4, Ziette, Lalo.
They're all safe.
They're all good to go.
They're J-approved.
Super good.
Thank you so much for bringing me back.
So much pleasure every single time.
Anytime.
Morning, Charles, for stopping by the studio.
Again, I apologize for the audio.
If you're still listening, then it was palatable or you just are too lazy to
change from this to another video or switch from the podcast.
So I do appreciate you all.
In the next few weeks, little Mariela or Modded Mari, little Mariela was
like her old school name.
She's been on the show before, but it's been years.
Modded Mari, most of you would know her as now in the local area.
She is scheduled to come in studio.
And so I can't wait to get that one taken care of.
And hopefully we'll have that out to you by the end of July.
If the schedule remains the same, if not the beginning of August or maybe not.
Maybe we'll get Kaylee Slaughter in here, as we talked about in this episode.
And a few other people that I've had to postpone and reschedule.
That being said, I want to thank Ray Haun and Ray Toyota, Arcus Foundry,
Sparkforge, same company, AutoCannon official license, Haun and Acura Gears.
You can see I'm wearing an Anthem Knights shirt.
This is the car show up in Anthem.
I don't even know if they're still doing it.
I know it's every few months, but it's hot now.
If you get to Anthem cars and coffee, I suggest you get up there, try to get up there.
I haven't been up there in a long time, but one day I will make my return.
I want to thank the Patreon business supporters, Kuey Automotive out of Winter Garden, Florida,
Automotive Specialty Tool out of Owings Mills, Maryland, Big House,
my home design out of Traverse City, and Ashford, Virginia.
The Lucky Brake Sportsbreakers out of Calgary, Michigan.
And of course, shaping success, Treasure Valley out of Boise, Idaho.
Make sure you check out One Drink Wednesday, as we talked about in this episode
with myself and West Tankersly on Instagram.
That's at One Drink Wednesday.
Help us get to a thousand followers so we can go live and start hosting more.
Special shout out to Mark Stolman, Catherine Cox, Eddie Ramos,
Richard Graves, Byron Jones, Alice Gamina, Drew Bunkley,
Andre Mullins for supporting the show.
If you want to support the show, you can buy me a coffee on YouTube or
you can join the Patreon as well for as little $3 a month.
That's patreon.com forward slash hard parking podcast.
Email the show questions, comments, concerns, info at hard parking dot com.
All the show at hard parking pod on Instagram, hard parking J on TikTok.
Otherwise, I'll see you guys next week.
About this episode
Charles Worden returns to Hard Parking to talk about his pivot from cars to bikes, plus the tequila he’s sipping while planning a busy road trip. He explains why the bike scene feels easier to manage than the takeover culture—less chaos, more structured stunt events like “stunt lock,” where riders wheelie, burnout, and even drift on two wheels. Worden shares upcoming dates with Cycle Gear and events in Dallas, Texas, and California, including multiple 7-Eleven meetups. The conversation also touches on Corvette Z06 sightings and Worden’s growing presence in the bike community.
Original notes
Charles Worden Returns: Bikes, Tequila & Clean Nuff 2.0
Charles Worden of Cleannuff is back in studio with Jhae for a fun, conversational catch-up. They talk his big pivot to the motorcycle scene, hosting multiple events monthly on private property, his wild R1 starter bike story, and why bikes feel more manageable than the car takeover world. Plus tequila tasting, road trip plans, community shoutouts, and plenty of laughs.
Real talk from the AZ scene with great energy — audio recovered the old-school way but the stories shine through.
Timestamps
- 00:00 Intro & Audio Recovery Note
- 01:52 Spark Forge Sponsor Message
- 03:46 Charles Worden Welcome & Tequila Tasting
- 05:02 First Bike Stories (R1 Missile)
- 06:01 Bike Events Explosion
- 08:30 Bikes vs Cars Business Talk
- 25:00 Tequila Talk & Store Stories
- 35:00 Kayli Slaughter & Future Collabs
- 40:00 Community Ties & Chris Update
- 43:30 Outro & Tequila Recs
Guest: Charles Worden (Cleannuff) — follow for bike scene action.
ContactEmail: [email protected]Website: www.hardparking.comPatreon: patreon.com/hardparkingpodcastInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/hardparkingpod/YouTube: youtube.com/@HardParkingTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hard.parking.jhae
Main Show Sponsors:Right Honda: https://righthonda.com/Right Toyota: https://www.righttoyota.com/Arcus Foundry: https://arcusfoundry.comAutocannon Official Gear: https://shop.autocannon.com/
Hard Parking with Jhae Pfenning
Jhae Pfenning
0:00
46:38