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That's absolutely awesome man. I've heard a lot of people over the years say that they like the Black Hills. Yeah, riding an ATV on the road is fun. I do it all the time. Here in this neighborhood. And I only found out recently how there's still like a little bit of a loophole. I mean if you're driving like a dick on an ATV and you're flying and you're not paying attention, you know just driving recklessly and a cop sees you, you are getting pulled over and you might get tickets or you might lose your bike. Right? But I've been pulled over two times on my older quad, my smaller one. I never had an issue whatsoever. They ran my name, sighed and didn't have any warrants or any issues or anything and they let me go on you know with a warning just to be safe. And there's another part in town called the Goulds which is on the outside of town, like on the outskirts of town as well. And they're allowed to drive ATVs on the road there as well. And it's not that they're allowed, but there's a farming exemption from years ago that includes farm equipment. And technically ATVs could be classified as farm equipment around here. So that's why. And before St. John's and the Goulds both joined St. John's, which is the main city here, we were our own communities that did farming and ATVs back then were exempt in this particular area. And I think that's why we get away with it here today. I'm pretty sure, I can't see any other reason why you could get pulled over on an ATV on the street and not get so much as a ticket. Or like a written warning even, like don't drive this thing on the street, it's an off-road vehicle. But if it's classed as farming equipment, then it's no different than a tractor or a rotten lawn mower or whatever. Now I have not been pulled over on my current quad, which is an absolute monstrosity of a vehicle. It's big and it's heavy and it just looks menacing from the front compared to like the small one I had before. The small one I had before was a 220, this one's a 500. And I know a 500 is not nearly as big as an XMR 1000 or anything like that. But compared to anything I've ever ridden, the stance on this thing, I mean it's really wide. It takes up the width of like a small car in my driveway. We've got a double driveway and a single driveway. And when I park my quad in the double driveway, that's where I keep it right in front of my apartment, it takes up half the driveway width-wise. So it's much, much bigger. Small one kind of, you know, it looked like a full-size ATV.