1 00:00:15,474 --> 00:00:16,475 Yo! 2 00:00:19,311 --> 00:00:21,647 God dang, son. 3 00:00:21,730 --> 00:00:24,608 So happy I never learned how to do that earlier in life. 4 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:27,110 -I wouldn't be here. -Yeah, right. 5 00:01:28,839 --> 00:01:30,215 Let's do it. 6 00:01:32,009 --> 00:01:34,636 There it is, man. We're back! 7 00:01:40,434 --> 00:01:42,269 Knock, knock! 8 00:01:42,352 --> 00:01:43,854 Don't be alarmed. 9 00:01:44,813 --> 00:01:46,857 Just wanna borrow some brown sugar. 10 00:01:48,066 --> 00:01:49,901 What's up, homies? 11 00:01:49,985 --> 00:01:51,485 -What's going on? -What's up? 12 00:01:51,570 --> 00:01:54,990 Wow, it's so beautiful in here. God! 13 00:01:57,908 --> 00:01:59,536 This is why we're here. 14 00:02:03,624 --> 00:02:06,084 -Wow. -Love it, man. 15 00:02:06,168 --> 00:02:08,377 I mean, the genesis for this whole season has been-- 16 00:02:08,461 --> 00:02:12,007 to take it another level, to even go bigger. 17 00:02:13,008 --> 00:02:15,302 Last season, it was like one of the greatest times 18 00:02:15,385 --> 00:02:17,012 we had doing all the hill climbers. 19 00:02:17,095 --> 00:02:20,390 And the one thing I've always wanted to do was board track. 20 00:02:20,474 --> 00:02:22,309 Like, I just think that's the coolest thing. 21 00:02:22,392 --> 00:02:24,895 The board track bikes, that was like the first extreme sport. 22 00:02:24,978 --> 00:02:27,648 Oh, this is like, what is it, five years ago. 23 00:02:28,607 --> 00:02:30,317 -My first time here. -You were sleeping right there. 24 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:32,569 I set my cot up right here. 25 00:02:32,653 --> 00:02:36,656 I wanted to sleep by these girls. These were my favorite. 26 00:02:36,740 --> 00:02:38,158 -This thing blew my mind. -Yeah. 27 00:02:38,241 --> 00:02:39,826 And like, the D-H's over there, 28 00:02:39,910 --> 00:02:41,578 just the shape of it, the look of it, everything. 29 00:02:41,662 --> 00:02:43,622 I was like, wow, if I was ever a motorcycle, 30 00:02:43,704 --> 00:02:45,082 I'd be that and that. 31 00:02:45,165 --> 00:02:47,668 That's what put Harley in front of everybody else, man. 32 00:02:47,751 --> 00:02:50,587 And from that point, there was really no turning back. 33 00:02:51,421 --> 00:02:56,218 Harley-Davidson debuted the Banjo Twin Cam in 1919, 34 00:02:56,301 --> 00:02:59,554 and they made about 14 of these motorcycles 100 years ago. 35 00:02:59,638 --> 00:03:01,973 Very, very few exist today. 36 00:03:02,057 --> 00:03:04,434 There's nothing on that motor 37 00:03:04,518 --> 00:03:06,311 that they were putting on their street bikes, 38 00:03:06,395 --> 00:03:07,979 on their road model bikes, nothing. 39 00:03:08,063 --> 00:03:10,524 This is like the beginning of speed. 40 00:03:10,607 --> 00:03:13,735 We're talking ten years into motorcycling, 41 00:03:13,819 --> 00:03:16,446 and that first era of when they're figuring out 42 00:03:16,530 --> 00:03:19,866 how to go fast and how to go faster. 43 00:03:19,950 --> 00:03:22,035 I mean, really, the first time I ever saw the Banjo 44 00:03:22,119 --> 00:03:24,371 and the Cyclone was just, I was in awe. 45 00:03:25,579 --> 00:03:26,623 You're just, like, attracted. 46 00:03:26,707 --> 00:03:28,625 You're, like, pulled in by these bikes. 47 00:03:30,001 --> 00:03:31,795 And I just wanna ride 'em, you know what I mean? 48 00:03:31,878 --> 00:03:34,047 I just wanted to be able to experience what it would be like. 49 00:03:35,006 --> 00:03:35,966 There it is, huh? 50 00:03:36,049 --> 00:03:37,050 That's a big one. 51 00:03:39,386 --> 00:03:41,596 -I mean, Matt? -Yeah. 52 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:43,390 -You ever rode a Banjo? -Nope. 53 00:03:43,473 --> 00:03:45,267 -How fucking cool is this? -Not yet. 54 00:03:45,350 --> 00:03:47,644 I don't know if there's a person alive today 55 00:03:47,728 --> 00:03:49,062 that's rode one of those. 56 00:03:49,146 --> 00:03:51,440 Alright, so just to put that in perspective, yeah. 57 00:03:51,523 --> 00:03:52,816 Guys like us, 58 00:03:52,899 --> 00:03:54,567 -we couldn't even get that. -Yeah. 59 00:03:54,651 --> 00:03:57,821 That's your best of the best factory team. 60 00:03:57,904 --> 00:04:00,157 Once they're done racing it, they destroyed 'em. 61 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:01,867 -Yeah. -So out of the-- 62 00:04:01,950 --> 00:04:05,746 maybe there's five, six of 'em known today out of the 14, 63 00:04:05,829 --> 00:04:07,581 and the rest of 'em, there's no telling. 64 00:04:07,664 --> 00:04:12,169 I mean, for any to even be out there to look over in the first place 65 00:04:12,252 --> 00:04:14,963 and take a shot at replicating, I mean, it's a miracle. 66 00:04:15,046 --> 00:04:16,505 I mean, the great thing about Wheels Through Time 67 00:04:16,589 --> 00:04:17,923 is, like, all the people that I've met, 68 00:04:18,007 --> 00:04:20,260 having Nick and Brian there, seeing it, 69 00:04:20,343 --> 00:04:21,887 the dream just, like, coming to fruition. 70 00:04:21,970 --> 00:04:24,514 I mean, at first, when you ask anything of this scale, 71 00:04:24,598 --> 00:04:25,682 it's nerve-wracking. 72 00:04:25,766 --> 00:04:27,017 -Yeah. -And, you know-- 73 00:04:27,100 --> 00:04:28,602 The more people we can relate to 74 00:04:28,685 --> 00:04:31,563 with that nerve-wracking stress is gonna be great. 75 00:04:31,646 --> 00:04:32,939 You know, going to Walksler, 76 00:04:33,106 --> 00:04:35,233 a lot of those ideas come through Wheels of Time. 77 00:04:35,317 --> 00:04:37,194 I met Competition Distribution through there. 78 00:04:37,277 --> 00:04:39,112 You know, they were there when we were kind of drumming up 79 00:04:39,196 --> 00:04:41,156 the whole idea of, like, how can we scan these? 80 00:04:41,239 --> 00:04:43,575 So, to build something like this, 81 00:04:43,658 --> 00:04:46,536 we'd have to basically-- Sean? 82 00:04:46,620 --> 00:04:49,581 Well, you gotta take and scan all the data from that engine, 83 00:04:49,664 --> 00:04:51,207 'cause, you know, as Matt said, 84 00:04:51,291 --> 00:04:54,961 there's nothing that replicates to a stock J-D case in any form. 85 00:04:55,045 --> 00:04:57,214 So, everything about it is one-off, so... 86 00:04:57,297 --> 00:04:59,758 Luckily, this time with the help of Sean and Competition, 87 00:04:59,841 --> 00:05:02,344 we're able to make things a lot easier. 88 00:05:02,427 --> 00:05:03,929 -Yeah, the lead times go down. -Lead times. 89 00:05:04,012 --> 00:05:05,222 -You know? -Keeping it in-house. 90 00:05:05,305 --> 00:05:06,807 -Yep. -Everyone who's involved with it 91 00:05:06,890 --> 00:05:09,142 is a team player and enthusiastic 92 00:05:09,226 --> 00:05:10,602 -about these bikes... -Yeah. 93 00:05:10,685 --> 00:05:12,979 ...and wants to see all these raced together. 94 00:05:13,063 --> 00:05:16,024 The other one, which is the rarest-rarest, 95 00:05:16,107 --> 00:05:17,234 is Cyclone, right? 96 00:05:17,317 --> 00:05:18,652 Aaron, you wanna bring that thing in here? 97 00:05:18,735 --> 00:05:19,694 Close your eyes. 98 00:05:19,778 --> 00:05:20,987 Close my eyes, alright. 99 00:05:21,446 --> 00:05:23,073 Put it up on something so it-- 100 00:05:23,156 --> 00:05:24,533 Should we put it right over here somewhere? 101 00:05:24,616 --> 00:05:27,327 Yeah, where are we at? Here, hold on. We got it. 102 00:05:27,410 --> 00:05:30,038 So, I met Aaron-- How did we meet? 103 00:05:30,747 --> 00:05:32,332 Instagram. 104 00:05:32,415 --> 00:05:33,875 Like I meet everyone. 105 00:05:35,001 --> 00:05:38,713 I got a call, and he's like, "Hey, I'm Jason Momoa. 106 00:05:38,797 --> 00:05:41,591 "I saw that bike you built. It's freaking insane. 107 00:05:41,675 --> 00:05:44,302 "Can I come see it or... 108 00:05:44,386 --> 00:05:45,971 You know what? Just bring it down to my place." 109 00:05:46,054 --> 00:05:48,014 Aaron is kind of like... 110 00:05:48,098 --> 00:05:49,349 Savant? 111 00:05:49,432 --> 00:05:53,687 Aaron, they only made one of you. Like, God went, "Yeah, we're good." 112 00:05:55,438 --> 00:05:56,439 'Cause everything I would ask him, 113 00:05:56,523 --> 00:05:57,941 he's just like, "Yeah, I scan it, I make it, 114 00:05:58,024 --> 00:05:59,568 I make it, I sculpt it, I make it." 115 00:05:59,651 --> 00:06:02,821 I showed him some 3-D files I was working on 116 00:06:02,904 --> 00:06:06,825 for sort of recreating the Cyclones. 117 00:06:06,908 --> 00:06:09,202 And he was like, "That's one of the coolest things. 118 00:06:09,286 --> 00:06:11,079 We need to build like ten of those." 119 00:06:14,875 --> 00:06:16,835 It is the most beautiful-- 120 00:06:16,918 --> 00:06:20,338 It's one of the prettiest motors I've ever seen, man. 121 00:06:20,422 --> 00:06:23,383 Damn. How long did that take you so far? 122 00:06:23,466 --> 00:06:27,178 I think from start to finish, about three and a half months. 123 00:06:27,262 --> 00:06:29,973 The Cyclones were the fastest of the day. 124 00:06:30,056 --> 00:06:33,685 I mean, 120 miles an hour with no transmission. 125 00:06:33,768 --> 00:06:37,731 No brakes, no clutch. It's just all power to the rear wheel, 126 00:06:37,814 --> 00:06:42,193 burning methanol, between your legs, in a bicycle chassis. 127 00:06:42,277 --> 00:06:44,946 1914 they made this, 128 00:06:45,030 --> 00:06:47,032 and the Banjo didn't even come out till 1919. 129 00:06:47,115 --> 00:06:49,159 So, was this just beating out everything then? 130 00:06:49,242 --> 00:06:53,413 How did this not-- how did the Banjo end up beating Cyclones? 131 00:06:53,496 --> 00:06:58,168 They got a name, "fast and fragile" back in the day. 132 00:06:58,251 --> 00:07:02,464 They're lightweight, ridiculously fast, but there's a lot of parts on these 133 00:07:02,547 --> 00:07:03,715 that were known to fail. 134 00:07:03,798 --> 00:07:09,262 Maybe there's five, six real Cyclones out there that are known today. 135 00:07:09,346 --> 00:07:11,306 It doesn't get any more rare than that. 136 00:07:11,389 --> 00:07:14,225 You know, if you're looking for antique motorcycle 137 00:07:14,309 --> 00:07:16,436 racing history, those are it. 138 00:07:16,519 --> 00:07:18,563 I mean, in less than a year, we're all gonna be riding 139 00:07:18,647 --> 00:07:20,440 on Banjos and Cyclones. 140 00:07:20,523 --> 00:07:24,027 Jesus. So, think about that. It's gonna be-- this is the whole thing. 141 00:07:24,110 --> 00:07:26,029 I was like, "I got this crazy idea. 142 00:07:26,112 --> 00:07:27,572 Hey, guys, can we do this?" And they're like, 143 00:07:27,656 --> 00:07:29,824 "Yeah, we can do that. Yeah, we can do that." But... 144 00:07:29,908 --> 00:07:33,787 like, it's pretty epic to be able to come and do what you-- 145 00:07:33,870 --> 00:07:36,164 I mean, this is what you guys do and just-- 146 00:07:36,247 --> 00:07:38,332 I can't believe we're gonna go ride this. 147 00:07:38,416 --> 00:07:42,003 I am beyond words, so honored, so excited. 148 00:07:43,296 --> 00:07:46,800 I've been wanting to do a board track race 149 00:07:46,883 --> 00:07:49,552 since I was in my early teens. 150 00:07:49,636 --> 00:07:50,470 Like, the final product 151 00:07:50,553 --> 00:07:51,388 -and the outcome... -Yeah. 152 00:07:51,471 --> 00:07:55,225 ...of seeing, you know, multiple Cyclones together, 153 00:07:55,308 --> 00:07:56,977 -multiple Banjos. -Yeah. 154 00:07:57,060 --> 00:07:59,145 C-A-C's, another D-A-R, 155 00:07:59,229 --> 00:08:00,230 -all in the same place. -Yeah, 156 00:08:00,313 --> 00:08:01,356 we're not talking about just one bike. 157 00:08:01,439 --> 00:08:02,899 -Yeah. -We're talking about all of 'em. 158 00:08:02,983 --> 00:08:04,317 -Yeah, three or four of these... -One place. 159 00:08:04,401 --> 00:08:05,652 -...in the same spot. -Yeah. 160 00:08:05,735 --> 00:08:07,862 I mean, that hasn't happened probably ever. 161 00:08:07,946 --> 00:08:10,365 Being able to ride a Cyclone, being able to ride a Banjo, 162 00:08:10,448 --> 00:08:12,033 that's just crazy. 163 00:08:12,117 --> 00:08:13,785 They're only in museums. 164 00:08:13,868 --> 00:08:15,370 You know, that's the only place you're gonna see 'em. 165 00:08:15,453 --> 00:08:17,998 The Cyclone, Banjo, C-A-C. 166 00:08:18,081 --> 00:08:20,625 Maybe we'll do-- fuck around with some Peashooters. 167 00:08:20,709 --> 00:08:23,253 Go to Billy's spot... 168 00:08:23,336 --> 00:08:26,047 and race 'em, next year. Yeah? 169 00:08:26,715 --> 00:08:28,717 -Why do we gotta wait a whole year? -Well... 170 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:30,176 It just depends on you guys. 171 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:32,636 'Cause we need a lot of 'em. 172 00:08:32,721 --> 00:08:34,514 -Yeah. -But get 'em all together, 173 00:08:34,597 --> 00:08:38,476 and it'll be my first-time experience, so I'm pretty excited. 174 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:40,102 Being able to go race these bikes together, 175 00:08:40,186 --> 00:08:41,563 so it's not just up on a wall. 176 00:08:41,645 --> 00:08:43,940 Like, let's go shoot it, let's go show the world, 177 00:08:44,024 --> 00:08:45,984 like, what these things did, what people did, 178 00:08:46,067 --> 00:08:47,444 and let's keep them alive. 179 00:08:53,783 --> 00:08:57,579 This is the Cyclone. They're pretty unique for their day. 180 00:08:57,662 --> 00:09:00,874 These would defeat pretty much any other motorcycle 181 00:09:00,957 --> 00:09:03,376 on the track if they could stay together. 182 00:09:04,377 --> 00:09:08,923 And the reason that they failed is it was just overly complicated. 183 00:09:09,007 --> 00:09:12,927 The drive system is all bevel gears. 184 00:09:13,011 --> 00:09:16,598 Everything's paper thin, gear teeth would break. 185 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:21,269 One tooth breaks and it's just a cascade of destruction inside the case. 186 00:09:22,312 --> 00:09:24,606 There's a couple small concerns 187 00:09:24,689 --> 00:09:26,441 with these bikes, mechanically. 188 00:09:26,524 --> 00:09:31,446 I mean, they're built to run all out, and they're built like twigs. 189 00:09:32,447 --> 00:09:35,158 They never finished 100-mile race on a Cyclone 190 00:09:35,241 --> 00:09:36,242 because they just broke. 191 00:09:36,326 --> 00:09:37,452 Wow. 192 00:09:37,535 --> 00:09:41,539 So, there's a couple improvements I made to the original Cyclone design. 193 00:09:41,623 --> 00:09:45,251 So, this right here is a-- it's called a helical tooth. 194 00:09:45,335 --> 00:09:49,047 Originally, it was just a regular bevel spline gear, 195 00:09:49,130 --> 00:09:51,883 and so that's only engaging one tooth at a time. 196 00:09:51,966 --> 00:09:55,011 And when you have the stress in the entire valve train 197 00:09:55,095 --> 00:09:57,931 on a tooth that's only a couple millimeters thick, 198 00:09:58,014 --> 00:09:59,307 you're asking for trouble. 199 00:09:59,390 --> 00:10:01,059 That's crazy that it was just-- 200 00:10:01,142 --> 00:10:02,727 -It all runs off of that. -Oh, yeah. 201 00:10:02,811 --> 00:10:04,604 And how long did it take you, since we-- 202 00:10:04,687 --> 00:10:08,191 It's been about how long since you've started making this? 203 00:10:09,609 --> 00:10:11,736 I've been dreaming about building one of these 204 00:10:11,820 --> 00:10:17,158 for a few years, but I just started it maybe six months ago. 205 00:10:17,242 --> 00:10:19,536 Got a hold of some 3-D scans, 206 00:10:19,619 --> 00:10:23,665 started drawing new CAD files around the scans, 207 00:10:23,748 --> 00:10:26,376 had some friends that had dimensions off the original. 208 00:10:26,459 --> 00:10:32,173 And just, we had enough information to put together... 209 00:10:32,257 --> 00:10:34,425 the CAD files to make these. 210 00:10:34,509 --> 00:10:39,389 And with modern printing and CAD technology, 211 00:10:39,472 --> 00:10:43,017 stuff that even NASA engineers were drooling over ten years ago, 212 00:10:43,101 --> 00:10:45,728 you can order on Amazon for 1,000 bucks now, so. 213 00:10:45,812 --> 00:10:48,231 -That's pretty crazy, man. -Yeah. 214 00:10:48,314 --> 00:10:50,942 And your passion for it is, you know. 215 00:10:51,025 --> 00:10:52,527 -Yeah. -It's unbelievable, 216 00:10:52,610 --> 00:10:54,487 all the things that you do, man. 217 00:10:54,571 --> 00:10:57,448 Not a lot of people are willing to just loan out 218 00:10:57,532 --> 00:11:00,660 a original Cyclone motor to work with. 219 00:11:00,743 --> 00:11:03,371 So, most of this was just taking information 220 00:11:03,454 --> 00:11:05,331 from a hundred different sources. 221 00:11:06,166 --> 00:11:07,792 Museums, prints. 222 00:11:07,876 --> 00:11:11,713 It's close to starting from scratch, basically. 223 00:11:11,796 --> 00:11:14,716 You're almost doing a, an investigation. 224 00:11:15,717 --> 00:11:18,219 So, this is what we want to make. 225 00:11:18,303 --> 00:11:19,929 That frame is amazing. You found a frame, 226 00:11:20,013 --> 00:11:21,556 -a Reading frame, right? -Yes. 227 00:11:21,639 --> 00:11:25,059 So, this bike, there's only one of one. This is it. It's the only picture. 228 00:11:25,143 --> 00:11:27,228 I don't even know if this bike exists anymore. 229 00:11:27,312 --> 00:11:28,521 -Probably not. -Yeah. 230 00:11:28,605 --> 00:11:29,981 So, there is the Reading Standard. 231 00:11:30,064 --> 00:11:31,900 And so, you can see right there. 232 00:11:31,983 --> 00:11:35,236 So, this is-- And we're gonna put "Roam." 233 00:11:36,196 --> 00:11:38,198 We're gonna make a Roam one, we're gonna make the roaming-- 234 00:11:38,281 --> 00:11:39,782 the Roamer. 235 00:11:39,866 --> 00:11:45,038 Putting this stuff back together takes just unregulated focus. 236 00:11:45,121 --> 00:11:48,458 And it might seem crazy from the outside, 237 00:11:48,540 --> 00:11:51,336 but it's like archeology. 238 00:11:51,419 --> 00:11:55,798 You're trying to piece together this puzzle that's a century old. 239 00:11:57,342 --> 00:11:59,969 Two Cyclones, and then one Reading Standard. 240 00:12:00,053 --> 00:12:01,429 Well, the Roamer. 241 00:12:23,326 --> 00:12:26,371 I've been working on bikes for about 18 years, 242 00:12:26,454 --> 00:12:28,957 and it started when I was about 12. 243 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:32,377 I had a handful of friends that were into dirt bikes. 244 00:12:33,378 --> 00:12:36,714 My old man told me that if I wanted to ride with them, 245 00:12:36,798 --> 00:12:38,508 I had to work for it. 246 00:12:39,717 --> 00:12:43,638 He drug home this 1984 C-R-250. 247 00:12:43,721 --> 00:12:47,725 The thing was a piece of junk, and he told me that if I could start it, 248 00:12:47,809 --> 00:12:49,352 I could ride it. 249 00:12:49,435 --> 00:12:52,522 I couldn't even reach the pegs, and I struggled for hours, 250 00:12:52,605 --> 00:12:54,899 and I was stubborn. 251 00:12:54,983 --> 00:12:58,486 I asked for help. I had him show me how it worked, 252 00:12:58,569 --> 00:13:01,990 and we spent the next few weeks pulling it apart. 253 00:13:02,073 --> 00:13:03,825 And the bikes kept getting older and older. 254 00:13:03,908 --> 00:13:08,788 Just along the way, been hitting swap meets and experimenting 255 00:13:08,871 --> 00:13:11,124 with making my own parts, 256 00:13:11,207 --> 00:13:14,252 and it snowballed into a... 257 00:13:14,335 --> 00:13:18,381 fairly financially devastating addiction. 258 00:13:19,841 --> 00:13:22,176 I'm doing what I love, I'm building engines, 259 00:13:22,260 --> 00:13:24,887 building parts from scratch, pouring the metal. 260 00:13:26,014 --> 00:13:29,434 And it's everything I've wanted to do since I was a kid, 261 00:13:29,517 --> 00:13:31,561 and that just ties together so cool, 262 00:13:31,644 --> 00:13:34,689 being able to make stuff and then go out and ride it and enjoy it. 263 00:13:57,545 --> 00:13:59,005 First time I saw an antique bike... 264 00:14:00,131 --> 00:14:02,383 pickers came out when I was in high school, 265 00:14:02,467 --> 00:14:04,844 and he was dragging an Excelsior carcass 266 00:14:04,927 --> 00:14:08,848 out of a barn, and I'm like, that is the coolest bike I've ever seen. 267 00:14:10,224 --> 00:14:12,352 I went into a Google rabbit hole 268 00:14:13,227 --> 00:14:17,065 during a summer, just downloading pictures of bikes, 269 00:14:17,148 --> 00:14:23,946 and I was grafting lawnmower engines to bicycle carcasses, trying to make 270 00:14:24,030 --> 00:14:26,532 these board track racer replicas. 271 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:31,788 You get more pure and attached 272 00:14:31,871 --> 00:14:35,333 to the originality of these bikes the more you get into it. 273 00:14:38,294 --> 00:14:44,801 Having a Cyclone cylinder head in my shop, I feel like I wanna short circuit. 274 00:14:44,884 --> 00:14:49,013 Having three complete Cyclones sitting in my shop... 275 00:14:50,181 --> 00:14:52,100 sometimes I just have to walk away for a bit 276 00:14:52,183 --> 00:14:54,644 because I just wanna sit on a stool and stare at 'em 277 00:14:54,727 --> 00:14:57,772 and not get anything done once you get like, immersed. 278 00:15:08,908 --> 00:15:10,118 So, what we've got here 279 00:15:10,201 --> 00:15:11,702 is the gear case side 280 00:15:11,786 --> 00:15:13,663 -of the Banjo. -Yep. 281 00:15:13,746 --> 00:15:15,873 Like I mentioned, it comes from the scan software. 282 00:15:15,957 --> 00:15:19,293 You bring it into this software where you can repair areas 283 00:15:19,377 --> 00:15:21,087 that it may have missed. 284 00:15:21,170 --> 00:15:24,048 You go in and you can manipulate this in here. 285 00:15:24,132 --> 00:15:26,259 Oh, you're basically doing Sean's job for him. 286 00:15:26,342 --> 00:15:27,760 -Yeah, pretty much. -I got it. 287 00:15:27,844 --> 00:15:31,347 So you go in, you scan it, you do a shitty poor job at it. 288 00:15:31,431 --> 00:15:32,932 I just saw it, you know what I mean? 289 00:15:33,015 --> 00:15:34,517 He does a shitty job, and you go in and clean up 290 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:36,144 -after all this shit. -Yep, I go in and clean it all up. 291 00:15:36,227 --> 00:15:37,562 Come on in here, look at this for a second. 292 00:15:37,645 --> 00:15:39,313 So, this is the blue area where Sean did it. 293 00:15:39,397 --> 00:15:40,648 This is the obvious. 294 00:15:40,731 --> 00:15:42,066 But he didn't really wanna get into-- 295 00:15:42,150 --> 00:15:43,985 The yellow parts mean that he didn't do his job. 296 00:15:45,278 --> 00:15:47,613 By doing this, you're costing more money 297 00:15:47,697 --> 00:15:49,157 'cause he didn't do a good enough job. 298 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:50,825 -That's right. Yeah. -Got it! 299 00:15:51,367 --> 00:15:55,413 I don't think that it would be feasible to do this project 300 00:15:55,496 --> 00:15:56,914 without the help of everyone involved. 301 00:15:56,998 --> 00:15:58,124 -Correct. -You know, without Matt, 302 00:15:58,207 --> 00:16:01,335 you know, access to his motor, his motorcycle, you know, Competition 303 00:16:01,419 --> 00:16:04,338 and their help with, you know, being able to scan stuff. 304 00:16:04,422 --> 00:16:06,424 And do you have to go in there and fine-tune anything 305 00:16:06,507 --> 00:16:07,842 or does it literally come out-- 306 00:16:07,925 --> 00:16:09,218 It comes out pretty much like that. 307 00:16:09,302 --> 00:16:10,386 -Exactly like that. -Yep. 308 00:16:10,470 --> 00:16:11,471 Wow. 309 00:16:12,263 --> 00:16:14,140 You know, they have a knowledge base 310 00:16:14,223 --> 00:16:16,517 of what we're trying to achieve here. 311 00:16:16,601 --> 00:16:19,437 So, it really shortcuts the time that it took for us 312 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:22,815 to do something incredibly difficult like we did last time. 313 00:16:22,899 --> 00:16:24,775 With the material and stuff, you know, 314 00:16:24,859 --> 00:16:26,486 like where we were skeptical last time was like, 315 00:16:26,569 --> 00:16:28,446 can you tell us about, like, the density... 316 00:16:28,529 --> 00:16:30,114 -Yeah. -...of the material of this 317 00:16:30,198 --> 00:16:31,949 compared to like a traditional cast pattern? 318 00:16:32,033 --> 00:16:33,576 Because that's something that was, like, hard for us 319 00:16:33,659 --> 00:16:36,078 to kinda grasp with, like, the D-A-H. 320 00:16:36,162 --> 00:16:37,830 You know, this is aerospace technology. 321 00:16:37,914 --> 00:16:40,625 They use 'em in, you know, modern car factories and stuff now. 322 00:16:40,708 --> 00:16:43,503 Direct to print components, engine components, all that good stuff. 323 00:16:44,420 --> 00:16:47,048 This is, you know, 99.8% dense. 324 00:16:47,131 --> 00:16:48,716 So, you doing this is gonna save us 325 00:16:48,799 --> 00:16:51,093 not only in time in prototyping, production, 326 00:16:51,177 --> 00:16:54,180 but then also on the back end of us, like the hours and hours and hours 327 00:16:54,263 --> 00:16:55,640 -that we spend machining. -Right. 328 00:16:55,723 --> 00:16:57,266 It shortcuts so much of that for us 329 00:16:57,350 --> 00:16:59,018 -Yeah. -So, us to be able to accomplish this 330 00:16:59,101 --> 00:17:01,646 sounds like it's gonna be way, way more efficient. 331 00:17:01,729 --> 00:17:03,648 -Cool. -That's called cheaper, folks at home. 332 00:17:03,731 --> 00:17:06,400 A lot more cheaper for Jason and Brian. 333 00:17:06,483 --> 00:17:08,736 That means we get to make more fucking bikes! 334 00:17:08,819 --> 00:17:10,905 If you're saving money, we get more bikes. 335 00:17:11,781 --> 00:17:14,867 That's all we care about. Back to you, Susan. 336 00:17:37,390 --> 00:17:41,936 I met Nick racing, going to swap meets. 337 00:17:42,019 --> 00:17:44,564 Nick and I have a very similar, like, idea 338 00:17:44,647 --> 00:17:47,400 about how things, you know, should go, 339 00:17:47,483 --> 00:17:50,236 like the way we approach things is really similar. 340 00:17:51,946 --> 00:17:53,447 You know, we bounce a lot of ideas 341 00:17:53,531 --> 00:17:54,949 back and forth to each other. 342 00:17:55,908 --> 00:17:57,952 Working with the D-A-H project, 343 00:17:58,035 --> 00:18:00,413 I guess really put us together, because we were at a time, 344 00:18:00,496 --> 00:18:03,207 COVID and everything, we'd talk at each other every day. 345 00:18:03,291 --> 00:18:06,210 It was a very involved project. 346 00:18:07,378 --> 00:18:10,381 Luckily, we have like, "What do you think of this?" "Awesome." 347 00:18:10,464 --> 00:18:12,383 If I wanted it pink, he'd probably be like, "Cool." 348 00:18:12,466 --> 00:18:15,678 If I wanted it blue, he'd be like, "Yeah, that blue's work." 349 00:18:15,761 --> 00:18:17,805 We're both on the same page a lot of time. 350 00:18:20,391 --> 00:18:23,728 A project like this, if you didn't have the right team 351 00:18:23,811 --> 00:18:27,648 and right partner, would be an absolute nightmare. 352 00:18:29,442 --> 00:18:31,944 You know, I think Nick and I are similar, like, 353 00:18:32,028 --> 00:18:34,280 in the sense that, you know, a bike's gonna tell you 354 00:18:34,363 --> 00:18:35,865 when it wants to go together. 355 00:18:37,742 --> 00:18:40,536 Yeah, some go together easy, and some fight you the whole way. 356 00:18:44,749 --> 00:18:47,460 The ideal time frame would be years to get it done, 357 00:18:47,543 --> 00:18:52,548 but I think J's time frame is, like, a couple months. 358 00:18:54,008 --> 00:18:58,346 I think for me, the scariest part is just really doing it justice. 359 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:02,058 Making something that will stand the test of time, 360 00:19:02,141 --> 00:19:03,643 will hold up to, like, all the riding 361 00:19:03,726 --> 00:19:05,061 that we're gonna be doing. 362 00:19:05,144 --> 00:19:08,230 You know, J pushes these machines really hard. 363 00:19:09,523 --> 00:19:12,860 I want to try to make these look exactly like a replica 364 00:19:12,943 --> 00:19:14,737 or of an original bike. 365 00:19:15,613 --> 00:19:18,449 There's some differences inherently just because, like, 366 00:19:18,532 --> 00:19:20,910 we're going off of, like, historical photographs 367 00:19:20,993 --> 00:19:22,161 and things like that. 368 00:19:22,244 --> 00:19:23,871 Like, these bikes don't exist. 369 00:19:25,122 --> 00:19:27,124 You know, even the bike at Wheels Through Time 370 00:19:27,208 --> 00:19:29,502 is a kind of one-off example. 371 00:19:29,585 --> 00:19:32,963 They were changing these bikes almost every single race. 372 00:19:34,340 --> 00:19:36,300 Nick and I, just by doing our thing 373 00:19:36,384 --> 00:19:40,179 with, you know, the modern technology in 2025, 374 00:19:40,262 --> 00:19:44,308 we're gonna put our spin on it regardless, 375 00:19:44,392 --> 00:19:46,143 because how can you not? 376 00:19:46,227 --> 00:19:49,730 You know, just by doing it today, it's going to be a little different 377 00:19:49,814 --> 00:19:52,983 than what they were doing 100-plus years ago, so... 378 00:19:57,154 --> 00:20:02,535 I think with a project like this, you have to farm out certain things 379 00:20:02,618 --> 00:20:05,037 just to make it happen at a pace that you need. 380 00:20:05,121 --> 00:20:07,915 So, for me, I've mostly focused my attention 381 00:20:07,998 --> 00:20:10,376 toward, like, building the frames and the fabrication. 382 00:20:11,627 --> 00:20:13,295 I think both of us are really capable. 383 00:20:13,379 --> 00:20:15,381 Nick, you know, can do pretty much everything I do, 384 00:20:15,464 --> 00:20:16,841 and I can do the things that Nick does. 385 00:20:16,924 --> 00:20:20,261 But, you know, Nick is a really insane engine builder. 386 00:20:21,887 --> 00:20:24,682 Oh, I've been working on bikes since, you know, teens, 387 00:20:24,765 --> 00:20:25,933 on dirt bikes and stuff like that. 388 00:20:26,016 --> 00:20:27,601 I guess that's how we all start. 389 00:20:27,685 --> 00:20:30,938 Started into, you know, Shovelheads, 390 00:20:31,021 --> 00:20:33,524 Panheads, and then flip it and buying parts, 391 00:20:33,607 --> 00:20:34,817 'cause I didn't have money. 392 00:20:34,900 --> 00:20:36,819 So, I basically went to swap meets, 393 00:20:36,902 --> 00:20:39,321 picked a part here, picked a part there or... 394 00:20:40,656 --> 00:20:42,825 I've been tinkering with bikes since I was 17. 395 00:20:43,909 --> 00:20:46,495 I built, like, my first bike in my mom's garage. 396 00:20:46,579 --> 00:20:50,791 And then I, yeah, started racing bikes shortly after that. 397 00:20:51,792 --> 00:20:54,545 I was a tattooer for 15 years. 398 00:20:55,504 --> 00:20:58,716 And I messed with bikes as like kind of my creative outlet 399 00:20:58,799 --> 00:21:00,259 off of my day job. 400 00:21:02,136 --> 00:21:04,722 And then when COVID happened and everything shut down, 401 00:21:04,805 --> 00:21:07,016 you know, I had a lot of, like, side work, 402 00:21:07,099 --> 00:21:08,768 which was motorcycles. 403 00:21:08,851 --> 00:21:11,729 And then once, like, everything opened back up after COVID, 404 00:21:11,812 --> 00:21:13,731 I was so busy doing bikes 405 00:21:13,814 --> 00:21:17,485 that, like, I just really didn't even look back to go to tattooing. 406 00:21:19,236 --> 00:21:23,073 In no way did I think when I was, you know, young, getting into motorcycles 407 00:21:23,157 --> 00:21:28,037 that I'd be building the rarest bikes on planet Earth for Aquaman. 408 00:21:28,120 --> 00:21:30,456 You know, it's pretty crazy. 409 00:21:45,513 --> 00:21:46,680 Yeah! 410 00:21:53,771 --> 00:21:55,815 Oh, God, dude. 411 00:21:55,898 --> 00:21:57,608 Look how beautiful it is. 412 00:21:59,151 --> 00:22:01,111 That is really the prettiest motor, isn't it? 413 00:22:02,279 --> 00:22:03,364 -That's something else. -Wow. 414 00:22:04,532 --> 00:22:06,826 How do you think-- how fast this thing goes? 415 00:22:06,909 --> 00:22:09,495 Easily a buck, if you get it geared right. 416 00:22:09,578 --> 00:22:10,621 Scary. 417 00:22:10,704 --> 00:22:12,498 Direct drive. Barely any brakes. 418 00:22:13,457 --> 00:22:15,292 Wow. I mean, this is gonna be amazing. 419 00:22:15,376 --> 00:22:18,212 These two are gonna be side by side. God, man. 420 00:22:19,421 --> 00:22:21,590 Gonna be racing the Harleys. 421 00:22:21,674 --> 00:22:25,135 It's pretty amazing, we've set out to make kind of the impossible. 422 00:22:25,219 --> 00:22:28,973 We're making Banjos, D-A-R's, C-A-C. 423 00:22:37,773 --> 00:22:39,441 Come up with, based on a picture. 424 00:22:39,525 --> 00:22:41,068 We didn't even know what color it was, but-- 425 00:22:41,151 --> 00:22:42,778 Fuck, look at that. 426 00:22:46,532 --> 00:22:49,201 You're unbelievable, man. Wow. 427 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:54,415 It's the Roamer. 428 00:22:54,498 --> 00:22:56,166 -Glad you like it, bro. -It's the Roaming Standard. 429 00:22:57,376 --> 00:23:00,045 Those bars, too. Oh, my God. 430 00:23:00,129 --> 00:23:02,089 -All mechanical. -It's all mechanical. Wow. 431 00:23:05,718 --> 00:23:07,303 Oh, my God, bro. 432 00:23:08,470 --> 00:23:09,680 Look at that. 433 00:23:11,473 --> 00:23:14,476 Dude, what the fuck is that? 434 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:18,522 This is a Cyclone model R-15. 435 00:23:18,606 --> 00:23:23,485 So, at the time Strand was making three different bikes. 436 00:23:23,569 --> 00:23:27,656 He had a race bike, a road model, 437 00:23:27,740 --> 00:23:30,034 and something called the strip stock model. 438 00:23:30,117 --> 00:23:32,202 It was just basically like a speedster, 439 00:23:32,286 --> 00:23:34,496 -which is the R-15 you see here. -That's what this is right here? 440 00:23:34,580 --> 00:23:36,332 -Yeah. -Speedster. 441 00:23:37,249 --> 00:23:38,250 Ooh. 442 00:23:39,209 --> 00:23:41,170 So, it's still got all the amenities of a street bike, 443 00:23:41,253 --> 00:23:43,047 like clutch, brake, footboards. 444 00:23:43,130 --> 00:23:44,840 -Yeah. -It's kind of hot-rodded, 445 00:23:44,924 --> 00:23:46,550 straight from the factory. 446 00:23:46,634 --> 00:23:47,843 You are one of a kind, mister. 447 00:23:47,927 --> 00:23:49,637 There is one of you. 448 00:23:51,138 --> 00:23:52,264 How do you do it? 449 00:23:53,390 --> 00:23:55,434 Some people would call it weaponized autism. 450 00:23:59,772 --> 00:24:03,067 Oh, my God, bro. Unbelievable. 451 00:24:22,586 --> 00:24:27,800 Bro. Nothing in the world. Oh, my God, dude. 452 00:24:27,883 --> 00:24:29,718 Check out what it did to my boots. 453 00:24:29,802 --> 00:24:32,596 This thing's gonna just be fucking terrifying. 454 00:24:35,015 --> 00:24:36,392 On the Roam. 455 00:24:36,475 --> 00:24:38,727 Nick's, thanks for making my dreams come true, bro. 456 00:24:38,811 --> 00:24:41,563 -Dude. -I can't wait to see this thing. 457 00:24:41,647 --> 00:24:43,899 You know what, just line 'em all up. 458 00:24:44,900 --> 00:24:47,486 I mean, you're doing 100 miles an hour 459 00:24:47,569 --> 00:24:51,156 on a bicycle frame with 100% ethanol. 460 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:54,118 Basically a bomb, you're riding on a bomb and you're going around in circles, 461 00:24:54,201 --> 00:24:55,536 and it's just like I-- 462 00:24:55,619 --> 00:24:58,288 doing that in the 1920s and like, pushing the limits of speed. 463 00:24:59,456 --> 00:25:01,208 I've never felt that experience, 464 00:25:01,291 --> 00:25:02,793 and so I wanted to just take it to the next level. 465 00:25:02,876 --> 00:25:05,045 We're gonna end up having three Banjos... 466 00:25:06,088 --> 00:25:08,799 a D-A-R, two C-A-C's now... 467 00:25:10,175 --> 00:25:12,636 the Knuth, which is-- I've never seen one, 468 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:14,471 -Mm-hmm. -You've seen one. 469 00:25:14,555 --> 00:25:16,598 -And some eight valve stuff. -And some eight valves. 470 00:25:16,682 --> 00:25:18,183 Oh yeah, some eight valve. 471 00:25:21,478 --> 00:25:22,771 That's a party. 472 00:25:22,855 --> 00:25:25,941 We upped it from first season. 473 00:25:26,025 --> 00:25:27,401 Buckle up. 474 00:25:34,950 --> 00:25:36,243 Banjos, buddy. 475 00:25:55,721 --> 00:25:58,015 I think to be able to see all these, you know, 476 00:25:58,098 --> 00:26:00,267 new friends, old friends, all come together 477 00:26:00,350 --> 00:26:02,478 over the same goal, and, you know, 478 00:26:02,561 --> 00:26:05,981 a couple years of just building these impossible machines, 479 00:26:06,065 --> 00:26:08,358 and it all coming to fruition, I think everyone 480 00:26:08,442 --> 00:26:10,652 was just kind of in shock. 481 00:26:10,736 --> 00:26:12,279 -Look at that! -Wow. 482 00:26:12,362 --> 00:26:14,073 Holy... 483 00:26:17,034 --> 00:26:18,035 Dude! 484 00:26:18,118 --> 00:26:19,453 It's original shell... 485 00:26:20,621 --> 00:26:21,872 Sit on that, baby. 486 00:26:23,624 --> 00:26:25,417 Look at this. 487 00:26:27,169 --> 00:26:29,588 Original paint D-A-R. 488 00:26:30,672 --> 00:26:32,841 Don't ask me to show anything I can't ride, first of all, okay? 489 00:26:32,925 --> 00:26:34,301 'Cause if I can't ride it, I don't even wanna-- 490 00:26:34,384 --> 00:26:35,469 I don't even wanna sit on it. 491 00:26:35,552 --> 00:26:36,762 You're riding all of 'em. 492 00:26:37,971 --> 00:26:39,723 We're riding all of 'em. 493 00:26:41,517 --> 00:26:45,145 For motorcycle enthusiasts, it's a pretty prolific moment. 494 00:26:45,229 --> 00:26:47,856 These were our, you know, great-grandparents doing this 495 00:26:47,940 --> 00:26:49,441 and it's still alive. 496 00:26:49,525 --> 00:26:51,485 It's still in our souls, and we're bringing it back 497 00:26:51,568 --> 00:26:53,570 and, damn, they had some fun. 498 00:26:54,530 --> 00:26:56,949 It's like going back 100, 120 years, 499 00:26:57,032 --> 00:26:58,867 you know, 110 years. I mean... 500 00:26:58,951 --> 00:27:01,245 -Dang, bro. -It's like... 501 00:27:01,328 --> 00:27:02,996 -Come on. -I mean, these things 502 00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:05,457 were relics for decades, right? 503 00:27:05,541 --> 00:27:07,793 And it was just something you looked at and talked about. 504 00:27:07,876 --> 00:27:09,628 You couldn't put your hands on one to save your life. 505 00:27:09,711 --> 00:27:11,755 Yeah, I mean, and then now, they're so valuable 506 00:27:11,839 --> 00:27:13,590 and nobody's ever gonna run 'em or ride 'em. 507 00:27:13,674 --> 00:27:16,802 I mean, this is like the next best thing. 508 00:27:16,885 --> 00:27:18,595 We got three. 509 00:27:18,679 --> 00:27:19,972 Three versus three. 510 00:27:21,098 --> 00:27:22,432 Three Banjos versus three Cyclones. 511 00:27:22,516 --> 00:27:23,934 I've got a place where these things 512 00:27:24,017 --> 00:27:25,269 will always be welcome. I'll tell you what. 513 00:27:25,352 --> 00:27:27,020 Oh, dude, it's gonna be good. 514 00:27:27,104 --> 00:27:29,148 Every one of 'em. Oh, man. 515 00:27:29,231 --> 00:27:31,567 -Thank you, Billy. -Yeah, man. 516 00:27:31,650 --> 00:27:32,776 -Dude. -It's really beautiful work, man, 517 00:27:32,860 --> 00:27:33,944 this is outstanding. 518 00:27:34,945 --> 00:27:36,155 Thank you. 519 00:27:38,615 --> 00:27:40,492 Growing up, I looked up to all these people, 520 00:27:40,576 --> 00:27:42,953 and it's so cool 521 00:27:43,036 --> 00:27:47,040 to be able to connect with these guys that... 522 00:27:48,542 --> 00:27:53,672 They're your, I don't want to say heroes, but I want to say heroes, 'cause that's... 523 00:27:54,506 --> 00:27:56,550 they're absolute legends, and they're building 524 00:27:56,633 --> 00:27:58,135 the coolest stuff on the planet. 525 00:28:00,470 --> 00:28:04,683 Being able to go back with something as legendary as a Cyclone, 526 00:28:04,766 --> 00:28:07,186 it's just feels like a dream. 527 00:28:33,712 --> 00:28:35,714 Yeah, baby! 528 00:28:40,594 --> 00:28:42,846 Alright, well, this is kind of like... 529 00:28:44,723 --> 00:28:46,683 these next three bikes are about as big as it gets. 530 00:28:46,767 --> 00:28:49,978 This is definitely the dream come true. 531 00:28:50,062 --> 00:28:53,190 Building these with my friends and just having this idea 532 00:28:53,273 --> 00:28:55,525 to be able to make this. So, check this out. 533 00:28:55,609 --> 00:28:58,111 This is the Banjo, this is the eight valve. 534 00:28:58,195 --> 00:29:01,782 Gonna race it, nickel Banjo. It's a pretty pinch-me moment 535 00:29:01,865 --> 00:29:04,743 to be able to have these three together. 536 00:29:04,826 --> 00:29:06,578 This is the end of the dream right here. 537 00:29:11,833 --> 00:29:13,001 There it is. 538 00:29:18,382 --> 00:29:20,217 Golly, look at 'em. 539 00:29:20,300 --> 00:29:21,593 Shiny enough? 540 00:29:23,303 --> 00:29:26,306 I love it, man. I love it. 541 00:29:26,390 --> 00:29:28,225 -You guys did good work. -Oh, thank you. 542 00:29:32,104 --> 00:29:35,023 It's pretty amazing. Our friends Tom and Sean 543 00:29:35,107 --> 00:29:41,280 at Competition Distribution, they pretty much scanned everything. 544 00:29:41,363 --> 00:29:44,074 We sent it in, and these two badasses... 545 00:29:45,242 --> 00:29:47,661 -Brian and Nick. -That's a baby Bosch. 546 00:29:47,744 --> 00:29:49,579 -There it is. -Baby Bosch. 547 00:29:50,706 --> 00:29:52,749 And you got those three. I mean, that took me-- 548 00:29:52,833 --> 00:29:54,584 this is Walksler's. 549 00:29:54,668 --> 00:29:57,087 The moment I saw this, this is the big inspiration right here. 550 00:29:58,088 --> 00:29:59,423 That's like the pinnacle right here. 551 00:29:59,506 --> 00:30:01,466 And it's just also just to celebrate Harley, too, 552 00:30:01,550 --> 00:30:04,511 'cause it's everything that we all-- we love 'em so much. 553 00:30:04,594 --> 00:30:06,013 Right now, we're gonna go race these bad boys, 554 00:30:06,096 --> 00:30:09,850 and then I think it would just be so cool to have these trophies... 555 00:30:09,933 --> 00:30:11,768 -Hell yeah. -...from everything that we've done, 556 00:30:11,852 --> 00:30:14,062 and all the inspiration from all my friends, 557 00:30:14,146 --> 00:30:15,522 you know what I mean? 558 00:30:18,066 --> 00:30:19,526 It's a work of art, y'all. 559 00:30:25,282 --> 00:30:27,326 What we're about to do, 560 00:30:27,409 --> 00:30:29,077 it'd probably be the first time 561 00:30:29,161 --> 00:30:32,289 that a series of Banjo racing engines 562 00:30:32,372 --> 00:30:35,083 have been on a track in maybe 100 or more years. 563 00:30:36,585 --> 00:30:39,880 You've taken Harley-Davidson's rarest racing engine, 564 00:30:39,963 --> 00:30:42,883 kind of the pinnacle of their development from the '20s, 565 00:30:42,966 --> 00:30:45,927 and we're gonna put it to the test for the first time in a century. 566 00:30:48,221 --> 00:30:49,765 I'm a little nervous, to be honest with you. 567 00:30:49,848 --> 00:30:51,308 Excited and nervous. 568 00:30:51,391 --> 00:30:54,686 But I think it's like a healthy caution. 569 00:30:54,770 --> 00:30:58,023 You know, these things were going super fast 570 00:30:58,106 --> 00:30:59,566 and doing crazy stuff back then. 571 00:30:59,649 --> 00:31:01,693 And it's gonna probably be the same now. 572 00:31:01,777 --> 00:31:04,905 The thing about these motorcycles is they were never safe to begin with. 573 00:31:04,988 --> 00:31:06,031 You know? 574 00:31:07,449 --> 00:31:09,326 Every time I pull up to a racetrack 575 00:31:09,409 --> 00:31:11,828 and I'm gonna race a vintage bike with no brakes and no clutch, 576 00:31:11,912 --> 00:31:13,622 it's the biggest rush. 577 00:31:13,705 --> 00:31:15,123 I mean, my heart starts pumping, 578 00:31:15,207 --> 00:31:17,000 you know, my body warms up, I just-- 579 00:31:17,084 --> 00:31:18,960 You know what it feels like 'cause you've done it before, 580 00:31:19,044 --> 00:31:20,962 but it's still, it's like going skydiving, you know? 581 00:31:21,046 --> 00:31:22,339 It's like jumping out of a plane 582 00:31:22,422 --> 00:31:23,882 and you don't know what the end result's gonna be. 583 00:31:23,965 --> 00:31:26,134 You hope you're safe, you hope everything ends up well, 584 00:31:26,218 --> 00:31:28,387 but you just don't know. It's that kind of a risk. 585 00:31:49,032 --> 00:31:51,243 There's just a handful of humans 586 00:31:51,326 --> 00:31:54,204 who have seen all these bikes together and working. 587 00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:57,791 Seeing the Cyclone, seeing all the different Harleys... 588 00:31:58,750 --> 00:31:59,918 that is just one of a kind. 589 00:32:00,001 --> 00:32:01,670 I think everyone's mind was blown. 590 00:32:03,422 --> 00:32:06,967 It's a really, truly an honor because you have all your friends 591 00:32:07,050 --> 00:32:09,386 coming together to pull off a dream 592 00:32:09,469 --> 00:32:11,847 that you want to do and within a time frame, 593 00:32:11,930 --> 00:32:14,433 and working with the weather and the conditions. 594 00:33:27,797 --> 00:33:29,466 Every bike was so different. 595 00:33:29,841 --> 00:33:32,344 Every single one of 'em was a different experience. 596 00:33:33,220 --> 00:33:35,263 And I think that's what makes it so special. 597 00:33:35,347 --> 00:33:37,557 Every motor, the way the frames were built, 598 00:33:37,641 --> 00:33:39,267 everything was just a different stance, 599 00:33:39,351 --> 00:33:42,187 a different feel, a different growl. 600 00:34:05,293 --> 00:34:07,712 I've never ridden on like a mud track before. 601 00:34:07,796 --> 00:34:09,172 It gets to this perfect condition 602 00:34:09,255 --> 00:34:11,632 where it's like you can really ride the wall. 603 00:34:11,716 --> 00:34:13,217 It's just such a different feeling. 604 00:34:13,301 --> 00:34:15,053 You can have this, like, perfect moment. 605 00:34:27,190 --> 00:34:28,775 You're completely aware. 606 00:34:28,858 --> 00:34:31,777 You're just so in the moment, 607 00:34:31,860 --> 00:34:35,072 and you feel everything, like, all senses are firing. 608 00:34:36,157 --> 00:34:38,201 The sounds are like nothing you've ever heard. 609 00:34:38,284 --> 00:34:40,661 The smells, the speed, the way the bike feels, 610 00:34:40,745 --> 00:34:44,833 the way that it feels the track, and at the twist of a throttle, 611 00:34:44,916 --> 00:34:47,710 you're just bringing life to this wild animal. 612 00:35:13,486 --> 00:35:15,780 Having the guys, like, just the way they wet the track 613 00:35:15,864 --> 00:35:17,866 and just, I've never seen anything like that. 614 00:35:17,949 --> 00:35:19,909 The idea of, like, shooting board track, 615 00:35:19,993 --> 00:35:21,453 the way we do it, the way that, you know, 616 00:35:21,536 --> 00:35:23,830 being a part of it, like getting the camera in there 617 00:35:23,913 --> 00:35:25,415 and being able to experience that, 618 00:35:25,498 --> 00:35:27,792 like, we're riding with that rider. 619 00:35:27,876 --> 00:35:29,252 It was a pretty awesome experience. 620 00:36:42,617 --> 00:36:44,703 I have to tell you, watching this whole season, 621 00:36:44,786 --> 00:36:48,039 like, it's a freaking weird thing to say, man, 622 00:36:48,123 --> 00:36:51,918 but I watch it and I know how hard we put into it, 623 00:36:52,001 --> 00:36:54,087 and I was just, you know, I teared up. 624 00:36:56,631 --> 00:36:59,134 And it's the craziest thing. I'm just watching motorcycles. 625 00:36:59,968 --> 00:37:01,678 But I teared up because I just know how many people 626 00:37:01,761 --> 00:37:05,557 put in the hard work to make these motors run for me 627 00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:07,267 so that I could show the world. 628 00:37:08,810 --> 00:37:11,771 And this experience of bringing all my friends together... 629 00:37:13,189 --> 00:37:16,151 And it was just the coolest thing, 630 00:37:16,234 --> 00:37:19,904 you know, just to see it go from the sun setting into the night 631 00:37:22,240 --> 00:37:25,410 and just the spirit of it all, man, I'm just so thankful. 632 00:37:25,493 --> 00:37:26,536 I'm so thankful.