1 00:00:04,003 --> 00:00:06,006 [motorcycles rumbling] 2 00:00:15,474 --> 00:00:16,475 Yo! 3 00:00:19,311 --> 00:00:21,688 -Um... -[rider] God dang, son. 4 00:00:21,730 --> 00:00:24,650 So happy I never learned how to do that earlier in life. 5 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:27,152 -I wouldn't be here. -[rider] Yeah, right. 6 00:00:27,194 --> 00:00:29,988 [♪ "Wherever I May Roam" by Metallica playing] 7 00:00:35,327 --> 00:00:37,246 ♪♪ 8 00:00:50,175 --> 00:00:54,012 ♪ And the road becomes my bride ♪ 9 00:00:54,054 --> 00:00:57,307 ♪ I have stripped of all but pride ♪ 10 00:00:57,349 --> 00:01:01,478 ♪ So in her I do confide ♪ 11 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:04,690 ♪ Off the beaten path I reign ♪ 12 00:01:05,524 --> 00:01:09,152 ♪ Rover, wanderer, nomad, vagabond ♪ 13 00:01:09,194 --> 00:01:11,863 ♪ Call me what you will ♪ 14 00:01:14,283 --> 00:01:18,412 ♪ Wherever I may roam ♪ 15 00:01:21,707 --> 00:01:26,086 ♪ Wherever I may roam, yeah ♪ 16 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:30,674 [Jason Momoa] Let's do it. 17 00:01:30,716 --> 00:01:32,009 [car chirps] 18 00:01:32,050 --> 00:01:34,636 There it is, man. We're back! 19 00:01:40,434 --> 00:01:42,352 Knock, knock! 20 00:01:42,394 --> 00:01:43,895 Don't be alarmed. 21 00:01:44,813 --> 00:01:46,898 Just wanna borrow some brown sugar. 22 00:01:48,066 --> 00:01:49,943 What's up, homies? 23 00:01:49,985 --> 00:01:51,527 -What's going on? -[chuckles] What's up? 24 00:01:51,570 --> 00:01:55,032 [Jason] Wow, it's so beautiful in here. God! 25 00:01:55,073 --> 00:01:57,868 [people chattering indistinctly] 26 00:01:57,908 --> 00:01:59,578 This is why we're here. 27 00:02:03,624 --> 00:02:06,126 -Wow. -[speaker] Love it, man. 28 00:02:06,168 --> 00:02:08,419 [Jason] I mean, the genesis for this whole season has to been-- 29 00:02:08,461 --> 00:02:12,007 to take it another level, to-- to even go bigger. 30 00:02:13,008 --> 00:02:15,385 Last season, it was-- it was like one of the greatest times 31 00:02:15,427 --> 00:02:17,054 we had doing all the hill climbers. 32 00:02:17,095 --> 00:02:20,432 And the one thing I've always wanted to do was board track. 33 00:02:20,474 --> 00:02:22,392 Like, I just think that's the coolest thing. 34 00:02:22,434 --> 00:02:24,936 The board track bikes, that was like the first extreme sport. 35 00:02:24,978 --> 00:02:27,689 Oh, this is like, what is it, five years ago. 36 00:02:28,607 --> 00:02:30,400 -My first time here. -You were sleeping right there. 37 00:02:30,442 --> 00:02:32,611 I set my cot up right here. 38 00:02:32,653 --> 00:02:35,072 I wanted to sleep by the-- by these girls. 39 00:02:35,113 --> 00:02:36,740 These were my favorite. 40 00:02:36,781 --> 00:02:38,241 -This thing blew my mind. -Yeah. 41 00:02:38,283 --> 00:02:39,910 And like, the D-H's over there, 42 00:02:39,910 --> 00:02:41,620 just the shape of it, the look of it, everything. 43 00:02:41,662 --> 00:02:43,664 I was like, wow, if I was ever a motorcycle, 44 00:02:43,704 --> 00:02:45,123 I'd be that and that. 45 00:02:45,165 --> 00:02:47,751 That's what put Harley in front of everybody else, man. 46 00:02:47,751 --> 00:02:50,629 And from that point, there was really no turning back. 47 00:02:51,421 --> 00:02:56,259 Harley-Davidson debuted the Banjo Twin Cam in 1919, 48 00:02:56,301 --> 00:02:58,428 and they made about 14 of these motorcycles 49 00:02:58,470 --> 00:02:59,596 100 years ago. 50 00:02:59,638 --> 00:03:02,015 Very, very few exist today. 51 00:03:02,057 --> 00:03:04,476 There's nothing on that motor 52 00:03:04,518 --> 00:03:06,353 that they were putting on their street bikes, 53 00:03:06,395 --> 00:03:08,021 on their road model bikes, nothing. 54 00:03:08,063 --> 00:03:10,607 This is like the beginning of speed. 55 00:03:10,649 --> 00:03:13,777 We're talking ten years into motorcycling, 56 00:03:13,819 --> 00:03:16,488 and that first era of when they're figuring out 57 00:03:16,530 --> 00:03:19,950 how to go fast and how to go faster. 58 00:03:19,950 --> 00:03:22,119 I mean, really, the first time I ever saw the Banjo 59 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:24,371 and the Cyclone was just, I was in awe. 60 00:03:25,579 --> 00:03:26,665 You're just, like, attracted. 61 00:03:26,707 --> 00:03:28,667 You're, like, pulled in by these bikes. 62 00:03:30,001 --> 00:03:31,837 And I-- I just wanna ride 'em, you know what I mean? 63 00:03:31,878 --> 00:03:33,004 I just wanted to be able to experience 64 00:03:33,046 --> 00:03:34,047 what it would be like. 65 00:03:35,006 --> 00:03:36,007 There it is, huh? 66 00:03:36,049 --> 00:03:37,050 [Sean Jackson] That's a big one. 67 00:03:39,386 --> 00:03:41,638 -I mean, Matt? -[Matt Walksler] Yeah. 68 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:43,473 -You ever rode a Banjo? -[Matt] Nope. 69 00:03:43,515 --> 00:03:45,308 -How fucking cool is this? -[Matt] Not yet. 70 00:03:45,350 --> 00:03:47,686 I don't know if there's a person alive today 71 00:03:47,728 --> 00:03:49,146 that's rode one of those. 72 00:03:49,146 --> 00:03:51,481 Alright, so just to put that in perspective, yeah. 73 00:03:51,523 --> 00:03:52,858 [Matt] Guys like us, 74 00:03:52,899 --> 00:03:54,651 -we couldn't even get that. -[Jason] Yeah. 75 00:03:54,692 --> 00:03:57,863 That's your best of the best factory team. 76 00:03:57,904 --> 00:04:00,198 Once they're done racing it, they destroyed 'em. 77 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:01,908 -Yeah. -[Matt] So out of the-- 78 00:04:01,950 --> 00:04:05,829 maybe there's five, six of 'em known today out of the 14, 79 00:04:05,829 --> 00:04:07,664 and the rest of 'em, there's no telling. 80 00:04:07,706 --> 00:04:09,916 I mean, for any to even be out there 81 00:04:09,958 --> 00:04:12,210 to look over in the first place 82 00:04:12,252 --> 00:04:15,005 and take a shot at replicating, I mean, it's a miracle. 83 00:04:15,046 --> 00:04:16,548 I mean, the great thing about Wheels Through Time 84 00:04:16,589 --> 00:04:18,007 is, like, all the people that I've met, 85 00:04:18,048 --> 00:04:20,343 having Nick and Brian there, seeing it, 86 00:04:20,385 --> 00:04:21,928 the dream just, like, coming to fruition. 87 00:04:21,970 --> 00:04:24,556 I mean, at first, when you ask anything of this scale, 88 00:04:24,598 --> 00:04:25,724 it's nerve-wracking. 89 00:04:25,766 --> 00:04:27,058 -Yeah. -And, uh, you know-- 90 00:04:27,100 --> 00:04:28,685 The more people we can relate to 91 00:04:28,685 --> 00:04:31,605 with that nerve-wracking stress is gonna be great. 92 00:04:31,646 --> 00:04:33,064 You know, going to Walksler, 93 00:04:33,106 --> 00:04:35,275 a lot of those ideas come through Wheels of Time. 94 00:04:35,317 --> 00:04:37,235 I met Competition Distribution through there. 95 00:04:37,277 --> 00:04:39,196 You know, they were there when we were kind of drumming up 96 00:04:39,237 --> 00:04:41,198 the whole idea of, like, how can we scan these? 97 00:04:41,239 --> 00:04:43,617 So, to build something like this, 98 00:04:43,658 --> 00:04:46,578 we'd have to basically-- Sean? 99 00:04:46,620 --> 00:04:49,623 Well, you gotta take and scan all the data from that engine, 100 00:04:49,664 --> 00:04:51,249 'cause, you know, as Matt said, 101 00:04:51,291 --> 00:04:55,045 there's nothing that replicates to a stock J-D case in any form. 102 00:04:55,086 --> 00:04:57,255 So, everything about it is one-off, so... 103 00:04:57,297 --> 00:04:59,800 Luckily, this time with the help of Sean and Competition, 104 00:04:59,841 --> 00:05:02,385 we're able to make things a lot easier. 105 00:05:02,427 --> 00:05:03,970 -Yeah, the lead times go down. -Lead times. 106 00:05:04,012 --> 00:05:05,263 -You know? -Keeping it in-house. 107 00:05:05,305 --> 00:05:06,890 -Yep. -Everyone who's involved with it 108 00:05:06,932 --> 00:05:09,226 is a team player and enthusiastic 109 00:05:09,267 --> 00:05:10,644 -about these bikes... -Yeah. 110 00:05:10,685 --> 00:05:13,063 ...and wants to see all these raced together. 111 00:05:13,104 --> 00:05:16,066 [Jason] The other one, which is the rarest-rarest, 112 00:05:16,107 --> 00:05:17,275 is Cyclone, right? 113 00:05:17,317 --> 00:05:18,735 Aaron, you wanna bring that thing in here? 114 00:05:18,777 --> 00:05:19,736 [Aaron Loveless] Close your eyes. 115 00:05:19,778 --> 00:05:21,029 Close my eyes, alright. 116 00:05:21,446 --> 00:05:23,114 Put it up on something so it-- 117 00:05:23,156 --> 00:05:24,574 Should we put it right over here somewhere? 118 00:05:24,616 --> 00:05:26,243 [Sean] Yeah, where are we at? Here, hold on. 119 00:05:26,284 --> 00:05:27,410 We got it. 120 00:05:27,452 --> 00:05:28,912 [Jason] So, I met Aaron-- 121 00:05:28,954 --> 00:05:30,288 How did we meet? 122 00:05:30,330 --> 00:05:32,415 Uh, Instagram. 123 00:05:32,457 --> 00:05:34,960 -Like I meet everyone. -[laughter] 124 00:05:35,001 --> 00:05:38,755 I got a call, and he's like, "Hey, I'm-- I'm Jason Momoa. 125 00:05:38,797 --> 00:05:41,633 "I saw that bike you built. It's freaking insane. 126 00:05:41,675 --> 00:05:44,344 "Um, can I come see it or, uh-- 127 00:05:44,386 --> 00:05:46,012 You know what? Just bring it down to my place." 128 00:05:46,054 --> 00:05:48,098 Aaron is kind of like... 129 00:05:48,139 --> 00:05:49,432 -[grunting] -[Aaron] [indistinct] ...savant? 130 00:05:49,474 --> 00:05:51,101 Aaron, they only made one of you. 131 00:05:51,101 --> 00:05:52,644 -[Aaron laughing] -Like, God went, 132 00:05:52,686 --> 00:05:53,687 "Yeah, we're good." 133 00:05:54,980 --> 00:05:56,481 Um, 'cause everything I would ask him, 134 00:05:56,523 --> 00:05:57,983 he's just like, "Yeah, I scan it, I make it, 135 00:05:58,024 --> 00:05:59,609 I make it, I sculpt it, I make it." 136 00:05:59,651 --> 00:06:02,863 I showed him some 3-D files I was working on 137 00:06:02,904 --> 00:06:06,867 for, um, sort of recreating the Cyclones. 138 00:06:06,908 --> 00:06:09,286 And he was like, "That's one of the coolest things. 139 00:06:09,327 --> 00:06:11,079 We need to build like ten of those." 140 00:06:12,664 --> 00:06:14,833 [exhales sharply] 141 00:06:14,875 --> 00:06:16,877 It is the most beautiful-- 142 00:06:16,918 --> 00:06:20,380 It's one of the prettiest motors I've ever seen, man. 143 00:06:20,422 --> 00:06:23,466 Damn. How long did that take you so far? 144 00:06:23,466 --> 00:06:27,220 I think from start to finish, about three and a half months. 145 00:06:27,262 --> 00:06:30,015 The Cyclones were, uh, the fastest of the day. 146 00:06:30,056 --> 00:06:33,727 I mean, 120 miles an hour with no transmission. 147 00:06:33,768 --> 00:06:35,562 No brakes, no clutch. 148 00:06:35,604 --> 00:06:37,814 It's just all power to the rear wheel, 149 00:06:37,856 --> 00:06:40,859 burning methanol, between your legs, 150 00:06:40,901 --> 00:06:42,235 in a bicycle chassis. 151 00:06:42,277 --> 00:06:44,988 1914 they made this, 152 00:06:45,030 --> 00:06:47,073 and the Banjo didn't even come out till 1919. 153 00:06:47,115 --> 00:06:49,200 So, was this just beating out everything then? 154 00:06:49,242 --> 00:06:51,745 How did this not-- how did the-- the Banjo 155 00:06:51,786 --> 00:06:53,496 end up beating Cyclones? 156 00:06:53,538 --> 00:06:55,540 They got a-- a name, 157 00:06:55,582 --> 00:06:58,209 uh, "fast and fragile" back in the day. 158 00:06:58,251 --> 00:07:01,004 They're lightweight, ridiculously fast, 159 00:07:01,046 --> 00:07:02,505 but there's a lot of parts on these 160 00:07:02,547 --> 00:07:03,757 that were known to fail. 161 00:07:03,798 --> 00:07:07,427 Maybe there's five, six real Cyclones 162 00:07:07,469 --> 00:07:09,346 out there that are known today. 163 00:07:09,387 --> 00:07:11,348 It doesn't get any more rare than that. 164 00:07:11,389 --> 00:07:14,267 You know, if you're looking for antique motorcycle 165 00:07:14,309 --> 00:07:16,519 racing history, those are it. 166 00:07:16,561 --> 00:07:18,605 I mean, in less than a year, we're all gonna be riding 167 00:07:18,647 --> 00:07:20,523 -on Banjos and Cyclones. -[laughing] 168 00:07:20,565 --> 00:07:22,025 Jesus. So, think-- think about that. 169 00:07:22,067 --> 00:07:24,069 It's gonna be-- this is the whole thing. 170 00:07:24,110 --> 00:07:26,071 I was like, "I got this crazy idea. 171 00:07:26,112 --> 00:07:27,614 Hey, guys, can we do this?" And they're like, 172 00:07:27,656 --> 00:07:29,199 "Yeah, we can do that. Yeah, we can do that." 173 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:31,368 But, um, like, it's pretty epic 174 00:07:31,409 --> 00:07:33,870 to be able to come and do what you-- 175 00:07:33,870 --> 00:07:36,206 I mean, this is what you guys do and just-- 176 00:07:36,247 --> 00:07:38,375 I can't believe we're gonna go ride this. 177 00:07:38,416 --> 00:07:42,045 I am beyond words, so honored, so excited. 178 00:07:42,087 --> 00:07:46,883 Um, I've been wanting to, uh, do a board track race 179 00:07:46,925 --> 00:07:49,594 since I was in my early teens. 180 00:07:49,636 --> 00:07:51,429 -Like, the final product and the outcome... -Yeah. 181 00:07:51,471 --> 00:07:55,266 ...of seeing, you know, multiple Cyclones together, 182 00:07:55,308 --> 00:07:57,060 -multiple Banjos. -Yeah. 183 00:07:57,102 --> 00:07:59,229 C-A-C's, another D-A-R, 184 00:07:59,229 --> 00:08:01,398 -all in the same place. -Yeah, we're not talking about just one bike. 185 00:08:01,439 --> 00:08:02,941 -Yeah. -We're talking about all of 'em. 186 00:08:02,983 --> 00:08:04,401 -Yeah, three or four of these... -One place. 187 00:08:04,442 --> 00:08:05,735 -...in the same spot. -Yeah. 188 00:08:05,777 --> 00:08:07,904 I mean, that hasn't happened probably ever. 189 00:08:07,946 --> 00:08:10,407 Being able to ride a Cyclone, being able to ride a Banjo, 190 00:08:10,448 --> 00:08:12,075 that's just crazy. 191 00:08:12,117 --> 00:08:13,827 You only-- they're only in museums. 192 00:08:13,868 --> 00:08:15,412 You know, that's the only place you're gonna see 'em. 193 00:08:15,453 --> 00:08:18,081 The Cyclone, Banjo, C-A-C. 194 00:08:18,081 --> 00:08:20,667 Maybe we'll do, uh, fuck around with some Peashooters. 195 00:08:20,709 --> 00:08:23,294 Go to Billy's spot... 196 00:08:23,336 --> 00:08:26,047 and race 'em, next year. Yeah? 197 00:08:26,715 --> 00:08:28,758 -[Billy Lane] Why do we gotta wait a whole year? -[Jason] Well... 198 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:30,260 -[laughing] -It just depends on you guys. 199 00:08:30,301 --> 00:08:31,678 [laughter] 200 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:33,263 'Cause we need a lot of 'em. 201 00:08:33,263 --> 00:08:34,597 -Yeah. -But get 'em all together, 202 00:08:34,639 --> 00:08:36,975 and, uh, it'll be my first-time experience, 203 00:08:37,017 --> 00:08:38,518 so I'm pretty excited. 204 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:40,145 Being able to go race these bikes together, 205 00:08:40,186 --> 00:08:41,604 so it's not just up on a wall. 206 00:08:41,645 --> 00:08:43,982 Like, let's go shoot it, let's go show the world, 207 00:08:44,024 --> 00:08:46,026 like, what these things did, what people did, 208 00:08:46,067 --> 00:08:47,485 and let's keep them alive. 209 00:08:47,527 --> 00:08:50,530 [♪ organ music playing] 210 00:08:53,825 --> 00:08:55,285 [Aaron] This is the Cyclone. 211 00:08:55,326 --> 00:08:57,620 They're pretty unique for their day. 212 00:08:57,662 --> 00:09:00,957 These would defeat pretty much any other motorcycle 213 00:09:00,999 --> 00:09:03,460 on the track if they could stay together. 214 00:09:03,501 --> 00:09:06,171 Um, and the reason that they failed 215 00:09:06,212 --> 00:09:08,965 is it was just overly complicated. 216 00:09:09,007 --> 00:09:12,969 The drive system is all bevel gears. 217 00:09:13,011 --> 00:09:16,639 Everything's paper thin, uh, gear teeth would break. 218 00:09:16,681 --> 00:09:18,391 Uh, one tooth breaks 219 00:09:18,433 --> 00:09:21,352 and it's just a cascade of destruction inside the case. 220 00:09:22,353 --> 00:09:24,647 There's a couple, uh, small concerns 221 00:09:24,689 --> 00:09:26,483 with these bikes, mechanically. 222 00:09:26,524 --> 00:09:29,986 I mean, they're built to run all out, 223 00:09:30,028 --> 00:09:31,446 and they're built like twigs. 224 00:09:32,447 --> 00:09:35,200 They never finished 100-mile race on a Cyclone 225 00:09:35,241 --> 00:09:36,326 because they just broke. 226 00:09:36,367 --> 00:09:37,494 [Jason] Wow. 227 00:09:37,535 --> 00:09:38,912 So, there's a couple improvements I made 228 00:09:38,953 --> 00:09:41,581 to the original Cyclone design. 229 00:09:41,623 --> 00:09:45,335 So, this right here is a-- it's called a helical tooth. 230 00:09:45,335 --> 00:09:49,089 Originally, it was, uh, just a regular bevel spline gear, 231 00:09:49,130 --> 00:09:51,925 and so that's only engaging one tooth at a time. 232 00:09:51,966 --> 00:09:55,053 And when you have the stress in the entire valve train 233 00:09:55,095 --> 00:09:58,014 on a tooth that's only a couple millimeters thick, 234 00:09:58,056 --> 00:09:59,349 you're asking for trouble. 235 00:09:59,390 --> 00:10:01,101 That's crazy that it was just-- 236 00:10:01,142 --> 00:10:02,769 -It all runs off of that. -Oh, yeah. 237 00:10:02,811 --> 00:10:04,687 [Jason] And how long did it take you, since we-- 238 00:10:04,687 --> 00:10:08,233 It's been about how long since you've, uh, started making this? 239 00:10:09,609 --> 00:10:11,778 I've been dreaming about building one of these 240 00:10:11,820 --> 00:10:15,448 for a few years, but, uh, I just started it 241 00:10:15,490 --> 00:10:17,200 maybe six months ago. 242 00:10:17,242 --> 00:10:19,577 Got a hold of some 3-D scans, 243 00:10:19,619 --> 00:10:23,706 started drawing new CAD files around the scans, 244 00:10:23,748 --> 00:10:26,417 had some friends that had dimensions off the original. 245 00:10:26,459 --> 00:10:29,712 And just-- we had enough information 246 00:10:29,754 --> 00:10:32,215 -to put together, uh, uh... -[Jason chuckles] 247 00:10:32,257 --> 00:10:34,467 ...the CAD files to make these. 248 00:10:34,509 --> 00:10:39,430 And with modern, uh, printing and CAD technology, 249 00:10:39,472 --> 00:10:41,266 stuff that even NASA engineers 250 00:10:41,307 --> 00:10:43,059 were drooling over ten years ago, 251 00:10:43,101 --> 00:10:45,770 you can order on Amazon for 1,000 bucks now, so-- 252 00:10:45,812 --> 00:10:48,273 -That's pretty crazy, man. -Yeah. 253 00:10:48,314 --> 00:10:50,984 And your passion for it is-- is-- is, you know. 254 00:10:51,025 --> 00:10:52,569 -Yeah. -It's unbelievable, 255 00:10:52,610 --> 00:10:54,571 all the-- the things that you do, man. 256 00:10:54,612 --> 00:10:57,490 Not a lot of people are willing to just loan out 257 00:10:57,532 --> 00:11:00,743 a original Cyclone motor to work with. 258 00:11:00,785 --> 00:11:03,413 So, most of this was just taking information 259 00:11:03,454 --> 00:11:05,331 from a hundred different sources. 260 00:11:06,166 --> 00:11:07,834 Museums, prints. 261 00:11:07,876 --> 00:11:11,754 It's close to starting from scratch, basically. 262 00:11:11,796 --> 00:11:14,799 You're almost doing a, um, an investigation. 263 00:11:15,717 --> 00:11:18,261 [Jason] So, this is what we want to make. 264 00:11:18,303 --> 00:11:19,971 That frame is amazing. You found a frame, 265 00:11:20,013 --> 00:11:21,598 -a Reading frame, right? -Yes. 266 00:11:21,639 --> 00:11:23,308 [Jason] So, this bike, there's only one of one. 267 00:11:23,349 --> 00:11:25,101 This is it. It's the only picture. 268 00:11:25,143 --> 00:11:27,270 I don't even know if this bike exists anymore. 269 00:11:27,312 --> 00:11:28,605 -[Aaron] Probably not. -Yeah. 270 00:11:28,646 --> 00:11:30,023 So, there is the Reading Standard. 271 00:11:30,064 --> 00:11:31,941 And so, you can see right there. 272 00:11:31,983 --> 00:11:35,278 So, this is-- And we're gonna put "Roam." 273 00:11:36,196 --> 00:11:38,281 We're gonna make a Roam one, we're gonna make the roaming-- 274 00:11:38,323 --> 00:11:39,824 the Roamer. 275 00:11:39,866 --> 00:11:41,534 Putting this stuff back together 276 00:11:41,576 --> 00:11:45,121 takes just unregulated focus. 277 00:11:45,163 --> 00:11:48,499 And it might seem crazy from the outside, 278 00:11:48,540 --> 00:11:51,377 but it's like, um, archeology. 279 00:11:51,419 --> 00:11:54,505 You're trying to piece together this puzzle 280 00:11:54,547 --> 00:11:55,882 that's a century old. 281 00:11:57,342 --> 00:12:00,011 Two Cyclones, and then one Reading Standard. 282 00:12:00,053 --> 00:12:01,429 Well, the Roamer. 283 00:12:13,399 --> 00:12:16,402 [♪ gentle music playing] 284 00:12:23,326 --> 00:12:26,412 [Aaron] I've been working on bikes for about 18 years, 285 00:12:26,454 --> 00:12:28,998 and it started when I was about 12. 286 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:32,377 I had a handful of friends that were into dirt bikes. 287 00:12:33,378 --> 00:12:34,587 My old man told me 288 00:12:34,629 --> 00:12:36,756 that if I wanted to, uh, ride with them, 289 00:12:36,798 --> 00:12:38,549 I had to work for it. 290 00:12:39,717 --> 00:12:43,680 He drug home this, um, 1984 C-R-250. 291 00:12:43,721 --> 00:12:45,682 The thing was a piece of junk, 292 00:12:45,723 --> 00:12:47,767 and he told me that if I could start it, 293 00:12:47,809 --> 00:12:49,394 I could ride it. 294 00:12:49,435 --> 00:12:50,895 I couldn't even reach the pegs, 295 00:12:50,937 --> 00:12:52,563 and I struggled for hours, 296 00:12:52,605 --> 00:12:54,941 and I was stubborn. 297 00:12:54,983 --> 00:12:56,192 I asked for help. 298 00:12:56,234 --> 00:12:58,528 I had him, um, show me how it worked, 299 00:12:58,569 --> 00:13:02,031 and we spent the next few weeks pulling it apart. 300 00:13:02,073 --> 00:13:03,866 And the bikes kept getting older and older. 301 00:13:03,908 --> 00:13:05,618 Just along the way, 302 00:13:05,660 --> 00:13:08,871 been hitting swap meets and experimenting 303 00:13:08,913 --> 00:13:11,207 with, um, making my own parts, 304 00:13:11,249 --> 00:13:14,294 and it snowballed into a, um, 305 00:13:14,335 --> 00:13:18,423 fairly financially devastating, uh, addiction. 306 00:13:19,841 --> 00:13:22,218 I'm doing what I love, I'm building engines, 307 00:13:22,260 --> 00:13:25,972 building parts from scratch, pouring the metal. 308 00:13:26,014 --> 00:13:29,475 And it's everything I've wanted to do since I was a kid, 309 00:13:29,517 --> 00:13:31,602 and that just ties together so cool, 310 00:13:31,644 --> 00:13:33,479 being able to make stuff and then go out 311 00:13:33,521 --> 00:13:34,689 and ride it and enjoy it. 312 00:13:38,359 --> 00:13:40,361 [metal scraping] 313 00:13:44,615 --> 00:13:47,618 [♪ gentle, relaxing music playing] 314 00:13:57,545 --> 00:13:59,005 First time I saw an antique bike... 315 00:14:00,131 --> 00:14:02,425 pickers came out when I was in high school, 316 00:14:02,467 --> 00:14:04,927 and he was dragging an Excelsior carcass 317 00:14:04,969 --> 00:14:06,763 out of a barn, and I'm like, 318 00:14:06,804 --> 00:14:08,848 that is the coolest bike I've ever seen. 319 00:14:10,224 --> 00:14:11,851 I went into a Google rabbit hole, 320 00:14:11,893 --> 00:14:13,936 uh, during a summer, 321 00:14:13,978 --> 00:14:17,106 just downloading pictures of bikes, 322 00:14:17,148 --> 00:14:21,694 and I was grafting, um, lawnmower engines 323 00:14:21,736 --> 00:14:23,988 to bicycle carcasses, trying to make 324 00:14:24,030 --> 00:14:26,532 these board track racer replicas. 325 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:31,829 You get-- you get more pure and attached 326 00:14:31,871 --> 00:14:35,333 to the originality of these bikes the more you get into it. 327 00:14:38,336 --> 00:14:42,507 Having a Cyclone cylinder head in my shop, 328 00:14:42,548 --> 00:14:44,842 I feel like I wanna short circuit. 329 00:14:44,884 --> 00:14:49,013 Having three complete Cyclones sitting in my shop... 330 00:14:50,181 --> 00:14:52,141 sometimes I just have to walk away for a bit 331 00:14:52,183 --> 00:14:54,685 because I just wanna sit on a stool and stare at 'em 332 00:14:54,727 --> 00:14:57,772 and not get anything done once you get like, immersed. 333 00:15:08,908 --> 00:15:10,159 [Kevin O'Neal] So, what we've got here 334 00:15:10,201 --> 00:15:11,744 is the gear case side 335 00:15:11,786 --> 00:15:13,704 -of the-- of the Banjo. -[Jason] Yep. 336 00:15:13,746 --> 00:15:15,915 Like I mentioned, it comes from the scan software. 337 00:15:15,957 --> 00:15:19,335 You bring it into this software where you can repair areas 338 00:15:19,377 --> 00:15:21,170 that it may have missed. 339 00:15:21,170 --> 00:15:24,090 You go in and-- and you can manipulate this in here. 340 00:15:24,132 --> 00:15:26,342 Oh, you're basically doing Sean's job for him. 341 00:15:26,384 --> 00:15:27,844 -Yeah, pretty much. -I got it. 342 00:15:27,885 --> 00:15:29,846 -[laughter] -So you go in, you scan it, 343 00:15:29,887 --> 00:15:31,389 you do a shitty poor job at it. 344 00:15:31,431 --> 00:15:33,015 -I just saw it, you know what I mean? -[laughter] 345 00:15:33,057 --> 00:15:34,559 He does a shitty job, and you go in and clean up 346 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:36,185 -after all this shit. -Yep, I go in and clean it all up. 347 00:15:36,227 --> 00:15:37,603 Come on in here, look at this for a second. 348 00:15:37,645 --> 00:15:39,355 So, this is the blue area where Sean did it. 349 00:15:39,397 --> 00:15:40,690 This is the obvious. 350 00:15:40,731 --> 00:15:42,108 But he didn't really wanna get into-- 351 00:15:42,150 --> 00:15:44,026 The yellow parts mean that he didn't do his job. 352 00:15:44,068 --> 00:15:45,445 -[Kevin] Yeah, so-- -[Jason] So, you're-- 353 00:15:45,486 --> 00:15:47,697 By doing this, you're costing more money to-- 354 00:15:47,697 --> 00:15:49,198 'cause he didn't do a good enough job. 355 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:51,367 -That's right. Yeah. -Got it! 356 00:15:51,409 --> 00:15:55,455 I don't think that it would be feasible to do this project 357 00:15:55,496 --> 00:15:56,956 without the help of everyone involved. 358 00:15:56,998 --> 00:15:58,207 -Correct. -You know, without Matt, 359 00:15:58,249 --> 00:15:59,375 you know, access to his motor, 360 00:15:59,417 --> 00:16:01,377 his motorcycle, you know, Competition 361 00:16:01,419 --> 00:16:04,380 and their help with, you know, being able to scan stuff. 362 00:16:04,422 --> 00:16:06,466 And do you have to go in there and fine-tune anything 363 00:16:06,507 --> 00:16:07,884 and-- or does it literally come out-- 364 00:16:07,925 --> 00:16:09,260 [Kevin] It comes out pretty much like that. 365 00:16:09,302 --> 00:16:10,428 -Exactly like that. -[Kevin] Yep. 366 00:16:10,470 --> 00:16:11,512 [Jason] Wow. 367 00:16:12,263 --> 00:16:14,223 [Brian Charles Vanderford] You know, they have a knowledge base 368 00:16:14,265 --> 00:16:16,559 of what we're trying to achieve here. 369 00:16:16,601 --> 00:16:19,479 So, it really shortcuts the time that it took for us 370 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:21,439 to do something incredibly difficult, 371 00:16:21,481 --> 00:16:22,899 uh, like we did last time. 372 00:16:22,940 --> 00:16:24,817 With the material and stuff, you know, 373 00:16:24,859 --> 00:16:26,569 like where we were skeptical last time was like, 374 00:16:26,611 --> 00:16:28,488 can you tell us about, like, the density... 375 00:16:28,529 --> 00:16:30,156 -Yeah. -...of the material of this 376 00:16:30,198 --> 00:16:31,991 compared to like a traditional cast pattern? 377 00:16:32,033 --> 00:16:33,618 Because that's something that was, like, hard for us 378 00:16:33,659 --> 00:16:36,120 to kinda grasp with, like, the D-A-H. 379 00:16:36,162 --> 00:16:37,914 You know, this is aerospace technology. 380 00:16:37,955 --> 00:16:38,915 They use 'em in, you know, 381 00:16:38,956 --> 00:16:40,665 modern car factories and stuff now. 382 00:16:40,708 --> 00:16:42,502 Direct to print components, engine components, 383 00:16:42,543 --> 00:16:43,920 all that good stuff. 384 00:16:43,961 --> 00:16:47,089 Um, this is, you know, 99.8% dense. 385 00:16:47,131 --> 00:16:48,758 So, you doing this is gonna save us 386 00:16:48,799 --> 00:16:51,135 not only in time in prototyping, production, 387 00:16:51,177 --> 00:16:52,803 but then also on the back end of us, 388 00:16:52,845 --> 00:16:54,263 like the hours and hours and hours 389 00:16:54,305 --> 00:16:55,681 -that we spend machining. -[Sean] Right. 390 00:16:55,723 --> 00:16:57,308 It shortcuts so much of that for us 391 00:16:57,350 --> 00:16:59,101 -Yeah. -So, us to be able to accomplish this 392 00:16:59,143 --> 00:17:01,687 sounds like it's gonna be way, way more efficient. 393 00:17:01,729 --> 00:17:03,689 -Cool. -That's called cheaper, folks at home. 394 00:17:03,731 --> 00:17:06,442 -[laughter] -A lot more cheaper for Jason and Brian. 395 00:17:06,483 --> 00:17:08,778 That means we get to make more fucking bikes! 396 00:17:08,819 --> 00:17:10,946 If you're saving money, we get more bikes. 397 00:17:10,988 --> 00:17:13,324 -[laughter] -That's all we care about. 398 00:17:13,366 --> 00:17:14,867 Back to you, Susan. 399 00:17:37,390 --> 00:17:39,976 [Brian] I met Nick, uh, racing, 400 00:17:40,017 --> 00:17:41,978 going to swap meets. 401 00:17:42,019 --> 00:17:44,647 Nick and I have a very similar, like, idea 402 00:17:44,689 --> 00:17:47,483 about how things, you know, should go, 403 00:17:47,483 --> 00:17:50,236 like the way we approach things is really similar. 404 00:17:51,946 --> 00:17:53,489 You know, we bounce a lot of ideas 405 00:17:53,531 --> 00:17:54,991 back and forth to each other. 406 00:17:55,908 --> 00:17:57,994 [Nick Toscano] Working with the-- the D-A-H project, 407 00:17:58,035 --> 00:18:00,496 I guess really put us together, because we were at a time, 408 00:18:00,538 --> 00:18:03,249 COVID and everything, we'd talk at each other every day. 409 00:18:03,291 --> 00:18:06,210 It was a very, um, involved project. 410 00:18:07,378 --> 00:18:08,921 Luckily, we have like, 411 00:18:08,963 --> 00:18:10,423 "What do you think of this?" "Awesome." 412 00:18:10,464 --> 00:18:12,425 If I wanted it pink, he'd probably be like, "Cool." 413 00:18:12,466 --> 00:18:13,884 If I wanted it blue, he'd be like, 414 00:18:13,926 --> 00:18:15,720 "Yeah, that blue's work." So, we're like-- 415 00:18:15,761 --> 00:18:17,805 we're both on the same page a lot of time. 416 00:18:20,391 --> 00:18:23,769 A project like this, if you didn't have the right team 417 00:18:23,811 --> 00:18:27,648 and right partner, uh, would be an absolute nightmare. 418 00:18:29,442 --> 00:18:32,028 You know, I think Nick and I are similar, like, 419 00:18:32,028 --> 00:18:34,363 in the sense that, you know, a bike's gonna tell you 420 00:18:34,405 --> 00:18:35,906 when it wants to go together. 421 00:18:37,742 --> 00:18:39,035 Yeah, some go together easy, 422 00:18:39,076 --> 00:18:40,578 and-- and some fight you the whole way. 423 00:18:44,749 --> 00:18:47,543 The ideal time frame would be years to get it done, 424 00:18:47,585 --> 00:18:50,421 but, uh, I think J's time frame 425 00:18:50,463 --> 00:18:52,590 is, like, a couple months. 426 00:18:54,008 --> 00:18:55,718 I think for me, the scariest part 427 00:18:55,760 --> 00:18:58,346 is just really doing it justice. 428 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:02,099 Making something that will stand the test of time, 429 00:19:02,141 --> 00:19:03,726 will hold up to, like, all the riding 430 00:19:03,768 --> 00:19:05,102 that we're gonna be doing. 431 00:19:05,144 --> 00:19:08,272 You know, J-- J pushes these machines really hard. 432 00:19:09,523 --> 00:19:12,902 I want to try to make these look exactly like a replica 433 00:19:12,943 --> 00:19:14,779 or like-- or of an original bike. 434 00:19:15,613 --> 00:19:18,491 There's some differences inherently just because, like, 435 00:19:18,532 --> 00:19:20,951 we're going off of, like, historical photographs 436 00:19:20,993 --> 00:19:22,244 and things like that. 437 00:19:22,286 --> 00:19:23,871 Like, these bikes don't exist. 438 00:19:25,122 --> 00:19:27,166 You know, even the bike at Wheels Through Time 439 00:19:27,208 --> 00:19:29,585 is a kind of one-off example. 440 00:19:29,585 --> 00:19:32,963 They were changing these bikes almost every single race. 441 00:19:34,340 --> 00:19:36,342 Nick and I, just by doing our thing 442 00:19:36,384 --> 00:19:40,262 with, you know, the modern technology in 2025, 443 00:19:40,304 --> 00:19:44,350 we're gonna put our spin on it regardless, 444 00:19:44,392 --> 00:19:46,185 because how can you not? 445 00:19:46,227 --> 00:19:48,187 You know, just by doing it today, 446 00:19:48,229 --> 00:19:49,772 it's going to be a little different 447 00:19:49,814 --> 00:19:52,983 than what they were doing 100-plus years ago, so... 448 00:19:57,154 --> 00:19:59,782 I think with a project like this, 449 00:19:59,824 --> 00:20:02,618 you have to farm out certain things 450 00:20:02,660 --> 00:20:05,121 just to make it happen at a pace that you need. 451 00:20:05,121 --> 00:20:07,957 So, for me, I've mostly focused my attention 452 00:20:07,998 --> 00:20:10,376 toward, like, building the frames and the fabrication. 453 00:20:11,627 --> 00:20:13,337 I think both of us are really capable. 454 00:20:13,379 --> 00:20:15,464 Nick, you know, can do pretty much everything I do, 455 00:20:15,506 --> 00:20:16,882 and I can do the things that Nick does. 456 00:20:16,924 --> 00:20:20,261 But, you know, Nick is a really insane engine builder. 457 00:20:21,887 --> 00:20:24,724 [Nick] Oh, I've been working on bikes since, you know, teens, 458 00:20:24,765 --> 00:20:25,975 on dirt bikes and stuff like that. 459 00:20:26,016 --> 00:20:27,643 I guess that's how we all start. 460 00:20:27,685 --> 00:20:30,980 Started into, you know, Shovelheads, 461 00:20:31,021 --> 00:20:33,566 Panheads, and then flip it and buying parts, 462 00:20:33,607 --> 00:20:34,859 'cause I didn't have money. 463 00:20:34,900 --> 00:20:36,861 So, I basically went to swap meets, 464 00:20:36,902 --> 00:20:39,363 picked a part here, picked a part there or... 465 00:20:40,698 --> 00:20:42,867 [Brian] I've been tinkering with bikes since I was 17. 466 00:20:42,908 --> 00:20:46,537 Um, I built, like, my first bike in my mom's garage. 467 00:20:46,579 --> 00:20:48,998 And then I, yeah, started racing bikes, 468 00:20:49,039 --> 00:20:50,791 um, shortly after that. 469 00:20:51,792 --> 00:20:54,587 I was a tattooer for-- for 15 years 470 00:20:55,504 --> 00:20:58,758 And I messed with bikes as like kind of my creative outlet 471 00:20:58,799 --> 00:21:00,259 off of my day job. 472 00:21:02,136 --> 00:21:04,764 And then when COVID happened and everything shut down, 473 00:21:04,805 --> 00:21:07,057 you know, I had a lot of, like, side work, 474 00:21:07,099 --> 00:21:08,851 which was motorcycles. 475 00:21:08,851 --> 00:21:11,771 And then once, like, everything opened back up after COVID, 476 00:21:11,812 --> 00:21:13,773 I was so busy doing bikes 477 00:21:13,814 --> 00:21:15,691 that, like, I just really 478 00:21:15,691 --> 00:21:17,485 didn't even look back to go to tattooing. 479 00:21:19,236 --> 00:21:21,113 In no way did I think when I was, 480 00:21:21,155 --> 00:21:23,115 you know, young, getting into motorcycles 481 00:21:23,157 --> 00:21:25,701 that I'd be building the rarest bikes 482 00:21:25,743 --> 00:21:28,078 on planet Earth for Aquaman. 483 00:21:28,120 --> 00:21:30,456 [laughing] You know, it's pretty crazy. 484 00:21:33,417 --> 00:21:36,420 [♪ rock music playing] 485 00:21:42,510 --> 00:21:43,928 [groaning] 486 00:21:45,513 --> 00:21:46,680 Yeah! 487 00:21:53,771 --> 00:21:55,898 Oh, God, dude. 488 00:21:55,898 --> 00:21:57,608 Look how beautiful it is. 489 00:21:59,151 --> 00:22:01,111 That is really the prettiest motor, isn't it? 490 00:22:02,279 --> 00:22:03,364 -[Aaron] That's something else. -Wow. 491 00:22:04,532 --> 00:22:06,909 How do you think-- how fast this thing goes? 492 00:22:06,951 --> 00:22:09,578 [Aaron] Easily a buck, if you get it geared right. 493 00:22:09,578 --> 00:22:10,663 Scary. 494 00:22:10,704 --> 00:22:12,498 Direct drive. Barely any brakes. 495 00:22:13,457 --> 00:22:15,334 Wow. I mean, this is gonna be amazing. 496 00:22:15,376 --> 00:22:17,253 These two are gonna be side by side. 497 00:22:17,294 --> 00:22:19,421 God, man. 498 00:22:19,463 --> 00:22:21,632 Gonna be racing the Harleys. 499 00:22:21,674 --> 00:22:23,259 It's pretty amazing, we've-- we've set out 500 00:22:23,300 --> 00:22:25,177 to make the-- kind of the impossible. 501 00:22:25,219 --> 00:22:28,973 We're making, uh, Banjos, D-A-R's, C-A-C. 502 00:22:30,140 --> 00:22:33,143 [♪ rock music continues playing] 503 00:22:37,773 --> 00:22:39,483 [Aaron] Come up with, based on a picture. 504 00:22:39,525 --> 00:22:41,110 We didn't even know what color it was, but-- 505 00:22:41,151 --> 00:22:42,820 [Jason] Fuck, look at that. 506 00:22:44,071 --> 00:22:45,364 [sighs] 507 00:22:46,532 --> 00:22:49,201 You're unbelievable, man. Wow. 508 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:54,456 It's the Roamer. 509 00:22:54,498 --> 00:22:56,166 -Glad you like it, bro. -It's the Roaming Standard. 510 00:22:57,376 --> 00:23:00,129 That is-- Those bars, too. Oh, my God. 511 00:23:00,170 --> 00:23:02,089 -[Aaron] All mechanical. -It's all mechanical. Wow. 512 00:23:05,718 --> 00:23:07,344 Oh, my God, bro. 513 00:23:08,512 --> 00:23:11,473 Look at that. [exhales sharply] 514 00:23:11,515 --> 00:23:14,518 Dude, what the fuck is that? [chuckles] 515 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:18,564 [Aaron] This is a Cyc-- this is a Cyclone model R-15. 516 00:23:18,606 --> 00:23:23,527 So, at the time, uh, Strand was making three different bikes. 517 00:23:23,569 --> 00:23:27,698 He had a, uh, a race bike, a road model, 518 00:23:27,740 --> 00:23:30,075 and something called the strip stock model. 519 00:23:30,117 --> 00:23:32,244 It was just basically like a speedster, 520 00:23:32,286 --> 00:23:34,538 -which is the R-15 you see here. -That's what this is right here? 521 00:23:34,580 --> 00:23:36,373 -Yeah. -Speedster. 522 00:23:37,249 --> 00:23:38,292 Ooh. 523 00:23:39,209 --> 00:23:41,211 [Aaron] So, it's still got all the amenities of a street bike, 524 00:23:41,253 --> 00:23:43,088 like clutch, brake, footboards. 525 00:23:43,130 --> 00:23:44,882 -Yeah. -It's kind of hot-rodded, 526 00:23:44,924 --> 00:23:46,592 straight from the factory. 527 00:23:46,634 --> 00:23:47,885 You are one of a kind, mister. 528 00:23:47,927 --> 00:23:49,637 There is one of you. 529 00:23:51,138 --> 00:23:52,264 How do you do it? 530 00:23:53,390 --> 00:23:55,517 Some people would call it weaponized autism. 531 00:23:55,559 --> 00:23:57,561 [Jason laughing] 532 00:23:59,772 --> 00:24:03,108 Oh, my God, bro. Unbelievable. 533 00:24:03,150 --> 00:24:05,361 [laughing] 534 00:24:05,402 --> 00:24:07,404 [whirring] 535 00:24:08,572 --> 00:24:10,574 [engine rumbling] 536 00:24:22,586 --> 00:24:25,714 [Jason] Bro. Nothing in the world. 537 00:24:25,756 --> 00:24:27,883 [laughing] Oh, my God, dude. 538 00:24:27,925 --> 00:24:29,760 Check out what it did to my boots. 539 00:24:29,802 --> 00:24:32,596 [Jason] This thing's gonna just be fucking terrifying. 540 00:24:35,015 --> 00:24:36,433 On the Roam. 541 00:24:36,475 --> 00:24:38,769 Nick's, thanks for making my dreams come true, bro. 542 00:24:38,811 --> 00:24:41,605 -[Aaron] Dude. -I can't wait to see this thing and... 543 00:24:41,647 --> 00:24:43,941 [sniffling] you know what, just line 'em all up. 544 00:24:44,900 --> 00:24:47,569 I mean, you're doing 100 miles an hour 545 00:24:47,569 --> 00:24:51,240 on a bicycle frame with 100% ethanol. 546 00:24:51,281 --> 00:24:52,825 Basically a bomb, you're riding on a bomb 547 00:24:52,866 --> 00:24:54,159 and you're going around in circles, 548 00:24:54,201 --> 00:24:55,577 and it's just like I-- 549 00:24:55,619 --> 00:24:56,954 doing that in the 1920s 550 00:24:56,996 --> 00:24:58,288 and like, pushing the limits of speed. 551 00:24:59,456 --> 00:25:01,250 I've never felt that experience, 552 00:25:01,291 --> 00:25:02,835 and so I wanted to just take it to the next level. 553 00:25:02,876 --> 00:25:05,045 We're gonna end up having three Banjos... 554 00:25:06,130 --> 00:25:08,799 a D-A-R, two C-A-C's now... 555 00:25:10,175 --> 00:25:12,678 the Knuth, which is-- I've never seen one, 556 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:14,513 -Mm-hmm. -You've seen one. 557 00:25:14,555 --> 00:25:16,640 -And some eight valve stuff. -And some eight valves. 558 00:25:16,682 --> 00:25:18,183 Oh yeah, some eight valve. 559 00:25:21,478 --> 00:25:22,813 That's a party. 560 00:25:22,855 --> 00:25:25,983 We-- we upped it from first season. [chuckles] 561 00:25:26,025 --> 00:25:28,193 Buckle up. [laughing] 562 00:25:28,235 --> 00:25:31,238 [♪ dramatic music playing] 563 00:25:34,992 --> 00:25:36,243 Banjos, buddy. 564 00:25:37,494 --> 00:25:38,996 [indistinct chatter] 565 00:25:47,921 --> 00:25:49,923 [all exclaiming] 566 00:25:55,721 --> 00:25:58,057 [Jason] I think to be able to see all these, you know, 567 00:25:58,098 --> 00:26:00,309 new friends, old friends, all come together 568 00:26:00,350 --> 00:26:02,519 over the same goal, and, you know, 569 00:26:02,561 --> 00:26:06,023 a couple years of just building these impossible machines, 570 00:26:06,065 --> 00:26:08,400 and it all coming to fruition, I think everyone 571 00:26:08,442 --> 00:26:10,694 was just kind of in shock. 572 00:26:10,736 --> 00:26:12,321 -Look at that! -Wow. 573 00:26:12,362 --> 00:26:14,156 -Holy... -[indistinct chatter] 574 00:26:14,198 --> 00:26:16,200 [laughter] 575 00:26:17,034 --> 00:26:18,077 Dude! 576 00:26:18,118 --> 00:26:20,579 It's original shell... [indistinct] 577 00:26:20,621 --> 00:26:21,872 Sit on that, baby. 578 00:26:23,624 --> 00:26:25,417 [groaning] Look at this. 579 00:26:27,211 --> 00:26:29,630 Original paint D-A-R. 580 00:26:30,672 --> 00:26:32,883 Don't ask me to show anything I can't ride, first of all, okay? 581 00:26:32,925 --> 00:26:34,343 'Cause if I can't ride it, I don't even wanna-- 582 00:26:34,384 --> 00:26:35,511 I don't even wanna sit on it. 583 00:26:35,552 --> 00:26:36,845 [Jason] You're riding all of 'em. 584 00:26:36,887 --> 00:26:37,930 [Billy chuckles] 585 00:26:37,971 --> 00:26:39,723 [Jason] We're riding all of 'em. 586 00:26:41,517 --> 00:26:45,187 For motorcycle enthusiasts, it's a pretty prolific moment. 587 00:26:45,229 --> 00:26:47,898 These were our, you know, great-grandparents doing this 588 00:26:47,940 --> 00:26:49,525 and it's still alive. 589 00:26:49,566 --> 00:26:51,527 It's still in our souls, and we're bringing it back 590 00:26:51,568 --> 00:26:53,570 and, damn, they had some fun. 591 00:26:54,571 --> 00:26:57,032 It's like going back 100, 120 years, 592 00:26:57,074 --> 00:26:58,909 you know, 110 years. I mean... 593 00:26:58,951 --> 00:27:01,286 -Dang, bro. -It's like... 594 00:27:01,328 --> 00:27:03,038 -Come on. -I mean, these things 595 00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:05,541 were relics for decades, right? 596 00:27:05,582 --> 00:27:07,876 And it was just something you looked at and talked about. 597 00:27:07,918 --> 00:27:09,711 You couldn't put your hands on one to save your life. 598 00:27:09,753 --> 00:27:11,797 Yeah, I mean, and then now, they're so valuable 599 00:27:11,839 --> 00:27:13,632 and nobody's ever gonna run 'em or ride 'em. 600 00:27:13,674 --> 00:27:16,885 I mean, this is like the next best thing. 601 00:27:16,927 --> 00:27:18,637 -[Jason] We got three. -[laughing] 602 00:27:18,679 --> 00:27:19,972 Three versus three. 603 00:27:21,098 --> 00:27:22,474 Three Banjos versus three Cyclones. 604 00:27:22,516 --> 00:27:23,976 I've got a place where these things 605 00:27:24,017 --> 00:27:25,310 will always be welcome. I'll tell you what. 606 00:27:25,352 --> 00:27:27,062 [Jason] Oh, dude, it's gonna be good. 607 00:27:27,104 --> 00:27:29,231 Every one of 'em. Oh, man. 608 00:27:29,273 --> 00:27:31,608 -Thank you, Billy. -Yeah, man. 609 00:27:31,650 --> 00:27:34,069 -[Jason] Dude. -It's really beautiful work, man, this is outstanding. 610 00:27:34,111 --> 00:27:35,904 -[overlapping chatter] -Thank you. 611 00:27:35,946 --> 00:27:38,574 [indistinct chatter continues] 612 00:27:38,615 --> 00:27:40,576 [Aaron] Growing up, I looked up to all these people, 613 00:27:40,617 --> 00:27:42,995 and it's so cool 614 00:27:43,036 --> 00:27:47,040 to be able to connect with these guys that, um... 615 00:27:48,542 --> 00:27:51,587 they're your, I-- I don't want to say heroes, 616 00:27:51,628 --> 00:27:53,672 but I want to say heroes, 'cause that's... 617 00:27:54,506 --> 00:27:56,592 they're absolute legends, and they're building 618 00:27:56,633 --> 00:27:58,135 the coolest stuff on the planet. 619 00:28:00,470 --> 00:28:02,431 Being able to go back with something 620 00:28:02,472 --> 00:28:04,766 as legendary as a Cyclone, 621 00:28:04,808 --> 00:28:07,269 it's just feels like a dream. 622 00:28:07,311 --> 00:28:10,314 [♪ uplifting music playing] 623 00:28:13,692 --> 00:28:15,694 [motorcycle rumbling] 624 00:28:21,074 --> 00:28:23,076 [revving] 625 00:28:30,083 --> 00:28:33,670 [group cheering and clapping] 626 00:28:33,712 --> 00:28:35,714 -Yeah, baby! -[dog barking] 627 00:28:40,594 --> 00:28:42,846 [Jason] Alright, well, this is kind of like, um... 628 00:28:44,723 --> 00:28:46,725 these next three bikes are about as big as it gets. 629 00:28:46,767 --> 00:28:50,020 This is definitely the dream come true. 630 00:28:50,062 --> 00:28:53,232 Building these with my friends and, uh, just having this idea 631 00:28:53,273 --> 00:28:55,567 to be able to make this. So, check this out. 632 00:28:55,609 --> 00:28:58,153 This is the Banjo, this is the eight valve. 633 00:28:58,195 --> 00:29:01,823 Gonna race it, nickel Banjo. It's a pretty pinch-me moment 634 00:29:01,865 --> 00:29:04,826 to be able to have these three together. 635 00:29:04,826 --> 00:29:06,578 This is the end of the dream right here. 636 00:29:11,875 --> 00:29:13,043 There it is. 637 00:29:16,088 --> 00:29:18,340 [indistinct chatter] 638 00:29:18,382 --> 00:29:20,259 Golly, look at 'em. 639 00:29:20,300 --> 00:29:21,593 Shiny enough? 640 00:29:23,303 --> 00:29:26,348 I love it, man. I love it. 641 00:29:26,390 --> 00:29:28,225 -You guys did good work. -[Aaron] Oh, thank you. 642 00:29:32,104 --> 00:29:35,065 It's pretty amazing. Our friends Tom and Sean 643 00:29:35,107 --> 00:29:38,694 at, uh, Competition Distribution, 644 00:29:38,694 --> 00:29:41,363 they, uh, pretty much scanned everything. 645 00:29:41,363 --> 00:29:44,074 We sent it in, and these two badasses... 646 00:29:45,242 --> 00:29:47,703 -Brian and Nick. -[Matt] That's a baby Bosch. 647 00:29:47,744 --> 00:29:49,579 -There it is. -[Matt] Baby Bosch. 648 00:29:50,747 --> 00:29:52,791 And you got those three. I mean, that took me-- 649 00:29:52,833 --> 00:29:54,626 this is Walksler's. 650 00:29:54,668 --> 00:29:57,087 The moment I saw this, this is the big inspiration right here. 651 00:29:58,088 --> 00:29:59,464 [Matt] That's like the pinnacle right here. 652 00:29:59,506 --> 00:30:01,550 And it's just also just to celebrate Harley, too, 653 00:30:01,591 --> 00:30:03,218 'cause it's everything that we all-- 654 00:30:03,260 --> 00:30:04,553 we love 'em so much. 655 00:30:04,594 --> 00:30:06,054 Right now, we're gonna go race these bad boys, 656 00:30:06,096 --> 00:30:08,307 and then I think it would just be so cool 657 00:30:08,348 --> 00:30:09,891 to have these, like-- these trophies... 658 00:30:09,933 --> 00:30:11,810 -Hell yeah. -...from everything that we've done, 659 00:30:11,852 --> 00:30:14,104 and all the inspiration from all my friends, 660 00:30:14,146 --> 00:30:15,522 you know what I mean? 661 00:30:17,190 --> 00:30:19,526 -[person whistling] -It's a work of art, y'all. 662 00:30:20,777 --> 00:30:23,780 [♪ gentle music playing] 663 00:30:25,282 --> 00:30:27,409 What we're about to do, uh, 664 00:30:27,451 --> 00:30:29,119 is, uh, it'd probably be the first time 665 00:30:29,161 --> 00:30:32,331 that a series of Banjo racing engines 666 00:30:32,372 --> 00:30:35,125 have been on a track in maybe 100 or more years. 667 00:30:36,626 --> 00:30:39,921 You've taken Harley-Davidson's rarest racing engine, 668 00:30:39,963 --> 00:30:42,924 kind of the pinnacle of their development from the '20s, 669 00:30:42,966 --> 00:30:44,468 and, uh, we're gonna put it to the test 670 00:30:44,509 --> 00:30:45,969 for the first time in a century. 671 00:30:48,221 --> 00:30:49,806 I'm a little nervous, to be honest with you. 672 00:30:49,848 --> 00:30:51,350 -[laughing] -Excited and nervous. 673 00:30:51,391 --> 00:30:54,770 But I think it's like a-- a healthy caution. 674 00:30:54,811 --> 00:30:58,106 You know, these things, uh, were going super fast 675 00:30:58,148 --> 00:30:59,608 -and doing crazy stuff back then. -Mm-hmm. 676 00:30:59,649 --> 00:31:01,777 And it's gonna probably be the same now. 677 00:31:01,818 --> 00:31:03,278 The thing about these motorcycles 678 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:04,946 is they were never safe to begin with. 679 00:31:04,988 --> 00:31:06,031 -[chuckles] -You know? 680 00:31:07,449 --> 00:31:09,368 [Billy] Every time I pull up to a racetrack 681 00:31:09,409 --> 00:31:10,619 and I'm gonna race a vintage bike 682 00:31:10,660 --> 00:31:11,870 with no brakes and no clutch, 683 00:31:11,912 --> 00:31:13,663 it's the biggest rush. 684 00:31:13,705 --> 00:31:15,165 I mean, my-- my heart starts pumping, 685 00:31:15,207 --> 00:31:17,042 you know, my body warms up, I just-- 686 00:31:17,084 --> 00:31:19,002 You know what it feels like 'cause you've done it before, 687 00:31:19,044 --> 00:31:21,004 but it's still-- it's like going skydiving, you know? 688 00:31:21,046 --> 00:31:22,381 It's like jumping out of a plane 689 00:31:22,422 --> 00:31:23,965 and you don't know what the end result's gonna be. 690 00:31:23,965 --> 00:31:26,176 You hope you're safe, you hope everything ends up well, 691 00:31:26,218 --> 00:31:28,470 but you just don't know. It's that kind of a risk. 692 00:31:28,470 --> 00:31:31,515 [♪ gentle music playing] 693 00:31:49,032 --> 00:31:51,326 [Jason] There's just a handful of humans 694 00:31:51,368 --> 00:31:54,204 who have seen all these bikes together and working. 695 00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:57,791 Seeing the Cyclone, seeing all the different Harleys... 696 00:31:58,750 --> 00:32:00,001 that is just one of a kind. 697 00:32:00,043 --> 00:32:01,711 I think everyone's mind was blown. 698 00:32:03,422 --> 00:32:05,090 It's a really, truly an honor 699 00:32:05,132 --> 00:32:07,008 because you have all your friends 700 00:32:07,050 --> 00:32:09,428 coming together to pull off a dream 701 00:32:09,469 --> 00:32:11,888 that you want to do and within a time frame, 702 00:32:11,930 --> 00:32:14,433 and working with the weather and the conditions. 703 00:32:18,395 --> 00:32:20,397 [motorcycles rumbling] 704 00:32:34,161 --> 00:32:37,164 [♪ "50 Ft" by The Bobby Lees playing] 705 00:32:41,293 --> 00:32:42,752 ♪ Ah! ♪ 706 00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:44,921 [engine revving] 707 00:32:49,217 --> 00:32:53,638 ♪ Hey, I'm one big queen, nothing can stop me ♪ 708 00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:57,559 ♪ Red light, red, green, I sat back, I'm watching ♪ 709 00:32:57,559 --> 00:33:01,271 ♪ I'm number one, second to no one ♪ 710 00:33:01,313 --> 00:33:05,275 ♪ No sweat, I'm clean, nothing can touch me ♪ 711 00:33:05,317 --> 00:33:07,319 [motorcycles rumbling] 712 00:33:20,290 --> 00:33:22,292 [rumbling continues] 713 00:33:27,797 --> 00:33:29,799 [Jason] Every bike was so different. 714 00:33:29,841 --> 00:33:32,344 Every single one of 'em was a different experience. 715 00:33:33,220 --> 00:33:35,305 And I think that's what makes it so special. 716 00:33:35,347 --> 00:33:37,599 Every motor, the way the frames were built, 717 00:33:37,641 --> 00:33:39,309 everything was just a different stance, 718 00:33:39,351 --> 00:33:42,270 a different feel, a different growl. 719 00:33:42,312 --> 00:33:45,315 -[♪ dramatic music playing] -[motorcycles rumbling] 720 00:34:05,293 --> 00:34:07,796 I've never ridden on like a mud track before. 721 00:34:07,837 --> 00:34:09,214 It gets to this perfect condition 722 00:34:09,255 --> 00:34:11,675 where it's like you can really ride the wall. 723 00:34:11,716 --> 00:34:13,301 It's just such a different feeling. 724 00:34:13,342 --> 00:34:15,136 You can have this, like, perfect moment. 725 00:34:15,178 --> 00:34:17,764 ♪♪ 726 00:34:27,190 --> 00:34:28,817 You're completely aware. 727 00:34:28,858 --> 00:34:31,820 You're just so in the moment, 728 00:34:31,860 --> 00:34:36,157 and you feel everything, like, all senses are firing. 729 00:34:36,199 --> 00:34:38,243 The sounds are like nothing you've ever heard. 730 00:34:38,284 --> 00:34:40,704 The smells, the speed, the way the bike feels, 731 00:34:40,745 --> 00:34:43,164 the way that it feels the track, 732 00:34:43,206 --> 00:34:44,873 and at the twist of a throttle, 733 00:34:44,916 --> 00:34:47,710 you're just bringing life to this wild animal. 734 00:34:49,379 --> 00:34:52,716 ♪♪ 735 00:35:13,486 --> 00:35:15,864 Having the guys, like, just the way they wet the track 736 00:35:15,864 --> 00:35:17,907 and just-- I've never seen anything like that. 737 00:35:17,949 --> 00:35:19,951 The idea of, like, shooting board track, 738 00:35:19,993 --> 00:35:21,536 the way we do it, the way that, you know, 739 00:35:21,578 --> 00:35:23,872 being a part of it, like getting the camera in there 740 00:35:23,913 --> 00:35:25,457 and being able to experience that, 741 00:35:25,498 --> 00:35:27,876 like, we're riding with that rider. 742 00:35:27,876 --> 00:35:29,252 It was a pretty awesome experience. 743 00:35:30,420 --> 00:35:33,173 [♪ dramatic music continues playing] 744 00:36:03,328 --> 00:36:06,623 ♪♪ 745 00:36:24,641 --> 00:36:27,644 [♪ gentle music playing] 746 00:36:30,146 --> 00:36:32,148 [riders chattering] 747 00:36:42,617 --> 00:36:44,786 [Jason] I-- I have to tell you, watching this whole season, 748 00:36:44,828 --> 00:36:48,123 like, it's a-- it's a freaking weird thing to say, man, 749 00:36:48,123 --> 00:36:51,960 but I watch it and I know how hard we put into it, 750 00:36:52,001 --> 00:36:54,129 and I was just-- you know, I teared up. 751 00:36:54,170 --> 00:36:56,631 [riders chattering] 752 00:36:56,631 --> 00:36:59,175 [Jason] And it's the craziest thing. I'm just watching motorcycles. 753 00:37:00,009 --> 00:37:01,720 But I teared up because I just know how many people 754 00:37:01,761 --> 00:37:05,640 put in the hard work to make these motors run for me 755 00:37:05,682 --> 00:37:07,267 so that I could show the world. 756 00:37:08,810 --> 00:37:11,771 And this experience of bringing all my friends together... 757 00:37:13,189 --> 00:37:16,192 And it was just the coolest thing, 758 00:37:16,234 --> 00:37:18,820 you know, just to see it go from the sun setting 759 00:37:18,862 --> 00:37:20,029 into the night... 760 00:37:22,240 --> 00:37:25,493 and just the spirit of it all, man, I'm just so thankful. 761 00:37:25,535 --> 00:37:26,578 I'm so thankful. 762 00:37:26,619 --> 00:37:28,580 [motorcycle rumbling] 763 00:37:28,621 --> 00:37:31,374 [♪ gentle music playing] 764 00:37:33,793 --> 00:37:36,796 ♪♪