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Sir, please sit!
First!
Hello and welcome to Signal 2 Signal Season 2
Today, as you can see, we have a very special guest
Who likes to sit down first.
I'm usually a huge fan of Kartikeya Singhi
Because he's everything that I'm not.
He has hair, his helmet has no colour!
But today, not so much of a fan!
Heavy-light!
I'm a little envious too.
But why? Why today man? Just because I beat you?
You're supposed to say this is the end of the video.
Now they'll stop watching!
No, No, you don't know which bike I was on!
So, what bike were you on?
I was on both bikes actually!
You can see why I'm feeling so exasperated with him today.
Okay, I started off with what matches, suits my personality!
Something heavy!
Hairy!
No, this is not hairy at all!
I was on the Classic 350.
And I had the advantage of more torque
28 vs 26 per se
Except that his bike needs to rev out to make the torque and
My bike just makes the torque all the time, because I was on the Ather 450X.
Which has 100 extra in the name and an X at the end.
He tried to trick me!
He put my scooter in economy mode and gave it to me thinking I wouldn't notice but I did.
I saw the lightning sign was missing. So I went into Warp mode immediately and...
Well, it still didn't make any difference.
And to be fair, I had reason to be worried because his scooter is 80 kilos lighter than the Classic.
And he's 15 kilos lighter than me.
But you know, I was fighting for the internal combustion engine. This is a fight I wanted to fight!
We might be looking at the past and the future in some ways here in this story
But, it was a fight worth fighting!
3... 2... 1... GO!
Yes, and I think he's getting confused because
It's not the eternal combustion engine. It's only the internal combustion engine, it will eventually be defeated!
We came this close!
Because what happened in the drag race, it was raining, it was wet and all of that.
And honestly, neither of these machines are so fast that we were worried about that.
But when we launched his Classic 350 bogged!
And it immediately slowed down, so I thought
That's it, I'm done!
And then you know what happened?
From my viewpoint, we were at the start line.
And the next thing I know, the Ather was at least three bike lengths ahead of me.
He just shut off the line!
And I was like no!
Yeah, and I will add a technical point here.
It was not the scooter, it was me!
But the point is that, once I got to 90 kmph with nobody in my peripheral vision
Which was I think, about 85 on the VBOX
It just maxed out and then it wouldn't do anything else.
It was just like the battery said, "No!"
And the motor said, "I agree, absolutely not!"
And then guess what?
And he went past me and won!
So, then we had obviously swap bikes
And then I showed him how launches are done.
3... 2... 1... Go!
He actually got a better launch than me.
And that is amazing.
Because when the Classic bogged, I pulled the clutch and slipped it a little bit and kept the revs up.
It was the traction control system. I didn't know anything.
And my Ather 450X, by the time I got it, was a little warmed up.
And that's not a good thing when you're talking about electrics.
Because it wasn't doing what I wanted it to do.
So, that's my reason for losing.
Yeah. So, what happened on that drag race was that because I got a great launch on the Classic 350.
The Ather actually didn't get ahead of the Classic. I think, at any point in the race.
There wasn't a lot in it, to be honest with you, the results were pretty close!
But the same thing happened, where the Ather maxed out at 90.
And the Classic kept on building speed.
And I think that's why the EVs are still missing out on, there's a lot of battery management going on.
They're not thinking about people wanting to launch their machines. And yeah, not a lot of them do.
So, as soon as you touch the brake, the power is cut.
So, getting off the line on a scooter, even with a lot of torque is difficult.
And then, there is a max cap. So, the scooter just can't build speed beyond that.
So, I would say Ather, you need a super warp mode.
Where you remove all restrictions and say, "Okay, I'm going to ride the scooter for 400 metres, and I want max performance."
Let's call it Ridiculous mode. Nobody has ever used that name.
Not yet?
Oh wow!
I think then the Ather would definitely win this test.
And it's amazing considering that this is one of the most iconic motorcycles that we have.
And one of the most iconic electric scooters that we have.
We only have one!
And it is already running it so close in so many ways.
True!
When the Ather 550X comes out.
Ather, are you listening?
When the Ather 650X comes out.
Then we'll compare it to the Interceptor 650 and see what happens.
Yes, until then
Until then, thank you so much for watching
Our drag race between the Ather 450X and the Classic 350.
It might have won this time, but we don't know what will happen the next time when it's dry.
But the important thing, is this is just one of so many drag races coming to you.
Many of them are odd comparisons, many of them are super popular comparisons.
And in each case, we found very very interesting results.
For example, that he needs to cut his hair.
But we're going to sign out now.
And what I'm going to ask you to do
Is leave us a comment telling us what vehicles you'd like to see compared on Signal 2 Signal Season 3
And I promise you, we'll get to those.
Do you have anything clever to say as you sign off?
Cut his hair!
Saved him some weight!
Nice, right?
AK47!
There is a slight chance that I might win through my sheer presence in that cabin.
It's not really possible!