good morning youtube friends how you guys doing it is a beautiful day here in illinois today and
today is a big day for me because we're going to try to tow both the motorcycle and the car in this
video i'm getting things ready over here i don't know this has ever been attempted before okay
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so here's the plan and believe me i already know i'm doing everything wrong blah blah blah don't
ever do what i'm doing you know that kind of thing so i brought the car up and i want to mention that
the blue ox arms they're in their compressed state right now so they come out about 12 or
14 inches more that's where they're supposed to be you know locked into place but you can come up and
get within six inches and that way you can still i'll show you still pull these out and get them to
where i got to get them which i really love about this system you don't want to get it perfect just
got to get close you know i wasn't even lined up straight but once we do that the car is not even
going to be this close it's going to be even farther back from this and what i was talking
about is when we start turning how close are we going to get to this right here that was that was
one of my concerns luckily for me once we get on the road i'm going to do some tests just kind of
take it easy go over to sean's shop and i'll be watching on the camera up there we'll kind of see
how things are working and i'll do a couple tests in a controlled environment once i get out of my
neighborhood here that's the plan just to make sure everything's good but let me hook this up
and we'll see what it looks like all right got our lights flashing there ladies and gentlemen we are
all connected and hooked up a hundred percent let me stand back so you can get a view of that again
and i put the car in reverse so i already locked both of these arms into place they cannot go any
farther back they cannot compress anymore up so this whole arm is going to rotate as i make
left and right hand turns and if we stand right here you can see that it is basically impossible
for the car to ever hit any part of the motorcycle carrier the car is here it's going to swivel out
like this see what i mean because these arms can't move we should be okay but i don't trust
that theory even though i've checked and double checked this i'm still going to take it super
easy on this short little trip okay so let's go test this out we'll get to a controlled area and
i will make a turn and i'll show you all right or we'll find out together i guess just speaking at
the rear view camera here as i'm driving so far so good no problems at all i have made several turns
and i can see the front fender of the car not even close so we have plenty of clearance back there
let me get parked in a parking lot and i'll show you a little more yeah so by the way i kind of
just made it a habit every time i come by this flying j to dump my tanks here i could do it at
the house i just don't have a really good system there i have to use that rhino portable and then
carry it across the wet grass over to my septic input right there and it's it's not an easy fun
task right now maybe later i can build some sort of a ramp or i don't know just pulling it across
the yard sucks and i've tried putting a big hose with a macerator there that didn't work to get it
so it's just easier sometimes just to do it here where i can just hook up pull a valve even though
i gotta pay a few bucks what is it five bucks to dump it's worth the convenience fee for me at
least and remember you know i don't stay at base camp i don't live at base camp base camp is just a
storage unit that i go visit from time to time so let me do this then i'll fill up a gas then we'll
go to a big open parking lot nearby okay we've got a nice big uh mostly empty lot here in wood
river so since i already know that this system is not pinching i mean i made a hard right turn no
left turn out of the flying j and the front of the car swooped way over here and on the camera view
it looks like the tire is is blocking part of the bumper but obviously the tires way up here
the car was like way down here as i was turning so what i'll do is i'll go get my my new gopro 9 yes
i replaced my gopro 9 and i'll attach it somewhere we'll drive around and i'm not going to comment
live but i'll look at this in post-production and i'll talk you through what we're all kind
of seeing and maybe i'll get a couple different shots but we'll see how this all works i also
want to mention the blue walk system i'm not up on the levelers right now you can see it's perfectly
straight but it's also more prone to bottom out and that's just something i'm considering you know
so i don't know i might still reverse that dual hitch right there i might swap it up and
that'll raise the motorcycle up to here and the car will still be underneath it that'll
allow me to have a little more clearance let's go drive around so i just put the
gopro here on top of the motorcycle as i'm making a right-hand turn and we're looking down at this
hook strap that holds the motorcycle i'll put an arrow there so you can see what i'm talking about
um what you can't tell is that it's also about six inches higher than the blue ox and so obviously
the corner of the car didn't pinch we've got plenty of room there as the blue ox continues to
just kind of swivel underneath the motorcycle mount that's shawn doing a burnout on the street
out there now we're making a left-hand turn i guess you can't see much from over here but same
exact thing where that strap kind of plugs in you can see where it's at near the bumper it's nowhere
near this is actually a better view as i make a left-hand turn again looking at that cable that
holds the strap down for the motorcycle six to eight inches above the blue ops we're not pinching
at the end where the wheel of the motorcycle is as we make this turn and we continue to turn
i think i actually make a really hard left here next yeah so that was like a normal left-hand turn
this next one here i'm really going to crank it to the left here so i'm making a hard left turn
you can't actually even see how how close it isn't but
we're not hitting anywhere um so i'm pretty comfortable that uh this system
is going to work you just don't want to bump up and down too much but it works
all right got parked over here at uh modified auto which is looking more like an rv park lately
and jason and candace from camping with the kelly's and my mechanic robert
he didn't bring the bus this time he got a little truck camper to put on his dually diesel
no it's a single wheel diesel but still yeah so he's got that i think he's been doing some stuff
getting some stuff done and well i want to talk to him about getting this exhaust leak fixed again
but we're going to talk about this because i think i made a mistake kyle and tj are getting ready to
go on a ride oh sun just came out and i hear betty white yeah definitely here betty white it's going
on sounds good not sure if i mention it's the next day yeah it's the next day um so on the motorcycle
those of you been with me for a while you may remember that in vegas last year somebody cut
off one of my saddle bags off roxy the rebel cut it off made off with my gopro 9 and a heart and
my chest mount and everything so as you can see i put new saddle bags on her same company
these are made by viking bags i really like them a little different design here on these ones and
a different application as you can see there is no more fold over underneath the rear seat there
i have mounted these permanently in so they cannot be cut off and it makes them a lot sturdier i
think it looks really good on there it'll give me some extra storage for when i go on rides plus
i've got my tank bag up there but anyway yeah we're getting ready to go on a ride here but i
want to talk about the hitch system because i made a little mistake and i'm going to fix it still
really windy here in illinois by the way but this system is upside down and it cannot be done that
way it is actually specifically designed to tow on that part and for accessories on that part i've
got it backwards even though i'm not really towing it's a 1500 pound car and i'm just pulling it
but this is a 350 pound tongue weight max and a 3 000 pound towing anyway moving forward it
would at least have to be flipped around the other way to be safe and to be dot approved but i found
one that is beefier i think it's a 400 which will be perfect for my system so i ordered that we're
gonna get that installed when it arrives that's coming in the future just wanted to mention that
otherwise everything seems to be good as far as transporting both the car and the motorcycle
excited about your birthday jax got a big birthday party coming up happy birthday jax i'm gonna go
ahead and leave this video right here guys because we gotta celebrate jax's birthday and in my next
video jax and i have a really big exciting crazy surprise to share with you so i hope you will join
us in two days oh boy might break the internet see you soon guys thanks for joining me bye
hmm