OK, then, so Blizzard Entertainment,
makers of Overwatch, have tasked me.
They’ve said “Furze, we want you to make Junkrat’s Riptire!”
And of course, in the previous video,
we made a wonderful operationally-correct Riptire.
You can take it from your back,
you pull the chord and off it goes.
However, the destructive power of this is questionable.
And not what you’d expect from the Colin Furze channel. So…
Right!
600 cc sports bike: plenty of power, lovely noise!
What are we going to do with it?
We’re going to strip all the fairing off it,
kind of house it in a frame with the bike in a frame,
take the front wheel off, we don’t need the front wheel
and then we’re going to get a massive Riptire,
sit it on top of the bike back wheel,
so when the bike’s going forwards
it spins the Riptire up the other way
and we can deploy it out the back of the frame, bang!
Straight down the field, boom!
Into whatever.
Going to be huge!
And we can have it spinning at God knows what miles per hour.
Now that - that is how you do it!
Right let’s get it stripped!
Plastics off! Bosh!
Look at these cables!
Think we’re going to label these up…
Not big… Shut up, Colin, it’s irrelevant.
Oh, my tie!
OK, took all the plastics and fairing off.
Now, what I’m going to do is stick this in a frame.
We need to basically steady it,
because if we’ve got a massive tire up here spinning round
and this thing gets all imbalanced and goes everywhere,
that’s a bad thing, so: steel down here,
steel down here.
Might want to lose the cans or drop them down,
put some sort of a shield here so if the spikes,
which are going to be on the Riptire let go,
they don’t punch a hole in the fuel tank,
and there we are.
Let’s do that and then we’ll work out the other bits afterwards.
There we go!
OK, the bike is in the frame.
It’s nice and solid.
We’re going to stick some big legs out from the side
so it stops it rocking even more
and next job: tidy the electrics up,
because they’re hanging all over the place,
and then sort the throttle out.
Now I’ve already taken the throttle to bits.
I’ve got the cables out
and we need to set this up somehow,
because if there’s a chopping great wheel spinning round there
I do not want to be here, hiding, pulling it,
so I want to be able to do that remotely. Yeah!
OK, bike frame check.
It’s all in, it’s nice and sturdy.
We’ve made some nice big triangular leggy bits
that come off so the whole thing definitely
doesn’t tip round once it gets going.
Throttle’s all fixed.
I’m going to have a long cable so we can rev it from a distance,
so I don’t have to go anywhere near it.
So next thing, most important bit.
We need to make some sort of system
so we can have our tire spinning up,
then it’ll be deployed out the back.
And it is a big tire: it is this big.
Yes, now this is going to do some damage!
So, we're going to have some rails come down here
that we can slot the axel that goes through the tire onto,
so it can spin
sit on that and not go anywhere.
That’s got to be fully adjustable
because I want to be able to use different shaped tires,
different width tires.
And now I think we’ll have a system which fires it down the rails
so it hits the floor already moving,
so it doesn’t take too much of its energy out
just getting plonked down.
So slidey adjustable, slidey adjustable.
We’ve got some rails for the thingy to roll down
nice and solid.
Now I’m going to give it a little test.
I’m going to try and set it up for this car tire,
get it spinning up, so we’ll lower everything down
because it’s all on adjustable sliders.
Get it down and then we’ll probably take this somewhere
or do it here or whatever and just see what happens.
Right, I think we’re ready for a test!
We’ve got our adjustable rail system,
we’ve got our little mule wheel here
that we can give it a quick demo with.
So, bike in first gear turns, it gets this spinning,
then you pull the lever...
and off it shoots.
OK, I’m happy with this.
Let’s take it to bits, put it in the van,
and take it to the field.
Here we are right!
Let’s give it a test!
It needs to go a lot faster!
Right!
That was first gear.
I’m thinking fourth gear?
Well, here we go, top gear: sixth gear!
Right, here we are, sixth gear
into Tom’s Dad’s car…
Come on come on come on! Yeah!
Imagine that with a big wheel and SPIKES!
OK! We’ve got some serious potential here.
So we need to make the bigger one,
add spikes to the little one
and then put the side and cover plates on
because they don’t look like the Riptire from the game,
and then we need to paint everything
in the colours and schemes of what they are,
because it’s not real life and it’s not cartoon.
It’s kind of somewhere in the middle, Overwatch,
so we want to mimic that in what these things look like
and then we can let it rip in true Junkrat style.
There we are!
And then stick a little bit of paint on it
and it looks like this.
So, then, let’s put this on with the little wheels,
the spikes and the bigger wheels...
I’ve got quite the Riptire collection now.
What a collection!
Small with spikes, big with no spikes,
and big with spikes!
The monster tire is…
I mean how are we going to spin that up, I don’t know.
It weighs an absolute ton.
It should destroy anything in its path.
Right, paint the bike, get it in the field,
get it all ready, put stuff in front of it,
just let it destroy everything!
Right next video, see you there y’all!