-There's always gonna be a day where you're gonna lose.
You just can't be afraid.
You got to go back out and do it again.
-We're getting a grudge race tomorrow.
Can we make a little money? Yeah.
-From one finish line to the next,
you can win 25 down.
Quick money, you'll lose it quick, too.
It's an expensive hobby.
And some people are try to do it.
-Go together, yeah, I got to pick the competition, bro.
-Performance ATV, that's my team.
Promoters got tons of work done to it,
to more than double the factory horsepower.
They're paying for the money for their bikes,
and I just drive them. -A jockey's very important.
You can't replace experience. -Best guys in the world.
But the most money, you have your good days, your bad days.
-It's very dangerous.
-The road's gonna be the equalizer.
it's going to make you or it's going to break you.
-Let's shut it off.
-We live in the boonies where there's snakes,
mosquitoes, bunch of gators.
They call it monkey farm,
because right here, this farmer here is full of monkeys.
You go inside there's stray monkeys.
We've been racing here since like back in 2013.
There is a deep culture of street racing out here.
They race all kinds of stuff.
My dad bought me a four-wheeler when I was 5 years old,
and then I just started racing.
Man, in this bike life stuff
in this racing world, there's a lot of envy,
there's a lot of different shots,
a lot of different people. There's rivalry in every side.
Everybody wants to be the fastest.
I do it for fun. The money don't mean nothing.
Yeah. Can we make a little money? Yeah.
We're getting a grudge race tomorrow.
They're both right there.
They're one of the drivers in the black truck
another driver's in the silver truck.
That's for sure gonna be beef.
Before the bike's race is going to be beef.
I guarantee you that. -Let's race right now.
-You've been hiding from us. Scared of your ass.
-They don't want to race. But they're hiding from me.
Team HP.
-I don't smoke. I get random at work.
A lot of people want me to drive their bikes
because I know how to drive
and I'm lightweight, been doing it for years.
My boy Chris passed away three years ago
on a Mother's Day on a street bike trying to get to work.
I always wear this shirt every time I ride.
Hopefully, it protects me.
I honestly don't know how you're riding.
-Riding however the fuck --
-Boy, I'll leave this shit. I'll throw it on the floor.
Here you go. You can have it.
-Angelo's a team rider.
So everybody in Performance ATVs,
he's the jockey for all the bikes.
When they race, you and your team will bet your money.
And it's everybody that's there from your shop.
The racing is all about money.
They do pots for 15, 25 bands and still like that.
I had my first accident when I was 13.
I was in ICU for three weeks
because I had brain fluid coming out of my nose.
And recently, two and a half months ago,
I broke my femur.
I have a rod, three plates,
and they put the rod in through here.
One minute to the next, now I walk with a limp.
It's very dangerous. Nobody wants to lose now.
So everybody is just trying to beef with everybody right now.
It's real high-tension.
-They knew it was gonna rain, dog,
that's why they called us out.
-The police started putting down a lot.
The cops, they used to let everybody slide.
And then a while ago,
they were stopping people and telling them,
bro, I never want to see you riding over here again.
And they created a whole task force of police with ATVs.
That's why they really like slowed down.
And then now it's picking up.
To fix a bike up and to get it ready to race,
you got to at least spend eight, nine bands.
People try to do it. It's an expensive hobby.
-What do you mean what apartment?
My boy went to go get you. -Gee!
We in Little Havana right now. Dade County 305.
Got my chicos with me, you feeling me?
It's a real mixed city.
We got Cubans, we got Haitians,
we got Bahamian, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans.
We are like fast shit, flashy motorcycles.
We got the race going on a little later.
Monkey farm. Big money on the floor.
Here, the economy, man, it's gambling all the way
and everything, bro.
I was at a chicken fight last week, you feeling me?
Heard the other day some dude with hundred wrecks on the race.
Wasn't even no crazy shit but these fools just throwing money
out here, people work jobs, people trap.
Me, personally, no, I'm a pass that.
But the money there, though. And if you notice, bro,
like most of the time, you on them ATVs,
you're not doing nothing wrong.
Might break a little traffic laws and shit,
but we ain't doing nothing wrong.
I feel calm when I'm out there.
It ain't the same little whoo-whoo-whoo.
It ain't none of that.
We got something positive to do, man.
We got kids out there.
Little fight break out now and then.
But I'm saying it's a fight, bro.
I'm a big believer in bikes up, guns down.
Right now I'm not riding a bike so the gun ain't down.
You feeling me? It's like...
We'll be at the race.
Yeah, I got to peep the competition, bro.
I just pulled up here to ATV Performance.
I'm going to talk to him about tonight.
Hopefully the other side shows up and we can get a grudge race.
They've been talking a lot of smack
and that's where the problems come in.
It's either a fight or people pulling out guns.
They're anxious to race me on a bike
that my boy just brought from Virginia.
The pile probably be four grand.
What up, Ray? -How you doing?
-Pretty good. What you got going on over here today?
-Oh, you know, working on this old girl here.
-Some teams work out of their back yard.
Some teams have their own shop.
My team is probably like 10 people the most.
They paid for the money for their bikes.
And I just drive them.
Right now, we hold the crown with a 450.
-I tuned bikes for everybody. I do this as a business.
And you come to me and you want me to tune your bike,
I don't hold back on anybody.
You know, people either love you or hate you
in this type of business.
When you're on the top, you know, everybody likes
to talk bad about you, too.
I've been in business since 1996.
The ATV drag racing has blown up a bunch of guys.
We get together. I have nothing to do with the race,
and I stay out of that. I don't have time for that.
I got a family at home. My world is in here.
I make them work. Go fast. You know, I find the horsepower.
I tune them, I build them, and that's their job.
They go out there and they do their stuff.
You know, a lot of the teams have their own riders.
A lot of the times these guys
that own the bikes don't even ride the bikes
because some of these guys get scared of them.
Now they're into the bike
and they can either sell the bike
or they put a driver on it.
We call this a knobby bike
because it's got off road tires on it,
but we race it on a street like that.
We're going with nitrous on this bike.
You can see the front end has no shocks, no upper A-arm.
The frame has been gutted out, radiator's small,
because it doesn't run very long.
It's got real skinny tires in the front.
We got slicks in the back.
We got wheelie bars that we fabricated, drag race,
exhaust, the motor's got tons of work done to it
to more than double the factory horsepower.
What Andrew wanted to race this weekend
is one of our 450s.
It's a 450 CC motor against 700 CC bikes.
I guess you can kind of see that we're the underdog
because we've got a smaller displacement motor.
But you can't take it for granted
those little motors, they move,
and we've proven it with some of them.
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The jockey's very important
because you're trying to keep the weight down.
That many pounds is a big difference, you know?
The best guys in the world
lose with the most money, with the most budget.
You have your good days, your bad days.
You can't replace experience.
If you have a guy that's been riding for a long time
and goes up against a guy that's only been riding for a years.
That guy has been running for a very long time,
has a big advantage.
-They want to race on their own where they have a lot
speed time and testing.
Our road, let's go to the road --
We don't even know, we don't even know it, bro.
The road gonna be the equalizer.
It's going to make you or it's going to break you.
One of the two.
They be racing those things right there for real.
-Sketchy. -He has bicycle tires on them?
-We're right next to the cemetery.
So may God be in our presence.
Now we're going to go check out the finish line,
make sure everything is golden.
I've been telling other teams all day to come here.
I don't know if they'll show or not.
No one has tested.
So I'm going to be the first one to test and see what it does.
It picked up a little bit.
That's what that little thing just did to me right there.
It's got my nerves rattled. We're gonna let it cool down.
And we're going to do another one.
Said they were going to come. -Oh, they're gonna come, bro.
-Team HP is just another team that builds bikes.
We're going to get mad.
We're gonna see them want to fight and shit.
-We've never called someone out.
They've always called us out. That's how it is.
And that's how it's gonna be.
-Fire it up. -A little bit.
-No, it was great.
-I sat a little more forward. Let's let her cool down.
Take a little more out, maybe one more hit, I'm done.
Bring them.
Perfect. Why did they say it's an automatic
and I try to shift it and it doesn't want to shift.
Second, third, fourth.
I have to ease the gas a little bit and shift it.
It's hard, dog. I got a hold on.
At least second no, but third.
And I don't want to hit it
because if I hit it, you know how it's going to go.
Calm down, B. Calm down. Where's the competition?
With all the smack talking and all that,
my nerves are -- are rattled.
Really, really bad.
Once this helmet goes on,
I see tunnel vision, can't look to the side.
That light goes on. All I see is forward.
I'm looking for the finish line.
It's a horse coming. Let them pass by.
We don't need that here right now. Let's set it off.
-I just drove by seen them there about to hit.
I pull up here, and this thing is in the bushes.
-The bike just went... and I'm holding it,
I'm patting the back brake, bro, and the bikes was going...
Going right there just slung me to the right.
And I hit that rock. Boom, boom.
Oh, the bike hit my head. Good thing I had a helmet on.
I would've killed myself. -Always dude.
-I'm retired for a while. I'ma tell you that much.
God, thank you, bro. [ Speaking foreign language ]
Oh!
-I saw him, he was like at least
a good 60 feet, 100 feet, he was trying to fight it,
but it just tossed him to the side.
And people had passed away like that, too, so.
-Lucky, when you do that and you lower him and stuff,
they throw you to the side and you can't control him.
-When the bike hit the rock, I went over the bike,
and the bike went over me.
-It could have been worse.
-Our parents are going to kill me.
-Vic say he was almost here?
So he can see you, you know they're gonna say in the chat
that we're fucking scared.
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-You gonna shake my hand, though?
The bike just went all over the place. I couldn't handle it.
I mean, what can I tell you? I can't say nothing.
It happened.
Won't even shake my goddamn hand.
Tell your boy Vic to shake my goddamn hand.
-Whatever.
-What's the point of coming over here?
I went to road, farm, the other day to race y'all.
-There's nothing I can do right there at the time.
-You've been after that since last week.
-I'm here to race. -I do a little test practice.
-Y'all be safe. You ride big. Be safe, my brother.
We live to race another day.
-What you think? What you think?
What y'all think, man? -You seen the 450 take off.
What you think? -Fast bike.