feel that tingling the goosebumps on
your skin from the reveal about to come
out I'm trying hard here here it is this
is what we're going to use for the
formula for success was that your big
reveal moment no that was just leading
up to it okay
starter motor off of a semi-truck yes
plus an insane amount of batteries gives
us Electric mini drag bike you've piqued
my interest so a mini bike is basically
a mini motorcycle but it's built by
using parts from a go-cart
this originated back in like the 50s
guys would take these motorcycle frames
and they shrink them way down and they
would use literally anything they can
find for a motor
and you made that thing go fast as you
possibly could I know I can get the
frame electric motor and everything else
- the batteries for less than 500 bucks
and I think it'll draw all kinds of
attention having something that could
beat a Ferrari hold on back up did you
say beautiful Rory
yeah off the line this bike could never
match the top speed of a Ferrari or a
Lamborghini but in a short race I think
it could definitely win
due to its power-to-weight ratio which
is the vehicle's horsepower divided by
its curved weight both of the vehicles a
Ferrari or Lamborghini are gonna weigh
over 3,000 pounds
if you dust them with this it's just
gonna be absolutely mind-blowing that a
$500 something made from junk and
garbage and leftover semi-truck parts
could walk off and leave a $250,000 car
worried about wasting all the time
creating a piece of content that doesn't
perform but this is the part where we
roll the dice a little electric powered
minibike rolling out of the doors of
this shop that's used to seeing giant
monster trucks roll out it's kind of
weird how does that fit in what we're
building is something cool it's unique
its innovative and as we do this all
we're gonna do is create more content
that's gonna bring more people to our
website so once Sam gets the minibike
he's looking for will modify the frame
to fit a bigger rear tire on a go-kart
for extra traction then we'll design an
electrical system with 20 Makita
powerful batteries that are gonna be
hooked up to a 24 volt semi-truck
starter motor and wired through a set of
four contactors finally we'll install a
wheelie bar and a few other touches
including a supercool glow-in-the-dark
paint job
once the minibike is finished we're
gonna set up a nighttime race where I go
head-to-head against the Lamborghini to
find out whether this little bike can
actually outrun a supercar
I'm making really good progress on the
electric minibike I've got the entire
frame welded together the battery plate
with all the electrical components added
to it the 24 volt semi-truck starter
installed as well as all the wires going
to the four heavy-duty contactors Sam
what the hell do we have here well this
is the electric drag racing minibike so
far looks like the electric chair the
amount of kilowatts here could probably
definitely kill you like an electric
chariot it looks like an early version
of like some sort of prison torture well
I guess I'll start with this 24 volt
semi-truck starter motor and now we are
overclocking the mess out of it at 80
volts how many batteries we've got 20
batteries they are capable of up to 200
amps of discharge apiece for a short
burst buckle up for a crash course in
electrical engineering the semi-truck
starter motor that we're using is
overclocked to 80 volts meaning it
pushes 80 units of electricity through a
circuit which is a closed loop electrons
travel in to deliver electricity from a
power source like a battery amps are
units measuring how much electricity
flows to a single point in one second so
when you put volts and amps together we
get watts or how much energy
soon so if you have the 20 batteries
times the 200 amp discharge times their
18 volt batteries at 72 thousand watts
of power which falls in the ballpark
ride under 100 horsepower basically 1
horsepower for every 4 pounds that's
better ratios in a Bugatti Veyron we're
talking supercar type of speed off the
line look and when we slide these in you
may have to wiggle them back and forth
because these leads a vine
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this is literally a button on or off
dead or alive halt an ass or standing
still that's all it is you want to see
what happens if we push the button just
bump it that is violent Sam just there's
no way to get away from that thing this
is where quarter-inch plate I think is
well deserving I can do a quarter-inch
plate rise 1/2 inch plate 1/2 inch plate
on the guard there's so much that could
go wrong from the chain exploding to the
electric motors flowing to the batteries
exploding to the bike we leaning over I
mean we're not talking about going 1520
miles an hour like that bike was
originally intended to go faster than
exotic car acceleration speeds scary Sam
this is a really bad idea but it's a
really good idea it's just like a really
bad idea at the same time this might be
the one thing that my wife tells me I
can't do ever
Sam's mini bike you know the one you're
gonna drag race yep trip down in the
paint booth getting ready to rumble with
some
now the bikes back together sounds
making sure that every terminal wire and
electrical component is ready to roll
because guess what
it's go time on his drag race my man I
wasn't nervous until he showed up so you
made it I made it I'm not gonna lie I
wasn't sure if you were gonna show up
you want to race it hell yeah I want to
race that tilt a Lambo right it's a
Lamborghini Huracan Spyder
all right so tell me about your little
toy here got about 630 horsepower zero
to 60 and 3.2 top speed of 198 198 yeah
I mean I can see you read the brochure
but you know how to drive oh I guess so
why don't you find out here's the thing
though
you have no idea what I'm racing racing
the truck I'm gonna win let's not drag
this out any more you wanna see what I'm
racing you see it it's yeah I'm dying
you boys are in for a treat
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let me just tell you something right now
you're about to keep your asses handed
to you by a $500 junkyard minibike we
ended up taking a beat-up old a 1975
Roadrunner minibike and transformed it
into literally one of the most badass
electric powered ass-kicking machines
you've ever seen
we made some major modifications to the
old frame we had a wheelie bar and a
giant rear tire from a racing go-kart
we installed a 24 volt starter motor
from a semi-truck which we then ended up
powering with 20 separate Makita power
tool batteries then we had with a few
other custom details like the
glow-in-the-dark paint now this bike is
fully prepared to race and kick some ass
and the best part is it's got one speed
and that speed is kick your ass well my
money's still on the Lambo okay
how much money what money are we talking
about I brought a little lot of cash let
me just see what I got here
how about five grand but if I win I want
this just to add my collection in my IV
you want my part now my bike hobby Dave
sparks surrendered deal I'm about to
race a Lamborghini on an electric
minibike with over 72,000 watts of power
with zero speed control so when you're
talking drag racing you're either doing
an eighth mile or a quarter mile race
tonight we're gonna do an eighth of a
mile because what that really shows is
acceleration if we were to do a quarter
mile or a half mile or something longer
Gavin would outrun me like crazy
and big boy on a little bike let's do
this give me your hat as I'm getting
ready to race and is about to start I
look over and I see this bear on this
little bike run like oh hell yeah I got
him looks like he's scared see my light
hammer down on that but you never lift
never lift you don't need brakes the
fence will stop you if I'm gonna beat
Gavin in this race tonight the only way
I'm gonna be able to do it is if I get
him right on the start line
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what's the call what's the call it was
fairly close BAM gone I got Gavin out of
the hole
but once the Lambo gets going it's a
fast car
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