Monster Chopper First Drive!

today is the day that I'm going to

finally test drive the monster Chopper

first I got to round over the front tire

finish the brakes and in honor of its

first test drive we have these brand new

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stick around for burnouts and test

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drives right get the tire on shave the

front tire make a battery

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box time to Trimm on the front tire make

it look like the rear tires so that we

can lean easier in corner and this time

I'm going to do a little

experimenting with

uh the old sawall because um the hot

knife works pretty well but it's slow so

I figure I can Lop off the big like

majority of it with

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this yeah I mean with a fresh

battery I can just Lop off a big chunk

like that and then fine-tune it with the

hot knife and it that'll make the blade

on that last longer and just it should

go a lot faster

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wow me it cuts really fast but it's

probably just try to get your angle yeah

it's unwieldy

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yeah ought to be

decent truck brakes battery mount

now be in business obviously I'll come

up with a better solution than zip ties

in the long run but we got a test drive

to do

exactly something like the beginnings of

a battery box

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yeah I decided I'm bored with hexagon

for right now so

uh I did

triangles he's a changed man no I still

like hexagons it just wouldn't look

right on this piece it just holds this

one lb battery so it doesn't need to be

very strong at all uh and this will look

cool and be super

lightweight so let's uh

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taada just a bunch of slag to clean off

of there Bend all the sides up weld it

together we'll have a nice little

battery box

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it's a really satisfying p

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yeah what do you think can you help me

Bend

this no yelling at me isn't going to

help you going to give me a hand or what

no all right that's enough

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I've got the teeniest tiniest little tab

ever to mount this battery box and a

couple of attacks and then um we're

pretty much ready for a test ride I

think uh I need to put a little more

fuel in it make sure all my bolts bolts

are tight so we don't have a loose bolts

willly situation huh dangerously close

to a test

drive that's exciting with functioning

front and rear brakes that might be a

first in grind hard history first test

drive with all of the brakes working I

don't know if we've ever done that I

don't actually think I've ever seen you

guys do that yeah probably not

go go

let's

go let's

go nice that seems to be a yes that that

does seem to be a

yes uh which means I think um I don't

think I can really put off the uh test

drive much

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today a little more of the Go Juice

man what a momentous occasion we've

definitely never waited this long for a

first test drive before from like start

of project to first test drive it's

been about 7 months I think we started

this in September yeah this is super

exciting yeah it's also the biggest

question mark of any test drive

everything else I've ever built like the

first test drive was the only question

was is it going to be good or like not

great you know this one it's going to

the question is can I drive it at

all I don't know we're about to find out

we sure

are this is the moment everyone's been

waiting for quite literally

yes including us I've been excited about

this for months yeah me too I've

actually had a few dreams about it the

dreams have all gone well so that's a

good sign not a super Sous person but

you never know

I'm very excited to see this thing drive

cuz I drive normal motorcycles and I've

just I've never seen something like this

and I have no idea no one's ever seen

something like this and it's like the

first two whe like super custom thing

that we done yeah oh yeah for sure

everything else is like just modifying

something either four wheels or it's two

wheels that already has like the

suspension geometry and everything

figured out and we just well I mean the

original murder scooter was kind of a

that was a handcrafted thing but it was

the front and back of a normal

motorcycle just extending that's why I

mean it's just like something welded on

from a two whe machine I think what we

need to do first is a burnout

huh right yeah I mean should be the

easiest thing to do you have two big

brakes and a huge Tire yeah it's just a

matter of traction differential if the

front has enough traction to slow down

the rear and if not I'll just put it up

against a wall and yeah all right nice

uh ear plugs over

well that worked pretty well yeah I mean

I was kind of able to do one just with

the front brakes but it was just kind of

slowly inching forward I think it was

kind of like that a little bit of that

hop like slow this tire isn't exactly

the most

I think I mean you can make it more

round by doing more bur ah yes yes

anyway um I'll call that a success we

carved a nice little Groove into the

rear wheel it's that banjo bolt but

whatever it will self

clearance it will and we have two spare

Wheels I'll deal with it later but to

fix it I'd have to take the whole rear

wheel off and the fender off and

everything else and it'll like you said

it will literally self clearance this is

quite the occasion yeah I'm actually so

excited to see this thing go

turn

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that is so cool

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that is he's just the weirdest thing

I've ever seen driving on two wheels

that is so cool oh my god it works so

much better than I thought it was going

to

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I hear him still driving too yeah he

didn't fall

over he just ripped it out of there it's

so funny cuz it spins the wheel so

easily oh do we have a tip over

situation or is he turning around it

looked extremely writable totally chill

except for turning around at low

speeds the weight just got away from me

and I couldn't hold it up as I was

turning around here and now it doesn't

want to start for some reason maybe the

charging system isn't working it's

incredibly chill like once you're moving

steering is just easy peasy it handles

like a normal bike it's obviously heavy

yeah but like you can't even feel the

weight difference once you're rolling it

doesn't feel heavy on the side it look

easy you just took off and you were like

woo yeah yeah that was so cool zero

problems

oh except the GoPro I might have

murdered the GoPro that was maybe a bad

place for us to mount it oh yeah it's

done the GoPro St I might be able to

roll start

it nope I knew I would be able to ride

it to some extent but I'm truly shocked

at how easy it is to ride on an uneven

dirt driveway

sh that is crazy

is this Ethan's chain yeah it looks like

it might be it sounded like the chain

popped off when he revved really high I

was like hm I kind of was wondering if

that was going to be an issue cuz

there's no chain tensioner and it's like

a 2m long chain no it just bent oh I

stripped it into second and just gave it

the beans I heard that and and that

sounded like right after the beans no no

um but yeah it's extremely drivable some

uh durability issues but drivability no

problems at all it's so weird to see the

suspension moving like that like just

like it's very weird um does it feel

weird like when you're on it I mean yeah

but mainly because of how much unsprung

weight there is it's just bouncy you

know the tires just kind of hop although

that one felt felt a lot better after um

when I stopped at the end of the

driveway MH because I switched this over

to the stiffest damping setting and that

helped it made the front less bouncy I

mean it still bounces cuz of the tire

but the suspension isn't too bouncy now

so we need a new chain and a new fix

that sprocket plate thing and then we'll

be good for another

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go time for some reinforcements

got this sprocket hub off you can see

how twisted it is actually look at this

all of the holes are stretched into

ovals that is a lot of torque and if you

think about it it's got 100 ft-lbs of

torque roughly at the

crank and then you got a reduction of

first gear which is probably

like I don't know 5 to one or something

like that and you've got that reduction

going through all the chain reductions

which is probably like another 8 to one

so you got like something like 50 to1

reduction or I don't know we'll call it

less than that 40 to1 that's a lot of

torque 30 to1 even if it's 30 to1 that's

now 3,000 footb of torque there was

people saying that's not enough power oh

it's enough power

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time to cut out sprocket Hub part one

I'm just using 316 still because I'm

going to double it up and uh I've

arranged the holes such that all of the

holes will still be there just kind of

like they were or most of them anyway

and then the two sizes of sprocket are

um offset so there's big holes on one

and small holes on the other and then

opposite so I can weld inside of the

holes make it super duper

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strong you can see there's a step that I

can weld inside those ones and inside

those

ones and they're two different sizes on

the inside that's not for welding that's

just so that it can go over um so that

one will go up against that little stop

there and then this one will go over the

next layer

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got it all welded and now the this

temporary chunk of shaft that was

holding in the lath doesn't want to come

out

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welded here inside of each of these

circles there there so yeah should be

good and then this these lines here of

course are where my holes are going to

be drilled that's the circle

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that's done

brok all

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right so here's where the old master

link was and I think this spare chunk I

have here is going to be just enough to

replace that whole section all righty

time for test drive number two I'm going

to try and not break the chain this time

or that sprocket well the sprocket is

way beefier so that shouldn't break

anyway

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this thing is just extremely ridable at

what extrem you were just crawling

through the woods like no problem it's

probably a 1000lb bike and you can just

ride it through the woods I mean

obviously it's not as maneuverable as a

normal dirt bike and it's very bouncy

due to the unsprung weight but like

it just

rips chain popped off again cuz I uh

decided I needed to do a

little I saw that you were like burning

the tire out what and then the train

popped off yep I was flying the Drone

and Ethan was going like places I didn't

think he was going to go he's going

through the trees and stuff I was like

waa that's pretty cool

yeah so next on the upgrades list chain

guide cuz if this had a guide to keep it

from flopping around it would probably

stay on a lot better

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because it's so low to the ground so

stable like super maneuverable yeah I

mean way more than I would have ever

thought I mean certainly more than I

would have expected for a first drive

and like more honestly it's way easier

to ride than I ever anticipated so

that's uh that's a huge win yeah

I bet I thought i' written it a little

bit I bet you could ride it in the

sand like air these down air them down

enough so that they still stay rounded

cuz like right now I think they're like

25 30 PSI air them down to like 10 so

they stay rounded but are a little

softer go hit some sand

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low speed no fan for quite a while yeah

she got a little

warm tell you what that is a workout to

ride um

still surprisingly easy it's just a big

bike and the faster you go the easier it

gets to ride but we don't exactly have a

lot of room for fast here especially

with this machine and you can go fast in

a little machine around here but this

A's huge yeah and it doesn't change

direction very quickly it doesn't look

if you try to accelerate quickly the

chain pops off MH stopping I mean both

the front and rear brakes work but

neither of them is like awesome exactly

exactly they're

both subpar grind heart certified brakes

they they do work they just don't lock

the tires up you got to really jam on

them so it's a 12T long Chopper so that

weighs probably 1,000

lb going to call that a

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win figured now that I've driven it we

got to know how much it weighs I keep

keep saying it's 1,000 lb but I have

absolutely no idea I'm going to go with

862 lb I'm going to go with 900 lb I

like to go with a random number cuz that

way it seems way more impressive when

you get it right uh

95.5 all right there we go all right I'm

thinking

840 all right I have a feeling we might

all be low

but you know who knows

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all right what's our

number 818 lb wow wow lighter than I

thought yeah that's actually not that

much uh-uh I was actually the closest

yeah darn it 818

lb well there you go it's an 800 lb

motorcycle but that's also not dry

weight that's wet weight or like damp

weight cuz it has coolant and oil but

not it only has like a gallon of gas so

yeah we'll call that mildly moist weight

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