Same.

Definitely when it gets caught and scalps him. And no eye or hand protection and all that jewelry. I have been fabricating for 25 years in NASCAR. Those guys will look so much cooler with eye patches, nubs, and a scalped head. SMH 🤦🏼‍♂️

How about using a grinder and not wearing googles? About as dumb as it gets.

@Nedd Flanders when I was in prison I wanted to write him because he was locked up at that time too but I figured he had so much mail coming in it would be a waste. Such a shame he accidentally killed another biker. When he got out that’s when he was done with Florida and moved to Tennessee

That's great. Here you got a sweet prank out of doing something kind.

That's great, a good deed, I bet he shit a brick!!

i had friends do that to me years ago to teach me a lesson about leaving my bike in my driveway unlocked all the time. they pushed it into my backyard and i never heard them.

What problems

@@ty0boil212 google it

Unfortunately crushing a fellow biker had no effect on Billy, but destroyed a Park Ranger Deputies Family forever....

Safety bitch

Haha! Spot on!

That's not his brother! That's dick his buddy his brother is warren lane!

Safety eyelashes

@@rwilko9525 Haha!

We humans have been creating and building for millennia.

Is this hubless safe to long ride? I doubt it

@@hasanraza4650 Why wouldn't it be?!?! The hub/ bearing setup looks extremely strong/ robust/ large to help dissipate heat, and well designed. As long as the bearing/ races stay in tact, don't overheat, are preloaded, torqued, etc I don't see any issue. Bike is sick and Billy is one of the best. Pretty sure he rides his stuff pretty long distance unlike a lot of 'trailer queens,' so if there was going to be some sort of catastrophic failure I'm pretty positive it would've happened pretty quickly into the R&D or test riding phase. Maybe someone who is more familiar with it can shed some more light. I've been turning wrenches over 25 years at dealers, indies, and finally my own business, so I'm definitely not ignorant to this type of stuff.

@@hasanraza4650 it's a bearing from a helicopter rotor. If its safe for that, a motorcycle isn't a problem.

@@hasanraza4650he rode one of his hubless bikes a good ways for his chopper build off so I’d say it’s safe

Weird angle..

The " lack of" chain slap?

It's a belt drive not a chain

@@TheRoadhammer379 4:13 that bikes got a chain...and it's got a fuckton of slap

Yeah Osha would have a field day at that shop.

Nah this is how he is.I don't think he'd out jewelry on for a camera.Spent some time with this bike,in the old shop,and him.Cool guy.Local Tennessean now

He's riding a hubless chopper with a suicide shift and an open primary, wearing frayed jeans, and a wifebeater, no helmet. He's working on a milling machine, with lose, long hair, and no goggles. I don't think he's putting on a show for the camera- I think that he's just less of an "ATGATT" kind of guy, and more of an "DILLIGAF" mindset (for better or worse). (Some guys just care more about looking cool, than they care about insignificant little details like retaining all their fingers, or keeping their skin attached to their body...)

In the late 90s early 2000s I shared a garage with a guy who was big into the chopper scene/ discovery channel fad....he had biker friends come over who were just dumber than rocks......ever have to tell a grown man he was on fire cause a welding spark landed in his flannel shirt pocket and he did not notice the smoke and flames?

@@jasonrackawack9369 lmfao that’s hilarious

@@MSZSNeoBahamut19 dreads are skanky and nasty AF

@@MSZSNeoBahamut19 dreads not pulled back in a ponytail are a huge safety hazard in a fab shop. Just imagine what would happen if they got caught in a spinning machine. He just got scalped. I have been fabricating in NASCAR for 25 years so I’m very familiar with the hazards of the job. Thankfully I’ve been relatively safe. Got metal in my eye once while wearing safety glasses. Hurts like hell removing it. They use a tiny drill. I have seen and heard some horror stories. This one guy lost a finger because he was wearing a ring, and no gloves like these fools.

Man.....I feel old

haha!😄

He and Nick also made the ape hanger raisers with 44 magnum shells insirted I still have them in my fxr till this day

This was shot in 2004.

He didn’t even try lol 😂

But it was lame. Wobbles and surges.

1989 to be precise. Lane is a poser

Yep and people don't realize it's a dumb idea to start with. The trouble with hubless wheels is, the bearing diameter has to be so large the rollers inside the bearings will be spinning 30-40 times faster than regular hub bearings per wheel/tire revolution. Large diameter bearings are designed for heavy load not high-speed. I've seen large diameter bearings explode with far less rpms.

@@MAGGOT_VOMIT needle bearings are designed for high-speed not ball bearings

@@thecloneguyz I said "Roller Bearings" they're cylindrical. Where'd you get "Ball-Bearings" from? 🤣😂🤣 BTW, You've got it backwards. Paxton Superchargers and other Turbochargers run up to and beyond 100k+ rpms and they use large (13-19mm) diameter Ball Bearings, lubricated by circulated engine oil to keep them cool. Now if Franco or Billy would've integrated the lubricated Ball-Bearing setup, they would last much longer.

Ya you'd be humbled too after plowing down a guy riding his motorcycle, head on, mangled his body near every bone crushed as Billy drove over him.....Funny how Billy's Bad Biker Dreadlocks disappeared before a Federal Judge, Funny how Billy's Biker Leathers became a Corporate Suit before a Federal Judge. Funny how Billy Tuck Tailed to get out of a lengthy stiff prison term...plea deal like a boy instead of owning up that he killed a fellow biker...sad how FAKE some of these Biker Guy Build off's are when standing before and kissing the ass of a Federal Judge!!

and a rip off artist.

God Slayer ???

​@@godslayer1415 nah. You can tell a Billy Lane build from a mile away

Wow, I haven't heard that in about 30 years! 😎

I like your pfp

because people are idiots

Lol 😂 honestly looked like hell to ride he was swaying a bit much for my comfort with that front end. definitely not something you’d take no more then 100 miles tops an if that weird ass tire thing doesn’t chew the bearing retaining ring it made a crap ton of noise just driving what looks to be 35 40 mph lol 😂

probably more comfortable than a sport bike or "Crotch Rocket" basically sitting on your balls.

To look super cool!

Shot back in 2004.

@rufio777 I'm sure he'll look really cool with one milky dead eye when a flaming piece of metal flies in it.

He had safety glasses they are just on his head

@@adseish Doesn't matter if he had them on his head or hanging from his shirt. They weren't on his eyes.

Safety bitch

@@justinkrann7406 I'd rather not be blind, thanks.

Yess just the comment I was looking for knew something about this design isn’t right thanks G also notice the amount of noise coming from it at a relevantly low speed 35-40mph makes me think this is something that has to be replaced often with few miles and bumps.

@@nobullshit9721 Yep After thinking about it before, since the load is relatively light, the only way I see that he could get away with it would be customizing a scaled-up large Ball-Type bearing set up similar to the large Ball-Type bearings that are in Paxton Superchargers with recirculating Lubrication. The Paxton SCs handle rpm's in excess of 50k+ rpms easily, even with those large bearings housings that have 1/2"+ diameter Balls in them. If memory serves me correctly, both fore and aft bearing-races in the Paxton's are an O-Ring sealed, Clam-Shell style housing, containing the steel balls and recirculated engine crankcase oil. As a plus, those type of bearings systems dampen their own harmonics with the recirculating oil.

@@MAGGOT_VOMIT Dual roller bearings under torsional load from the lock ring would probably be fine.. if thats not already whats been done here. Ball bearings would suck ass in this application. A supercharger bearing has almost no axial load.

Yes I saw a TV show many years ago featuring Franco Sabaro and the hubless motorcycle he built think it was in the mid 1980s

@@multishit6664 Did you not read my original post?? The Roller Bearings are the cause of the whole problem, Mr Mentality. RollerBearings that large in diameter can't handle high speeds. Ball-Bearings handle extreme loads on ALL axis and can do it at high-speeds!! Roller-Bearings can't. Plus roller-bearings need a pre-load to keep the rollers from "bouncing" between the inner and outer race (aka harmonics) and self-destructing. The larger the roller-bearing, the more required pre-load, which lowers it's speed-rating. Ball-Bearings aren't handicapped by those issues. That bike doesn't have enough azz to qualify as a significant "Load" for such huge roller-bearings. The roller-bearings on that bike are about 18-20inches in diameter. The outer bearing-race has a rolling surface circumference of about 60in. Each of those rollers in those huge roller-bearings are at least 1/2" diameter and have a circumference of 1.57in. So that means each roller in those huge roller-bearings, has to spin over 38 times every tire revolution. That's over 30,000 rpms @ 60mph!! The harmonics alone must be through the roof! Stock wheel bearing rollers on bikes and cars only spin about 8 times per tire revolution. That's only about 6500rpms @ 60mph.

Too many handlebars with a motorcycle in there. :-)

🤣

@@MyClassicCarTV Is it foor sell

Reliability -90000

Sbarro's way in 1989.

And all those metal rings on his fingers while working with power tools and machinery! That seems like a smart thing. I have bean a diesel mechanic and steel fabricator my whole life and I never wear jewelry, ever! My dad was a machinist and when he got married he wore his wedding ring for the day, took it off and put it my mom's jewelry box. It sat there until he passed away at which time my mom put it back on and buried him. I never wear jewelry, with all the dirt and dust flying around it would seem to me to feel uncomfortable.

Shot back in 2004.

@@MyClassicCarTV You hack you should credit the inventor of what Billy ripped off - Sbarro - 1989

Dude, that's not my job. 🙄

I'm guessing about $12.000, on a very good day, and no test ride 😔🤢😏

Sorry, not a genius. Copied hubless design from Sbarro.

Which would turn them into poser garbage...

@@branon6565 Posing as what? You have to be attempting to imitate something in real life your not to be posing, like for example Jay Leno dressing as biker gang member would be posing but not someone making a sci-fi inspired bike, as that’s just a themed bike customizer. Since I was just noticing how the rear wheel sort of resembles the light cycle from the film Tron and wondering how a this bike (or clone of it) might look with circular lighting on the outside of the rear wheel. Since no prototype or even a mock-up drawing exist for how this would look, I think you got some notion of what if would look like that wasn’t what I had in mind. Whether it would look cool or like garbage, who knows since I haven’t thought it that far along. It was just a thought and not even close to being a reality so calm down as I really was’t seriously suggesting he mod this particular bike that way.

Jockey shifters. They were actually used on some of the first motorcycles ever

@@jonathanryan2915 well, I guess it's never too late for an old dog, like myself, to learn a new trick!!...thanks for the 411 JR.

All his bikes don't ride like regular bikes, Rock solid ride

I rode the last bike in the vid. Camel roadhouse money shot. It rides like any good chopper should.

Honestly they are boring as Fock…

Doesn’t do anything for me.

Seems like a bad design for reliability honestly it was making quite a bit of noise for only going 35-40 mph.

@@nobullshit9721 is it safe for a 100 mile ride?

@@hasanraza4650 lmao 🤣 honestly I wouldn’t do it

Shot in 2004.

Who’s cooler than a guy with an eye patch? Nobody.

Ehhh these custom chopers are kinda out of style. You can get a custom for 8,000 today that was worth 60,000 not long ago.

I understand you are trying to help but please, this is a free country. I,m just sayin'

Exactly, I welded in a blacksmithing shop for a little while and I actually got a random little piece of metal embedded in my contact lense when I took my safety glasses off for a moment, imagine if I wasn't wearing contacts that day. Be safe.

@@N-Scale Free doesn't mean you SHOULD be stupid just cause you can.

@@aaa69200 Bingo! Perfect response!

@@N-Scale you’re right. People are free to be idiots all they please.

No kidding 🤣 ~70-80% of your braking power comes from the front brakes.

I'll tell ya once, I'll tell ya twice, the Senior Machinist told the newbie, but if I got to tell ya 3 times to wear safety glasses your either going to kill yourself or kill someone else, so your go work with the women in the kitchen!

mathematics

Tape measure find their radius with some plug in formulas both main clutch drive and rear tire hub Pully find there ratio compared to themselves lol 😂 multiple whatever speed main clutch drive is at = drive check mate done.

look up tron motorcycle

U talkin bout me X wife.... Lol

You think he didn't build these bikes to hold up safely? He rode the bike from Florida to South Dakota, no trailer, just straight up rode it. Sounds like he had it figured out, being a mechanic doesn't make you an engineer, 😂.

@@TheRoadhammer379 But I am also a mechanic - oops engineer. And I was thinking of a more pop cult reference. Think about a name must of us know. And I am far from the first to question their build quality. I just don’t want to start a war or a lawsuit. For the record this is Matt’s dad. Think SoCal and a color not seen at the top of the 1% world. wink wink. Like I said, there are a lot of pretty bikes that ride like crap and aren’t put together well. The fact that the chain bike has held up is proof Billy Lane had it down right. I learned more about engineering from working flat rate than I learned about mechanic ‘ing from engineering. But they are both necessary. Ask Ferdinand Porsche who broke protocol by crawling under a car to see about a racing suspension problem. Engineers weren’t supposed to crawl under cars and get their lab coats dirty. But he understood that you couldn’t hide behind theory. Theoretically there was no problem but he found it and fixed it.

I'm pretty sure he died.

@@Arctic_Falcon did he pass, 🤔 ❓️ met him many times ova at hooters in Melbourne

What? Did Bill crush him to death too! Never saw a police report or news article.