You are forgiven

Insane video... man i hope i win these socks!!!

i saw a photos of this bike in facebook.

Love this! Need to venture out to more motorcycle content. Gotta do the Britten V1000, maybe some motogp tech and riding techniques.

I was just about to say "Hang some old blankets where the walls are just stone or concrete. Get some second hand sofas too. Handy for unexpected guests & they're great for absorbing reverb. An old parachute that's been retired makes a great ceiling cover. Helps with audio & you can invoke cool lighting behind it easily. Carpets work really Well. A mish mash of old rugs are softer on the feet & stop audio reflections splendidly." But you're going to do it with a new mic. Hmmmm... I think we've lost something with new tech. I think I'd prefer my comfy, woven cave.

I wonder how many times he felt like passing out down there, i mean you can possibly lift your neck with all that downforce for very long without thinking 'fuck it, I'll close my eyes and hope for the best' surely? 🤔

SPEEDYBOI

Iook like laying down on a motorized " shate board!

Well that or that you've made some very good or very bad life choices....

I'm picturing that helmet and all 🤣🤣

Charles Kellett It makes so much suction with ground effect he prolly woulda gotten succ’d under

@@L00PdeL00P the succ mmmhmm

No Capes!

Talking about superman

ya i was think of superman the whole time

@ The 60s were even better. 😉

@@jacketrussell how old are you

@@Sfaegbe 66 now.

Jack Russell got anymore stories?

@@fezzes428 Loads of memories.

Would it be coming to Dragstalgia?

@@SAM-zt2uy with all that has happened, the project hasn't started yet. Once it does start we plan to start a KZfaq channel to document the rebuild. Our local drag track is Santa Pod, but there is nothing stopping us going anywhere else Edit; just seen dragstalgia is at Santa Pod. So yeah it would go there, but I don't think it would be this year!

Excellent will look out for the channel. I saw Angus at the Dragstalgia event in 2019 sat on an old triumph engined drag bike.

@@MattyFPVx what will the channel be called?

@@omega1575 good question. I can't answer that cos we've not be able to even think about it cos of the covid situation. Once we know I'll post it here though

I knew it wouldn’t be far down the list to find a steel balls comment! It never gets old! ☺️

The spark risk of them contacting the track is the reason he couldn't go nitro.

100% agree, that’s a scary looking bike.

Not steel.... Tungsten Carbide.

How did he get that suit on? Lol

it doesn't match the Skeleton sport. check it out. this is a mad sport.

One thing about that design.. if you ever hit anything, you'll be the first one to get there!😱😁

@@jucianynogueira6029 -- As with the first thing that goes through a bee's mind when it hits a windshield . . . its ass.

I would argue it wasn't a bike.

@@ShiningDarknes yeah it's more like a coffin on wheels

@@ShiningDarknes That's ALL it would be... An argument. Exactly, in YOUR opinion, what makes a bike? You DO realize that even, now pay attention here, FOUR wheelers are referred to as bikes!!! So your argument starts losing at the start. Do you think it would be better to just admit that it is just your opinion and leave it at that?

Well it's not like a regular drag motorcycle has a roll cage or anything either.

The head IS the bumper.

My thoughts as well, the guy must have had a unique lack of fear, the sort of person you don't expect to be saving up for retirement as there doesn't seem there will be much need for it.

@@bhatkat that is the most badass thing I ever heard

Darral Lipke With their speeds you are a bumper anyway and anywhere you sit.

Actually the higher you are the more you feel. As there is more motion. The lower you are. The more stable you are.

Scooter Lee1775 idk if you’re just reading facts off google but that’s simply not true. Lower is not slower XD. Wait till you experience it

Scooter Lee1775 you ever rode a motorcycle?

Isaac Pugno I didn’t say that at all

Ac remote yup. Since I was 6. And have logged over a 3 million miles on a bike.

Mick Hand 3:15

5:15 unfortunately when he built Jade Warrior he was a plumber and only had access to a lathe and milling machine in his garage, his Ford days were behind him. Makes it a greater achievement in my book.

6:05 I believe that’s me helping to pull the bike back with the long hair

Engineers do not have very much free range of design any more due to monetary constrictions and big corporate companies squeezing the last drop of profit out of a cheap design to line their own pockets. Engineers are the backbone of racing, the core building blocks to almost everything we use and they are treated like trash.

@@jonathanblunt3779 In Motorsports sure, but generally speaking engineers can get creative depending on their position. It's a "what part of the industry are you in" sort of thing

@@btoiscool id hope so

@@jonathanblunt3779 Look up Allen Millyard , he's the most unrestrained and free thinking engineer I know of. He's a credit to engineers everywhere.

To these points, F1 used to be a sport about innovation, as in what you brought to each race or season. Thus it was about the manufacturer, the builder/team, not just the driver. Now with the previously mentioned restrictions and constraints, F1 went the way of NASCAR, and is much more of a FanBoy series to sell merchandise. Yes, over time, still great innovation, but when several teams showed up to practice at Monaco with a small wing above driver for additional downforce at the slower speeds, they were prevented from racing (2007 perhaps?). Differential innovation at each race used to be part of the fun.

I read he was born in Pinner, did he have Scottish parents though? It's not the most English sounding name.

@@jock-of-ages73 Correct, he had a family house on Mull but lived in Eastcote just up the road from me.

Oh my, we are considering making another video - would you like to be interviewed on it? Or if you have any footage that would be useful to us? email me! youtube@driver61.com

I knew Angus and Mick Hand well, at the time The Jade Warrior was first conceived. It was called The Jade Warrior because it was a promotional tie-in to the band, Jade Warrior, at that time an instrumental duo on Island Records - John Field [multi instrumentalist/producer] and Tony Duhig [guitars/producer]. I've known John Field since 1972. His daughter is my god daughter. Tony Duhig sadly died in 1990. The original livery of the Jade Warrior was paid for from the promotional budget associated with the album that John and Tony had just released, either Kites or the last of the Island albums, Way Of The Sun. I spent hours with Ag, Mick and John in the shed at his house, which was his workshop. McCoy Dynamics earned income from, amongst other things, adding the bits necessary to prevent Triumph cylinder heads becoming missiles between the legs of the riders unfortunate enough to exceed the limits of the standard cyl head fixings. Ag was also, at the time, a plumber. He came to my flat in London to connect up my gas cooker. He eased the steel gas pipe away from the wall. It ran down thru' a cut-out at the back edge of a long shelf loaded with large glass jars of various foods. The simple L-brackets holding up the self tilted downwards and all the glass jars, in slow motion, slid off the shelf, fell to the tiled floor and smashed. Ag came up with one of his post-hippie quotes, "Errr ...Sorry, man. looks like I've wiped out your food supply..." We stood, laughing, in a welter of glass fragments, flour, green and orange lentils, pasta and, making it all nice and gloopy, 2-3 litres of tahini. I am a photographer. I had been shooting pictures of Jade Warrior, the band, for years. I went, with John Field, to the first run of The Jade Warrior at Santa Pod, to shoot pictures which were to be part of the promotion of the Jade Warrior album. The 'bike' did not run at all well that day. Obviously, on debut there were bound to be problems. I recall that Ag was up against Dutchman Henk Vink whose bike had 2 x 1000cc Kawasaki engines in line. He was fastest of the day in class. Incidentally, it was also the day that two visiting Americans ran either the world's first sub-6 seconds or sub-5 seconds for the 1/4 - you guys will know. Apparently the Americans like to run at Santa Pod because the track is grippier than those in the US - when it's not raining. I may still have 35mm trannies of that day. It's a long time ago and I have been on the road, professionally and personally, every since. Even today I have piles of unopened boxes from yet another move, to my house in France.

@@Driver61 You might do well to contact John Field, who still records under the name Jade Warrior. Jade Warrior has a website. I don't know how up to date or maintained it is. I have fallen out of touch with John having moved abroad in recent years.

um

@@sduoqsoq7478 Amazing comment!! WOW!!! How many years of college did you take to have that much intellect to be able to know so much and be able to put it in writing!! You are, in anyone's view, just amazing!!! Please start your own channel and continue to express these things, but also, try to shorten your messages. Most people are not able to comprehend so much written description about a topic. I'm still just way amazed at the total understanding that you have about all of the things involved here, not to mention the physics!! You are just pure genius! Thank you for such a detailed comment that so completely explains what so many just don't know.

@@stopspam420 bro what are u smoking chill with the sarcasm

lol you deserve more likes :D that shit is funny :D

@@lukababilodze4283 Maybe that's why that joke is still repeated after 100 years.

LOL :)

I mean you're a little wrong, the last thing that would go through his mind is his feet

@@sn1xie I reckon if you want to get technical due to the speed and trajectory his legs would spring away from the torso "almost into a sitting position" so in fact your honor the last thing that passed through the utes mind was his ass......Dickhead!

Not if Mercedes or Ferrari brought it out, everyone else would have been banned.

@@BeamRider100 yeah, just like das which has been banned after one season and is on a mercedes...

@@canismajoris6733 Does a movable steering wheel forward and back to control toe sound safe ?

@@BeamRider100 Yes, just as using thin linkages to steer in the first place.

@@OmegaF77 No. Aerodynamically thin linkages are plenty strong enough to move the wheel. I watch MotoGP now anyway, F1 sucks, isn't on TV, and costs hundreds of millions for the governments that host it. I used to like it when they had fast cars.

That reminds me of an old joke. "What's the first thing that passes through the mind of a mosquito when it hits the windshield"? It's arsehole.

Win by a nose!

Ag used to say that he wore a one-piece suit ".. so all the bits would be in one bag"

Technically speaking the "wheelie bar" is just an extended stabiliser bar because instead of the frame having a bit block of metal on the axle you will now have a extended bar catching the vehicle mid wheelie and stabilising the vehicle

Wheelie reduction bars* the slang terms are wheelie bars. But they aren’t used to wheelie. It’s anti wheelie technology why called it the opposite? Something America is tooused too.

@@renewillard777 hey, pretty sure we came up with drag racing we’ll call them whatever the America we want

@@renewillard777 i think depending on how you set them they can extend wheelies and should be called anti flips like the bike doing a back flip on the rider in the video

@@Eduardo_Espinoza wheelies equal slower et. If used properly they eliminate the wheelie all together for maximum traction. Less weight distribution going back and forth. Planted.

They gonna be one with the machine if it snaps

@@Morbpious ew bagged milk

Looking into NSU land speed record bikes

supine

This dragster isn't stupid, the driver however ....

I mean, impressive engineering and stupidity aren't mutually exclusive. That's what makes it fun :)

i thot it was so cool when i 1st saw it bcuz it made sense

Nothing is going to fit that in

1MrBryn actually he had to go thru surgery before and after race to detach and reattach his balls because if they left them in the bike would go immobile from the weight

😱💀🙈

I dont know if they make bike nuts like they do for pickups. If not me and you buddy. "I'M RICH BITCH!"

he could use a pair of socks to put his balls in holds them together and keeps them warm

There's got to be something there. New materials, engineering and no shortage of crazy people to run it. I figured it was disqualified because of some rule changes but if not then there's something there!

Carbon Fiber

Slightly stronger chassis and maybe 700/800hp as a tester

Hence01 Head first, then “feet first”.

@@LauriLevola underrated reply

Dont worry snowflake, its been around for over 30 years, its nothing new just that anyone born after 1990 think they are showing "us" a new World LOL...

@@markholroyde9412 its funny you say that given that most of the people who call others "snowflakes" are closet homosexuals.

@@hence0182 Ah, you must be from the closed mind daft "post 1990 brigade" I see LOL. So you know for a FACT, all around the World that your statement is true?, well, no you don't,, its pure fabrication, so that makes you a person who tells lies , see how that works?.... dummy., trot on Jr.

I think your bumhole would beg to differ

hahaha

I can imagine going head first is very uncomfortable. You need to tilt your head back, putting your neck in an uncomfortable position and the wind resistance just wants to keep pushing your head back. Honestly this looks dangerous to me but I am no expert and I never went 200mph on a bike.

Yeah because this design is perfect for the tight and windy streets of Gotham City...

Lol

Bruce Wayne: “Mr Fox, I’d like you to make a design for a bike...”

Hey! You've won the giveaway! Email us at giveaway@driver61.com within 48 hours to claim your prize. Please attach a screenshot of your channel, whilst logged in, to show it's you! Congrats!

True but this Dude had both in Spades. Not to mention access to the tools to make it possible.

@@SGTJDerek You don't understand it I think. If you only have knowledge you end up doing the same thing everyone else does. If you have knowledge and imagination you can do things nobody else has thought of. Thus imagination is more important in the pursuit of new inventions. And suffice to say, if you have imagination, but no engineering knowledge, you become an artist.

Do you sign autographs?

High school and 2 degrees ?

Wouldn’t differ much from any of the other drag bikes right? He’s actually closer to the ground, so less of a fall. Still absolute balls of steel on this man though!!!

He would literally be destroyed with the bike

literally a human missile

@@TheLjheuvel at that speed 1 or 2 metres is hardly a factor

All you would have to say is "now this is pod racing"

This is what I was thinking. The "crumple zone" of this vehicle consists of the person himself.

Just be glad you didn't do what I did - I put on the wrong sock today by mistake and took my kids to work. 😓

The script doesn’t match the video at all lol

Nah, he is right it was over a 1/4 mile not 1/8

@tyvek05 WRONG

@tyvek05 No, it was on the 1/4 mile. TFBs run on the 1/4 mile. TF dragsters run 1000 feet because the tires couldn't handle the speeds.

@tyvek05 don't comment if you dont know what you're talking about Just sayin.

They don't mount the engine backwards, they just created a new cylinder head that is turned around from the traditional arraignment, the engine itself is still in the same position it's always been.

@@Nigel2Zoom Hence, my "quotation" marks around the word "backwards" Sir. There are many cases where the laymen does not know what a cylinder head is, nor that an engine has a bottom end and top end and it sectioned as such. You are not incorrect. You are just, in providing this detail. Not wrong and thank you. However, it still does not solve the issue of the laymen understanding. So to simplify for them, using the term "backwards" is good enough to make the point I am trying to make. You pretty much said what I said : " that is turned around from the traditional arraignment " I said " "backwards" to standard factory designs." Advice from the wise man: If you get married to a female, and you continually correct her on technical minutia in front of others, you will end up with a knife in your throat while you sleep, Mr. Reaper.. :)

@@r1too Perhaps you should include a disclaimer, along with the quotation marks, to educate the, ''layman,'' and make them aware that what you have written, isn't what you meant. No offense but you succinctly wrote that the engine is mounted backwards, perhaps the grammatically challenged might take you at your word, in spite of your inclusion of quotation marks. Finally having been married to the same female for some 33 odd years, I learned a universal truth long ago, where ever a woman is concerned, you can choose to be right or you can be happy, never both Cheers.

@@Nigel2Zoom I don't need to do the extra work James.. I have you at my side doing the work for me. You complete me. Thank you for all you do.. Congratulations on your long marriage. Cheers.

@@r1too Yawn...

Timo Miller good point! They do for cars, this is the 80s tho

Imagine how fast these bikes would go, if the bikes don't have to carry the huge weight of the drivers balls.

Isle of Man hands down. Not even an argument, those guys are nuts

Isle of Man

Isle of Man. Sustained speed for the length of the isle with buildings that you scrape your elbows on as you jet past?? No comparison

@@DendoWeedFace and a lot of them die as well. Amazed this guy did not die campaigning this machine. Any crash would likely be fatal... nothing quite like ending up at the scene of the crash face first.

Fake!

@@ussliberty8898 source?

@@ussliberty8898 What's fake?

Tbh I think he meant 450 lbs or 100kg

@@konstalyytikainen9233 Those aren't the same thing.

Ya mean dumbed it down lol

i think it is totally possible

We live in a completely different world today! The nanny state took it over.

This

Puddle of mush machine

Yeah I let out an audible "HOLY SHIT" when I saw that.

john epps, that was Phil Lamattina at Willowbank raceway in Australia in 2015...almost unbelievably, Phil had an almost identical crash in 2007, look it up on youtube

That accelerates slower than a hatchback to 60