I'm registered for the auction. Several items I'm trying to get. Have a feeling the Bat Pod is going to go beyond what I'm willing to pay. if I am able to get it, I'll be refurbishing it to running condition.
The horizontal roll to stop or turn was CGI and one of the Three BatPod's for the third Movie was fully electric for the inside driving scene. I believe the Dark Night there were 4 BatPod's and then DKR there were just Three.
Fun little fact, the tires on this and the tumbler in the film is equipped with Hoosier racing tires meant for dirt track racing. Specifically they are the right rear tires from sprint cars.
I was an extra on all of the Christian Bale/ Christopher Nolan Batman films - and in the second one, I got to see this in action: I was one of the SWAT guys charging down the building before it exploded - the building in question, being Battersea Power Station long before its current rennovation. They did indeed, have a stunt driver driving this - one of the best in the world - and, I'm guessing due to the offset nature of the driving position, he could only go in a straight line on this!! The second he tried to turn, he kept coming off it...! Even the world's best stunt driver had issues handling this beast...!!😂 As for the cape issue - I believe that they had different capes for diferent actions - when sat on this, the cape was much shorter... for fighting and other stunts, it was a little longer, with the longest being when he was just standing or walking around.... Looks great though - more so in person... 😊
Love this Batpod! The part where it ejected from the Batmobile probably one of my favorite scenes of a movie of all time. "Goodbye" It was just the essence of Batman! Always ready and always having a plan!
Beautiful machine, and the fact that it was a practical prop is amazing! Up close though you see the typical Hollywood weapons, lots of barrels yet no space for firing mechanisms, recoil, or ammo storage. Still totally agree, Batman had the nicest toys!
Yep. Ammo storage and weight are real issues. Even on Naval vessels, there is a limit to how much space and weight you can allocate to ammunition. A motorcycle is small, and there just isn't space for a lot of ammo, nor a lot of weight.
The sequence with Batman on the Batpod vs Joker in the truck is one of the most incredible and intense scenes ever put to film. "I want you to do it, hit me! HIT ME!!"
@@Gzilla313 Yeah somehow the whole wheel apparatus in the front seemed to have rotated. What I'm amazed by is the kind of springs you would need to dampen the initial impact enough so that the driver doesn't go flying 😬😬😬
I remember when Dark Knight Rises was being filmed, seeing cell phone footage from people in their apartments filming the police chasing Batman. It was surreal to see Batman in such a realistic context. I love the Batpod. In my mind a motorcycle is the perfect vehicle for Batman. A motorcycle gives Batman agility in his mobility, he can split lanes, he can cut through alleys, he can outrace and disappear anything pursuing him. And the Batpod is such a perfect realization of what Batman's motorcycle would be and could do.
That’s nothing, I’ve seen filming in person. (Specifically of the Batman bike chase scene for the upcoming Flash movie) It’s even more surreal and awesome!
@@ObsessiveGeek....it seems the batfleck bike front dual wheels were hard to engineer as working prototype. Those were added as CGI wheels. Hopefully one day someone will make it a real working model.
Having now actually seen the movie, it's absolutely the best scene. Not that is saying much to be fair as so many other scenes are absolute train wreaks to behold.
As a car guy this is fascinating. Hoosier dirt track tires. Honda single cylinder motor, probably a 4stroke, looks like a hydraulic drive to the rear. Car style coilover for the front shock. Simply fascinating. I’d love to get an in person look at it.
IIRC is everything on a dirt track car designed for going left hand curves. So even the tires will have built in a momentum for turning left hand. That could be the reason why the driver is placed on bat pod shifted to the side. Otherwise it would probably very difficult to drive that thing in a straight line.
Wait it was the driverside front wheel that was the front wheel of the Batpod. That would mean that the offset should be on the Right side of the bike not the left side. unless im remembering it wrong.
Absolutely insane to think someone is going to have this in their living room after this auction. Hope a private collector decides to loan it to a museum again. Would love to see it at the academy museum in la
This thing is absolutely massive. It's really hard to gather from video but it's pretty much longer than most common European cars XD Not the sort of thing you'd have in a living room. A garage maybe. But likely a warehouse or it would be rented out to exhibitions.
@@SyntheticFuturethis is definitely up there with the Bike from the TRON movies & the Christopher Nolan BAT MOBILE from the Dark Knight Trilogy (I remember when Faces Corvette the A-Team Van & Knight Rider K.I.T were the best thing I’d ever seen on a T.V & Cinema Screen (special mention for James Bonds LOTUS,Aston Martin DB7’s all the Cars & Motorbikes I’ve mentioned are in my eyes true ICONIC pieces of Cinematic Art work & whether it’s Indiana Jones Hat & Whip Harry Potters Wand Luke Skywalkers light sabre down to Michael J Fox’s Self lacing Nike’s Everyone has a favourite Scene,Quote costume or Prop from their favourite movie or movies & that thing can be the reason why you will always remember it
@@Gzilla313 hey I love that bike too, but this bike can rotate its wheels on y axis, meaning it won’t need to burn rubber and wear down tires and it can make maneuvers the Akira bike can’t. And this bike has freaking anti tank guns!
My friend works at the studio where that was built and Chris Corbold is the real Q from the James Bond films he’s the built a number of iconic movies vehicles form some of the best movies ever, the man’s a legend
I’m just about wrapping up my full scale functional Batpod build. It’s taken me a year and a half to get it right. The tires are actually Hoosier tires used for race cars on the dirt oval tracks. For the Dark Knight movies they actually shaved down the sides of the front tire for better cornering. Mine is EV. It’s definitely not easy to steer and awkward to be positioned on. At the same time it’s incredible to have one 🦇! Thanks for sharing this Adam! It’s nice to see someone else appreciate the Batpod.
4:26-4:29 so that was something they talked about on the behind the scenes for the film. They assumed that the cape would get stuck so with the new batsuit they had this idea of a backpack that retracts the cape when he gets on the batpod. One day the they decided to see if the cape would get stuck and it didn't, the driver kept going with a cape on so they no longer had to worry about it getting stuck
Adam, you are like a kid who just found out he got a real motorcycle for Christmas! Love the absolute childlike wonder and joy you have every time you get to do this!😁😍👍👍
The bat pod/motor cycle was ridden by a French super cross rider/ stuntman and he was the only one that was allowed. He said it scared the crap out of the rider.
Fun Fact: While filming a chase scene on Lake Street, the Chicago Police Department received several calls from concerned citizens stating that the police were involved in a vehicle pursuit with a dark vehicle of unknown make or model.
Fun fact: since streets are closed off for filming and action sequences are filmed with the involvement of local authorities, your story sounds like complete hogwash. No offense intended. 😐
This reminds me of the time my best friends older brother called us up in 1991 and told us to meet him at a truck stop one town over. He was a truck driver and he was delivering a load from Toronto to Los Angeles and he said there was something in the truck we would want to see. When he opened up the truck we were frozen. I honestly couldn't believe what I was looking at. It was the Batmobile. The Tim Burton Batmobile because they had just finished filming Batman Returns in Toronto and my friends brother was the driver that was returning it to storage at Warner Brothers. It was incredible. And I know just how Adam feels seeing the Bat Pod.
Those tires are Hoosier Tire in Small Cross Block pattern - for mini-sprint dirt cars. The front has been shaved to be shaped more like a (huge) motorcycle tire, but the back has the full tread pattern. Mini-sprint dirt cars are about as far away from "F1" (that Brandon briefly mentions) as you can get and still be a race car. Hoosier does make drag car tires which he also mentions, but drag cars usually have slicks or sometimes grooves (as do formula cars), not big crunchy square treads. Using those at a drag strip or a paved race course would be like Usain Bolt or a ballerina wearing snow boots to run/dance in. Anyway, just thought I'd share in case somebody on the RPF decides to make a copy of this monster. Love it!
Not mini-sprints, full sized sprint cars. Mini-sprints run tiny little wheels, like 10" OD on the wheel itself, the full sized sprint cars run 15" OD wheels, and their right rear tires have an OD in the neighborhood of 33". Much larger than a mini-sprint (as the name would lead you to assume).
@@LogicIndustries There's a difference in the pattern between Small Cross Block , Large Cross Block, and the various checkerboard patterns, and that rear tire matches the pattern of small cross block in the catalog. I don't deal in dirt track stuff but I know how to read the catalog, or at least I think I do. Thanks anyway
@@bennyfactor Well I do deal with dirt track racing stuff, and a mini-sprint tire is literally HALF the diameter of a sprint car right rear. A mini-sprint tire will come up to just below your knee, whereas a sprint car right rear will come up clear to your hip. If you'd ever seen them side by side, you'd understand what I'm talking about here, there is no way to mistake one for the other, the size difference is massive.
What would tie together perfectly with this, is if you collaborated somehow both with corridor crew, and the original stunt driver Jean Pierre Goy, (who according to a rudimentary googling was the only person who was capable of riding it for an unspecified reason), then get Adam on there with them as a guest host. I’m sure the people would devour that content.
Nice. Also, great timing. Building the Moebius Models Batpod with the Catwoman. I say great. With the amount of detail visible here, the build time has just ramped up. I love the prop films
The tires aren't drag tires, drag tires are slick so have little to no tread. They are a 20-inch Hoosier dirt racing tire. Used on Dirt ovals mostly on Sprint car or Midget car.
Isadora Duncan? Wow Adam has some crazy references! I had to look her up: "...her death at age 50 when her scarf became entangled in the wheel and axle of the car in which she was travelling in Nice, France"
I’d imagine that as a rider, you’d keep your line of sight along either the edge of the tire, or a piece of frame, to maintain perspective. I’ve spent a lot of time of two wheels, and I very muchly want to try a BatPod.
I wouldn't be surprised if there are street-legal Batpods out there. There are so many places where registering a fully custom motorcycle is as simple as "What engine did you use? Does it meet emissions?" followed by a rubber stamp.
So Apollo 11 was the first to land on the moon. Apollo 10 had all of the capabilities, but they specifically didn't give them enough fuel to do a landing, because their worry was the astronauts might attempt it themselves, just to be the first, and that wasn't their mission. The fact that they removed the fuel tank from this, and the energy Adam has around it, I get it. Because I would do the same.
I remember reading this thing is VERY difficult to ride. Those Hoosier tires are so wide, they make it very hard to balance. During filming, apparently most stunt riders were not able to handle riding it, and it came down to only one or two people that had the knack for staying on it.
Seeing the Hoosier tires on it was awesome. That tire company is from my home state of Indiana and they still manufacture them in a small city an hour from where I live. Another fun fact back in the late 90's or early 00's the track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway was resurfaced and tires Goodyear provided to NASCAR performed horribly to the point they actually considered cancelling the Brickyard 400 that year. Hoosier tire company stepped up and volunteered tires for all 42 race teams but Goodyear wouldn't allow it because of the sponsorship deal. The race was ultimately postponed and Goodyear supplied a different tire that wasn't much better and the race was run with a caution flag being thrown every 25 laps to check and replace tires.
The tires are interesting, they like squeezed those drag tires on a narrow rim to create some edge to roll onto and make it corner, with that massive flat center section, what is it like to ride! nuts! I wonder what kind of Honda motor is in there? 2 or 4 stroke, I wonder.
I was lucky enough to get on one when they toured the UK for the release of TDKR, along with the camo tumbler. I remember holding the levers and just wanting to set off! 😂
I love how violent and visceral the tumbler, batpod and BAT were in TDK trilogy, not just the sound effects and soundtrack but the brutality of the stunts and the emotion in each scene. They weren't just there to look cool in action and have big explosions. For example, as Batman rushes to save Rachel from the toxin and screams her name before boosting through the waterfall into the bat cave. Or the "goodbye" from the computer as he ejects the batpod and the tumbler self destructs having already been blasted and crashed. And the BAT going out to sea and annihilation as the timer ticks down. Nowadays it's just a hollow CGI mess (like The Flash batcycle chase) where I feel absolutely nothing in response.
Those are dirt oval racing tires, either off of a dirt late model or the rear of a sprint car. Not really hard to come by, and not super expensive as far as racing tires go (in the $200-$300 a piece range).
In the Dark Knight Bat Pod scene, where Batman is driving it inside on a striped tike floor, that is the underground Chicago Pedway. Everything I walk through that area in the Pedway, I just imagine what it was like to have the Bat Pod driving through there.
I live in a suburb of Pittsburgh I got to see it up close while they where filming along with the two desert camo tumblers. I wanted to ride that thing so bad. And of course it's a Honda motor. 👍
_"...you're actually steering it with your shoulders more than with your arms. You're kind of leaning into it to make the thing steer."_ 🤨 I'm always astounded by adults who don't understand how steering is initiated on a motorcycle (or a bicycle). Except when traveling at slow speeds all two wheeled motorcycles (and bicycles) are primarily steered by leaning.
@@michaelhoward142 Which is why I specifically used the word *_"primarily"_* when I said, "Except when traveling at slow speeds all two wheeled motorcycles (and bicycles) are *_primarily_* steered by leaning."
2:36 Well now I _definitely_ need to see a movie with a Bat-train. Maybe if they ever did a cowboy take on the story they could have one like in the old Wild Wild West? 😂
Wow. I had no idea that this was a real vehicle. Absolutely insane. And, Adam is right. It does look quite terrifying to drive. Please let me drive it.
"this is my favorite of the Bat Planes, the Trains, the Automobiles" I get that's a joke of the movie of the same name, but it got me pondering if Batman has ever owned a Bat Train.....I can remember one instance in the Justice League animated series where a alternate timeline Batman runs a resistance group and his vehicle of choice was a rocket powered train XD
I was just scrolling thru HBO Max looking for something interesting to watch when lo and behold....MYTHBUSTERS. So I clicked on season 1 episode 1.......damn Adam, you've gotten old......lol But even now you've managed to keep your enthusiasm alive.......time to go back to my history lesson on rocket propelled impala's
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I'm registered for the auction. Several items I'm trying to get. Have a feeling the Bat Pod is going to go beyond what I'm willing to pay. if I am able to get it, I'll be refurbishing it to running condition.
did police caught thives who stole tools from workshop.i saw that in tv
They are tyres from a Sprintcar!. instantly recognised them.
@@grogvaughan5649 q
The horizontal roll to stop or turn was CGI and one of the Three BatPod's for the third Movie was fully electric for the inside driving scene.
I believe the Dark Night there were 4 BatPod's and then DKR there were just Three.
Fun little fact, the tires on this and the tumbler in the film is equipped with Hoosier racing tires meant for dirt track racing. Specifically they are the right rear tires from sprint cars.
Brother. 🤘🏻🤘🏻
I like the wear on the front tire
@@SaturnCanuck Odd that the rear tire isn't equally worn.
@michaelhoward142 Well the front tire takes more of the brunt soooo
@@SaturnCanuck Motorcycle tires generally wear out more quickly on the rear.
I was an extra on all of the Christian Bale/ Christopher Nolan Batman films - and in the second one, I got to see this in action: I was one of the SWAT guys charging down the building before it exploded - the building in question, being Battersea Power Station long before its current rennovation. They did indeed, have a stunt driver driving this - one of the best in the world - and, I'm guessing due to the offset nature of the driving position, he could only go in a straight line on this!! The second he tried to turn, he kept coming off it...! Even the world's best stunt driver had issues handling this beast...!!😂 As for the cape issue - I believe that they had different capes for diferent actions - when sat on this, the cape was much shorter... for fighting and other stunts, it was a little longer, with the longest being when he was just standing or walking around.... Looks great though - more so in person... 😊
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Love this Batpod! The part where it ejected from the Batmobile probably one of my favorite scenes of a movie of all time. "Goodbye" It was just the essence of Batman! Always ready and always having a plan!
The Tumbler and the Batpod are probably my top 2 Batman vehicles ever!
89 Batmobile was pretty sick as well
@@bedfordshiremodeller4491 oh definitely. that's a classic as well
ua-cam.com/video/bRvIlEQIxko/v-deo.htmlsi=TkMVCbbxwc5CwjIc i thought so also so built my own. What do you think ?
Beautiful machine, and the fact that it was a practical prop is amazing! Up close though you see the typical Hollywood weapons, lots of barrels yet no space for firing mechanisms, recoil, or ammo storage. Still totally agree, Batman had the nicest toys!
Yep. Ammo storage and weight are real issues. Even on Naval vessels, there is a limit to how much space and weight you can allocate to ammunition.
A motorcycle is small, and there just isn't space for a lot of ammo, nor a lot of weight.
The sequence with Batman on the Batpod vs Joker in the truck is one of the most incredible and intense scenes ever put to film. "I want you to do it, hit me! HIT ME!!"
Absolutely amazing. And being just a small time after Heath Ledger’s unfortunate death, when I saw that scene it hit really really hard.
I always chuckle when he inverts direction by driving up a wall for a second.
So, you've seen, what? Three movies?
@@mysticmarble94 that part always confused me, like does the wheel spin omnidirectionally, because it looks like it rolls the wrong way for a bit
@@Gzilla313 Yeah somehow the whole wheel apparatus in the front seemed to have rotated. What I'm amazed by is the kind of springs you would need to dampen the initial impact enough so that the driver doesn't go flying 😬😬😬
Saw this in the museum in my town on an exposition. This thing is so big. Like it's enormous. Truly insane to see in person.
I remember when Dark Knight Rises was being filmed, seeing cell phone footage from people in their apartments filming the police chasing Batman. It was surreal to see Batman in such a realistic context.
I love the Batpod. In my mind a motorcycle is the perfect vehicle for Batman. A motorcycle gives Batman agility in his mobility, he can split lanes, he can cut through alleys, he can outrace and disappear anything pursuing him. And the Batpod is such a perfect realization of what Batman's motorcycle would be and could do.
That’s nothing, I’ve seen filming in person. (Specifically of the Batman bike chase scene for the upcoming Flash movie)
It’s even more surreal and awesome!
@@ObsessiveGeek....it seems the batfleck bike front dual wheels were hard to engineer as working prototype. Those were added as CGI wheels. Hopefully one day someone will make it a real working model.
@chempusangma1915 Yes, I'm aware.
Like I say, I saw the real bike they used.
It just had a fibreglass body of the fictional bike over it.
Having now actually seen the movie, it's absolutely the best scene.
Not that is saying much to be fair as so many other scenes are absolute train wreaks to behold.
I like that he consistently isn’t fully aware of all the facts (yet) and he and Adam sometimes speculate or often learn things from each other
As a car guy this is fascinating. Hoosier dirt track tires. Honda single cylinder motor, probably a 4stroke, looks like a hydraulic drive to the rear. Car style coilover for the front shock. Simply fascinating. I’d love to get an in person look at it.
IIRC is everything on a dirt track car designed for going left hand curves. So even the tires will have built in a momentum for turning left hand. That could be the reason why the driver is placed on bat pod shifted to the side. Otherwise it would probably very difficult to drive that thing in a straight line.
@@Craftlngo Nice catch!
It's designed to be off centre due to the nature of how the Batpod leaves the Batmobile
Wait it was the driverside front wheel that was the front wheel of the Batpod. That would mean that the offset should be on the Right side of the bike not the left side. unless im remembering it wrong.
I think it could be off centre because the front wheel is only supported on one side, throwing off the centre of gravity of the whole bike
This has got to be the answer, it's the only thing that really makes sense. Perhaps it's a combo of both
@@pvccannon1966 It's cause the batpod is both frontal wheels of the Tumbler, which quickly ejects the batpod and then it finishes assembling mid air.
The Tumbler is my favorite Batmobile, though The Batmobile from the ‘60’s TV show has that cool retro feel to it that I also like.
Absolutely insane to think someone is going to have this in their living room after this auction. Hope a private collector decides to loan it to a museum again. Would love to see it at the academy museum in la
I seriously doubt anyone would keep this in their living-room.
They could easily loan it out for display in a museum.
This thing is absolutely massive. It's really hard to gather from video but it's pretty much longer than most common European cars XD Not the sort of thing you'd have in a living room. A garage maybe. But likely a warehouse or it would be rented out to exhibitions.
This guy looks like James Gunns older brother!
@@SyntheticFuturethis is definitely up there with the Bike from the TRON movies & the Christopher Nolan BAT MOBILE from the Dark Knight Trilogy (I remember when Faces Corvette the A-Team Van & Knight Rider K.I.T were the best thing I’d ever seen on a T.V & Cinema Screen (special mention for James Bonds LOTUS,Aston Martin DB7’s all the Cars & Motorbikes I’ve mentioned are in my eyes true ICONIC pieces of Cinematic Art work & whether it’s Indiana Jones Hat & Whip Harry Potters Wand Luke Skywalkers light sabre down to Michael J Fox’s Self lacing Nike’s Everyone has a favourite Scene,Quote costume or Prop from their favourite movie or movies & that thing can be the reason why you will always remember it
@@marvinbrown2356 it's absolutely iconic and it's a beautiful example of practical design 👍🏻
This is the most badass motorcycle in movie history!
If I were there in person I would be crying out of pure joy.
The Akira bike is better!
@@Gzilla313 hey I love that bike too, but this bike can rotate its wheels on y axis, meaning it won’t need to burn rubber and wear down tires and it can make maneuvers the Akira bike can’t. And this bike has freaking anti tank guns!
i think, the tron bike in tron legacy is cooler
@@cen121 you mean the Light Cycle, and yes, they are very cool!
The rider is offset slightly to the right to counterbalance all the metalwork for the front suspension on the left.
My friend works at the studio where that was built and Chris Corbold is the real Q from the James Bond films he’s the built a number of iconic movies vehicles form some of the best movies ever, the man’s a legend
I’m just about wrapping up my full scale functional Batpod build. It’s taken me a year and a half to get it right. The tires are actually Hoosier tires used for race cars on the dirt oval tracks. For the Dark Knight movies they actually shaved down the sides of the front tire for better cornering. Mine is EV. It’s definitely not easy to steer and awkward to be positioned on. At the same time it’s incredible to have one 🦇! Thanks for sharing this Adam! It’s nice to see someone else appreciate the Batpod.
4:26-4:29 so that was something they talked about on the behind the scenes for the film. They assumed that the cape would get stuck so with the new batsuit they had this idea of a backpack that retracts the cape when he gets on the batpod. One day the they decided to see if the cape would get stuck and it didn't, the driver kept going with a cape on so they no longer had to worry about it getting stuck
Adam, you are like a kid who just found out he got a real motorcycle for Christmas! Love the absolute childlike wonder and joy you have every time you get to do this!😁😍👍👍
adam was the first person i ever saw wear a shirt that says "i do my own stunts"
The bat pod/motor cycle was ridden by a French super cross rider/ stuntman and he was the only one that was allowed. He said it scared the crap out of the rider.
I'd believe it, you'd have to pay me to ride that thing and I love anything with 2 wheels
Those tires are Hoosier Racing tires for dirt track racing, customized for the vehicle. Hoosier has done a lot of the tires for the Batman vehicles.
Adam,,,,,I know you were dying to get on,,,😂
Fun Fact: While filming a chase scene on Lake Street, the Chicago Police Department received several calls from concerned citizens stating that the police were involved in a vehicle pursuit with a dark vehicle of unknown make or model.
Who calls 911 when the police are already actively in pursuit.
@nologo stupid is as stupid does
Fun fact: since streets are closed off for filming and action sequences are filmed with the involvement of local authorities, your story sounds like complete hogwash. No offense intended. 😐
@@TheStockwell Do they also evacuate every single building along the street?
@@NoLongo Police departments have non-emergency phone numbers too.
The look on the guy's face as he holds the bike up for Adam to play on it....
Lol…right? As Adam is making sound effects too. I’m still chuckling about it. Too good
This reminds me of the time my best friends older brother called us up in 1991 and told us to meet him at a truck stop one town over. He was a truck driver and he was delivering a load from Toronto to Los Angeles and he said there was something in the truck we would want to see. When he opened up the truck we were frozen. I honestly couldn't believe what I was looking at. It was the Batmobile. The Tim Burton Batmobile because they had just finished filming Batman Returns in Toronto and my friends brother was the driver that was returning it to storage at Warner Brothers.
It was incredible. And I know just how Adam feels seeing the Bat Pod.
Now that is incredible! Did you get to touch it?
@@jawessome Hell yes!
"Where does he get those wonderful toys?" 🦇
Went to film school in Chicago while they were filming The Dark Knight. Had friends who worked on the crew. It was an absolutely magical time.
Those tires are Hoosier Tire in Small Cross Block pattern - for mini-sprint dirt cars. The front has been shaved to be shaped more like a (huge) motorcycle tire, but the back has the full tread pattern. Mini-sprint dirt cars are about as far away from "F1" (that Brandon briefly mentions) as you can get and still be a race car. Hoosier does make drag car tires which he also mentions, but drag cars usually have slicks or sometimes grooves (as do formula cars), not big crunchy square treads. Using those at a drag strip or a paved race course would be like Usain Bolt or a ballerina wearing snow boots to run/dance in. Anyway, just thought I'd share in case somebody on the RPF decides to make a copy of this monster. Love it!
Not mini-sprints, full sized sprint cars. Mini-sprints run tiny little wheels, like 10" OD on the wheel itself, the full sized sprint cars run 15" OD wheels, and their right rear tires have an OD in the neighborhood of 33". Much larger than a mini-sprint (as the name would lead you to assume).
@@LogicIndustries Was just matching the tread pattern to my tire catalog...
@@bennyfactor Hoosier makes about two or three dozen tire sizes with that pattern, it's just about the most common tread pattern in dirt racing.
@@LogicIndustries There's a difference in the pattern between Small Cross Block , Large Cross Block, and the various checkerboard patterns, and that rear tire matches the pattern of small cross block in the catalog. I don't deal in dirt track stuff but I know how to read the catalog, or at least I think I do. Thanks anyway
@@bennyfactor Well I do deal with dirt track racing stuff, and a mini-sprint tire is literally HALF the diameter of a sprint car right rear. A mini-sprint tire will come up to just below your knee, whereas a sprint car right rear will come up clear to your hip. If you'd ever seen them side by side, you'd understand what I'm talking about here, there is no way to mistake one for the other, the size difference is massive.
What would tie together perfectly with this, is if you collaborated somehow both with corridor crew, and the original stunt driver Jean Pierre Goy, (who according to a rudimentary googling was the only person who was capable of riding it for an unspecified reason), then get Adam on there with them as a guest host. I’m sure the people would devour that content.
also Jolene Van Vugt was the stunt woman for catwoman for riding scenes
They were the only ones who could drive it because it was REALLY hard to drive. For one thing, you're lying prone and off center.
Mr. Savage could you please find the [solar + turbine] hybrid bike used in the film "PRIEST 2011"
This has to be one of the e coolest rides ever in movie history. I would love to just sit on it like Adam was able to.❤❤❤
Nice. Also, great timing. Building the Moebius Models Batpod with the Catwoman. I say great. With the amount of detail visible here, the build time has just ramped up. I love the prop films
The tires aren't drag tires, drag tires are slick so have little to no tread. They are a 20-inch Hoosier dirt racing tire. Used on Dirt ovals mostly on Sprint car or Midget car.
Adam West on the batcopter was always my favourite vehicle 😄
LOL
Adam's casual dropping of Isadora Duncan @4:28 - Dark sir, very dark. lol
Had to Google that. Very dark indeed. Like wtf Adam 😅
I love the fact it has a horn. You can see the actual siren at the front underneath where the riders right nipple would be at 0:44
Isadora Duncan? Wow Adam has some crazy references! I had to look her up: "...her death at age 50 when her scarf became entangled in the wheel and axle of the car in which she was travelling in Nice, France"
I think I've heard her name invoked about 5 times.
I’d imagine that as a rider, you’d keep your line of sight along either the edge of the tire, or a piece of frame, to maintain perspective.
I’ve spent a lot of time of two wheels, and I very muchly want to try a BatPod.
I dont know how this guys videos dont make a million views, the stuff he does is awesome. So many videos make a million views that arent half as cool!
my favourite batman vehicles, batpod and tumbler
Incredible build
I wouldn't be surprised if there are street-legal Batpods out there. There are so many places where registering a fully custom motorcycle is as simple as "What engine did you use? Does it meet emissions?" followed by a rubber stamp.
I can see the headlines now: Mythbuster rebuilds decommissioned Dark Knight “Batpod” and wreaks havoc in downtown San Francisco.
So Apollo 11 was the first to land on the moon. Apollo 10 had all of the capabilities, but they specifically didn't give them enough fuel to do a landing, because their worry was the astronauts might attempt it themselves, just to be the first, and that wasn't their mission.
The fact that they removed the fuel tank from this, and the energy Adam has around it, I get it.
Because I would do the same.
Batman Tested and a big grin 😁 what a great way to start the day ❤
Adam gets to do the coolest things! We love you man... Always sharing the fun!
Offset probably added an instability that made it easier to lean into curves on those wide tires.
Thank you from Spain for another nice video😊
I remember reading this thing is VERY difficult to ride. Those Hoosier tires are so wide, they make it very hard to balance. During filming, apparently most stunt riders were not able to handle riding it, and it came down to only one or two people that had the knack for staying on it.
That trilogy was amazing.
I would happily settle for that gremlin though, I need to rewatch both!!
Those look like turf tires, used on equipment to operate on softer ground, such as sports fields.
Yep exactly. I laughed out loud when he said “drag tires for an F1 car” what the hell
They’re dirt track tires.
The Sprint car right rear tire looks good on it.
Glad im not the only that started nerding out when I recognized the sprint car tires
Seeing the Hoosier tires on it was awesome. That tire company is from my home state of Indiana and they still manufacture them in a small city an hour from where I live.
Another fun fact back in the late 90's or early 00's the track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway was resurfaced and tires Goodyear provided to NASCAR performed horribly to the point they actually considered cancelling the Brickyard 400 that year. Hoosier tire company stepped up and volunteered tires for all 42 race teams but Goodyear wouldn't allow it because of the sponsorship deal. The race was ultimately postponed and Goodyear supplied a different tire that wasn't much better and the race was run with a caution flag being thrown every 25 laps to check and replace tires.
The tires are interesting, they like squeezed those drag tires on a narrow rim to create some edge to roll onto and make it corner, with that massive flat center section, what is it like to ride! nuts! I wonder what kind of Honda motor is in there? 2 or 4 stroke, I wonder.
The Batpod driver was stuntman Jean-Pierre Goy, who wore a cowl with a facsimile of Christian Bale's face on it for closer shots as the bike sped by.
I was lucky enough to get on one when they toured the UK for the release of TDKR, along with the camo tumbler. I remember holding the levers and just wanting to set off! 😂
"And he's got all of these controls... fir bat stuff"
This is canonically confirmed and correct
Arclight Hollywood had the BatPod and the Desert Tumbler, and the costumes inside
Sooooo cool! Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing this!
I never would have guessed this was a real driving vehicle.
you can thank Christopher Nolan for his keenness to use practical effects.
At 7:33 that side shot the Pod really reminds me of the Jaguar car logo. It looks like a big cat leaping after prey.
The tires are f1 wet track tires, and the rears of the tumbler are tractor tires iirc
I wanna ride the batpod!🦇
I love how violent and visceral the tumbler, batpod and BAT were in TDK trilogy, not just the sound effects and soundtrack but the brutality of the stunts and the emotion in each scene. They weren't just there to look cool in action and have big explosions. For example, as Batman rushes to save Rachel from the toxin and screams her name before boosting through the waterfall into the bat cave. Or the "goodbye" from the computer as he ejects the batpod and the tumbler self destructs having already been blasted and crashed. And the BAT going out to sea and annihilation as the timer ticks down. Nowadays it's just a hollow CGI mess (like The Flash batcycle chase) where I feel absolutely nothing in response.
Superman and Batman my mom loved watching those movies when she was young Even when she's old she's still watching them😮😮😮😮🙂🙂🙂🙂🎆✨️🎇🎆✨️🎇
OMG - You really do have the best job Adam LOL
Function over form, in the extreme :)
Those are dirt oval racing tires, either off of a dirt late model or the rear of a sprint car. Not really hard to come by, and not super expensive as far as racing tires go (in the $200-$300 a piece range).
In the Dark Knight Bat Pod scene, where Batman is driving it inside on a striped tike floor, that is the underground Chicago Pedway. Everything I walk through that area in the Pedway, I just imagine what it was like to have the Bat Pod driving through there.
Adan on it at the end " priceless"
I live in a suburb of Pittsburgh I got to see it up close while they where filming along with the two desert camo tumblers. I wanted to ride that thing so bad. And of course it's a Honda motor. 👍
This is like me sitting in KITT when they had it and Universal Studios when i was a Kid, best day ever!
_"...you're actually steering it with your shoulders more than with your arms. You're kind of leaning into it to make the thing steer."_
🤨 I'm always astounded by adults who don't understand how steering is initiated on a motorcycle (or a bicycle). Except when traveling at slow speeds all two wheeled motorcycles (and bicycles) are primarily steered by leaning.
Which is initiated by countersteering with the handlebars.
@@michaelhoward142 Which is why I specifically used the word *_"primarily"_* when I said, "Except when traveling at slow speeds all two wheeled motorcycles (and bicycles) are *_primarily_* steered by leaning."
need a portable green screen and some wind ..., for the cape does it have a blowerto keep the cape airborn ?
Unbelievable it is real bike used in Batman
The Batpod! By Honda
nice kicks adam!
Let Adam drive it. Great video !
So cool.
2:36 Well now I _definitely_ need to see a movie with a Bat-train. Maybe if they ever did a cowboy take on the story they could have one like in the old Wild Wild West? 😂
This and ben affleck bat bike are pure gold
Stunning! Oh to be Adam!
Wow. I had no idea that this was a real vehicle. Absolutely insane.
And, Adam is right. It does look quite terrifying to drive. Please let me drive it.
My favourite scene is when Anne Hathaway mounts this thing dressed in her leather catsuit 👀🤣
"this is my favorite of the Bat Planes, the Trains, the Automobiles" I get that's a joke of the movie of the same name, but it got me pondering if Batman has ever owned a Bat Train.....I can remember one instance in the Justice League animated series where a alternate timeline Batman runs a resistance group and his vehicle of choice was a rocket powered train XD
I’d be willing to bet Adam asked to drive it at least 3 times.
Astonishing!
Even a sportster frame or other harley frames aren't inline with the wheels where the back bone is on them.
I wonder if there’s some sort of balancing gyroscope system in this to help the rider with that offset.
Maybe in that movie universe Yes probably, which is why when Batman side steer it... the wheel side rotates but the body frame remains upright.
Any chance the wheels were offset to allow a less obstructed camera view of the driver? Just an idea.
Really cool.
Adam…you live one cool and crazy life!!
One of my favorite shots is actually Catwoman on the Batpod. Love Anne Hathaway.
Please interview the stunt drivers PLEASEEEE for this one and the Robert Patterson movie too 🙏
I can see "Lenny" (RIP) fully kitted up driving this on the highway....
And giving the Kids in hospital a thrill.
I was just scrolling thru HBO Max looking for something interesting to watch when lo and behold....MYTHBUSTERS. So I clicked on season 1 episode 1.......damn Adam, you've gotten old......lol But even now you've managed to keep your enthusiasm alive.......time to go back to my history lesson on rocket propelled impala's
Im as happy as you are and im not even there 5:13 i would love to ride this!
Great video 😊
The Dark Knight series batmobile is the best ever.