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The Most Insane Dragster Ever!
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- Опубліковано 15 сер 2024
- Nerves of steel! Would you ride this??
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Top Fuel Drag Bikes have up to 1500 horsepower and can reach up to 265mph in less than 5.5 seconds.
Over the years they have taken many different shapes and designs, but nothing comes close to the ingenuity of the Jade Warrior, sometimes called the 'Drag Sled', and it's crazy design.
It dominated when it was racing, but has never been done again.
How did it work? Why was it so dominant? And why has nobody else copied it?
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The Jade Warrior took part in the 'Top Fuel' category, competing with bikes that looked like this.
They were able to hit 155mph by the end of the strip and often used two engines, with one in front of the other!
They produced between 400 and 500 horsepower and were fitted to specially modified, and much longer, bike chassis'.
Now, drag bikes look like this with Larry McBride setting the record of 5.83 seconds over an eighth-mile and hitting 232mph before deploying the parachutes!
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Innovation at it’s best!
**Apologies for the audio quality in this video, there was a technical issue with the mic! Will be fixed for the next video**
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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.
Going 200mph while laying down like that must make you feel like the world's fastest sliding penguin
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 🤣🤣
The center of mass on this bike actually in the middle- just due to the massive steel balls on the dude. Mad respect.
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
I raced against the Jade Warrior at Santa Pod and at Long Marston in the 1980s a couple of times.
Angus blew my supercharged Triumph into the weeds each time.
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The 60s were even better. 😉
@@jacketrussell how old are you
@@Sfaegbe
66 now.
Jack Russell got anymore stories?
@@fezzes428
Loads of memories.
Unfortunately, Angus passed away not too long ago. In tribute, we (a couple friends and one of them being Angus' son) want to bring this bike back as a tribute. It does still exist but needs some work!
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 UA-cam 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
He should’ve worn a cape for the races.
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
This literally took the phrase " Face down, head first " to the absolute *limit*
it doesn't match the Skeleton sport. check it out. this is a mad sport.
-- Regardless of Angus McPhail's bike not winning any world championships, his innovative prowess brings my salute!
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?
Maybe no one wanted their head where a bumper should be!
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.
Being that close to the pavement would make you feel like you were going even faster.
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.
The ingenuity of engineers is what makes the modern world so inspiring and fun.
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.
This guy really said, " the room with the most echo in my house is where I want to record"
Ag McPhail was the inventor and rider of Jade Warrior. His daytime job was a self employed plumber/heating engineer. His work van doubled as transport and accommodation at drag meets. As a 16 year old I used to visit his garage in Rayners Lane.. just a standard garage at the back of his garden. Me and my mate used to help out though Mick Hand a racer in his own right was the main assist. The engine was designed around one half of a Ford Cosworth though many parts were were made by Ag I can still picture him milling the con rods, explaining to me that the standard ones wouldn’t take the stress of the high performance engine running on methanol. I helped screw the plastic strip attached to the bottom of the “ground effect” unit. The plastic was in contact with the tarmac to act as wearable seal. I can remember thinking back then what a revolutionary bike it was. The front wheel incidentally was from a motor scooter! And the rear wheel was a front tyre from a F2 car I think or it may have been F1. I used to help out in the pits at Santa Pod and on the line, helping to pull the bike back after a burn out. Ag was a lovely guy, a real nutty professor type with a heart of gold but he had no fear on that thing... I lay on it once as it was being towed back and let me tell you my chin was 10 inches from the deck going 10mph and I was scared!! God knows how he rode that beast at over 200mph.
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
Legend says when he hit the wall the last thing that went through his mind...was his ass
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!
Jade Warrior was built by my step Dad John Murray (Murray Dynamics), Mick Hand and Ag McPhail (RIP died recently) McCoy Dynamics. Last time I saw it at the Pod was about 3 years ago when we were all up there. The machine was built specifically for Ag as you can see. Ag was a lovely guy, soft spoken and a bit 'hey man' hippie :) Ag was a good friend and will be missed.
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.
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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.
Sometimes when you want to innovate, you have to ride the line between genius and insane.
Takes balls of steel to do this. Especially when your name is Angus McFail.
If this was F1, it would've been banned after 1 season
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.
One thing about that design.. if you ever hit anything, you'll be the first one to get there!😱😁
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"
OMG!!! he must have been a maniac! can you imagine the sensation of speed that close to the ground?!?!?! like going 1000mph on the other bikes.
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@@stopspam420 bro what are u smoking chill with the sarcasm
"Winter is coming" so a pair of socks would come handy 😁
The "stabilizer wheels" as you called them are called wheelie bars here in the states. Awesome videos! Keep up the good work!
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.
There's an audio plugin called 'Deverb' you can use to fix the audio in videos like this. It'll get rid of the room reverb. I forget who makes it, but it's not hard to find.
Ignorance made me look at these dragsters as stupid, but I understand now the amount of engineering that goes in there.
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
I think the fact that drivers can feel the vehicles they’re driving flex and shift is incredible. They truly are one with their machines.
They gonna be one with the machine if it snaps
@@Morbpious ew bagged milk
Great analysis why the design was scrapped. That said, I imagine there is room for another try...more rigid aerospace steel construction
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
Angus, used to work a J. R Etheridge Ltd in Bushey in the late 90s, it's where I did my apprenticeship a very brave and talented guy
Driving head first with these bikes is asking for literally a blackout.
Hence01 Head first, then “feet first”.
@@LauriLevola underrated reply
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@@markholroyde9412 its funny you say that given that most of the people who call others "snowflakes" are closet homosexuals.
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The bike needed a sidecar, just to carry the rider's balls.
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
Well done, info intelligently explained, no hype, not repetitive, not dumb downed
In event of crash, his skull helps Protects the vehicle from damage Very clever.
This is what I was thinking. The "crumple zone" of this vehicle consists of the person himself.
As a recumbent cyclist, I find that design fascinating.
Looking into NSU land speed record bikes
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Fun fact about Nitromethane fuel: it actually produces less power per oz/liter, than gasoline does. The reason drag cars get so fast is because Nitromethane is a mono propellant, it takes little to no oxygen to burn it because it releases oxygen while burning. As a result, they can dump far more fuel into the combustion chamber, without needing to jam an impossible amount of air pressure into the cylinders.
1:28 > pause.. Another note: Modern drag motorcycles with inline 4 engines mount the engines "backwards" to standard factory designs. You can see the exhaust just is a straight shot out the back without much curvature of the pipes.. In this example, that is an older '80's air cooled engine head on that record setting bike!
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."
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@@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.
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@@r1too Yawn...
The feeling of being that low to the ground while going that fast must have been insane 😲
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Do you sign autographs?
High school and 2 degrees ?
That boy angus said “hell nah, gotta know your limits”😂
This is proof that - "Imagination is more important then knowledge!" Albert einstein
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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.
when you're going at 200mph I dunno if it makes that much of a difference if you're going head first or feet first :p
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.
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Mmmm. Free socks. Good video too, these historical videos with all this great footage are my favorite kind that you do, keep it up.
Batman is interested in that design. Moving around the city bobsledding through traffic would be definitely easier.
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...”
Wow that is a stupidly brave man, I can’t imagine how he’d survive if something on the Jade Warrior broke at 200 miles per hour
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
One of the most reasonable dragster designs I've seen covered. No explosive space magic, just, solid engineering.
What made the Jade Warrior so successful was this. The driver had balls with their own gravitational field x
Love drag racers. "Get a massive engine, strap myself to it, see how fast it can make me go". Nutters!!!
Never seen or heard of the Jade Warrior until now, and i'm 41 lol you'd think it would have come up at some point.
I have never seen that bike! How amazing! Makes me think of Britten!
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Absolutely insane, wish we had more variety and crazy innovation like this in motorsports today.
He's probably skrinking everytime he is in that "motor bike" XD
When he said he could feel the chassis flexing on the run how could he not realise that it was his balls of granite causing it and no amount of engineering would be able to overcome that.
Love this sort of “random” automotive insight!
5.5 seconds over a 1/4 mile ! Not an 1/8 mile as you said.
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.
I do love a good story of innovation my favorite being the lotus 78 with the introduction of ground effect to the world
I remember this bike well at Santa Pod in the late 70s/early 80s. I probably checked out his leathers and gear as I was part of the ACU scrutineering team in my late teens.
That design absolutely socked the competition and kicked butt wow
Great mercy, sir! Sounds like you're in a bathroom. I'm in a bathroom, also, which doesn't help a bit. 😂
I used to have a few jokes about pairs of matching socks but I've lost one
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. 😓
Very eloquant documentation made of a F1 past technology used in motorbike dragsters....Well done !
"The world of motorcycles lost one of its most eccentric geniuses when coronavirus claimed Angus ‘Ag’ McPhail in April."
Fake!
@@ussliberty8898 source?
@@ussliberty8898 What's fake?
Dragsters are probably one of the most surreal vehicles I know of. Imagine aliens looking at people in these and thinking: "They are basically holding on to an engine on wheels and going at stupid speeds. They must be in a hurry to get to whatever is behind the other white line. What is it? No idea"
The greatest mystery in alien humanology.
All you would have to say is "now this is pod racing"
I love your channel, so I hope this comes through as helpful advice - your audio recording is a bit harsh to the ears due to the distant microphone and room reverberation. It's a detail but a close microphone would be a massive improvement of reception and intelligibility of your otherwise sublime content. Your knowledge is priceless, thank you for making these videos.
This
For another radical drag-bike , have a look at Clive Waye's 'Drag Waye' . First built with a 500 Norton , then escalating to a blown 2 litre VW flat 4 . The unique bike was/ is a slingshot . Like the early dragsters , the rider is behind the slick . It's nuts but ran some good times like a 9.3 . In the '60s !
It takes a bit of craziness to be innovative. One guy cut his ear off. This crazy is everywhere in sport. Pushing drivers and players to their desired limit. Plus, makes the sport more entertaining for the fans. Love this bit. Drag racing was big in my youth, particularly Fords pushbutton automatics located in the center of the steering wheel. They were so fast off the lien ans loud, Yeah! Loved those Fords.
Put a sock in it, Scott. 🧦
Forget Einstein, Angus MacPhail is the greatest genius to ever live.
Just dropping a line to say thanks for the status bar on the sponsor portion of the video. Wish everyone did that. Made it super easy to fast forward. 👍
Looking back at your old videos ! Your growth is amazing !! Keep at it
I love that bike!! The engineering that went in to that bike is incredible . I say if he made a roll cage that was over top of him it would of made it stronger and maybe quite faster do to the stronger chassi and still maybe racing today with the best of the other bikes but hey ya never know thank you nice content..
Just wondering who has larger balls, the Isle of Man TT riders or the guys who rode this bike
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.
I saw this guy a while back and it never gets old. Thanks for the video!
I love your content bro, you always got something exiting in every video!
Just a 500hp sled you pilot via lying down no biggie.
Driving a top fuel bike is probably one of the most terrifying things, lying on it just clinging on for dear life, u just ram open the throttle and hope it stays straight , inches off the ground
I see that Mustard footage you used... glad to see you have a great taste in channels! Seriously, that’s my favorite aviation channel on UA-cam. More people need to check him out.
Loving this content too! What an insane bike.
1:45 "450kg or *1000* lbs of downforce"
There. Fixed it for ya. 😊
Tbh I think he meant 450 lbs or 100kg
@@konstalyytikainen9233 Those aren't the same thing.
Ya mean dumbed it down lol
It feels strange that they wouldn't have a separate racing class for regular fuel bikes.
Timo Miller good point! They do for cars, this is the 80s tho
It would be crazy to see someone try to re-create that with today’s technology
i think it is totally possible
Amazing videos, informative and entertaining, that’s for putting in all the work Scott.
Wow, the head-first position looks scary!
7:14 Dude in little shorts with no shirt at the starting line, Lol....Things were so different back then.
We live in a completely different world today! The nanny state took it over.
7:32 9 second 1/4 mile? That sound very slow for a 500hp bike. Also Larry McBrides record was a 1/4 pass not 1/8 big difference
Erik B this whole video was filled with bullshit and wrong info. Guy is completely talking out of his ass!
@@kellyven1069 To a really pathetic degree honestly. Even the most casual google search was clearly too much of an obstacle to him getting his clickbait video out there. 450kilos = 100lbs??? seriously?
Sounds like a credible motorsports accent though, no? am i right??? no?
@@tigweldNY That accents is exempt from drag racing and Nascar.
whats fascinating is that the 30 yr old rocket dragsters were still faster than todays top fuel. Meaning ,were no where near the limits for drag bikes or cars.( in theory
Really appreciate your videos and all the work you put in to make them!
This literally changes the definition of "head first into the wall"
Should've called it "Broken Neck Masheen"
Puddle of mush machine
Everyone is a gangster untill the Thrust SSC arrives
That accelerates slower than a hatchback to 60
The socks threw me for a chuckle 😂
Cool, I have not seen this dragster before. That riding position reminds me of the position Rollie Free used to get the maximum speed out of his bikes. Thanks for the video!
8:11 holy shit that's gotta be the scariest crash ever.
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
I'm amazed they let him race "that bike" one crash and he's in a world of trouble.
Other than being in front of the engine instead of on top of it, how is it any more dangerous than a conventional drag bike?
Mike Spencer head first
This may just be me but I think it's totally awesome that he picked a ford cos worth motor that won so many championships in rally racing!!! 🧡
Amazing design. I used to hang around the Great Lakes Dragaway in Union Grove, WI when I was a kid. Racers like Don Garlits, Prudhomme, Muldowney, Ivo, Serfins and so many others were such gracious competitors. They would answer even a young kids question while working on their cars in the Pits. Have always loved drag racing since. Got a couple of Chevy Big Blocks in the garage for future projects. Always wanted to do race bikes too.
7:55
Look at this guy catching his motorcycle and himself on fire 🔥, has nothing to do with The Jade Warrior. 😂 I’ll just show this part.
Don’t worry, he’s OK if he hits anything (like running headfirst into the retaining wall at 200 mph) because he’s wearing a helmet
This level of innovation makes me think of the Can-Am series, especially the Chaparrals. Typically when a vehicle dominates the sanctioning body (e.g. IHRA, IMSA, etc.) will pass rules that limit the advantage so that the results from team to team are closer. Proponents say that this is to make things more exciting for spectators. Opponents say that this stifles innovation. At any rate, I am glad that this was such a successful design. It is truly brilliant. Surprisingly, this is the first time that I have ever heard of the Jade Warrior. So thank you so much for this video!
Never ridden a bike, but absolutely loved this.
your microphone sounds really annoying to listen to for a while.
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I would imagine there's a pair of brown pants after every run 💩