Monster Chopper First Drive!

stopped everything i was doing to watch this, the only thing i've been looking forward to on youtube.

Was it worth the wait?

Now build a mirror image chopper, and you can combine them into a 4 wheel terror that splits back into two when the trails get narrow. Then recombine it again.

People that can engineer then build something this rare… nothing but my utmost respect and admiration.

Looks like something Batman would ride

Being a motorcyclist for the past 50 years, when I saw what you were building, I thought so much un-sprung weight, so many issues to make that work. But you you did it. Congratulations, Well Done! Keep up the amazing Fab work.

Suggestion for you on prepping future tires. Why not build a jig that holds a seven-inch grinder with a flapper disk, and glides in the preferred arc shape of the tire? Have the tire rotating at constant speed, while the grinder reciprocates back and forth on the arc rails (think like a roller-coaster track in a semi-circle the radius of the preferred tire curve). Build the whole arc/grinder setup on a vertical, variable-height, track setup (could use a trailer crank jack to adjust the height until the edges of the tire are at preferred radius). How it would operate: 1) Mount the new tire in the jig and get it up to a slow, constant rotation. 2) Turn on grinder/arc device, which continues to sweep back and forth along the arc track. 3) Use the trailer jack to lower the grinder/arc device a sixteenth (or so) of an inch every time the tire comes out of contact with it. End result should be a nearly uniformly worn, curved tire face. I'm only suggesting such a tire jig be made if you plan on needing to make several more tires for various projects (and, a bonus, you could be doing other things while the jig is in operation, only needing to readjust the cut height periodically throughout the process). Just my humble thoughts.

In Southeast Asia and India they have these two-wheeled "walk behind tractors" that all use the same low-horsepower single-cylinder diesel engine. Pungidda-pungidda-pungidda, forever and ever. Perfect for this beastie. I'd ride it every day.

The day we have all been waiting for!

There's got to be a tremendous sense of pride building something so unique. Truly a one-off. So impressive.

My brothers and I have built some wild things in our time, but nothing we ever built can hold a candle to that bike. Great job, love it!!

All that comes to mind is Mad Max. Amazing what some creativity and a lot of elbow grease can accomplish. Congrats

When you said 863 lbs. I almost fell out of my chair. Cuz that is exactly what my 1983 Kawasaki 1300 6 cyl. Voyager Weighed. Smoothest bike down the road I ever threw a leg over. The thing even had an onboard air compressor to adjust ride quality and height. When you get ready to ride that thing out on the road you need to get a black helmet with little ears and a black cape. IM BATMAN! Nice work Ethan

First video on this series was over 7 months ago! This was a WILD amount of work! Can not wait to take it on the streets...

I think everyone has thought about making something like this, but no one has actually done it. Well done.

This thing had so much work go in to it. It makes me so happy seeing it ride as beautifully as it does!

I'm a welder/fabricator and I absolutely love the work done on this! It's some excellent engineering.

You guys are probably one of the only channels I watch where I can sit through a video thats half an hour or longer and want more instead of clicking off after 10 minutes and builds like this is exactly why. just insanely cool builds that are like a dream scenario come true

Oh thank goodness and congratulations on validating your madness.

Watching ur series on this has been inspiring to say the least my man. Enough to make me go back and finish my degree after 15 years so I can better tinker about more with the things I love. Keep it up man!