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? 🤔
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.
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!
@@SAM-zt2uy with all that has happened, the project hasn't started yet. Once it does start we plan to start a RU-vid 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!
@@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
@@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?
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.
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.
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.
@@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!
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 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.
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
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.
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
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!
@@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.
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.
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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.
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.
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...
@@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 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.
@@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.
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@@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.
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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.
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!!!
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 RU-vid. More people need to check him out. Loving this content too! What an insane bike.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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..
@@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?
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." 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.
Ooof. Can’t wait for that mic to be fixed! What a sweet wee piece of engineering that bike was. Still not quite a John Britten but bloody good show old boy.
Running a torque converter instead of a typical gearbox is incredibly clever as it's incredibly simple, much more durable, and basically works as a CVT. during the video I was wondering whether weight was the reason a rear brake wasn't used to enable loading the engine up on the converter, but then you mentioned the flex issue, and it immediately made sense as such a launch method would have likely snapped the vehicle as soon as the brake was released. Very, very clever engineering though, especially for the time
Laid Down Head First on a Drag Bike.....That's like an Extreme version of the Skeleton Bob, I wonder if they were inspired by that sport a little !! You've got to be a massive adrenalin junkie to ride that bike but I still think it's damn clever !! Thanks for the video, I'd never heard of or seen anything about this bike !!
Hang a few blankets on the walls where you record. The sound quality makes it sound like a tiled bathroom. A collision would shorten the driver's height rapidly and permanently. 👍
Please stand back from the camera about 3 feet. I'm trying to look close at these vehicles and all of a sudden ACK!! there's a mouth in my face... Too close dude...
