Before being made into a film, Ben Hur was a wildly popular stage play in the USA. Some productions even figured out how to have the chariot race in an indoor theater… with live horses. They built a giant treadmill and let these animals go for it full tilt
Also interesting note: The author of the book Ben Hur was a civil war General, Lew Wallace. He earned infamy for failing to get his men into combat on time at the Battle of Shiloh, but later achieved some fame for a valiant defensive stand in Maryland against a Confederate army three times the size of his own.
I saw a mf yesterday with this motorized bicycle-unicycle abomination, it had one big wheel and a seat somehow attached to it and the motor was in the front. He was just casually going down a street in a suburban area and then he turned onto the main road. Absolutely ridiculous
Imagine racing chariots normally in a the Roman Empire, then out comes a chariot with iron horses that constantly emit smoke and are much louder than your average horse. I’d pray to Jupiter to strike down that monstrosity
That's what I was saying!! Qxir has it all wrong, the majority of people would GLADLY choose watching chariot's race, over a regular ass game of basketball... Plus, if chariot racing was around today, it'd be one of the most deadly sports ever created, can you just imagine how frequent those chariot's probably crashed? (I wonder if back then chariot's were sent hurdling through the air). I bet they'd crash even more then Nascar does! Which in my opinion, would be incredibly entertaining to watch...
@@TheMNrailfan227 You reminded me of a NASCAR race I watched bits of every few minutes while passing by the living room (dad was watching it for the heck of it, it's not popular here). The race started with what, 50 cars or what was it, way too many cars at the track. The race ended with like 8. Not even kidding. I think there wasn't even a top 10 of the finishing cars, and at the very last lap there was yet another crash.
@@TheMNrailfan227 Too be honest, I'd play a Nascar video game over a football, Soccer, or Baseball video game. Daytona usa is still more fun then those Hockey or baseball games my stepfather played. At Least for me it is. I guess I just like racing games. But never watched Nascar
I think you just discovered the inspiration for Pod Racing. That actually looks fucking awesome. You know at least one of those madlads got to the afterlife and ran into someone who died like 2000 years ago and the scornful Roman was being all scornful and shit and the racer's like, "Naw mate; motorcycle chariot crash."
Sometimes I feel like Qxir is a revolutionary comedic genius. Other times I feel like he's just a drunken Irishman that somehow gained access to the internet. Either way, I feel we are all graced to be in his presence despite the pungent whiskey smell.
@@misseselise3864 you can stick a new axle and wheels on an F1 car, its more difficult to get a spare leg for a horse so id guess horses were a larger risk Of course after a wipeout you cant eat a NASCAR?
@@voiceofraisin3778 I think you just invented a brand new sentence... I doubt they ate the horses though, maybe if the crowd was _reaaaallly_ drunk? But then again, Romans were definitely weird enough to do that sort of thing I guess.
It's painfully on-base. I've worked with horses for too long to not know that if a fucking plastic bag blows by at the wrong time, your life becomes a plaything for the capriciousness of the gods.
As a previous owner of a horse and friends with many who do own them, can confirm. Pass a mailbox 99 times, no problem. 100th time - THAT THING WILL EAT ME
I agree. Qxir outdid himself again with that bike chariot drawing! Seriously though I think it was art movements during the Renaissance that gave us these realistic paintings of historical events, so you have the artists back in 15th century to thank for that.
The best thing about the Colosseums was on very rare occasions was they'd literally flood the arena to make a simulated naval battle, or naumachia for the spectators. Naumachiae are thought to date back to the third century BC, and appear to have taken place only four or five times in history. The first naumachia on record, in 46 BC, was in honor Julius Caesar’s quadruple triumph, which ended wars in Gaul, Egypt, against Pharnaces of Pontus, and against King Juba of Numidia. For Caesar’s naumachia, ships representing the Tyrian and Egyptian fleets were set afloat in a basin constructed near the river Tiber. The boats were staffed with 4,000 oarsmen and 2,000 fighting men. Augustus threw a naumachia in 2 BCE involving a basin broad enough to hold 30 ships representing Persian and Athenian fleets. A bit later, in 52 AD, Claudius demanded his own naumachia, this one on a lake and involving 19,000 soldiers and 100 ships meant to represent rivals Rhodes and Cecily. According to Tacitus, the prisoners at this showcase refused to fight, forcing Claudius to send down his imperial guard to instigate some blood shedding. Must have been a fun afternoon for all (well, except the poor bastards that died during these simulated battles).
Gladiator matches were not as bloody as usually depicted in pop culture, and most didn't end in fatalities. But I imagine a lot of the "sailors" fighting in these things were actually land-based slaves and gladiators who had never been on a ship (unless it was to unload cargo), if they fell in, they were probably finished.
You should do a video on Viktor Belenko, this guy stole a soviet MIG-25 and defected to the US in 70s with it. The US then shipped it back to Soviet and charged them shipping fees. Just a funny story.
Somebody in East Berlin made a home-made microlight aircraft and escaped over the wall in it. The field he had been planning to land in had a circus in it that night, so he had to crash land, but lived. Oh, also he FILMED the flight and it's on TH-cam.
BTW, about the same time there was a motorcycle soccer league. It was exactly what it sounds like, with some manufactures at the time building specialist bikes just for the sport.
id love to see you do a video on "digby tatham warter" the man who took down a tank, with an umbrella, i repeat, he TOOK DOWN A TANK, with AN UMBRELLA, and then lead one of the largest prison escapes in history freeing over a hundred prisoners, and escaping on bicycles.....the dude even stopped and helped some "down on their luck" nazis get their vehicle out of a ditch, WHILE the escape was going on.....like, this dude had BALLS OF STEEL.
Okay, so I'm definitely gonna be looking this guy up later, but initial impression is that first part is straight up ripped out of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade...just replace the luftwaffe with a tank I guess
@@honeycoatedparadox he was in disguise, NOT stopping and helping would have made him look suspicious, and could have lead to the whole escape being compromised, as everyone in that area was doing what the nazis told them to do, seeing as they had guns and the threat of being sent to a camp on their side.....
@@honeycoatedparadox also he was british, and behind enemy lines, just speaking at all would have given him away, his literal best course of action was to be silent, and do as instructed, and not make any kind of scene.
Just read about him, it was a German armoured car, he stuck the umbrella thru the observational slit and poked the driver in the eye, incapacitating him. Before that, he led a bayonet charge against some tanks wearing a bowler hat. He had trouble remembering passwords so he brought the umbrella with him for identification because "only a bloody fool of an Englishman" would carry an umbrella into battle.
Chariot racing is SO dangerous that during the filming of Ben-Hur, one of the extras had his head squished by a wheel. It was actually kept in the film and is the single instance of someone actually dying in a major motion picture that you can actually watch as it happens. The 50’s were kind of amazing.
I’m an Aussie, and I didn’t even know that motorbike chariots started here!! No one has ever mentioned it. Probably be a few Aussies that will be stunned to learn this.
Yes dude! I saw a clip of this sport on Daily Dose of Internet and I couldn’t find a good video on motorcycle chariot racing. So glad you covered this topic! Love the channel!
Something similar to this and probably equally stupid is sidecar racing, although there's a much bigger audience and market for it with much better safety equipment. TLDR motorcycle with a sidecar. Dude in the sidecar climbs around the motorcycle to shift weight to take corners better while travelling at speeds in excess of 160mph.
I dunno man.. sidecar always look fun as hell especially the leaning out part. I’d totally try it. For me cornering a crotch rocket was just as fun or more that the raw acceleration.
No way! The guys doing this sport AND steering it with differential thrust with the motorcycles. were excessively hardcore. That's either suicidally limited control or an insanely skilled pilot, or both.
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I remember as a kid in the 70s watching motorcyclists whiz round and round in inclined racetracks until they were riding perpendicular to the ground. It was a staple at county fairs and the better carnivals. I never got to see a Cage of Doom, though, a giant globe of carefully bent girders. I was a rider when I grew up, and when I survived a particular peril due to pavement, weather, or my own cocky stupidity those riders were alwats on my mind inspiring a mad, idiotic grin.
Btw the fact that Gaius Appuleius Dioclese was the richest athlete ever is one of those facts that often spring up in clickbait top 10 lists, but is not actually true. If I remember correctly that 40 billion figure was calculated by some journalist with not history or economy degree who basically said "a horse was worth X much back then and a car is worth y much now" and then he did the math and got some massive unrealistic figure.
Anyone that’s ever owned a horse will tell you how incredibly dumb they can be. Hurting themselves or getting stuck in something in the most ridiculous ways imaginable. I never knew this until I read the comments of actual horse owners in a pets group I’m in on Facebook.
Clearly you've never seen chuckwagon racing, it's very similar. It's got the horses, speed and giant race track. No attacking other people with whips, though. It's been run in Calgary since 1923. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuckwagon_racing It's exciting and dramatic (unless a horse or human gets injured, and then it's horrifying) and 100% worth the price of admission.
I felt the description of the horse so much, thats exactly it lmao 😂 also this was one of your best ever, great video! It really had me in for many laughs and also something to learn 😂
I actually really like your artwork, and I doubt that I'm in a minority on that, so don't beat yourself up, it is really appreciated! Those early motorcycle charioteers looked insane, but you've got to hand it to them, they had guts and style.
Well still in Punjab, the chariot racing exist but with a slite twist. Instead of horses racers use a pair of young ox and the races are time based. Make sure to check it out. P. S. my maternal family is participating in these races since 1950's and they are quite well off from this ordeal.
A modern sport that's similar is chuckwagon racing. It's violent, fast, people and horses die, but you do it dressed as a cowboy. It's particularly popular at rodeos in Canada.
For the people wanting to watch a sport where someone is getting murdered by a horse and the bikes just aren't doing it for you let me introduce you to Buzkashi. A rugby like sport played in central Asia where everybody is on horses and the ball is replaced by a decapitated goat for some reason.
every time i watch ur videos i literally have to watch them WEEKS in between cuz you upload at a inconsistant rate but i dont greatly mind it as it lets me binge your new vids for hours at a time
Tales From the Bottle is my favourite series to slap on in the background while I work around the house, or watch before I go go bed. I don't think I've ever seen one I haven't been interested in
5:11 times like this remind me imperatively , that safety is relative. People say "oh look at what we did before that's considered unsafe now." And they can either mean things we do today will be labelled unsafe tomorrow, or that the world has copped on and gained common sense. But reality is, what we've done with safety, is made it an idea instead of a practice. I don't know about you, but as a human designed to hunt, that isn't made of glass, and we'll used to bumps and bruises, I'd personally consider motorbike chariot racing significantly safer than eating vegetable oil or smoking. I do both those things, but they're ok because they're the acceptable unsafe. It's all relative. It means nothing. A dangerous physical activity is nowhere near as damaging as the most legal substances were encouraged to use,. I mean if safety was a real discussion then the one I'm having Right now with myself wouldn't even be happening. Thanks for listening to my teď talk I'm gonna go home and cry now
The whole obsession w/safety, to the exclusion of nearly every other consideration, began w/the phony “Tylenol Poisonings” in 1982. We are now in the End Game.
Yeah, we can still have fatal accidents in the racing we do today. Just living your life is a risk. It's all about the risks you are willing to take or not.
*Knowing Qxir I thought that this would be a video about Motorcycle Chariots crashing and killing racers and spectators all over the place, surprisingly it didn't have a bad ending.*
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I consider myself a bit of a gearhead. I have a huge love and respect for classic cars and vintage motorsport. I have never ever heard of anything like this. This is the craziest shit i've ever seen and i love it. I must learn more...
4:16 Actually makes me think a book of illustrations sold as merch would be pretty nice. Maybe a 'making-of' book with stuff from the episodes. Also, 4:55 reminds me more of Star Wars podracing than Roman chariot racing lol
What you seem to have failed to mention, which is even more insane, is that, in a quadriga, four horse chariots, the two outside horses weren't actually attached to anything except the reins. This just added to the excitement.
Can confirm as an Australian that after a long day fighting crocodiles for a living we ride our kangaroo home and do a bit of motorcycle chariot racing to wind down
I want to combine chariot racing with NASCAR, to make the ultimate Mad Max style race, where competitors need to make their car as fast as possible but also as safe as possible to avoid death.
Funnily enough, I’m a writer working on a worldbuilding project in which an Earth-like world reached 1940s tech levels without horses, camels, cattle, or other large trainable animals. This world had to get by on rickshaws and canal boats for thousands of years. But come the industrial revolution, vehicles were invented, including motorcycles. And among many other times in this world where vehicles and their operators are much more celebrated than they were in our own history is motorcycle chariot racing or ‘lococycle rickshaw racing’ as it’s called. It’s becoming very popular not as some novel revival of an ancient sport but rather because it’s brand new. This is the first time my world saw anything even resembling a chariot.
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I have a decent topic for a "last moments" video. Texas A&M bonfire 1999. Tragic. But interesting.
People still do this. It never stopped. Why did you delete my post saying this? Because it makes you look stupid?
noice
to be fair you dont HAVE to draw the stuff you CHOOSE to so that you can pocket all the revenue yourself. and for that I applaud you
Before being made into a film, Ben Hur was a wildly popular stage play in the USA. Some productions even figured out how to have the chariot race in an indoor theater… with live horses. They built a giant treadmill and let these animals go for it full tilt
Also interesting note: The author of the book Ben Hur was a civil war General, Lew Wallace. He earned infamy for failing to get his men into combat on time at the Battle of Shiloh, but later achieved some fame for a valiant defensive stand in Maryland against a Confederate army three times the size of his own.
I would go to more theater if this was still the case.
That's fucking cool they need to bring that back I'd pay too dollar for that play
The chariot race in that film is insane... even by todays standards...
Sounded like the start to a joke in the first half
As a guy with too many motorcycles and a welder, I can see exaclty how this happens.
Sounds the the perfect excuse to make one doesn't it? Get to work
There can't be many competitors out there, how many people do you even have to beat to be the world champion?
I saw a mf yesterday with this motorized bicycle-unicycle abomination, it had one big wheel and a seat somehow attached to it and the motor was in the front. He was just casually going down a street in a suburban area and then he turned onto the main road. Absolutely ridiculous
I have too many, old Volvo’s?
Could be fun too.
maybe throw in a drunken veiwing of the Star wars pod racing scene
Imagine racing chariots normally in a the Roman Empire, then out comes a chariot with iron horses that constantly emit smoke and are much louder than your average horse. I’d pray to Jupiter to strike down that monstrosity
Toss in an offering to Vulcan, while you're at it!
@Wasatch Indeed!! An offering to him would be an offering towards your favored motor-cycle-chariot performing as-engineered in the Glorious Race!
You sneak sugar into their food.
It locks em down.
@@sydposting use a kawasaki vulcan as the motorbike!
No, striking stuff down isn't a Jupiter thing. He's more of a "transform into a goat and impregnate your problem then abandon the baby" kind of guy.
Admit it. This looks fun to watch.
Better than watching most sports!
whats the fun in sports if noone almost dies... or dies
That's what I was saying!! Qxir has it all wrong, the majority of people would GLADLY choose watching chariot's race, over a regular ass game of basketball...
Plus, if chariot racing was around today, it'd be one of the most deadly sports ever created, can you just imagine how frequent those chariot's probably crashed? (I wonder if back then chariot's were sent hurdling through the air). I bet they'd crash even more then Nascar does! Which in my opinion, would be incredibly entertaining to watch...
AND THE FUNNY PART IS THAT ITS BASICALLY JUST NASCAR!!
@@TheMNrailfan227 You reminded me of a NASCAR race I watched bits of every few minutes while passing by the living room (dad was watching it for the heck of it, it's not popular here). The race started with what, 50 cars or what was it, way too many cars at the track.
The race ended with like 8. Not even kidding. I think there wasn't even a top 10 of the finishing cars, and at the very last lap there was yet another crash.
@@TheMNrailfan227 Too be honest, I'd play a Nascar video game over a football, Soccer, or Baseball video game. Daytona usa is still more fun then those Hockey or baseball games my stepfather played. At Least for me it is. I guess I just like racing games. But never watched Nascar
I think you just discovered the inspiration for Pod Racing. That actually looks fucking awesome. You know at least one of those madlads got to the afterlife and ran into someone who died like 2000 years ago and the scornful Roman was being all scornful and shit and the racer's like, "Naw mate; motorcycle chariot crash."
Strictly speaking, podracing was inspired by the same thing as motorcycle chariot racing: The Ben Hur chariot race.
Wow! I never actually knew that! 😮
People still do this btw.
"being all scornful and shit" omg
*"Now this is Pod Racing"*
Sometimes I feel like Qxir is a revolutionary comedic genius. Other times I feel like he's just a drunken Irishman that somehow gained access to the internet. Either way, I feel we are all graced to be in his presence despite the pungent whiskey smell.
It could be both..
It's both.
most definitely both
He's a rough diamond in the rough.
With a dash of narcissism 😅
¿Por qué no los dos?
It’s cool to see how over thousands of years entertainment has remained the same.
Make thing go vroom, make person go ow
i wonder if crashing horses were cheaper than crashing cars
Considering the *lengthy* history of public execution across *multiple* continents, "Make People Go Ow" is a draw enough, seems like
@@misseselise3864 depends on the horse vs car f1 car probaly more expensive... pure bred arabian vs derby car probaly the pure bred arabian(horse)
@@misseselise3864 you can stick a new axle and wheels on an F1 car, its more difficult to get a spare leg for a horse so id guess horses were a larger risk
Of course after a wipeout you cant eat a NASCAR?
@@voiceofraisin3778 I think you just invented a brand new sentence...
I doubt they ate the horses though, maybe if the crowd was _reaaaallly_ drunk? But then again, Romans were definitely weird enough to do that sort of thing I guess.
as an equestrian athlete your analysis of horses is absolutely offensive and insulting and also 100% accurate
It's painfully on-base. I've worked with horses for too long to not know that if a fucking plastic bag blows by at the wrong time, your life becomes a plaything for the capriciousness of the gods.
As a previous owner of a horse and friends with many who do own them, can confirm. Pass a mailbox 99 times, no problem. 100th time - THAT THING WILL EAT ME
And then, to top it all off, if it's hot outside and they drink cold water you have to spend $2k at the vet to fix it.
@@MisterFribble I'm curious about this one, what happens from this that causes the harm?
@@ah.neat.408 Google exists.
Drawings as we go farther into the future are just getting more class. Outright art at it's finest.
I agree. Qxir outdid himself again with that bike chariot drawing!
Seriously though I think it was art movements during the Renaissance that gave us these realistic paintings of historical events, so you have the artists back in 15th century to thank for that.
I just like how he took time to draw an exasperated Qxir to help demonstrate what a pain in the ass we all are.
How about the horse kicking him in the face? Brilliant!
especially the B~L~0~0~D...
@@NoctuaOlivae renaissance is the period after the 15th century. The pictures we see here look more like they should be from the 18th to 19th century.
The best thing about the Colosseums was on very rare occasions was they'd literally flood the arena to make a simulated naval battle, or naumachia for the spectators.
Naumachiae are thought to date back to the third century BC, and appear to have taken place only four or five times in history. The first naumachia on record, in 46 BC, was in honor Julius Caesar’s quadruple triumph, which ended wars in Gaul, Egypt, against Pharnaces of Pontus, and against King Juba of Numidia. For Caesar’s naumachia, ships representing the Tyrian and Egyptian fleets were set afloat in a basin constructed near the river Tiber. The boats were staffed with 4,000 oarsmen and 2,000 fighting men.
Augustus threw a naumachia in 2 BCE involving a basin broad enough to hold 30 ships representing Persian and Athenian fleets. A bit later, in 52 AD, Claudius demanded his own naumachia, this one on a lake and involving 19,000 soldiers and 100 ships meant to represent rivals Rhodes and Cecily. According to Tacitus, the prisoners at this showcase refused to fight, forcing Claudius to send down his imperial guard to instigate some blood shedding.
Must have been a fun afternoon for all (well, except the poor bastards that died during these simulated battles).
the chariot races were in the Circus Maximus, not the Coliseum
This basically world cup
Gladiator matches were not as bloody as usually depicted in pop culture, and most didn't end in fatalities. But I imagine a lot of the "sailors" fighting in these things were actually land-based slaves and gladiators who had never been on a ship (unless it was to unload cargo), if they fell in, they were probably finished.
To be honest, motorcycle chariots sound absolutely fucking dope
i agree
Aye I'm gonna have to look up more of it
STOP CUSSING. YOU HAVE NO REASON TO SAY THE F WORD LIKE THAT
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This only further proves my point that the Mad Max films are actually just documentaries about Australia.
And...now Mad Max has a motorcycle chariot.
Love the great consistent content you put out Qxir!
same
Verily. keep on trucking. Further more, I believe Carthage should be destroyed.
It's because he looks like a young bono, so he does
Me too✌
You should do a video on Viktor Belenko, this guy stole a soviet MIG-25 and defected to the US in 70s with it. The US then shipped it back to Soviet and charged them shipping fees. Just a funny story.
Russia needs to hop on that prime membership fr
Somebody in East Berlin made a home-made microlight aircraft and escaped over the wall in it. The field he had been planning to land in had a circus in it that night, so he had to crash land, but lived.
Oh, also he FILMED the flight and it's on TH-cam.
@@worldcomicsreview354 that's incredible
@@worldcomicsreview354 what's the TH-cam video name btw I wanna watch it
It’s called The incredible flying rescue over the Berlin Wall, 1989
How can I have lived 60 years as a motorcyclist and have never even dreamed this existed?
It's come up at the bar, guaranteed. Your brain's will to keep your body unbroken let the suds erase the thought.
Proof that there is no limits to humanity's ability to do gloriously stupid things with motorcycles.
BTW, about the same time there was a motorcycle soccer league. It was exactly what it sounds like, with some manufactures at the time building specialist bikes just for the sport.
*me:* I wonder why men don't live as long as women
*also me:* I should try motorcycle chariots at least once
I want to make my own version of this sport
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I don’t think we can really compare ancient wealth to modern money. The world was just so different…
id love to see you do a video on "digby tatham warter" the man who took down a tank, with an umbrella, i repeat, he TOOK DOWN A TANK, with AN UMBRELLA, and then lead one of the largest prison escapes in history freeing over a hundred prisoners, and escaping on bicycles.....the dude even stopped and helped some "down on their luck" nazis get their vehicle out of a ditch, WHILE the escape was going on.....like, this dude had BALLS OF STEEL.
Okay, so I'm definitely gonna be looking this guy up later, but initial impression is that first part is straight up ripped out of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade...just replace the luftwaffe with a tank I guess
correct me if i misunderstood, but maybe the guy helping out some nazis might not give the best impression in general LOL
@@honeycoatedparadox he was in disguise, NOT stopping and helping would have made him look suspicious, and could have lead to the whole escape being compromised, as everyone in that area was doing what the nazis told them to do, seeing as they had guns and the threat of being sent to a camp on their side.....
@@honeycoatedparadox also he was british, and behind enemy lines, just speaking at all would have given him away, his literal best course of action was to be silent, and do as instructed, and not make any kind of scene.
Just read about him, it was a German armoured car, he stuck the umbrella thru the observational slit and poked the driver in the eye, incapacitating him. Before that, he led a bayonet charge against some tanks wearing a bowler hat. He had trouble remembering passwords so he brought the umbrella with him for identification because "only a bloody fool of an Englishman" would carry an umbrella into battle.
Chariot racing is SO dangerous that during the filming of Ben-Hur, one of the extras had his head squished by a wheel. It was actually kept in the film and is the single instance of someone actually dying in a major motion picture that you can actually watch as it happens. The 50’s were kind of amazing.
This is only a rumor.
I love that this entire premise can be summed up as "How do we make Chariot racing more exciting? by making the horses capable of exploding"
I’m an Aussie, and I didn’t even know that motorbike chariots started here!! No one has ever mentioned it. Probably be a few Aussies that will be stunned to learn this.
Also Aussie, and had no idea either. Then again, it _reeeeally_ doesn't surprise me. 😂🇦🇺
Another Aussie here. Yeah, I was surprised as well...
Who would have thought that we were the ones to invent "Pod Racing"?
@@milesipka George Miller, lol.
(The guy who directed the _Mad Max_ movies)
@@JohnGardnerAlhadis Already knew that - Mad Max: Fury Road was a masterpiece BTW.
@@milesipka You're goddamn right it was.
Never been more proud of my country 🇦🇺🇦🇺
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Yes dude! I saw a clip of this sport on Daily Dose of Internet and I couldn’t find a good video on motorcycle chariot racing. So glad you covered this topic! Love the channel!
I was thinking the exact same thing. 😂 I went _"yep, I bet it's motorcycles"_ when he mentioned a modern revival of chariot racing.
Forgot where i had seen it before haha
Something similar to this and probably equally stupid is sidecar racing, although there's a much bigger audience and market for it with much better safety equipment.
TLDR motorcycle with a sidecar. Dude in the sidecar climbs around the motorcycle to shift weight to take corners better while travelling at speeds in excess of 160mph.
@@luna_fm They should add motorcycles to football
And then you have wing walking. Because climbing around a vehicle doing 160mph wasn't exciting enough on the ground.
Motorcycle football actually existed but it obvsly didn't offer enough fractures and blood splatter...
Yeah but no cnuts dying so it's invariably more boring than superbike racing. Which is also boring and invariably gay
I dunno man.. sidecar always look fun as hell especially the leaning out part. I’d totally try it. For me cornering a crotch rocket was just as fun or more that the raw acceleration.
No way! The guys doing this sport AND steering it with differential thrust with the motorcycles. were excessively hardcore. That's either suicidally limited control or an insanely skilled pilot, or both.
Amazing to see you just a quarter away from 1,000,000 subs. I started watching you back in 2019, and love seeing how you've improved the quality of your videos. Keep it up ya beautiful bastard! ♥
Same! I'm so stoked when a new video pops up. I scream "Qxir!" and everyone in the house comes running to watch it with me. :)
I remember as a kid in the 70s watching motorcyclists whiz round and round in inclined racetracks until they were riding perpendicular to the ground. It was a staple at county fairs and the better carnivals.
I never got to see a Cage of Doom, though, a giant globe of carefully bent girders.
I was a rider when I grew up, and when I survived a particular peril due to pavement, weather, or my own cocky stupidity those riders were alwats on my mind inspiring a mad, idiotic grin.
I've been looking for motorcycle chariot racing on TH-cam for years. There's barely any content.
Proud to see this.
Horses aren't dumb, they're just really good at panicking
Btw the fact that Gaius Appuleius Dioclese was the richest athlete ever is one of those facts that often spring up in clickbait top 10 lists, but is not actually true. If I remember correctly that 40 billion figure was calculated by some journalist with not history or economy degree who basically said "a horse was worth X much back then and a car is worth y much now" and then he did the math and got some massive unrealistic figure.
Also I'm pretty sure that the highest paid athlete is some brazilian football player.
Motorcycle chariot racing sounds like one of the most American things I've heard of in a very long time.
How the hell did Australia beat us too it?
Getting some serious fallout new vegas vibes from those setups
Seriously though, I'd love to go to one if these races! They look baller
Anyone that’s ever owned a horse will tell you how incredibly dumb they can be. Hurting themselves or getting stuck in something in the most ridiculous ways imaginable. I never knew this until I read the comments of actual horse owners in a pets group I’m in on Facebook.
5:57 there's something about his serious yet goofy Irish voice making irrelevant threats that is just so damn funny.
Absolutely bonkers. "hey honey, I'm doing a motorbike chariot race today so am basically going to die....so don't wait up for me"
Great videos recently; They have been well put together and organized in my opinion.
good point
We need to bring chariot motorbikes into the mainstream I say 👌🏻good stuff
Clearly you've never seen chuckwagon racing, it's very similar. It's got the horses, speed and giant race track. No attacking other people with whips, though. It's been run in Calgary since 1923. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuckwagon_racing It's exciting and dramatic (unless a horse or human gets injured, and then it's horrifying) and 100% worth the price of admission.
Thank you, iv'e never been much for spectator sports, but i thoroughly enjoyed this.
I felt the description of the horse so much, thats exactly it lmao 😂 also this was one of your best ever, great video! It really had me in for many laughs and also something to learn 😂
@Der Porkmeister so why not then?
For all the danger...who ELSE thought that the pic of a chariot drawn by miniature horses was just too freakin' adorable? 😍
So proud of you, lad! For being banned from the Titter, that is. Godspeed!
If this was a regular televised comp, I would watch the crap out of it
You telling me Aussies invented podracing? Noice!
Noice!!! 👌
I actually really like your artwork, and I doubt that I'm in a minority on that, so don't beat yourself up, it is really appreciated!
Those early motorcycle charioteers looked insane, but you've got to hand it to them, they had guts and style.
A 4-Horse Chariot drag race could be made safe. Once you have corners...
Your quality keep getting better, it's a mystery you haven't broken 1MIL subs yet
FUn FACT this returned t the Sydney Royal easter show this year. It kicked arse!
Best aussie sport ever, pity it didn't take off
We have so many unique/dangerous sports in Australia it’s part of the reason I love my gorgeous country.
Discovering fire eventually led to a grown man being pulled in a mini chariot by mini horses.
maybe "fire water"🍷🍾🍸
Well still in Punjab, the chariot racing exist but with a slite twist. Instead of horses racers use a pair of young ox and the races are time based. Make sure to check it out.
P. S. my maternal family is participating in these races since 1950's and they are quite well off from this ordeal.
The commentary to this was utterly SMASHING I say !!! Almost as good as the scribblings !!!
Turns out George Miller heard about this......
Thank you for drawing this. Not all heroes wear capes.
I'm aussie and 4:00 was hilarious, keep up the good work man :)
I wondered if that was a motorcycle chariot race in the thumbnail, but I told myself that was just far too crazy. Once again overestimating humanity.
I love learning stuff like this. Great drawing skill.
A modern sport that's similar is chuckwagon racing. It's violent, fast, people and horses die, but you do it dressed as a cowboy. It's particularly popular at rodeos in Canada.
o my my, this video had me rolling on the floor absolutly hysterical . great presentation sir. your narration is spot on as well
funnily enough, i have actually heard of motorcycle chariot races, but only like 3 days ago.
Why am I not surprised that the country that produced Mad Max was also the birthplace of Motorcycle Charioteers
3:04 no, no- as an equestrian I completely agree. They're stupid as hell but we love them in spite of it
The motorcycle chariots reminds me more Star Wars pod racing than Roman chariot races.
For the people wanting to watch a sport where someone is getting murdered by a horse and the bikes just aren't doing it for you let me introduce you to Buzkashi. A rugby like sport played in central Asia where everybody is on horses and the ball is replaced by a decapitated goat for some reason.
lmao
They showed something like that in Rambo III.
every time i watch ur videos i literally have to watch them WEEKS in between cuz you upload at a inconsistant rate but i dont greatly mind it as it lets me binge your new vids for hours at a time
YOU, Sir, have earned this like with your truly honest patron ad, well done!
Also generally nice /interesting videos, I appreciate that.
Top notch humor man 😂 the caveman joke had me giggling
As an Australian I can happily say that we actually have a form of chariot racing with kangaroos.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or being serious
@@charleswallace5370 very serious. We use kangaroos to travel long distances because of their pouches being able to fit supplies
You write such great copy, Qxir. I hope your professors from school know of your talents by now.
Very simple, yes, but that drawing of the horse kicking you in the face made me laugh out loud!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Tales From the Bottle is my favourite series to slap on in the background while I work around the house, or watch before I go go bed. I don't think I've ever seen one I haven't been interested in
Next thing you know:
"Now this is pod racing"
5:11 times like this remind me imperatively , that safety is relative. People say "oh look at what we did before that's considered unsafe now." And they can either mean things we do today will be labelled unsafe tomorrow, or that the world has copped on and gained common sense. But reality is, what we've done with safety, is made it an idea instead of a practice. I don't know about you, but as a human designed to hunt, that isn't made of glass, and we'll used to bumps and bruises, I'd personally consider motorbike chariot racing significantly safer than eating vegetable oil or smoking. I do both those things, but they're ok because they're the acceptable unsafe. It's all relative. It means nothing. A dangerous physical activity is nowhere near as damaging as the most legal substances were encouraged to use,. I mean if safety was a real discussion then the one I'm having Right now with myself wouldn't even be happening. Thanks for listening to my teď talk I'm gonna go home and cry now
The whole obsession w/safety, to the exclusion of nearly every other consideration, began w/the phony “Tylenol Poisonings” in 1982. We are now in the End Game.
Yeah, we can still have fatal accidents in the racing we do today. Just living your life is a risk. It's all about the risks you are willing to take or not.
Too much focus on safety now a days to have fun .
Australia is crazy , I remember an article in RideBMX magazine in the early 2000s about how scary their skateparks are.
You really don't know how smart horses are
*Knowing Qxir I thought that this would be a video about Motorcycle Chariots crashing and killing racers and spectators all over the place, surprisingly it didn't have a bad ending.*
This is, either, the second or third greatest thing I've ever seen.
Hi from Florida!! We absolutely love your videos and comments!
Keep up your AMAZING work and know that you have huge fans over here in crazy ass Florida 😜👏👍👍👍👍
I consider myself a bit of a gearhead. I have a huge love and respect for classic cars and vintage motorsport. I have never ever heard of anything like this. This is the craziest shit i've ever seen and i love it. I must learn more...
It looks like Star Wars mixed with mad max mixed with racing
NGL. "Motorcycle Chariot Racing" sounds like a kickass sport for a post-apocalypic/Cyberpunk setting
Chariot racing with motor cycles is the most Australian thing I've ever heard of
I LOVE your stories! Always cheer me up when im feeling blue. Which is a lot lol. Wish you would post more often!! 😄🤣👍
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This looks like the vehicle you'd see someone driving in a boss battle.
4:16 Actually makes me think a book of illustrations sold as merch would be pretty nice. Maybe a 'making-of' book with stuff from the episodes.
Also, 4:55 reminds me more of Star Wars podracing than Roman chariot racing lol
Horses are smarter then dogs ,you underestimate them
If motorcycle chariot racing ever catches on here in the eastern US, someone's gonna have to hold alot of beers lol
Not only did i subscribe. I gave it a GIANT thumbs UP!!
Motorcycle chariot racing smells like freedom. 🤔😅🤣
EYYYY! new video from my ABSOLUTE favorite TH-camr! :D
What you seem to have failed to mention, which is even more insane, is that, in a quadriga, four horse chariots, the two outside horses weren't actually attached to anything except the reins. This just added to the excitement.
Heard of this, decades back, being an old bastard, so don't feel too bad.
Thanks for uploading.
“Volume” is my new favorite way to refer to the plurality of ways to die.
Chose to work with horses for service hours in high school. Most terrifying thing I ever did.
Motorcycle chariot racing NEEDS to return
Can confirm as an Australian that after a long day fighting crocodiles for a living we ride our kangaroo home and do a bit of motorcycle chariot racing to wind down
I work a 10 hour shift overnight job and whenever I come home to smoke a fat bowl I can always count on a qxir video to keep me sane, thank you my guy
I saw two bike chariots (the dual driverless type bike pulling a chariot and charioteer), racing each other at the Sydney Easter Show this year.
Lmao that Motorcycle Chariot rider went by "Marc Anthony" I love it
I want to combine chariot racing with NASCAR, to make the ultimate Mad Max style race, where competitors need to make their car as fast as possible but also as safe as possible to avoid death.
Funnily enough, I’m a writer working on a worldbuilding project in which an Earth-like world reached 1940s tech levels without horses, camels, cattle, or other large trainable animals. This world had to get by on rickshaws and canal boats for thousands of years.
But come the industrial revolution, vehicles were invented, including motorcycles. And among many other times in this world where vehicles and their operators are much more celebrated than they were in our own history is motorcycle chariot racing or ‘lococycle rickshaw racing’ as it’s called. It’s becoming very popular not as some novel revival of an ancient sport but rather because it’s brand new. This is the first time my world saw anything even resembling a chariot.