If you happen to have a flat tyre, just steal a manhole, take out your mig welder from the trunk and weld a plate with perfectly spaced bolts to replace your wheel
Same thing happens with top gear presenters if you have watched that... as a kid james is a drag, as an adult i realised he is an absolute delight. The joy of a hardcore deadpan straight man act is just not something you can appreciate as a kid.
@@daycmetrollingdeihatin5100 In school I had two close friends and we somehow mirrored the Top Gear presenters. Even as a teenager, I was very much the James May sort of person. It's a subtle kind of joy knowing everyone is gradually falling into a similar mindset.
That's probably why they chose that reel to test, tbh. Modern reels use carbon-fibre washers that actually decrease in friction as they heat up, meaning they wouldn't get as hot as the reels with asbestos washers do. Since it's non-friable, lubricated, and enclosed in a housing, it's considered a "low-risk" form of asbestos, but obviously not zero risk. As of 2024, they're still technically legal to buy and sell in the US, but the EPA has proposed, but not yet enacted, a ban on their sale and manufacture. Canada, the UK, the EU and most other wealthy countries have banned them for a while.
I read a book about an outback preacher which told short stories of some of the things that happened to him or that he saw while travelling around Western Australia and the Northern Territory. One time while he was travelling to the church at Coober Pedy he got two flat tyres, put on the spare and some passing Aborigines (they were on foot) managed to fill the other tyre with enough spear grass and yakka bush to make it work, these two types of grass are fairly thick and long so may have been better than straw as they wouldn't have fallen out as easily but it got the preacher and the Aborigines into town. He also came across some young locals once cooking the car battery on a fire to rejuvinate it enough to get the car going again, it apparently worked.
They had to take the spare out to fit the tools and materials in and to reduce weight. Obligatory: This is a joke, for those of you lacking a sense of humour.
I think the reel isn't catching fire because both the motion is drawing in cooling air and the line being pulled off is also removing heat. Also, when replicating the results, at 47:12 they did get a lick of flame. Also also, those sidecar racer guys are nuts! (not just these pair, but the whole sport in general!!!)
I'll tell you what you miss ... When we're fishing big guys, the reel drag doesn't suport the strengh of the fish. Só, we also put the thumb over the reel to stop the whell. Maybe it would increese the heat.
I like this episode as it gives a better idea of how they filmed and edited the show together as you can see the number on the Go-Kart go back and forth between 68 and nice.
21:25 They should have done 1 last test with the Monofilament as a control to rule out any accumulating effects of usage on the reel. Because the way it looks now, the heat build-up keeps on increasing with each test. Meaning it could be that the core of the reel had some residual heat from the tests before, which made it easier to heat up. Or it could be that the oil used to lubricate the mechanical parts isn't performing as well as on the first test. Etc. Doing 1 test for each option was a poor choice. Ideally they would have tested them all a couple of times in different orders for their test results to be statistically significant.
47:12 there is clearly a flicker of flame on the reel when they say no ignition... Someone should test this using heavier line so more drag can be applied without breaking so lower speeds make more heat. I have had a big ray empty a reel like that running off with my shark bait before and it was only like a 300kg fish not a even a monster 1000kg+ shark. As much drag as you can hold there is a fish to pull it.
I know for certain that during WW11 my father used bicycle tyres filled with straw. O.K. it isn't a car, with the resultant power, but it did work for him.
Once it was proven that the heat can generate oil vapor around the reel, the myth was plausible. Just anything can light such vapor to fire, be it an electrostatic spark, a cigar or intentionnaly with a lighter.
I've seen a reel catch fire. It was an old one with a fair amount of internal corrosion, the owner in an effort to clean it had used petrol to degrease it and was spraying WD-40 to overcome a sticking clutch. The ignition source was not a nice Tope or delicious conger, it was a careless cigarette. Odds are some petrol was still trapped in the WD-40 after he'd rebuilt it, it sparked nicely. The line went up and the entire reel was a loss. Fortunately we were using tethers, rod went overboard and was hauled back. Total losses were £280 reel and some dignity, total saved was a £150 rod.
18:46 Americans, please explain to me why you call this part "washer". I know that many words in your language have many meanings, but what the hell does this metal element have to do with laundry?
I'd love to know what engine is claimed to be in that sidecar. Sidecars are generally 600cc Supersport engines - none of them producing anything like the horsepower for 200mph, no matter what the gearing. A first generation Hayabusa or a ZZR1400 could crack 200mph, but those generally aren't used in sidecars.
@@thompsoni7251 Thank you for putting me right on this. Having seen your response I looked at the capacity change, and when the episode was aired - 2009. The Kawasaki ZX-10R was putting out 185bhp in stock, with a 186mph limiter. Apparently the ZX-10R responded very well to tuning, and could easily surpass 200bhp in Superstock trim. I couldn't see any information on Superbike or Sidecar trim, but I can now appreciate that 200mph isn't out of the question. I used the Kawasaki ZX-10R because it seemed like a reasonable benchmark that would be popular with Sidecar builders - I can't imagine there would be any significant differences between the other manufacturers. Thanks again for your input.
They certainly must have one or two spare gokarts. But I think they most probably intended to pull a pun with the 69 but chicken out in the last minute and change it to 68 for the final TV cut.
It makes sense to have a backup gokart, they are relatively common (assuming they borrowed them from a team they likely would have a backup kart on hand) and it means if something goes wrong mechanically with the first one, they can switch it out without interrupting filming.
They really changed the Go-kart number from 69 to 68, hah! I assumed they choose the it, BECAUSE of the original number... Gotta keep it PG, cuz numbers can too sexy or scary.🤣
Have you seen the evidence of a self combustion of a haystack because it was stacked when it was damp don't know if it's possible but claims have been placed into insurance company for it
Yeah I saw that lick of flame too. I get that the fans might have missed it as there wasn't youtube or any common way to playback broadcasts when this was aired on tv, but I'm surprised the editors missed it!
love mythbusters but the 1 and only annoying thing is the same info being repeated 10 times as we are actually watching it happen and with the data on-screen...a toddler would understand with just the one explanation and SEEING it
The fishing reel myth… Fact is that those Big fish dont just Take one 20 sec run?? Some of Them fight for one hour… Taking Many runs! Second run with a allready hot reel… Could make the difference? But if it takes like 20sec to run out 400m Line… Guess how Long time it takes to reel inn that amount 🤣 Wich would lower the temperature💯
They was too aggressive with those wheels and also should try a front drive car. The reel could be ignited by a cigarette? Maybe the fisher was smoking.
You can drop a cigarette in a can of petrol it won't ignite. It's not a flame need a lot of heat or a naked flame for ignition something a cig doesn't offer.
Are you authorized to post these? I know some of the copyright expired but you post full episodes and you have 500k subs, I dont understand. EDIT: Apparently they got the rights to the show now, awesome!
It should actually be pluaseable cus your testing on a runway that’ of corse is gonna run out but the fish has god knows how long of free space to get up to speed and definitely make the reel catch. A light
The runway isn't the issue. The line ain't any longer. It doesn't matter how much space the fish has, if you run out of fishing line, it's game over...
Why are people always psychoanalysing those two, they don’t hate each other, they worked for a decade together in a very specific field, of course there was ups and down, that’s how colleagues are in real life, sometimes they probably loved doing stuff together sometimes not
As an avid fisherman myself, I'd say NOT PLAUSABLE but I have seen a reel SMOKE TO A POINT WHERE U CAN'T TOUCH IT, the most powerful, fastest fish, with good fight that I can think of would be a 80kg+ Tuna or a full grown sail fish
I fell in love with the fisherlady from the 1st moment she spoke =D
What a wonderful being
39:19 Maybe it was just lack of sleep but there was something comical about watching a tyre slowly roll by in the background while Adam was talking
The guy slightly off camera that rolled that wheel would be so proud to read to read your comment
47:10 there are small flames on the line.
Also... dont spray all at once - it's actually cooling the reel.
just when narrator says 'but doesn't ignite' :D
They probably didn't see the flame because it was bright daylight but yes, as you said: There absolutely was a flame as you can clearly see on camera.
If you happen to have a flat tyre, just steal a manhole, take out your mig welder from the trunk and weld a plate with perfectly spaced bolts to replace your wheel
The puns in this episode alone is enough to fill me with satisfaction, lol
For real?🎉
Adam talked about how much work they put into all of the puns haha love that in the show
As a keen fisherman, landing a go cart would be an amazing fight.
So sad those majestic creatures are so hard to come by 😢🙏
Loved Mythbusters back in the day and love them today.
39:08 i love how in the next sequence you can hear Adam say “fuck that’s good!” uncensored
Is it strange as I get older the more I can relate to Jamie??
Jamie is like Squidward and Adam is like SpongeBob hahahaha
@@Alchrat right??? were all adam young but we become jamie old
Same thing happens with top gear presenters if you have watched that... as a kid james is a drag, as an adult i realised he is an absolute delight. The joy of a hardcore deadpan straight man act is just not something you can appreciate as a kid.
@@daycmetrollingdeihatin5100 In school I had two close friends and we somehow mirrored the Top Gear presenters. Even as a teenager, I was very much the James May sort of person.
It's a subtle kind of joy knowing everyone is gradually falling into a similar mindset.
No wonder the program is shut down... The production cost would be nightmare O_O
I love this and thanks for all the crew sarcrify for the job :(
36:42 the washers ARE WHAT SORRY?
Great catch there 👍🏻
That's probably why they chose that reel to test, tbh. Modern reels use carbon-fibre washers that actually decrease in friction as they heat up, meaning they wouldn't get as hot as the reels with asbestos washers do.
Since it's non-friable, lubricated, and enclosed in a housing, it's considered a "low-risk" form of asbestos, but obviously not zero risk. As of 2024, they're still technically legal to buy and sell in the US, but the EPA has proposed, but not yet enacted, a ban on their sale and manufacture. Canada, the UK, the EU and most other wealthy countries have banned them for a while.
@@jordanberndt4157 Yea good to ban em. Any asbestos dust going to lungs increases cancer chance and is never gonna come out from the lungs.
@@jordanberndt4157 its the same with subliminal messaging. Illegal in every country except the USA
The fishing line myth surprised me, no fire but the smoke was stunning.
Ty for keeping it alive, love that show
I read a book about an outback preacher which told short stories of some of the things that happened to him or that he saw while travelling around Western Australia and the Northern Territory. One time while he was travelling to the church at Coober Pedy he got two flat tyres, put on the spare and some passing Aborigines (they were on foot) managed to fill the other tyre with enough spear grass and yakka bush to make it work, these two types of grass are fairly thick and long so may have been better than straw as they wouldn't have fallen out as easily but it got the preacher and the Aborigines into town. He also came across some young locals once cooking the car battery on a fire to rejuvinate it enough to get the car going again, it apparently worked.
"check out you dubs homie"
- Jamie Hyneman
Branch sled ABSOLUTELY works, they just went about it in a crazy way lol.
I agree, would have stood a better chance if the majority of the branch was behind the wheel
For when your car is full of all the tools you could possibly need to make a wheel out of anything, plus materials... except a spare.
They had to take the spare out to fit the tools and materials in and to reduce weight.
Obligatory: This is a joke, for those of you lacking a sense of humour.
I think the reel isn't catching fire because both the motion is drawing in cooling air and the line being pulled off is also removing heat. Also, when replicating the results, at 47:12 they did get a lick of flame.
Also also, those sidecar racer guys are nuts! (not just these pair, but the whole sport in general!!!)
It reminds me of when Adam and Jamie tried to make a tire catch on fire.
@@MrMarinus18And a similar limitation re. air movement
It doesn't negate the fact the reference video was a fake.
@@nicholascrow8133 Though a fishing reel does have brakes on it and brakes have caught fire on things like planes and trains.
Though also the reel they had, had all the hot parts in one tiny place. I don't think there was enough oxygen flow to that area.
I'll tell you what you miss ... When we're fishing big guys, the reel drag doesn't suport the strengh of the fish. Só, we also put the thumb over the reel to stop the whell. Maybe it would increese the heat.
I like this episode as it gives a better idea of how they filmed and edited the show together as you can see the number on the Go-Kart go back and forth between 68 and nice.
And the wheel well of a yellow car was bent when the log-wheel exploded, but later in the video, when the manhole cover was used, it 'fixed itself'.
@@olexanderkidenko4423 Of course they had to fix it between shoot-- I mean filming sessions.
@@TaikaJamppa They did not fix it, they've used a different (second) yellow car that Adam later painted with flames.
Pop quiz, hot shot. What a line 🚌
21:25 They should have done 1 last test with the Monofilament as a control to rule out any accumulating effects of usage on the reel.
Because the way it looks now, the heat build-up keeps on increasing with each test.
Meaning it could be that the core of the reel had some residual heat from the tests before, which made it easier to heat up. Or it could be that the oil used to lubricate the mechanical parts isn't performing as well as on the first test. Etc. Doing 1 test for each option was a poor choice. Ideally they would have tested them all a couple of times in different orders for their test results to be statistically significant.
47:12 there is clearly a flicker of flame on the reel when they say no ignition... Someone should test this using heavier line so more drag can be applied without breaking so lower speeds make more heat. I have had a big ray empty a reel like that running off with my shark bait before and it was only like a 300kg fish not a even a monster 1000kg+ shark. As much drag as you can hold there is a fish to pull it.
11:08 Its called "fishing" not "catching." 🤣😂🤣
I know for certain that during WW11 my father used bicycle tyres filled with straw. O.K. it isn't a car, with the resultant power, but it did work for him.
"The washers are asbestos"
The worst thing you can do to asbestos is grind or shred it. Like spinning it while applying friction.
Once it was proven that the heat can generate oil vapor around the reel, the myth was plausible. Just anything can light such vapor to fire, be it an electrostatic spark, a cigar or intentionnaly with a lighter.
I've seen a reel catch fire. It was an old one with a fair amount of internal corrosion, the owner in an effort to clean it had used petrol to degrease it and was spraying WD-40 to overcome a sticking clutch. The ignition source was not a nice Tope or delicious conger, it was a careless cigarette. Odds are some petrol was still trapped in the WD-40 after he'd rebuilt it, it sparked nicely. The line went up and the entire reel was a loss. Fortunately we were using tethers, rod went overboard and was hauled back. Total losses were £280 reel and some dignity, total saved was a £150 rod.
18:46 Americans, please explain to me why you call this part "washer". I know that many words in your language have many meanings, but what the hell does this metal element have to do with laundry?
Most often washers translate to rondelles in french, "slices” like pepperoni slices that doesn’t make much more sense
I'd love to know what engine is claimed to be in that sidecar.
Sidecars are generally 600cc Supersport engines - none of them producing anything like the horsepower for 200mph, no matter what the gearing.
A first generation Hayabusa or a ZZR1400 could crack 200mph, but those generally aren't used in sidecars.
Why is no one mentioning the guy holding on for dear life in the back of the supercar ?
At the time this episode was made they used 1000cc engines in the World Sidecar Championship
@@thompsoni7251 Thank you for putting me right on this.
Having seen your response I looked at the capacity change, and when the episode was aired - 2009.
The Kawasaki ZX-10R was putting out 185bhp in stock, with a 186mph limiter.
Apparently the ZX-10R responded very well to tuning, and could easily surpass 200bhp in Superstock trim.
I couldn't see any information on Superbike or Sidecar trim, but I can now appreciate that 200mph isn't out of the question.
I used the Kawasaki ZX-10R because it seemed like a reasonable benchmark that would be popular with Sidecar builders - I can't imagine there would be any significant differences between the other manufacturers.
Thanks again for your input.
8 hours on a fishing charter boat and not even a single bite? That’s the worst charter boat in existence.
There was a flame but I think they should've also tested this with older lines.
Anyone else notice they must hat has a backup gokart or something, if you watch the number switches between 68 when there running and 69 in the pits
They certainly must have one or two spare gokarts. But I think they most probably intended to pull a pun with the 69 but chicken out in the last minute and change it to 68 for the final TV cut.
It makes sense to have a backup gokart, they are relatively common (assuming they borrowed them from a team they likely would have a backup kart on hand) and it means if something goes wrong mechanically with the first one, they can switch it out without interrupting filming.
@@nicholascrow8133 oh definitely 100% I'm not saying it's not just funny how they used footage from both
They really changed the Go-kart number from 69 to 68, hah! I assumed they choose the it, BECAUSE of the original number... Gotta keep it PG, cuz numbers can too sexy or scary.🤣
Have you seen the evidence of a self combustion of a haystack because it was stacked when it was damp don't know if it's possible but claims have been placed into insurance company for it
I knew, the stuffed tire would go haywire...
Kari Byron's quite a catch.
Always found it funny that it did catch fire in the end but somehow NO ONE noticed. Not even in a "Fans want to you to try again" fashion. Oh well.
Yeah I saw that lick of flame too. I get that the fans might have missed it as there wasn't youtube or any common way to playback broadcasts when this was aired on tv, but I'm surprised the editors missed it!
@@nicholascrow8133 Definitely, always seemed very odd!
love mythbusters but the 1 and only annoying thing is the same info being repeated 10 times as we are actually watching it happen and with the data on-screen...a toddler would understand with just the one explanation and SEEING it
Its because there used to be commercial breaks, and discovery channel rightly assumed its audience was too brain dead to pay attention
American documentaries are very much like that. They assume that the audience are morons, devoid of memories.
The reel has fuel it has heat, what it needs is oxygen to go, flame able solvents only -evaporate fast and- take heat away.
hay is a allright idea at 60mph i wreckon it would just be spat out let alone the tire de beaded anyways lol
this is ludicrously dangerous:
spraying ether on hot metal without full protection... 🙄
Man I would love to have a crown Vic sadly they are expensive in the Nederlands
What's that car rear wheel drive??? Weird
The fishing reel myth…
Fact is that those Big fish dont just Take one 20 sec run??
Some of Them fight for one hour… Taking Many runs!
Second run with a allready hot reel… Could make the difference?
But if it takes like 20sec to run out 400m Line… Guess how Long time it takes to reel inn that amount 🤣 Wich would lower the temperature💯
Second runs seemed impossible since the insides were getting melted
Can you put four log wheels all fours?
Canadian spotted
burst into flames ?
what is burning ?
what is flammable ?
What is life and what am I doing here ?
the tire was omly flat om the bottom. that is not soo bad
the rod should be atcualy bending real good, they have the clutch way to lose
failing to prepare s prepare to fail (ignore my gramar plz )
good❤
They was too aggressive with those wheels and also should try a front drive car.
The reel could be ignited by a cigarette? Maybe the fisher was smoking.
You can drop a cigarette in a can of petrol it won't ignite. It's not a flame need a lot of heat or a naked flame for ignition something a cig doesn't offer.
23.06 You, Kari are 245 degrees. Grrrr.
What is the point of the lady on the sidecar bike..? And why is she laying across it like that
Call me crazy - but I think they don’t just tell the myths!
NO ONE carries gear to make a wood wheel.
No one addressing the random labrador trotting along the runway 😅 who is he?
As far as I'm aware, that's Jamie's dog. It's been in a few other episodes
Disclaimer: No pun intended. 👍👍👍
Are you authorized to post these? I know some of the copyright expired but you post full episodes and you have 500k subs, I dont understand.
EDIT: Apparently they got the rights to the show now, awesome!
they bought the rights last year
apparently they are a real company and they got the rights
Yes they own it. Lol.
They are the rights holders, so they definitely can! It makes me so happy!
@@trex0021 Ah, awesome!!
They changed the 69 to a 68 XD
25:38 hehe doggy
hay didnt do anything.put gravel and drive slower
can you... can you just TAKE manhole covers?
You can do whatever you want until you get caught and maybe even then.
It should actually be pluaseable cus your testing on a runway that’ of corse is gonna run out but the fish has god knows how long of free space to get up to speed and definitely make the reel catch. A light
The runway isn't the issue. The line ain't any longer.
It doesn't matter how much space the fish has, if you run out of fishing line, it's game over...
The log works on a non driven wheel way better... ask me how I know 🤦♂️
😂😂😂
Adam and Jamie were masters of faking getting along. You could almost mistake them for actual friends........
Why are people always psychoanalysing those two, they don’t hate each other, they worked for a decade together in a very specific field, of course there was ups and down, that’s how colleagues are in real life, sometimes they probably loved doing stuff together sometimes not
As an avid fisherman myself, I'd say NOT PLAUSABLE but I have seen a reel SMOKE TO A POINT WHERE U CAN'T TOUCH IT, the most powerful, fastest fish, with good fight that I can think of would be a 80kg+ Tuna or a full grown sail fish