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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Garage. Willie Bee's garage is now open. What up bucome
too with the Bees garage? How we doing you guys?
Who my twothirst today? Oh? No, well, you know I've
been clamping down.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
You know.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Sometimes I don't even know I do it sometimes, but
sometimes when I'm sleeping, I clamp down real hard for
whatever reason. I don't know where. That's intense dream or
whatever whatever. I get up and it's like I used
to be really bad at it. I used to be
so bad at it. It would like hurt my like temples
in the morning. I would just clamp my girl all
(00:38):
night long. Yeah. Yeah, And it makes the one tooth
that's the furthest down, you know, it gets the most
pressure it makes. It just makes it sore. God, I've
done that the last two nights and I'm like, god,
dang it. So it gets up, makes a chaw so
or it's.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Weird that they prescribe by a mouth guard or something
to sleep with.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I can't see no mouthar. It's just weird. It's just randomly.
Sometimes it's not that often it happens, but sometimes, like
the last night or two, it just I don't know why,
but it's just like and you're like, ah, man, and
you feel it too, my pitbuttle Dozer. You know, he's
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old as hell. He's like fourteen years old, but he's
still in great shape. But he thumped down on the
floor the other night, and it woke me up because
I'm a really light sleeper, but I could come. I
came out of my sleep fast enough to know. I
came out of my sleep fast, and I came off
my clamping, you know, So just as I was coming to,
I was also on clamping, and I was like, why
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was I just biting my day biting down so hard? Anyway,
I guess, you know, whatever sleep problems, we do have
fun show, so Sterling Sterling back as we've had on before.
You guys freaked out. Everybody freaked out when they first
saw his Lamborghini.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Oh yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
It's like, how often, all right, let's just.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Talk about a Lamborghini. Not too often?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Did you see one to work on the way to
work today?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Not today? I didn't.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
How about yesterday?
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Mmm?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
No, not yesterday?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
How about this week?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I would say It's probably been a good two months
since I've seen a Lamborghini exactly.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
It's not like, you know, it's a Sorry's Coop, MITSUBC Outlander, sure,
or you know, a pickup truck, but when you see them,
you're like, whoa. And it's so wide, man, because there's
so many supercars and hypercars and stuff nowadays. But Sterling
went a different route. And you've heard his story maybe
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in the past about how he three D printed a Lamborghini.
But in the first evolution of anything, what are you doing?
You're figuring out how to do it, but also how
not to do it, and also what works best with
the technology that you currently have, and then what's the
what's smarter decisions as you learned some of the processes. Anyway, man,
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is he tightened the ship up and not only has
he got this Lamborghini project, he's now got a new one.
And this is something that you know. Oftentimes people get
discouraged at the monumental task of what lies ahead. But
this is again a great sort of lens to look
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through on how you tackle any job, or any hurdle
or any you know, adventure in life. What do you
do well? You tackle it one step at a time,
you know, and you if you figure out the first step, well,
then you're well on your way. To figure it out
the second and then the third and fourth and on
down the line. And it's really cool between him and
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a few of his networking buddies and community. You know,
Dario is a good example. It's it's very interesting how
this technology has progressed and how this technology has really
you know, part of pun but shaped into what it
is now and the efficiency that that it comes with now.
(04:15):
So that's definitely part of the plan for today. And
Sterling is one of those guys that has been man,
he's he's got some really cool stories about figuring it out,
which is kind of epic, but also ways to you know,
to do it better and more efficient, and you know,
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well I just let him tell that story in a
couple of minutes. Also, today on the show, we're gonna
talk a little bit of racing. We're getting so I
remember my motorcycle today and there's a couple of the
you know, the the lane filtering.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Uh you filtered today? Huh yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
And it was I Here's what I don't understand. Why
is it that just in a matter of a month,
lane filtering has seemed it seems like it's become you know,
fairly accepted. I did it twice today and everybody nobody
said anything. Nobody It was like, oh eh, just what
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they do now, that's right, right. But then on the
other side of the coin, I watched this dude like
what was this Thursday? No, hell, it was yes yesterday.
I went down and checked out Full blown Custom that's
James and Carson's news shop.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Well New Little Adventure.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
But they on the way down there, they had a
couple areas where you had to merge and where zippering
would have been insanely effective. But instead there was like
this dude in a black Dods truck then that just refute. No,
it's Chevy truck in a black Silverado that just refused,
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just refuse to let anybody go in front of him.
He was like one of the dudes that was staggering
the line so that he he would block both lanes.
Oh you know, instead of and there's a whole you
got a mile of other lane. I mean, you got okay,
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a mile stretch, but honest to god, you had you
had half a mile of okay, maybe a quarter, but
you had plenty of rooms.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
That's still quite a distance.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Oh god, you probably had more than you had more
than a quarter because I know a quarter mile.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Damn well, you had half a mile of.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Area that you could zipper, that you could allow the
other traffic just go in, And it's so much faster
versus everybody jumping in a single foul line and getting
behind you know, Gary Silverado, and is you know stupid.
I'm not gonna allow anybody pass me. You're in their spat, dude,
it's the law. You're supposed to zipper. It's a million
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times more efficient. Why does everybody have a pissing contest
when people are trying to zipper? I just do not
get over the hang up with allowing it to occur. God,
people are help bent on just hero. No, you're not
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gonna take that lane that you're supposed to be taken
and do the thing that you're supposed to be doing
because it's so much more efficient, No, sir, because that
would mean you're in front of me. It's crazy. It
is the most absurd, asinine thing to do to try
to like be that dude. But man, there he was,
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and if dude, he was running all the way over
and all these cards are like dude, and he's throwing
his finger up and he's doing he's just so so.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Mad owns the road.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Yeah, he's so mad that there's all there's, you know,
fifteen hundred two thousand feet of lane there that he,
by god, he's not gonna take it, because that's not
what you're supposed to do. You're supposed to getting a
single file line a mile and a half back shut up.
It was such I mean, it was such an unbelievable
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backup of what would have been so much more efficient.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
He's just mad because he merged too early.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah, I don't understand. I mean, we've all seen him.
We've all seen that guy, right, we've all seen that
dude that well, you're not going to get in front
of me. He's all pissed and middle finger in the air,
and you know he's got it like this dude had
a big Silverado, a little bit jacked up, and he's like, no,
I'm taking up both lanes. So he was straddling the
stripe trying to make it like you know, you're not
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getting in front of me, and no car will get
around him because he had the the you know, the
cones and everything out. You know, he's like, all right,
nobody's gonna get around me. It's just not going to happen. God,
those people, if that's you, Please God, would you would
you just do a little check, do a little bit
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of reading, put that little duddy Brady yours the work,
and go through some research. Because it's so much more efficient,
it's so much easier just to let it go. Let
let it zip, Let it happen. Bro, let it happen.
Stop being o that dude, idiot. God, people, rab don't
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You're not gonnae in front of me. Jesus, if you
would just let it go. Just look every other car.
You go to the point, the merge point, and you
just go every other car. It is insanely efficient. It's
been tried for years. It's other. I don't know what
other places have it down for some reason. Man, not here.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
They just don't get it.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Man, I don't know why. I don't know. I don't know.
I just do not understand the other rules. You know,
the other rules people get like how do you tell?
How do you tell? Cold and naive?
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
You the third person through the red light? People, you
get most rules. People get zippering whoop.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
They don't get you're in the left lane and there's
nobody in front of you get over.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Oh yeah, yeah, I had to deal with the jeep
today doing that, and I'm like, all right, it's a
good thing.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
I'm on a bike, right, motorcycle you can get pretty
zippy with them.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Right, yeah, I know, man, I know, all right, Look,
we gotta take a break. We'll talk to Sterley has
some fun. Welcome to it, will it Bee's garage And
it's a nice weekend on store, man, So get that
hot ride out of the motorcycle out whatater has some fun?
So I wanst to have a nine KVP.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
I Willybe's garage. You're back in Willybe's garage.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
You know what's wap mans?
Speaker 1 (10:57):
This week? There was a a scoop to turn that
shade down. That light is killing me. You're scene like
in the passioner's seat with the cell phone hits the
sunlight in the passion of seat, just totally blind to
the driver's seat. That was just happening. Anyway, We've all
seen heard talked about, you know, three D printers. But
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the more you follow what's going on technology, it is
wild man. Who was it this week? Sam? What's the
name of the guy that runs chat GPT? That open
AI company. Yeah, Sam Altman. So he was coming out
this week and he was talking about how AI and
these robotic helpers are going to be such a huge
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part of our lives. And this guy was talking inside
of five years. His number was five years, like and
in our world, like in the next five years completely changed,
where AI, robots and the things we're talking with three
D printing all are like normal appliances, normal features in
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a home.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Can you imagine that?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Where you know, between the scoop and Sterling, the guy
I have on now who you guys? You got to
check out his YouTube channel. It's Laser Sterling on YouTube.
Sterling Welcome to the show Man. It's always just fascinating
catching up with you, because, dude, you're ahead of the curve,
you're on the you're like the tip of the spear
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type people between you and what you've done with the
three D printing and your little network and some of
the guys that you know Dario for example, and you
guys have really, I mean, you have set the bar
with with what you've been able to do. So let's
catch everybody who may not know about your three D
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printed Lamborghini. So give us the sort of genesis of
that concept idea and what got you into this fascinating
world of three D printing.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Well, it's I think that the underlying Again, thank you
for having me on. I'm always happy to chat with
you guys. It's always an honor. But yeah, we we
started this, I think mostly because we're cheap.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
And now this is now Look he says that somewhat
as a joke. However, before we brought Stirling on the air,
we were just talking about things that you print and
use around your home that you might buy at the
store if you could find a store that would sell it.
But it's things that you could now print at home
for pennies on the dollar. Scoop wears glasses. He just
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made a seven or eight glasses holder case that you know,
hangs up on his wall right by his door, right
right right.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Cost you how much in plastic?
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Maybe a dollar fifty?
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Not a fifty well so expensive, but you would pay
twenty bucks or something for that at a store, not
more right, if you could find a store they had it. Sure,
So you just how long did it take you to
print it?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
About three hours, so about an hour and a half
of design, three hours of printing, and there you.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Have something that's you know, you can see how easy
you can plug these things in your life and make
your life simpler, easier to you know, nowhere's glasses go
and you're at and always have them right there. So, Sterling,
you knew about three D printing before you sort of
tackle this endeavor which came about from your kid. Explain
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to everybody how that that first, you know, sort of
wave of well, why can't we do it? How that started?
Speaker 7 (14:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
So my son and I we are won. Evening, we
were playing four as a Horizon three, which was kind
of our favorite game, and we'd always get in the
Lamborghini events door. It's my favorite car and one of
my son's favorites cars. And he just you know, we
had just finished a sixty nine Mustang resto mod and
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he was wondering, if you know, potentially we could.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Wait wait, wait, you have a sixty nine Mustang restaurant.
I had, oh, like.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
A moron, I sold it.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Okay, continue, I need it.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
I needed a room, Okay, go ahead, And so yeah,
he equipped, you know, could we could we build a supercar?
And I was looking for a new project and I
just kind of said, well, I love Lamborghini. Evented doors,
why don't we do one of those? Yes, and he
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was like he was all in. You know, he wanted
to learn about welding and steel work and potentially doing
a buck and founding some aluminum or steel to make
panels and all that kind of stuff. So he was
really interested in getting started with it.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
So you guys set out to make a Lamborghini, like
make one is in You started with what.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
It started with steel tubing, you know, to build a
frame because we wanted to build it from scratch because
we wanted the We wanted the car to look like
a real Lamborghini. We didn't want like a shorty or
you didn't want.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
To kick car car. You know, you don't want to
take a piero and making it a Lamborghini and you know,
Fakeaghini or whatever you would call it. Yeah, you didn't
what that trash you would it look like a real
you know, Laborghini.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
We wanted people to question it. We wanted people to
come up, you know, and you know, I don't think
we're you know, we didn't. We didn't go into this
wanting to badget or anything like that, but we just
wanted people to walk around, go, huh.
Speaker 8 (16:53):
You know, I think there's a laborghini, you know, yeah,
but underneath it really was something homemade that this guy designed,
built and printed in his own garage.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
It's like a big version of a push up bral.
So so well, from the outside it looks like something
is not. So you're you set out to do this,
You're you're thinking of yourself, all right, I gotta start
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with some te you know, some steel tubing, make my frame,
do the chest, did all that, and then what made
you like, what made you think about three D printing
as a source for the panels and the body, and
how you were gonna you know, make those things come
to life?
Speaker 7 (17:46):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (17:47):
So you know, at work, I'm a physicist and so
we prototype a lot of things and we use three
D printing to do that. And at the time I
was I had a three D printer at work.
Speaker 7 (17:59):
You know.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Our choices were that we could build a buck and
pound some steel around it and whatnot, or we could,
you know, try to fabricate something out of you know,
clay or foam and make fiberglass. But I was figuring,
why wouldn't we use technology that could be more you know, faster,
ye could actually be relatively inexpensive. And the beauty about
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it is I only have to design half the car.
I don't have to design but you know, one side,
and then hope to hell I get.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
It right on the other, right right right, you.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Know, I only have to put in CAD, you know,
half the car, and then I just mirror it. So
so that seemed like a huge advantage and that's what
led us down that road to print the first part,
which was the rear bumper.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
So you print this rear bumper, You're amazed because you
put in a little bit of work and before you
know it, in front of your eyes is a rear bumper.
What for Lamborghini? You're like, what?
Speaker 7 (18:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
And that was like a week, right, you know, imagine
how that and and I have a day job, so
you can imagine how the printers are working at night. Well,
I'm sleeping, and then all I have to do is
take him off the printer and assemble them and glue
them all together and boom, You've got a body panel.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
So and what what printer did you use for that?
Because you you had a printer at work, but you
didn't have one at home until you decided to do
this right.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Right, and this was years ago.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Yeah, So I bought a Creality CR ten s, which was,
you know, a large format printer. It printed pla really
really well, so I could print big parts. I mean
it was half a meter cubed area or volume that
you could print into.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
But you say big part, you think for people thinking
big part of the thinking a full on body panel. No, no,
no body pedal being.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Like a quarter panel for a seventy charger.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
You know, Now he's printing pieces that are at most.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
What a foot?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Yeah? Maybe you know, you don't you don't print the
entire volume. So yeah, usually it's around the foot cubed
that you get in volume.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
So a twelve inch you know, by ten inch or
so piece that he's bringing out the printer. And then
you're how are you bonding those together and creating the
panel because you only have small pieces. Imagine like a
jigsaw puzzle, trying to look fluid, trying to look like
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a Lamborghini.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Right, so you know you just basically I found that
joining the parts together and have to have any fancy
features or anything between the parts that would make up
a panel, and so I would just use Sino acylate,
which is super glue to glue the body panels together.
And then eventually I upgraded to an epoxy, which was
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a little bit stronger.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Right, So you start working this process out and then
you start gaining a lot of a lot of eyes
and a lot of ears, and a lot of attention
on this particular three D printing to Lamborghini. You can
see all this stuff at Laser Sterling on his YouTube channel.
But he's going through this, he's gaining knowledge, know how,
he's finding shortcuts, find out what does work, what doesn't work.
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All the time, you know, him and the son are
having this dream of one day being able to drive
this Lamborghini. Well, Lamborghini hears about this project, and like
most car companies hear about a project, you would assume
that they're like, hey, there's some crazy knucklehead. And you know,
Denver Colorado three D printing a Lamborghini on social media.
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He started to get some attention on this thing. Let's
go squash him like a bug against a windshield. Most
car companies will go that route.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Yeah, I think Lamborghini is different, you know, I mean,
if you know the history of lamborghinially done that Ferrari
would have come and sued me back to the stone Age.
That's pretty much a parent.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
But Lamborghini, you know, I hadn't heard that they you know,
they would shut down you know, people who were replicating
their cars and selling them commercially. But they'd never gone
after what I could find anybody who was like building
you know, a diablou or a tuntash or something like
that in their garage.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Right, So does that.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Let me see, president, president, we have here? Oh nobody
has done that before.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
So yeah, yeah, so they they they were they were
totally cool with it. I mean I got the phone
call and that's the first thing that came to my mind.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
I'm getting suit from Lamborghini. You guys over in late Italy,
they're like, oh you know, they're like, uh yeah, we
need to talk to a sterling. Could you tell right
away by the accident?
Speaker 2 (23:06):
You were like, oh, well no, because you know, in
my job, you know, as a physicist, I work pretty
internationally on a lot of things. I have a lot
of collaborators across the planet. So I didn't really think
much of it. I have some friends in Italy. But
when she said that she was the chief marketing officer
for automobile Lamborghini and Sagana Italy.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
I was like, shut your mouth. So that in turn,
that was a big That was a big blessing.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Right, it was a big blessing. They said that they
loved the project. They thought it was great. It was
a father son project. They had to just put out
a new initiative where they were doing Christmas commercials on
their YouTube channel. So go over there and check out
our video.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
That they shot with us.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
They flew twenty five people out from Italy and we
spent a couple of really long days, yeah, shooting that video.
I won't give it away.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
It's awesome though. It's a great video. You really should
go to Laser Sterling on YouTube see the video and
just check out what Lamborghini like. Lamborghini the car company
flew twenty five people. I'm sure they flew economy. I
guarantee they were like no, yeah, they were coaching. I'm
sure they only got a bag of pretzels, so they
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rode all the way over here. They brought him something
as well, which was really cool to help him further
his project. Can you share that story real quick before
we go to breaking and we'll tell everybody what you've
been doing now and your new project that really do
this is gonna be this is another evolution. We'll get
to that in just a minute. But tell us about
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that visit. When they brought, like you said, twenty five
people for for what a week? Two weeks?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
No, it was it was only about three days. So
they had They came the first day and kind of
scouted the place out, and then the second day we
started shooting, and then the third day we finished up
shooting nice And it was funny because of the director
of marketing for the entire planet for Lamborghini was and
he saw that I had an Audi steering wheel in
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my project, and he thought, yeah, that's not gonna work right, even.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Though out the Lamborghini similar, right, there's some right step things. Yeah,
it's a brother relationship there. And then you show him
the OUTI deal. He's like, we're not having that. He
goes back and he ships you a real true Lamborghini
steering wheel.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
No, no, he hand delivered it. He came back over
to the state and delivered it and took us all
out to dinner. Pretty awesome.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Did you know that he was bringing that over?
Speaker 7 (25:58):
It yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
I I kind of knew because you know, he had
to schedule everything because you know, when he's in the States,
he does lots of meetings. So yeah, he said, yeah,
I'm coming over and I'm bringing you something.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
And that's cool.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Was it just carry on?
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Just I'm guessing if.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
I had one, I'd just steer the plane in the seat.
I would just pull it out, like.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Why can I why can I see that? Willie?
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Well, now fast forward. So you have this name beginning done,
draws all kinds of tension, eyes, ears. Everyone seems to
love it. Power Plant is unique because LS one with
some hair drivers on it. Now you know things are
going along well as project seems to be. You know,
in the final stages, as you're getting the body ready
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for paint, you realize something probably could have been done
a little bit differently into or better. So you start
to address that. But then you stumbled upon dreams, hopes,
and aspirations of another insanely crazy cool supercar project. So
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let's take a break. When we come back, he'll tell
you what he's been doing the last several months. You
can probably see it. It's laser sterling on YouTube. But
I'm telling you this is another evolution and it all
started from three D printing. So imagine being able really,
you know, And we'll ask him again when we come
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back from break. It's not that big of a chunk
to chew off. You gotta take it, you know, one
step at a time. But nowadays, with the technology that's
out there, I really feel like, you know, this is
gonna come right now. It seems like, ooh, it's a
little intimidating. Watch what happens the next three to five years.
So don't you feel confident in saying that every person
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will we'll have and be using a three D printer
in the next five to seven years.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
I hope, So, I hope, and I hope the automotive
enthusiast adopts this as soon as possible, because the barrier
to being able to get this uh to work for
your project is so low.
Speaker 6 (28:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Man, we'll talk more about that in just a second.
Quick break. Willyb's Garage nineteen thirty two. Uh Sterling back
is laser Sterling on YouTube, back with him and more.
It's most to have a nine kbpi.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
Willib's garage. You're back in Willybe's garage.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
That's weird. How they say that the program pro cord
what I guess commercials what we didn't do those live exactly?
We're not live right now.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
The tree farm guy, I swear, was right over there.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Right five miles wet tree fark. So you have a
Sterling backs on laser Sterling on YouTube is where you're
find him. He's got tons of videos out there and
really watching a man build in three D print a Lamborghini.
U is something fascinating to be a documentary someday on Netflix. Uh. Now,
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you got this Lamborghini to the point where you noticed
a couple of things that you wanted to redo, and
in that you stumbled upon something else that caught your eye.
Another little mistress in the corner over there, like a
redhead with like you know, green eyes that steal your soul.
You'll never come back from that. Uh So yeah, man,
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what uh what made you?
Speaker 7 (29:44):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (29:46):
What was it you saw in the Lamborghini that you thought, Man,
I should handle this before I you know, I finished
body working it and painted.
Speaker 7 (29:57):
Well.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
I ran into some problems, as you you alluded to
earlier on in the previous segment. I the panels I
printed out of a plastic that did not do very
well in the sun, and even though I covered them
in carbon fiber, they started to crack and peel and bubble,
and so that was a major mistake. And rather than
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covering it up, I decided to reprint the entire.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Body and man, since you found ways to make the
process much more efficient, can you explain that? So he
initially did this bagging process and maybe still does, but
it is, Look, you get these panels, you bond them together.
They have a certain you know, they have a certain
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angle and curvature, and there's a radius to some, you know,
and then some have very hard angles and and you
know these pieces all have to lay in together and
then get vacuum sealed. So can you explain what you
did to make these three D printed pieces one, you know,
one solid piece with some rigidity instructure behind it.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Yeah, I mean the idea was is that, you know,
I don't know what better to use but carbon fiber.
And you know, I don't have these autoclave systems that
you know, the major manufacturers have to make parts really strong.
But frankly, I you know, I just needed body panels.
I didn't need anything that was going to be structurally rigid.
(31:33):
And so I coated you know, the front in the
back with carbon fiber, put them in a vacuum bag
to use atmospheric pressure to push everything together, and then
you feed epoxy in one side. It saturates the material
and then you let it cure and then you pull
out of the bag and you've got yourself apart.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
How crazy is that? And you body work it and
then paint it. So yeah, through this process of building
this Lamborghini via three D printer, in this bagging process,
you have these panels that are all going to.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Gather cover and everything carbon fiber.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
It all looks good until you guess, you know, Colorado
has this thing. We're a mile hind. So now here's
a little intent. So explain a little bit on what
you saw. You saw that sag, so you said, okay,
let's make this a little bit better. Choose a little
different plastic, but something else cut So your tension in
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your eye?
Speaker 4 (32:27):
What was it about that that.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Made you, you know, attempt another adventure as if you
didn't have enough with the Lamborghini.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Well, I really enjoy on YouTube watching people like Matt Armstrong,
the Inja in California and be Is for builled and
they do a lot of you know kind of buying
wrecked cars and then bringing them back to life. Now,
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for the most part, what they do is buy or
you know big borrow and steal parts to try to
bring the car back to its OEM status or they
you know try to you know, put their own flair
to it like that, right, And so they usually buy
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the parts for that.
Speaker 7 (33:19):
And I just.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Thought that was the coolest thing in the world would
be to have a real car and be able to
bring it back with three D printing. And so that's
when I started my new project, which is a McLaren
six hundred LT.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
So you see this McLaren, Well, share with everybody how
you've you stumbled upon it's not it's not. Let you
go to Facebook, marketplace and somebody else just what I
got chunk of a mclareny might be interested in.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Yeah, so I had to, you know, by watching the
other YouTubers who had done McLaren's I could kind of
see the structure of how the McLaren was but together
has a carbon fiber tub which is the main part
of the chassis, and then it has a front and
rear subframe that are made out of aluminum, and so
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I figured, well, you know, again, I'm cheap. I don't
want to pay tens of thousands of dollars for a
wrecked car. So I went around and I looked for
you know, can I get a tub? Can I at
least start there?
Speaker 1 (34:25):
And the tub? Anybody the note of a clear and
that is the that's the main structure piece, if you will,
for this supercar. You can build everything off of this
this tub and find one because their carbon fiber, to
find one is very difficult, find one in good shape
or good in the shape where you can you know,
start a build. So you were able to locate one.
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Any problemis you concerned with the one you found? Uh?
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Yeah? So what I was looking for to preface it
is is that the main structure of the carbon fibertub
had to be had to be together and couldn't have
any damage because that's a safety issue. So I trolled
around on the breaker's yards on eBay. Who sell these?
(35:15):
You know they buy these cars and then they strip
them down and sell the parts. Well, there's a place
in Arizona azy cycle parts. They have these kind of
wrecked chassis after they've stripped them all down, and those
are for sale, and so twenty five hundred dollars I
purchased a McClaren.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Damn twenty five hundred bucks.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Yeah, and I got the rear subframe and the carbon
fiber tub and a few of the damaged panels that
went along with it. And it's also it was also
a coop. But I wanted a spider and it has
at the McLaren's have a hard top convertible system them,
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so I wanted that too, and so I had them
throw that in and so I got that for like
a few hundred dollars for the complete system. And so
I got the top off and repaired the a pillar
that was completely destroyed, and my buddy Dario helped me
out because he's a composities expert, so that we could
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repair the tub where it needed and we started from there.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Started now this project. For whatever reason, man motivation came
quick on this one, because dude, this car, when you
see it, if you were to like go to his
house right now, he's got a McLaren parked in the garage.
It's like it's done or it was so close to it. You, Joe,
that's McLaren, but you chose way a vastly different drive train.
(36:50):
So imagine you know, mclaar and they pack up punch
to begin with. But you decided to go a little
different drive train, a little different direction on yours. So
don't you share with everybody? And again you can follow
along you see this what's this car? You build?
Speaker 4 (37:05):
See the you know, the steps as to what's got
me so far?
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Where he's where he's at anyway and Laser Stirling on YouTube?
But what have you chosen for a drive train in
this one?
Speaker 2 (37:16):
So on this one the McLaren drive trains, the engine
and the transaxle. Even to get a you know, one
that's in relatively good condition is thirty five to forty grand. Yeah,
I did not want to spend that kind of money
on this project.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Why because he's cheap.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Because he's cheap, I keep plus, you know, I just
I just like doing you know something new?
Speaker 7 (37:50):
Right?
Speaker 2 (37:51):
So this this this car has a C eight drive
train in it. So it has an LT two with
a eight speed dual clutch transmission. Got it as a
package friend of mine in Michigan, uh get picked it
up because they dropped the C eight off of the
trailer and broke the frame.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Like unloading the brand new car and they dropped it
off trail.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
New Yeah, the engine has four miles on the clock.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Oh my god. Oh that sucks.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Yeah, sucks for them, good for me?
Speaker 7 (38:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (38:27):
All right, So you get this this new C eight,
you know, is it supercharged? No, it's just a six two.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Yeah, So direct.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
Injection six to two. You're gonna do what put uh
put some sort of boost to it?
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm I'm a big fan of
hair drivers, so I'm gonna put a couple on there.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
All right, So twin turbo six point two. Yeah, that
thing is gonna be You know, what are you trying
to get? Thousand? That's easy. You could put a soft
tun on a thing like a thousand Wars power. Where
are you trying to be on that car?
Speaker 2 (39:03):
I think with the I think, you know, frankly, I
want to stick it down so I'm not going too crazy.
Plus I want to keep the stock internals, so I
think I'm gonna go around six hundred.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
It would be easily achieved with.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Because I want it, I want it reliable to you
almost get that done.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
I mean, you see those new uh Na engines in
the uh in the ZO six corvettes that are oh yeah,
it's just nuts, all right. So you got this McLaren,
what's the next phase on it? Where you at on
this car? Uh? And where does this car need to
be in the months to come?
Speaker 2 (39:42):
So this this was was a great build because I
started with an actual McLaren. So over a few months,
I actually started acquiring parts. You know, I would just
sit there and during my lunch hour, I would cruise
eBay and and see what kind of parts came up.
And so I identified cheap parts and I'd buy them
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for the McLaren. And you can just bolt them on.
Speaker 7 (40:08):
You know.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
Wow, that's a new concept for me.
Speaker 4 (40:11):
Right bolt parts right on, Bolt.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
Parts right on, and they fit and it's just great,
you know. So yes, I've I've had to do some
welding and some cutting and and trying to fix the parts.
Some parts you just can't fix, so you have to
buy ones that are you know, in decent shape. But
I got the entire suspension system, carbon ceramic brakes, the
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great calipers and everything for the McLaren. So it's mostly
a McLaren except for the drive train. Then yeah, and
then I three D printed the missing parts. So the
entire front clip, some parts in the rear, the engine cover,
stuff like that. So all of that is three D printed.
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I had this from a basically a hulk to a
roller in six months with a drive train in it.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
I don't do it for a living.
Speaker 4 (41:13):
Yeah. Man, he's got a regular nine to five, which
is just bananas.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
So I'll tell you how fast that three D printing
can help you along.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
This one is kind of leaning back on when you
think about three D printing in the automotive industry and
car shops and people, you know, we can warriors DIY guys,
you know in shops like mine or places like mine,
how much can that three D printer? How much can
you lean on that for big time help throughout different
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aspects of your build.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
I lean on it very heavily. And the beauty is
is that I want a three D printed car. So
I'm keeping the three D prints as a core, and
currently I'm using fiberglass instead of carbon fiber to add
strength to the print. I've changed the material to ASA,
which has a higher glass temperature, so it's twice that
(42:08):
of PLA, So I go from fifty centigrade up to
one hundred and five centigrade right handle the Colorado sun
and just encapsulate the parts in fiberglass, which is making
them very strong and they're not bubbling under the intense
heat and cold of Colorado.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
So is it you're just.
Speaker 4 (42:30):
Hand laying that up when you do the fiberglass.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
Yes, so I'm hand laying it up now and it's
working out great.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
I mean, so you bomb these panels together than hand
lay fiberglass over top of it. Like for those that
don't know, it's like if you've ever seen body filler,
you know, when they're done well in a place to
do will smooth it over with the little body filler. Basically,
imagine fiberglass a little thicker, a little harder to work with,
much stronger in that regarding the adhesion factors. So you
just you hand shape everything basically with fiberglass on the
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inside and out on both sides of the body panel.
Speaker 7 (43:08):
That's correct.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
We're using the three D print as a core, and
the biggest challenge there was as I wanted to avoid
the bubbling between the three D print and the fiberglass. Yeah,
and it turned out when I started, I did some
test pieces where I put fiberglass on the part and
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then I try to pull it off, and every time
it just ripped right off, and I was like, oh no,
that's not going to work. But that also means that,
you know, if if you're if you have a mind,
you can actually make molds out of these right.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
Yeah. It seems like if you if you get the
layup processed down, all of a sudden, broken parts of
pieces you can repair, and all of a sudden you
got you got.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
Some to work with there, exactly. But again, I wanted
a three D printed car. So what I finally figured
out is is that I take the first layer of
fiberglass and I actually set it into the print with acetone.
So acetone melts the plastic nicely, and so if you
just kind of dab acetone around, it actually will push
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the fiberglass matt into the three D print and bond
it in there. And then you can put another layer
of fiberglass over the top of that to actually have
everything bonded together with no bubbles.
Speaker 1 (44:33):
Wow, and there you have it. The process that he's
sort of kind of massed at this point, he's become
really efficient at So you got this car when you're
what do you expect to.
Speaker 4 (44:47):
Show it off.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
Was it going to be at a you know, at
an event where people can see it outside of you know,
your your video channel, laser staring on YouTube. I'm sure
there's a lot of people interested to see this car,
especially when you get this thing done, pack it up,
punch of you know, the little Corvette uh boost set up.
Speaker 4 (45:04):
In there as your drive train.
Speaker 1 (45:06):
That's that's gonna be a blasphemy for a lot of
You can pull up to McLaren Club and they gonna
be pissed at you.
Speaker 3 (45:12):
Man.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
Yeah, they'll probably, they'll they'll they'll probably try to shoot me. Yeah. Well,
that's the whole thing is is that we're not going
to try to push it off as a real McLaren,
you know, even though basically it is. It's just you know,
it's got a LT swap, right. Yeah. So the idea
(45:38):
is just to be able to really show kids who
are coming up through middle school and high school, you
know that you can use trades, you can use schooling,
you can use technology, and if you're passionate about cars,
this can really be a bridge for you to you know,
(45:58):
explore your design capability or you know, to try new things.
And and isn't that what a car guys like to do. Yeah,
absolute things we like to put on fender flares, We
like to you know, kind of stand out between other
car enthusiasts when.
Speaker 1 (46:16):
You're looking at setup like this. Yeah, when you're looking
at setup like this, and you know, I think over
time it becomes really really affordable. How much does it
cost to get into it where people can start three
D printing some parts and pieces and using little you know,
you said it's really easy, But I think a lot
of people don't quite understand all the supporting casts out
(46:40):
there that aide you in getting parts and pieces, you know,
from a something in your mind or something you see
at a you know, a website you can go and download,
or whatever it's actually printing on your printer. A lot
of people, I think are hesitant to think that that's
an easy process. But there's a lot of things out
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there to help that process become easy, right.
Speaker 2 (47:06):
Yeah, it's an entire community. I mean, there's a community
of people who do three D printing who probably knows
this very well. There's also a community of people building
cars on YouTube as well. And now we're seeing the
fusion of those two communities come together, and I think
it's just absolutely fantastic, and everybody has been very much
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into working together, into helping each other out, into you know,
kind of showing hey, I had this idea and boy
did that not go well? Or I have this great
idea and it worked, you know, so other people can
now adopt that. So it's just been fantastic to see
this working guy with guys like Nick Theinja in California,
(47:51):
also watching Matt Armstrong and some of the other YouTubers.
It's been fantastic and I've learned a lot.
Speaker 1 (47:57):
Yeah, man, and a lot of people are I don't
know where. There's websites you can go to and just
you know, scoop does it. You'll find something likes in
a website. You can just take that and print it.
You can change it up, make it yours, but you're
allowed to go there and just print up, you know,
things that you see or like.
Speaker 5 (48:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (48:14):
Yeah, people share their models all the time, and so
people can actually just download those and get started. I
mean the the SBJ Lamborghini. I actually bought the model
for a very reasonable price online. Somebody spent a lot
of time on getting this thing, this body almost perfect,
and when I three D printed it out and put
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it on my car and everything fit together perfectly. I
was just like, wow, this is powerful.
Speaker 1 (48:42):
Right, Like, man, you can actually do stuff that never before.
You can make imagine trimming panels. I talked to a
guy at SIMA last year and here's a guy that
ran an interior shot, one of the big, huge name
interior shots. He does, you know, interiors on all the
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big guy's car, the Ring Brothers, the you know, the
Chip Fooses. Those those guys are his clientele. When it
comes to tears. He had people booked and waiting for
you know, a year. For eighteen months he was booked out,
and he went to a bunch of three D printed
materials and printers in a shop and he said, he
goes now to their shop. He'll scan everything about the
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interior of their car. Versus where he used to bring
the car in. Now he'll pre manufacture the pieces so
that when the car arrives, instead of having the car
for a month and a half, two months, three months
to get an interior done, it's done in a week
or a weekend because he's already printed all the pieces,
has him covered and they just go in there and
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just snap, snap, you know, and everything fits, I mean
to a thousands of an inch. The tngs is so tight.
Everything just snapped together.
Speaker 2 (49:59):
Yeah, reduces his cost, which also reduces the cost to
the consumer.
Speaker 1 (50:03):
Oh one hundred. It was wild because he said, I
got cars in there. You know. Now they're in there
for a matter of a few days or a week,
where they used to be in there for a month.
And he's turning cars like left and the right stead
now instead of waiting you know, a year and a half,
two years, he's got people that are waiting a month
to get into a shop, Like all right, I'll schedule
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you in three weeks and they'll go in and boom,
just knock the whole interior out. It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (50:29):
Yeah, it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (50:31):
Yeah, it's nuts. Like people really need to I think,
probably get a little help or a way to sort
of initially get over that first hump or printing something
or the intimidation of it. Next thing, you know, man,
they'll be ripping through interior pieces. Or there's there's some
plastics you could use that really can withstand some heat.
(50:52):
So you know, obviously different plastics, different materials are coming
and evolving every day. Like you said, now there's plastics
that really can take some heat, some UV and so forth,
and they're making more as you know, as every day,
and we sort of shows up.
Speaker 2 (51:10):
Yeah yeah. And sometimes you can get those those materials
and they'll have carbon fiber in them too. That gives
them even more strength. And so there's the potential for
not even having to you know, potentially put on a
layer of carbon fiber or fiber glass, just basically three
D printing a part and putting it right on the car.
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I mean that's coming, yeah, man, it is.
Speaker 1 (51:36):
And the quicker us in the automotive side, you know,
extend some open arms and welcome it. I think the more,
the more you'll see people with great results and people
doing things like you are, or at least the aid
of three D printers in that as far as building
brackets or pieces or components they need both on the
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interior and throughout the car. Uh tell light lenses things
that will you know, uh, just be cool to see
via via three D printer. Over you know, trying to
figure out how to do it with metal or how
to do it you know, just done their own. Where
am I gonna go to junk yard and find this piece?
Now just three D printed, super cool man.
Speaker 2 (52:18):
Yeah, And and the really cool part about it is
the fact that you can iterate.
Speaker 7 (52:22):
So you three D.
Speaker 2 (52:23):
Print something, you put it on the car, You're like,
and no, that looks stupid. You can just you know,
redesign it, have another part, you know, and in the
day and and try it again, right, So you can
really go through multiple iterations without having to spend months
and months on you know, fabbing up apart and then
trying it out.
Speaker 1 (52:43):
Sweet.
Speaker 4 (52:44):
Well, there you have it, man.
Speaker 1 (52:45):
Laser Sterling is where you get his info, you find
some of these cool videos he's doing, and a little
shout out. Man. He's got a whole network of people
that really is just you know, tip the spirit when
it comes to three pretious technology, you bring it to
the forefront. So Weekend Warriors and other shops out there,
can you know, learn from them. There's a handful of
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man he can plug in that network, help you long.
Dario's another one. He's great at what he does. Jel composits.
So between these guys, man here locally you got some
major talent doing really cool things. Laser Sterling on YouTube
is where you find his channel, follow it, subscribe, to
it helps.
Speaker 4 (53:22):
Them out in the interim.
Speaker 2 (53:24):
Yeah, it's it's a great community and I really appreciate
you guys having me on and being able to get
the word out that this is not super science. This
is something that everybody can do.
Speaker 1 (53:37):
Way cool man.
Speaker 3 (53:38):
And do you have some sponsors for your projects that
you need to get some plugs out for?
Speaker 2 (53:42):
Yeah, I mean Creality they produce three D printer scanners,
resin printers, things of that nature. They sponsor my channel.
They actually helped me get the McLaren project going. So
shout out to them. Go to their YouTube chat and
I'll go to their website and check them out.
Speaker 1 (54:03):
To Bennie just texted me and said, I sterling if
he ever planned on doing a muscle car baby, that
would be a three D printed muscle car.
Speaker 2 (54:19):
Well, parts are getting rare on those right.
Speaker 1 (54:22):
Well, some of them. Yeah, there's definitely some things that
people don't make interesting. That's the different concept too. I
don't know, man, you show up the plastic plastic muscle car,
people gonna get pissed. Yeah, I know, I know, no doubt.
Well right out and he was up to date with
all of it, excited that uh, you know that you
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got these projects going, people learning from it, the community
has grown. That's just big time help assistance. We we
all get acclimated to what's you know, what's new in technology,
what's gonna help us? And uh Man, you're surely leading
that charge. Sterling, Thank you so much for your time.
Take so much for your knowledge and sharing a little
bit of it with us. Man.
Speaker 2 (55:04):
Always an honor, guys, and I appreciate you having us
on and getting the word out. Keep doing what you're
doing with the community and also your cars for Christmas.
Speaker 7 (55:15):
Big shout out for that.
Speaker 2 (55:17):
Thank you again.
Speaker 4 (55:18):
All right, brother, talk to you soon.
Speaker 1 (55:20):
Man, Willibe's the rides take a break back afterwards.
Speaker 4 (55:22):
Just want to say be on KVP.
Speaker 6 (55:24):
I Willibe's garage. Jamie, you're back in Williebe's garage.
Speaker 1 (55:35):
What do you guys? Welcome to Willebe's garage, Man oh Man,
Welcome to a sweet Saturday, good day to get the
hot rods out. We'll be working at cars to Christmas.
We'll shout to the guys cars to Christmas. Man, we're
kicking butt on that.
Speaker 4 (55:46):
Shout out to the.
Speaker 1 (55:46):
LA dealers who help us get some cars. Hoping to
get some cars from those guys this week we're picking
some up too. I think about a Ford pickup chuck.
I think it's a pick up chuck. Maybe one of
those Explore man, they did explore or pick up truck
for a minute, like a little Ford Explorer. It's like
it's got four doors but a little bed too. I
forgot what they were called. I think we may have
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one of those to go pick up, paying five hundred
bucks for that. So it's coming around, man, Carson Christmas,
God love it, dude. I had a weird phone call
the other day. Oh yeah, you guys know I do
a TV show, Two Guys Garage to the Boston Two
Guys Garage. We had this one client on two Guys
Garage and it's actually pretty decent little thing. It's it's
(56:29):
a mouse blocker, but this guy loves because we sold
a bunch of them, I guess. But it comes in
pretty handy if you have, like you know where I'm at.
I've got a you know, I got a big shop
out in the middle of a field. So when against
code this time, those little critters start to come in
and they don't like being outside the code. So they're
gonna find some heat and warmth, so they try to
(56:51):
come in to my shop or whatever. This thing kind
of so this mouse plocking thing puts out a frequency
that disrupts it. It's weird too, because some some times
you can't hear the highest frequency, but on the TV
shoot on the set, when they turn it on, you'll
hear in the other room. The sound guys, the sound engineers,
(57:12):
they're like and they're just screaming a bark, like, hey,
you shut it down. What are you doing? You know,
some frequency is like pegging the vu meters on the
inside of the sound.
Speaker 3 (57:21):
Like somebody blowing a dog whistle.
Speaker 1 (57:23):
And we can't, you know, We're like, what we kind
of hear a faint, little high pitch. But they're and
there just freaking out.
Speaker 8 (57:32):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (57:32):
That's kind of what it does to, you know, to
the mice. It just erupts, and they don't like it.
It has a strobe that makes the thing people are
moving and anyway, it scares them for a minute. Now,
not saying after a while they don't get used to it.
I don't know, but it does. It definitely makes them
scatter for a little while. Anyway, he was interested in
(57:53):
doing something with cars of Christmas. Oh, I thought that
was kind of interesting cause a guy he's on the
TV show knowing I, you know, they know I do
cars be and the guys you know do cars to Christmas,
so they're they're featuring. They actually let me do a
thing about it. This year. We had a car come
in and they're like, is this the kind of car
(58:14):
you take it for Cars to Christmas? And I was like, yeah, absolutely,
So they allowed me to talk about it and promote
the website and foundation, and that show was actually getting
ready to air. They're even going to put a couple
of videos and pictures of the cars that given away
in the past out there. So that was actually really cool,
you know. And look, it's just it's not like this
(58:36):
is a big thing. Carson Christmas is me and like
five or six of my friends. You know, it's not
like it's a big group of us. It's just you know,
guys really willing to go above and beyond. So, you know,
shout out to Tristan up a truck lab. They took
a car in a oschooled truck to get finished up
for us. I wish I had more shops. Maybe I'd
(58:56):
go knock on the David outover who was who does
pro autle Care. Who's our boy from pro autle Care?
Speaker 3 (59:03):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (59:03):
Al, Yeah, I'd hit up al and see if the
guys that pro autle Care would take a car too.
If I got a couple of shops and just the
even shops you know up north. If I had a
couple of shops to take one or two cars, like
you know, early now would be a great time. They
have plenty of time to get it done before the giveaways.
(59:25):
Oh cars for Christmas, man, that would be that would
be huge. So Leonard, my boy and Elizabeth he normally
he normally takes a car too and gets gets it done.
He's another one that does just great resource. But yeah, man,
Me and you know a few friends really dive in
and take uh you know, take weekends off and you
(59:47):
know a lot of times week days and just go
to work on these. So shout out to Robert and
Scott and you know all the guy Tommy and Danny
been helpful this year. Just uh, you know, guys, they're
just spending another free time. We're rentally working on cars.
Mike's been there to help and again it's it's a blast,
it's it's fun, but it's a lot of work, man,
(01:00:10):
But when you're you know, when you're gifting thirty five
to forty cars, it's damn cool to watch the reaction
to watch people.
Speaker 4 (01:00:17):
You know, freak out when they get a car and
they do.
Speaker 1 (01:00:21):
Man, it's wild. But if I can get you know,
if I get one or two sponsors like that, God,
it helps us. What's crazy, bros? To see the jumping parts? Hey, everybody,
if you're fixing your car. Oooh man. The parts increase
over the last two years has been man overwhelming. Like
(01:00:42):
normal parts you would pay fifty to one hundred dollars
for are now one hundred and fifty to two fifty.
So even at our discount, we're paying you know, every
time we leave now. But it's second when you know
how all of a sudden, we just got up day
and we couldn't leave a Walmart or a grocery store
(01:01:03):
under two hundred dollars. You know, it just happened. Right,
one day, we were paying one hundred, one hundred and thirty,
next day we're paying three hundred. Like what what happened? Well,
same way, same thing goes for you know, auto parts.
All of a sudden, you know, and you imagine cars
that we get. They all need you know, they all
(01:01:23):
need tires, they all need brakes, they all need batteries,
they all need windsheel wipers, they all need hood hinges,
you know.
Speaker 4 (01:01:31):
Things like that.
Speaker 1 (01:01:32):
So just normal parts that we go and get, let alone,
gaskets and starters and alternators and you know, oil paying
gaskets and water pumps and you know, all these items.
All of this just all of a sudden double tripled
in price. So every time we go to NAPA and
we're like, all right, we got parts for a Ford expedition.
Speaker 4 (01:01:52):
It's four or five hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (01:01:54):
Here, four or five hundred bucks there. So you'll drop
a lot of money in parts really quick on these cars.
Cars man, So we're fortunate. Our buddy Nick is coming
out tomorrow. He helps in different way. He's Nick owns
Douglas County Pressure Washing. He's been a big help. He's
coming out and smoke some I think it's a pork
or something for tomorrow and we have a little barbecue
(01:02:16):
as we get done rinted on cars. So we've had
a couple of different helpers come out this year. But yeah,
we could definitely use you know, use the shop or
something like that. If you got one that wouldn't mind
taking a car, wouldn't mind you know what we need
and look, I will pay you. If you're transmission shop,
I could bring you four to five cars we need
(01:02:37):
transmissions on. So if your transmission shop you want to make,
you know you need some some income. You don't have
anything on the table this year. This week, dude, let
me bring you four or five cars, cause I got
four or five of them that can use transmissions. Those
are the things that none of us touch. But man,
it's hard to find a transmission shop, you know, or
(01:02:57):
at least a good one.
Speaker 4 (01:03:00):
Yeah, that's kind of where I'm at.
Speaker 1 (01:03:00):
Cars at Christmas style, but always taking donations in the
form of cars things like that. You find out more
Willebefoundation dot org. But man, these giveaways, it's gonna be
a matter of a couple of weeks we started taking nominations.
It's crazy. It's that far down the line. Yep, jeez.
But has the good ones give away?
Speaker 3 (01:03:19):
I think I saw that we're like three or four
paychecks away from Christmas.
Speaker 1 (01:03:23):
Damn. Don't talk like that too soon. Man, it's too soon,
way too soon, all right? Also, want to talk about.
I reached out to Jason up a Tricity cycle, reached
out to Mark Kite, who runs Souny Enterprises. There's something
that I don't know, man. Have you guys seen the
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electric dirt bikes? I don't know, but all of a sudden,
there's a lot of videos about these electric dirt bikes
just tearing the booty out of some of these traditional
dirt bikes. Now, obviously that can only be for you know,
for a couple laps, right Like these electric bikes, I
don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:04:04):
They can't be. They can't be doing full motos.
Speaker 1 (01:04:07):
And being competitive or can they Have you seen electric
bike do a gate drop yet? I mean, some of
these things are fast, man. But I wanted to see
where the future of those electric bikes are coming in at.
And I don't know, talk to a couple of guys
in the industry to see if there's a big push
to go electric for for like motorcross riding, Like there's
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not gonna be a thing, is it? I'm afraid it is. Though.
Speaker 3 (01:04:37):
I feel like you have a lot more control as
far as how you race.
Speaker 7 (01:04:42):
Do.
Speaker 3 (01:04:42):
You expend a lot of juice at the very beginning,
so you can get the whole shot and then you
don't have as much juice for the rest of the race.
Or well first, like when you're in a gas bike,
everybody's kind of on the same Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:04:57):
Well, I was there when we went from two stroke
to four stroke, so I used to race two stroke
bikes and they were badass, had a big ripping power band,
and you know, that was just the way to ride.
You go in the corner really hot, you would use
some of that, you know, it's it's wild because you'd
want a little wheel chatter when you come in on
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a two stroke or four stroke wheel chatter, meaning you
go into a turn and get way up on the bike,
elbows are high, you're grabbing the front brake, but you're
letting the bike as you you know, as you downshits
a couple times, you're letting that back wheel and the
bike's gearing do some of the stopping for you, and
it crushes the suspension of the bike and you get
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on the gas stick that front leg out up by
the you know, front brake right, lean that bike over,
grab a handful of throttle and it pulls you out
of that that turn. That's how most motor crossers erasers
handle a nasty turn getting in and out of it,
and there was a different style in how you attack
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that with a two stroke and how you attacked it
with a four stroke. With a two stroke, you would
go in there, just let that wheelchatter happen. You grab
a handful of clutch man and a handful of throttle
and then let that whip. Let that whip sort of thing.
A two stroke did. Let it happen, just wet what
you know. We caught the rock like that out of
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a turn, and that's how you got power. With a
four stroke, you just down shift and going to it
more mid throttle and just ease into that throttle, lean
into it as you're coming out. It would be like
ro and pull you out. But with an electric bike
it's a little bit different because they have instant torque.
They come out of the whole little faster. It seems
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like in some videos I've seen of them racing lately,
there's some new adaptations of an electric bike that's out
there motocrossing out there at tracks.
Speaker 3 (01:06:55):
I would think that you could, you know, since you've
got the instant torque, you can control how much of
it you actually have how much do you actually need
because you want to be spending too much battery on
just spinning wheels.
Speaker 1 (01:07:07):
I don't know. I don't know how they're I don't
know how they're gonna make it last an entire mode.
Speaker 4 (01:07:12):
Now, it's one thing if.
Speaker 1 (01:07:13):
You're just going out riding at Rampark or something like
that with the boys and you need a couple hours,
they can't compete, not unless you've got, you know, batteries
you can change out or some way to fast charge them.
That would just suck. Hey, you I'm gonna ride for
forty minutes and then not be able to go anywhere else.
You know that that would, But for actually just racing,
you know where people are doing thirty minutes. Most motos
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are thirty minutes plus a lap, you know, right, so,
or thirty five minutes plus two laps, so you know
you're talking thirty to a forty minute window, maybe forty
five on some of the pro outings. But is there
an electric setup that they can run that hard. I've
seen guys riding around town on electric bike, so you
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know they have some sort of I don't know, decent range.
But on a moto, you're you're way up in power.
You're way up.
Speaker 4 (01:08:05):
You're asking a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:08:05):
You're racing, so as are you you're Are you capable
of keeping up with a gas bike for thirty minutes
on full throttle? I don't think so, But man, I
see a lot of things. I follow a lot of
motocross stuff on social media.
Speaker 3 (01:08:22):
I think full throttle is where you're whe're that's a
thing that's not going to exist a lot of It's
just gonna come down to power management. Do you have
enough juice to get you through the whole race? Can't
use too much torque coming out of the gate.
Speaker 1 (01:08:37):
Yeah, it's funny. Man, Oh look at this Mark kite
is called that just came to the highline number. He is, Ah,
they just bought Performance Cycle to believe? Is I believe
it's battery powered stuff?
Speaker 3 (01:08:54):
Hmm?
Speaker 1 (01:08:55):
Maybe another Performance Cycle branch. But he's gonna call in
here in just the sad I can't. We'll talk to
him about where that future is gonna be. It's gonna
be interesting to see the you know, battery powered stuff.
We've seen it now in cars, a lot of toys,
tons of tools, all tools are battery operate now. But
is it really going to cross over. It be something
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that's a contender on something like a motocross track.
Speaker 4 (01:09:20):
That's a different environment.
Speaker 1 (01:09:21):
You're asking for something different because the reason electric cars
haven't succeeded in NASCAR, Formula one racing, all that stuff
is you just can't get the life out of them. Now,
doesn't mean they're not faster a lap or two, because
we've seen with the lower CG and you know, things
you can do with with batteries and how you can
place them. There is there's something there as far as
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making them handle, making a car like that that can handle,
But it's the longevity that's the killer, that's the Achilles heel.
But on a motocross track where we only need it
for thirty minutes, is that something forty minutes? Is that
something where you can, you know, be a severe competition
(01:10:05):
like competitor on a battery format that would I don't know,
maybe out perform a four stroke or you know, what
we know is a modern dirt bike. I've seen some
crazy social media stuff about it that man, they're quick,
they're fast, they're dragging all these four strokes. But we'll
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talk about it with market in just a second, right,
quick break Willy's Garages one of seven nine kvp I.
Speaker 6 (01:10:34):
Willy Bee's garage. You back in Willybe's garage.
Speaker 1 (01:10:40):
To seven nine KVPI WILLI be his garage? What up,
you knuckleheads? How are things?
Speaker 7 (01:10:45):
So?
Speaker 1 (01:10:45):
I wanted to bring on a buddy, Mark Kite, he
runs the Sun Enterprises, and man, when it comes to
electric bikes, electric dirt bikes, there are some there are
some things that are absolutely changing. We're just talking about
this a minute ago as no motocrosser, as a guy
who you know, started racing on a two stroke two
fifty he went to the you know, I think it
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was a four hundred at first, in the four to fifty, uh,
and just absolutely love the four show the power that
you know, just riding in general. I love little throttle therapy,
as do so many people that listen. And you know,
after that, we just had a caller a minute goes like,
oh man, I'm stoked about this topic electric bikes. I mean,
you're anxious to hear what you know, what they say,
and that's why I reached out to Mark, and Mark,
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you know more than most about this trend and what's
happening in the world of dirt bikes right now. Everybody's
seen it in you know, tools, they've seen it in toys,
They've seen it in you know, in some form in
fashion a car, but really electric scooter's been around for
a minute. But electric dirt bikes, man, that really started
(01:11:48):
to get a handle on these things. Started to see
some big, huge power out of these things. What's happening
in the world of dirt bikes and electric bikes?
Speaker 7 (01:11:57):
Yeah, you know, I mean it definitely is progressive, pretty crazy.
You know. You look at like the Stark varg and
some of those bikes and the different modes, and I
think that's one of the cool things about the electric stuff,
will is that you know, you can change it up, brother,
from the beginner all the way to pro level type stuff.
You know, the Stark bar I think, you know, on
the highest level setting, brothers pumping out what you know,
eighty horsepower, which I mean that that's more than a
factory fourth fifty is putting out.
Speaker 1 (01:12:18):
All right, So hold on, there's a what eighty horse power?
There's there's a setting on these electric bikes that will
give you eighty real horse power.
Speaker 7 (01:12:29):
Yes, yeah, yeah, that dark barg is the cream of
the crop on that bike. But you know on the
electric bike side too, you know, we're dabbling in that
here at the dealership as well, you know, with with
bikes like sirt On and Talaria. I'm sure everybody's seen
the video out there with the Olta Sigma, which is
a Soronster posted that on on YouTube. You got to
check that video out. A Lambo, yeah, bro Lambo just
(01:12:53):
super cool stuff. So lots of cool things coming out,
you know, and uh, you know, I mean I'll tell
you what. The kids are buying them left and right
them and they just love them. And you know the
other thing from from our day, will you know, they're
not getting the grief from from the people in the neighborhood,
you know. I mean we used to ride dirt bikes
and pit bikes around the neighborhood. You know, there was
always somebody calling the police. And you know, these things
are quiet, they don't make any noise, which is nice.
(01:13:13):
So yeah, they're cool.
Speaker 1 (01:13:14):
Do you see do you see in the future, you know,
where electric bikes are gonna take over things like motocross
and supercross.
Speaker 7 (01:13:25):
I don't know, man, it's so hard to say, you know, truthfully,
I mean, for sure.
Speaker 1 (01:13:30):
Is it gonna be a class at least.
Speaker 7 (01:13:32):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, for sure, I would say that.
I mean, the Oe's are definitely pushing electric, right, I mean,
we're getting more and more and more influx in the
power sports business. Electric Canam just launched a full line
of on road street you know, electric bikes. Kawasaki's got
some great bikes out, So yeah, I mean it definitely,
you know that there is that influx for sure.
Speaker 4 (01:13:53):
Wow, it's just life.
Speaker 1 (01:13:54):
You know. You think a moto thirty minutes plus lap
thirty five minutes plus two. However, you you know, you
have set up and and and that's that's asking a
lot for electric bike to be full bore hanging out
for thirty thirty five minutes and more. That's probably the
only achilles heel that is hold him back right now
from you know, pushing that even harder. I you know,
I see a future where these electric dirt bikes debitly
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are out there. Definitely gonna be a you know, scene
on the on the trails. Have you got a chance
to see anybody ride these things, because I've seen videos
and man, that torch, that instant power, Holy moly, does
it go a long way to put them out in
first and on a track like they are quick on
a track man, Yeah.
Speaker 7 (01:14:35):
There's no doubt. But I mean, you know the Surons
that we carry here at the dealership. I've got the
Suron line here. But and you know what's crazy, the
technology has gotten so advanced. You know, it used to
be you know that range was a real issue, right,
you couldn't get any range out of them. I mean
some of the suron bikes we have Now, I've got
a couple at the house and it's crazy. But you know,
I've rode the thing the other night for thirty miles.
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Thirty miles will I use ten percent of the battery life?
So just just you know, the technology piece all that stuff.
But you're absolutely right, electric is a different breed when
it comes to power. It's instantaneous, and yeah, it's pretty
crazy stuff. They're a lot of funder ride.
Speaker 1 (01:15:10):
It's wild too when you hear them because they'll come
you know, track riding. When I've seen him and watch
these videos, they'll come through this turn and it'd be like,
you know, and you're like, whoa, that's so different than
the bar. You know that we're that we're used to it.
Accustomed to. But man, they they are fast, so fast
that instant torque is is so useful on a track
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where you have a lot of ruts and dirt and
you know, you know things where you get that tire
biting and chewing up, you know, chewing up the old dirt,
that that torque comes in so handy. It's the fun
factor on these things and why they can you know,
they weigh a lot.
Speaker 4 (01:15:46):
Of people think the batteries.
Speaker 1 (01:15:47):
Yeah, they weigh a lot, but the overall weight of
the bike is significantly lighter too, right.
Speaker 7 (01:15:53):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, you know, I mean they just you know,
as time goes on, the advancements is just it's just insane, bud.
But yeah, we're gonna carry a full line. You know,
we've got all the shirt on bikes now, but we're
bringing into Lario. We've got some other stuff in the
works right now.
Speaker 1 (01:16:06):
How many you have?
Speaker 4 (01:16:07):
How many lines?
Speaker 1 (01:16:08):
How many lines of electric bikes are you guys gonna
carry up there?
Speaker 7 (01:16:12):
So we're gonna have three full lines and we're looking
at a fourth, but we will absolutely have three full
lines of electric here at the dealership and at our
sister store too. We're working on some things there as well.
Speaker 1 (01:16:24):
Dure Man, Well, keep in touch with us, let us
know when they're gonna be out there, because you guys,
you know, y'all do so much, man. You do big
street parties and black parties and you always you know,
kicking out supercross fun stuff, and you know, over the years, man,
it's been great to see this new technology. I mean,
y'all were in the first ones that start checking out
crazy side by side and doing cool things like that.
(01:16:45):
This technology and how it's changing. You know, the toys
and how we ride them, how we use them, how
we get out and play with him. You guys are
always out there issuing, offering the best, keeping up with technology,
giving people a chance to explore it without writing huge checks.
You got anything like that going on, you let us
know about it. What are people looking at for fall deals?
You know a lot of people don't realize, but this
(01:17:07):
is some of the best opportunities to get your hands
on a bike too, or you know, a street bike
or a dirt bike and all that stuff there.
Speaker 4 (01:17:15):
These are good times to go get one.
Speaker 7 (01:17:17):
Yeah, absolutely well, I mean right now is a great
time for all that stuff. And I don't definitely just
love catching up with my buddy. But but you know,
I don't want to make this an infomercial, but you
know absolutely, brother, there you know right now, factory authorized clearance,
all that stuff's going on the biggest freebates of the year.
You know, you get model year change, so they're clearing
out the old stuff making room for the new. So yeah, great,
great time to pick yourself up something cool, all right, man.
Speaker 1 (01:17:39):
Well, Mark's awesome catching up, bro, Thanks so much. And hey,
when you have one of those little ride events or
electric bike I want to go watch and try to
ride one too. I can't wait to throw my leg
over one.
Speaker 3 (01:17:50):
Man.
Speaker 4 (01:17:51):
I'm excited to see what that brings in next year.
Speaker 1 (01:17:53):
Two.
Speaker 7 (01:17:54):
The next time I do a demo, brother, you will,
you will be on the invite list. You got to
come ride some of them. They're just so much fun.
Speaker 4 (01:17:59):
All right, we'll do man, much love.
Speaker 1 (01:18:01):
Sun Enterprises. Tell everybody where you guys are located.
Speaker 7 (01:18:05):
Yeah for sure, man, So we're located at eighty ninth
in Washington and Thornton or You can always visit us
online at www dot Sunpowersports dot com.
Speaker 1 (01:18:14):
Right on, brother, always good catching up, Mark, much love,
Stay in touch and appreciate you as always.
Speaker 7 (01:18:20):
Man, Thanks brother, have a great day.
Speaker 1 (01:18:23):
Hi buddy. See man, well I didn't know there was
so dude, I didn't know there was eighty rear wheel horsepower.
That is man, that is crazy.
Speaker 3 (01:18:32):
What would a standard bike hap like that?
Speaker 1 (01:18:36):
So the four strokes run in the you know, the
mid forties to fifty range. Oh okay, you know, if
you get a bike just angry and pissed off, and
I mean you can have some of the badass, like
really nasty ones, maybe kiss us the high fifty of sixty.
Speaker 3 (01:18:54):
You know, so you're getting another thirty bonus out of that.
Speaker 1 (01:18:58):
I mean, goog I maybe off of numbers Google with
a new you know, why is he f four fifty?
We can call it, you know, I think Mark store here.
Let mean, let me get I reached out to Jason
two up at tri City because they have different different brands,
so maybe he'll call it in. I just hit him
(01:19:18):
up too. But dude, you're talking these electric bikes. That
is a massive amount of power on a on a
bike that weighs quite a bit less than what a
you know what a four to fifty would weigh?
Speaker 3 (01:19:31):
So quick Google new, why is he f four fifty?
Hp comes in at fifty eight point ninety five horse
power for forward drive.
Speaker 1 (01:19:38):
Okay, so not see that was that far off.
Speaker 3 (01:19:41):
Yeah, well, if you're getting eighty out of a lighter
bike even, dude.
Speaker 1 (01:19:47):
That is whoa, that is significant. That's I mean, that's
a big drive. You see. So the videos that I've watched,
you know, you'll see him like gate drop. That's one
of the most critical parts of a motocross race is
how you get out of the gate. And these electric
bikes are turned the other direction, right, and there'll be
five or six dudes on the four to fifty and
(01:20:08):
you know, a freaking an electric bike turned backwards, and
he'll he'll drag their ass by the time because the
top of the hill, I'm like, oh, hey, Jason, what's happening, man?
What's up? Blood Jason? Tri City Cycle of North out
of Love and there at twenty five crossroads, Hey man,
we're talking about So we're talking about electric dirt bikes
(01:20:30):
as well as crazy. Seen some videos lately, these things
just blasting away at some you know, some of the
old four to fifties that were so accustomed to nowadays
just you know, and I want to talk to you know,
you guys got ey cool falls, you know, kind of
things rowing out. But as far as dirt bikes and
battery operated stuff, what are you seeing on your end?
Speaker 5 (01:20:52):
Well, played with a couple of them. Yamaha does not
make one yet or not production one in the US yet,
uh huh, but it looks like they're pretty cool. I
mean you can get tons of power out of them.
I haven't been around like the battery life and stuff
like that. That would be my question about it.
Speaker 1 (01:21:09):
Yeah, that's what I was.
Speaker 5 (01:21:10):
Wondering too, technology.
Speaker 1 (01:21:11):
But yeah, where that Like, it's one thing to have
an electric bike. You tuol around town for a little while,
you don't use much battery, but you're not on a
motocross race. You're on the gas full like full board,
run it through the gears NonStop. It's a dogfight for
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thirty thirty plus minutes, so right, I imagine that would
chew that battery up exponentially.
Speaker 5 (01:21:39):
Well, And that's why I gather they're not racing them yet.
Is that that battery life hasn't gotten there where they
can make it through a whole moto without losing power.
Otherwise I can't see why they wouldn't be out there right,
you guys like Josh Hill ripping them everywhere. I know
videos and that Stark is pretty impressive. It's a really
cool bike. But I just don't know that it has
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the longevity yet as far as battery time. You put
that much horsepower through something that much torque, it's gonna
run through quick the way those guys ride.
Speaker 1 (01:22:08):
Yeah, yeah, and that's the there's the thing and another
thing that sort of the achilles heel about them. Nobody
wants to take their bike to rampart, go ride, you
know an hour or two and then now of juice
had a power it takes a couple of hours to
charge up.
Speaker 5 (01:22:20):
So yeah, I feel like you've had a couple of
people taking generators to the track to charge their batteries.
I've heard of that. Like you know, you ride for
a while, then you charge the thing for an hour
and a half. Kind of kills your day. So I
don't think the technology is quite there yet. It's very cool.
Look forward to seeing it on the horizon. I think
that's the way, you know, you see the mountain bikes
(01:22:41):
and stuff like that, and how those have taken off. Right,
Clearly there's a market for it, Clearly there's the desire
to demand for it.
Speaker 4 (01:22:49):
Hey, hey, I'm down for electric the mountain bike.
Speaker 1 (01:22:51):
That is no joke, you know what, because you know
what it takes all that exercise part of the mountain biking,
well at exercise.
Speaker 5 (01:22:59):
We just started carrying the e bikes we've sold. We
started carrying them like a month ago. We sold like
forty five of them already.
Speaker 1 (01:23:05):
And they're super cool.
Speaker 5 (01:23:06):
But blew me away, couldn't believe we got thirty two
of them in yesterday. All of them are sold. Trying
to get them built and get them out of here.
But yeah, yeah, Yamaha is running the deal right now.
They're sixty five hundred dollars mountain bikes and they're on
sale for twenty five hundred bucks plushing it an extra
battery and a five year warranty with them.
Speaker 4 (01:23:24):
Whoa, how fast all these things go?
Speaker 1 (01:23:27):
I think they're.
Speaker 5 (01:23:28):
Limited to like twenty eight or twenty nine miles per hour.
That's like the deal with the e bikes, with this
certain category of e bike.
Speaker 1 (01:23:36):
So these are the ones I'm seeing everybody using around
the city and stuff too, right, you can.
Speaker 5 (01:23:41):
I mean, these are full on dull suspension mountain bikes.
They're made for for trail riding. They make a full
line of them, Like there's there's all kinds of different models.
If you go on Yamaha e Bikes website, the one
we've been selling most of is the nice mountain bike
with the nice components. But they make like a like
a cross by bike, like a downboar bike. They make
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like a towny bike. So there's all kinds of options.
So some for around town, some for off road, some
for kind of combination of trail and off road. They
call them gravel bikes, but they're pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (01:24:13):
What a cool mountain bike off road set up that
you still rip? Still's got a little bit of throttle
throttle assist? Can you still? I don't? Can you do?
Is this something you do?
Speaker 4 (01:24:25):
Pedal at some point too?
Speaker 1 (01:24:26):
Can you? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:24:27):
They're pedal atsists there, They're not a throttle. You have
to be pedaling to get the power out of them. So,
like I've seen a lot of professional athletes train on
them because you can keep your heart rate consistent, where
like the traditional bike, you're either skyrocketing heart rate or declining. Yeah,
e bikes you can adjust the power assist so you
keep your heart rate the same.
Speaker 1 (01:24:47):
So you pedal the same, but the bike is still
going the same mount hour over whatever, but it still
allows you with the electric syst to keep that same
speed or momentum.
Speaker 4 (01:24:55):
That's pretty clever.
Speaker 1 (01:24:56):
Yeah, wow, that's intuitive.
Speaker 5 (01:24:58):
Yeah. Took a couple of them MP and for my
sons a couple of weeks ago, and they were climbing
stuff like easily. You wouldn't believe it any other benefit
of it. I mean people who are looking to get
in shape or get back into riding that maybe don't
have the the engine that.
Speaker 7 (01:25:12):
They used to or want to.
Speaker 5 (01:25:14):
It's a great opportunity to get people out and doing
things that.
Speaker 1 (01:25:20):
Right. It will help. Yeah, man that otherwise, you know,
you can't keep it with you know, the younger crowd
and rowing, you know, the grand kids. Yeah. Yeah, but
just allow you to do that. Yeah, absolutely, that's a
great idea for that. Oh man.
Speaker 5 (01:25:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:25:37):
Do they have upgrade kits yet where you can switch
your traditional pedal bike over to an electric bike?
Speaker 5 (01:25:43):
I you know, I don't know the whole e bike thing.
You know, I grew up racing DMX road mountain bikes.
The whole e byke thing's pretty new to me, and
that we're new to it as a dealer, so I'm
still learning stuff. I would I would not be surprised
if there's something out there. I mean, you see those
conversions to make pedal bikes gas powered, so I don't
see why there isn't something that converts to electric because
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I have.
Speaker 3 (01:26:04):
An old Shwin that. It's fun to ride around because
it looks really cool, but it's kind of a pain
in the ass because it's only one gear it right,
Oh yeah, up and down hills?
Speaker 1 (01:26:16):
Is it like my biggest stretch bike a little bit? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:26:19):
Yeah, Internet provides scoop just fine.
Speaker 7 (01:26:21):
Just google it.
Speaker 5 (01:26:22):
I'm sure it's out there.
Speaker 4 (01:26:23):
Yeah, send it to your boy Cody. I've electrified no time.
Speaker 3 (01:26:26):
A bad idea, so right on, man.
Speaker 1 (01:26:30):
People can find out more if you're reinterested. And how
long does that deal go? Just out of curiosity? If
people get in a sixty five twenty five hundred bucks,
you can have a lot of people jumping on that
for a while.
Speaker 5 (01:26:41):
Yeah, it's been wild. I can't believe how many of
these sold. They have not put an end date to
the deal yet, but it says on the website while
supplies last, and if we're yeah, a new dealer selling
forty fifties these in the month we've we've done it.
I can't imagine that it's gonna last too long.
Speaker 1 (01:26:57):
But I don't know what a cool bike we're here
for you.
Speaker 3 (01:27:00):
Will you do a weight list?
Speaker 5 (01:27:01):
Whenever someone's ready, Will.
Speaker 3 (01:27:03):
You do a weight list? Do you do a weight
list so the next time you get a shipment you
can get on that.
Speaker 2 (01:27:08):
We're ordering them. We're ordering them as people put in orders. Okay,
we're trying to order some extras for.
Speaker 5 (01:27:14):
Stocks so we have inventory when people come in. But
even trying to keep up with just building them the
orders we already have.
Speaker 1 (01:27:20):
As a challenge, is that on your website it is.
Speaker 5 (01:27:23):
Yeah, if you go to our website, it's in our
bike inventory handling all yep, there are super knowledgeable on it.
But we have free demos. If you're interested, come up
and check one out. Just come up and ride it
the round to see what you're getting. But it's pretty impressive.
Speaker 7 (01:27:40):
All right.
Speaker 4 (01:27:41):
I'm trying to look right now, what's it under.
Speaker 5 (01:27:44):
It's under motors. It's in the motorcycles. But if you
if you search I think if you search e bike
or if you search search tomorrow in the new inventory.
Speaker 7 (01:27:53):
M O R O.
Speaker 1 (01:27:57):
Way Coolmorrow. Oh okay, e bite Morrow. Lets see.
Speaker 7 (01:28:06):
There it is.
Speaker 3 (01:28:08):
That's pretty amazing. A fifty eight hundred dollars bike for
twenty three dollars.
Speaker 5 (01:28:13):
That's the lesser expensive one. The new one is tomorrow
seven and it's got all top almost top the line
components on it, good shocks, good fork. And that one
is typically sixty five just under sixty five hundred retail,
and those ones are going for twenty five hundred.
Speaker 4 (01:28:32):
Crazy, And what's the range?
Speaker 3 (01:28:35):
What's the range on those?
Speaker 5 (01:28:38):
From what I've been hearing, if you're if you're riding hard,
you'll get about two two and a half hours out
of battery.
Speaker 3 (01:28:45):
Okay, So.
Speaker 4 (01:28:48):
Otherwise otherwise not.
Speaker 5 (01:28:49):
Riding super progressive, probably longer than that.
Speaker 1 (01:28:51):
Yeah, probably otherwise three three plus.
Speaker 5 (01:28:54):
Yeah, that's that's my guess. I don't want to leave
anybody strandle on a trail, so I'm gonna guess. Yeah,
you can't pedal out. I mean, there's still geared mountain bikes. Yeah,
if you run out of battery, you just gotta work
for it. Hopefully you're on the downhill part of the
ride by.
Speaker 1 (01:29:10):
That right, right, I'm gonna using that to get to
the top the rest graut. He's gonna do his thing.
Way cool man, way cool.
Speaker 2 (01:29:18):
All right.
Speaker 1 (01:29:18):
Hey always as as always, man, we love catching up
with you, catching up with us. New tri CityCycle dot
com where you guys find them. Check out that inventory
all things Try City. They got cars, they do trucks,
they do all kinds of cool auto stuff. It's like
a fun factory up there just off of you know.
Exit was the crossroads exit.
Speaker 4 (01:29:38):
One f Yep, that's exactly what I was not saying
two to fifty nine. But it is a crossroads exit.
You can't miss him.
Speaker 1 (01:29:47):
It's just a big happy going on right now.
Speaker 5 (01:29:49):
Man, come see us.
Speaker 1 (01:29:50):
Amen to that, Jason, thanks so much for the time
catching up and queue us up on some of these bikes.
Speaker 5 (01:29:56):
Have a great weekend, guys, take it easy, all right.
Speaker 1 (01:29:58):
See buddy, that's a crazy good deal. That's a crazy
cool bike. Man. It's a full bore like everything you
could ever imagine out of a mountain bike, all the
suspension stuff. You look at it, and it does twenty
eight miles an hour. That's pretty impressive. I think it's cool.
Speaker 3 (01:30:15):
Yeah, it is. I mean, you're gonna pay that for
a decent mountain bike anyway anyway. Yeah, so you might
as well get the and how much electric assist?
Speaker 1 (01:30:22):
How much was that thing before?
Speaker 3 (01:30:24):
Before these they retail price for five thousand, eight hundred
seven ninety nine. But yeah, they're on sale for two thousand,
three hundred and twenty bucks.
Speaker 1 (01:30:36):
Wow, that's impressive.
Speaker 3 (01:30:38):
All right, there you go. Man's going parents are looking
for some for their kids for Christmas. Might be a
little little price, but if you're bawling, right.
Speaker 4 (01:30:50):
Hey, there you go, twenty twenty eight hundred, No, twenty five.
Speaker 1 (01:30:55):
What was the nice one?
Speaker 3 (01:30:56):
Twenty I think he said it was twenty five hundred.
Speaker 1 (01:30:58):
Twenty five up on here. Yeah, man, although you know what,
you're right, you're gonna pay that for a decent mountain
bike bike anyway nowadays?
Speaker 4 (01:31:06):
I mean you really are, So why not get one
that helps you out a little bit?
Speaker 2 (01:31:11):
All right?
Speaker 1 (01:31:11):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (01:31:12):
The thing it is with mountain biking, You ride up
until it's out of juice. If it runs out of juice,
you got gravity for the rest of way. You just
make it to the top.
Speaker 1 (01:31:19):
And they, I believe you mentioned there's an extra battery
goes with it. Oh, so you could clicking hypothetically.
Speaker 7 (01:31:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:31:27):
God, we're spoiled that kids.
Speaker 1 (01:31:29):
Nowadays, y'all spoiled. Oh I'm gonna head home and spoil
my kids, all right. You guys, have an awesome weekend,
thanks so much for your time. Back at it Monday.
Do we know what we're giving away on Monday?
Speaker 3 (01:31:41):
Oh no, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:31:42):
You don't giving away good times, that's right, And seriously,
I'll bring you in some custoard or something on.
Speaker 3 (01:31:48):
We'll bring you a.
Speaker 1 (01:31:49):
Cupe on Until then, have an awesome weekend. We'll see
you on Monday.
Speaker 4 (01:31:52):
So I want to step a nine kpp I.
Speaker 6 (01:31:55):
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Garage. Willie Bee's garage is now open. What up bucome
too with the Bees garage? How we doing you guys?
Who my twothirst today? Oh? No, well, you know I've
been clamping down.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
You know.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Sometimes I don't even know I do it sometimes, but
sometimes when I'm sleeping, I clamp down real hard for
whatever reason. I don't know where. That's intense dream or
whatever whatever. I get up and it's like I used
to be really bad at it. I used to be
so bad at it. It would like hurt my like temples
in the morning. I would just clamp my girl all
(00:38):
night long. Yeah. Yeah, And it makes the one tooth
that's the furthest down, you know, it gets the most
pressure it makes. It just makes it sore. God, I've
done that the last two nights and I'm like, god,
dang it. So it gets up, makes a chaw so
or it's.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Weird that they prescribe by a mouth guard or something
to sleep with.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I can't see no mouthar. It's just weird. It's just randomly.
Sometimes it's not that often it happens, but sometimes, like
the last night or two, it just I don't know why,
but it's just like and you're like, ah, man, and
you feel it too, my pitbuttle Dozer. You know, he's
(01:22):
old as hell. He's like fourteen years old, but he's
still in great shape. But he thumped down on the
floor the other night, and it woke me up because
I'm a really light sleeper, but I could come. I
came out of my sleep fast enough to know. I
came out of my sleep fast, and I came off
my clamping, you know, So just as I was coming to,
I was also on clamping, and I was like, why
(01:43):
was I just biting my day biting down so hard? Anyway,
I guess, you know, whatever sleep problems, we do have
fun show, so Sterling Sterling back as we've had on before.
You guys freaked out. Everybody freaked out when they first
saw his Lamborghini.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Oh yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
It's like, how often, all right, let's just.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Talk about a Lamborghini. Not too often?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Did you see one to work on the way to
work today?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Not today? I didn't.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
How about yesterday?
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Mmm?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
No, not yesterday?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
How about this week?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I would say It's probably been a good two months
since I've seen a Lamborghini exactly.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
It's not like, you know, it's a Sorry's Coop, MITSUBC Outlander, sure,
or you know, a pickup truck, but when you see them,
you're like, whoa. And it's so wide, man, because there's
so many supercars and hypercars and stuff nowadays. But Sterling
went a different route. And you've heard his story maybe
(02:43):
in the past about how he three D printed a Lamborghini.
But in the first evolution of anything, what are you doing?
You're figuring out how to do it, but also how
not to do it, and also what works best with
the technology that you currently have, and then what's the
what's smarter decisions as you learned some of the processes. Anyway, man,
(03:06):
is he tightened the ship up and not only has
he got this Lamborghini project, he's now got a new one.
And this is something that you know. Oftentimes people get
discouraged at the monumental task of what lies ahead. But
this is again a great sort of lens to look
(03:28):
through on how you tackle any job, or any hurdle
or any you know, adventure in life. What do you
do well? You tackle it one step at a time,
you know, and you if you figure out the first step, well,
then you're well on your way. To figure it out
the second and then the third and fourth and on
down the line. And it's really cool between him and
(03:52):
a few of his networking buddies and community. You know,
Dario is a good example. It's it's very interesting how
this technology has progressed and how this technology has really
you know, part of pun but shaped into what it
is now and the efficiency that that it comes with now.
(04:15):
So that's definitely part of the plan for today. And
Sterling is one of those guys that has been man,
he's he's got some really cool stories about figuring it out,
which is kind of epic, but also ways to you know,
to do it better and more efficient, and you know,
(04:36):
well I just let him tell that story in a
couple of minutes. Also, today on the show, we're gonna
talk a little bit of racing. We're getting so I
remember my motorcycle today and there's a couple of the
you know, the the lane filtering.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Uh you filtered today? Huh yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
And it was I Here's what I don't understand. Why
is it that just in a matter of a month,
lane filtering has seemed it seems like it's become you know,
fairly accepted. I did it twice today and everybody nobody
said anything. Nobody It was like, oh eh, just what
(05:15):
they do now, that's right, right. But then on the
other side of the coin, I watched this dude like
what was this Thursday? No, hell, it was yes yesterday.
I went down and checked out Full blown Custom that's
James and Carson's news shop.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Well New Little Adventure.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
But they on the way down there, they had a
couple areas where you had to merge and where zippering
would have been insanely effective. But instead there was like
this dude in a black Dods truck then that just refute. No,
it's Chevy truck in a black Silverado that just refused,
(06:01):
just refuse to let anybody go in front of him.
He was like one of the dudes that was staggering
the line so that he he would block both lanes.
Oh you know, instead of and there's a whole you
got a mile of other lane. I mean, you got okay,
(06:21):
a mile stretch, but honest to god, you had you
had half a mile of okay, maybe a quarter, but
you had plenty of rooms.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
That's still quite a distance.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Oh god, you probably had more than you had more
than a quarter because I know a quarter mile.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Damn well, you had half a mile of.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Area that you could zipper, that you could allow the
other traffic just go in, And it's so much faster
versus everybody jumping in a single foul line and getting
behind you know, Gary Silverado, and is you know stupid.
I'm not gonna allow anybody pass me. You're in their spat, dude,
it's the law. You're supposed to zipper. It's a million
(07:06):
times more efficient. Why does everybody have a pissing contest
when people are trying to zipper? I just do not
get over the hang up with allowing it to occur. God,
people are help bent on just hero. No, you're not
(07:27):
gonna take that lane that you're supposed to be taken
and do the thing that you're supposed to be doing
because it's so much more efficient, No, sir, because that
would mean you're in front of me. It's crazy. It
is the most absurd, asinine thing to do to try
to like be that dude. But man, there he was,
(07:49):
and if dude, he was running all the way over
and all these cards are like dude, and he's throwing
his finger up and he's doing he's just so so.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Mad owns the road.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Yeah, he's so mad that there's all there's, you know,
fifteen hundred two thousand feet of lane there that he,
by god, he's not gonna take it, because that's not
what you're supposed to do. You're supposed to getting a
single file line a mile and a half back shut up.
It was such I mean, it was such an unbelievable
(08:24):
backup of what would have been so much more efficient.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
He's just mad because he merged too early.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah, I don't understand. I mean, we've all seen him.
We've all seen that guy, right, we've all seen that
dude that well, you're not going to get in front
of me. He's all pissed and middle finger in the air,
and you know he's got it like this dude had
a big Silverado, a little bit jacked up, and he's like, no,
I'm taking up both lanes. So he was straddling the
stripe trying to make it like you know, you're not
(08:53):
getting in front of me, and no car will get
around him because he had the the you know, the
cones and everything out. You know, he's like, all right,
nobody's gonna get around me. It's just not going to happen. God,
those people, if that's you, Please God, would you would
you just do a little check, do a little bit
(09:14):
of reading, put that little duddy Brady yours the work,
and go through some research. Because it's so much more efficient,
it's so much easier just to let it go. Let
let it zip, Let it happen. Bro, let it happen.
Stop being o that dude, idiot. God, people, rab don't
(09:35):
You're not gonnae in front of me. Jesus, if you
would just let it go. Just look every other car.
You go to the point, the merge point, and you
just go every other car. It is insanely efficient. It's
been tried for years. It's other. I don't know what
other places have it down for some reason. Man, not here.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
They just don't get it.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Man, I don't know why. I don't know. I don't know.
I just do not understand the other rules. You know,
the other rules people get like how do you tell?
How do you tell? Cold and naive?
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
You the third person through the red light? People, you
get most rules. People get zippering whoop.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
They don't get you're in the left lane and there's
nobody in front of you get over.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Oh yeah, yeah, I had to deal with the jeep
today doing that, and I'm like, all right, it's a
good thing.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
I'm on a bike, right, motorcycle you can get pretty
zippy with them.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Right, yeah, I know, man, I know, all right, Look,
we gotta take a break. We'll talk to Sterley has
some fun. Welcome to it, will it Bee's garage And
it's a nice weekend on store, man, So get that
hot ride out of the motorcycle out whatater has some fun?
So I wanst to have a nine KVP.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
I Willybe's garage. You're back in Willybe's garage.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
You know what's wap mans?
Speaker 1 (10:57):
This week? There was a a scoop to turn that
shade down. That light is killing me. You're scene like
in the passioner's seat with the cell phone hits the
sunlight in the passion of seat, just totally blind to
the driver's seat. That was just happening. Anyway, We've all
seen heard talked about, you know, three D printers. But
(11:19):
the more you follow what's going on technology, it is
wild man. Who was it this week? Sam? What's the
name of the guy that runs chat GPT? That open
AI company. Yeah, Sam Altman. So he was coming out
this week and he was talking about how AI and
these robotic helpers are going to be such a huge
(11:43):
part of our lives. And this guy was talking inside
of five years. His number was five years, like and
in our world, like in the next five years completely changed,
where AI, robots and the things we're talking with three
D printing all are like normal appliances, normal features in
(12:08):
a home.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Can you imagine that?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Where you know, between the scoop and Sterling, the guy
I have on now who you guys? You got to
check out his YouTube channel. It's Laser Sterling on YouTube.
Sterling Welcome to the show Man. It's always just fascinating
catching up with you, because, dude, you're ahead of the curve,
you're on the you're like the tip of the spear
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type people between you and what you've done with the
three D printing and your little network and some of
the guys that you know Dario for example, and you
guys have really, I mean, you have set the bar
with with what you've been able to do. So let's
catch everybody who may not know about your three D
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printed Lamborghini. So give us the sort of genesis of
that concept idea and what got you into this fascinating
world of three D printing.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Well, it's I think that the underlying Again, thank you
for having me on. I'm always happy to chat with
you guys. It's always an honor. But yeah, we we
started this, I think mostly because we're cheap.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
And now this is now Look he says that somewhat
as a joke. However, before we brought Stirling on the air,
we were just talking about things that you print and
use around your home that you might buy at the
store if you could find a store that would sell it.
But it's things that you could now print at home
for pennies on the dollar. Scoop wears glasses. He just
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made a seven or eight glasses holder case that you know,
hangs up on his wall right by his door, right
right right.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Cost you how much in plastic?
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Maybe a dollar fifty?
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Not a fifty well so expensive, but you would pay
twenty bucks or something for that at a store, not
more right, if you could find a store they had it. Sure,
So you just how long did it take you to
print it?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
About three hours, so about an hour and a half
of design, three hours of printing, and there you.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Have something that's you know, you can see how easy
you can plug these things in your life and make
your life simpler, easier to you know, nowhere's glasses go
and you're at and always have them right there. So, Sterling,
you knew about three D printing before you sort of
tackle this endeavor which came about from your kid. Explain
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to everybody how that that first, you know, sort of
wave of well, why can't we do it? How that started?
Speaker 7 (14:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
So my son and I we are won. Evening, we
were playing four as a Horizon three, which was kind
of our favorite game, and we'd always get in the
Lamborghini events door. It's my favorite car and one of
my son's favorites cars. And he just you know, we
had just finished a sixty nine Mustang resto mod and
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he was wondering, if you know, potentially we could.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Wait wait, wait, you have a sixty nine Mustang restaurant.
I had, oh, like.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
A moron, I sold it.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Okay, continue, I need it.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
I needed a room, Okay, go ahead, And so yeah,
he equipped, you know, could we could we build a supercar?
And I was looking for a new project and I
just kind of said, well, I love Lamborghini. Evented doors,
why don't we do one of those? Yes, and he
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was like he was all in. You know, he wanted
to learn about welding and steel work and potentially doing
a buck and founding some aluminum or steel to make
panels and all that kind of stuff. So he was
really interested in getting started with it.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
So you guys set out to make a Lamborghini, like
make one is in You started with what.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
It started with steel tubing, you know, to build a
frame because we wanted to build it from scratch because
we wanted the We wanted the car to look like
a real Lamborghini. We didn't want like a shorty or
you didn't want.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
To kick car car. You know, you don't want to
take a piero and making it a Lamborghini and you know,
Fakeaghini or whatever you would call it. Yeah, you didn't
what that trash you would it look like a real
you know, Laborghini.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
We wanted people to question it. We wanted people to
come up, you know, and you know, I don't think
we're you know, we didn't. We didn't go into this
wanting to badget or anything like that, but we just
wanted people to walk around, go, huh.
Speaker 8 (16:53):
You know, I think there's a laborghini, you know, yeah,
but underneath it really was something homemade that this guy designed,
built and printed in his own garage.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
It's like a big version of a push up bral.
So so well, from the outside it looks like something
is not. So you're you set out to do this,
You're you're thinking of yourself, all right, I gotta start
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with some te you know, some steel tubing, make my frame,
do the chest, did all that, and then what made
you like, what made you think about three D printing
as a source for the panels and the body, and
how you were gonna you know, make those things come
to life?
Speaker 7 (17:46):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (17:47):
So you know, at work, I'm a physicist and so
we prototype a lot of things and we use three
D printing to do that. And at the time I
was I had a three D printer at work.
Speaker 7 (17:59):
You know.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Our choices were that we could build a buck and
pound some steel around it and whatnot, or we could,
you know, try to fabricate something out of you know,
clay or foam and make fiberglass. But I was figuring,
why wouldn't we use technology that could be more you know, faster,
ye could actually be relatively inexpensive. And the beauty about
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it is I only have to design half the car.
I don't have to design but you know, one side,
and then hope to hell I get.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
It right on the other, right right right, you.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Know, I only have to put in CAD, you know,
half the car, and then I just mirror it. So
so that seemed like a huge advantage and that's what
led us down that road to print the first part,
which was the rear bumper.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
So you print this rear bumper, You're amazed because you
put in a little bit of work and before you
know it, in front of your eyes is a rear bumper.
What for Lamborghini? You're like, what?
Speaker 7 (18:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
And that was like a week, right, you know, imagine
how that and and I have a day job, so
you can imagine how the printers are working at night. Well,
I'm sleeping, and then all I have to do is
take him off the printer and assemble them and glue
them all together and boom, You've got a body panel.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
So and what what printer did you use for that?
Because you you had a printer at work, but you
didn't have one at home until you decided to do
this right.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Right, and this was years ago.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Yeah, So I bought a Creality CR ten s, which was,
you know, a large format printer. It printed pla really
really well, so I could print big parts. I mean
it was half a meter cubed area or volume that
you could print into.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
But you say big part, you think for people thinking
big part of the thinking a full on body panel. No, no,
no body pedal being.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Like a quarter panel for a seventy charger.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
You know, Now he's printing pieces that are at most.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
What a foot?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Yeah? Maybe you know, you don't you don't print the
entire volume. So yeah, usually it's around the foot cubed
that you get in volume.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
So a twelve inch you know, by ten inch or
so piece that he's bringing out the printer. And then
you're how are you bonding those together and creating the
panel because you only have small pieces. Imagine like a
jigsaw puzzle, trying to look fluid, trying to look like
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a Lamborghini.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Right, so you know you just basically I found that
joining the parts together and have to have any fancy
features or anything between the parts that would make up
a panel, and so I would just use Sino acylate,
which is super glue to glue the body panels together.
And then eventually I upgraded to an epoxy, which was
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a little bit stronger.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Right, So you start working this process out and then
you start gaining a lot of a lot of eyes
and a lot of ears, and a lot of attention
on this particular three D printing to Lamborghini. You can
see all this stuff at Laser Sterling on his YouTube channel.
But he's going through this, he's gaining knowledge, know how,
he's finding shortcuts, find out what does work, what doesn't work.
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All the time, you know, him and the son are
having this dream of one day being able to drive
this Lamborghini. Well, Lamborghini hears about this project, and like
most car companies hear about a project, you would assume
that they're like, hey, there's some crazy knucklehead. And you know,
Denver Colorado three D printing a Lamborghini on social media.
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He started to get some attention on this thing. Let's
go squash him like a bug against a windshield. Most
car companies will go that route.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Yeah, I think Lamborghini is different, you know, I mean,
if you know the history of lamborghinially done that Ferrari
would have come and sued me back to the stone Age.
That's pretty much a parent.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
But Lamborghini, you know, I hadn't heard that they you know,
they would shut down you know, people who were replicating
their cars and selling them commercially. But they'd never gone
after what I could find anybody who was like building
you know, a diablou or a tuntash or something like
that in their garage.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Right, So does that.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Let me see, president, president, we have here? Oh nobody
has done that before.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
So yeah, yeah, so they they they were they were
totally cool with it. I mean I got the phone
call and that's the first thing that came to my mind.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
I'm getting suit from Lamborghini. You guys over in late Italy,
they're like, oh you know, they're like, uh yeah, we
need to talk to a sterling. Could you tell right
away by the accident?
Speaker 2 (23:06):
You were like, oh, well no, because you know, in
my job, you know, as a physicist, I work pretty
internationally on a lot of things. I have a lot
of collaborators across the planet. So I didn't really think
much of it. I have some friends in Italy. But
when she said that she was the chief marketing officer
for automobile Lamborghini and Sagana Italy.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
I was like, shut your mouth. So that in turn,
that was a big That was a big blessing.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Right, it was a big blessing. They said that they
loved the project. They thought it was great. It was
a father son project. They had to just put out
a new initiative where they were doing Christmas commercials on
their YouTube channel. So go over there and check out
our video.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
That they shot with us.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
They flew twenty five people out from Italy and we
spent a couple of really long days, yeah, shooting that video.
I won't give it away.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
It's awesome though. It's a great video. You really should
go to Laser Sterling on YouTube see the video and
just check out what Lamborghini like. Lamborghini the car company
flew twenty five people. I'm sure they flew economy. I
guarantee they were like no, yeah, they were coaching. I'm
sure they only got a bag of pretzels, so they
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rode all the way over here. They brought him something
as well, which was really cool to help him further
his project. Can you share that story real quick before
we go to breaking and we'll tell everybody what you've
been doing now and your new project that really do
this is gonna be this is another evolution. We'll get
to that in just a minute. But tell us about
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that visit. When they brought, like you said, twenty five
people for for what a week? Two weeks?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
No, it was it was only about three days. So
they had They came the first day and kind of
scouted the place out, and then the second day we
started shooting, and then the third day we finished up
shooting nice And it was funny because of the director
of marketing for the entire planet for Lamborghini was and
he saw that I had an Audi steering wheel in
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my project, and he thought, yeah, that's not gonna work right, even.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Though out the Lamborghini similar, right, there's some right step things. Yeah,
it's a brother relationship there. And then you show him
the OUTI deal. He's like, we're not having that. He
goes back and he ships you a real true Lamborghini
steering wheel.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
No, no, he hand delivered it. He came back over
to the state and delivered it and took us all
out to dinner. Pretty awesome.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Did you know that he was bringing that over?
Speaker 7 (25:58):
It yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
I I kind of knew because you know, he had
to schedule everything because you know, when he's in the States,
he does lots of meetings. So yeah, he said, yeah,
I'm coming over and I'm bringing you something.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
And that's cool.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Was it just carry on?
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Just I'm guessing if.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
I had one, I'd just steer the plane in the seat.
I would just pull it out, like.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Why can I why can I see that? Willie?
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Well, now fast forward. So you have this name beginning done,
draws all kinds of tension, eyes, ears. Everyone seems to
love it. Power Plant is unique because LS one with
some hair drivers on it. Now you know things are
going along well as project seems to be. You know,
in the final stages, as you're getting the body ready
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for paint, you realize something probably could have been done
a little bit differently into or better. So you start
to address that. But then you stumbled upon dreams, hopes,
and aspirations of another insanely crazy cool supercar project. So
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let's take a break. When we come back, he'll tell
you what he's been doing the last several months. You
can probably see it. It's laser sterling on YouTube. But
I'm telling you this is another evolution and it all
started from three D printing. So imagine being able really,
you know, And we'll ask him again when we come
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back from break. It's not that big of a chunk
to chew off. You gotta take it, you know, one
step at a time. But nowadays, with the technology that's
out there, I really feel like, you know, this is
gonna come right now. It seems like, ooh, it's a
little intimidating. Watch what happens the next three to five years.
So don't you feel confident in saying that every person
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will we'll have and be using a three D printer
in the next five to seven years.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
I hope, So, I hope, and I hope the automotive
enthusiast adopts this as soon as possible, because the barrier
to being able to get this uh to work for
your project is so low.
Speaker 6 (28:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Man, we'll talk more about that in just a second.
Quick break. Willyb's Garage nineteen thirty two. Uh Sterling back
is laser Sterling on YouTube, back with him and more.
It's most to have a nine kbpi.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
Willib's garage. You're back in Willybe's garage.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
That's weird. How they say that the program pro cord
what I guess commercials what we didn't do those live exactly?
We're not live right now.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
The tree farm guy, I swear, was right over there.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Right five miles wet tree fark. So you have a
Sterling backs on laser Sterling on YouTube is where you're
find him. He's got tons of videos out there and
really watching a man build in three D print a Lamborghini.
U is something fascinating to be a documentary someday on Netflix. Uh. Now,
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you got this Lamborghini to the point where you noticed
a couple of things that you wanted to redo, and
in that you stumbled upon something else that caught your eye.
Another little mistress in the corner over there, like a
redhead with like you know, green eyes that steal your soul.
You'll never come back from that. Uh So yeah, man,
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what uh what made you?
Speaker 7 (29:44):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (29:46):
What was it you saw in the Lamborghini that you thought, Man,
I should handle this before I you know, I finished
body working it and painted.
Speaker 7 (29:57):
Well.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
I ran into some problems, as you you alluded to
earlier on in the previous segment. I the panels I
printed out of a plastic that did not do very
well in the sun, and even though I covered them
in carbon fiber, they started to crack and peel and bubble,
and so that was a major mistake. And rather than
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covering it up, I decided to reprint the entire.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Body and man, since you found ways to make the
process much more efficient, can you explain that? So he
initially did this bagging process and maybe still does, but
it is, Look, you get these panels, you bond them together.
They have a certain you know, they have a certain
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angle and curvature, and there's a radius to some, you know,
and then some have very hard angles and and you
know these pieces all have to lay in together and
then get vacuum sealed. So can you explain what you
did to make these three D printed pieces one, you know,
one solid piece with some rigidity instructure behind it.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Yeah, I mean the idea was is that, you know,
I don't know what better to use but carbon fiber.
And you know, I don't have these autoclave systems that
you know, the major manufacturers have to make parts really strong.
But frankly, I you know, I just needed body panels.
I didn't need anything that was going to be structurally rigid.
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And so I coated you know, the front in the
back with carbon fiber, put them in a vacuum bag
to use atmospheric pressure to push everything together, and then
you feed epoxy in one side. It saturates the material
and then you let it cure and then you pull
out of the bag and you've got yourself apart.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
How crazy is that? And you body work it and
then paint it. So yeah, through this process of building
this Lamborghini via three D printer, in this bagging process,
you have these panels that are all going to.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Gather cover and everything carbon fiber.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
It all looks good until you guess, you know, Colorado
has this thing. We're a mile hind. So now here's
a little intent. So explain a little bit on what
you saw. You saw that sag, so you said, okay,
let's make this a little bit better. Choose a little
different plastic, but something else cut So your tension in
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your eye?
Speaker 4 (32:27):
What was it about that that.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Made you, you know, attempt another adventure as if you
didn't have enough with the Lamborghini.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Well, I really enjoy on YouTube watching people like Matt Armstrong,
the Inja in California and be Is for builled and
they do a lot of you know kind of buying
wrecked cars and then bringing them back to life. Now,
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for the most part, what they do is buy or
you know big borrow and steal parts to try to
bring the car back to its OEM status or they
you know try to you know, put their own flair
to it like that, right, And so they usually buy
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the parts for that.
Speaker 7 (33:19):
And I just.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Thought that was the coolest thing in the world would
be to have a real car and be able to
bring it back with three D printing. And so that's
when I started my new project, which is a McLaren
six hundred LT.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
So you see this McLaren, Well, share with everybody how
you've you stumbled upon it's not it's not. Let you
go to Facebook, marketplace and somebody else just what I
got chunk of a mclareny might be interested in.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Yeah, so I had to, you know, by watching the
other YouTubers who had done McLaren's I could kind of
see the structure of how the McLaren was but together
has a carbon fiber tub which is the main part
of the chassis, and then it has a front and
rear subframe that are made out of aluminum, and so
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I figured, well, you know, again, I'm cheap. I don't
want to pay tens of thousands of dollars for a
wrecked car. So I went around and I looked for
you know, can I get a tub? Can I at
least start there?
Speaker 1 (34:25):
And the tub? Anybody the note of a clear and
that is the that's the main structure piece, if you will,
for this supercar. You can build everything off of this
this tub and find one because their carbon fiber, to
find one is very difficult, find one in good shape
or good in the shape where you can you know,
start a build. So you were able to locate one.
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Any problemis you concerned with the one you found? Uh?
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Yeah? So what I was looking for to preface it
is is that the main structure of the carbon fibertub
had to be had to be together and couldn't have
any damage because that's a safety issue. So I trolled
around on the breaker's yards on eBay. Who sell these?
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You know they buy these cars and then they strip
them down and sell the parts. Well, there's a place
in Arizona azy cycle parts. They have these kind of
wrecked chassis after they've stripped them all down, and those
are for sale, and so twenty five hundred dollars I
purchased a McClaren.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Damn twenty five hundred bucks.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Yeah, and I got the rear subframe and the carbon
fiber tub and a few of the damaged panels that
went along with it. And it's also it was also
a coop. But I wanted a spider and it has
at the McLaren's have a hard top convertible system them,
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so I wanted that too, and so I had them
throw that in and so I got that for like
a few hundred dollars for the complete system. And so
I got the top off and repaired the a pillar
that was completely destroyed, and my buddy Dario helped me
out because he's a composities expert, so that we could
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repair the tub where it needed and we started from there.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Started now this project. For whatever reason, man motivation came
quick on this one, because dude, this car, when you
see it, if you were to like go to his
house right now, he's got a McLaren parked in the garage.
It's like it's done or it was so close to it. You, Joe,
that's McLaren, but you chose way a vastly different drive train.
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So imagine you know, mclaar and they pack up punch
to begin with. But you decided to go a little
different drive train, a little different direction on yours. So
don't you share with everybody? And again you can follow
along you see this what's this car? You build?
Speaker 4 (37:05):
See the you know, the steps as to what's got
me so far?
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Where he's where he's at anyway and Laser Stirling on YouTube?
But what have you chosen for a drive train in
this one?
Speaker 2 (37:16):
So on this one the McLaren drive trains, the engine
and the transaxle. Even to get a you know, one
that's in relatively good condition is thirty five to forty grand. Yeah,
I did not want to spend that kind of money
on this project.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Why because he's cheap.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Because he's cheap, I keep plus, you know, I just
I just like doing you know something new?
Speaker 7 (37:50):
Right?
Speaker 2 (37:51):
So this this this car has a C eight drive
train in it. So it has an LT two with
a eight speed dual clutch transmission. Got it as a
package friend of mine in Michigan, uh get picked it
up because they dropped the C eight off of the
trailer and broke the frame.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Like unloading the brand new car and they dropped it
off trail.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
New Yeah, the engine has four miles on the clock.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Oh my god. Oh that sucks.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Yeah, sucks for them, good for me?
Speaker 7 (38:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (38:27):
All right, So you get this this new C eight,
you know, is it supercharged? No, it's just a six two.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Yeah, So direct.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
Injection six to two. You're gonna do what put uh
put some sort of boost to it?
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm I'm a big fan of
hair drivers, so I'm gonna put a couple on there.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
All right, So twin turbo six point two. Yeah, that
thing is gonna be You know, what are you trying
to get? Thousand? That's easy. You could put a soft
tun on a thing like a thousand Wars power. Where
are you trying to be on that car?
Speaker 2 (39:03):
I think with the I think, you know, frankly, I
want to stick it down so I'm not going too crazy.
Plus I want to keep the stock internals, so I
think I'm gonna go around six hundred.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
It would be easily achieved with.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Because I want it, I want it reliable to you
almost get that done.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
I mean, you see those new uh Na engines in
the uh in the ZO six corvettes that are oh yeah,
it's just nuts, all right. So you got this McLaren,
what's the next phase on it? Where you at on
this car? Uh? And where does this car need to
be in the months to come?
Speaker 2 (39:42):
So this this was was a great build because I
started with an actual McLaren. So over a few months,
I actually started acquiring parts. You know, I would just
sit there and during my lunch hour, I would cruise
eBay and and see what kind of parts came up.
And so I identified cheap parts and I'd buy them
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for the McLaren. And you can just bolt them on.
Speaker 7 (40:08):
You know.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
Wow, that's a new concept for me.
Speaker 4 (40:11):
Right bolt parts right on, Bolt.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
Parts right on, and they fit and it's just great,
you know. So yes, I've I've had to do some
welding and some cutting and and trying to fix the parts.
Some parts you just can't fix, so you have to
buy ones that are you know, in decent shape. But
I got the entire suspension system, carbon ceramic brakes, the
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great calipers and everything for the McLaren. So it's mostly
a McLaren except for the drive train. Then yeah, and
then I three D printed the missing parts. So the
entire front clip, some parts in the rear, the engine cover,
stuff like that. So all of that is three D printed.
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I had this from a basically a hulk to a
roller in six months with a drive train in it.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
I don't do it for a living.
Speaker 4 (41:13):
Yeah. Man, he's got a regular nine to five, which
is just bananas.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
So I'll tell you how fast that three D printing
can help you along.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
This one is kind of leaning back on when you
think about three D printing in the automotive industry and
car shops and people, you know, we can warriors DIY guys,
you know in shops like mine or places like mine,
how much can that three D printer? How much can
you lean on that for big time help throughout different
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aspects of your build.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
I lean on it very heavily. And the beauty is
is that I want a three D printed car. So
I'm keeping the three D prints as a core, and
currently I'm using fiberglass instead of carbon fiber to add
strength to the print. I've changed the material to ASA,
which has a higher glass temperature, so it's twice that
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of PLA, So I go from fifty centigrade up to
one hundred and five centigrade right handle the Colorado sun
and just encapsulate the parts in fiberglass, which is making
them very strong and they're not bubbling under the intense
heat and cold of Colorado.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
So is it you're just.
Speaker 4 (42:30):
Hand laying that up when you do the fiberglass.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
Yes, so I'm hand laying it up now and it's
working out great.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
I mean, so you bomb these panels together than hand
lay fiberglass over top of it. Like for those that
don't know, it's like if you've ever seen body filler,
you know, when they're done well in a place to
do will smooth it over with the little body filler. Basically,
imagine fiberglass a little thicker, a little harder to work with,
much stronger in that regarding the adhesion factors. So you
just you hand shape everything basically with fiberglass on the
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inside and out on both sides of the body panel.
Speaker 7 (43:08):
That's correct.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
We're using the three D print as a core, and
the biggest challenge there was as I wanted to avoid
the bubbling between the three D print and the fiberglass. Yeah,
and it turned out when I started, I did some
test pieces where I put fiberglass on the part and
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then I try to pull it off, and every time
it just ripped right off, and I was like, oh no,
that's not going to work. But that also means that,
you know, if if you're if you have a mind,
you can actually make molds out of these right.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
Yeah. It seems like if you if you get the
layup processed down, all of a sudden, broken parts of
pieces you can repair, and all of a sudden you
got you got.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
Some to work with there, exactly. But again, I wanted
a three D printed car. So what I finally figured
out is is that I take the first layer of
fiberglass and I actually set it into the print with acetone.
So acetone melts the plastic nicely, and so if you
just kind of dab acetone around, it actually will push
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the fiberglass matt into the three D print and bond
it in there. And then you can put another layer
of fiberglass over the top of that to actually have
everything bonded together with no bubbles.
Speaker 1 (44:33):
Wow, and there you have it. The process that he's
sort of kind of massed at this point, he's become
really efficient at So you got this car when you're
what do you expect to.
Speaker 4 (44:47):
Show it off.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
Was it going to be at a you know, at
an event where people can see it outside of you know,
your your video channel, laser staring on YouTube. I'm sure
there's a lot of people interested to see this car,
especially when you get this thing done, pack it up,
punch of you know, the little Corvette uh boost set up.
Speaker 4 (45:04):
In there as your drive train.
Speaker 1 (45:06):
That's that's gonna be a blasphemy for a lot of
You can pull up to McLaren Club and they gonna
be pissed at you.
Speaker 3 (45:12):
Man.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
Yeah, they'll probably, they'll they'll they'll probably try to shoot me. Yeah. Well,
that's the whole thing is is that we're not going
to try to push it off as a real McLaren,
you know, even though basically it is. It's just you know,
it's got a LT swap, right. Yeah. So the idea
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is just to be able to really show kids who
are coming up through middle school and high school, you
know that you can use trades, you can use schooling,
you can use technology, and if you're passionate about cars,
this can really be a bridge for you to you know,
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explore your design capability or you know, to try new things.
And and isn't that what a car guys like to do. Yeah,
absolute things we like to put on fender flares, We
like to you know, kind of stand out between other
car enthusiasts when.
Speaker 1 (46:16):
You're looking at setup like this. Yeah, when you're looking
at setup like this, and you know, I think over
time it becomes really really affordable. How much does it
cost to get into it where people can start three
D printing some parts and pieces and using little you know,
you said it's really easy, But I think a lot
of people don't quite understand all the supporting casts out
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there that aide you in getting parts and pieces, you know,
from a something in your mind or something you see
at a you know, a website you can go and download,
or whatever it's actually printing on your printer. A lot
of people, I think are hesitant to think that that's
an easy process. But there's a lot of things out
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there to help that process become easy, right.
Speaker 2 (47:06):
Yeah, it's an entire community. I mean, there's a community
of people who do three D printing who probably knows
this very well. There's also a community of people building
cars on YouTube as well. And now we're seeing the
fusion of those two communities come together, and I think
it's just absolutely fantastic, and everybody has been very much
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into working together, into helping each other out, into you know,
kind of showing hey, I had this idea and boy
did that not go well? Or I have this great
idea and it worked, you know, so other people can
now adopt that. So it's just been fantastic to see
this working guy with guys like Nick Theinja in California,
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also watching Matt Armstrong and some of the other YouTubers.
It's been fantastic and I've learned a lot.
Speaker 1 (47:57):
Yeah, man, and a lot of people are I don't
know where. There's websites you can go to and just
you know, scoop does it. You'll find something likes in
a website. You can just take that and print it.
You can change it up, make it yours, but you're
allowed to go there and just print up, you know,
things that you see or like.
Speaker 5 (48:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (48:14):
Yeah, people share their models all the time, and so
people can actually just download those and get started. I
mean the the SBJ Lamborghini. I actually bought the model
for a very reasonable price online. Somebody spent a lot
of time on getting this thing, this body almost perfect,
and when I three D printed it out and put
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it on my car and everything fit together perfectly. I
was just like, wow, this is powerful.
Speaker 1 (48:42):
Right, Like, man, you can actually do stuff that never before.
You can make imagine trimming panels. I talked to a
guy at SIMA last year and here's a guy that
ran an interior shot, one of the big, huge name
interior shots. He does, you know, interiors on all the
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big guy's car, the Ring Brothers, the you know, the
Chip Fooses. Those those guys are his clientele. When it
comes to tears. He had people booked and waiting for
you know, a year. For eighteen months he was booked out,
and he went to a bunch of three D printed
materials and printers in a shop and he said, he
goes now to their shop. He'll scan everything about the
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interior of their car. Versus where he used to bring
the car in. Now he'll pre manufacture the pieces so
that when the car arrives, instead of having the car
for a month and a half, two months, three months
to get an interior done, it's done in a week
or a weekend because he's already printed all the pieces,
has him covered and they just go in there and
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just snap, snap, you know, and everything fits, I mean
to a thousands of an inch. The tngs is so tight.
Everything just snapped together.
Speaker 2 (49:59):
Yeah, reduces his cost, which also reduces the cost to
the consumer.
Speaker 1 (50:03):
Oh one hundred. It was wild because he said, I
got cars in there. You know. Now they're in there
for a matter of a few days or a week,
where they used to be in there for a month.
And he's turning cars like left and the right stead
now instead of waiting you know, a year and a half,
two years, he's got people that are waiting a month
to get into a shop, Like all right, I'll schedule
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you in three weeks and they'll go in and boom,
just knock the whole interior out. It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (50:29):
Yeah, it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (50:31):
Yeah, it's nuts. Like people really need to I think,
probably get a little help or a way to sort
of initially get over that first hump or printing something
or the intimidation of it. Next thing, you know, man,
they'll be ripping through interior pieces. Or there's there's some
plastics you could use that really can withstand some heat.
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So you know, obviously different plastics, different materials are coming
and evolving every day. Like you said, now there's plastics
that really can take some heat, some UV and so forth,
and they're making more as you know, as every day,
and we sort of shows up.
Speaker 2 (51:10):
Yeah yeah. And sometimes you can get those those materials
and they'll have carbon fiber in them too. That gives
them even more strength. And so there's the potential for
not even having to you know, potentially put on a
layer of carbon fiber or fiber glass, just basically three
D printing a part and putting it right on the car.
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I mean that's coming, yeah, man, it is.
Speaker 1 (51:36):
And the quicker us in the automotive side, you know,
extend some open arms and welcome it. I think the more,
the more you'll see people with great results and people
doing things like you are, or at least the aid
of three D printers in that as far as building
brackets or pieces or components they need both on the
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interior and throughout the car. Uh tell light lenses things
that will you know, uh, just be cool to see
via via three D printer. Over you know, trying to
figure out how to do it with metal or how
to do it you know, just done their own. Where
am I gonna go to junk yard and find this piece?
Now just three D printed, super cool man.
Speaker 2 (52:18):
Yeah, And and the really cool part about it is
the fact that you can iterate.
Speaker 7 (52:22):
So you three D.
Speaker 2 (52:23):
Print something, you put it on the car, You're like,
and no, that looks stupid. You can just you know,
redesign it, have another part, you know, and in the
day and and try it again, right, So you can
really go through multiple iterations without having to spend months
and months on you know, fabbing up apart and then
trying it out.
Speaker 1 (52:43):
Sweet.
Speaker 4 (52:44):
Well, there you have it, man.
Speaker 1 (52:45):
Laser Sterling is where you get his info, you find
some of these cool videos he's doing, and a little
shout out. Man. He's got a whole network of people
that really is just you know, tip the spirit when
it comes to three pretious technology, you bring it to
the forefront. So Weekend Warriors and other shops out there,
can you know, learn from them. There's a handful of
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man he can plug in that network, help you long.
Dario's another one. He's great at what he does. Jel composits.
So between these guys, man here locally you got some
major talent doing really cool things. Laser Sterling on YouTube
is where you find his channel, follow it, subscribe, to
it helps.
Speaker 4 (53:22):
Them out in the interim.
Speaker 2 (53:24):
Yeah, it's it's a great community and I really appreciate
you guys having me on and being able to get
the word out that this is not super science. This
is something that everybody can do.
Speaker 1 (53:37):
Way cool man.
Speaker 3 (53:38):
And do you have some sponsors for your projects that
you need to get some plugs out for?
Speaker 2 (53:42):
Yeah, I mean Creality they produce three D printer scanners,
resin printers, things of that nature. They sponsor my channel.
They actually helped me get the McLaren project going. So
shout out to them. Go to their YouTube chat and
I'll go to their website and check them out.
Speaker 1 (54:03):
To Bennie just texted me and said, I sterling if
he ever planned on doing a muscle car baby, that
would be a three D printed muscle car.
Speaker 2 (54:19):
Well, parts are getting rare on those right.
Speaker 1 (54:22):
Well, some of them. Yeah, there's definitely some things that
people don't make interesting. That's the different concept too. I
don't know, man, you show up the plastic plastic muscle car,
people gonna get pissed. Yeah, I know, I know, no doubt.
Well right out and he was up to date with
all of it, excited that uh, you know that you
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got these projects going, people learning from it, the community
has grown. That's just big time help assistance. We we
all get acclimated to what's you know, what's new in technology,
what's gonna help us? And uh Man, you're surely leading
that charge. Sterling, Thank you so much for your time.
Take so much for your knowledge and sharing a little
bit of it with us. Man.
Speaker 2 (55:04):
Always an honor, guys, and I appreciate you having us
on and getting the word out. Keep doing what you're
doing with the community and also your cars for Christmas.
Speaker 7 (55:15):
Big shout out for that.
Speaker 2 (55:17):
Thank you again.
Speaker 4 (55:18):
All right, brother, talk to you soon.
Speaker 1 (55:20):
Man, Willibe's the rides take a break back afterwards.
Speaker 4 (55:22):
Just want to say be on KVP.
Speaker 6 (55:24):
I Willibe's garage. Jamie, you're back in Williebe's garage.
Speaker 1 (55:35):
What do you guys? Welcome to Willebe's garage, Man oh Man,
Welcome to a sweet Saturday, good day to get the
hot rods out. We'll be working at cars to Christmas.
We'll shout to the guys cars to Christmas. Man, we're
kicking butt on that.
Speaker 4 (55:46):
Shout out to the.
Speaker 1 (55:46):
LA dealers who help us get some cars. Hoping to
get some cars from those guys this week we're picking
some up too. I think about a Ford pickup chuck.
I think it's a pick up chuck. Maybe one of
those Explore man, they did explore or pick up truck
for a minute, like a little Ford Explorer. It's like
it's got four doors but a little bed too. I
forgot what they were called. I think we may have
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one of those to go pick up, paying five hundred
bucks for that. So it's coming around, man, Carson Christmas,
God love it, dude. I had a weird phone call
the other day. Oh yeah, you guys know I do
a TV show, Two Guys Garage to the Boston Two
Guys Garage. We had this one client on two Guys
Garage and it's actually pretty decent little thing. It's it's
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a mouse blocker, but this guy loves because we sold
a bunch of them, I guess. But it comes in
pretty handy if you have, like you know where I'm at.
I've got a you know, I got a big shop
out in the middle of a field. So when against
code this time, those little critters start to come in
and they don't like being outside the code. So they're
gonna find some heat and warmth, so they try to
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come in to my shop or whatever. This thing kind
of so this mouse plocking thing puts out a frequency
that disrupts it. It's weird too, because some some times
you can't hear the highest frequency, but on the TV
shoot on the set, when they turn it on, you'll
hear in the other room. The sound guys, the sound engineers,
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they're like and they're just screaming a bark, like, hey,
you shut it down. What are you doing? You know,
some frequency is like pegging the vu meters on the
inside of the sound.
Speaker 3 (57:21):
Like somebody blowing a dog whistle.
Speaker 1 (57:23):
And we can't, you know, We're like, what we kind
of hear a faint, little high pitch. But they're and
there just freaking out.
Speaker 8 (57:32):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (57:32):
That's kind of what it does to, you know, to
the mice. It just erupts, and they don't like it.
It has a strobe that makes the thing people are
moving and anyway, it scares them for a minute. Now,
not saying after a while they don't get used to it.
I don't know, but it does. It definitely makes them
scatter for a little while. Anyway, he was interested in
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doing something with cars of Christmas. Oh, I thought that
was kind of interesting cause a guy he's on the
TV show knowing I, you know, they know I do
cars be and the guys you know do cars to Christmas,
so they're they're featuring. They actually let me do a
thing about it. This year. We had a car come
in and they're like, is this the kind of car
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you take it for Cars to Christmas? And I was like, yeah, absolutely,
So they allowed me to talk about it and promote
the website and foundation, and that show was actually getting
ready to air. They're even going to put a couple
of videos and pictures of the cars that given away
in the past out there. So that was actually really cool,
you know. And look, it's just it's not like this
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is a big thing. Carson Christmas is me and like
five or six of my friends. You know, it's not
like it's a big group of us. It's just you know,
guys really willing to go above and beyond. So, you know,
shout out to Tristan up a truck lab. They took
a car in a oschooled truck to get finished up
for us. I wish I had more shops. Maybe I'd
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go knock on the David outover who was who does
pro autle Care. Who's our boy from pro autle Care?
Speaker 3 (59:03):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (59:03):
Al, Yeah, I'd hit up al and see if the
guys that pro autle Care would take a car too.
If I got a couple of shops and just the
even shops you know up north. If I had a
couple of shops to take one or two cars, like
you know, early now would be a great time. They
have plenty of time to get it done before the giveaways.
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Oh cars for Christmas, man, that would be that would
be huge. So Leonard, my boy and Elizabeth he normally
he normally takes a car too and gets gets it done.
He's another one that does just great resource. But yeah, man,
Me and you know a few friends really dive in
and take uh you know, take weekends off and you
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know a lot of times week days and just go
to work on these. So shout out to Robert and
Scott and you know all the guy Tommy and Danny
been helpful this year. Just uh, you know, guys, they're
just spending another free time. We're rentally working on cars.
Mike's been there to help and again it's it's a blast,
it's it's fun, but it's a lot of work, man,
(01:00:10):
But when you're you know, when you're gifting thirty five
to forty cars, it's damn cool to watch the reaction
to watch people.
Speaker 4 (01:00:17):
You know, freak out when they get a car and
they do.
Speaker 1 (01:00:21):
Man, it's wild. But if I can get you know,
if I get one or two sponsors like that, God,
it helps us. What's crazy, bros? To see the jumping parts? Hey, everybody,
if you're fixing your car. Oooh man. The parts increase
over the last two years has been man overwhelming. Like
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normal parts you would pay fifty to one hundred dollars
for are now one hundred and fifty to two fifty.
So even at our discount, we're paying you know, every
time we leave now. But it's second when you know
how all of a sudden, we just got up day
and we couldn't leave a Walmart or a grocery store
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under two hundred dollars. You know, it just happened. Right,
one day, we were paying one hundred, one hundred and thirty,
next day we're paying three hundred. Like what what happened? Well,
same way, same thing goes for you know, auto parts.
All of a sudden, you know, and you imagine cars
that we get. They all need you know, they all
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need tires, they all need brakes, they all need batteries,
they all need windsheel wipers, they all need hood hinges,
you know.
Speaker 4 (01:01:31):
Things like that.
Speaker 1 (01:01:32):
So just normal parts that we go and get, let alone,
gaskets and starters and alternators and you know, oil paying
gaskets and water pumps and you know, all these items.
All of this just all of a sudden double tripled
in price. So every time we go to NAPA and
we're like, all right, we got parts for a Ford expedition.
Speaker 4 (01:01:52):
It's four or five hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (01:01:54):
Here, four or five hundred bucks there. So you'll drop
a lot of money in parts really quick on these cars.
Cars man, So we're fortunate. Our buddy Nick is coming
out tomorrow. He helps in different way. He's Nick owns
Douglas County Pressure Washing. He's been a big help. He's
coming out and smoke some I think it's a pork
or something for tomorrow and we have a little barbecue
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as we get done rinted on cars. So we've had
a couple of different helpers come out this year. But yeah,
we could definitely use you know, use the shop or
something like that. If you got one that wouldn't mind
taking a car, wouldn't mind you know what we need
and look, I will pay you. If you're transmission shop,
I could bring you four to five cars we need
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transmissions on. So if your transmission shop you want to make,
you know you need some some income. You don't have
anything on the table this year. This week, dude, let
me bring you four or five cars, cause I got
four or five of them that can use transmissions. Those
are the things that none of us touch. But man,
it's hard to find a transmission shop, you know, or
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at least a good one.
Speaker 4 (01:03:00):
Yeah, that's kind of where I'm at.
Speaker 1 (01:03:00):
Cars at Christmas style, but always taking donations in the
form of cars things like that. You find out more
Willebefoundation dot org. But man, these giveaways, it's gonna be
a matter of a couple of weeks we started taking nominations.
It's crazy. It's that far down the line. Yep, jeez.
But has the good ones give away?
Speaker 3 (01:03:19):
I think I saw that we're like three or four
paychecks away from Christmas.
Speaker 1 (01:03:23):
Damn. Don't talk like that too soon. Man, it's too soon,
way too soon, all right? Also, want to talk about.
I reached out to Jason up a Tricity cycle, reached
out to Mark Kite, who runs Souny Enterprises. There's something
that I don't know, man. Have you guys seen the
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electric dirt bikes? I don't know, but all of a sudden,
there's a lot of videos about these electric dirt bikes
just tearing the booty out of some of these traditional
dirt bikes. Now, obviously that can only be for you know,
for a couple laps, right Like these electric bikes, I
don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:04:04):
They can't be. They can't be doing full motos.
Speaker 1 (01:04:07):
And being competitive or can they Have you seen electric
bike do a gate drop yet? I mean, some of
these things are fast, man. But I wanted to see
where the future of those electric bikes are coming in at.
And I don't know, talk to a couple of guys
in the industry to see if there's a big push
to go electric for for like motorcross riding, Like there's
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not gonna be a thing, is it? I'm afraid it is. Though.
Speaker 3 (01:04:37):
I feel like you have a lot more control as
far as how you race.
Speaker 7 (01:04:42):
Do.
Speaker 3 (01:04:42):
You expend a lot of juice at the very beginning,
so you can get the whole shot and then you
don't have as much juice for the rest of the race.
Or well first, like when you're in a gas bike,
everybody's kind of on the same Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:04:57):
Well, I was there when we went from two stroke
to four stroke, so I used to race two stroke
bikes and they were badass, had a big ripping power band,
and you know, that was just the way to ride.
You go in the corner really hot, you would use
some of that, you know, it's it's wild because you'd
want a little wheel chatter when you come in on
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a two stroke or four stroke wheel chatter, meaning you
go into a turn and get way up on the bike,
elbows are high, you're grabbing the front brake, but you're
letting the bike as you you know, as you downshits
a couple times, you're letting that back wheel and the
bike's gearing do some of the stopping for you, and
it crushes the suspension of the bike and you get
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on the gas stick that front leg out up by
the you know, front brake right, lean that bike over,
grab a handful of throttle and it pulls you out
of that that turn. That's how most motor crossers erasers
handle a nasty turn getting in and out of it,
and there was a different style in how you attack
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that with a two stroke and how you attacked it
with a four stroke. With a two stroke, you would
go in there, just let that wheelchatter happen. You grab
a handful of clutch man and a handful of throttle
and then let that whip. Let that whip sort of thing.
A two stroke did. Let it happen, just wet what
you know. We caught the rock like that out of
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a turn, and that's how you got power. With a
four stroke, you just down shift and going to it
more mid throttle and just ease into that throttle, lean
into it as you're coming out. It would be like
ro and pull you out. But with an electric bike
it's a little bit different because they have instant torque.
They come out of the whole little faster. It seems
(01:06:44):
like in some videos I've seen of them racing lately,
there's some new adaptations of an electric bike that's out
there motocrossing out there at tracks.
Speaker 3 (01:06:55):
I would think that you could, you know, since you've
got the instant torque, you can control how much of
it you actually have how much do you actually need
because you want to be spending too much battery on
just spinning wheels.
Speaker 1 (01:07:07):
I don't know. I don't know how they're I don't
know how they're gonna make it last an entire mode.
Speaker 4 (01:07:12):
Now, it's one thing if.
Speaker 1 (01:07:13):
You're just going out riding at Rampark or something like
that with the boys and you need a couple hours,
they can't compete, not unless you've got, you know, batteries
you can change out or some way to fast charge them.
That would just suck. Hey, you I'm gonna ride for
forty minutes and then not be able to go anywhere else.
You know that that would, But for actually just racing,
you know where people are doing thirty minutes. Most motos
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are thirty minutes plus a lap, you know, right, so,
or thirty five minutes plus two laps, so you know
you're talking thirty to a forty minute window, maybe forty
five on some of the pro outings. But is there
an electric setup that they can run that hard. I've
seen guys riding around town on electric bike, so you
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know they have some sort of I don't know, decent range.
But on a moto, you're you're way up in power.
You're way up.
Speaker 4 (01:08:05):
You're asking a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:08:05):
You're racing, so as are you you're Are you capable
of keeping up with a gas bike for thirty minutes
on full throttle? I don't think so, But man, I
see a lot of things. I follow a lot of
motocross stuff on social media.
Speaker 3 (01:08:22):
I think full throttle is where you're whe're that's a
thing that's not going to exist a lot of It's
just gonna come down to power management. Do you have
enough juice to get you through the whole race? Can't
use too much torque coming out of the gate.
Speaker 1 (01:08:37):
Yeah, it's funny. Man, Oh look at this Mark kite
is called that just came to the highline number. He is, Ah,
they just bought Performance Cycle to believe? Is I believe
it's battery powered stuff?
Speaker 3 (01:08:54):
Hmm?
Speaker 1 (01:08:55):
Maybe another Performance Cycle branch. But he's gonna call in
here in just the sad I can't. We'll talk to
him about where that future is gonna be. It's gonna
be interesting to see the you know, battery powered stuff.
We've seen it now in cars, a lot of toys,
tons of tools, all tools are battery operate now. But
is it really going to cross over. It be something
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that's a contender on something like a motocross track.
Speaker 4 (01:09:20):
That's a different environment.
Speaker 1 (01:09:21):
You're asking for something different because the reason electric cars
haven't succeeded in NASCAR, Formula one racing, all that stuff
is you just can't get the life out of them. Now,
doesn't mean they're not faster a lap or two, because
we've seen with the lower CG and you know, things
you can do with with batteries and how you can
place them. There is there's something there as far as
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making them handle, making a car like that that can handle,
But it's the longevity that's the killer, that's the Achilles heel.
But on a motocross track where we only need it
for thirty minutes, is that something forty minutes? Is that
something where you can, you know, be a severe competition
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like competitor on a battery format that would I don't know,
maybe out perform a four stroke or you know, what
we know is a modern dirt bike. I've seen some
crazy social media stuff about it that man, they're quick,
they're fast, they're dragging all these four strokes. But we'll
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talk about it with market in just a second, right,
quick break Willy's Garages one of seven nine kvp I.
Speaker 6 (01:10:34):
Willy Bee's garage. You back in Willybe's garage.
Speaker 1 (01:10:40):
To seven nine KVPI WILLI be his garage? What up,
you knuckleheads? How are things?
Speaker 7 (01:10:45):
So?
Speaker 1 (01:10:45):
I wanted to bring on a buddy, Mark Kite, he
runs the Sun Enterprises, and man, when it comes to
electric bikes, electric dirt bikes, there are some there are
some things that are absolutely changing. We're just talking about
this a minute ago as no motocrosser, as a guy
who you know, started racing on a two stroke two
fifty he went to the you know, I think it
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was a four hundred at first, in the four to fifty, uh,
and just absolutely love the four show the power that
you know, just riding in general. I love little throttle therapy,
as do so many people that listen. And you know,
after that, we just had a caller a minute goes like,
oh man, I'm stoked about this topic electric bikes. I mean,
you're anxious to hear what you know, what they say,
and that's why I reached out to Mark, and Mark,
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you know more than most about this trend and what's
happening in the world of dirt bikes right now. Everybody's
seen it in you know, tools, they've seen it in toys,
They've seen it in you know, in some form in
fashion a car, but really electric scooter's been around for
a minute. But electric dirt bikes, man, that really started
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to get a handle on these things. Started to see
some big, huge power out of these things. What's happening
in the world of dirt bikes and electric bikes?
Speaker 7 (01:11:57):
Yeah, you know, I mean it definitely is progressive, pretty crazy.
You know. You look at like the Stark varg and
some of those bikes and the different modes, and I
think that's one of the cool things about the electric stuff,
will is that you know, you can change it up, brother,
from the beginner all the way to pro level type stuff.
You know, the Stark bar I think, you know, on
the highest level setting, brothers pumping out what you know,
eighty horsepower, which I mean that that's more than a
factory fourth fifty is putting out.
Speaker 1 (01:12:18):
All right, So hold on, there's a what eighty horse power?
There's there's a setting on these electric bikes that will
give you eighty real horse power.
Speaker 7 (01:12:29):
Yes, yeah, yeah, that dark barg is the cream of
the crop on that bike. But you know on the
electric bike side too, you know, we're dabbling in that
here at the dealership as well, you know, with with
bikes like sirt On and Talaria. I'm sure everybody's seen
the video out there with the Olta Sigma, which is
a Soronster posted that on on YouTube. You got to
check that video out. A Lambo, yeah, bro Lambo just
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super cool stuff. So lots of cool things coming out,
you know, and uh, you know, I mean I'll tell
you what. The kids are buying them left and right
them and they just love them. And you know the
other thing from from our day, will you know, they're
not getting the grief from from the people in the neighborhood,
you know. I mean we used to ride dirt bikes
and pit bikes around the neighborhood. You know, there was
always somebody calling the police. And you know, these things
are quiet, they don't make any noise, which is nice.
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So yeah, they're cool.
Speaker 1 (01:13:14):
Do you see do you see in the future, you know,
where electric bikes are gonna take over things like motocross
and supercross.
Speaker 7 (01:13:25):
I don't know, man, it's so hard to say, you know, truthfully,
I mean, for sure.
Speaker 1 (01:13:30):
Is it gonna be a class at least.
Speaker 7 (01:13:32):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, for sure, I would say that.
I mean, the Oe's are definitely pushing electric, right, I mean,
we're getting more and more and more influx in the
power sports business. Electric Canam just launched a full line
of on road street you know, electric bikes. Kawasaki's got
some great bikes out, So yeah, I mean it definitely,
you know that there is that influx for sure.
Speaker 4 (01:13:53):
Wow, it's just life.
Speaker 1 (01:13:54):
You know. You think a moto thirty minutes plus lap
thirty five minutes plus two. However, you you know, you
have set up and and and that's that's asking a
lot for electric bike to be full bore hanging out
for thirty thirty five minutes and more. That's probably the
only achilles heel that is hold him back right now
from you know, pushing that even harder. I you know,
I see a future where these electric dirt bikes debitly
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are out there. Definitely gonna be a you know, scene
on the on the trails. Have you got a chance
to see anybody ride these things, because I've seen videos
and man, that torch, that instant power, Holy moly, does
it go a long way to put them out in
first and on a track like they are quick on
a track man, Yeah.
Speaker 7 (01:14:35):
There's no doubt. But I mean, you know the Surons
that we carry here at the dealership. I've got the
Suron line here. But and you know what's crazy, the
technology has gotten so advanced. You know, it used to
be you know that range was a real issue, right,
you couldn't get any range out of them. I mean
some of the suron bikes we have Now, I've got
a couple at the house and it's crazy. But you know,
I've rode the thing the other night for thirty miles.
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Thirty miles will I use ten percent of the battery life?
So just just you know, the technology piece all that stuff.
But you're absolutely right, electric is a different breed when
it comes to power. It's instantaneous, and yeah, it's pretty
crazy stuff. They're a lot of funder ride.
Speaker 1 (01:15:10):
It's wild too when you hear them because they'll come
you know, track riding. When I've seen him and watch
these videos, they'll come through this turn and it'd be like,
you know, and you're like, whoa, that's so different than
the bar. You know that we're that we're used to it.
Accustomed to. But man, they they are fast, so fast
that instant torque is is so useful on a track
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where you have a lot of ruts and dirt and
you know, you know things where you get that tire
biting and chewing up, you know, chewing up the old dirt,
that that torque comes in so handy. It's the fun
factor on these things and why they can you know,
they weigh a lot.
Speaker 4 (01:15:46):
Of people think the batteries.
Speaker 1 (01:15:47):
Yeah, they weigh a lot, but the overall weight of
the bike is significantly lighter too, right.
Speaker 7 (01:15:53):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, you know, I mean they just you know,
as time goes on, the advancements is just it's just insane, bud.
But yeah, we're gonna carry a full line. You know,
we've got all the shirt on bikes now, but we're
bringing into Lario. We've got some other stuff in the
works right now.
Speaker 1 (01:16:06):
How many you have?
Speaker 4 (01:16:07):
How many lines?
Speaker 1 (01:16:08):
How many lines of electric bikes are you guys gonna
carry up there?
Speaker 7 (01:16:12):
So we're gonna have three full lines and we're looking
at a fourth, but we will absolutely have three full
lines of electric here at the dealership and at our
sister store too. We're working on some things there as well.
Speaker 1 (01:16:24):
Dure Man, Well, keep in touch with us, let us
know when they're gonna be out there, because you guys,
you know, y'all do so much, man. You do big
street parties and black parties and you always you know,
kicking out supercross fun stuff, and you know, over the years, man,
it's been great to see this new technology. I mean,
y'all were in the first ones that start checking out
crazy side by side and doing cool things like that.
(01:16:45):
This technology and how it's changing. You know, the toys
and how we ride them, how we use them, how
we get out and play with him. You guys are
always out there issuing, offering the best, keeping up with technology,
giving people a chance to explore it without writing huge checks.
You got anything like that going on, you let us
know about it. What are people looking at for fall deals?
You know a lot of people don't realize, but this
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is some of the best opportunities to get your hands
on a bike too, or you know, a street bike
or a dirt bike and all that stuff there.
Speaker 4 (01:17:15):
These are good times to go get one.
Speaker 7 (01:17:17):
Yeah, absolutely well, I mean right now is a great
time for all that stuff. And I don't definitely just
love catching up with my buddy. But but you know,
I don't want to make this an infomercial, but you
know absolutely, brother, there you know right now, factory authorized clearance,
all that stuff's going on the biggest freebates of the year.
You know, you get model year change, so they're clearing
out the old stuff making room for the new. So yeah, great,
great time to pick yourself up something cool, all right, man.
Speaker 1 (01:17:39):
Well, Mark's awesome catching up, bro, Thanks so much. And hey,
when you have one of those little ride events or
electric bike I want to go watch and try to
ride one too. I can't wait to throw my leg
over one.
Speaker 3 (01:17:50):
Man.
Speaker 4 (01:17:51):
I'm excited to see what that brings in next year.
Speaker 1 (01:17:53):
Two.
Speaker 7 (01:17:54):
The next time I do a demo, brother, you will,
you will be on the invite list. You got to
come ride some of them. They're just so much fun.
Speaker 4 (01:17:59):
All right, we'll do man, much love.
Speaker 1 (01:18:01):
Sun Enterprises. Tell everybody where you guys are located.
Speaker 7 (01:18:05):
Yeah for sure, man, So we're located at eighty ninth
in Washington and Thornton or You can always visit us
online at www dot Sunpowersports dot com.
Speaker 1 (01:18:14):
Right on, brother, always good catching up, Mark, much love,
Stay in touch and appreciate you as always.
Speaker 7 (01:18:20):
Man, Thanks brother, have a great day.
Speaker 1 (01:18:23):
Hi buddy. See man, well I didn't know there was
so dude, I didn't know there was eighty rear wheel horsepower.
That is man, that is crazy.
Speaker 3 (01:18:32):
What would a standard bike hap like that?
Speaker 1 (01:18:36):
So the four strokes run in the you know, the
mid forties to fifty range. Oh okay, you know, if
you get a bike just angry and pissed off, and
I mean you can have some of the badass, like
really nasty ones, maybe kiss us the high fifty of sixty.
Speaker 3 (01:18:54):
You know, so you're getting another thirty bonus out of that.
Speaker 1 (01:18:58):
I mean, goog I maybe off of numbers Google with
a new you know, why is he f four fifty?
We can call it, you know, I think Mark store here.
Let mean, let me get I reached out to Jason
two up at tri City because they have different different brands,
so maybe he'll call it in. I just hit him
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up too. But dude, you're talking these electric bikes. That
is a massive amount of power on a on a
bike that weighs quite a bit less than what a
you know what a four to fifty would weigh?
Speaker 3 (01:19:31):
So quick Google new, why is he f four fifty?
Hp comes in at fifty eight point ninety five horse
power for forward drive.
Speaker 1 (01:19:38):
Okay, so not see that was that far off.
Speaker 3 (01:19:41):
Yeah, well, if you're getting eighty out of a lighter
bike even, dude.
Speaker 1 (01:19:47):
That is whoa, that is significant. That's I mean, that's
a big drive. You see. So the videos that I've watched,
you know, you'll see him like gate drop. That's one
of the most critical parts of a motocross race is
how you get out of the gate. And these electric
bikes are turned the other direction, right, and there'll be
five or six dudes on the four to fifty and
(01:20:08):
you know, a freaking an electric bike turned backwards, and
he'll he'll drag their ass by the time because the
top of the hill, I'm like, oh, hey, Jason, what's happening, man?
What's up? Blood Jason? Tri City Cycle of North out
of Love and there at twenty five crossroads, Hey man,
we're talking about So we're talking about electric dirt bikes
(01:20:30):
as well as crazy. Seen some videos lately, these things
just blasting away at some you know, some of the
old four to fifties that were so accustomed to nowadays
just you know, and I want to talk to you know,
you guys got ey cool falls, you know, kind of
things rowing out. But as far as dirt bikes and
battery operated stuff, what are you seeing on your end?
Speaker 5 (01:20:52):
Well, played with a couple of them. Yamaha does not
make one yet or not production one in the US yet,
uh huh, but it looks like they're pretty cool. I
mean you can get tons of power out of them.
I haven't been around like the battery life and stuff
like that. That would be my question about it.
Speaker 1 (01:21:09):
Yeah, that's what I was.
Speaker 5 (01:21:10):
Wondering too, technology.
Speaker 1 (01:21:11):
But yeah, where that Like, it's one thing to have
an electric bike. You tuol around town for a little while,
you don't use much battery, but you're not on a
motocross race. You're on the gas full like full board,
run it through the gears NonStop. It's a dogfight for
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thirty thirty plus minutes, so right, I imagine that would
chew that battery up exponentially.
Speaker 5 (01:21:39):
Well, And that's why I gather they're not racing them yet.
Is that that battery life hasn't gotten there where they
can make it through a whole moto without losing power.
Otherwise I can't see why they wouldn't be out there right,
you guys like Josh Hill ripping them everywhere. I know
videos and that Stark is pretty impressive. It's a really
cool bike. But I just don't know that it has
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the longevity yet as far as battery time. You put
that much horsepower through something that much torque, it's gonna
run through quick the way those guys ride.
Speaker 1 (01:22:08):
Yeah, yeah, and that's the there's the thing and another
thing that sort of the achilles heel about them. Nobody
wants to take their bike to rampart, go ride, you
know an hour or two and then now of juice
had a power it takes a couple of hours to
charge up.
Speaker 5 (01:22:20):
So yeah, I feel like you've had a couple of
people taking generators to the track to charge their batteries.
I've heard of that. Like you know, you ride for
a while, then you charge the thing for an hour
and a half. Kind of kills your day. So I
don't think the technology is quite there yet. It's very cool.
Look forward to seeing it on the horizon. I think
that's the way, you know, you see the mountain bikes
(01:22:41):
and stuff like that, and how those have taken off. Right,
Clearly there's a market for it, Clearly there's the desire
to demand for it.
Speaker 4 (01:22:49):
Hey, hey, I'm down for electric the mountain bike.
Speaker 1 (01:22:51):
That is no joke, you know what, because you know
what it takes all that exercise part of the mountain biking,
well at exercise.
Speaker 5 (01:22:59):
We just started carrying the e bikes we've sold. We
started carrying them like a month ago. We sold like
forty five of them already.
Speaker 1 (01:23:05):
And they're super cool.
Speaker 5 (01:23:06):
But blew me away, couldn't believe we got thirty two
of them in yesterday. All of them are sold. Trying
to get them built and get them out of here.
But yeah, yeah, Yamaha is running the deal right now.
They're sixty five hundred dollars mountain bikes and they're on
sale for twenty five hundred bucks plushing it an extra
battery and a five year warranty with them.
Speaker 4 (01:23:24):
Whoa, how fast all these things go?
Speaker 1 (01:23:27):
I think they're.
Speaker 5 (01:23:28):
Limited to like twenty eight or twenty nine miles per hour.
That's like the deal with the e bikes, with this
certain category of e bike.
Speaker 1 (01:23:36):
So these are the ones I'm seeing everybody using around
the city and stuff too, right, you can.
Speaker 5 (01:23:41):
I mean, these are full on dull suspension mountain bikes.
They're made for for trail riding. They make a full
line of them, Like there's there's all kinds of different models.
If you go on Yamaha e Bikes website, the one
we've been selling most of is the nice mountain bike
with the nice components. But they make like a like
a cross by bike, like a downboar bike. They make
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like a towny bike. So there's all kinds of options.
So some for around town, some for off road, some
for kind of combination of trail and off road. They
call them gravel bikes, but they're pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (01:24:13):
What a cool mountain bike off road set up that
you still rip? Still's got a little bit of throttle
throttle assist? Can you still? I don't? Can you do?
Is this something you do?
Speaker 4 (01:24:25):
Pedal at some point too?
Speaker 1 (01:24:26):
Can you? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:24:27):
They're pedal atsists there, They're not a throttle. You have
to be pedaling to get the power out of them. So,
like I've seen a lot of professional athletes train on
them because you can keep your heart rate consistent, where
like the traditional bike, you're either skyrocketing heart rate or declining. Yeah,
e bikes you can adjust the power assist so you
keep your heart rate the same.
Speaker 1 (01:24:47):
So you pedal the same, but the bike is still
going the same mount hour over whatever, but it still
allows you with the electric syst to keep that same
speed or momentum.
Speaker 4 (01:24:55):
That's pretty clever.
Speaker 1 (01:24:56):
Yeah, wow, that's intuitive.
Speaker 5 (01:24:58):
Yeah. Took a couple of them MP and for my
sons a couple of weeks ago, and they were climbing
stuff like easily. You wouldn't believe it any other benefit
of it. I mean people who are looking to get
in shape or get back into riding that maybe don't
have the the engine that.
Speaker 7 (01:25:12):
They used to or want to.
Speaker 5 (01:25:14):
It's a great opportunity to get people out and doing
things that.
Speaker 1 (01:25:20):
Right. It will help. Yeah, man that otherwise, you know,
you can't keep it with you know, the younger crowd
and rowing, you know, the grand kids. Yeah. Yeah, but
just allow you to do that. Yeah, absolutely, that's a
great idea for that. Oh man.
Speaker 5 (01:25:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:25:37):
Do they have upgrade kits yet where you can switch
your traditional pedal bike over to an electric bike?
Speaker 5 (01:25:43):
I you know, I don't know the whole e bike thing.
You know, I grew up racing DMX road mountain bikes.
The whole e byke thing's pretty new to me, and
that we're new to it as a dealer, so I'm
still learning stuff. I would I would not be surprised
if there's something out there. I mean, you see those
conversions to make pedal bikes gas powered, so I don't
see why there isn't something that converts to electric because
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I have.
Speaker 3 (01:26:04):
An old Shwin that. It's fun to ride around because
it looks really cool, but it's kind of a pain
in the ass because it's only one gear it right,
Oh yeah, up and down hills?
Speaker 1 (01:26:16):
Is it like my biggest stretch bike a little bit? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:26:19):
Yeah, Internet provides scoop just fine.
Speaker 7 (01:26:21):
Just google it.
Speaker 5 (01:26:22):
I'm sure it's out there.
Speaker 4 (01:26:23):
Yeah, send it to your boy Cody. I've electrified no time.
Speaker 3 (01:26:26):
A bad idea, so right on, man.
Speaker 1 (01:26:30):
People can find out more if you're reinterested. And how
long does that deal go? Just out of curiosity? If
people get in a sixty five twenty five hundred bucks,
you can have a lot of people jumping on that
for a while.
Speaker 5 (01:26:41):
Yeah, it's been wild. I can't believe how many of
these sold. They have not put an end date to
the deal yet, but it says on the website while
supplies last, and if we're yeah, a new dealer selling
forty fifties these in the month we've we've done it.
I can't imagine that it's gonna last too long.
Speaker 1 (01:26:57):
But I don't know what a cool bike we're here
for you.
Speaker 3 (01:27:00):
Will you do a weight list?
Speaker 5 (01:27:01):
Whenever someone's ready, Will.
Speaker 3 (01:27:03):
You do a weight list? Do you do a weight
list so the next time you get a shipment you
can get on that.
Speaker 2 (01:27:08):
We're ordering them. We're ordering them as people put in orders. Okay,
we're trying to order some extras for.
Speaker 5 (01:27:14):
Stocks so we have inventory when people come in. But
even trying to keep up with just building them the
orders we already have.
Speaker 1 (01:27:20):
As a challenge, is that on your website it is.
Speaker 5 (01:27:23):
Yeah, if you go to our website, it's in our
bike inventory handling all yep, there are super knowledgeable on it.
But we have free demos. If you're interested, come up
and check one out. Just come up and ride it
the round to see what you're getting. But it's pretty impressive.
Speaker 7 (01:27:40):
All right.
Speaker 4 (01:27:41):
I'm trying to look right now, what's it under.
Speaker 5 (01:27:44):
It's under motors. It's in the motorcycles. But if you
if you search I think if you search e bike
or if you search search tomorrow in the new inventory.
Speaker 7 (01:27:53):
M O R O.
Speaker 1 (01:27:57):
Way Coolmorrow. Oh okay, e bite Morrow. Lets see.
Speaker 7 (01:28:06):
There it is.
Speaker 3 (01:28:08):
That's pretty amazing. A fifty eight hundred dollars bike for
twenty three dollars.
Speaker 5 (01:28:13):
That's the lesser expensive one. The new one is tomorrow
seven and it's got all top almost top the line
components on it, good shocks, good fork. And that one
is typically sixty five just under sixty five hundred retail,
and those ones are going for twenty five hundred.
Speaker 4 (01:28:32):
Crazy, And what's the range?
Speaker 3 (01:28:35):
What's the range on those?
Speaker 5 (01:28:38):
From what I've been hearing, if you're if you're riding hard,
you'll get about two two and a half hours out
of battery.
Speaker 3 (01:28:45):
Okay, So.
Speaker 4 (01:28:48):
Otherwise otherwise not.
Speaker 5 (01:28:49):
Riding super progressive, probably longer than that.
Speaker 1 (01:28:51):
Yeah, probably otherwise three three plus.
Speaker 5 (01:28:54):
Yeah, that's that's my guess. I don't want to leave
anybody strandle on a trail, so I'm gonna guess. Yeah,
you can't pedal out. I mean, there's still geared mountain bikes. Yeah,
if you run out of battery, you just gotta work
for it. Hopefully you're on the downhill part of the
ride by.
Speaker 1 (01:29:10):
That right, right, I'm gonna using that to get to
the top the rest graut. He's gonna do his thing.
Way cool man, way cool.
Speaker 2 (01:29:18):
All right.
Speaker 1 (01:29:18):
Hey always as as always, man, we love catching up
with you, catching up with us. New tri CityCycle dot
com where you guys find them. Check out that inventory
all things Try City. They got cars, they do trucks,
they do all kinds of cool auto stuff. It's like
a fun factory up there just off of you know.
Exit was the crossroads exit.
Speaker 4 (01:29:38):
One f Yep, that's exactly what I was not saying
two to fifty nine. But it is a crossroads exit.
You can't miss him.
Speaker 1 (01:29:47):
It's just a big happy going on right now.
Speaker 5 (01:29:49):
Man, come see us.
Speaker 1 (01:29:50):
Amen to that, Jason, thanks so much for the time
catching up and queue us up on some of these bikes.
Speaker 5 (01:29:56):
Have a great weekend, guys, take it easy, all right.
Speaker 1 (01:29:58):
See buddy, that's a crazy good deal. That's a crazy
cool bike. Man. It's a full bore like everything you
could ever imagine out of a mountain bike, all the
suspension stuff. You look at it, and it does twenty
eight miles an hour. That's pretty impressive. I think it's cool.
Speaker 3 (01:30:15):
Yeah, it is. I mean, you're gonna pay that for
a decent mountain bike anyway anyway. Yeah, so you might
as well get the and how much electric assist?
Speaker 1 (01:30:22):
How much was that thing before?
Speaker 3 (01:30:24):
Before these they retail price for five thousand, eight hundred
seven ninety nine. But yeah, they're on sale for two thousand,
three hundred and twenty bucks.
Speaker 1 (01:30:36):
Wow, that's impressive.
Speaker 3 (01:30:38):
All right, there you go. Man's going parents are looking
for some for their kids for Christmas. Might be a
little little price, but if you're bawling, right.
Speaker 4 (01:30:50):
Hey, there you go, twenty twenty eight hundred, No, twenty five.
Speaker 1 (01:30:55):
What was the nice one?
Speaker 3 (01:30:56):
Twenty I think he said it was twenty five hundred.
Speaker 1 (01:30:58):
Twenty five up on here. Yeah, man, although you know what,
you're right, you're gonna pay that for a decent mountain
bike bike anyway nowadays?
Speaker 4 (01:31:06):
I mean you really are, So why not get one
that helps you out a little bit?
Speaker 2 (01:31:11):
All right?
Speaker 1 (01:31:11):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (01:31:12):
The thing it is with mountain biking, You ride up
until it's out of juice. If it runs out of juice,
you got gravity for the rest of way. You just
make it to the top.
Speaker 1 (01:31:19):
And they, I believe you mentioned there's an extra battery
goes with it. Oh, so you could clicking hypothetically.
Speaker 7 (01:31:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:31:27):
God, we're spoiled that kids.
Speaker 1 (01:31:29):
Nowadays, y'all spoiled. Oh I'm gonna head home and spoil
my kids, all right. You guys, have an awesome weekend,
thanks so much for your time. Back at it Monday.
Do we know what we're giving away on Monday?
Speaker 3 (01:31:41):
Oh no, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:31:42):
You don't giving away good times, that's right, And seriously,
I'll bring you in some custoard or something on.
Speaker 3 (01:31:48):
We'll bring you a.
Speaker 1 (01:31:49):
Cupe on Until then, have an awesome weekend. We'll see
you on Monday.
Speaker 4 (01:31:52):
So I want to step a nine kpp I.
Speaker 6 (01:31:55):
Willie Mee's garage is now closed until next Saturday morning.
Email your questions for next week QUILLIEB at KBPI dot
com one O seven nine kbp I
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