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R2RO = Right To Remain Offended
High Voltage Hobbies, Silent Speedsters, and Nostalgic Nautical Narratives
Ever had a piece of the past roar back into your life, hungry for a modern makeover? That's the story with a 450 motorcycle that's wheeled its way back into my shop – and into our latest chat. We're exchanging tales of profit-driven buying and selling antics, like the time I slapped a sky-high price tag on my beloved Jeep to ward off buyers, and my buddy’s hilarious house listing strategy. The plot thickens when the bike, stripped of its engine and electrics for a shifter cart, sparks a current idea: Why not turn this gas-guzzler into an electric powerhouse? Cue a half-serious, half-joking shout-out to our tech-genius friend Ben, whose mechanical mastery could very well be the key to an electrified future for this two-wheeled enigma.
Strap in as we shift gears into the electrifying world of performance vehicles, where electric motor conversions promise wheelies without the oil spills. We’ll share the buzz around retrofitting off-road beasts like jeeps with cutting-edge electric crate engines and the companies powering this revolution. Then, we ride the waves of memory with jet ski escapades, comparing the thunderous might of gas engines with the silent surge of electric ambition. Through stories of building engines and the wild freedom of navigating treacherous waters, we'll tackle the technical twists of swapping jet propulsion for electrons. Get ready for a ride through personal anecdotes and a relentless passion for machines that pack a powerful punch, electric or otherwise.
I'm about to have a project land back in my shop.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:The 450 left. How'd it get back? It's coming back.
Speaker 2:I love how you sort of motorcycle that is immediately for sale again, isn't it?
Speaker 1:amazing.
Speaker 2:That is great.
Speaker 1:One of two things happened Either the kids trying to flip and make him a buck, which ain't good on him. Dude, I got my money.
Speaker 3:We've all done it.
Speaker 1:Or I watched him leave when he wrote it. He didn't look too solid on it.
Speaker 3:Nah, this is too much.
Speaker 1:Maybe he scared the shit out of himself and was like nope, Gotta go. I didn't know if it was that, or how old was he? Oh this kid. There's no way this kid was 20.
Speaker 2:OK, I know if he got home and the wife was like, oh no, it might have been more like mom. You're going to fucking sell that right now.
Speaker 3:I don't know where you thought you was doing with that, but you're getting rid of it right fucking now. You're still on my health insurance Shit.
Speaker 2:Because I don't know if that price he put was stuck as they put it. It kept telling me with my Jeep, right, oh, that's the hey. My wife may be listed. I have a friend that did that with their house one time. She even felt like moving. Her husband wanted to move. She's like cool, this is the price.
Speaker 4:It's the women that same house.
Speaker 2:This is the price for me to move.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but now that he sold the motor out of it motor electrics, everything guy wanted it for a shifter cart motor. Oh, so I'm getting a rolling chassis back. Oh, that you built, I didn't build the chassis.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, you put it together.
Speaker 1:Oh no that 450 came whenever we traded out the old dirt bike. Anyway, now I just got to figure out what we're going to put in it Corvette engine.
Speaker 2:I would, I would Put an electric motor, I would offer a thousand CC Polaris engine. It don't.
Speaker 3:Put an electric motor.
Speaker 1:It's crossed my mind, make it an electric forfeit. But a CR Fucking, do it, it'll be cool I might do it, but I'm also thinking about putting a CR 500 motor, so I know a guy.
Speaker 2:You know him too, but there's a guy that takes those little razor, four wheelers, yeah and soups them up as you put it. So he understands the geometry of it at least.
Speaker 1:Oh no, I have a bin in my pocket Dude.
Speaker 3:put an electric motor in it, please.
Speaker 1:Well, it's also Ben's bike, so convince Ben and do it Ben. We're putting a fucking electric motor in it, he actually listens to every show, well there you go, Ben.
Speaker 3:We're putting an electric motor in it. You know who can work with wood?
Speaker 2:Ben you know work with metal Ben Ben, you know who can help us put an electric motor in a 450?.
Speaker 1:Ben and Matt. Yeah, you got to convince Ben. Ben really likes gas. Ok, a lot. There's no motor in this thing, yeah, so let's put an electric one.
Speaker 3:That's what I'm saying. We'll go buy one with a gas motor in it.
Speaker 2:You think you could do wheelies and a gas.
Speaker 1:Dude that's fucking.
Speaker 2:Oh my.
Speaker 3:God an electric motor.
Speaker 1:You want to make a wheelie. It would be stupid, yeah, but.
Speaker 4:I have to put a wheelie bar on it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, fucking A lot A part about doing a wheelie is being able to let off and have it just kind of stay there. Electric motor is just going to go. What?
Speaker 3:No, no, no, you could. You could throttle it. Yeah, you can throttle it.
Speaker 2:That's even in the golf cart. It's actually a potential meter.
Speaker 1:As you drag it across.
Speaker 2:it tells it how much to push.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, well put an electric motor, just do it.
Speaker 1:I'm going to let Ben try to do that one first. I still want to see our 500 motor. I want to see our 500.
Speaker 2:I miss Bob Quadsilla. You know when they announced, because they just start talking about their building them now, the cyber trucks.
Speaker 1:Yeah, when they announced it.
Speaker 2:They actually announced they had a four wheeler.
Speaker 3:That went with it. Oh nice, that's on the back burner. Yeah, I know that. Did you see the clip?
Speaker 1:today no they got got off road in where was he?
Speaker 2:I've watched the rally guys or the trophy truck guys. That was only when I watched today, because that's where I was thinking about me and you having something with that much horsepower and which one's going to be the one saying where to turn and which one's going to be the one, because one guy was just like you're in it, keep going.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the other guy was just now. This dude went off road with it. He was trying to pick up a Christmas tree and oh, I saw that he was he was spinning his wheel. Yeah, he just couldn't, and I mean it didn't look like a whole lot.
Speaker 2:Well, but there was no snow. There was no other vehicle there either, like who else wasn't going to peel out in the snow?
Speaker 3:Right yeah.
Speaker 2:Because I've driven in some snow and I've ran off the road more than once. Yeah, put an electric motor in it.
Speaker 1:I don't know how much electric motor. I don't give a shit.
Speaker 3:No, I'm not, I'm asking I was like.
Speaker 1:I've never even looked at him.
Speaker 2:It can't be that bad, because the harder parts can be figured out how to transfer that power to the, to the wheels, yeah yeah, what size battery would you need?
Speaker 3:Well, that four wheels were on a chain. Yeah, yeah. So just fucking put a sprocket on an electric motor. Right Go, he's got a point yeah.
Speaker 1:Dude, I'm telling you, you're fucking fun.
Speaker 2:You can look underneath my golf cart and see real quick how they got the power to go to that axle.
Speaker 4:Yeah, if not.
Speaker 2:if not, you ain't that axle out Ben it's up to you, buddy.
Speaker 1:I thought you want to put it Pretty pretty several concepts of wiring and everything like crazy easy.
Speaker 3:You just put it to the battery and you put a fucking thromb.
Speaker 2:I'm just saying man, we figured this out. I'm going to start finding some rolling chassis.
Speaker 3:It'll be fine, do it. Yeah, but dude it'll be fine, it's a.
Speaker 1:CR 500. It's a two stroke 500. So 500 cc.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, no, no, no, no it's not, but it's the one with nothing, with the no motor. Oh wait, what are you talking?
Speaker 3:about? I'm talking about the 450. Yeah, me too, with no motor. I don't know what he's talking about.
Speaker 1:I want to put a CR 500 motor in it.
Speaker 4:But it's not. It's not, it's an electric, isn't it?
Speaker 1:I don't have an electric motor either.
Speaker 2:Oh true that we can find one. No, you want a motor and get your motor.
Speaker 1:Actually, I found a CR 250 in Arnavill today for $400.
Speaker 2:I'll get your motor on Walmartcom right now.
Speaker 3:With a super charger? Did they have an?
Speaker 4:electric? Did they have a super charge electric?
Speaker 1:Super charge electric.
Speaker 3:They're close to Maximal Air in that shit they do.
Speaker 2:They're the company that makes electric crate engines. Uh boom put in like for full size vehicles, like they'll send you all the stuff to basically convert one over but battery because I looked into it because somebody does them for jeeps. Yep oh dope yeah, pretty neat.
Speaker 3:So then you could drive around like a little CJ and not make any noise which would be perfect, because those are also vehicles.
Speaker 2:You're not going to drive very far, yeah Dang dang.
Speaker 4:So we're doing an electric Jeep and an electric.
Speaker 3:Full and electric.
Speaker 1:Look, there's a couple. There's a couple of jeeps out there right now. They're like two and three thousand dollars I can put my hands on.
Speaker 3:Put them making electric Look. The reality of it is is that I talk about buying EVs with people and they all think that I'm like this tree hoover and I want to save the world. No, no, that shit performs, bro. It fucking performs, and I like performance vehicles.
Speaker 2:I like that Badass, I like that. And.
Speaker 3:I like the Prius, prius sucks All the other ones Fucking cool.
Speaker 2:Well, you see that I have, like all the other things I have are electric because, as Matt probably knows, I'm not very good at maintenance.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so you don't have to maintain it.
Speaker 2:No, they always work until the battery. Until the battery dies you change it out, fuck it. Yeah, I mean that's a big part of it. For me is it's both sides of it.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:They some of them perform better, but some of them don't perform better than their gas counterpart, or two stroke in some cases.
Speaker 3:Well, let's do this.
Speaker 2:We'll find another 450 chassis and when I say that electric and we'll put the other one in the middle of fucking race. I know, I think I get what you're saying. I'm just like sometimes it's the sound, oh yeah, it's the whole experience.
Speaker 1:It's the until you've really been out there. And bad, bad, bad, bad and it's too strong. It makes you dick hard. It's so great. Nothing smells like it either.
Speaker 3:Nothing yeah.
Speaker 1:And I mean, yeah, you OK, yard tools, whatnot? No, some good plots to cycle.
Speaker 2:It smells like bad decisions Just.
Speaker 4:I just Just a real motor kind of smell.
Speaker 1:No, no, I'm talking about like a nicely tuned lean CR 250. You smell that oil too. Bang yeah, just got it. Just got a hint of blue to the smoke, yeah.
Speaker 2:It just smells. Oh yeah, when you could see it come out of the exhaust.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Smells like.
Speaker 1:America, america, america. Too lovely, too smoky man, did you ever?
Speaker 2:eat two stroke. Personal watercraft, jet ski I had several of them. I had standouts.
Speaker 1:They're great man, because the one that got and I'm trying to remember who I bought it from and I can't for the life of me, and I had no idea what I was buying I was jet ski. Stupid as all could be, it was a full PGS motor pre performer jet ski. It was some company that was in the early 90s that just made ridiculous performance parts.
Speaker 2:I was so obsessed with jet skis in the early 90s Like I remember. I used to watch on the weekends, and at night you could watch monster truck shows right. And they would have a lot of these jet ski competitions both the freestyle and the racing.
Speaker 1:Larry Rippenkroger.
Speaker 2:Yes, yep.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 3:Yep.
Speaker 1:Yes, you did that one I bought literally. I was on it like cool, hit the gas, it took off, let me, let's go. It's like, well, I wasn't prepared for that. All right, I had a wave blaster. I bought a wave blaster from a guy in Atlanta. They delivered it to me Christmas Eve on Cleveland Street and I rode it in the river Christmas afternoon. Oh, I had a new toy.
Speaker 3:I never been on one.
Speaker 1:I had to ride it. Yeah, that's the motor. That's the first motor I ever built and I built it in the kitchen. In Cleveland Street Should put an electric motor in one.
Speaker 3:It was that.
Speaker 1:Sounds like a fucking terrible idea. Yeah, let me take this lithium battery and smudge it.
Speaker 3:It would perform well fast.
Speaker 1:Well, here's the thing More horsepower in jet motors is not always the answer.
Speaker 3:Discavitation yes.
Speaker 1:You have to have it. You have to build a pump so ridiculous that you end up making that. You have to make the vehicle bigger. Yeah, there was a guy that put I forget what motor in this big long, I think it was an Kawasaki STX 15, big, big, big ski, and I forget what he put in it but he could never get it to hook up.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You know, if he would, if he would just kind of you, just kind of baby it, then it would be what you want to, got it up to like 80 or something like that which don't even wrong.
Speaker 2:That's fucking a hole in that. So I would. Yeah, I was obsessed with all those things but my parents weren't going to buy me anything that I could kill myself with. But my parents friends would let me ride their stuff and we were down in the swamps of Henderson, of a chaff live basin, so the people I don't know. I mean there's like cypress, there's trees everywhere.
Speaker 2:There's these cypress the cypress trees even have these stumps, these little knees they're part of their root system that sometimes aren't even sticking up out of the water Right below. Oh, dude, and they will. And I'm sitting there on a houseboat for 4th of July I don't know everybody's drinking. I'm like 15 years old. I'm hanging on this house, I'm not drinking, but I'm hanging on my dad and all of a sudden his buddy pulls up on a Kawasaki 1100.
Speaker 2:Four stroke but this was the biggest engine they had ever put in jet ski. Yeah, up to that point. And I looked at everything. I was like how fast does that thing go? And he goes, I don't know.
Speaker 1:And he threw me the keys and I just got it on the left.
Speaker 2:It went 72 miles an hour, oh, without goggles or any kind of preparation or worrying about what was around the corner.
Speaker 1:Yeah, probably not a life jacket either, and probably not, no, no I couldn't see dude.
Speaker 2:I was like yes, how fast are you going? I said I know I did 72, because I saw that at one point.
Speaker 1:But there was so much water.
Speaker 2:And I was just squinting and going as fast as possible.
Speaker 1:I've only been in the base of one time on a jet ski. I was out there with a guy that I'm going to call Shitbag and we were in between the bridges and he got an alert on his I think it was low oil or something like that and freaked out, turn off his ski. He's like boo boo, boo, boo, boo. It was a way of ways. I was like well, go around the way we came and possibly blow up your motor, like or or I'm about to have a bad idea and you just follow.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, we're going to shortcut, right and we went straight through the stones Bang, bang, bang and dude.
Speaker 1:I just I don't know if I like you were like you were bumper ball. No, I was on my way.
Speaker 2:Black like a pinball machine, I was on my yeah, you had to, I never crossed my mind, hey I don't think people see what I'm seeing is you hitting one every once? Well, I know like you were, like I bought one. You were probably coming down like those guys on the black diamond mogul.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I did bump one, but it never crossed my mind. Hey, you could go slow through this.
Speaker 2:No, no, because that wouldn't the engine would have. Probably his engine would have been going slower.
Speaker 1:So fast, probably. Looking back, I wish it would have exploded. Oh, 100 percent. Oh, such a turd.
Speaker 2:But they're never really explode, they just make a really bad.
Speaker 1:No, I didn't say one, the other day.
Speaker 2:I'm just saying from personal experience.
Speaker 1:No, it is here's a video I saw the other day and I think there was something happened when they were putting fuel in this jet ski.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:And the chick is sitting on it and it explodes. Oh, this chick goes flying the seat off. The jet ski comes up and tosses that chick. Oh, wow.
Speaker 2:I would tell you about the time we put too much gas in the jet ski. Yeah, when down the Zimmer point we were riding around for a good while in the morning and then somebody gets on the jet ski and we're on the little beach there about the state park.
Speaker 1:You told me.
Speaker 2:It's riding low. At this point, look at me. I'm like dude, this thing isn't riding right. I think it's got too much gas, because when I rock it it's like and I'm like you need to come back now they never put the plug in the jet.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, too much gas, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Dude, the whole compartment was full of water, full of water.
Speaker 1:Don't watch that YouTube channel. That's on that bay. Oh, it's all over inlet, yes One of the most amazing things to watch.
Speaker 2:They have this she is this inlet going out into?
Speaker 1:I'm guessing it's either the golf version yes, in Miami, the golf in Mexico. No, I think it's in Pensacola or Panama, something like that.
Speaker 2:But it's got it's family bad waves in this part of the inlet Because it's a car and the top of the bay and going to Panama City has dolphins there too, so you can go ride jet skis through there.
Speaker 4:I've actually ridden jet skis in that area.
Speaker 1:And we would go, you go.
Speaker 4:you can buy food in the bay and then you go out and you can If it's the one I'm thinking of, you can go jump.
Speaker 1:It's pretty big waves I mean, this was ridiculous in a big boat. Yeah, it's like, yeah, yeah, like, there's this chick.
Speaker 4:We were doing jet skis there and we went feet off.
Speaker 3:If you don't know what you're doing, you're hurting some of it.
Speaker 1:There's this chick called the Blue Tar.
Speaker 4:Abandoned. I didn't really care back then.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she's really good she is. She's in like this 18, 19 foot Boston whaler with a blue tar like Abeminate Top, and this chick is just what I think, like a 50 or a 60 on it, and she's just mashing it, and it's always her in another chick and you always think they're going to die and somehow they do not understand it, it goes from Biscayne Bay to Lanark Ocean in Miami, in Miami.
Speaker 3:But there's something to do with the current and the waves and how fast the current pulls in versus oh, they're just but right there and it's not very wide in there.
Speaker 2:You're smashing, the waves are smashing each other, and then there's some people you can tell under. I love it because there's a people that coming in and you can watch them like they're almost surfing it.
Speaker 1:Like they ride the wave in and then they get on the crest of the next one and they ride it and you got the next dude.
Speaker 2:that just Brash, is it? And then they got the dumb people in the front. You have watched the videos and go oh, that's that looks like fun.
Speaker 3:Let me ride the front.
Speaker 2:No, dude, they throw people out the boat.
Speaker 3:I know I've seen it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and those are the. That's the better ones to me. You can break everything's hilarious when the ones when it slams and I see the person fly like 15 feet in there and then the boat comes up to meet it. Yeah, they don't even fall down, it meets them.
Speaker 1:Whenever you fall down and both ankles smashed together like that?
Speaker 2:No, but somebody else on top of you. Yeah, yeah, phone fly.
Speaker 1:Oh, dude, it's, it's it's always some dumb shit over there. Oh, every once in a while I just put it on YouTube, throw it up on a screen and just just mute out entertainment. Oh yeah, just giggle.
Speaker 4:It's wonderful, we're just gonna sit over there one day and just go watch from the bay.
Speaker 2:Oh, dude, that would be done. Oh man, That'd be dope. Oh, I'd rather go watch Rockets Take a look, we could do both. We could do that too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but Rockets only happen once a day, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:That's what I'm saying we can go more than one in a day from the Cape.
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I didn't know. One going off made everybody else have to like no.
Speaker 3:Sunday the heavy and they were supposed to launch one at 39 a, which was the heavy, and one at forty four hours.
Speaker 2:I guess I would assume that one launch from one launch pad a day.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't know that they figured out how to turn it around in less than 24 hours, but they can turn around pretty quick.
Speaker 1:What's the latest rumor on Starship number two?
Speaker 3:Last song, social media was possibly before the end of the year, I'd saw that, but I don't know if that's really gonna happen. Yeah, I mean nobody from I don't have a lot of contacts that know that A lot of my contacts on a Falcon side of stuff.
Speaker 1:I'm sure they kind of keep that just a smidge on us.
Speaker 3:No, I mean, elon's pretty vocal about it. Whenever he's like, he'll just put on Twitter. He's like up FAA approved, we're launching tomorrow, go boys.
Speaker 2:Press go. Now he does in the announce things and what they're going to do, long before they're Sometimes he says they doing it before he has fucking approval.
Speaker 1:That's what I'm saying. When he typed that out, how did he spell? That's how he does it.
Speaker 3:Oh, okay.
Speaker 1:Okay, I just didn't know how he typed that out.
Speaker 2:I don't know. No, I need to know how to spell it. I don't know.
Speaker 4:Peace.
Speaker 1:Fucking. Mike Tyson has entered the chat, oh shit.
Speaker 3:Oh, my boys.
Speaker 2:That yeah, we'll see you all next time.
Speaker 1:Fuck y'all later.