I like how Jamie completely burried the gold painting episode in his mind to hopefully never remember it xD And then Adam reminds him and he's like "damn..."
Selah Colossians 1:28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:/Inspiration+ Devotees of Christ, Paul urges us to teach all men about the life of Christ. Too many of us are selfish, willing to quietly believe and not get our hands dirty in attempts to make others believe. Paul got his hands dirty and ended up paying with his life. Do you think he regrets any of it now that he is sitting in heaven with God?/Prayer+ Lord in heaven, I must honor Your commandments and join You in the afterlife. I have been silent too often, Abba Father, unwilling to discuss my faith with You for fear of alienating others or for sounding arrogant. Why would I not share the most precious loving relationship that I have ever known? I am certainly a fool, forgive me. Today, with this prayer, I ask myself and You, powerful God, to aid me in my journey, and I hope that I can aid others in theirs, on our quest for everlasting life.
I learned how to drive in a 1987 Citroën 2cv6 club, one the last production series citroën has made. (Production ran until 1990) I loved it right away and never stopped loving it. Still got it in the back of the garage.
For all their differences and how they "won't ever work together ever again". Here it shows how much they can be on the same page sometimes. Great working duo even if they aren't personal friends.
Even though Jaimie and Adam "busted" the Citroyen motorcycle story, the fact remains that neither of them are engineers, and they didn't spend 12 days working on the project as Emile Leray did.They simply didn't have the time or the expertise to pull this off. And if you look at Leray's motorcycle, there are vast differences.
The main difference is there is proof of Jaimie and Adams bike driving. Besides that he reattached the license plate and made a stand for the bike. Funny stuff to do when you are stranded in the desert.
Desert can do funny things to your mind, such as inspire you to make a stand and retain the license plate and have you seen how Emile Leray was dressed? If his mind hadn't snapped . . . it was creaking very loudly. The myth wasn't if Leray kept his sanity.
Ah, there's the obligatory, "they did it wrong!" comment. It didn't take long to find this one, but it was certainly lower than most of the ones I've found.
@@Chuxgold at the Ford dealership if your stupid enough to pay that kind of money. Situation withstanding because there are some things they can do...?
Hard to fix but break down less. Parts last longer without maintenance. Grease fittings are no more, transmission fluid is lifetime, brakes that last 100k. It's pretty much oil, brakes tires. Go to the dealership in the rare event you need something else replaced.
I think a big part of it's appeal is also it's appearance. Modern cars are very aggressive and almost antagonistic in appearance with sharp corners and straight lines. The 2CV by contrast is made of almost entirely rounded shapes with curved headlights, a curved hood and the cabin almost forms a circle if you look at it from the side. I think that is a big part why people feel so nostalgic towards it. It feels like a vehicle of a better time. A time where people could trust each other and where people supported each other via things like church, labor unions and other such things.
My girlfriend is French and her family is obsessed with 2CVs (they have seven or eight of them scattered throughout the extended family, and when she was growing up they used to go to these meetups at Le Mans and such) and they are amazing little cars. The story I've heard is that they were designed to be able to carry a basket of eggs over a plowed field without breaking them, so all of that jiggling and such at high speed on nice, flat highways is really because it's made to deal with a low-impact kind of off-road terrain. Amazingly simple design, I can confirm that she only needs a wrench and maybe a Phillips-head screwdriver to work on it. Also, the one with the truck back that Adam mentioned is actually called an Acadiane, and those are their own separate thing. They are a very cool too, they kind of remind me of a Volkswagen 181.
In Europe they are known as Ducks. The reason is because they have very soft suspension with a large amount of travel which made them sway back and forth kind of like how a duck walks. They actually have excellent off-road capabilities because of that, way better than the oversized SUV's of today. When on poor roads you want you car to be as light as possible and the 2CV is very light and it's soft suspension further reduces the strain put on the components. It was actually quite advanced though because it used disk brakes which before were mainly used on sport's cars. It also uses torsion bar suspension which is still rather unique. It's excellent for going over rough terrain though because it has a very good resistance curve. Torsion bars is also what tanks use.
I think also they look really cute. They are some of the most rounded cars and in the rest of Europe they became known as 'ducks' for their soft and long suspension which made them sway back and forth.
The 2CV was made for 2 purposes in mind: Getting produce to the market while driving across a field without it being damaged and being able to get a family to church. I'm not joking, those were the design criterea that Citroën aimed for. The test that proved the most difficult was the first one as they wanted it to be able to transport eggs over a plowed field without them breaking. They actually came up with a clever solution of an independent but connected suspension system. Where if one spring is compressed the other will extend to help keep the car level. This ingenious system combined with it's light weight allows the 2cv to keep up with modern SUV's despite not having 4 wheel drive. They also aimed to keep it as simple as possible. They kept taps on the number of parts and every component needed to be justified. This was both to keep it simple to repair and also to keep it cheap enough that an average rural family in France could afford one.
To increase speed, they could have removed the diff (which sits inside the gearbox - comes apart from the engine with just 4 bolts) and put it back upside down. That would have given them 4 gears forward, instead of just one as that reverses the direction the gears turn in side the gearbox.
I had a job in a 2CV workshop, and we had a routine show at carshows. We would rebuild a complete 2cv (with complete engine) in 1 minute with 6 people. And its really that simple XD it was fun XD
The reason that car into a bike didn't work very well is because they didn't actually rig the front wheel as a caster. If you look at motorcycles and bicycles, the forks are always attached to the wheel and triple tree (the part of the bike that connects the forks to the steering column) it's always at an angle with the front wheel pushed out in front of the bike's frame. This creates a caster effect that that causes the bike to auto-correct its balance by turning into the direction it's falling in. Short version is this... Bikes are stabilized by the caster effect of the front wheel, not by a centrifugal effect... I wish they'd addressed the centrifugal bike stabilization myth on the show.
***** No, they're not. It's actually a caster effect. The wheel turns to the vector of motion. It sounds like you're probably trying to reconcile counter steering, but that's more about center of mass and position of thrust than anything else. Think about counter steering this way. Suppose you have a tank. The center of mass is in the middle, right? Now, move just the left tread forward. It's going to turn to the right. Move just the right tread forward and it's going to turn to the left. Now think about the motorcycle, where is the thrust? It's on the rear wheel, right? If you lean it to the left, the thrust is to the the right of the center of mass, so the bike's going to turn to the left. Lean it to the right, the thrust is to the left of the center of mass, and the bike's going to turn to the right. Now think about a car. You take a hard turn to the right and the car leans to the left, everything inside the car is being accelerated to the left to the left. Hard turn to the left, and the car leans to the right and everything in the car is accelerated to the right. Put this all together and that's counter steering on a motorcycle. You turn the wheel toward the right, the bike leans to the left, this offsets the center of mass to the left, which means the thrust is on the right, so the bike turns to the left. The caster effect causing the wheel to turn into the turn is why if you stop trying to steer (counter or otherwise), the bike rights itself. Because the wheel wants to turn into the direction of motion, which if you were to apply pressure to do that, it would right itself even more quickly. This is why motorcycles and bicycles self balance while its moving when you take your hands off the handlebars. Because any time the bike leans one way, the front wheel turns into the lean, which effectively counter steers the bike back upright. This is a constant effect that's proportional to the lean, so the slightest lean causes the slightest counter steer and the slightest correction, which effectively results in a mechanical system that automatically balances itself as long as there's momentum it can convert into a correction. The mindblowing thing is that motorcycles are based off of "safety bicycles" which in turn were invented with this effect, but the inventor didn't actually design it to have this effect, it's just he designed a new kind of bike (as opposed to that unwieldy large front wheeled bike called a pennyfarthing) and it just did this on its own. He didn't understand it. It took physicists quite a while to put all the pieces together about how the auto balancing works as a physical system.
Nope, I've just checked my bike and the axis of the front wheel is in front of the axis of the handlebar even if you compensate for the angle of the fork. It's definitely the opposite of what you get on the front wheels of shopping carts, where the wheels trail the castor axis (or whatever it is called, the swivel axis that attaches the wheel to the cart).
Thoughts on 2CV motorcycle: 1) using the first model, why not have skis/sleds on the side to stabilise it when it started to fall over 2) in the frenchmans version why did they turn the engine around? couldn't they have just slid it back and that would have meant they had all the gears to use although the controls would be further away
I have to say the attempt at the motorcycle was great, i think the dude who was stranded went to extremes on how he made it, if he really was shit out of luck he would cut the car in half, if a front tire was flat he could swap it.
The first models had 9hp engines. The 2 are the tax horsepower, a (calculated) value of engine power, derived from cylinder dimensions, on which taxation was based. Some form of this was used in many European countries in the early days of the car. Accurate enough at first, but with better engine technology, the figures started to drift apart. You'll often find British cars from the 20s and 30s with names like 12/70, one is the tax horsepower, and one the actual output.
Jamie is correct. Cars now days should be better designed for being worked on. Engines and transmissions should be more interchangeable. Streamlining parts makes it more cost effective.
Though car companies also deliberately make it more difficult to repair. A lot of car companies sell cars at a loss or with very small margins and make their money via repairs.
The 2CV is still very visible in France. They've become less frequent, but you'll still see them driving around. Here in Germany they're becoming increasingly rare, despite being very popular in the 50's and 60's among university students and simply those who couldn't afford a "good" car. And I can understand why: Very loud and smelly, not much power and speed and safety standards from the stone age of the automobile industry. If that thing is involved in a collision with a modern car, like an Audi A6 or BMW X5, then the 2CV will just be shredded on the spot. Including those inside. It's cool, but also scary as hell.
+Corristo89 now i know that most Europeans think Americans cars and junk.... but you should really look at how the old imperials were built. basically "I beams" in the front and rear bumper, and in each door. you hit something with one.... they get smashed, you get a scratch in the chrome. they are VERY popular in "demo derbies"....where people take old junkers that arnt worth restoring and smash them into eachother for 1500 bucks....tops, in a big event. usually like 500. you dont do it for the money! also.... ya, a german or brit car might get 400 hp out of 3.0L..... but not much torque... i live in montana, usa.... the nearest walmart is 160 miles. thats a short trip. college is 450 miles, one way. 725km! where an american v8 thats going to spend most of its time on trips of 100+ miles on long straight highways...might only make 275 out of 5.3 L.... but it makes 400 foot pounds of torque. means you can stick it into overdrive, and then not have to shift ever again, because the torque curve starts at 1600 rpm and goes to 5500 rpm. but ya, ya can still corner better, but we have WAY fewer winding roads. different roads, different needs, different cars.
+Khrrck over 65km/h, all cars can kill you...As the 2cv was more common on the roads, in the french accident statistics was the mortal accidents on 2cv's not higher as on modern cars, because he's light weight and very rigid box chassis, in case of a collision, the 2cv jumps most away...
not quite as bad as you....I have to remove my front left tire to get access to the car's battery on my 2002 Sebring Convertible . It's cover is bolted on the front of the wheel well.
As far as I know, the guy who supposedly rebuilt his 2CV into a motorcycle to escape the Marcoccan desert never showed a version of his creation which actually worked. There is one and there are pictures of him on it, but nothing in terms of videos. So the thing is either a myth or its so dangerous that he doesn't want to ride it. But that's dubious, since he supposedly used it to escape the desert. Simply adding a second back wheel would've made the whole thing much easier and safer as well as easier to build, since the floor of the car could've been used without making too many changes. The rear wheels are not powered anyway, so why make this huge effort of building a vehicle which relies heavily on a very good center of gravity, enough speed and good controls to even stay upright?
Back in 1987. Racing at 130 km/h a mini cooper on the autobahn, the mini overtook me with 4 guys in it. I am still trying to recover from this defeat. But awesome car. Flat battery?... ' just use the hand Crank. Wanna sit in comfort while at a picnic with your gf, take out the seat in 2 min. Still makes me smile when I see these cars.
Lol 2:00 makes me think of thetrailblazer.. You have to take the grill off, and take out the whole headlight fixture, just to change a bulb.... About any single bulb though I can get to the far side indicator fairly easily.. I actually changed one of the far side indicators without my large flathead and just bare hands to loosen the grill bar and pull up the metal tabs and slide the fixture forward.. Luckily the bulb socket wasn't too stuck. But yeah they want you to pay like $80 to change a headlight and wait 45minutes while they dick off behind closed doors and I changed a bulb in 10minutes with my bare hands... Is ridiculous.
btw cannot remember what did he use to hydro-form the metal... was it a high pressure cleaner because I have seen else where in not here that you can use those which is kinda neat and makes this method a lot more affordable in in reach of more people... it's just vitally important not to trap any air as that can compress explosively... I would love to test it myself some time by my welding is way to primitive and I don't have access to a plasma cuter so the mould thing would be impossible and frankly i need to level up my very very limited welding skills.
They make one with a large V-8 called "The Boss Hoss" and awesome sounding it is... bosshoss.com/ youtube of different ones ruclips.net/video/oJ-na0miang/видео.html
Cars aren't hard to maintain because designers are incompetent, they're made that way to force you to use their licensed mechanics to do it for you. The walrus is not as smart as you'd think, it seems.
2CVs aren't 150 bucks in france anymore, you need a few thousands nowadays, it became a fashion car like VW beetles and combis , so prices are over the roof....
+jason fifi Emissions standards? Don't they count as classic cars (completely unable of ever reaching modern emissions standards, thus exempt)? How do Californians own e.g. 1950s cars?
i don't know about how that works in california, but in most states "antique" registration is actually more restrictive. an example would be that, even in no inspection alabama, a car registered as an antique can't be used on highways/interstates. you can legally drive and register a 2CV in many states, though.
ZONAVELHA well I need to cry myself to bed now how could they do this grant Tory and Kari was like half the reason I loved the show Tory was the funniest
"never seen an other car like that before"....Jamie never worked on a Volkswagen "Käfer"(Beetle), i think..... around 20 13mm Bolts and you have seperated the top from the Bottom part, with two guys and two ratchets, it takes 10mins to dissasemble this car into components. If you manage to get a "Kübelwagen" it is much easier as with the "Käfer" because of the "slimline" military style of building. or the Lada Niva, a Phillips and a normal screwdriver, a 13 and an 17mm wrench (that is the toolkit you get when you purchase one) and you can tear this car apart by yourself in the middle of the russian wilderness, so maybe he should get a glimpse away from american cars to european/russian vehicles, because they were manufactured to last and to be easily repaired by the owners. just like the willys jeep, not much comfort, but sturdy and reliable and easy to maintain.
for those who have no idea what this is about, check out Emile Leray who built a motor cycle from his crashed 2CV to survive and get out of the desert: www.thevintagenews.com/2016/05/18/emile-leray-built-working-motorcycle-broken-car-citroen-2cv-escape-african-desert/
You never seen any particular car until you have owned one. Then there everywhere you look. Even if its the only one there is, besides yours. It will show up. Sooner or later. Allso couldn't you have use some rocks for balancing the bike?
they arent 150 bucks in france. in fact they count as classics and as the classic car prices exploded in recent years. the 2CV´s cost thousands of euros.
I think there is little benefit for car manufacturers to make such easy to disassemble cars. Besides, it wouldn't really help them as much as it would help us and I don't think there is an incentive to make these cars easily fixable. Just look at the smartphone market, many devices are hard to fix and a number have difficult to replace parts, they are designed to be used as is and when they cease to function they 'should' be replaced. I think cars maybe going the same route.
Also cars general reliability has improved massively. With the Citreon 2cv cars broke down every other week so being able to fix them yourself was very important. Today's cars don't require fixing nearly as often.
I like how Jamie completely burried the gold painting episode in his mind to hopefully never remember it xD
And then Adam reminds him and he's like "damn..."
Selah
Colossians 1:28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:/Inspiration+ Devotees of Christ, Paul urges us to teach all men about the life of Christ. Too many of us are selfish, willing to quietly believe and not get our hands dirty in attempts to make others believe. Paul got his hands dirty and ended up paying with his life. Do you think he regrets any of it now that he is sitting in heaven with God?/Prayer+ Lord in heaven, I must honor Your commandments and join You in the afterlife. I have been silent too often, Abba Father, unwilling to discuss my faith with You for fear of alienating others or for sounding arrogant. Why would I not share the most precious loving relationship that I have ever known? I am certainly a fool, forgive me. Today, with this prayer, I ask myself and You, powerful God, to aid me in my journey, and I hope that I can aid others in theirs, on our quest for everlasting life.
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I learned how to drive in a 1987 Citroën 2cv6 club, one the last production series citroën has made. (Production ran until 1990) I loved it right away and never stopped loving it. Still got it in the back of the garage.
For all their differences and how they "won't ever work together ever again". Here it shows how much they can be on the same page sometimes. Great working duo even if they aren't personal friends.
Won't don't they like each other
Even though Jaimie and Adam "busted" the Citroyen motorcycle story, the fact remains that neither of them are engineers, and they didn't spend 12 days working on the project as Emile Leray did.They simply didn't have the time or the expertise to pull this off. And if you look at Leray's motorcycle, there are vast differences.
The main difference is there is proof of Jaimie and Adams bike driving. Besides that he reattached the license plate and made a stand for the bike. Funny stuff to do when you are stranded in the desert.
Desert can do funny things to your mind, such as inspire you to make a stand and retain the license plate and have you seen how Emile Leray was dressed? If his mind hadn't snapped . . . it was creaking very loudly.
The myth wasn't if Leray kept his sanity.
Ah, there's the obligatory, "they did it wrong!" comment. It didn't take long to find this one, but it was certainly lower than most of the ones I've found.
maybe he never did the bike in a desert, he may have done it in his shed, and then just went for a ride and told everyone he did it on the desert.
Was bullshit, he was 2 hours walk from safety and was well prepared for his 12 day build.
1:50 2CV and high speed should never be in the same sentence
I want to watch a show of jamie and adam just building stuff for ever. transformers episode one of my favourite. I love the new reboot.
hes right about how modern vehicles are hard to fix takes me ages to replace a oil filter on a ford connect
+warrick miller Got to keep those aftermarket repairs a in-shop affair. And keep the money were they want it.
@@Chuxgold at the Ford dealership if your stupid enough to pay that kind of money. Situation withstanding because there are some things they can do...?
Hard to fix but break down less. Parts last longer without maintenance. Grease fittings are no more, transmission fluid is lifetime, brakes that last 100k. It's pretty much oil, brakes tires. Go to the dealership in the rare event you need something else replaced.
I think a big part of it's appeal is also it's appearance. Modern cars are very aggressive and almost antagonistic in appearance with sharp corners and straight lines. The 2CV by contrast is made of almost entirely rounded shapes with curved headlights, a curved hood and the cabin almost forms a circle if you look at it from the side.
I think that is a big part why people feel so nostalgic towards it. It feels like a vehicle of a better time. A time where people could trust each other and where people supported each other via things like church, labor unions and other such things.
10:10 I really thought Jamie was going to 'Think out loud' again. :D
1:09 Adam sounds like the Circus of values from bioshock
*kill your cravings at the circus of values!*
no refunds, no returns.
Heard that jingle exactly as i read your comment. The Circus of Values!!
come back when you’ve got some money buddy
My girlfriend is French and her family is obsessed with 2CVs (they have seven or eight of them scattered throughout the extended family, and when she was growing up they used to go to these meetups at Le Mans and such) and they are amazing little cars.
The story I've heard is that they were designed to be able to carry a basket of eggs over a plowed field without breaking them, so all of that jiggling and such at high speed on nice, flat highways is really because it's made to deal with a low-impact kind of off-road terrain.
Amazingly simple design, I can confirm that she only needs a wrench and maybe a Phillips-head screwdriver to work on it.
Also, the one with the truck back that Adam mentioned is actually called an Acadiane, and those are their own separate thing. They are a very cool too, they kind of remind me of a Volkswagen 181.
In Europe they are known as Ducks. The reason is because they have very soft suspension with a large amount of travel which made them sway back and forth kind of like how a duck walks.
They actually have excellent off-road capabilities because of that, way better than the oversized SUV's of today. When on poor roads you want you car to be as light as possible and the 2CV is very light and it's soft suspension further reduces the strain put on the components.
It was actually quite advanced though because it used disk brakes which before were mainly used on sport's cars. It also uses torsion bar suspension which is still rather unique. It's excellent for going over rough terrain though because it has a very good resistance curve. Torsion bars is also what tanks use.
I think also they look really cute. They are some of the most rounded cars and in the rest of Europe they became known as 'ducks' for their soft and long suspension which made them sway back and forth.
----"Great Scott...The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?...""🤣🤣🤣
The 2CV was made for 2 purposes in mind: Getting produce to the market while driving across a field without it being damaged and being able to get a family to church.
I'm not joking, those were the design criterea that Citroën aimed for. The test that proved the most difficult was the first one as they wanted it to be able to transport eggs over a plowed field without them breaking. They actually came up with a clever solution of an independent but connected suspension system. Where if one spring is compressed the other will extend to help keep the car level. This ingenious system combined with it's light weight allows the 2cv to keep up with modern SUV's despite not having 4 wheel drive.
They also aimed to keep it as simple as possible. They kept taps on the number of parts and every component needed to be justified. This was both to keep it simple to repair and also to keep it cheap enough that an average rural family in France could afford one.
This was a mix of sadness and joy.
I love the 2CV.
But I also enjoy the Mythbusters.
Nice wakamatsu profile pic
My farther drove from Denmark to Turkey and back in a 2cv. That's around 6500km as the shortest route today. Damn.. Imagine that..
I wonder if they have ever seen the getaway car from the Australian movie called "Malcolm" (1986), now that's a real transformer.
3:05 Yes, modern automobile manufacturers did learn from that car. It was too reliable?
I owned and drove a 2CV for years (yes, I'm European) and it was the most fun and easiest to maintain of all the cars that I drove since.
To increase speed, they could have removed the diff (which sits inside the gearbox - comes apart from the engine with just 4 bolts) and put it back upside down. That would have given them 4 gears forward, instead of just one as that reverses the direction the gears turn in side the gearbox.
I had a job in a 2CV workshop, and we had a routine show at carshows.
We would rebuild a complete 2cv (with complete engine) in 1 minute with 6 people.
And its really that simple XD it was fun XD
The reason that car into a bike didn't work very well is because they didn't actually rig the front wheel as a caster. If you look at motorcycles and bicycles, the forks are always attached to the wheel and triple tree (the part of the bike that connects the forks to the steering column) it's always at an angle with the front wheel pushed out in front of the bike's frame. This creates a caster effect that that causes the bike to auto-correct its balance by turning into the direction it's falling in.
Short version is this... Bikes are stabilized by the caster effect of the front wheel, not by a centrifugal effect... I wish they'd addressed the centrifugal bike stabilization myth on the show.
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what?
Aren't the front wheels in bikes actually the opposite of castor-wheels, leading instead of trailing the axis of rotation?
***** No, they're not. It's actually a caster effect. The wheel turns to the vector of motion.
It sounds like you're probably trying to reconcile counter steering, but that's more about center of mass and position of thrust than anything else.
Think about counter steering this way. Suppose you have a tank. The center of mass is in the middle, right? Now, move just the left tread forward. It's going to turn to the right. Move just the right tread forward and it's going to turn to the left.
Now think about the motorcycle, where is the thrust? It's on the rear wheel, right? If you lean it to the left, the thrust is to the the right of the center of mass, so the bike's going to turn to the left. Lean it to the right, the thrust is to the left of the center of mass, and the bike's going to turn to the right.
Now think about a car. You take a hard turn to the right and the car leans to the left, everything inside the car is being accelerated to the left to the left. Hard turn to the left, and the car leans to the right and everything in the car is accelerated to the right.
Put this all together and that's counter steering on a motorcycle. You turn the wheel toward the right, the bike leans to the left, this offsets the center of mass to the left, which means the thrust is on the right, so the bike turns to the left.
The caster effect causing the wheel to turn into the turn is why if you stop trying to steer (counter or otherwise), the bike rights itself. Because the wheel wants to turn into the direction of motion, which if you were to apply pressure to do that, it would right itself even more quickly.
This is why motorcycles and bicycles self balance while its moving when you take your hands off the handlebars. Because any time the bike leans one way, the front wheel turns into the lean, which effectively counter steers the bike back upright. This is a constant effect that's proportional to the lean, so the slightest lean causes the slightest counter steer and the slightest correction, which effectively results in a mechanical system that automatically balances itself as long as there's momentum it can convert into a correction.
The mindblowing thing is that motorcycles are based off of "safety bicycles" which in turn were invented with this effect, but the inventor didn't actually design it to have this effect, it's just he designed a new kind of bike (as opposed to that unwieldy large front wheeled bike called a pennyfarthing) and it just did this on its own. He didn't understand it.
It took physicists quite a while to put all the pieces together about how the auto balancing works as a physical system.
Nope, I've just checked my bike and the axis of the front wheel is in front of the axis of the handlebar even if you compensate for the angle of the fork. It's definitely the opposite of what you get on the front wheels of shopping carts, where the wheels trail the castor axis (or whatever it is called, the swivel axis that attaches the wheel to the cart).
I miss this show ❤
best episode from this series
Thoughts on 2CV motorcycle:
1) using the first model, why not have skis/sleds on the side to stabilise it when it started to fall over
2) in the frenchmans version why did they turn the engine around? couldn't they have just slid it back and that would have meant they had all the gears to use although the controls would be further away
1:55 the 2CV is most definitely not unsafe at high speed ... but mainly because it can't get to high speed ;-)
that episode was so dangerous, couldn't believe they where doing what they did
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I have to say the attempt at the motorcycle was great, i think the dude who was stranded went to extremes on how he made it, if he really was shit out of luck he would cut the car in half, if a front tire was flat he could swap it.
walrus shaves his face? i dont believe it.
+Phyankord i heard hands not faces
I leave this under every video I watched, it helps the algorithm.
Citroën 2CV (French: "deux chevaux") translates to 2 horses or 2 horse power.
they don't really have 2hp tho that would be ridiculous
+Mike Mandrill the very first 2CV had only 2hp.
Later versions had more, culminating in the absolutely extreme 30hp of the 2CV6.
The first models had 9hp engines.
The 2 are the tax horsepower, a (calculated) value of engine power, derived from cylinder dimensions, on which taxation was based. Some form of this was used in many European countries in the early days of the car.
Accurate enough at first, but with better engine technology, the figures started to drift apart. You'll often find British cars from the 20s and 30s with names like 12/70, one is the tax horsepower, and one the actual output.
8:06 the synchronisation
Jamie is correct. Cars now days should be better designed for being worked on. Engines and transmissions should be more interchangeable. Streamlining parts makes it more cost effective.
Planned obsolescence. Making products easy to repair isn't the capitalist way
Though car companies also deliberately make it more difficult to repair. A lot of car companies sell cars at a loss or with very small margins and make their money via repairs.
Great episode. I really enjoyed it.
6:16 I see Adam is cosplaying as a raider from fallout
Thanks for the video. I enjoyed it.
The 2CV is still very visible in France. They've become less frequent, but you'll still see them driving around. Here in Germany they're becoming increasingly rare, despite being very popular in the 50's and 60's among university students and simply those who couldn't afford a "good" car. And I can understand why: Very loud and smelly, not much power and speed and safety standards from the stone age of the automobile industry. If that thing is involved in a collision with a modern car, like an Audi A6 or BMW X5, then the 2CV will just be shredded on the spot. Including those inside. It's cool, but also scary as hell.
+Corristo89 now i know that most Europeans think Americans cars and junk.... but you should really look at how the old imperials were built.
basically "I beams" in the front and rear bumper, and in each door.
you hit something with one.... they get smashed, you get a scratch in the chrome.
they are VERY popular in "demo derbies"....where people take old junkers that arnt worth restoring and smash them into eachother for 1500 bucks....tops, in a big event. usually like 500. you dont do it for the money!
also.... ya, a german or brit car might get 400 hp out of 3.0L..... but not much torque...
i live in montana, usa.... the nearest walmart is 160 miles. thats a short trip.
college is 450 miles, one way. 725km!
where an american v8 thats going to spend most of its time on trips of 100+ miles on long straight highways...might only make 275 out of 5.3 L.... but it makes 400 foot pounds of torque.
means you can stick it into overdrive, and then not have to shift ever again, because the torque curve starts at 1600 rpm and goes to 5500 rpm.
but ya, ya can still corner better, but we have WAY fewer winding roads. different roads, different needs, different cars.
+kain hall while that's true at low speeds, in HIGH speed collisions they will still absolutely kill you.
+Khrrck over 65km/h, all cars can kill you...As the 2cv was more common on the roads, in the french accident statistics was the mortal accidents on 2cv's not higher as on modern cars, because he's light weight and very rigid box chassis, in case of a collision, the 2cv jumps most away...
I have to lift my engine to change my belt. Gigantic pain in the ass. Spark plugs partially under the windshield too. Get your shit together GM!
not quite as bad as you....I have to remove my front left tire to get access to the car's battery on my 2002 Sebring Convertible . It's cover is bolted on the front of the wheel well.
Lol the Mad Max costume
that nervous jump tho
As far as I know, the guy who supposedly rebuilt his 2CV into a motorcycle to escape the Marcoccan desert never showed a version of his creation which actually worked. There is one and there are pictures of him on it, but nothing in terms of videos. So the thing is either a myth or its so dangerous that he doesn't want to ride it. But that's dubious, since he supposedly used it to escape the desert.
Simply adding a second back wheel would've made the whole thing much easier and safer as well as easier to build, since the floor of the car could've been used without making too many changes. The rear wheels are not powered anyway, so why make this huge effort of building a vehicle which relies heavily on a very good center of gravity, enough speed and good controls to even stay upright?
Thank you.
Six bolts and the top of my Jeep comes off :)
Back in 1987. Racing at 130 km/h a mini cooper on the autobahn, the mini overtook me with 4 guys in it. I am still trying to recover from this defeat. But awesome car. Flat battery?... ' just use the hand Crank. Wanna sit in comfort while at a picnic with your gf, take out the seat in 2 min. Still makes me smile when I see these cars.
2CV'a are fun little cars. Old man has one sitting in his shed
Lol 2:00 makes me think of thetrailblazer.. You have to take the grill off, and take out the whole headlight fixture, just to change a bulb.... About any single bulb though I can get to the far side indicator fairly easily.. I actually changed one of the far side indicators without my large flathead and just bare hands to loosen the grill bar and pull up the metal tabs and slide the fixture forward.. Luckily the bulb socket wasn't too stuck. But yeah they want you to pay like $80 to change a headlight and wait 45minutes while they dick off behind closed doors and I changed a bulb in 10minutes with my bare hands... Is ridiculous.
btw cannot remember what did he use to hydro-form the metal... was it a high pressure cleaner because I have seen else where in not here that you can use those which is kinda neat and makes this method a lot more affordable in in reach of more people...
it's just vitally important not to trap any air as that can compress explosively...
I would love to test it myself some time by my welding is way to primitive and I don't have access to a plasma cuter so the mould thing would be impossible and frankly i need to level up my very very limited welding skills.
Yes. They used a pressure washer.
How did this work? They had questions for an episode they'd just broadcast?
Old VW beetles come apart pretty much the same way.
Now you can't even repair Most stuff because they use glue instead of screws.
I know the feeling Adam. By the judge of everyone else I finally grew leg hair by the age 16.
Where can I see the full episode?
+Gregory Voukalis There is this website, think of it as a Bay, where Pirates trade things. Like video files.Nuff said!
I have once heard that the original Volkswagen beetle had only 10 mm bolts holding any given part other than the wheels, on the vehicle.
Very possible. The 2CV is kind of France's version of the Volkswagen.
you can just see jamie thinking "ya know... I could probably handle a bike with a car engine"
They make one with a large V-8 called "The Boss Hoss" and awesome sounding it is... bosshoss.com/ youtube of different ones ruclips.net/video/oJ-na0miang/видео.html
I clicked this because I thought I was gonna see a robot in disguise
More easy way is put ski at broken corner and strip unnessesery parts and add weights to opposite corner. Citroen DS can drive without one wheel.
at least we know adam doesn't shave his nuts now
Is there a place on the internet we can go to see the actual episodes if we don't have tv?
57av3 Yo ho yo ho a pirates life for me...
Hey Adam, tell your buddy to smile here and then, gives him a much better appearence in front of the camera...
Just a question nothing to do with this episode. Do bee suits stop you from getting stung? ??
Still better than a Prius
trikes are classified as a motorcycle in Michigan and quads are even called bikes even tho there not
Cars aren't hard to maintain because designers are incompetent, they're made that way to force you to use their licensed mechanics to do it for you. The walrus is not as smart as you'd think, it seems.
Damn these two dudes are such polar opposites
2CVs aren't 150 bucks in france anymore, you need a few thousands nowadays, it became a fashion car like VW beetles and combis , so prices are over the roof....
My dad would only buy cars that he could maintain.
"Arghh stahp it! Stop!"
what movie was Adam's police costume from?
Probably inspired by the first Mad Max: Road Warrior
Mathieu Mantrant O'Dowd His costume was a pretty good copy.
the 2cv can be road legal in many states, but California has much higher standards for emissions.
+jason fifi Emissions standards? Don't they count as classic cars (completely unable of ever reaching modern emissions standards, thus exempt)? How do Californians own e.g. 1950s cars?
i don't know about how that works in california, but in most states "antique" registration is actually more restrictive. an example would be that, even in no inspection alabama, a car registered as an antique can't be used on highways/interstates.
you can legally drive and register a 2CV in many states, though.
this guy was totally legit
According to Adam they both have never shaved their short and curlys, you heard it here folks
I believe Jamie would've been The Best Terminator Ever!!!
So unemotionaly monotonic he sounds! 👍🏻
only the face xd
where is Jamie now, miss that dude
Building fire fighting vr remote and pilotable apcs.
Rare moment you can see the lack of chemistry between the 2 =) poor guys knew the fans loved the show and just plowed through.
Why isn't kari grant and Tory on the show anymore????
www.ibtimes.com/why-did-kari-byron-quit-mythbusters-cast-reveals-new-direction-discovery-show-1666548
ZONAVELHA well I need to cry myself to bed now how could they do this grant Tory and Kari was like half the reason I loved the show Tory was the funniest
yep he was not Kary she was just for the boobs .
"never seen an other car like that before"....Jamie never worked on a Volkswagen "Käfer"(Beetle), i think..... around 20 13mm Bolts and you have seperated the top from the Bottom part, with two guys and two ratchets, it takes 10mins to dissasemble this car into components. If you manage to get a "Kübelwagen" it is much easier as with the "Käfer" because of the "slimline" military style of building. or the Lada Niva, a Phillips and a normal screwdriver, a 13 and an 17mm wrench (that is the toolkit you get when you purchase one) and you can tear this car apart by yourself in the middle of the russian wilderness, so maybe he should get a glimpse away from american cars to european/russian vehicles, because they were manufactured to last and to be easily repaired by the owners. just like the willys jeep, not much comfort, but sturdy and reliable and easy to maintain.
Google the twin engined 4wd 2CV. Wonderful !!
Yellow
Yep, most modern cars are put together like iphones: they're intended to be disposable.
So you guys don't manscape bellow the belt eh? Good to know...? :/
+ThisNameWasAvaliblle Now every episode I wont be able to take my mind off of the rain forest sized bush held prisoner by those zippers... *shudder*
+ThisNameWasAvaliblle WHY
TIL: Mythbusters have hairy balls
D: I thought they were busting myths from the movie(s)!!
Making it a 3 wheel motorcycle us to easy. Thats mostly because the 2CV was designed to drive with only 3 wheels if it had to.
for those who have no idea what this is about, check out Emile Leray who built a motor cycle from his crashed 2CV to survive and get out of the desert: www.thevintagenews.com/2016/05/18/emile-leray-built-working-motorcycle-broken-car-citroen-2cv-escape-african-desert/
So mythbusters is saying that he couldn't have drove it?
FhargaZ
Well, they are saying they could not drive the one they built which is not quite the same thing
Yeah, it's not really Myth Busted, so much as the Mythbusters were Busted.
U forgot about transformers that electronics use
lol, car converted to a jet IMPOSSIBLE
You never seen any particular car until you have owned one. Then there everywhere you look. Even if its the only one there is, besides yours. It will show up. Sooner or later. Allso couldn't you have use some rocks for balancing the bike?
"No other car like that" Have you never seen a VW beetle....I dont mean the b.s. modern car.
Favored transportation of Harry Dresden.
I thought I saw all the episodes multiple times, but I don't remember the transformer
they arent 150 bucks in france.
in fact they count as classics and as the classic car prices exploded in recent years.
the 2CV´s cost thousands of euros.
5:48 Homer Simpson?
Why not put the paddles on the inside of the wheel between the spokes.
What eyeglasses does Adam wear?
I think there is little benefit for car manufacturers to make such easy to disassemble cars. Besides, it wouldn't really help them as much as it would help us and I don't think there is an incentive to make these cars easily fixable. Just look at the smartphone market, many devices are hard to fix and a number have difficult to replace parts, they are designed to be used as is and when they cease to function they 'should' be replaced. I think cars maybe going the same route.
Also cars general reliability has improved massively. With the Citreon 2cv cars broke down every other week so being able to fix them yourself was very important. Today's cars don't require fixing nearly as often.
Powered sled = pod racer
My dads music teacher died in one of these at high speed
the only way a 2cv is going fast is if you drive it off a cliff
Or excusively vertical
Every time I read the title I think it os about the Michael Bay movie.
when you realize they're pretending to be friends for every second of footage.
They don't hate each other, they are simply not friends.
Not being friends doesn't mean being mortal enemies.
BTW the CG is way to high for the 2 CV bike to ever work
Penny farthing?
Emile leray's plans
idk