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fans welcome to the great state of texas we're going deeper we've Found a hidden gem for you This is Ovila Texas This is Bill Baxter's workshop Oh yeah, he has the

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Welcome to the South Georgia Motorsports Park, we're going to take you back to what the fastest lap was from the weekend before race day, this is Alex Hughes, oh what? a garage and you have a drag cycle on Mr. Bill, it's wonderful, wonderful to see, thank you for supporting drag cycle, we certainly appreciate that everyone likes to see your amazing motorcycle on the race track and as I can see , there is no rest for tired eyes. In this, it's completely knocked down and disassembled right now, where's the engine? The engine is at the Doug Flannery shop in Michigan.

Oh yes, we have a lot to talk about. Okay, so we're going to get into your single motor on your drag bike, but you're the one. two stroke enthusiast the two stroke enthusiast you have to show me your street bike here too this is an amazing water buffalo gt 750 what year again did you say 72 72 let's see these two stroke fanatics I told you we are Te I'll make you drool look how clean this thing is, well Bill I can tell you're not a Kawasaki loyalist right a two stroke loyalist tell me about this machine. Well this is a 72 that we found in a barn in Nebraska, completely renovated and Believe it or not, this is the first year and for most of the first year they have this giant double shoe front brake and the collectible value of the bike it's probably 30 40 higher if you have this giant brake instead of the disc brakes.

It's spotlessly clean, tell me a little about the restoration, how much work did you have to put into it? Well it took me about six months, I had to strip it down to the frame and start over when we found it, it had water in the forks. that had water in the engine that had water in the transmission I don't know where they had parked this thing we took it apart and bill boone made the crank and the soldiers and uh ken blary painted it, which turned out beautiful and then we ended up getting carried away and buying uh, There are still parts available and we ended up spending about twelve thousand dollars on parts, it's not hard to do, it doesn't take long, the seat was 500 the front one?

The fender was 400, you know, the whole thing was like five six seven hundred dollars and it added up very, very quickly, I love the bike, well I promised everyone we'll talk about your engine, it's so amazing, you're

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ly in a league of your own, a class of its own, just update everyone. The all-time nitrous record for drag bikes is 777 by Brian Pretzel. That is, with nitrous, your 783 engine. Are you on a mission to eliminate that nitrous record of all engines? Oh, absolutely. I'm going to ask you why all the engines run well. One of the limitations of an h2 is that the transmission is a little thin and the nitrous eats them up like m ms, so I don't want that hassle, I'd rather fight it. sucked

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785 that record could fall bill baxter wants the overall record of 777 set by a nitrous bike 785 what's that 800 how are you doing at the mile per hour 164 not our best but not bad for this weather we're in ? the right direction here is an even more important question for you that explains that with the amount of money and time you are investing in this project and we love it, we love to see it, you could have a turbocharged hayabusa pro street bike. have a professional open bike maybe even consume the most fuel you choose to put all your money and resources into this real hit why you know it's a question I've asked myself several times because you know I tell people most racers my age, I graduated to real motorcycles and I'm still playing with a glorified lawn mower and that's because I know I like the bike, I like the way it sounds, I like going fast with a very small engine and I think, about everything, I like the challenge, yes, I love it too and clearly Cycle Drag YouTube and Cycledrag.com Facebook love them because the views are always off the charts.

Now let's get into the technical aspect of your engine and the parts we have, not all the parts are here. but if you could explain how it's different, we know that in drag racing at any level the crankshaft is so important, what are we looking at here? Well this is mainly an h2 drivetrain which is unmodified except for the cranks which are off a rotax 600 twin and are much bigger and beefier, I mean it's a 20 millimeter wrist pin everything is beefier , i think that's why i had an original h2 here somewhere, everything on the h2 is really small and, um, the cranks. they're a weak link, they're very thin and they crack right under here, the head of the wrist pin, you know, there's somewhere here, I've got bits of crankshaft that broke off in the past, so we needed this, the top end of the billet it's based on a fila on the rotax um the rotax 600 twin and these are rotax pistons rotax rods rotax sleeves are on it everything in it is based on a rotax 600 twin this innovation this doesn't happen overnight this took you a lot of time and a lot of breaks he attacks and here comes our number one qualifier alex horsepower used close lane will take on the lightning h2 steve chandler right lane alex used eight flat and they heat up about two tenths of the record he's chasing but guess what guys will cool down eventually en It's sweltering hot right now, but as we go into the night, how many years have you been in this game?

Oh, I started racing h2 in the mid 80's and, but I can't take any credit for this engine, this is all the brainchild of Ralph Shipman in Germany, he designed it, built it, sent it to me, we put this engine together and went to Valdosta in 2019 with about five runs on a new engine and it was a 783. So just the fact of that and this. It is the original crankshaft and everything is original, we have never heard it very impressive. I see we have other components here. Bill really, if he can let people know how his motorcycle is different from the others we see, this is Ralph's latest creation and it is. actually a dry slider, so you screw the plate on, you put this on the motor and then you screw the outer basket on after you put it together, so the whole slider hangs in the wind, it's absolutely dry and this big seal here keeps everything. the oil inside the transmission hughes looks for history remember his naturally aspirated record is 782 the overall nitrous two stroke record is 777 hughes wants both so bill almost everything is billet but you're telling me this is a clutch gsxr 1000 shaft, that's right, Ralph took this and made a little steel collar for the seal to mount on, but the rest of this is all billet, all out of Ralph Shipman's shop in Germany.

Now, how would someone come up with it? Test a gsxr 1000 part on an old h2. Well the reason we did it is because it's the same plate, it's the same clutch discs as an h2. At some point suzuki and kawasaki collaborated and used an h2 chainrings on their o2 06 gs. xrs and zx7, very close race at a thousand feet, the zx14 gets it doug flanders hooked me up with these rxl 650 snowmobiles, the throttle bodies are that cool or what two stroke fans, well if you go crazy not yet you've seen nothing we're I'm just getting started because look at this, what makes Bill's bike really unique compared to all of his competitors is that it has billet cylinders.

Also in his store he has what he likes to call the dinosaur mule. This is incredible. Bill, you have a test bench set up here. you can test the engine and you're telling me right now if you look we only have one cylinder in use and you can crank it up and test that cylinder absolutely wow I have to take a closer look at this thing This is some serious technology. I knew it was worth the trip down the back roads of Texas because look what you're going through here. I didn't even know this was possible.

Bill, describe to me what I'm seeing now. Well, this. It was the brainchild of Chris Ritchie and he looked at the crankshafts. He was a good crankshaft builder in England and he said there's a way we can make a single cylinder dyno and balance it so it doesn't fall apart. Then he made me a crankshaft and sent it to me around 2012, I think we started dynoing the engines and it doesn't rev very bad to the moon and we just have to cut off a head and make a pipe. I want to use a third of the fuel. it's just that it saves a lot of time, money, effort and it only makes 60 horsepower so we don't have to worry about transmissions or chains or tires and gosh we've been powering this thing with the max ecu this morning we did dinosaur number 352.

Oh my gosh, wow, it's not bulletproof, but it's pretty close, so a lot of people don't realize that this is where the magic happens when you hit the race track in the that you have already put in hours and hours of hard work in your store. Absolutely, when we first got this billet engine, this was our first dyno, we made 44 horsepower this morning, we made 66.5, so we got 22 horsepower per cylinder since we first got it and that It's all on the test bench that we don't know about. do some development on the track what do you attribute the win to if it's something you can talk about do you know how professional you are?

I don't know how much we can give away here to your competitors, but hey, there's really no

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other than, like I said, one of the limitations of the h2 is that the bottom end is very small, it's very limited, the transfers don't flow enough, so that was the job we had to figure out how to make the engine flow so Doug Flannery did the first step and took it from 44 to 58 then we added fuel injection and max ecu and there are a lot of things you can do with him now that you couldn't do. We did it before and increased the horsepower and widened the power band and now we've turned it into booze.

It's really amazing as far as the cylinder goes right now, the shape it's in is just a block. You are going to machine it to give it shape. Because? We have it just as a block right now, this was our prototype, we actually didn't know if it would work or not, so Scott Sullivan at the Front Range machine in Denver, he built this billet block, the internal parts are all exactly the same , we do not. I even know if it would work, so we said, leave it out like a giant block and then we'll put the fins on it.

This is cool and you're telling me we can hear this thing working. Oh yes, it sounds nice. Great, oh I can't wait so I told Two Stroke fans you found the right video. Bill is going to activate this for us. I'm very excited, Bill, before we get to that, I have a question for you, although, um, some of the competitors in your category have engaged in a very interesting and respectful debate and said at what point is it no longer an h2, it has billet cylinders, are you still considering this bike in h2? I do it because it still has the limitations of an h2, you may have put a bigger cylinder on it, it's still about the same size in displacement, but you still have the choke transfers and a bit of a skinny transmission, so you have a lot of challenges to solve, even with more horsepower, have you ever considered that?

Billet cases are something we could see in the future. We have Ralph Shipman, my genius friend in Germany, he has already made them. He bought the medal and he has a new five axle C and C on the way and he thinks By this time next year we will have a full 1200cc triple wow, that's nice, very exciting and it seems like you know, the two-wheeler races Times aren't the biggest class in terms of participation, but the guys who participate in it are so loyal. You like it for life, it absorbs you and we seem to win a few bikes every year.

You and I are talking about organizing a big race. We see a big one in Martin Michigan. You can watch the finals of the men's cup on YouTube on Cycle Drag. he's pretty strong, those bikes are still available, they're still from Purple Haze Racing, he used to have a database and he had about 200 drag bikes in the US in this database, so there's a ton of them in people's garages. I wish they could get them out. Yeah, well, let's try to do that. We've been honking our horns saying: Dust those bikes off and get them out again.

There will be more on that on the Cycle Drag YouTube, but hey, we promised you we would. uh, turn this on, what do you think? Bill, let's go for it, let's go for it, okay with the dyno and how we were testing somethings and he gave me a maximum equator. What if we have about 88 channels that we are monitoring? when it's running wow and you said since we last saw you in the finals you got some horsepower uh about six cylinders of horsepower how do you find a six cylinder of horsepower? Well, we've been working with a type of fuel injection and it solved it.

We had some problems and that was the biggest part. Nate McCoy helped us open up some flow inside the engine. He is consulting on the complete alcohol setup. Of course, Nate is very enthusiastic, he is very helpful and he is one of them in good faith. geniuses who often have to take notes and read it three or four times to find out what he said. That's cool, I bet you've smelled a two-stroke smoke or two in your day, huh, yeah, yeah, they all smell good. I like it intoxicating. I think it's safeSay you have a good number of expansion chambers, my goodness, a lot of trial and error here, yes, a lot of them are Doug Flannery pipes, all the straight ones are from Doug, uh, there are a couple, one from John McGee, another one from Wayne Wright, uh, these are it. quick for gas pipes these are doug's pipes and this is what i don't show people this is my pipe for show and tell this is one of doug's can you hold calm oh my god are you kidding me what does that? it weighs 22 gauge titanium it weighs a pound a pound I feel like I almost crushed it in my hand I gripped it too hard I was used to gripping an old denko oh my god did you say this for your street bike?

Yes this is a k street engine now. you've never owned an h2 street bike. I've never had a street bike. Henry Wedge built one of these with the case built in and the advantage of this is that there is no inlet port on the back of the cylinder so you can port it very differently and it supports the piston better, but Henry Wedge made them for me and we're going to find a bike to put them on nicely, so this is the machine that's chasing that 777. Bill, we don't talk much. About the chassis, give me a little tour of the lightweight components we use here.

Well, Mike Morath started working with us on 13 and did the side panels, the dams, the chain guard, the bodywork, the fairings, everything on it. uh carbon fiber from mike and then of course the photo of the forks on them from scott mckinney at a race in indy one year when our forks broke the best carbon fiber wheels there yeah carbon fiber wheels carbon, wow, which I was very skeptical about but they've been there for five years and no problems, they seem to work very well. How much does this motorcycle weigh when it's all together? About 270. 270. That's unreal now, that's where the advantage really comes in with a two. -race power to weight power to weight yes he weighed 310 we put him on a diet and that's where Mike Morath came in and the wheels and all that added up to almost 40 pounds in incredible savings now I can see it In that photo above we know that Alex Hughes has piloted this, but so have you, so I have to ask you at only 200 pounds what this is like to ride well.

It's interesting to me because I don't fit into it. It's kind of like a monkey fucking a soccer ball, but actually, in that photo there I thought I was stuck behind the fairing and you see I'm exposed up to my chest, but even with my big fat butt, it was a 5 20 in the 8th mile wow, I bet that gets your attention quickly. It was fun. I hadn't ridden it in quite a while and since we got quite a bit of horsepower, I was surprised that the way it came off the line it had a 1 13 60. foot with me that it was fun to use genres looking for the first two strokes next to each other seven here on drag cycle up on the racetrack this looks good seven eighty six shoes seven eighty nine seagrass they made it on drag cycle drag cycle playing in bill baxter store do you play it in your store?

If so, let us know below in the comments. I would love to hear from you. Well, Bill, this was great. We wish you all the best. We want to see you break that record. I think you will. How much hard work are you putting into this machine? Another question I want to sneak in for you. What is the total value of a package like this? If you had to put a number on it, you might not even be able to do it, but oh. Gosh, that's probably hard to say right. I actually sit down and put a pencil to it.

It should probably cost fifteen thousand dollars, so let me go one step further. I know that's one of the reasons we don't do it. I don't see many H2 drag bikes. It's too valuable and collectible to bring back to the streets now because we see them on Meek and the H2s are through the roof. I think I saw one for twenty-five thousand dollars, yes, my friend John. I sold an original one for 20,25,000 about a year ago, so based on that, the fact that you're playing a sport in a category here where the pieces are super collectible and expensive, what challenges are presented to you, well, you know?

Parts availability is a challenge for anything modern. I can get all H2 cylinders and connecting rods etc. I want them, but they're not good for racing, they're just not strong enough, so you have to make them right yourself. you've done so well that you don't take any credit for the things that ralph shipman or doug flannery does, yeah, big shout out to ray, shout out to ralph and doug, see doug on martin, can't wait to see him, ralph I hope to see you one day we will keep this two-stroke passion alive we know we want to thank Dave Comforti bearings around the world he has done a lot for you absolutely all the bearings on the bike are from Dave even the crankshaft bearings are from Dave Me I'd like to thank you, well, Nate McCoy has been a huge help on this new project with the fuel injection and of course Steve Nichols.

I think Steve is about to block my phone number. I don't know how that man sleeps. being the only one who goes to more motorcycle races than us every time i see steve, it's very nice and comforting, but we say, hey, i saw you in georgia, now we're in florida, now we're in pennsylvania and now. We are in Virginia and still traveling the country, but it is worth it. Dave Lacroix was also a great help initially setting it up and I still buy as many pieces as I can because he was so helpful, great and I actually blocked my number after a while.

I think he already unlocked it. Alright, we've all been there. Well, guys, in the comments, if you have any questions, come to them. Maybe Bill can answer them if he has time. Congratulations to Bill and Cheer to Bill because we want to see this machine get down to the 770's and maybe even a big race this year. Stay tuned for Bill. It's been amazing, good luck to you, thanks for letting us meet this guy, a great long time world record holder. More thanks for stopping by Jack, oh man I got a kiss. I didn't know he was going to get a kiss.

Hey, two caresses are worth a kiss. Well there you go, two strokes fans, if you like that video, here's another one. Subscribe. in between be a friend, tell a friend and make sure you're locked in because when this hits the track, we'll bring all the action to all our subscribers, thank you so much guys.