Ariel Atom, AKA The Two-Person Superbike: Touring Ariel’s Factory!

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  • čas přidán 26. 09. 2019
  • We should be thankful that cars like the Ariel Atom exist. Even if you aren’t into its looks, or its performance, it’s just plain rad that a company exists solely to make a pure, no-frills performance vehicle that RIPS on any track it hits. And of course they’re built in a shed in the UK. A very nice shed, but a shed nonetheless.
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Komentáře • 100

  • @LarryChenPhoto
    @LarryChenPhoto  Před 4 lety +1

    Make your walls epic! Support AutoFocus and purchase a large wall Photo Print today: www.etsy.com/shop/larrychenphoto

  • @breakawaymotorsports
    @breakawaymotorsports Před 4 lety +3

    Ive owned an Atom2 for 12 years and it has been a joy. I call it my 4 wheel motorcycle all the time. Not really a bike..but as close to two wheel travel as you can come.It is safe..fast..and lots of fun. I would not trade it for any other means of transportation available.

  • @prescottmajette5290
    @prescottmajette5290 Před 4 lety +18

    "Where's the radiator?"
    "In the front..."
    "Ohhhh....in the front...wow"

  • @harrybremer7800
    @harrybremer7800 Před 4 lety +2

    What!!! Machine gun Larry was In my hometown!! get to see these beauties regularly going flat out on the straight out the front of the factory 👌🏻👌🏻

  • @LarryChenPhoto
    @LarryChenPhoto  Před 4 lety +16

    Factory Tour Call Outs: What automotive factory should the Autofocus Crew invade next?!

  • @ricardolima4265
    @ricardolima4265 Před 4 lety

    Larry and Louis, the best duo on youtube

  • @icebreakertech
    @icebreakertech Před 4 lety +2

    I love the Ariel Nomad :D

  • @stephenclark8260
    @stephenclark8260 Před 4 lety

    Sweet ride,would love one.have had a go in one on my sim rig (assetto corsa) mental

  • @arunbaig2026
    @arunbaig2026 Před 4 lety

    Me and my dad waited 3 years for this car and it was so worth the wait because it's so so fast

  • @harryvj6397
    @harryvj6397 Před 4 lety

    Love the British tour so far! I’m guessing Caffeine and Machine next?

  • @Jabber-ig3iw
    @Jabber-ig3iw Před 4 lety

    I live a mile from this factory, see loads of these in the roads around here.

  • @kevinpayne1994
    @kevinpayne1994 Před 4 lety +9

    Larry should make a video on how he edits his photos

  • @akagainesy
    @akagainesy Před 4 lety

    Mate! Wish I'd known you were in my area, would have been amazing to meet you guys 🙂

  • @isaiahr3471
    @isaiahr3471 Před 4 lety

    I'd LOVE to get up like 3 or 4am in the morning & go for a nice 200mile drive before anyone is on the highway & just go!!!!! That would be crazy yet awesome

  • @pieciurko1
    @pieciurko1 Před 4 lety

    Almost 100k subs, DOPE

  • @leighharron
    @leighharron Před 4 lety

    Nice to see Bryn on the show!

  • @justinturner4850
    @justinturner4850 Před 4 lety

    I love these things! I’ve wanted one for years. Talk about “drivers car”! I will have one someday... too bad we don’t have a track on Maui🥺🤕🤦‍♂️

  • @randyschock7374
    @randyschock7374 Před 4 lety

    FACTORY FIVE !!!!!!!

  • @TimwaTumble
    @TimwaTumble Před 4 lety

    Larry comes to Somerset!

  • @offrimits
    @offrimits Před 4 lety

    did you take larry out in the volvo bryn ?

  • @booyamotorsports
    @booyamotorsports Před 4 lety

    I have an atom 4 ordered , the wait is killing me lol

  • @garyparker2969
    @garyparker2969 Před 4 lety

    I've Never Heard of This Company till Now !! Where've I Been?? OMG !!! LOL

    • @tcroft2165
      @tcroft2165 Před 4 lety

      Wow. They've only been at the bleeding edge of road legal lightweights for 20yrs :-)

  • @davidyeh2678
    @davidyeh2678 Před 4 lety +11

    Personally, I like AutoFocus much more than other Hoonigan channels.
    IDK why it got low subs

    • @LarryChenPhoto
      @LarryChenPhoto  Před 4 lety +3

      It’s fairly young for a CZcams Channel, so just know you all hoped on the a Notification Squad at the very beginning.

    • @junk3996
      @junk3996 Před 4 lety +3

      i dislike that there are so many separate channels for all the content, lol

    • @Riddimz
      @Riddimz Před 4 lety

      i just go to main channel and look at all the uploads there

  • @garrettkennedy8717
    @garrettkennedy8717 Před 4 lety +1

    Man I’m early. Yesss

  • @HOOLIGANfilmz
    @HOOLIGANfilmz Před 4 lety

    You better show me more of Ariel, and Larry driving at least one version of the Atom

    • @tcroft2165
      @tcroft2165 Před 4 lety +1

      Spot on. Perhaps the test car was out with a journaliists while they were there.

  • @Thesomersetgimp
    @Thesomersetgimp Před 4 lety

    Hoonigan were in Somerset!! Welcome to gods country.

  • @lorka111
    @lorka111 Před 3 lety

    Such a great car. So much you guys are in love with yourself. Ough!!

  • @nickfrechette19
    @nickfrechette19 Před 4 lety +6

    Send one to @PFISPEED
    1000 hp atom in a week.

  • @nolindlitchfield3465
    @nolindlitchfield3465 Před 4 lety +5

    Real question is, where’s the nomads? Also would’ve liked to see more of those bikes.

    • @tcroft2165
      @tcroft2165 Před 4 lety

      Prob few being built now as they are flat out on the new Atom 4 builds. There were a load a few months back of the Nomads.

    • @americanpanzer4163
      @americanpanzer4163 Před 4 lety

      They should do a limited Nomad V8

    • @tcroft2165
      @tcroft2165 Před 4 lety

      @@americanpanzer4163 Well if enough ppl asked I suppose! In reality no updates on the nomad for a while. The Nomad 2 when it comes will doubtless be the new type R but as that needs a new rear end there no incentive to do this soon.

  • @allensaunders449
    @allensaunders449 Před 4 lety +1

    Heard ariel atom was working on a full bodied hypercar

  • @19chucki74
    @19chucki74 Před 4 lety

    So the new Atom runs the new Civic Type R motor. Just damn.

    • @tcroft2165
      @tcroft2165 Před 4 lety

      New one, old one. (the UK versions have been Type r since the Atom 2 in the mid 2000s) The US version has some type rs but mostly domestic US engines. The Atom 4 is type r everywhere

  • @briangreen6602
    @briangreen6602 Před 4 lety

    Tiny criticism - put some padding on the tops of the axle stands.

  • @samsonian
    @samsonian Před 4 lety +1

    Come now gents, you’re in Britain now; you don’t remove weight there...you add lightness!
    RIP Colin Chapman

  • @brynalban
    @brynalban Před 4 lety

    #brynvaded Ariel!

  • @Group_Anonymous
    @Group_Anonymous Před 4 lety

    Most superbikes already come with with two seats and passenger pegs

  • @gordythecreator
    @gordythecreator Před 4 lety

    I would love to try and make my own. Obviously it would never be as refined, but I think I could get close

  • @apelikemenace
    @apelikemenace Před 4 lety

    I know what happens behind the green door!!

  • @MrLifeissomething
    @MrLifeissomething Před 4 lety

    "He loves Hondas." He says in resignation over his wayward child.

  • @IIIRotor
    @IIIRotor Před 4 lety

    So no mentioning Nick Smart... Way da go

  • @EGMAX
    @EGMAX Před 4 lety

    Veeeeetec

  • @Azulevo
    @Azulevo Před 4 lety

    For $20k you can build a 300hp Exocet that, according to Matt Farrah, drives better than an Atom. I’ve put 15k miles on my exocet. An Atom would be epic though.

  • @robertrennells6866
    @robertrennells6866 Před 4 lety

    OMG A LS WOULD ALMOST FIT'
    THE ATOM SPLITTER

  • @dielauwen
    @dielauwen Před 4 lety +1

    An engineering student was looking for a new chassis design . I showed him a strip of wood bent into a nearly teardrop shape. Then we discussed suspension and in the rear we came up with the wide whishbone. I said bending the tube would be a huge problem. He said to use seamless Boiler tube. To prevent cracking the tube low temp Bronxe welding to be used. I never told him that the shape was from a Upside down Dory made of wood that would not break up in rough seas. New Technology? What was that students name.? I forget .Mid 1970's. Huntington, NY .

  • @ps3shakes123
    @ps3shakes123 Před 4 lety +1

    Watch: ariel atom nurburgring (sp?) vid on yt.

  • @dbassett74
    @dbassett74 Před 4 lety

    What do they do with that perfectly good Civic without a motor? Seems like an expensive way to do it. Why not just buy a crate motor?

    • @najuad
      @najuad Před 4 lety

      That’s is just what they do. If you look round the back of the Somerset factory there's some toxic wasteland with 60 dead Civic TypeR’s, hearts removed waiting to get cut up and go to the tip.

  • @LeonardTavast
    @LeonardTavast Před 4 lety

    Even better than VTEC would be a V10 F1 engine...

  • @isaacshively6705
    @isaacshively6705 Před 4 lety

    I though Ariel Atom' have Ecotec motors in them

    • @tcroft2165
      @tcroft2165 Před 4 lety

      Only the US atoms - and even they are type r now for the 4.

  • @mudpuddle8805
    @mudpuddle8805 Před 4 lety

    WTF? How come everyone is having more fun than me? Ok, not true, but it sometimes feels like it... Like today.

  • @CakesByJana
    @CakesByJana Před 4 lety

    But does it have V-TEC? hahaha

  • @thewhat1214
    @thewhat1214 Před 4 lety

    BAC MONO is like the Atom just saying.

    • @sl0w_racer
      @sl0w_racer Před 4 lety

      BAC Mono is single seater and for the price you could have 3 well spec'ed Atoms for the price.

  • @aabra6265
    @aabra6265 Před 4 lety +2

    Uhm I'm pretty sure any superbike is basically the two person superbike since they usually come with two seats

  • @truckspank656
    @truckspank656 Před 4 lety +3

    "like a superbike for two people"
    uuuumm........anyone ever have someone ride pillion? I know I have.

  • @l1pps786
    @l1pps786 Před 4 lety

    Bls??? U mean Lbs. Lol.

  • @jacobwalls452
    @jacobwalls452 Před 4 lety

    Ariel is nice, but it's no BAC

  • @jamesatwood4433
    @jamesatwood4433 Před 4 lety

    A "2 person superbike" is just called a superbike. Just use the pillion seat.

  • @Jabber-ig3iw
    @Jabber-ig3iw Před 4 lety

    And then yanks ruin them with plastic side panels and scaffolding on top.