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if you're willing to get your hands

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dirty it's possible to build your

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ultimate dream ride from stylish and

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powerful

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to eco-friendly let these diy masters

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take the will

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and watch them make their dream rides

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come true

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by

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foreign

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foreign

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bicycles it's a special everything a

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special frame

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especially wheels a special paint

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everything is special

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the bicycles we make is make we love

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because it's with our hands

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you know those bikes snoop and countless

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other rappers rode around in

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you know the ones that ooze that west

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coast style

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low rider bikes low to the ground

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chromed out gold plated

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they're an extension of low rider car

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culture and they all started here

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i am the godfather of the lord bicycles

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when i was 10 years old i used to fix

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all the bikes with the neighbors

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i always dreamed with a motorcycle and a

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car but since

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i was too small and no money so i put my

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mind in bicycles a mainstay in compton

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and west coast culture

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these iconic bikes were actually first

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created in mexico

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i brought the lord rider to california

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in early 80s and soon after

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locals took notice of the shiny swaggy

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rides hanging in his shop

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when i started making bikes and put it

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in a display people come

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and say hey can you make me one of those

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and then they spread and now we have

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customers from all over the world

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this is one of many creations right here

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he

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almost practically put everything on

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here

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he blew my mind when he when he put it

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on there for me

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it's a completely different than the

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regular bike and the way they look and

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the way they

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drive is art

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people dream and we make the dream come

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true

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the wheel a perfect function

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invented in the stone age to this day

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the wheel provides the same function as

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it did those thousands of years ago

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but one man is flipping everything we

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knew about the wheel

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on its end my name is michael bertoff

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i'm not an engineer

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but i did what most engineers wish they

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could

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when i was a little kid i like to take

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things apart and see what they're made

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out of

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i tried to make something new out of

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them and i still like doing it to this

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day

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in 2012 i was running an hr company and

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i turned on the movie tron

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i was drinking a coffee and i thought

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that was a very cool motorcycles

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in the movie they're called light cycles

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and they have these hollow wheels

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and i remember thinking well i'm not an

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engineer but couldn't we do something

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useful with that empty space

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i imagine you could put things in the

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wheel that lived outside of it with an

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electric wheel

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for example the motor and the battery

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a wheel that powers itself is a much

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more universal wheel than a wheel that

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needs something else to power it

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make it super compact super efficient

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and that's really what inspired me

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pretty much everyone said it was

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impossible they said that if it could be

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done

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it would have been done already by a

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real engineer

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so i ignored them and i quit my job and

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then i met dakota decker

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who ended up leaving spacex to build the

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wheel together with me

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dakota and i spent about two years

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before we came

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to the version that we put up for retail

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it's a much more

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compact design takes up the same space

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as a regular wheel

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but it's got everything in it the entire

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powertrain

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the battery the motor the computer this

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wheel is extremely environmentally

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friendly

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it's electric power and it's a very

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efficient use

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we have made thousands of bicycles into

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affordable electric vehicles all over

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the world

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we see that we can contribute to the

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future of transportation with the

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georgia wheel

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we see vehicles that nobody has ever

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made before

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being able to be made now imagine a car

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imagine the possibilities when you take

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all the guts out of a car

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because you just don't need them anymore

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the opportunities really are

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endless

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in mexico city cars are everywhere over

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3.5 million to be exact

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and it's not exactly great for the

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environment but fear not

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because there's a solution that can

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change all of that and that solution

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is a volkswagen beetle

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welcome to alto redemiento automotris a

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mechanical workshop that specializes in

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transforming old gas gas-fueled cars

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into electric cars

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alvaro de la paz is the engineer behind

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the car conversion

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and then there's hector my name is

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hector ruiz and i'm a computer scientist

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hector is responsible for gathering the

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electrical parts and making sure they

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work

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right yeah i do the purchasing

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the extensive testing of the components

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if we have to burn

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something i'm the guy in order to

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learn how to do an electric car

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conversion

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you don't need any specific degree it's

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something very simple after

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reading a lot of books and taking

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training courses i believe

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anyone can do it hector and alvaro

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learned that converting older cars is

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both cost effective

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and safer for the environment

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by removing all the parts related to

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fuel combustion they can install the

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electrical components

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to have a fully functional electric car

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with zero emissions

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this car makes me free it's like the

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nirvana of the cars

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you are free from gas stations we are

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free from the checkup every six months

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reusability is something that the

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general public has to

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take into account in order to be

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pollution free

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if we want to have a better world for

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our children

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or grandchildren or future generations

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we have to be part of this solution

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so i believe the best way to start

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something important for the world

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at large is to do this kind of projects

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