**The Editor's Back Finish: A Rock Solid Result**

After completing the editor's back finish, the team was thrilled with the results. The hard textured finish looked rock solid and provided a nice contrast to the rest of the quad. The editor expressed a desire to paint the entire quad in this finish, but decided to add a little bit of tint to create a unique look.

"I actually want to paint the rest of the quad like this too," the editor said, "but I'm gonna go with your back smoother finish and see how the rest of the quad looks." The editor planned to mix the metallic cyber gray color with some dirt and paint the entire quad in that color to give it a distinct look. With the dirt back finish removed, the quad now has a fresh new appearance.

**The Design Process: A Collaboration Between Team Members**

With the quad's base coat complete, it was time for the design process to begin. However, the editor expressed a dislike for staring at things for long periods of time unless they were something interesting. Instead, they decided to pass off this part of the project to Steven, who would handle the fairings.

Steven is like "the France of the whole operations," according to the editor. After a previous attempt at design went awry, Steven took over with Popeye's in hand, forcing the editor to do the math. The team worked backwards from known dimensions and references to create the cyber quad's design.

"We used the same 32 images and five videos as the only reference points," explained the editor. "Since there is less information available on this thing than the cyber truck itself, we had to be creative." By graphing out the Raptor's dimensions in relation to the quad's frame, the team was able to visualize how Tesla took a pre-existing frame and built their own rad geometric Mars rover.

**The Design Process: Graphing Out Dimensions and Angles**

Using Yamahas dimension specs as a starting point, the team created a graph with each square representing two inches. They loosely speculated on how the cyber quad fits in its place and firm up the reality of the angles and sizes using available images. After careful study of each body line and angle, they determined the degrees of the front and rear fender flairs, the front stainless-steel assembly, and how the rest of the body test fits with varying scalene triangles.

"To make a bit of origami first," explained the editor, "we drew out the design on paper like you see here. Then we transferred it to cardboard to confirm if any angles needed to be adjusted." When sourcing zero components, they ended up with a larger form factor for the batteries, which meant making minimal changes to the angles to accommodate the extra range.

**Brackets and Front Fenders: The Next Steps in Design**

The team created brackets that would go on either side of the seat, allowing the fenders to come out at an angle. These were followed by the biggest challenge of all – the front fenders. This process took about five hours, including cutting and measuring. They also installed a new handlebar for the low-rise model.

The front fenders were made from ABS plastic with aluminum angle rods that formed the basic structure. The team was debating whether to leave the front fender black or add some color on top. The design is actually pretty solid, according to the editor, and they'd be surprised if Tesla's cyber quad didn't look similar.

**A Glimpse into the Future: A Break in the Series**

As the series comes to a close for now, the team will take a quick break while waiting on parts. However, an exciting episode is just around the corner. The editor revealed that Tesla killed their super charging access, but this new episode will reveal why it's actually one of the best things to ever happen to them.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys Richard rich rebuilds here and there'll be three categories to this episode number one playing in fabrication number two oh no baby That's not me and number three my all-time favorite thickly laid sarcasm with an ad that you won't see coming so which one should we choose with our spinning wheel here alright what do we have ah sarcasm with an ad that you won't see coming alright so apparently over ten thousand engineers watch the channel and they all came out of the woodwork for the last episode and I've been getting lots of feedback on what I'm doing and people stated there'd be lots of unsprung weight I didn't make the handling impossible and I would have no suspension travel rendering it useless useless now I do take into account professional opinions or I find people of experience and knowledge when I first rebuilt a Tesla there was no one so I'd either become that guy that picks the Tesla or win a sweet Darwin award now I find our cake ways of doing things but I'm the kind of guy that works with what you have I have a really big battery most you may have smaller batteries he wouldn't understand so I had no room for the motor and this is a method I came up with to resolve the problem that I encountered let me read some comments here what's this okay Fred told me I have known for suspension travel anymore well why didn't I think of that Fred well Fred I did try it beforehand and I did consult a few professional ATV riders and how far the travel would go if I want to do some sweet jumps I thanked Fred asked what his last project was and he said he collects baseball cards and that's really cool Thank You Fred next one up the welding skills of me and my constituents will fail miserably this comes from Charles well Charles I beat my electric rat rod up pretty bad it can actually tow my Hummer I put it through its paces left it outside in the rain snow and drove it again and it hasn't fallen apart yet I thanked him and I asked to see his welding and Charles informed me he's never welded he's scared of fire and he builds small wooden ships inside wine bottles very cool thank you Charles but last but not least let's talk to herb herb told me I was wasting my time and I should quit while I'm ahead I responded with Thank You herb do you have any suggestions I'd like to see a photo of the quality you are building and would you look at that herb said I've never built a quad but I won the state level championship for creating model train universes this guy knows what's up he said did the plastic figurines and his caboose upsetting the train causing it to derail so he knows a thing or two about unsprung weight thank you so much herb I asked him what a suggestion was and he said he would start over by a new quad with a smaller battery from zero I said okay herb no problem brother I asked if he was paying for it and he said no so it looks like I'm gonna have to call up start up start covers the spread yet again helping uncle rich because they viewed me as more than a credit score which is nothing like my score on the cruisin USA game at the arcades needless to say they reward you based on your education and job history and the form of a small interest rate they make it fast easy and simple to check what your rate will be and it's a soft pull which is quite frankly the exact type of pull I prefer see why upstart is top ranked in the category with over 300 businesses in its Trustpilot and swing over to up Starcom slash which rebuilds the fight on how low your rate is in a few minutes so you can fund a build or project of your own Thank You upstart for the hook-up and sponsoring this absurdity let's spin the wheel again okay fabrication that being said let's dive in some of the building of this quad shall we Lee and I last episode made it the motor to the swingarm and now we're gonna pick up where we left off this episode we'll be mounting the battery in the Box the quad itself then we're gonna split the cord in half to make it easier to insert the battery we're gonna make the mounting brackets for said battery as well as the battery hold-down strap then we're gonna get into the overall design of the fairings of the quad which would be led by Steven first off I'm gonna invite my two friends Joe and George over and we're gonna do some fabricating great wave I hope you like my ozone all right so now we finished off the welding of the part itself and this was probably the most quote-unquote exhilarating part of the entire build because what we had to do was we have to split the entire quad in half after we did that they actually fabricated the brackets that go to the mounting points on the frame of the quad the front of the quad is steel and the rear half is aluminum so I had only weld in the front half because all it had access to was to weld steel at that point so nothing can be welded in the rear because on these aluminum it's also a lot more difficult to weld on that after I put the battery box in one of the main concern is making sure that it had some accessibility so this is the contact of box on top and the main battery fuses at the side I had to make sure that was still accessible in case I have to do any maintenance the other concern is making sure the battery doesn't slide from side to side what I did for that was actually in the welding some tabs on the outside of this to make sure that there's no side-to-side movement when you run around on the quad the only way has right now to get this battery box out is to actually to break this right here and slide it off from the side so this is the this is my loving skilled incredible improving well I'm could anyone says my welding is definitely improving there's some spit there whatever it's on my damn fault I Brima I Bream I blame Harbor Freight for the I Harbor Freight for that so what I did here looks like a cross but that's not a cross what would Jesus do this already died for us since title Asli all my releases prior to it no it's right here this is the actual battery tray so this top part bill is gone right here sorry that's the battery tie down I should say this is a battery tie down this is form residue right on time and that goes right here then what we have here we have this that goes through that hole right here to secure it down what I could do when I tighten the nut down it further pushes down the battery making sure that we slide from side to side there's some holes that I drilled on top of these steel plates - and those steel plates arts our house the controller controller goes right here and I'm just gonna have some screws that go in place right here to keep that study I just wanted to tell you guys more about the motor setup so remember it's wrong before I didn't know where the hell I put the motor and obviously joining about with the valley losses mounted there's no way this motor that's so large could fit anywhere within this vicinity so we determined we needed to put the motor on top of the swing arm that was my crazy-ass idea and I think it looks actually kind of cool it's gonna be a very very short chain run right here so it's not gonna be much slack it's pretty much instant snap and go on this thing so there was a piece of aluminum right here and if you remember the video carefully it was a very large piece that was still here I had to cut that because the sprocket was in the way if you remember the break used to be on top of here but because again the motors in the way this break have to be relocated to the back almost the bottom side of the swing arm the battery box that's another tab welded on this side so again there's no side-to-side movement and then right here for the zip ties I put these zip ties here because that's what's holding the entire bike together just kidding no there's a lot of the electronics in the going here so the the main battery board as well as the DC to DC converter a lot of those trunk electronics gonna go right here and I just started forming a small almost like a small shelf to put those things on top of but what's actually gonna go here there was actually a pan that prevented damage from rocks almost like a sliding tray that went underneath this that goes from the rear end of the quad to the front and that tray is the majority of whether the trash can live on top of so in terms of travel distance that was another big concern that as well and I actually ended up watching quite a few videos of sport quads and other ATVs going off-road and doing these massive 10 to 15-foot jumps off of dunes and it didn't look like there was too much travel in the rear I think full squat well this point yourself but it's not likely to hit anything you said I don't think so but even said even if it does what I can do is I can adjust this shop accordingly so it doesn't bottom out I make it also exchange the rear shop as well if I notice it getting a little too out of hand so what I'm going to do now is this is the under tray that actually originally went underneath the engine and this is the trade actually protects the engine against like rocks scratches and just general debris came opportunity case I actually wanted to coat this with something what I'm going to do is I'm gonna paint this it looks a lot better than this kind of like base coat come on before I'm going to use drawback and now you're back is this really thick flexible paints and what it does it prevents like scratches and chips it's also anti rust as well put that coating at the bottom just taking a little bit of this here look how thick that is it's like a bowl old meal boy boy look at that look I could really even spread it this thing is not going anywhere look at that look at that paint real Bob Ross over here this is how I'm literally Bob Ross with the color a little bit of color how it's done just like the sack required light coats keep the can moving back and forth motions just like that and all your problems disappear just like that just kidding you still have problems they're just masked by paint all right it's a good first coat all right so these are the results of the editor back finish on the bottom portion and this is pretty much rock solid and it gave it a nice hard textured finish the only thing now is this came out so nice actually want to paint the rest of the quad like this too but what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna add a little bit of tint to that color I'm actually gonna go with your back smoother finish and see how the rest of the quad looks I'm probably going to go with a more of a metallic kind of cyber gray color mix it with the dirt back and paint the entire quad that color so it stands out a little bit more now the dirt back finish cannot really nice I'm glad I got rid of that red white and blue it's all one solid color now and things are looking fresh this is just the base coat we have about three or four more coats to go but I like where things are headed now coming up to the design I hate staring at things for a long time unless it's well you know something I'm interested in staring at but I'm gonna pass this part off to Steven he's gonna design the fairings he's like the France of the whole operations alright so after everybody saw our Richards valiant attempt at artistry in the last episode he decided to forcibly call me in with Popeye's in hand to do the math and I obliged so to reanimate the cyber quad it consists of using the same 32 images and five videos as the only reference points since there is less information available on this thing than the cyber truck itself to do this I worked backwards from the knowledge of the Yamaha Raptors dimensions being a seventy two point six inch length a forty six point five inch width and a forty three point nine inch height from there we can start to visualize how Tesla took the pre-existing frame and then built their own rad geometric Mars rover that was put right on top of it measuring out Yamahas dimension specs we can graph up the Raptor with each square representing two inches and loosely speculate how the cyber quad fits in its place then by taking the information to the things that we do know the dimensions of such as the tires the handlebars and this is mention we can then firm up the reality of the angles and sizes from true directional front rear inside images that are available of the quad after a considerable study of each body line at angle we can determine the degrees of the front and the rear fender flairs the front stainless-steel assembly and how the rest of the body tests elates with varying scalene triangles after putting it all on paper like you see here we can make a bit of origami first before transferring and over to cardboard to confirm if any angles need to be adjusted since when we source the zero components we ended up with the larger form factor of the batteries figuring it would be nice to have the extra range we needed to alter how the battery would fit in the frame and make minimal changes to the angles to accommodate the larger battery pack and from here we'll be able to start to play and tie it all together brackets done for the rear fenders so these are the two brackets that are gonna go in either side of the seat and we're going to have the fenders come out this way and cut at an angle number two the biggest thing to have done with having the front fenders on this thing was absolutely this took probably about five hours of this so it was a lot of cutting planet measuring we also put in the new handlebar for the low-rise one and the low-rise one looks ten times rather than the mid rise one for sure so I'm glad we got that in this is this consists of ABS plastic an eighth of an inch plastic and then we have the aluminum angle rods that take up these two sides to form the basic structure and I actually like where this look so I'm debating whether or not to actually leave it black asses or whether or not I want to have on top of it right now this whole thing is ABS plastic and these are just rivets that I put in here to secure the plastic to the rest of the aluminum shell so that's that's how we design that it's actually pretty solid design I'd be surprised if we took the tesla cycle quad apart and it didn't look like this matter of fact well boys and girls I hope you enjoyed this episode we have a lot of work to we're going to pick a quick break in the series while we wait on parts but I have a fun episode coming up for you all as you all may know Tesla killed my super charging access but the next episode is gonna be here's why that's one of the best things to ever happen to me thanks for following along today as you can see the whole YouTube army is here it is thank you to Birkin got rich rebound we've got Ben wiki tomorrowhey guys Richard rich rebuilds here and there'll be three categories to this episode number one playing in fabrication number two oh no baby That's not me and number three my all-time favorite thickly laid sarcasm with an ad that you won't see coming so which one should we choose with our spinning wheel here alright what do we have ah sarcasm with an ad that you won't see coming alright so apparently over ten thousand engineers watch the channel and they all came out of the woodwork for the last episode and I've been getting lots of feedback on what I'm doing and people stated there'd be lots of unsprung weight I didn't make the handling impossible and I would have no suspension travel rendering it useless useless now I do take into account professional opinions or I find people of experience and knowledge when I first rebuilt a Tesla there was no one so I'd either become that guy that picks the Tesla or win a sweet Darwin award now I find our cake ways of doing things but I'm the kind of guy that works with what you have I have a really big battery most you may have smaller batteries he wouldn't understand so I had no room for the motor and this is a method I came up with to resolve the problem that I encountered let me read some comments here what's this okay Fred told me I have known for suspension travel anymore well why didn't I think of that Fred well Fred I did try it beforehand and I did consult a few professional ATV riders and how far the travel would go if I want to do some sweet jumps I thanked Fred asked what his last project was and he said he collects baseball cards and that's really cool Thank You Fred next one up the welding skills of me and my constituents will fail miserably this comes from Charles well Charles I beat my electric rat rod up pretty bad it can actually tow my Hummer I put it through its paces left it outside in the rain snow and drove it again and it hasn't fallen apart yet I thanked him and I asked to see his welding and Charles informed me he's never welded he's scared of fire and he builds small wooden ships inside wine bottles very cool thank you Charles but last but not least let's talk to herb herb told me I was wasting my time and I should quit while I'm ahead I responded with Thank You herb do you have any suggestions I'd like to see a photo of the quality you are building and would you look at that herb said I've never built a quad but I won the state level championship for creating model train universes this guy knows what's up he said did the plastic figurines and his caboose upsetting the train causing it to derail so he knows a thing or two about unsprung weight thank you so much herb I asked him what a suggestion was and he said he would start over by a new quad with a smaller battery from zero I said okay herb no problem brother I asked if he was paying for it and he said no so it looks like I'm gonna have to call up start up start covers the spread yet again helping uncle rich because they viewed me as more than a credit score which is nothing like my score on the cruisin USA game at the arcades needless to say they reward you based on your education and job history and the form of a small interest rate they make it fast easy and simple to check what your rate will be and it's a soft pull which is quite frankly the exact type of pull I prefer see why upstart is top ranked in the category with over 300 businesses in its Trustpilot and swing over to up Starcom slash which rebuilds the fight on how low your rate is in a few minutes so you can fund a build or project of your own Thank You upstart for the hook-up and sponsoring this absurdity let's spin the wheel again okay fabrication that being said let's dive in some of the building of this quad shall we Lee and I last episode made it the motor to the swingarm and now we're gonna pick up where we left off this episode we'll be mounting the battery in the Box the quad itself then we're gonna split the cord in half to make it easier to insert the battery we're gonna make the mounting brackets for said battery as well as the battery hold-down strap then we're gonna get into the overall design of the fairings of the quad which would be led by Steven first off I'm gonna invite my two friends Joe and George over and we're gonna do some fabricating great wave I hope you like my ozone all right so now we finished off the welding of the part itself and this was probably the most quote-unquote exhilarating part of the entire build because what we had to do was we have to split the entire quad in half after we did that they actually fabricated the brackets that go to the mounting points on the frame of the quad the front of the quad is steel and the rear half is aluminum so I had only weld in the front half because all it had access to was to weld steel at that point so nothing can be welded in the rear because on these aluminum it's also a lot more difficult to weld on that after I put the battery box in one of the main concern is making sure that it had some accessibility so this is the contact of box on top and the main battery fuses at the side I had to make sure that was still accessible in case I have to do any maintenance the other concern is making sure the battery doesn't slide from side to side what I did for that was actually in the welding some tabs on the outside of this to make sure that there's no side-to-side movement when you run around on the quad the only way has right now to get this battery box out is to actually to break this right here and slide it off from the side so this is the this is my loving skilled incredible improving well I'm could anyone says my welding is definitely improving there's some spit there whatever it's on my damn fault I Brima I Bream I blame Harbor Freight for the I Harbor Freight for that so what I did here looks like a cross but that's not a cross what would Jesus do this already died for us since title Asli all my releases prior to it no it's right here this is the actual battery tray so this top part bill is gone right here sorry that's the battery tie down I should say this is a battery tie down this is form residue right on time and that goes right here then what we have here we have this that goes through that hole right here to secure it down what I could do when I tighten the nut down it further pushes down the battery making sure that we slide from side to side there's some holes that I drilled on top of these steel plates - and those steel plates arts our house the controller controller goes right here and I'm just gonna have some screws that go in place right here to keep that study I just wanted to tell you guys more about the motor setup so remember it's wrong before I didn't know where the hell I put the motor and obviously joining about with the valley losses mounted there's no way this motor that's so large could fit anywhere within this vicinity so we determined we needed to put the motor on top of the swing arm that was my crazy-ass idea and I think it looks actually kind of cool it's gonna be a very very short chain run right here so it's not gonna be much slack it's pretty much instant snap and go on this thing so there was a piece of aluminum right here and if you remember the video carefully it was a very large piece that was still here I had to cut that because the sprocket was in the way if you remember the break used to be on top of here but because again the motors in the way this break have to be relocated to the back almost the bottom side of the swing arm the battery box that's another tab welded on this side so again there's no side-to-side movement and then right here for the zip ties I put these zip ties here because that's what's holding the entire bike together just kidding no there's a lot of the electronics in the going here so the the main battery board as well as the DC to DC converter a lot of those trunk electronics gonna go right here and I just started forming a small almost like a small shelf to put those things on top of but what's actually gonna go here there was actually a pan that prevented damage from rocks almost like a sliding tray that went underneath this that goes from the rear end of the quad to the front and that tray is the majority of whether the trash can live on top of so in terms of travel distance that was another big concern that as well and I actually ended up watching quite a few videos of sport quads and other ATVs going off-road and doing these massive 10 to 15-foot jumps off of dunes and it didn't look like there was too much travel in the rear I think full squat well this point yourself but it's not likely to hit anything you said I don't think so but even said even if it does what I can do is I can adjust this shop accordingly so it doesn't bottom out I make it also exchange the rear shop as well if I notice it getting a little too out of hand so what I'm going to do now is this is the under tray that actually originally went underneath the engine and this is the trade actually protects the engine against like rocks scratches and just general debris came opportunity case I actually wanted to coat this with something what I'm going to do is I'm gonna paint this it looks a lot better than this kind of like base coat come on before I'm going to use drawback and now you're back is this really thick flexible paints and what it does it prevents like scratches and chips it's also anti rust as well put that coating at the bottom just taking a little bit of this here look how thick that is it's like a bowl old meal boy boy look at that look I could really even spread it this thing is not going anywhere look at that look at that paint real Bob Ross over here this is how I'm literally Bob Ross with the color a little bit of color how it's done just like the sack required light coats keep the can moving back and forth motions just like that and all your problems disappear just like that just kidding you still have problems they're just masked by paint all right it's a good first coat all right so these are the results of the editor back finish on the bottom portion and this is pretty much rock solid and it gave it a nice hard textured finish the only thing now is this came out so nice actually want to paint the rest of the quad like this too but what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna add a little bit of tint to that color I'm actually gonna go with your back smoother finish and see how the rest of the quad looks I'm probably going to go with a more of a metallic kind of cyber gray color mix it with the dirt back and paint the entire quad that color so it stands out a little bit more now the dirt back finish cannot really nice I'm glad I got rid of that red white and blue it's all one solid color now and things are looking fresh this is just the base coat we have about three or four more coats to go but I like where things are headed now coming up to the design I hate staring at things for a long time unless it's well you know something I'm interested in staring at but I'm gonna pass this part off to Steven he's gonna design the fairings he's like the France of the whole operations alright so after everybody saw our Richards valiant attempt at artistry in the last episode he decided to forcibly call me in with Popeye's in hand to do the math and I obliged so to reanimate the cyber quad it consists of using the same 32 images and five videos as the only reference points since there is less information available on this thing than the cyber truck itself to do this I worked backwards from the knowledge of the Yamaha Raptors dimensions being a seventy two point six inch length a forty six point five inch width and a forty three point nine inch height from there we can start to visualize how Tesla took the pre-existing frame and then built their own rad geometric Mars rover that was put right on top of it measuring out Yamahas dimension specs we can graph up the Raptor with each square representing two inches and loosely speculate how the cyber quad fits in its place then by taking the information to the things that we do know the dimensions of such as the tires the handlebars and this is mention we can then firm up the reality of the angles and sizes from true directional front rear inside images that are available of the quad after a considerable study of each body line at angle we can determine the degrees of the front and the rear fender flairs the front stainless-steel assembly and how the rest of the body tests elates with varying scalene triangles after putting it all on paper like you see here we can make a bit of origami first before transferring and over to cardboard to confirm if any angles need to be adjusted since when we source the zero components we ended up with the larger form factor of the batteries figuring it would be nice to have the extra range we needed to alter how the battery would fit in the frame and make minimal changes to the angles to accommodate the larger battery pack and from here we'll be able to start to play and tie it all together brackets done for the rear fenders so these are the two brackets that are gonna go in either side of the seat and we're going to have the fenders come out this way and cut at an angle number two the biggest thing to have done with having the front fenders on this thing was absolutely this took probably about five hours of this so it was a lot of cutting planet measuring we also put in the new handlebar for the low-rise one and the low-rise one looks ten times rather than the mid rise one for sure so I'm glad we got that in this is this consists of ABS plastic an eighth of an inch plastic and then we have the aluminum angle rods that take up these two sides to form the basic structure and I actually like where this look so I'm debating whether or not to actually leave it black asses or whether or not I want to have on top of it right now this whole thing is ABS plastic and these are just rivets that I put in here to secure the plastic to the rest of the aluminum shell so that's that's how we design that it's actually pretty solid design I'd be surprised if we took the tesla cycle quad apart and it didn't look like this matter of fact well boys and girls I hope you enjoyed this episode we have a lot of work to we're going to pick a quick break in the series while we wait on parts but I have a fun episode coming up for you all as you all may know Tesla killed my super charging access but the next episode is gonna be here's why that's one of the best things to ever happen to me thanks for following along today as you can see the whole YouTube army is here it is thank you to Birkin got rich rebound we've got Ben wiki tomorrow\n"