"On this episode of "MythBusters"..." "Usually, you fill potholes." "I'm digging them, what are you gonna do?" "...Adam and Jamie get punctures on purpose..." "I have always wanted to do that!" "...as they test mythical ways of fixing a flat..." "I thought with a flat in the wild, we'd be grasping at straws." "...from mother nature, to the urban sprawl." "Yeah baby." "Can you really improvise your way out of a jam?" "Test time." "Manhole cover wheel." "Go." "Meanwhile," "Kari, Grant and Tory reel in a fishy fable," "as they test this viral video." "If you catch a fast enough fish, can it ever set your reel aflame?" "It's getting too hot to hold!" "312." "Who are the MythBusters?" "Adam Savage..." "Three, two, one." "...and Jamie Hyneman." "We are just gonna have to crash it to find out." "Between them, more than 30 years of special effects experience." "Joining them," "Tory Belleci..." "Time to go diving." "...Grant Imahara... 44 Magnum, baby." "...and Kari Byron." "They don't just tell the myths, they put them to the test." "MythBusters 9x09" " Fixing A Flat Original air date June 8, 2011" "All right, Jamie, I'm gonna paint you a picture." "You've driven out to the middle of nowhere to go backwoods camping." "You've hiked out into the wilderness, and at the end of the weekend you hike back to your car to find... oh!" "you got a flat tyre." " What do you do?" " I put on the spare." "You don't have a spare." "I call a tow truck." " No, no cell phone reception." " I walk out." "No, walking is not an option." "You have to somehow make that flat tire into a workable wheel." "What do you do?" "I improvise." "Exactly." "That's what this story's about." "Improvised solutions to making a flat tyre into a workable wheel in the wilderness." "Under normal circumstances, fixing a flat is simple." "Unpack the jack, prepare the spare and you're good to go." "But if you're in the middle of nowhere and the spare's not there, can you improvise your way out?" "Can mother nature really come to the rescue?" "Or will this myth hit the hay?" "So what's the plan?" "Well, we got a whole bunch of suggestions from the fan site for things people claim to have tried that got them out of jams." "I think we should choose the three best to test." "What say we go to the great outdoors and set up a course then?" "A course that would include all the different obstacles one might encounter trying to get themselves out of a jam." "Exactly." "So to put this tyre trilogy to the test, the team heads for the hills." "In order to run our tyre fixes through their paces, we've chosen a course in this off-road facility that will give us the widest range of standard road hazards you might encounter in just this kind of setting." "And that setting isn't the only thing they've settled on." "This is our test car." "It is an average, ordinary, everyday standard and that's the point." "This story is about an ordinary car out for an ordinary drive when things go sour and an extraordinary solution is required." "With the car sorted and a two-mile lap lined up, things are looking good." "So all they need now is to acquire a flat tire." "I have always wanted to do that." "What are we going to do?" "We've got a flat tire!" "So, here is the drill." "You're out in nature miles from the road with a flat tire and no spare." "Pop quiz, hot shot, what do you do?" "What you do is improvise." "And so that's what we're gonna do." "We're going to make our equivalent of a run flat tire out of stuff at hand, like vegetation or straw." "Yep, you heard right." "Fan fix number one involves first removing the wheel..." "I just happen to have a lovely garage jack." "...then stuffing the cut-open tire with straw..." "That's what I'm thinking." "Well, let's just see how far we get with that." "...before delivering a collection of bad puns." "I thought with a flat in the wild we'd be grasping at straws, but this is giving me high hopes." "Well, hey, if it works." "With Mark Twain turning in his grave, the guys reattach the wheel..." "Hey, that's not bad." "...before stuffing in more straw, until the tire is literally fit to burst." "Well, that's the last straw." "Now it's time for our straw-filled tire test." "How do I think it's going to go?" "Well, I'm positive that having straw in this tire is going to be better than if we just had a normal flat tire." "How long it actually lasts and whether the straw stays in there is the only worry that I have." "And the only way to find that out is to test it." "Sensibly, Jamie starts slow." "How does it feel?" "It feels a little spongy, but... seems like it's working." "But once they survive the speed bump..." "You bottomed out there." "...and the pothole..." " Fine two." " Totally flown." "...he's confident enough to speed up." "Through the pothole!" "And by the time he's half way around, you might say he's making hay while the sun shines." "Definitely a very reasonable escape plan so far." "Let's go uphill." "Amazingly, the straw tire stands up to whatever stands in its way..." " No problem." " We can make it home." "...at least until Jamie tries to end with a bang." "Very, very well done." "It looks a little different." "I had high hopes for the day and my hopes were not misplaced." "It performed fantastically." "It went through the obstacle course pretty much without a hitch." "You could feel it deteriorating." "My feeling is, you're using this to get out of a jam, okay?" "In this case would absolutely get you out of this jam." "Very nicely done." "Well, as a fix, I'm calling hay plausible." "Yeah." "Only a short-term one, though." "Agreed." "What's next?" "Well, I think nature may have some more surprises in store for us." "Next up, something fishy." "All right, so this next myth is an old fishing myth." "And it's not about the big one that got away, this one is about flaming reels." "Okay, flaming reels, you're gonna have to give me more than that." "All right, you know, as every fisherman knows, once the fish is on the line, all it wants to do is get away." "You're meaning it takes off in the opposite direction." "Exactly." "As it's taking off, it's pulling a lot of line off that reel." "Okay, I see where you're going with this." "If the line's coming off fast enough, it generates friction which creates heat." "And if it generated enough heat, it could burst into flame, hence the name flaming reel." "And that's the myth." "Can a fish cause a reel to catch on fire?" "And it's a myth that's perfectly portrayed in this viral video." "When the hooked fish flees, the friction on the spool causes the reel to first smoke, and then catch fire." "But is this really real?" "All right, so I got to say, right off the bat, the physics of this myth add up." "I mean a spinning reel will experience friction and that will generate heat." "But to generate enough heat to actually combust, we're talking about a pretty big fish." "Well, we do have big fish in our bay," "I mean we have sturgeon, we have shark." "Maybe we charter a boat and see if we get lucky." "Yeah, who knows?" "We could catch a giant monster fish that would fight the line and confirm the myth." "All right, let's hit the high seas." " Don't forget to pack your seasick pills." " No, I won't." "And your alarm clock, because this is a myth that starts early." "You guys ready to catch a fish?" " This is our boat." " You bet." "To put the flaming reel myth to the test, we got up at the crack of dawn and strolled down Fisherman Wharf to get on to this boat." "Wacky Jacky, the saltiest sailor I have ever met, is gonna take us out sport fishing, so that we can see if we can catch a reel on fire." "Now, this whole myth is to see whether or not you can create enough friction on your reel that it gets so hot, that it actually bursts into flames." "And that's why we're out here on the bay, to see if we can catch a big fish and make that happen." "A strong, fast fish like a sturgeon or a shark could easily create friction to heat up the reel." "Catch me a big one!" "But will it be enough to set it on fire?" "I got..." "I got nothing." "Well, so far nothing's taking the bait to find out." "Is fishing always this much fun?" "After eight hours without a single bite, the team decides to head on home." "So, how we do test this myth if we can't catch any fish?" "I don't know." "I mean we've been out here all day and all we have to show for is bait." "Yeah, apparently we are terrible fishermen." "So you want to go back to the shop and figure out a way to do this without actually fishing?" "That sounds like a great idea." "Later, Tory catches the one that got away." "That is a fast fish!" "We got ourselves a big one!" "But next, will there be tire fix trouble?" "Jamie's baby carriage had wheels just like this." "Since its creation thousands of years ago, the wheel has never really been improved until now." "As Adam and Jamie reinvent it, testing mythical methods for fixing a flat." "And with hay a success, what's next?" "Next up, we're branching out to other solutions for a flat tire." "Yep, next up is surely a "clutching at straws" type solution." " Uh-huh." " I will try not to hurt you." "That's a lovely little ski there." "A branch forced under and then tied to the flat tire." "It's not pretty, but fans have said that this really works." "If you want to move something heavy across the ground, you got a couple of basic choices really." "You can do it with a wheel or you can do it with a sled." "And what we've got here is a makeshift sled built out of a tree branch and some rope." "It ought to work." "At least for a while." "But it will last for a full lap of their course?" "Go!" "Well, to say it's a slow start would be an understatement." "Eventually Jamie does get a grip." "Yes, yes!" "But they're certainly not out of the woods yet." "All right." "Here we go." "We're on the road." "Oh, don't slow down for anything." "After slipping and sliding their way through the first 200 yards of their lap..." " The control is a little rough, huh?" " Yeah." "...they meet the first major obstacle, the speed bump..." "Go, go, go!" "...which causes their car to come to a standstill." " Come on!" " The log came out." " No!" " Yeah." "There's your problem." " It came out?" "Oh, it came out." " Yeah." "It abraded through all of the tie ropes up there close to the wheel." "That was pretty interesting, though, going down the road sideways." "This track here pretty much tells the whole story." "You can see the log's still in place, and then it hits this bump." "It sort of digs in and gets yanked out of place, and from here on in, it's pretty much just momentum." "With the branch busted literally and metaphorically, it's on to the final forest fix." "You may see a couple of logs here." "I see a tire." "Once Jamie's got the good wood, his next job is to make it as circular as he can..." "Looks very round to me." "...before the guys jump cut their way through the rest of their final improvisation technique." "That is, without a doubt, the ugliest tire change I've ever seen." "If you saw somebody doing this on the side of the road..." "You'd be like, "can I help you in any way"?" "No, I think I'll just leave... quickly." "Will it work?" "I don't think I'd want to go very fast on this particular wheel." "But it seems like it's pretty solid." "I think it's going to be the best one yet." "Well, there's only one way to find out." "Roll along, little wheel." "It's working good." "Remember, it's only the wheel that they've tinkered with." "The suspension, brakes and steering are all completely untouched." "Okay, here we go." "Speed bump!" "So will the log help or hinder?" "Oh, yeah!" "It made it." " That did fine." " It did totally perfectly." "It's certainly a case of so far so good, but how will the potholes fare?" "I'm nervous about the pothole." "Back wheel, back wheel's good." " Not a problem." " Not a problem." "With both the potholes and the puddles passed..." "Oh, yeah." "No problem." "...it's not long before the MythBusters come full circle." "Hey, hey." "It's beautiful!" "Well, with our first prototype fully tested, the "MythBusters" Tire Company is ready to open its doors for business." "This little baby worked magnificently on our course." "It was, in fact, the best of all impromptu solutions that we have yet tried." "So, log wheel." " Totally confirmed." " Yep." " Let's go." " All right." "As the guys head on home, the fixing a flat myth is far from finished." "Later, Adam and Jamie hit the town for more fabled fixes." "Check out your dubs, homey." "But next..." "All right." "We're at maximum speed." "...the guys focus on the friction factors." "Getting red hot." "Starting to smoke." "It's smoking." "Can a super fast fish ever set a fishing reel a blames?" "Well, not if the MythBusters are anything to go by." "Is fishing always this much fun?" "So based on our fishing trip," "I think the only realistic way to actually test this myth is if we build a fake fish." "Well, this is just about a spinning reel creating enough heat to catch on fire." "I mean we don't technically need a real fish." "I mean we just need a fish substitute that will pull the line out quick enough." "Okay." "How about this?" "We get a go-cart." "If we're going to give this a good chance to work, we should use something really fast." "You know, the sail fish goes about 70 miles an hour." "It's the fastest fish, and a go-cart could totally handle that speed." "All right, I'm all in, except for one exception." "If we're going straight to the extreme scenario, why don't we load our other bases too?" "Let's find the best reel line combination that will generate the most amount of heat, and we use that for our go-cart test." "Agreed." "So, looks like we're starting out with some bench tests in the shop." "Awesome." "So, with real fish proving too unreliable, the MythBusters are going to build their own." "But first, they're focusing on the friction factors." "We're going to start out by testing the line." "Now, for this experiment, the reel, the washers, and the lube will all remain the same." "The only thing that's gonna change is the line." "And the lines that we're gonna be testing are monofilament, dacron, steel cable and braided solid spectra." "Whichever line generates the highest heat is the one they'll use for their full scale test." "So this machine will be simulating the fish at the end of the line." "I'm bringing up the speed using the foot pedal, and guide it on to the reel." "And Tory will apply drag, and Kari will see how much temperature we actually get." "All right." "Let's begin with the 80 pound monofilament test." "Okay." "All right, hold on." "We're missing one thing." " Yes!" " Just in case this myth is true, we've just got to be prepared." "All right." "Let's do it." "With the safety set, the guys pull the 400 yards of line at 20 miles an hour..." "All right." "We're at maximum speed." "...before Tory engages the drag, a kind of braking system..." "All right, go into full drag." "...which will take the friction up to the max." "Stop." "Okay." "We're at the end of our line." "All right, what do you got, Byron?" "Oh, look at that things' glowing." "Looks like we're maxing out at 105 degrees." "So the good news is that the friction did heat up the reel, but the bad news is it's nowhere near enough for a flame." "Can dacron do any better?" "Crank her up." "To maximum drag." "Here we go." "Okay." "We're at..." "You can see the heat as it spools." " Look at that." " Wow." "Well, in a word, no." "Because neither it..." "We peaked at 112." "...nor the next fine line, the steel..." "All right, throw it into drag." "...are close to setting the world on fire." "118 degrees." "Which doesn't bode well." "The final fishing line is 500 yards of spectra." " We're at full speed." " We're at full drag." "Having a very narrow diameter means more line can fit on the reel, which should mean more heat." "I don't see any smoke, that would mean no fire." "Stop, that's the end of the line." "What do you got?" "158 degrees." " I think we have a winner." " That's pretty hot." "Peaking at an impressive 158, it's this last line that will be their weapon of choice." "But the line's not the only thing in this lineup." "Now, the type of reel that we've been using so far is a modern lever drag." "What we're moving on to is an older type of reel, called a star drag." "Now, the reason we think that this might burst into flames is this." "The drag, all of the plates and washers, are encapsulated in this tiny metal cylinder." "So, there's no heat sink to draw the heat away." "It's gonna build up inside of here and we just might see some flames." "That's the theory." "Wind her up." "A theory that their first new reel..." "Ok, we're at maximum speed." "...a star drag 4/O rapidly proves in practice." " 171, 172, 173, 174." " Wow, that is hot." "Wow." " The star drag is hot." " 175." "Stop." "Oh, you guys, we got all the way to 182." "It's a good start in this reel ordeal, but can the 4/O's big brother beat that benchmark?" "Drag is on." "Get the net ready." "We got a big one." "At just 20 miles an hour, the star drag rapidly reaches 180 degrees before this happens." " Getting red hot." " It started to smoke." "It's smoking!" " Oh, my God." " Keep going." "We got smoke." "Wow!" "187." "Get the fire extinguisher ready." " 223." " That is incredible." "230." "All right, put more..." "Ow!" "Too much drag." "You guys, we got this up to 245 degrees." "So we've completed our reel comparison, and this is the winner." "The limiting factor, though, in our tests was the amount of speed that we could get pulling the line off and the amount of line we had." "Now what we've got to do is find some way to get more line off this spool a lot faster." "And to do that, take one marlin, mounted on a go-cart," "and head out to Alameda..." "All right, first mate, you ready for your fishing trip?" "This's gonna be the best trip ever." "...for extreme fishing, "MythBusters" style." "Coming up on MythBusters, we answer the question if you ended up with one of these, could you replace it with one of these?" "In "Fixing A Flat"," "Adam and Jamie just hit pay dirt..." "Don't slow down for anything!" "...and that's got them thinking." "Dude, I don't think we're done fixing flats." "What do you have in mind?" "I would like to redo this test, but in an urban environment." "Go on." "Well, imagine you're in a city and you got a flat tire, calling a mechanic is totally not an option, but around you you've got all the things you might find in a city, metal, glass and wood," "and you've got to use those to improvise a working wheel." "I like it." " Let's set it up." " Ok." "Well, at a rainy runway, it's time to find out." "Look at that." "Our backwoods solution lasted all the way to the city." "Well, now it's time for some urban solutions." "Absolutely." "While you may see a lovely view of San Francisco behind me through the fog, an empty runway and 100 or so cones," "I see an urban obstacle course and potential." "Adam and Jamie will each focus on their own urban fix." "But first, they need to conjure up a cityscape crash course." "And with everything set, the urban fixing can commence." "Starting with Jamie." "Technically there's nothing stopping you from rolling on a flat tire, other than sooner or later you're going to cut through it and you'll end up on the steel rim." "So I figure, let's just try rolling on the steel rim." "It's a typically simple solution from the Hyneman, that begins with him removing their log jam..." " Wow!" " Well, that worked pretty well." "Sort of." "...and ends with him first wrenching a tire from its rim, and then attaching that rim to the wheelbase." "Job done, in theory." "As far as riding on a steel rim is concerned, we've got a couple of things to be concerned about." "And the first is balance." "This steel rim is a lot smaller than a normal tire, and so it makes the car kind of lopsided." "The other thing is that the steel is not going to grip the road as well as a rubber tire will, and so we've got traction issues." "Whether either of these things turn out to be a problem as far as handling, that's what we're going to run the course to find out." "Steel rim, no tire, in three, two, one...!" "As per Jamie's prediction, the terrible traction makes for a slow start..." "Feel that acceleration." "...which means reaching the required speed..." "Come on, you got to get to 40 miles an hour." "...before braking ahead of the wall..." "C'mon, almost there!" "...is seriously challenging." "Stop, stop!" "Nice." "All right." "Right turn." "But having not hit the wall..." "Into the slalom." "...Jamie scrapes towards the slalom." "You can do it faster than that." "Faster!" "Yeah!" "...where despite trying to stay on track, he soon gets into a spin." "Oh, yes." "Yes!" "But after a quick recovery, all that's left is the parallel park," "where slow and steady..." "You park like my grandmother." "...puts Jamie's rim back on the road to success." "Nice." "Handling on the steel rim turned out to be not half bad, you just can't accelerate very fast." "But I reckon you can go a fair distance on it." "Well, somewhere there's probably a law against leaving massive scratches in the road, but as far as getting yourself out of the jam," "I'm thinking that the steel rim worked pretty great." "I'd totally go with it." "With Jamie's rim firing on nearly all cylinders, can Adam's mythical fix do any better?" "It's round, it's metal, I think it's perfect." "Without a mechanic to call or a genuine spare to prepare..." "It's freaking heavy." "...Adam's adamant that this manhole is the perfect wheel stand-in." "Look at it." "Well, that size matches!" "I have a good feeling about the manhole cover." "Being almost identical in size to a real wheel, all Adam has to do is cut out some bolt holes and then bolt it on." "But will it be better than Jamie's rim?" "That's tight." "Check out your dubs, homey." "What do you think of that?" "I like it." "The manhole cover seems like it's a perfect fit, but the problem is it's only an inch wide, therefore it's not gonna get traction." "The other thing is that it's made out of cast iron, and that is inherently kind of brittle." "So if this puppy hits some kind of a rock or a serious bump, we've got a big problem." " You ready?" " I'm ready." "All right." "Here we go." "Cast iron, manhole cover wheel in three, two, one, go!" "Despite a fire and brimstone start..." "Oh, yeah." "Burn again." "You know, you're really losing energy." "Here we go." "Come on." "...it's clear that this time, the traction is actually less tragic, as Adam gets up to speed..." "You're going 40." "...and back with relative ease." "And, the slalom." "Oh, yeah." "Now we got it." "Because the manhole is such a good sized fit, the car's balance is much better..." " Well, actually, it corners really well." " Yeah, it does, it does." "...making its handling much less of a handful." "That's it." "Come on, baby." "And when Adam messes up the parallel park..." "What was that you said about my parallel parking?" "...it's operator error..." "Sorry." "...rather than a manhole mishap." "And we're done!" "Check out this wheel." "Ha!" "It's perfect." "I abused the crap out of that thing and there's not a thing wrong with it." "I am really impressed with the manhole cover." "I expected the one place I'd have a problem were with traction and the fact that it's cast iron that it might actually crack when I was skidding to the side like in the slalom." "Traction was a problem, but this thing held up to the most abuse I could throw at it in the slalom and came back for more." "I like the manhole cover." "It's got style." " It worked great, I'd say it's plausible." " Plausible it is." "And you know what?" "It's given me some ideas." "All right." "Next on flaming reel, the world's fastest fish." "She drives like a maniac." "Known as the cheetah of the sea, the sailfish has been clocked at an impressive 68 miles an hour." "And it's speeds like that that may be able to do this." "Well, at Alameda, the MythBusters are set to find out." "We're here." "I'll drop the anchor." "Now it's time to ramp this myth up." "We were not able to get the speeds that we were looking for in our small scale test." " We got smoke!" " Wow." "Hey, get the fire extinguisher ready!" "So we have a much faster fish, capable of going up to 68 miles an hour, and we have a much longer run." "With the same top speed, and mask, as record breaking sailfish," "Kari's car is the perfect fish replacement." "She drives like a maniac." "And that means it's time to go fishing." "So Kari is hooked." "She's gonna take off down the runway going 68 miles an hour." "At that point I'm gonna start adding drag to the reel." "I don't know if this thing's gonna catch on fire, but this fish is going three times as fast as we did in the shop." "This thing is definitely gonna smoke." "But upping the speed is not the only change..." "All right, Kari, you're hooked, are you ready?" "...because they're also doubling the length of the line." "Go for it, Kari!" "Will this be the perfect storm they need?" "Okay." "All right." "Applying the drag!" "All right. 86 degrees." "Look at her go. 130 degrees." "Started spewing oil!" "160." "187 deg... 190 degrees." "Over 200." "228." "It's getting too hot to hold!" "Three hundred and twelve." "With Kari sailing at 70, the temperature is soaring." "480." "480 degrees." "White hot." "We've got nothing but smoke pouring off." "530 degrees." "The reel's smoking like a chimney." "Man, that's 530 degrees." "But despite her best efforts," "Kari reaches the end of the line before the smoke turns to fire." "So next step, we're gonna add more lube." "Now, this is not as crazy a scenario as you might think." "Let's look at the components of the reel." "The spindle is steel, there are brass gears inside, the washers are asbestos." "All these things have a fairly high ignition temperature." "However, the lube that goes inside..." "That's right, get it all in there." "...has a fairly low ignition temperature, 200 to 400 degrees Fahrenheit." "I think this really increases our chances of getting ignition, particularly if we add a lot of it." "So, with a significant amount of lubrication..." "That's gonna be a slippery deck of your boat, isn't it?" "...it really is now or never for this myth." "80 degrees." "Taking off!" "99 degrees." "120 degrees." " It's spewing out oil!" " 150." "200 degrees." "We're getting smoking from all over right now." "238." "266." "Come on, get hotter!" "2... 300!" "Like last time, the temperature of the reel rockets." "That is the most amount of smoke we have seen on this reel." "But even with Tory spraying oil directly on to the hottest part, by the time Kari's motored her mile, there's still no ignition." "Well, we got a lot of smoke, but still no fire." "No fire?" "No fire at all." "And that was with a long line, the best reel, and a lot of lube." "And the fastest fish we could find." "But you know what?" "This myth is totally busted." "We really gave this myth a chance." "We used the star drag reel which generated the most heat, we let line run out for over a mile, at 68 miles per hour." "And then, we put a flammable lubricant on the wheel." "If this isn't gonna cause some sort of flame, this myth is busted." "Kari's right, even with the deck loaded..." "I'm getting smoking from all over right now." "...there was still no sign of a simmer." "It's busted." "Without doubt, it's myth busted." "But as the saying goes, there's plenty more fish in the sea." "Maybe there's an even faster fish, maybe there's a monster fish, maybe there's some fish out there that is beyond what we know." "And that is what we're going to do next." "Find a really, really, really fast fish." "Welcome back." "Now, all this episode we have been looking at innovative ways to replace one of your tires if yours goes flat or missing." "And, we've tried some backward fixes, those worked out pretty good." "We tried a single manhole cover as a replacement for a tire, we tried a straight rim as a replacement." "And they worked pretty good." "But we're not gonna leave it there, no." "Actually, Jamie is interested in what it's like to drive in a car on all four rims," "I'm interested in what it's like to drive in a car that has all four tires replaced by manhole covers, so get ready for the race-off." "You've heard of shirts versus skins?" "Now it's time for the hole covers versus the rims." "In the one wheel deal..." "Feel that acceleration!" "...there was little to separate their two urban fixes." "That's it." "C'mon, baby!" "So now Jamie, in his original car, and Adam, in a car of his own design..." "It's done!" "...are going head-to-head in a four-wheel fix finale." "The goal?" "To see whose urban solution is superior." "Shall we change these puppies out?" "Yeah." "You like my paint job?" "You know how I love a good flame pattern." "The plan is simple." "I'm gonna put four steel rims on my car," "Adam's gonna put four manhole covers on his car, and we're gonna race." "We'll just see who does better." "With a "winner takes all" course featuring slaloms, barriers and bunting..." "Oh!" "That's a proper speed way." "...Adam's confident." "This contest is pretty simple." "The low rider versus the knight rider." "Slicing through the night." "I think the outcome is gonna be pretty simple too." "I'm the guy in the flaming car, I'm gonna smoke the hoosier." "But Jamie's the man with a plan." "Just like with rubber tires, these steel wheels will lose traction if they break free." "So, the key to success here is gonna be for me to ride the accelerator so that I don't lose traction, but I actually do get up speed." "Jamie's right, this track race is all about traction." "Okay." "Rims versus manhole covers." "Whoever has more will take the title." "In three, two, one..." "And right from the word "go"..." "He's already ahead of me, come on!" "...Jamie takes a commanding lead..." "Yeah, baby!" "...while Adam has just a fraction of the traction." "Oh, no!" "And although Jamie doesn't have enough control to steer clear of the crash barrier," "he is beating Adam hands down." "Well, that didn't go at all like I expected." "Not only did I get no traction and couldn't get up to speed, but once I did, I had very little control, careening right into the water pyramid." "And on the slalom, I'm spinning 360, 720s." "I have absolutely no traction with these manhole covers." "No!" "No!" "As I'm doing this," "I'm watching Jamie serenely, like the turtle from that cartoon, slow and steady, making his way unnervingly around all of the slalom cones, and then he goes through the finish line, and incessantly turns around and waits for me..." "I won!" "...watches me spin out and slowly making my way all the way to the finish line 19 seconds later." "Adam said he was gonna smoke me, but I don't think so." "I actually whooped it." "I also was really surprised, because I thought he had more traction than I did." "Turns out he didn't." "Ain't that the truth?" "The manholes, impeded by their narrow nature, were next to useless." "So rims win." "What did we learn?" "Well, I think throughout this whole episode we've learned that a flat tire does not necessarily incapacitate you, pretty much every last thing we tried worked to some degree, albeit it slowly." "Just goes to show a little ingenuity will take you a long way." "It sure will." "Let's get out of here." "All right." "This myth is busted." "We went 70 miles an hour, the fastest a fish can go for over a mile, and all we got was smoke." "And that was giving it the best possible chances of it working." "But I'm still curious, can you set a reel on fire by just spinning it fast enough?" "I think it's time we replicate the results." "Well, you know what that means." "We need something that goes faster than any fish ever recorded." "We need a superfish." "So, back at the runway, it's time for "MythBusters Extreme Fishing", take two." "Towards my favorite time of the myth, where we replicate the results." "We got our boat, we got our reel, we got our line, and we got a really big fast fish." "My friends, let me present this motorcycle side car professional racing rig, otherwise known as "Sharkus Maximus"." "With a top speed of 200 miles an hour, this road racing side car, piloted by pro driver Mike Jones and his counterbalancing assistant, is the real deal." "But, upping the speed of the fish isn't the only switcheroo." "So far we've exhausted everything, and we have not been able to get a reel to catch on fire, so we decided to switch to a more flammable lubricant." "Engine starting fluid." "Now, this proved to be the most effective back at the shop." "It is basically ether." "It is very flammable, has a low ignition temperature, the only problem is it makes you dizzy and it evaporates quickly." "But we're gonna see how this does on our fishing reel." "And with that..." "All right." "You're all hooked up." "...it's time for this finale to shape up or ship out." "Ready to go fishing?" "I'm ready." "Is the shark ready?" "Yeah." "All right." "Here we go." "Shark's away, in three, two, one, go!" "All right." "Putting the drag on." "We're on to... 245, 300." "Putting on the drag." "We're up to 475!" "600." "700!" "Oh, my gosh." "700 degrees." " Oh, man!" " Wow!" " How much?" " We got up to 700 degrees red hot." "We broke the line." "We broke the line!" "Despite the daring duo hitting 140 miles an hour, the reel hitting 700 degrees, and Tory adding close to a cup of ether, there was still no ignition, which leaves just one thing left to try:" "more speed." "And for that, Kari's taking no chances." "Kari, don't you think that's a little overkill?" "Oh, my God." " Ready?" " That is hilarious." "Okay." "I'll spray the starter fluid." "Let's get our reel on." "In three, two, one hit it!" "Both racer Mike and his mate and the temperature of the reel rocket up." "We got ourselves a big one this time." "95, 100." "Holy crap." "He's flying." "I'm on full drag right now." "200." "380." "400!" "This time, the shark's speeding at 180 miles an hour." "600." "But when the temperature passes 700..." "This is ridiculous." "...the line melts, but doesn't ignite." "There is no way this myth is true, but we need to see this thing catch on fire." "Without doubt, they got the hottest reel possible." "But that heat within the reel was still not enough to ignite their fuel on the line." "So, as a last resort, Tory adds one final ingredient." "A 1200 degree flame and..." "Finally." "You know how long I've been waiting to see a flaming reel?" "Now this is MythBusters fishing!" "Finally, there's fire in the hole." "But only thanks to a naked flame burning 500 degrees hotter than anything their fish could create." "It wasn't until we introduced an open flame to the reel did we ever see a flaming reel." "This one is busted on every level." "In fact, you might say it's busted hook, line and sinker." "Well, I have to say we've tested this one thoroughly." "Yeah, that was a great fishing trip." "Shall we set sail for home?" "Yeah, let's go." "You motor boating son of a gun you!" "You little sailor you." "I think we're out of gas."