RION Uncovered | Exclusive Look At Building And Riding The World's Fastest Electric Hyperscooter

[Music] i'm god from ryan we make hyper scooters it takes time it's handmade everything is made in-house it's super physical you always move and and very focused and concentrated all the time it's complete freedom i love it i mean i won't say perfection but to the point that it's the best machine for us everything every part makes it unique let me show you why it takes so long subscribe next one [Music] this is the fastest sleekest and strongest electric scooter in the world this is the ryan motors hyper scooter a cutting edge design that barely weighs 70 pounds and easily hits 75 miles per hour here in la the world's first hyper scooters come to life at the ryan factory currently ryan is the only company producing electric hyper scooters here in the united states today we're going to show you the intense processes and labor that go into creating one of these incredible pevs then what's coming up in the future for ryan and even a few tips on how to ride these first class cutting edge hyperscooters so how did we get here around two years ago i was in love with ultrons i was a fanboy and in my eyes nothing could be better until we raced the then newly released dualtron x against the rion re-80 that was the most humbling day of my life we raced down the streets of san francisco while the ryan burned rubber at 40 miles per hour besides me zooming ahead i trailed behind that day my allegiance changed and i was on team ryan after a few more collaborations and videos with ryan we became one of the main sources of round content now with a first of its kind video on electric scooter production we're going to show you the inside of the factory let's take a look subscribe and let's ride [Music] we're at the ryan factory in los angeles an unassuming building with a ton of high-end machinery inside don an ex-nasa engineer and composite material specialist runs the facility ryan's scooters are some of the few electric vehicles that use real carbon fiber for its utterly insane strength to weight ratio the abundance of carbon fiber means the rhino thrust was just under 70 pounds carbon fiber has several different types of leaves for example there are a few different patterns like unidirectional twill and hexagonal being a composite material itself hybrid weaves are being developed where additional materials like copper and kevlar are interwoven every weave balances strength against flexibility many high strength weaves aren't suited for complex shapes as the fabric is too rigid for its mold new hybrid weaves are being developed that are significantly stronger than traditional carbon fiber and ryan is right there on the cutting edge currently ryan scooters are manufactured with kevlar reinforced carbon fiber in a honeycomb pattern soon they are planning an upgrade to copper reinforced carbon fiber multiple types of carbon fiber are required for the body typically both a dry fabric and a prepreg which comes impregnated with epoxy are used prepreg is kept in the refrigerator so the epoxy doesn't dry out first the carbon fiber is brought to the cutting room where a cnc plotter plans out the patterns to be cut from the carbon fiber fabric several layers will be laid down with complex geometry to create a strong carbon fiber body so computer pre-planning and precision is necessary once the tool path is ready carbon fiber fabric is rolled onto the table and with the push of a button the machine takes just a few seconds to cut a single layer great care is taken when peeling prepreg layers and ensuring the fabric evenly flushes out the mold all to avoid crimps and folds that would create weak points in the final part to ensure strength in the suspension system several carbon fiber layers are designed to loop back around and rejoin the body the body fender underbody carriage and decklid are all made from carbon fiber in-house using custom cnc'd aluminum and steel molds to make these molds as well as plenty of other parts room-sized enclosed cnc machines are used for both speed and a high quality finish carbon fiber isn't just molded for scooters bike frames and racing car parts both use carbon fiber for its affirmation strength to weight ratio the molds are costly parts but designing and manufacturing them in-house helps to lower this expense once the layers are down the molds are placed in a vacuum bag enveloping the entire part the entire assembly is put into a pressure chamber where the machine can push extra resin and voids out of the parts after the carbon fiber molds cure in a pressure chamber they are taken out to perform post during processes parts are then brought to a cnc mill to trim and finish the outside edges a vacuum chuck can be used to secure some of the parts without marrying their surfaces when the underbody carriage is taken to a cnc router to cut the front vent holes it's mounted securely using a custom clamp next a jig is laid over the parts to accurately cut holes for bolts finally the parts are finished off by hand requiring multiple sanding passes and eventually getting sent to be clear-coated finally a conformal coating is applied to the carbon fiber body interior to prevent conductivity within the shell without the special coating the electronics could short inside the body causing disaster after the carbon fiber body is prepared the aluminum neck is fitted and secured to the body ryon scooters use very few nuts and bolts compared in their assembly this makes maintenance and service extremely easy as well as reducing their weight even further part of any groundbreaking technological development is rapid prototyping for future production ryan accomplishes this with state-of-the-art machines and processes ryan is extremely aggressive with their r d they can go from idea generation to a fully formed product in a few hours this allows for them to rapidly test and improve their products to reach peak efficiency here's just a few components that have come out of this rapid design cycle the ryan curve thumbnail throttle are made in-house with five axis cnc machines high precision steel and carbide end mills cut aluminum stock to create the throttle housing with a crisp feel these beautiful and ergonomic throttles make it extremely easy to control the incredible power of this hyper scooter no other thumb or finger throttle is as refined as the right on curve throttle for the smaller components 3d printers print out carbon and peak parts that are insanely strong these parts come out remarkably polished and are used in places like mounts for the power button or charging ports i even tried to smash a part with a dead blow hammer to no avail in the batteries ryan has chosen to use copper plates for higher energy transfer efficiency than standard nickel strips what would take four layers of nickel they can use a single sheet of copper for shaving more ounces off the final product to cut these copper sheets ron uses water jets machines that can cut through almost any material to an insane degree of accuracy by generating high pressure water streams and fusing them with granite once these copper sheets are cut they are welded to join individual battery cells to form the energy plant of the orion the individual mali cell cells provide a whopping 45 amps granting the ryan a ton of power to ride from miles and hit those insane top speeds most battery makers are unable to build batteries with the 0.5 millimeter copper that ryan uses it's simply too thick to be spot welded with current machines therefore ryan has to tig weld each cell to the copper plate with a heavily modified welder argon gas flows around each individual weld point as the operator triggers the welder tig welding leaves only a single mark compared to two left by spot welder requiring more work to create a sturdy bond every single battery takes many arduous hours of work to weld and safely assemble let's see what dylan says about building batteries with two welding the main difference between tig welding and spot welding is basically spot welding was invented for welding panels together on cars you take a positive and a negative electrode put two pieces of metal between them and when you pass electricity between them it generates enough heat to create a small weld zone you can actually do that on a battery by placing one electrode on one side of the nickel the other electrode on the opposite side of the nickel and sending enough current through it that the nickel itself can't handle it so the power goes from the nickel to the cell back up to the nickel into the electrode creating two little mini spot welds the problem with that is the amount of electricity that it takes to weld a conductive material like copper you're generating so much heat and needs so much electricity that most things can't handle that so we have moved on to a style of welding called tig welding tungsten inert gas and in tig welding there is a little tungsten rod and there is an inert gas surrounding the rod and inert gas is a gas that is non-flammable and a flame cannot be held in the presence of that gas so when you have a clean atmosphere with a shielding gas no contaminants can get in and we are able to melt the copper and then even start to melt some of the cell underneath it creating a puddle of metal that then fuses the copper directly to the cell without actually sending any electricity through the cell itself problems are you have to have enough pressure to make sure the puddle stays together but if you can do that you can actually get a stronger cleaner weld but it requires a little bit more work because you only get one weld zone for every active weld instead of two world zones ryan produces its own suspension system for the rear swing arm the aluminum core is cut with a cnc machine then the entire block is cast with rubber and cures in a vacuum chamber the round suspension system is stiff and always allows you to feel connected to the road being made in-house they are able to adjust the angle of the suspension as they have recently done raising their ions literally they can also use a higher durometer rubber for heavier riders supporting riders up to 300 pounds with all the components assembled the entire round package is decided to behold and they ride like no other [Music] developing controllers to handle battery voltages of up to 96.6 volts and the consequentially massive amperage is no easy feat dozens of prototypes partnerships and attempts were made but to no avail nothing was powerful enough until ryan started developing their own controllers let's hear from gal about some of their controllers they've explored basically we started with this vest which was 400 amps and then we moved into our own tronic which can shoot out um two version one is 300 amps and the other one is 600 amps but you can see the size difference between them and then these are the noir controllers which has 24 fits on each one and can support up to 24s ceramic cups and what we're doing with them is we are basically [Applause] using um heat pipes and a radiator to cool them down so we're locking the fets inside the channel with the heat pipes and we are building the oil enclosure this thing sits down inside that enclosure and we also have the little areas here that was developed for lighter e-bikes e-skates could shoot out up to 130 amps or even 150. um it has another version of 250 amps so yeah that's that's about that the current controllers that power the thrust and the noir models are foc controllers these new 500 amp controllers pack a myriad of mosfets capacitors and heat sinks all into a slim copper frame with heat pipes and a radiator foc stands for field oriented control meaning fine to control the motor soon ryan's scooters will be able to use field weakening if the rider desires to enable a massive increase in top speed the difference between foc and bldc is basically the difference between a square wave a power inverter and a pure sine wave power inverter on a bldc or a square wave the power is applied by switches so you have direct current which is positive and negative these motors are technically ac motors wanting alternating current back and forth the way the controller does that is by opening and closing the power to it on bldc and square wave it just opens up all the power creating a spike in power goes over turns it off creating a nice square wave of power uses a lot of electricity but it's not that efficient because you don't really need all the amps at the beginning of the switch and all the amps at the end of the switch you only need it at the center of the switching so then they created what's called sine wave which is more of a loop more of a mountain range more natural and when you have that more natural wave you have less electrons being sent but the same peak and power and that peak in power is actually what gets you the torque so because it is less electricity flowing for each switch but the same peak you actually get the same power at less electricity so you get more torque range and speed without having to use up as many amps so you get more range out of it field weakening is you have the wavelengths the wavelength the peak is when the magnet is the closest to the electric coil if you start to do what's called field weakening it's like changing the timing of a car you're making that peak happen before the magnet comes near the coil when you activate it before the magnets near the coil you're giving it more power which then makes it spin a little bit faster you lose torque because the field is further away but because it's further away creates more of a slingshot and you get more rpm out of it you can reduce the field weakening to increase the rpm at the cost of torque and the amazing thing about the controllers that we use is like i was saying field weakening lowers torque our controllers are so smart that if you put in field weakening it doesn't apply the field weakening until you run out of rpm so now you need the torque to get going at zero but you don't need the torque to keep going and it can recognize that reduce your torque at the top end to then give you even more rpm and speed but you still have all the bottom and torque if you noticed a while back ryan went from offering a few models to only the thrust the thrust is now the top dog accelerating faster hitting tire speeds and having a longer range it is a straight-up upgrade to the re-90 and an incredible machine but rion isn't stopping there soon they're going to up the game with an even higher end model the ryan noir we'll talk about the noir more in future episodes but here's a few sneak peak details for now it's going to be rocking the copper infused honeycomb carbon fiber body for an even stronger and more stunning chassis while ron has been leveraging the best in class maguro bricks for a while now they're exploring an upgrade to even better brakes hope tech these quad piston precision cnc aluminum brakes will provide incredible stopping power maybe they'll even leverage these brakes on the noir as better controller tech is implemented the insane power of the orion only increases and with the planned implementation of field beginning upcoming ryan scooters will hit even higher rpms hi guys i'm benjamin and i'm with melvin we are here live from paris in france where the weather is finally nice we wanted to talk about ryan the emotion we felt with those machines but above all the emotion you had a bunch of technical information so we think it's the other aspect we really wanted to introduce you the emotional side of this brand and of course the feeling riding those hyperschools i had a fun history with uh ryan um a bit more than two years ago uh i bought an apex it was a single modern machine the first model of the brand and the ancestor of the actual ryan's cooler arrange as you may know back in time buying orion was a kind of mission it was all sold in europe and i founded browsing forums and websites so at the end i called ryan in l.a um and gal picked up the phone and uh i asked him if he wanted to sell a passionate french guy a schooler it's just as easy after a moment of silence girl said of course everything is possible as he always said after a long wait i finally received it it was packed with bubble wrap and i had hard times getting it at the fedex warehouse at the airport and back home with my small car but i can remember the joy in wrapping it and looking at this unique machine it was just beautiful and in a second i just forgot the past month is waiting for it it just took me two days to assemble it and i still remember its design and premium material today all right hyper scooters are packed and shipped in a beautiful wood tray ready to ride what an evolution guys just amazing back in the days i was riding a dual tron tender and i immediately made the comparison between a sport car and a supercar because that's just what it is ryan is standing in another category the hyperschool category i still have goosebumps remembering this story and always have the same kind of feelings when receiving customers right after this experience i deeply wanted to meet gal and the ryan team we met during the ces in vegas and after a passionate conversation during dinner gal just offered me to run brian in europe i wanted a big change in my professional life as an advertiser so i didn't hesitate and a month after i was starting selling the brand all over europe and its iconic models such as the r80 the 60s the 60s and the lightest models of the blending area 90 to working customers speaking of luck and passionate customers let me introduce you to melvin our french ryan ambassador melvin got his first irie 80 a bit more than a year ago and been writing it almost every day with passion and determination i'm melvin i'm a ryan ambassador i started with the dual models from the brand that i drove every day as it was my daily vehicle as i'm someone who's into a lot of futuristic things and stuff when i got the ryan saw it for the first time it was like we were one uh if i have to describe it in few words it would be freedom and performance that i really enjoyed with orion and also its weight i knew it was powerful compared to the previous scooter i had before i was looking for lightness since i live outside paris i have to carry it in the stairs of the train station for example and we don't have the same body size we don't have the same body size i'm small thin i use it for a year and a half and i sold it and you're waiting for the next one yes i'm waiting for the next one they are very reliable the current owner of my previous model is still enjoying it a lot in terms of emotion i was over excited to use it every day and also that feeling of freedom with such a small machine so powerful uh regarding the range it was a limit limit because it's so powerful but you have to get used to it today the range has been extended it's also more powerful and it's still giving us the same good feeling the joy of friday is real for performance the efficiency and of course the unique design were topics we wanted to share with you guys ryan is just a pure joy that's it technology melvin and i hope to see you soon in paris to share a passion for ryan now back to l.a with gal cheers [Music] i sold my motorcycle and i wanted to take my little kid to school every day so i bought the gopad which cost a lot and every day that i rode it with him something else happened so the chain fell off the controller burn the battery i mean every possible part burned down broke down so it became a joke and i said okay i'm going to take some pocket money and try to hide the company back then and i'd say i'm going to create a pet project i start around because i wanted something that can satisfy the void that the art of the last motorcycle created and i wanted something fast that i can commute inside the city or outside without insurance without all you know of license insurance something that more i can take it anywhere i can go i can even ride slow on bike lanes but i can go outside and and you know go fast on roads ride fast on the road so probably the for me like a nice machine that can act as a car replacement and then as a joy machine something like that my vision for ion is to keep being the best machine that the person can buy keep innovate keep from inventing stuff engineer stuff more products um wider platform components accessories um yeah maybe make it much more a little bit more mass production but yeah exciting products are coming i chose carbon fiber because it's a very strong material very light material and strength per weight it's an amazing it's amazing material to work with people tend to make mistakes and to think that um carbon fiber is a very stiff material but it's completely wrong carbon fiber is stiff but they're very very flexible and you can engineer it to be flexible toward the direction that you want it to be flexible it takes so long because every part is handmade i mean besides the stem the brakes and the handlebar everything is made in-house takes time it's handmade per se it takes six to eight months to receive your ion um and we're working very hard to make it faster all the time so we are ramping up production for me it's kind of like a stand-up jet ski on roads it's super physical you always move you're very focused and concentrated all the time i mean it was born for these roads that we're going to see now but yeah it's it's complete freedom i love it i mean one is for me a product that i would have bought you know what i mean and and this perspective is always to make it better and better and better into i won't say perfection but to the point that it's the best machine for us everything every part makes it unique and every part and everything together so the components and the total package the behavior the engineering behind it technology behind it the vision the materials so yeah if you're going to ride the fastest hyperscooter on the planet you better have the skills to match these tips were put together with gal of ryan motors let's cover a few of the basics first the thing that slows you down keeps you from hitting things and crashing braking it's best to learn how to brake before you even ride utilize both the rear and front brake but bias more for the rear brake over the front brake in the beginning later on with experience you might use the front brake more for increased stopping power stance is very important it keeps you in control and can command the scooter how to behave place one foot in the rear of the scooter and one foot near the front neck keep your knees bent lean forward when accelerating and backwards when braking to start keep one foot on the deck gently accelerating and taking control of the machine once you're fully in control you can give it some more power constantly scan the road ahead of you for obstacles and potholes give plenty of braking distance to other riders and cars counting three seconds between you and the vehicle in front of you is usually enough depending on your stance may lean into the turn with your back you can also switch legs or drop one foot for a third point of contact is going to balance you more and shift your center of gravity allowing you to tackle sharper turns at higher speeds just before a turn break a little bit then keep constant acceleration throughout the turn and finally accelerate out look into the turn as you ride making sure nothing is going to be in your way or bad road conditions that would cause you control issues determine the perfect corning line follow the outside into the apex and outside again you want to maintain as straight of a line as possible so you can carry maximum velocity through the turn the first instinct of a rider is to grab whatever you're holding extremely hard if you're holding onto the brake levers and accidentally grab them you may fly over the handlebars practice returning your grip to the handlebars fully and only break when needed psi on tires is important for the raising slicks on the ryan we typically use 25 to 30 psi check the tires volts folding mechanisms before each ride even the most perfect the machines can fail if maintenance is overlooked grounds move extremely fast so avoid bicycle gear and half domes for these speeds motorcycle and dot rated gear is a must dress for the slide and not the ride if you do end up falling sliding on your protective gear is best raise what you can when sliding to avoid road rash rolling should be avoided as you can easily break bones during a roll we find sliding to be the best option in most cases finally plan ahead especially if you're riding in a place of no communication think about what's going to happen in a worst-case scenario what if you fall out there alone learn the roads before you ride aggressively on them learn the turns the drivers and realize that every car is there to kill you the geometry of the scooter is also extremely important the handlebars should be low for maximum stability and control about waist level is perfect pushing down and lowering your center of gravity cutting the pole from most scooters advised unlike other companies ryan will customize the pull heights for the rider meaning no janky adjustment system that can give out all right guys that's all we got for this episode on the ryon hyper scooter we hope you all enjoyed this in-depth look at how you build and ride one of these we know that the rind isn't the cheapest scooter out there and there's a really long wait time to get one but now you know why that is we've got a lot more content on ryon and other pvs coming up soon so make sure you subscribe so you don't miss that thanks so much for watching and we'll see you all next time [Music] you

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Length: 28min 19sec (1699 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 01 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/godrinkduff]

Good overview of what goes into building them. There was recently discussion on here reddit on why it was taking for a customer. And knowing a little about the manufacturing processes. They probably only crank out enough carbon fiber parts a day at most and probably not every business day either to make one or two decks for production.

And i always wanted to see. What the inside of one looked like and the video covered that.

[u/lana1313]

Amazing video and a great inside look into what it takes to make a truly high end scooter.

Maybe one day I will get a chance to ride one.

[u/cranberrydudz]

Incredible video. i didn't know they were manufactured here in los angeles! that's super dope.

[u/Chicky_Nuggy]

Lol at comparing it to a Dualtron X.

Dualtrons are available immediately. Dualtrons have parts immediately. Rion will immediately die if it hits a puddle. Room will run out if battery whilst Dualtron X will have 50% left.

The Rion is great don't get me wrong but in terms of everyday use you can't compare the two.