For all your NRG innovation product needs, make sure you check out DriveNRG.com. That's D-R-I-V-E-N-R-G.com. What's up everybody? Welcome back to the channel. I'm EpilRabbit here on Forza Horizon 4. So again, a lot of people asked me recently on the channel for tips and tricks on drifting here in Forza Horizon 4. So I figured I would do basically a little bit of a tutorial session on the basics of trying to get the car to be stable and transition. For that purpose, we are in this little figure 8 parking lot on the map. I will show you guys exactly where it is if you don't know where it is. And for the purpose for cars today, we are rocking a... Basically it's 399 horsepower stock tires, drift suspension, 3050Z wide body. I will show basically the exact suspension settings and everything I have as well as I will leave this tuned up. You guys want to give it a try. So we are going to go through some of the basic things that I found helped when I first started getting on the wheel and being able to control it from preventing from spitting out, from it over-oscillating and rotating under transition or not being able to transition. Some basic things to start off with on a wheel to try and get more comfortable with it and stuff like that. So like I said, for the purpose of this, we are going to get out of drone mode and show you where we are on the map. We are the top left corner of the map up here right above where the game stuff is. Actually up the street from my lake lodge house. So it is in this parking lot area right here. So that's for the purpose we are going to be doing that starting here today. So like I said, this is a very basic tune like about 400 horsepower, 350Z wide body. Like I said, I will leave the tune up for you guys as well. So what I have noticed a lot of people are having a problem with is they are spitting out really quick. So one thing I found to help practice with that is to just do, instead of worrying about transitioning first, worry about just actually getting into it and getting the wheel countered and throttle control. So this is basically built on 400 horsepower. So for the purpose that you are almost going to be able to stay full throttle for most of this, we are going to get our wheel cam turned down. We are on our Logitech G920. We are on full 900 or 870 degrees of rotation. We do whatever handbrake. We will be using it a little bit today as well. But so basically, first and easiest thing I found to do, other than bog your car and second gear. I don't always start in second, but it is to pretty much just go slow about 25 miles an hour to this post, clutch kick it and throw the car and get used to how much you are going to have to counter steer. So pretty much the way, you can pretty much throw the wheel and catch it like I just did, and it will be pretty much right where you need it to be. And if you can do that, then you can pretty much be able to hold the drift. So one of the biggest things that people are not doing is they are not counter steering enough. So I am counter steering a lot. So what I notice a lot of people are doing is they are going like this, too much power, not counter steering fast enough just like that. And they are spitting out. You have to anticipate the motion of the car and what the car is going to do. And counter steer accordingly just like that. You have to be able to kind of anticipate where the car is going to go. But with the wheel settings, the car has somewhat of a little bit of a self steer. This 350Z actually has pretty much a good amount of self steer the way it is set up and the way I have my wheel settings. So you can pretty much go and if you notice, I really didn't touch it. It kind of just counter steered itself in a sense. So if you get it right and you are smooth on your throttle, you can almost let go of the wheel and kind of let it do its thing. And then there are other times where if you give too much throttle like that, it will rotate a little bit more. So the easiest thing to do I found, got somebody creeping up here, is pretty much just start doing circles. Find yourself a spot like this.  And then once you do that, you will be able to throw it in transitions. But so like the biggest thing I think people is don't get frustrated with your wheels.  The worst thing to do is actually to get frustrated with the wheels. So clutch kicking is probably the easiest way to learn how to get the angle of rotation because the car is not going to kick around as fast. Just like that. It kicks around pretty easily on a clutch kick compared to if you were going to throw it in with a handbrake. Then you have to, you know, anticipate it a lot sooner like that. And then once you're able to get basically you can get yourself into a circle and kind of flutter the throttle a little bit, get your steering angle and feel pretty comfortable with it is then when you can let off the gas transition the car back the other way and get back on it. So another thing that I noticed people doing especially on transition they'll try and just stay full throttle and it'll do that. You kind of, when you're transitioning if you're not using your e-brake it helps to kind of get off and get back on real quick because it changes the weight of the car. So you can pretty much just feather the throttle go this way let off the gas, transition it, get back on the gas and you can do a very smooth easy transition. So like I said, biggest thing don't get frustrated just kind of keep with it, do circles and do as many circles as you can because it gives you the idea of being able to know when you're giving too much throttle like that when you're not giving enough throttle. Because if you're not giving enough throttle the car is going to start gripping up on you and then you're going to straighten up. So if I were to kick this in, not giving enough throttle it's just going to go straight and then it's going to do that. If I give it too much throttle when I don't need it to it's going to do that and it's just going to completely lose it. So you kind of have to be conscious of how much throttle that's why doing these, essentially doing little circles I'm going to transition this way doing little circles kind of gives you that feel of you can mess around with, see right now I'm full throttle I'm easing off a little bit because I don't want to go too wide I know what I can do when steering inputs I can mess around with what happens if I do this what happens if I do that I can see how the car reacts So once you know how the car reacts then you can pretty much just be able to kick it in run your nice lines and be able to get off the gas, use the brake, transition you don't even really have to use a handbrake because if you use the weight of the car and just tap the brakes a little bit and just get off the feather of the gas you can actually transition pretty much without an ebrake now there's certain times where like if you're going at a high rate of speed and clutch kicking it's not really going to get you sideways enough and that's where the handbrake comes into play or you can upset the weight of the car one way get the brakes and upset it back the other way do a faint initiation but if you're just first starting out on a wheel don't get frustrated with it it does take a little bit of time to get used to especially in this game it took me a few to get used to physics the car also makes a big big impact on how the wheel reacts so like I said this is a 400 horsepower 350Z wide body kit stock tires stock pretty much a lot so as for the tuning of it we are running about 28 pounds and 28 and a half in the front 26 in the rear gearing is stock transmission we do have a clutch and a two stage rear diff as for linements we are running 3 degrees of camber in the front 1 degree in the rear 1 degree at toe 0.5 and 7 in caster any wheelbars we are not running anywhere on the stocks and as for spring rates I left the spring rates all the same all I did was bump the front up by one now that's so that when you hit the brakes or you're in transition it will actually dive the nose of the car so then you also have rebound and stuff which are all the same arrow if we do have front arrow but I left it braking I did turn down braking force 50% for the ability to stay on the brakes and throttle at the same time and not lose angle it's more of a tandem brake but it's also good for if you're sliding you can slow yourself down without stopping the drift or rotating you too much and then of course the diff 775 it's just settings I found work nicely for me especially on transition with the deceleration so we're going to leave those so back to basically what we were here today so like I said the biggest thing is just knowing what the car is going to do before it does it so if you can figure out what the car is going to do before it does it because you put the car to do it you're going to be fine clutch kick we'll throw a flick of the wheel and we're there so and then I can stay there got off throttle lost angle stay more throttle more angle feather off throttle straighten up the other thing is if you want to come out of a drift you know sometimes getting off the gas immediately is not always the best because the car could oscillate one way or another yes getting off the gas right away is good too because it could help but what I found if you want to come out ease yourself off the gas not fully completely just like slowly ease yourself off throttle and you'll be able to come out of it without snapping back the other way because if you're still on throttle you're going to snap back and that's the biggest thing when it comes to transitioning so kicking in this way transitioning you kind of can't just stay on the gas and that's why when people transition to the handbrake the reason it works so easy is because you've got to push the clutch when you pull the handbrake you know slowing down the wheel rotation with the handbrake but you're also stopping and getting that lip of throttle to help transition the car the other way so with a transition it's pretty much you kind of got to just feather like full throttle full throttle off get back on have the brakes a little bit to change the way to the car and flick it back in so the biggest thing I can say to help people if you're just learning how to get sideways on a wheel especially in here come to a place like this or any other place in the airports and just get yourself into a drift donut I know it may seem remedial and it may seem very amateur to do a drift donut but the thing is that drift donut is the basics of everything that drifting is it's learning throttle control it's learning steering control it's learning everything that you need to be able to put together say a perfect line in a street situation so we're going to see if we can't rip this in here and see if we can't do some transitions and just throw this car around a little bit and see if we can have a little fun with it you break in throw it in really hard short kick it back this way use the brakes to transition I wanted to try to run that whole thing but I couldn't so this thing is too wide to run the long straight so you can run some really nice figure 8s in this place so you can learn to transition and you can learn about throttle transitioning handbrake transitioning however you want to transition handbrake that way kick it back with the wheel but it's all about knowing how much throttle and how much steering input you need to put for the car so a good set up car that you stay with and you stick with for a long time helps out because you become familiar with the car and you become familiar with how the car reacts so how much throttle and play so then when you're not in a situation where you're on a set small area where you know the turn you can gauge the turn and you can pretty much just go I know what's going to happen right here I know how much I got to give the car I know how much steering I got to go and you can throw yourself a nice little line down the street so it's really all about knowing how much throttle and steering input so doing the drift donuts I can't stress enough is a very good way to learn that and figure out what you need to do and how much you can give the car because then you can just do that and just know how much you got to give the car pull the handbrakes and you know know what you're doing but that's where I started off I started figuring this game out when I was trying to get wheelsetting I pretty much just found myself in the donut section at the festival area just doing some donuts and figuring it all out so I was going to overshoot that so that's how I figured it out I just was doing the donuts figuring out how much throttle the cars can get how much reaction the car got when I did certain things and that's how I was able to do what I was doing in the game so this 3 to Z handles really well a fun little car and I'm probably going to keep using this car for a while so I hope this helps a lot of you guys out with basically a little glimpse into I need that oh did I miss that get wrecked into you know a little help you know to kind of get used to the wheel and how it reacts so a lot of people get frustrated where they're just trying to throw themselves into a drift turn or say into those hairpins up in the mountains by the by the festival which we'll head to just so we can rip this car they'll throw themselves into those they don't understand how much steering input they should be giving and they're like oh man I can't drift I keep spinning out because they're not used to how much input they need drifting on a like on a mountain road or something where you don't know a set takes a little time and a little practice once you know the basics of car control and how much throttle input and how much steering input you can do then you'll be able to do whatever you really feel like doing that's why I know it seems probably remedial a lot of people are going to be like oh that's stupid I you know don't knock until you try give it a shot you know see if it helps out because you may be surprised at doing a couple donuts and then switching into figure 8 how quickly you are able to do all that without you know spinning out so we got to throw this in here and a little wider than I wanted to and I did not have enough power because I forgot to clutch kick the car there we go little more clutch kicks keeps the power going so like I said this thing handles so nice I think I'm going to throw a lot more power into this car for myself but it's a good basic if you put the car around 400 horsepower with a diff and a drift suspension so I will leave this tune up if you guys want to give it a shot for basically just you know a beginning drift car it's a very stable beginning drift car so not too overpowered but still has power because another thing is you don't want to start off with a car that has 1000 horsepower or so much power that you know you just spin out so if you can learn on a lower horsepower car it's easier because you can pretty much stay full throttle and drift your turns whereas on a higher horsepower car you really have to be able to modulate your throttle like this is a flat out turn that was just full flat out no lifts, fourth gear just flat through the turn so start off with a lower horsepower car don't start off with an FD car it's also something that has 900 some horsepower because once you can drift on a lower horsepower car you understand throttle control to defensive you understand how much throttle you need so then you can start modulating your throttle in other aspects and then you'll be able to start really drifting the way you want to so I hope this guy helps you guys a little bit I think I'm going to do this live for the time so as always you guys know all that's found in the description box below if you guys have any other questions please let me know down in the comment section down below if you guys tried this and you think it helped out please let me know because if you guys are enjoying these little tutorials on drifting with these cars and stuff I'll continue to bring more tutorials to the channel getting a little more into like runs or a certain thing so like let me know what you guys think how you guys feel about this I do enjoy helping everybody out as much as I can I feel like I need my Kona's egg or something very powerful for this for the time so as always I like thank you guys for watching let me know in the comment section down below what you guys think of this and ooh never mind I will take my uh skills boost of Vendedor so as always I thank you guys for watching and until next time I'm EvilRabbit I'll see you guys on the next one


Welcome to In The Studio at Davis Media Access. I'm your host, Madeline Hamaguchi. Today, our subject is gonna be jump bike program. We have several groups of red bikes floating around town. They look a lot like the one in front of me that you're gonna see in a moment. And today to talk about this with me is city council member, Lucas Farrick. Say, Lucas. Hey, Madeline, how are you? Good to see you. Thank you. Yeah. I'm really excited about these bikes. Yeah. Obviously, growing up in Davis, you learn to ride a bike pretty much as soon as you can learn to balance and walk and everything. Exactly. And so the fact that this is made accessible to more people who may not be able to just own a bike or students that don't have the ability to have the bike in town with them, this is just really exciting. It's really cool. Yeah. Even, of course, even the city of Davis has a bicycle on its logo, right? Right, exactly. I mean, so it's, or for a logo. Right. Yeah, lots of major culture of biking here in Davis. So this seems like just a natural addition to the sort of toolkit of modes of transportation here in Davis. I also love how it urbanizes the Davis in general. Totally. It increases the community sharing and everything like that. Totally. But before we really jump into that, for those of you watching, what is the jump bike program? Yeah, so there's a region-wide bike share program.  And so here in the Sacramento region, at the Sacramento Area Council of Governments, SACOG, I represent Davis on that Board of Directors, the Sacramento Area Council of Governments basically spearheaded this effort to bring a bike share program to the region. And so what it really consists of is, currently it's in Sacramento, West Sacramento, and then here in Davis. There are many other cities in the region that are also very interested in having it be expanded, certainly. But you see, we'll see a little bit here later, these red bikes jump as the company. And it is a partnership, though, between the regional governments, including City of Davis, but also the company that is social bicycles now and but they have these jump bikes and their electric assist bikes. You can still pedal them without electric assist, but they have this little kick to them and they can go up to about 15 miles an hour and they're located all throughout the region and they're really a lot of fun, but also they make getting to and from places a breeze. Yeah, exactly. I love the fact that in this transportation initiative that it encourages riders of jump bikes and of Amtrak to use them together. It's amazing that they're working together for that and then also the three cities down in between the Amtrak line, that's really great. Yeah, that's one of the things that is really an issue in transportation is that sort of issue of the first and last mile. So for example, someone gets off the train in downtown Davis at the station off the Capitol Corridor and then they have to go to UC Davis. Well, they have several options and many people actually just walk, but this provides an option where people can literally just get on their phone with the app, basically reserve a bike and then go straight to campus really quickly and so efficiently. So yeah, it's really fun and it's great. So you mentioned before too that the Sacramento Area Council of Governments was the spearheading organization for this particular program, but it sounds like it, for Davis in particular, there's a couple of person resources that also made this happen. So you and Jennifer D'Onofrio at the city. The city's bike head coordinator, Jennifer D'Onofrio, yeah. And Brian Abinot as well, who's a transportation planner for the city. And then there was a cooperative effort as well from UC Davis. Absolutely, oh yeah. Yeah, actually, that's one of the real ways that we have to sort of collaborate with the university in our sort of town and gown relationship is to basically make sure that this bike share program is a success across both the city and then the university. Yeah, that's great. So let's get down to a little bit more talking about the nitty gritty of the program and the bikes themselves. So there's, in terms of numbers, they started the program in May, middle of May, and dropping off, they dropped off 300 bikes. Yep, 300 bikes between Sacramento, West Sacramento and Davis. Right now, there are about 600 bikes that it's just doubled in size. And by the end of the fall, but there should be about 900 between Sacramento, West Sacramento and Davis. So in Davis right now, there are about 60 to 70 bikes at any one time. But we should be up to about 160 within the next couple months. Yeah, it's great, yeah. They're already very accessible, working in a city building. And so I love the fact that it's right outside. You can just walk around the corner. I was able to access this bike in a five minute or less walk. Yeah. So that's been... One thing that's amazing, I mean, one of the ways we see this is that you would sort of view something as a success or not is by the usage, right? How much they're actually getting used. And so bike share in other communities, the typical usage per day, one bike will be used essentially about twice per day, two to three rides per day. We are already seeing in the Sacramento region, including here in Davis, these bikes are being used on average six times per day. So people are really using them. They've made a splash and that people are really, really, really using them. Yeah. That's amazing. That's pretty cool, yeah. But I'm so happy to hear that. Yeah. That's cool. Yeah, and part of the thing that makes them easy to use is, or easy for them to be accessed by lots of people is that they're a simple machine in general. It sounds fancy with the electric assist petting and pedaling and the location technology on your phone and everything. Right, exactly. That's how you rent these bikes is you download the app. There's a jump app. And I believe also you can access the bike rental through Uber. Yep, exactly. So you have a couple of different options there. And so you pay electronically. And everything else is just contained within the bike. So let's take a look at the bike itself a little bit, point out some features. We do have your basket with, there's even a cup holder inside for all of the coffee addicts around town or water bottle holders. We have very basic handlebar brakes. They're not too far away and they're easy to squeeze. We have the electric assist pedals or I guess regular pedals. Right, exactly. On some bikes. Yeah, there's an internal hub that helps with the electric assist. Yeah, it's great. We have this module at the back is a solar panel to charge, keep the bike charged. All right, actually the solar panel actually keeps the computer running. Oh, that's great. It sort of charges the computer, yeah. Cool. And the lights too, yeah. Oh, yeah, exactly. The front and back lights, yeah. And so you don't have to provide your own tail light or any of your own equipment, really. You even have a U-lock. You'll see it in a moment when we're gonna reserve this bike right here in the studio. Also, one of my favorite up there in the handlebar is the... Oh, right. The open bell too, so right there. So great. It's pretty cool. And then at the back, we have your push button keys. So it's not touchscreen, which actually is good to maintain and things like that. So they're fairly easy to operate.  Yeah, exactly. So they can actually, the electric assist bikes, they can go up to 20 miles per hour, but we in the Sacramento region have modulated them to max out at 15 miles per hour. 20 miles an hour is a lot. It was pretty fast, you know, especially on a bike. So if you're in traffic or on a bike path or something, so yeah. It's interesting too that the, so they're pretty inexpensive as well too. So it's a dollar cost for a 15 minute ride. So or four dollars per hour. So usage. Right, right. And so it's a lot of people use them for sort of short trips, right?  So, you know, it's you're probably not going to be necessarily on a bike all day long, riding around people do, do do that certainly. But so it's pretty, you know, the cost is not too much as well. That's great. Right. And the fact that there are so many means that, you know, guilt-free you can just, you can leave it at a bike rack or at a hub. There are a couple of main rules with jump bikes for safety and for courtesy. One is that you do need to be an adult and you should be 18 or older. I believe it's around it. Yeah, that's correct. And it is advisable always that you wear a helmet. Yep. But that is something that you're going to have to supply yourself. Right, exactly. And then for maintenance and courtesy, we should park these bikes at bike racks or in the app, you'll see that there are incentive. There's that they're, that they incentivize you to leave them at certain hubs. Yeah. On the screen, you'll see a collection of jump bikes right up there. That's great. Yeah, if a bike is running low on a charge, right? It's electric charge. It will show you on the app that it is running low, but the app will show you, if you bring the bike back to this certain, it'll have a little sort of charging indicator. Like a little green blob. And why don't we start that up right now? Actually, I'll break out my phone and let's see. So I have an iPhone with me, but there is the same app on Android as well. So I don't know about Windows phones. So when you start up the app, it's going to look something like this. There's a map. In this case, a map of Davis. And it shows all these red dots where the locations of all the available bikes are. Right. So there is a bike right in front of us. You can see that there is a blue dot on the map as well. It works just like regular GPS or Uber or something like that. And so we have the bike right here. And I'm just going to say reserve this bike. And you can confirm. Please wait. And then this bike, when you get close to it, this screen on the panel that we were looking at before, you wake it up. And sometimes it will just detect your phone when you're close. Right. And then it's going to ask you for a pin. And so the pin number, if you look at the screen, as this is a mini tutorial here, on the upper right-hand side of the map, it's going to give you a pin number. And great. Yeah, you enter the pin and you can hear that the lock unlocked. Exactly. So you take out, it comes with a very large U-lock, which makes it easy to lock anywhere. Yeah. You can, yeah. You just put it here. And on the screen of my phone now, it's a readout of how long I've been renting it and how far I've gone. And then how much it's cost, basically. The other thing I really love about this app is how easy it is to report a bike that is broken, is needs a charge, if something's wrong with it, or if a bike isn't where you think it's going to be, things like that. There have been, everyone has pretty much been pretty happy with the system so far. I would say the one set of complaints that we've heard is that some people will park a bike in the sidewalk and not actually lock it to a bike rack or something. And so it can really impede flow of pedestrian traffic, especially if someone has limited mobility or maybe in a wheelchair or something. That would be difficult to have to navigate around. So the city of Davis, and Sacramento as well too, but the city of Davis has required that the bikes be actually locked to a bike rack, any bike rack, not just a jump bike rack. But if you find a situation where a jump bike has just been left on a street or somewhere in your neighborhood, you can report it to customer service. And they are very quick about making sure that it gets taken care of. I've actually seen those jump bike fans come around and clean up and fix, and it's great to see that they're being taken care of. Exactly, yeah, that's great. I believe that we were running out of time, but I really enjoyed this. Thank you so much for joining us. Oh, thanks so much for having me appreciate it, yeah. And thank you so much for watching in the studio at Davis Media Access. We hope to see you next time. And don't forget to rent a jump bike when you're out and about in downtown Davis.


All right, now this weekend I am heading to New York City just to visit some friends hang out I have a chill weekend and a lot of you guys are always asking, you know, how do I bring my clothes? You know, what do I wear to stay fashionable when I'm in the city? So today I'm just gonna be walking you guys through what I take in my travel bag when it's just a weekend trip All right, so first off I am bringing this duffel bag I just got from ASOS because a weekend is not long enough to bring a whole suitcase But I feel like a duffel bag is a perfect size to fit all the clothes I need now before packing I always think about the weather, the temperature, what I'm going to the city for Whether it's for work or for business or just for hanging out, which is what I'm gonna be doing So all the outfits I'll be bringing are very casual, very light and easy to pack So first off is obviously the outfit I'm wearing because today's Friday. I'm there Friday Saturday Sunday So I'll be needing three to four different outfits depending on the occasion But right now it's just this black t-shirt with my black jeans But I am going to be bringing my other pair of Levi denim because denim is super durable Especially when you're in the city the weather is getting a little colder So this is going to be very important to have The other pair of pants I'm bringing are just this pair of kind of olive chinos Chinos are obviously really great, especially when it gets to fall season And they're super comfortable, you know when I'm in the city I'm always moving around So I can't be wearing too heavy stuff because like I said, weather is always changing So if you're going from the metro to outside, you want to stay comfortable and light So that you don't sweat throughout your clothes I'm also bringing just this regular white button-up, it's short sleeve But this will be good to layer with a jacket Next up is just another yellow button-up This will be good for like going out or just like if you want to make your outfit pop a little bit This shirt's from Bershka, the white shirt is from H&M The chinos are from H&M and like I said, the denim is from Levi's But you do want to stay layered, you do want to stay warm So this kind of bomber jacket will look really nice, especially with a lot of different outfits And it's very versatile, it's also very warm This is from Zara, so I'm definitely bringing this Socks, I do like to stay comfortable So I'll probably be bringing a pair of no-show and a pair of just regular socks Belt, because belts are always important Now finally my toiletries bag, I always recommend every guy have a toiletries bag Just so you can fit everything you need to when you're traveling inside Now in my toiletries bag, I am bringing obviously shampoo, conditioner, body wash Just in case the people I'm staying with don't have it A small bottle of cologne, deodorant obviously Lotion, face wash, my toothbrush from Quip And they also come with two-week supply of toothpaste, tongue scraper, retainers and hair wax Now this is a casual trip, but I also have score to do, so it is a little bit of business Meaning that I'm going to be bringing my backpack This is the Atlas Supply Vegan Leather, I've showed this to you guys before Obviously a portable charger My MacBook Pro, so I can be editing while I'm there Charger for the MacBook Vlogging camera, the Sony RX100 Mark IV Just in case I don't want to bring my big guns My iPad Pro, so I can do my homework Hard drives, dongles, chargers Very important Apple Pencil, pen AirPods, obviously my phone Wallet As far as camera gear goes, I am trying to pack light because I will be doing a few shoots But probably just my Sony A7R III, which is technically filming And then my 28mm F2 I probably won't bring my big setup just because that's a big hassle to carry around the city every day Finally, some drinks and snacks for the train ride And that about wraps it up, this is all the stuff I'll be bringing for my weekend trip Like I said, it's a very short trip, it's just for having fun, hanging out I mean, yeah, that's really all I pack, I'm about to head out My train leaves, make sure you guys like, comment and subscribe If you enjoyed this video, and I will see you guys next time