Lakeport with the Mythbusters

I am so impressed that the AutoBlog Green picked up the Lake County Record Bee (has been archived so they can charge you) story on the recent Mythbuster visit---though one slight correction--Kari as seen in this photo, wasn't there that day--only Jamie and Adam. LOL! Thanks for connecting the dots.

On December 19th we were at the Lakeport Speedway with our Model One electric ATV and a Polaris 800 doing a few side by side comparisons between electric and gas vehicles for a Mythbuster's episode to be aired sometime the early part of next year. While there were "discoveries" made, suffice it to say that we were happy with the results. For those of you that didn't know, our proof of concept model used a Polaris 800 chassis. That same product category we hope to build our production models coming out next year. Polaris is in no way associated with our efforts at Barefoot we just felt that their Sportsman 800 could us a great baseline for a powerful and rugged vehicle, and indirectly Barefoot was able to give them some good TV time. Being on set was fun but it was a long cold rainy day--I have only more admiration for how Jamie and Adam and t heir production team make it look on TV! Blair Aiken the Lakeport track manager set up a fantastic indoor track to race these vehicles, along with his tremendous effort to find a fill-in Polaris 800 when the local source backed out. We also had stellar  last minute tech support on our Model One from Brian Hall at Thunderstruck Motors, here in Santa Rosa.

Don't worry these guys didn't ride without helmets--these were all downtime shots.