Watch the Most Insane Yamaha R6-Swapped Dirt Bike Take Flight

There are wild videos, and then there's what you're about to watch. We've seen superbikes converted, more or less, into off-road capable bikes from plenty of channels. But it's much rarer to see a supersport or superbike engine swapped into a dirt bike's frame because it's much harder to make work.

But the swap isn't even what makes this Cboys video so wild.

The lads decide that if they're going to take a perfectly good motor out of a Yamaha R6, they might as well destroy the frame first because, in some way, this makes sense to them. But don't question it because how they go about destroying the frame is probably the most satisfying part of the whole video.

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If you've watched the channel for long enough, you've seen an unmanned R6 flying through the air more than once. But, this time, it's it's higher than ever. I'd go as far as to say that this is the most airtime I've ever seen from an unmanned motorcycle—they could've made a whole video based on the intro alone.

But the video continues to get better as we get a look at what it takes to properly make an R6 engine work with a dirt bike frame. Once the engine is in the custom-built chassis, the bike weighs a helluva lot more, but it absolutely rips despite running rough. After seeing the initial demolition derby, you'll understand the reason it sounds like it's running on two cylinders.

Of course, in classic Cboys tradition, the lads take the R6 mutant bike out for a rip on a frozen lake, and it's scary to watch it at full tilt. But the real fun starts when the gang heads down to Florida and takes it to a motocross track—check it out below.

Now after watching, let us know your favorite part of the video. Was it launching the R6 or seeing the mutant dirt bike rip. And tell us whether you'd prefer an off-road experience on the Harley or YZR6—yes, I coined that model.

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