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  • Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
  • Stuart Graham rides George Beales replica 250cc 6 cylinder Honda around Cadwell Park for a lap, as shown on the BSB coverage. I was there and he had to keep it revving otherwise it stalled due to a really light flywheel.

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  • @davidhall39
    @davidhall39 4 года назад +90

    Never heard so much drivel whilst the best sounding bike in the WORLD is going round the track.

    • @twotonetonybaloney9963
      @twotonetonybaloney9963 4 года назад +17

      He never did shut up like he said he would, no commentary needed!

    • @johnbarry2976
      @johnbarry2976 3 года назад +4

      why dont they just SHUTUP

    • @uralbob1
      @uralbob1 3 года назад +7

      I wish they could shut up a little!

    • @aronernesto423
      @aronernesto423 3 года назад

      I know im asking randomly but does anybody know of a way to get back into an Instagram account..?
      I stupidly lost the account password. I would appreciate any help you can give me

  • @warrenwoolley9040
    @warrenwoolley9040 4 года назад +147

    These two blokes blabbing spoilt the whole video!

    • @Spamcan81
      @Spamcan81 3 года назад +5

      So Keith Huewen says "this is probably the only time you'll hear me shut up" and then just carries on yacking. Just shut up man.

    • @johnjones8148
      @johnjones8148 3 года назад

      @Kash Zayn No one cares, you are a moron

    • @johnjones8148
      @johnjones8148 3 года назад

      @Cullen Rowan
      idiot #2

  • @peteday1491
    @peteday1491 4 года назад +77

    So rare you get to hear the best sounding motorcycle EVER. But these guys think the event is enhanced by their chat. IT ISN'T!!!

  • @michaelhuggett1756
    @michaelhuggett1756 4 года назад +91

    If the commentator stopped talking it would be better .

  • @akatzkiyhgrey7037
    @akatzkiyhgrey7037 2 года назад +72

    Allen Millyard built a replica on his own with just a modeller's magazine as reference. He's my all time favorite bike builder

    • @daver3057
      @daver3057 2 года назад +1

      My favorite too! For those who are unfamiliar, Millyard has an expansive collection of amazing creations. Thank goodness he goes the extra lengths to chronical and share his work!
      This is as good a place as any, to enter his rabbit hole
      ruclips.net/video/ETvldkqeKgg/видео.html

    • @keretomayit
      @keretomayit 2 года назад +1

      lebih gahar punya Allen Millyard.....

    • @kdmc40
      @kdmc40 2 года назад +3

      And a whole lot cheaper than £200k I'll bet!

    • @pbysome
      @pbysome Год назад +4

      Not the same, Alan is fantastic but this is an exact replica down to the last nut and bolt.

    • @zander8752
      @zander8752 Год назад +4

      ​@@pbysome yes but Allen's was never really intended to be a replica, it was intended to be inspired by the RC166 for sure but it was larger cc for a reason. For one it didn't need a starter motor so I suspect the larger cc and inbuilt starter motor was more intended for practicality rather than performance. This bike in this video and Allen's are equally spectacular for different reasons in my opinion

  • @martinmcgovern8696
    @martinmcgovern8696 4 года назад +25

    I wish the commentators would just shut up and let us hear that fantastic sound. Far far too much yapping

  • @BlownSkillet
    @BlownSkillet 5 лет назад +75

    I thought he was going to SHUT UP!

  • @The9meister
    @The9meister 4 года назад +37

    The commentators spoilt this video, they love to hear their own voices, two knob heads, great little honda six.

    • @CyberGasty
      @CyberGasty 4 года назад

      pure sound ruclips.net/video/o57JwibqCb8/видео.html

  • @raymondsanderson3768
    @raymondsanderson3768 3 года назад +6

    If that’s a 250, it should have green number backgrounds! The blue ones are for 350’s.

  • @rgadave
    @rgadave 3 года назад +11

    "This is the only thing that stops me talking"........then all his does is rattle on !. Divi !.

  • @peterg2yt
    @peterg2yt 4 года назад +16

    Title is wrong. Its a 297cc Honda RC174. Raced in the 1967 350cc class. Maximum revs 17,500. Maximum power 17,000 (66BHP)... Keith Huewen says in the (incessant) commentary that it will rev to 22,000.. what tosh! He is confusing it with 125-5 and 50cc twin.

    • @gitaneVYS491R
      @gitaneVYS491R 4 года назад +4

      First thing I thought when I saw the blue number-boards.

    • @adamniland6528
      @adamniland6528 4 года назад

      Fantastic commentary, had keith commentimg on many of my races , made me seem far faster than i was

    • @janeblogs324
      @janeblogs324 4 года назад +2

      66hp? Sounds like more HP per liter than an s2000

    • @peterg2yt
      @peterg2yt 4 года назад +3

      jane blogs certainly a LOT more power/ltr than an S2000. It only weighs 113Kg and is really quick for such a small bike. Capable of more than 150mph

    • @Team-fabulous
      @Team-fabulous 4 года назад +2

      100% correct as the blue plates denote that.

  • @redtrummy
    @redtrummy 4 года назад +22

    Now I know why I stopped watching Moto Gp - worse than woman rattling

  • @TS50ER
    @TS50ER 4 года назад +11

    Would have been better if they had muted the bike sound and we could just listen to these two ends of bells waffling.

    • @TS50ER
      @TS50ER 4 года назад +1

      @@stpbasss3773 , LOL! Totally agree mate.

    • @tombridge3608
      @tombridge3608 4 года назад

      @@stpbasss3773 it's a 4 stroke...

    • @tombridge3608
      @tombridge3608 4 года назад

      @@stpbasss3773 Watched Mike Hailwood race the 250 version of this bike in the 1960s. If you want facts look here www.mbike.com/honda/rc166-250/1966
      The bike in this video was simply a bored-out version...

  • @robbateman7987
    @robbateman7987 4 года назад +14

    Blue Number backgrounds? it must be the 297 version, 250's are Green

    • @jarnosaarinen4583
      @jarnosaarinen4583 4 года назад +3

      My thoughts too. The blue plates is for 350's not 250cc!

  • @nickohare7187
    @nickohare7187 4 года назад +23

    Too much talk!!

  • @dogstar167
    @dogstar167 4 года назад +15

    2:13 the owner of the bike has just ran to the toilet

    • @peterg2yt
      @peterg2yt 4 года назад +3

      The owner of that bike is Honda UK

  • @norbertzznagy
    @norbertzznagy Год назад +10

    Even the endless blattering, couldn't destract the attention from one of the greatest sound, and masterpiece of all time.

    • @836dmar
      @836dmar Год назад +2

      Boy, they came really close though! Unbelievable. Maybe they get paid by the word!

  • @ronnieka3309
    @ronnieka3309 3 года назад +5

    Great that this bike makes such loud beautiful sound. I could still hear some of it while those crappie commentators could not SHUT UP

  • @goosedeathable
    @goosedeathable Год назад +2

    The commentators talked about the amazing sound, yet won’t shut the hell up. As others have said, they ruined the whole video.

  • @peterroberts3453
    @peterroberts3453 3 года назад +5

    You should have heard it with Mike Hailwood on board....At full chat on the IOM in the 60s.. That thing was absolutely amazing..

  • @howardosborne8647
    @howardosborne8647 4 года назад +12

    As a young lad I saw the genuine items of this replica screaming down Bray Hill. The TT circuit is about 5 minute cycle ride from my front door. Back then they were just another interesting race bike,nothing more than that. The noise was very special. I sat on top of the same bus shelter on Bray Hill and watched Ago go by on the MV's many times and Bill Ivy and Read on the 4 cylinder 125 Yams. Back then it all just seemed par for the course,so to speak.

    • @derekbond3512
      @derekbond3512 4 года назад

      Howard what great memories to have, and how fortunate to live on the IOM.

    • @geoffgreenhalgh3553
      @geoffgreenhalgh3553 4 года назад

      Me too.

    • @howardosborne8647
      @howardosborne8647 4 года назад

      @@geoffgreenhalgh3553 my ears are still ringing😂😂

    • @geoffgreenhalgh3553
      @geoffgreenhalgh3553 4 года назад

      @@howardosborne8647 I have been to IOM 15 times, but not this year. I was there one year when there were many Honda classics being srtarted up by white overall cladded Japenese mechanics. That noise was painfully loud.

    • @trevorthomas2373
      @trevorthomas2373 Год назад

      Fond memories of my visits to the island TT in the sixties.

  • @brianhudson7058
    @brianhudson7058 3 года назад +2

    Pity the commentators competed for audio time they should've just let us hear the bike

  • @uralbob1
    @uralbob1 3 года назад +3

    Here's to you, Mike "The Bike" Hailwood! We remember you!

  • @thewatcher5271
    @thewatcher5271 7 месяцев назад +1

    Regarding What You Said At 1:23 I Wish You Guys Had, In Fact, Shut Up! We Want To Hear The Engine, Not Your Jibber Jabber!

  • @seantheberge4182
    @seantheberge4182 2 года назад +1

    Why would you talk over such a beautiful sounding engine??? Mind bending....

  • @shanehnorman
    @shanehnorman 4 года назад +6

    Classic and tidy knees-in riding style, very appropriate to the machine.

  • @davidellis2286
    @davidellis2286 Год назад +1

    Just fund this video which I thought was all about the fantastic sound of the Honda 6, but virtually all we got were the two commentators talking over the sound. What a terrible waste.

  • @wimphilipsen2651
    @wimphilipsen2651 Год назад +1

    Why is that guy is talking so much? Couldn’t hear a thing.

  • @jarnosaarinen4583
    @jarnosaarinen4583 4 года назад +4

    This is a RC174 replica 297cc raced in the 350cc class not the 250cc RC166.

    • @kweeliso3601
      @kweeliso3601 4 года назад

      Right! And build by the french manufacture JPX

    • @peterg2yt
      @peterg2yt 4 года назад +2

      kweel iso - one person who worked at JPX did the initial work on engine drawings/CAD work but the bike was built by George Beale... using many specialist parts manufacturers and suppliers.

  • @jpmorgen5726
    @jpmorgen5726 2 года назад +2

    297cc...?

  • @joedoe4918
    @joedoe4918 2 года назад +1

    Si les commentateurs pouvaient fermer leur grande gueules ça serait parfait 😁

  • @rayworx
    @rayworx 3 года назад +2

    Ever notice how most all racers and ex-races and wanna-be racers 'blip-blip-blip' the throttle? Reason is that these Honda's had NO idle circuit in the carbs. So if you
    let off the throttle (like what happened to the rider in this video) the engine will die.

  • @angeloterribili3525
    @angeloterribili3525 2 года назад +1

    It would have been nice to listen to

  • @Unfunny_Username_389
    @Unfunny_Username_389 5 лет назад +4

    2:17 - bloody hell!! Thought it was all over for a second then. That could've been a dear day.

  • @eslermanu47
    @eslermanu47 4 года назад +3

    Proper racing bike the best ever you can't buy this in a shop like these modern bikes not in the same class

  • @MalcolmHarrison-v5c
    @MalcolmHarrison-v5c Год назад +1

    Why dont these bloody commentators should up and let the bike do the talking

  • @nealefrazer4247
    @nealefrazer4247 4 года назад +3

    The power of Dreams by one of the Greats..Mr Honda...vision,foresight ,determination and loyal work ethics plus a brilliant mind ...

  • @CaptHollister
    @CaptHollister 4 года назад +4

    One of the original Honda sixes stayed in Canada at the end of the 1967 season, I was there when it did a demonstration lap of the Gilles Villeneuve circuit in 1981(ish). You could quite literally follow its progress around the track just from the sound. What a glorious noise ! Fast forward twenty-odd years and I had the pleasure of chatting with Michelle Duff (nee Mike Duff) who was a Yamaha factory rider in the sixties. She says she still has a ringing in her ears from chasing Hailwood on the Honda 6.

    • @carlosoruna7174
      @carlosoruna7174 Год назад

      Yup. I was there that weekend. Could hear it at the victoria bridge hairpin when it was at the jacques cartier bridge hairpin. Epic motor

  • @steputube
    @steputube 4 года назад +1

    Why can't they shut up?!!!!!

  • @derekbond3512
    @derekbond3512 4 года назад +5

    What an absolute joy to see and hear this great machine, just sheer magic.

    • @leifvejby8023
      @leifvejby8023 3 года назад +2

      You must have heard a different video, all I could hear was two goons yapping away - couldn't stand it past 4 minutes.

    • @derekbond3512
      @derekbond3512 3 года назад +1

      @@leifvejby8023 I have to agree with you

  • @niedernhall1
    @niedernhall1 4 года назад +1

    If he ever would stop talking!

  • @exb.r.buckeyeman845
    @exb.r.buckeyeman845 4 года назад +2

    Sounds like Neil McKenzie.

  • @Team-fabulous
    @Team-fabulous 4 года назад +1

    The bikes blue number plates denote it's a 350 and I think the true CC was 297!!!! I think....

  • @Jenuin
    @Jenuin 4 месяца назад +1

    WoW ❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @2009bassline2009
    @2009bassline2009 4 года назад +3

    masterpiece just like the v16 brm

  • @mightress
    @mightress 4 года назад +2

    My guess: those honda bikes back than where not perse the fastest but no one dared come close enough to pass because the fear of hearing loss.

  • @michaeltaylor8835
    @michaeltaylor8835 4 года назад +6

    Alan Millyards is better

  • @jamesevans164
    @jamesevans164 4 года назад +1

    Those two Muppet's have Absolutely no respect for a Godly Sound... can we listen to the bike please... I could cry...

  • @quigley4440
    @quigley4440 Месяц назад

    Came to hear the Honda - left because of these yackers. SHUT UP ALREADY.

  • @kimjessen737
    @kimjessen737 3 года назад +2

    Goooooosebumps all over my body…

  • @noverguy
    @noverguy 5 месяцев назад

    Great ride! Great sound! Announcers good riddance. What a couple of knuckleheads...they never shut up.

  • @CodyM-j6s
    @CodyM-j6s 20 дней назад

    Too much talking. Need my finest wine for this sound.

  • @tonyguest9744
    @tonyguest9744 Год назад +1

    I remember the 250 and 297 Honda 6's in the 60's at the IOM TT ridden by Hailwood. Together with Read and Ivy on the Yamaha 4's and Ago on the MV great times, thanks for the memories.

  • @gerriteggink4700
    @gerriteggink4700 4 года назад +1

    Hoe kunnen motorliefhebbers hier doorheen kletsen. En het gaat ook nog nergens over

  • @triplebuses955
    @triplebuses955 3 года назад +2

    I remember that at the Chimay Classic bike, I heard an engine screaming in the riders' park, it was impossible to stay next to the bike because the noise bored your ears. It took all the ingenuity of the Great "Mike the bike" to tame this "monster". In those years, there were many manufacturers and technical diversity was the key word, the various regulations have brought diversity down, too bad! In MotoGP 2, they have came to have all the same engine, in short, almost production races ...

    • @peterg2yt
      @peterg2yt 2 года назад

      :-) that was me at Chimay riding replica number 007 for the very first time (the one in the video is number 001 and is owned by Honda)... not an easy bike to ride until you get used to the lack of flywheel... At Chimay it was overheating, clutch dragging and the carburation was way off... finally got it sorted in time for the 2017 parade lap of the IoM. Fantastic!

    • @triplebuses955
      @triplebuses955 2 года назад +1

      @@peterg2yt Congratulations on being able to tune and ride such a bike, I envy anyone who saw it battle other manufacturers in the 1960s. Thank you for bringing such a bike back to life.

  • @PaulChater-z9t
    @PaulChater-z9t Год назад

    250CC ? THE NUMBER PLATE ARE BLUE WHICH I BELIEVE IS 350 CLASS. I RODE A 250CC AND THE BACKGROUND COLOUR TO NUMBER PLATE WAS ALWAYS GREEN.

  • @fullgas1413
    @fullgas1413 Год назад

    What a fucking Nice screeming!!! Que ronco lindo, puta que pariu! E é uma réplica do gênio inglês!

  • @josvandencamp8441
    @josvandencamp8441 Месяц назад

    As a boy I remember the real bike race with the late, great Mike Hailwood riding it.

  • @martinhambleton5076
    @martinhambleton5076 11 месяцев назад

    The commentator!!!
    Needs some slight adjustment.
    🤐 My goodness! How can you use that many words to say nothing worth listening too?

  • @pabrennan6877
    @pabrennan6877 7 месяцев назад

    1:33 "Front Back Straight" - this counts as commentry then?

  • @pippiperade4030
    @pippiperade4030 Год назад

    I was hoping that the commentators would have had the sense to switch off their mics and let us enjoy the magical sounds from this legendary machine.. but no, they went into auto-yap and did their best to ruin a video. Well done you boneheads.

  • @martynw77
    @martynw77 3 года назад

    There is a time to talk and a time to SHUT UP. The camera work was great. But it was spoilt by the bloody voices.

  • @jameswulzen590
    @jameswulzen590 Год назад

    can't be a 250 it has blue number spots on the fairing, it must be a 350cc rep.

  • @camgere
    @camgere 4 года назад +2

    Thank you for posting this!

  • @xWILZTAx
    @xWILZTAx 3 года назад +1

    I was there and its honest the best wngine I've ever heard. Even better than anything I've seen at goodwood.

  • @ronvelner6530
    @ronvelner6530 3 года назад

    Stopped watching after three minutes due to the endless chatter of the commentators.

  • @arthurbarette4861
    @arthurbarette4861 2 года назад

    Its a 350cc they didnt build 250cc replicas

  • @kevincraig8257
    @kevincraig8257 2 года назад

    this is why the internal combustion engine should always be alive and well electric motors are boring

  • @whalesong999
    @whalesong999 4 года назад +4

    I just read two articles published by Kevin Cameron of Cycle World fame about how the pressed-together crankshafts of these sixes were designed and built, just fascinating. Unlike most of the previous Honda multis, there are no full circle flywheels; the crank webs are made in a kind of a flattened ingot shape with a pressed in chunk of dense metal balance opposite of the crankpins. The crankpins are intregal with one half of the parts for each cylinder. Torsional vibration was cancelled considerably which allowed these delicate, high revving units to survive a race. Pictures show that the parts were forgings.

    • @leslieaustin151
      @leslieaustin151 4 года назад +1

      whalesong999 Watch Allen Millyard’s videos to see it being done... Les

    • @peterg2yt
      @peterg2yt 4 года назад

      @@leslieaustin151 - except Alan Millyards bike, as amazing as it is, bears verly little resemblance the RC174 internally... its like a tractor by comparison, having been made by grafting two road bike engines together.

    • @leslieaustin151
      @leslieaustin151 4 года назад +1

      peterg2yt Yes, I fully accept that this bike is not a carbon copy of the original race machines. But Allen’s motivation and skill to put together something that ‘resembles’ the race bikes, in appearance and in sound, is to be applauded. I didn’t say it was an exact copy. And I merely directed “whalesong” to another of Allen’s videos where he takes cranks apart and reassembles them. But “tractor”? Having heard it and (on video) seen it go, this is no tractor. Give proper credit, please. Les

    • @peterg2yt
      @peterg2yt 4 года назад +1

      Leslie Austin You misunderstand my remark. I do not intend it to detract in any way from Alan Millyards amazing creation, but to compare what he did by grafting two road bike engines together means that you don’t understand what an astonishing creation the GP Honda 6 was, and in particular at the time it was created by Soichiro Iramajiri. I am very familiar with the RC174, I have ridden more than 150 track miles including a lap of the Isle of Man in 2017. The Honda engine bears more of a resemblance to a fine Swiss watch than an internal combustion engine (indeed the cranks on the Beale replicas are made in Geneva by a company involved in F1 and NASCAR engine parts AND watches). The crank has three different diameter big-ends (bigger in the centre and smaller outboard, exactly like the original) and three different diameter main bearings, all needle roller and all stressed to be minimalist enough to take the load required. The crank webs on the Honda look more like domino pieces than parts of an engine. Counterweights are pressed in pieces of tungsten. Zero flywheel effect, and certainly no tick over as the Millyard 6 has (plus electric start). Most notably, the Honda engine is really tiny... it’s about 18” wide total, with massively more power per litre than any road bike to the current time (66 BHP @ 17,000 rpm from 297cc). BY COMPARISON to the Honda, Mr Millyards amazing creation (and indeed the GP MV Agusta 350 six) is really like a tractor.

    • @whalesong999
      @whalesong999 4 года назад

      @@peterg2yt Along these lines, I haven't seen any video or description of how Alan made the crank for his Honda 6 engine. It cannot be built the same as the factory 6s as I understand that particular engine uses high pressure oil insert bearings, not needle-roller ones. Perhaps I missed something already posted about that but it was a significant bit of machining effort.

  • @grahamambridge2856
    @grahamambridge2856 3 года назад

    Commentators.. Just shut up on this occasion...

  • @kazuR6
    @kazuR6 Год назад

    Is this 350? Blue number base.

  • @xvdd1
    @xvdd1 4 года назад +1

    Some nice footage, I read the Beale replicas were going for 450,000 so who knows, I hate Stuart Graham because he is so thin I am ten years his junior and decidedly fat lol.

  • @kawall7140
    @kawall7140 Год назад

    You want an electric bike listen to this fella

  • @danw1955
    @danw1955 4 года назад +1

    LMAO!! I'll bet that little bit of motocross action was a real nail biter!😮🤣 You really have to stir the shifter on these to stay in the upper rpm ranges, both accelerating and decelerating. ..and I'd be willing to bet he got the brake and the shifter crossed up (more than once) since they are on opposite sides, *unlike the original '66 RC-166!!* The shifter is on the right, and not only that, it's reversed on the shaft, so the gear pattern is 1 up and the rest down. This is a really stupid arrangement, and could easily get even the most seasoned racer in trouble, if he's used to riding normal race bikes with the shifter on the left side. That's a screw-up on Beale's part, not the rider.🙄

    • @peterg2yt
      @peterg2yt 4 года назад +2

      Stuart Graham has ridden far more bikes with right-hand ‘race shift’ than modern left side gear change. It’s possible to set the gear/brake side to either side on this Honda, but old-school racers always prefer it on the right. It’s definitely not a ‘screw-up’ by George Beale.

  • @shaunlastname391
    @shaunlastname391 3 года назад

    1:06 The hairs on my arse???? Seems a bit much 🤣

  • @darrencameron6919
    @darrencameron6919 3 года назад +1

    I was lucky enough to see 2 of these at the 2019 classic TT. Did a start up in the Jurby paddock just as i walked past. OMG the best thing i have ever heard. Daz from Adelaide.

  • @byronbailey9229
    @byronbailey9229 8 месяцев назад

    Shut up so we can hear the machine

  • @martinhambleton5076
    @martinhambleton5076 2 года назад

    This is a 297cc version.

  • @TheImtoomuch
    @TheImtoomuch 4 года назад +1

    Damn that sounds angry! I love it!

  • @jamato2004
    @jamato2004 3 года назад

    Not any word heared!!!!

  • @threestripe4835
    @threestripe4835 3 года назад +1

    Allen millyard is the brilliant behind it

    • @stephenscholes4758
      @stephenscholes4758 3 года назад

      No, different bike...his is a vague "tribute", Beale's is a perfect replica, he made six, spending millions £££

    • @peterg2yt
      @peterg2yt 2 года назад

      @@stephenscholes4758 Ten, not six.

  • @Madd_Budiman
    @Madd_Budiman 4 года назад +1

    replica ??,, I think that is original.. the sound is similiar

    • @peterg2yt
      @peterg2yt 4 года назад +1

      Yes, replica but apart from electronic ignition, identical.

  • @kpc5
    @kpc5 4 года назад +1

    That's a F1 18000 rpm racing car engine sound, love it.

    • @CaptHollister
      @CaptHollister 4 года назад +1

      It's the other way around. It's the F1 engines that sound like the Honda 6. But not quite. Having heard both an original Honda 6 and current F1s, the Honda sounds better.

  • @alanhoughton2535
    @alanhoughton2535 4 года назад +1

    I was at Cadwell park and watched Mike Hailwood ride the Honda 6 in the late 60's brought back lots of memories

    • @alanvanallen7762
      @alanvanallen7762 4 года назад

      So was I ,I'll never forget that day,whatching Mike wheelieing up the mountain ,just superb.RIP Mike Hailwood

  • @markbarber7839
    @markbarber7839 Год назад

    Beautiful

  • @michaelwillette5738
    @michaelwillette5738 3 года назад +1

    Just found this.
    Honda made both 250 & 350 versions. I remember when these were so secret they were just rumors..
    A now deceased family friend and one of the first American Honda dealers, John McLaughlin, being a champion racer and personal friend of Sochiro Honda rode them in Japan to evaluate them. He gave me a rundown on them.
    The voice-over attributing the stalling to a light flywheel effect is wrong. The ultra narrow power band was/is the major factor here.

    • @hectorherbert6585
      @hectorherbert6585 3 года назад

      Have you watched the complete home/hand build from Allen Millyard here on YT..???

    • @stephenscholes4758
      @stephenscholes4758 3 года назад

      @@hectorherbert6585 That is a fantastic story and I'd love to have it or ride it but it's not in the same ballpark as Beale's, for one it is not a Honda base, and is water cooled, not air-cooled like the real thing. Also, I have my doubts it could be ridden hard for any length of time.

    • @voodoochild800
      @voodoochild800 2 года назад

      Honda never made a 350cc version of this bike but did compete in the 350cc class with the rc174 which was just under 300cc. The bike was so advanced for its time it won the 350cc class and championship that year.

    • @peterg2yt
      @peterg2yt Год назад +1

      As an owner and rider of one of these bikes (number 007) I can say that your late friend was mistaken. Actually the power band is astonishingly wide... nothing like a 2-stroke racer from that era which had a very narrow power band.. The engine pulls cleanly and linearly from about 10,000 to just over 17,000 (which was a surprise to me). On the other hand, the total lack of flywheel means that until you are really 'in synch' with the bike, it is very easy to stall the engine on gear-changes... that is exactly what happens on the video.

  • @finnianjenkins2872
    @finnianjenkins2872 2 года назад

    Rc174 297cc

  • @duellingscarguevara
    @duellingscarguevara Год назад

    It does sound in better tune, than the factory Honda guys could do on their original. (What a bitch, gotta be kept on the boil?).

  • @stuartparry8616
    @stuartparry8616 3 года назад

    Would of been a great video if only the the guys commentating could have shut their mouths for just one minute so we could appreciate the sound. !!!

  • @monsieurcommissaire1628
    @monsieurcommissaire1628 2 года назад

    If only Honda had done a decent sized production run of the 250 inline 6 (not too likely, I know), Allen Millyard could by now have made a totally bonkers 500cc V12 from a couple of them...

  • @clivedavies5618
    @clivedavies5618 4 года назад

    I can only agree with everyone else, the video is spoilt by the pointless babble of the two "commentators".

  • @jamesbeckett3460
    @jamesbeckett3460 4 года назад

    Such a shame we couldn't have just listened to the sounds... Huge One and his mate ruined the whole thing.

  • @Lee-70ish
    @Lee-70ish 4 года назад

    Its a shame the Weslake 500 never got beyond design prototype. 20000 rpm from a single 500 would have been something.
    That said modern big bore short stroke was Weslake's idea.

  • @bigred8438
    @bigred8438 4 года назад

    What are we watching this old thing for?.....Because he was great rider back in the day.

  • @johnshrimpton135
    @johnshrimpton135 4 года назад

    I bet his arsehole went tighter than a snare drum skin when went over the grass ! Well saved !

  • @basiatbrown
    @basiatbrown 4 года назад +2

    Too bad the commentators wouldn't shut up!

  • @paulshelley4754
    @paulshelley4754 3 года назад

    The concept of this engine Honda built from scatch is awesome the crank is a work of art whatcha Honda strip it down to it's component parts on you tube seen this in action with Mike up

  • @gordondaniels9718
    @gordondaniels9718 4 года назад

    i thought it was about the bike not about the numb nutz why did they spoil it

  • @jameseastwood4984
    @jameseastwood4984 2 года назад

    I read that when Honda developed it they kept it secret and even shipped the bike with only 4 exhaust pipes so as to preserve the design until it's first outing.

  • @burgey2145
    @burgey2145 3 года назад

    I see it at Coventry motofest always come down the ring road full throttle