Coming back that year from a ride in the Alps/Western Balkans (on a Morini), I arrived at Le Havre just as many of the British Bol d'Or spectators were arriving for their ferry. Almost he whole loading area was awash with litre-plus bikes on British plates. The British fascination with the Bol on those years cannot be overstated. I knew people who suffered a year of urban commuting on a Z1300 or similar, just so they could get down to the Bol in under a day. Madness... But also quite a good sort of madness. That day at the ferry port in Le Havre, I got quite a lot of sympathy and understanding smiles for having had to ride in mountains on only a 350. I'm not sure any of them had ever ridden a Morini.... 😊
My third visit to the Bol two-up on my RG250. Woke up in the early morning after passing out drunk in my tent camped under the trees along the straight to a scene of utter devastation. Hundreds of tents awash and sleeping bags and camping gear abandoned. You could have stayed drunk for a month on all the bottles of Kronenbourg floating around. That annual pilgrimage to Paul Picard was the highlight of the year, getting sunburned on the beach at Bandol and blasting up and down the mountain before returning back to a cold, damp, autumnal UK. Golden days...........
@@weaselman24 I understand, thank you. They just look so much slower than this years race and that is obvious. I know lean angles have increased drastically over the years as well
The early 80's and early 90's were an interesting time! !
Coming back that year from a ride in the Alps/Western Balkans (on a Morini), I arrived at Le Havre just as many of the British Bol d'Or spectators were arriving for their ferry. Almost he whole loading area was awash with litre-plus bikes on British plates.
The British fascination with the Bol on those years cannot be overstated. I knew people who suffered a year of urban commuting on a Z1300 or similar, just so they could get down to the Bol in under a day. Madness... But also quite a good sort of madness.
That day at the ferry port in Le Havre, I got quite a lot of sympathy and understanding smiles for having had to ride in mountains on only a 350. I'm not sure any of them had ever ridden a Morini.... 😊
Ohhhhhh the glory days.
Damn those Hondas were, and still are, beautiful...
My third visit to the Bol two-up on my RG250. Woke up in the early morning after passing out drunk in my tent camped under the trees along the straight to a scene of utter devastation. Hundreds of tents awash and sleeping bags and camping gear abandoned. You could have stayed drunk for a month on all the bottles of Kronenbourg floating around. That annual pilgrimage to Paul Picard was the highlight of the year, getting sunburned on the beach at Bandol and blasting up and down the mountain before returning back to a cold, damp, autumnal UK. Golden days...........
Brilliant.
This is when the computer was the person in the saddle.
Nothing there I wouldn't own.
ほのぼのしてるなぁ
朝起きたら1988年になってたらいいのに
At 1.56 isn’t it British journalist Max Oxley?
Made the same observation
Rc 30 👍
Are they on caution?
Heavy bikes that don't have the punch of modern stuff and it's a 24hr race. Steady pace wins.
@@weaselman24 I understand, thank you. They just look so much slower than this years race and that is obvious. I know lean angles have increased drastically over the years as well
Are you sure of the year ?
Yes, 1988 event won by Alex Viera, Dominique Sarron and Christophe Bouheben.
Ok just got