The Greatest Sounding 2 Stroke Road Racing Motorcycles
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
- This is a video to celebrate the fantastic sound of racing 2 strokes and is the first in a series of best sounding 2 stroke video's.
I talk about each bike in detail and I will now be introducing a special 2 strokes playlist on the channel so its easy to find the video's which feature them.
It is finally taking its rightful place on here rather than being isolated on the back up channel.
This one is specifically for the great Road Racing Bikes
The order of any list can be subjective, and that is impossible to avoid here. So I'm not saying any one is better or worse. I have ordered it so that the more obvious choices you all know all come first, and the less obvious ones I hope will surprise you more follow towards the end.
They are all fantastic sounding bikes and I hope you appreciate their lilting tones,the raw sound video with no voiceover is posted in the raw sound playlist for those who so desire :-)
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00:00 Intro
01:30 Honourary Mention
02:50 Yamaha TZ750
05:05 Yamaha YZR750
06:35 Yamaha YZR500
07:50 Suzuki RG500
11:20 Honda NSR500
15.05 Kawasaki KR500
20:20 Proton KRV3
22:30 Yamaha RD05A
24:50 Yamaha RA31A
25:45 Konig GP500
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I almost started to feel like I was back in my mid 20s again listening to that beautiful music coming from ALL of those awesome bikes! Then I went to get up and got reminded, I aint lol.
I loved the sound of every one of them, and miss it so badly. Barry Sheen after retiring became a very good co host on 1 of our free to air TV channels regular weekly motor racing shows. He made a great co host with a vast knowledge of experience to tap into and a great way of explaining things. It was a very sad way for him to die of stomach cancer after risking his life so many times on the track. That was 21 years ago now yet I can still see and hear him in my head. A legend gone to something completely unrelated to their very dangerous career, a bit like Michael Shoemaker, that all just seems so wrong!
I may have to watch this over again later as that " big bang " all cylinders firing at once sounds like a recipe for all sorts of problems, weird vibration patterns and harmonics seem to me like they would have to be a bad idea but, apparently it did work out well from what you said.
There is something about 3 cylinder bikes, I can't explain it and despite them all sounding different to each other, they still feel and sound a good kind of different to twins or 4 cylinders. The two 3 cylinders I've had over the years, I loved the sound of them both. One was a Suzuki 550 GT 2 stroke and the other was the D series 750 Yamaha shaft drive 4 stroke with an aftermarket exhaust that made the most beautiful music to listen to that I just had to turn the volume control up on that audio by the rotating grip on the right end of the bars as often as possible to full throttle, I mean full volume lol. Still, that lively cackle you get when a 2 stroke with a bit of a peaky power band is ridden properly and kept in it's power band where not only the most power hides but, throttle response is super crisp and lively too.
Thanks for an exceptional video, not that they aren't all great, this one, for me at least, climbed the scale a bit higher than most, mostly for bringing that era back to life for a while but, also your thorough research and general knowledge.
THANK YOU 🏆👍, May you live long and prosper🖖🏻 and have a blast on your bikes too.
Ayup mate :-) Hows it going? the triples are special for sure, for me its that oscilating sound wave, the 120 degree crank ones have it, but the 180 degree crank ones have it by the bucketload :-) thats why i like the original early Jta sound better than the later 120's :-) but its all about personal choice at that point, they do all sound great. Have a great week
@@barebonesmc Going OK here mate, I hope you're going well too.
Yeah, I don't fully understand it but yeah, 2 or 4 stroke, triples have a sound and feel that's different and great sounding to me. Then again, a big 4 can sound pretty awesome screaming away at revs too. In my case one was a 2 stroke and the other a 4 stroke with 3 cylinders yet neither sounded remotely like twins and if anything they more resembled 4 cylinders but with a bit of a different kind of sound.
I've only had the 1 V twin, the DL 650 Suzy and I'd swear there was something about the way that ran and sounded were unique to it. The only other V twin I ever rode was a Hurley 1,200 and I hated the doughy handling I hated from the start. I found a nice long section of relatively straight and empty road and figured it's time for the rolling start from around 40 mph to 100 mph test and even reasonable bike would have reached that 100 mph pretty quickly, I nearly ran out of that long straight section before that horrible handling slug finally got there. I sorta liked the sound and feel of the big V twin but, WHY of why can't they make bikes that handle and perform instead of poser machines that mostly wannabes tossers waste a fortune on. I almost feel sorry for them being so desperate to be looked at as some sort of elite person because they ride an overpriced, unreliable, poor handling and gutless for their size bike. I did kinda fall in love with that Vstrom engine and the way it ran. I really wish I hadn't traded it in for the DRZ 400 after I bought the BMW S 1,000 R.
I was riding alternate days for a while but the DL 650 I just couldn't appreciate after riding that awesome Beamer for a while and it not capable of serious dirt riding the DRZ seemed the logical trade. Pity I didn't know the accident was going to put serious bush riding out of the question anyway. Now I'm looking at converting her to be pretty much a road only type bike, though I know she'll still be fun drifting around a lot of dirt road bends. She is a wheelie monster of fun to ride. Sadly she's in need of new tyres as well as that Smart Carb fitted so, road tyres seems the most sensible but, I'm half thinking of using something like the old trials universal tyres which back when I was younger was what they all came with and the full knobbies mine came with were illegal for road use.
BTW: Should I change the front wheel for a smaller diameter than the 21" it came with, and if so, what diameter works best if you know that is?
@@lorditsprobingtime6668 glad alls well, a few questions there lol. i think theres a 19" upermoto front wheel that fits in, but a lot of the 50 50 tyres are damn good these days. do you get Mitas down there? personally i dont mind a 21" front, you could always just try dropping the stantions an inch or so to make it turn in faster? stiffer progressive springs might help too. smaller is better on road but once it gets rutty the 21 wins every time. they do just roll over bumps and riples better, hope that helps
@@barebonesmc Thanks for the advice mate. I really didn't want to go to the added expense of a smaller wheel if there wasn't a real improvement in handling and a greater choice of road tyres, if I went that way. I have seem a set of trail type tyres I reckon would have a good footprint are yet still just enough chunkiness to have some bite in the dirt. I was thinking about the sliding the forks up, I've already got a rear lowering kit to put on, maybe. I'll stay with the 21" then and see if I can find any of those "Mitas" tyres around here.
Thanks again, that's exactly what I hoped, and yeah, that's one of the things I like about trail type bikes, those different diameter wheels means rough patches or corrugations affect both at different speeds, if they really effect the front at all. My old XL 500s that I've had with their weird 23 inch front were amazing on corrugated roads, the rear could be skipping of the peaks while the front just glided over the tops smoothly and tracked straight.
@@lorditsprobingtime6668 if you can get the Mitas, i use the E07 Dakar on the Vstrom, but i used the E09 and E10 on the KLR600 and DR600, they are what i would think depending how much dirt you intend. the E09 and 10 were actually far better on road than i expected. you probably wouldnt need the Dakar grade ones on the DRZ, they have stiffer side walls for heavy ADV bikes, but it makes them a bitch to get on lol
In 1985 I bought a Yamaha RZ500 new. I still have it and it's in near int condition.
Lucky bugger, I bought a basket case about 25 years ago. Just started resto work last year and man the parts are hard to find here in Australia. Yambits, Fowlers etc are a Godsend. Had the 250 originally for many years, wish i still had that too.
lucky man 🙂Cheers for watching and for the comment mate. Ride Free 🙂
@@blast3613 I still miss my series 1 350LC
You dirty rotten animal @@barebonesmc
Ah, the sound of like 70 TZ 250 Yamaha road racers on the starting grid of Riverside Raceway back in the 70's. Racing had not het discovered silencers.
I always remember Race of the Year at Mallory, you could get so close to the grid back then it made your eyes roll. Happy Days :-)
You Sir, are true pearl and an incredibly valuable part of the MC world, a real treasure with few peers. You deserve a spot in the Hall of Fame - AMA, Motorsport, International - all the Halls. What a great piece!
Will you be crafting some similar "most, best, top" collection(s) focusing on the smaller displacement classes someday? They are a trove of amazing innovations, astonishing performance, and legends in their own right. I don't know you plan to, but if anyone can pull together and present their stories better, I've yet to see or hear of them. In the meantime, keep the rubber side down!
Bless you mate, glad you enjoyed it, there will be more to follow, it will take time but they are coming 🙂🙂Cheers for watching and for the comment mate. Ride Free 🙂
Agreed!
Been looking forward to this! Headphones on, feet up on the rearsets, clip-on remotes in hand. Grazie!
Wild days, and even wilder nights 🙂 Enjoy the ride mate. Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
Beautiful movie!
As a two-stroke enthusiast I like to see this.
For me, the two-stroke is the best engine construction there was, everything is light and you can ride best with light engines, but that is of course my personal opinion.
My first 2 stroke motorcycle was a Kawasaki Avenger 350 cc, the last a Kawasaki KR1S 250 cc, a difference between 1968 and 1990 when I bought them, but both of good quality.
Too bad they are no longer allowed to be made.
Then the drivers who are unfortunately no longer with us, often due to unsafe circuits, but the engines became increasingly faster and more difficult to control.
Now MotoGP is completely dominated by electronics, otherwise few riders would remain safe on the bike, which is a shame, for me it has gone too far and too much is controlled by electronics, just like my great annoyance in modern cars.
some good points well put mate 🙂 have you seen the Avenger here ruclips.net/video/jgSnHBdXcOo/видео.html and the KR1 here ruclips.net/video/--s1H54GhMk/видео.html Cheers for the comment. Ride Free 🙂
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Thank you !!
@@heinpereboom5521 and you sir, have a great week
One if my dreams is to own a 250 Samurai
great bikes,i featured them here ruclips.net/video/--s1H54GhMk/видео.html 🙂 Cheers for watching mate. Ride Free 🙂
My subscription is really worth every second of this video,and vice versa.Thank you for this content mate,your love towards the gist of it isn't unnoticed! 🏍️💨
🙂Cheers for watching and for the comment mate. what were your favourite bits? Ride Free 🙂
Why oh why don’t we have two stroke races still, the good old days, another great video from barebones, the younger generation don’t know what they missed, keep these terrific videos coming makes my day when your clips pop up here 👍👍
Hows life mate, glad you enjoyed it, i have put all the 2 stroke videos together on its own playlist on the channel homepage now :-) have a great day
It is the *NOISE!* Such noise, like a swarm of irate wasps, and then the *Odor,* too. Eu de Blendzall!
I actually think we will see two stroke racing coming back, modern gp bikes are just electrical controlled machines. Rear wheel slides are all controlled by the speed of electronics.
@@oldgolfpunk wishful thinking i think, but we shall see in time
2 Strokes 4 Ever!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for Sharing.
glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂 Theres plenty more in the 2 stroke playlist on the home page and more on the website too. and there will always be more to come. Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
4 strokes sound better
@@posniknelb6114 the 4 strokes are here ruclips.net/video/fBr4QONXBmU/видео.html they both have their place 🙂
@@barebonesmc Many thanks, I still absolutely love the sound of 2 strokes, but in the noise contest, the 4 strokes win.
@@posniknelb6114 mine are all 4 strokes these days, but thats just because i wouldnt fold up onto the TZR anymore lol
Good to see you back in strenght!
Cheers for sticking around mate 🙂 have a great week
For me the König is the most special sound when you hear it for real!!!!!!
And the beautiy of that engine!!!!!
a special bike with its own special if sad story. and yes its own sound for sure. i remember one year when im sure there were 3 outfits at the top all using the Konig engine (just before the era of offset axles if i remember right) i remember standing between them as a kid in the paddock at Mallory Park wondering what it was that made them sound so different.
@@barebonesmcI see Hans de Wit's (a Duth guy) König a few times every year when going to classic bike events in Belgium and the Netherlands, Hans bought his bike new in 1971 and still riding it, great guy and loves to talk about his bike and Kim.
Kim's son did ride his bike at Francorchamps!!!
@@ericvandael521 great respect for keeping it going. and cheers to you for adding to the story 🙂 have a great weekend
Two strokes, love them the sound and smell just adds to the whole experience, open the throttle and whoosh the puff of blue smoke and the sound of a nest of angry wasps behind you ❤❤
glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂 Theres plenty more on the channel, hope you will look around and find something your interested in. there is more on the website too. and there will be more to come. Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
I immediately thought of Honda NS 500 it has a beautiful, haunting howl, as it’s flying into the distance, lovely sound. 🏍🏍🏍
the original screamer NS500 was equally as good a sound as the big bang one i think, just different. of them all i love the distinct sound of the Konig though 🙂 but thats just me 🙂 i like the underdogs 🙂
Fantastic! What a gem this production is, great work sir!
glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂 Theres plenty more on the channel, hope you will look around and find something your interested in. there is more on the website too. and there will be more to come. Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
Thanks for bringing us the story of Konig and Nukem(sp). I never would have known.
glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂 He was a giant, sorely missed. Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
As a yound apprentice, my boss's brother had an outfit with an OW31 engine in it. I rode my FS1/E to Mallory park to watch him race. He easily won his heat but retired in the final with a burnt out clutch.
Wild days, and even wilder nights 🙂Mallory was my local cct back then, (before they rebuilt Donnington). Cheers for watching mate. Ride Free 🙂
Great video, plenty of two stroke history. I had several Yamaha RZ 350's and an RZ500 back in the day and feel fortunate to have lived in that era of bikes. So many great bikes, KR1S and NSR400's but the daddy was the RG500 which I never got to ride.
great bikes,i featured the KR1 here ruclips.net/video/--s1H54GhMk/видео.html and the NSR500 was a stunning series of bikes🙂 Cheers for watching mate. Ride Free 🙂
Awesome video, i am a 2T fanatic, great history in the video, been riding for the past 12 years dirt bikes had a 2T and a valve one but for me 2T and 2 wheels go together the sound the noise everything about 2T is great, keep up the good work brother God bless 💪💪👍👍
glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂 I love the smell of Castrol R and we do have a whole 2 strokes playlist on the home page now. Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
What a treat ! Thank you love from South Africa 🇿🇦
glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂 Theres plenty more on the channel, hope you will look around and find something your interested in. there is more on the website too. and there will be more to come. Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
Lekker in jhb
@@antongruber5978 ???
Hey my friend,great video,two stroke fan,owning a Yamaha RD400 and a Yamaha RZ 350 YPVS, Hello from across the pond, Fletchers Lake, Nova Scotia,Canada!😀👌👍✌
glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂 Theres plenty more on the channel, theres a just 2 strokes playlist, but many 2 strokes elsewhere in my other vdeos too. among others I had a series 1 Mars Bar 350LC, awesome bike that sealed my love of bikes forever. Hope you will look around and find something your interested in. there is more on the website too. and there will be more to come. Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
Excellent content and a wealth of knowledge…. Keep up the good work
glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂 Theres plenty more on the channel, hope you will look around and find something your interested in. there is more on the website too. and there will be more to come. Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
Awsome, i still have my 88 YZ 250 supersport motocross, it keeps up with CR450s, i have to hold on for dear life 😂
great bikes they will find their place in time 🙂 Cheers for watching mate. Ride Free 🙂
😂 Great to see the manic mechanic from Kaplan... Wheelying a Rare racing two-stroke 🤙 on public streets
They are an entertaining bunch :-)
Most knowlegable motor cycle contributor on the web by Far
you flatter me my friend 🙂Cheers for watching and for the comment. Ride Free 🙂
As someone who owns 2 tzr's an nsr and rgv. I think I'm addicted to 2 smoke.
Castrol R runs through my veins :-)
I might be a bit late, but i just stumbled upon this channel and found this video.
I'm not really that much of a bike guy, but i'm certainly an engine head aswell as a history enjoyer. So hearing this older softly spoken fine man speaking about our beloved 2 strokes in a fine manered way with a decent amout of history in there, but maybe a little too little engine facts and history in my opinion is so nice.
If there's something in the engine spectrum that's amazing it is absolutely 2 strokes. 2 strokes running on gasoline, diesel or nitromethane i don't carex they are all so neat and amazing. It hurts me alot that the only bike companies i know about who is still developing on their 2 strokes is the ktm umbrella with their tpi bikes and then you can still get maicos(as far as i know) and mopeds as 2 strokes, but even they are getting faced out and replaced with 4 strokes here ik Denmark.
The sound, the simplicity, the powerdelivery, the expansion champion and the scavenging pumps is all amazing and it makes me sad 2 strokes isn't the same as it wad back in the day. I as a early 2000's kid is really bummed out about not being able to go out and watch a 500ccm³ grand prix and watch those men take those 2 strokes to war. Great video man.
Its never too late mate, and welcome aboard, there is a whole playlist of 2 stroke videos here ruclips.net/p/PLQ4ZIwIZyn7qFcKN4xhwE1XxwYH4HmC9S as to now, theres the stupidly expensive ones like the Langen, but Minarelli have developed a completely new 2 stroke engine, Its all owned by Yamaha now, but i believe Fantic are using the Minarelli in some of their bikes now. They are thin on the ground, but Beta are still making some with what is effectively an updated version of the older GasGas (pre KTM) engines, so still alive, but definitely on life support lol
@@barebonesmc I gotta get the epilepsy under control at first.
I completely forgot about both Langen and Beta.
@@MikkelL03 i would forget my own head if it wasnt tied on sometimes mate lol
Absolutely brilliant , thankyou.
glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂 Theres plenty more on the channel, hope you will look around and find something your interested in. there is more on the website too. and there will be more to come. Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
3:36 that is kaplan america! great guys
indeed, he pops up regularly, we have an agreement :-) and yep, great guys both senior and junior. they are linked in description
Great history video and remembrance of an era that makes me think of..Champion 🏆 spark plugs... As our world is built on advertising.. have yourself a Marlboro cigarette 🚬
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Lucky Strike vs Camel vs Marlboro lol 🙂Cheers for adding your bit mate. Ride Free 🙂
Never owned a 500 but i did own a KR1S 250 tuned by Graham File. I fitted Swarbrick exhausts although I later found out the original fitment had a better power delivery so i fitted the end cans to those instead. What a great sound. So regret selling it but then if i hadn't i probably wouldn't be here to tell the tale 🤣
i dont know the name Graham file but there were many great tuners, Terry Beckitt was local to me so i am biased lol, the KR1 and S version were very special bikes for sure, cheers for adding your bit mate
I’m definitely a fan of King Kenny Roberts. A true Great! 🏍🏍🏍
I know people say Rossi is the GOAT, and in some ways that is undoubteble, but there is some footage of Rossi's face from the crowd when he watched Kenny doing a re run of the Indy mile on the TZ after not riding for around 6 months, Roberts effectively said "I'll either make it or I won't" when he hit the first corner and gave it some go juice, Rossi;s jaw just dropped. It is hard to compare the different era's in many ways. different cct's involved, different brand dominances and of course the change to 4 strokes and the introduction of rider aids.
Roberts was the King of his time I think
I had a Suzuki 750 triple of 1976. With “all speed”expansion chambers, it sounded glorious.
great bikes,i featured them here ruclips.net/video/jgSnHBdXcOo/видео.html 🙂 Cheers for watching mate. Ride Free 🙂
Best two stroke I ever heard was Jarno Saarinen's 500 straight 4 at Mallory Park Race of the Year, it was sublime.
I have many memories from Mallory :-) especially the Transatlantic's and race of the year :-) Roberts and Sheene literally trying to trap each other against the armaco coming out of the devils elbow :-) lap after lap it was one then the other. lord knows how they survived :-) Saarinen was a god of the racing world. I remember Roberts once saying if it wasnt for Jarno he would never have been the racer he became. cheers for adding this mate, memories :-)
Yes it was a great place and time, first race I ever saw was a race of the year with Hailwood, Ivy, Read Ago, Ralph Bryans and co, great riders and a wonderful era and a great time to be a youngster.@@barebonesmc
@@michaelperry4308 heres to that 🙂
I love them all so much 💓💨
🙂Cheers for watching and for the comment mate. what were your favourite bits? Ride Free 🙂
Thank you for posting this, would have been good to have listened for a few seconds with out any talking though on each of the amazing motorbikes 😊
i can do better than that, you get a full raw sound video here ruclips.net/video/OC1jQVx_7lE/видео.html there are more videos that are just raw footage in its own playlist on the channel. cheers for watching, enjoy the ride
Well, i really enjoyed that.
Im glad mate, there is a playlist that is all (pretty much) 2 strokes, i had a 350LC and a few TZR's, the last to go was my 1KT which had loads of Belgarda bits on
My 73 RD350 ! Missing you now,sigh
great bikes,i featured them here ruclips.net/video/jgSnHBdXcOo/видео.html 🙂 Cheers for watching mate. Ride Free 🙂
I met Kork Ballington once in Interstate Leathers in Northampton England , They were my sponsor and Korks leather supplier i believe.
Kork was running a Porsche 928 at the time with 4 bald tyres on it
lol, only ever met him in the pits, but he was always generous with his time. old school to the core
Kenny Roberts was my hero as a kid. I still dream of owning an inline4 2 stroke
One of many riders I had the privelidge to see racing in my youth. Sheene vs Roberts was always fun to watch. glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂 Theres plenty more on the channel. hope youll climb aboard. Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
The best sounding 2 stroke in my opinion is the Bultaco Montjuic. Would love to hear a recording of one !
i am working on a Bultaco project with Dave @BullpenCycles so you never know, hes fettling a few of the old Bultaco's he has for a feature :-)
@@barebonesmc 😁😁😁
@@FinkNZRatjust been chatting about it, no wonder i hadnt heard of it, there were only 4 made apparently. looks an interesting bike. it was based on the standard 360 apparently
A tribute video would be wonderful. Perhaps Dave Potter could be included?
He already is. Did you see the “ blood on his hands” video on the other channel? RUclips have banned me from posting links. But it’s on the backup channel. Message me via the website if you can’t find it. From memory it’s called blood on the track I think but I’m away on tour at minute. Cheers. Have a great week
An awesome job with this one as I remember 92 like it was yesterday as it was a combination of Gardner and Doohan who inspired me to start racing in the same year on a production class Suzuki RGV-250 (in the Australian Production 250 cc class). I still own the very first one I raced from brand new with Phillip Island as my home racetrack. Absolutely nothing beats the sounds and smells from two strokes firing up for the first time on a cool Sunday morning. 👍😎🇦🇺
92 😘 Barry Sheene 72 cemetery circuit.. Mamola in 1980.. haybales everywhere.. no airbags except the commentators on the mic
Mamola has to be sat alongside Dani Pedrosa as the best rider to never win the championship :-)
Great story 🙂Cheers for adding your bit mate. Ride Free 🙂
@@barebonesmc he was.. is.. good.. could really wheely those 2-strokes.. was great seeing those superstars here in NZ back then.. eeeeverything was soooo much easier & anything was possible.. no nanny state
@@Errol.C-nz Many dont see the man behind the racer, Mamola is a special kind of man. Castiglioni gave him a Ferrari at one point, he sold it and put the money into a charity in Africa building schools and drilling wells for water. He made such an impression on Cladio thet he went out and bought him another Ferrari after lol
I watched a, documentary recently about the mz engineer that suzuki used to develop their two stroke engines, apparently the Japanese owe a lot to his knowledge of the two stroke.
Ernst Degner who was the rider that defected wasnt actually the engineer, Walter Kaadan was the engineer, Degner stole the plans and many engine parts when he defected and went to ride for suzuki, who then took the plans and integrated the design features they hadnt mastered. The DKW MZ story is a long and complicated one :-) I may tackle it all one day, but footage is sparse, especially of the early DKW's like the air cooled V3 racer
At the time I never realised that one day I would yearn for when I could wander once more round the Cadwell paddock breathing in those fumes from those RG's & TZ's (& KR's). When the likes of Marshall, Haslam, Potter, Mellor, Grant & even Sheene would natter with you when their bikes were being worked on. I always look for any 2 stroke racing to attend but it's getting harder by the season. Great times.
I was closer to Mallory, but Cadwell always had and still has, a special place in my heart. i hate that bloody chicane though lol, and to be fair, i hated it even before my crash there lol. theres loads of raw cadwell footage of me on various bikes in the raw footage playlist on the channel. A Laverda, an Exup a Daytona 955 and even a 650 Vstrom lol. a truly great cct, even with the chicane lol
@@barebonesmc I used to live close to Cadwell but now close to Silverstone - & I know which circuit I prefer! I used to live round the block from a guy who raced a Laverda in the 70's - think it was a Montjuich but it might have been a Jota.
@@SteeeveO depending on times its more likely a Montjuic or an earlier 750 twin, the Jota's were just the flash flagship, the twins were far better and won many endurance championships (right, ok, im ready for a drubbing from the Jota owners lol)
@@barebonesmc yeah from memory I think he had a Jota (which he left outside parked in the street) but later swapped it for a "Monty" to race.
@@SteeeveO the Monty definitely a better race bike 🙂
...could smell them!
Castrol R runs through my veins 😊👍
18:00 anti-dive, looks kind of like my GS😅 front end
I hadnt seen it before this. not closely. who knows, BMW do have a history of stealing other peoples tech lol, ask Nilfisk :-)
🤜💥👍Love it all but nothing like a well tuned two smoker✌
Castrol R runs through my veins 🙂Cheers for watching and for the comment mate. Ride Free 🙂
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Cela serait magnifique si il se taisait un peu pour nous permettre de nous délecter des ces magnifiques mélodies
si tu écoutes, j'ai bien dit qu'il y avait une version en son brut sans voix off, c'est ici ruclips.net/video/OC1jQVx_7lE/видео.html
Honestly the Konigs are the best sounding 2 strokes ive heard.
they are special, 🙂Cheers for watching and for the comment mate. Ride Free 🙂
At 16:45 - rotary valves!
Yep, a twin crank square four disc valve engine, with the cranks offset vertically to make it more compact, a bit like 2 of the Gilera Bicilindrico and KR250 engines bolted side by side
Please remember, there were TZ750 dirt trackers (flat trackers, as mentioned only through audio in the clip)
yep, indeed there were. I was concentrating more on the road racing bikes in this ne though, cheers for watching and for the comment. The Roberts win at the Indy Mile is permanently etched in my mind 🙂
@@barebonesmc For some reason, I never liked KRSr. I was a fan of Fa(s)t Freddie Spencer
@@jkim6200 Freddie was a demon when he was young, i remember his first Transatlantic series like it was yesterday 🙂 re the KR's, i just like out of the box solutions and oddball engineering ideas lol
Tribute!
I will mate, its underway I promise
Kx 65cc - 85cc dirt bikes sound the best i think , the bigger the displacement the less tingy they sound.
if we all thought the same it would be a boring world mate, 🙂Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
@@barebonesmc
Sounds** not performance.
@@TheCraigy83🤣🤣
Two strokes rulez
glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂 Theres plenty more on the channel, hope you will look around and find something your interested in. there is more on the website too. and there will be more to come. Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
@@barebonesmc yeah, I watched already some few cool videos 👍👍😎
@@wtfftw24 there will always be more to come 🙂 i am working on a Bultaco one at the minute that should end up very interesting 🙂
I would try making an account and uploading to Rumble. I'm starting to migrate to that site...YT has become intolerable.
that is certainly what i will do with the Dakar footage from this year, im still working on how to then embed it on the website without bogging the website down, YT have followed googles model, they make the search more time consuming so that they can sell more advertising on the search pages. they do also now seem to be prioritising autogenerated content now rather than shutting it out which was their stated intention, FFS there is even a button in studio now where you can declare it is an AI generated voice, if you do, thats fine, you must be a real creator, because AI systems obviously cant tick the box (he says shaking his head in despair) cheers for the heads up mate
Please do a tribute video 😢
It is coming, i promise
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On a 4-cylinder 2-stroke engine "big bang", the 4 explosions do not take place at the same time!
If that were the case we might as well build a single cylinder.
tell us how you see it then mate, re "If that were the case we might as well build a single cylinder." not really, most British twins and still some twins today run 360 degree cranks and some run the power stroke on the same stroke, others on alternating strokes. If you look around there are plenty of places more knowledgeble than me who describe the firing order in the same way. Someone (who may know more than me) said they fire very slightly differently. but that isnt how it is described in general, what do you think the firing sequence was? and if not as i said, why was it called the big bang engine?
this is direct from Repsol "By 1988, Honda had developed a dual-crankshaft prototype with a different firing order, with all cylinders firing at the same time "
@@barebonesmc
two by two = big bang,
90° between each = screamer
360 British twin are 4 stroke engine (720° cycle) ! Never power stroke on the same stroke !
@@fabbri4497 send me a link to something solid, Repsol obviously disagree with you, and this is the 3rd different idea of what the big bang firing intervals were now, so i am looking for some confirmation
@@fabbri4497 ill await some links to show me you are right
@@barebonesmc
112° V4 "Big bang" (two-stroke) 0° with 180° bank split 0-68-0-292-0-68-0-292 2-2-0-0-2-2-0-0- 1990 Honda NSR500[8]
90° V4 "Screamer" (two-stroke) 180° with no bank split 90-90-90-90-90-90-90-90 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1- 1984 Honda NSR500[9]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big-bang_firing_order
How many of you were cringing when the guy with the grease monkey suit and the Nikes almost dropped the TZ750 in the parking lot?
He is the mechanic, so as the saying goes, you bend it, you mend it 🙂
I miss my hrc kitted NSR 250 R MC21 road bike.. almost 75hp in 1996 with screaming exhausts at 152 mph was an eargasam not to mention the smell of castrol r
glad it jogged some good memories mate 🙂Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
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Ich freue mich, dass es dir gefallen hat, Kumpel 🙂 Es gibt noch viel mehr auf dem Kanal. Ich hoffe, du siehst dich um und findest etwas, das dich interessiert. Es gibt auch mehr auf der Website. und es werden noch mehr kommen. Ein Hoch aufs Zuschauen. Ich hoffe, Sie steigen ein. Kostenlos fahren 🙂
Would love to see a follow-up video
i will get there, the plan is a dirt bikes and road bikes version in time
Hey just subbed to your channel because @crash test goat told me about your channel !! 🔥🤙💯🫶
Welcome aboard mate, you are the 3rd person to say that :-) did he mention me in a video or comments? enjoy the ride and cheers for the support