My Granpa had a Opel motorcycle with a side wagon mounted, he drove all year, in severe winters, he put newspapers under the clothes to keep insukated, he ran beside the bike when he met deep snow, tough guy !
Me, too. Greetings from sunny tropical THAILAND. My steed KAWASAKI Vulcan 650. Suits me a Septuagenarian Double TKR Total Knee Replacement LEFT & RIGHT knee. Born in Suomi-Finland. Resident here in northern Thailand. Full tilt between the rice paddies and mountains.
Shame they didn't focus the photography on the Egli while he was talking about it, too much flashing images of other Vincents etc.. that's when I stopped watching
Right side shift, as on the John Player Special was the standard arrangement in the motorcycle industry until the Jalpanese took over dominance. My buddy had a Triumph Bonneville with right hand shift and I kept bugging him to let me ride it. My motorcycle experience was with Yamaha (Japanese) bike, which were left side shift. When he thought I had enough experience to try the Triumph, his instruction as I got ready to take off: “If you get in trouble, STEP ON EVERYTHING & PULL ON EVERYTHING!!” (That way you’re sure to get both brakes and disengage the clutch.)
Many European motorcycles had a left-hand foot shift and right-hand brake pedal. I had a 1953 BMW R25 that had left-hand shift as standard, and in fact I think it was BMW who pioneered rotary foot shifters in the 1930's. It was Britain alone who had left-hand brake and right-hand shift.
Right side shift was the standard for BRITISH motorcycles. BMW, who pioneered foot shifting, always had left foot shift, right from the first one on the mid - late 1930"s. BMW did it first, ok? I don't remember what the Italian motorcycles used, it's been about 40 - 50 years since I rode one.
@@brucerogermorgan2388 The positive stop foot shifter was pioneered by Velocette around 1927 on their works race bikes and then rapidly adopted for production machines. Until then, bikes all had hand changers.
How odd? I thought I'd successfully contacted Leno when a friend with a Scott Flying Squirrel, and a couple other historic bikes, passed away and the message came back that he didn't collect them. I rode the Scott myself on occasion and was very impressed.
That pope motorcycle is a work of art if that was anybody else except Jay Leno I would come steal it I have too much respect for the man lol that thing is beautiful
Thermosiphoning was nothing unusual back in the early days of the automobile. The Ford Model T cooling system had no water pump. It used thermosiphoning. There were something like 15 million built.
We lived in Simi 25 years ago and we were coming back from the rock store me and my son on our victory motorcycle and we pulled up onto a guy that was broke down on with a Vincent Black Shadow and as soon as he pulled his helmet off it was on kanan dude road it was Jay Leno this guy is a very good man he befriended us he used our phone and called for his tow truck to come get him on his Vincent Black Shadow coming from the rock store on Mulholland highway it was a good day Jay Leno is a good man
Break petal on the LEFT n gear change on the right to me it means a Real motorcycle especially the twins with their very Desting n Beautiful sound only British bikes ever had the bikes I love the bikes I grew up with, still love them the most today
Furthermore, these motorcycles are NOT in Leno's collection. I contacted him to offer him a Scott Flying Squirrel and was told he did NOT collect British bikes.
AI generates whatever nonsencem you ask it to. The prompt was likely "Jay Reno is a collector of old motocycles- find rare old motocycles and make a narrative". You can tell these junk créations immediately by the voices.
@@nicbordeaux Anyone can use a synthetic voice program to read a human made narrative, however I believe you're correct in this case due to the repetitive phraseology.
If ever I was lucky enough to win the lottery , I would buy a " brough superior " ...I hope that's how it's spelt , laurance of Arabia, killed himself riding one in cloud hill , Dorset, England, the tank museum near there had one on display there , it was in a glass case , .......untouchable......it was beautiful, 😊
@@UguysRnuts He is wealthy enough to pay others to work for him. So what? He is very knowledgeable about all of his cars and bikes and a true enthusiast. I can't fault the man on his credentials regarding bikes and cars.
Great video, but the voice over is terrible, it just drones on continually repeating fact, which are not always correct, (6 cylinder Velocette), it would be 100% better if it was a real motorcycle enthusiast that did the talking.
the model k was right hand shift. it was designed to compete with european bikes which were all right hand I believe. america forced all bikes to be left shift.
The 1918 Pope: Chain drives and three-speed gear-boxes were already common by 1918 (Harley, Indian, others). The big deal with the Pope was the overhead valves... pretty much any real enthusiast would spot that immediately. And the Velocette Thruxton was a single-cylinder OHV, not a six-cylinder OHC. If you're going to put up content like this, why don't you find someone who actually knows something to write the narrative?
AI BS. Velocette never made a six-cylinder motorcycle! Jay, if you are listening, check out the Norman TS250 from 1956-1957. It's rare. Only three known to exist in the UK. One of them is mine. It's complete but in need of restoration. Love and peace.
RE5 Suzuki (1.5L displacement, 498cm³ for only one chamber out of the 3) almost led to the disappearance of Suzuki! Not enough to make it a collector's item! Not rotary housing, but rotary simple rotor, KKM engine Wankel type ! 62hp for 1.5L, it is less than the GT750 of the same brand.
Click bait foreign YT account. Jay does NOT own all of these bikes AND has the largest collection of Brough Superiors, which are the world’s #1 motorcycle and were not mentioned in this silly video.
The AI voiceover of this video stands as a testament to its iconic design, underscoring the importance of the exchange of robust ideas in todays innovative markets :)
The Velocette information is almost all wrong The Thruxton velo was a simgle cylinder OHV not overhead cam! Also various other Versions of Velo venoms including an Indian Velo, were shown with no supporting text! Pretty pathetic really I know as I m a Velocette specialist restorer amd own a Thruxton and am Indian Velocette ( with a Venom, not Thruxton power unit
The mammoth was never a good looking bike. A sidecar is not a good look for a motorbike. However.... The side car compliments the mammoth, or maybe just hides the ugliness
I agree that the mammut was not good looking. Strongly disagree about sidecars though. They can be both beautiful and great fun to drive. Not a car, not a motorcycle a vehicle in it's own class with it's own driving technique. The mammut's engine was ideally suited to sidecar use as was it's somewhat over-engineered frame, so they were a good match albeit (in my opinion) not for the reasons you state. Enjoy whatever you ride or drive and live and let live!
The auto generation of this video is terrible. Couldn't get very far through it before giving up. Shots don't match the narration, the narration is soulless.
Ai is stuffing youtube bigtime!
Hat tip to Jay!. His love of motorcycles and autos allows us to enjoy the finest representations from the minds of marvelous, insightful men.
Impressive collection , some never seen before watching his weekly show for many years , thank you .
Thanks for sharing 😎👍
My Granpa had a Opel motorcycle with a side wagon mounted, he drove all year, in severe winters, he put newspapers under the clothes to keep insukated, he ran beside the bike when he met deep snow, tough guy !
The Egli Vincent gets my vote.
Me, too. Greetings from sunny tropical THAILAND. My steed KAWASAKI Vulcan 650. Suits me a Septuagenarian Double TKR Total Knee Replacement LEFT & RIGHT knee. Born in Suomi-Finland. Resident here in northern Thailand. Full tilt between the rice paddies and mountains.
Shame they didn't focus the photography on the Egli while he was talking about it, too much flashing images of other Vincents etc.. that's when I stopped watching
The Opel, pretty dang cool.
A pity he can't pronounce Opel!
There was a Scott super Squirrel at Auto Restorations in NZ in 1980, it was a truly amazing bike
More videos of his actual bikes would be nice.
Right side shift, as on the John Player Special was the standard arrangement in the motorcycle industry until the Jalpanese took over dominance.
My buddy had a Triumph Bonneville with right hand shift and I kept bugging him to let me ride it. My motorcycle experience was with Yamaha (Japanese) bike, which were left side shift.
When he thought I had enough experience to try the Triumph, his instruction as I got ready to take off: “If you get in trouble, STEP ON EVERYTHING & PULL ON EVERYTHING!!” (That way you’re sure to get both brakes and disengage the clutch.)
OK on a Triumph, but on any other British bike, the gearshift goes the other way..... up for first and down for higher gears
Many European motorcycles had a left-hand foot shift and right-hand brake pedal. I had a 1953 BMW R25 that had left-hand shift as standard, and in fact I think it was BMW who pioneered rotary foot shifters in the 1930's. It was Britain alone who had left-hand brake and right-hand shift.
@@brucerogermorgan2388 Italian bikes used to have right foot shifters
Right side shift was the standard for BRITISH motorcycles. BMW, who pioneered foot shifting, always had left foot shift, right from the first one on the mid - late 1930"s. BMW did it first, ok? I don't remember what the Italian motorcycles used, it's been about 40 - 50 years since I rode one.
@@brucerogermorgan2388 The positive stop foot shifter was pioneered by Velocette around 1927 on their works race bikes and then rapidly adopted for production machines. Until then, bikes all had hand changers.
How odd? I thought I'd successfully contacted Leno when a friend with a Scott Flying Squirrel, and a couple other historic bikes, passed away and the message came back that he didn't collect them. I rode the Scott myself on occasion and was very impressed.
11:10 'Despite it's six cylinder engine...' 11:45 The Thruxton is an OHV pushrod engine.
I heard that to, 6 cylinder engine, Don't think so. Must be getting mixed up with the CBX
V3lo6ette Thrustin 👌😂
Yeah random AI generated content does not get it all right yet.
The Thruxton is a single cylinder bike.
@@GaryE-h9k My '79 CBX was definitely NOT a "pushrod engine"
Jay rocks! ❤
The Velocette Thruxton has a single cylinder engine, not a six cylinder engine as suggested in this video.
and they're showing an Indian while describing a Thruxton LOL
An informative video for a change. Well done!
That pope motorcycle is a work of art if that was anybody else except Jay Leno I would come steal it I have too much respect for the man lol that thing is beautiful
WTF is “Pope music”…?
Yeah, the Pope was legendary in it's day for it's quality of design and manufacturing. Unfortunately it was too expensive for most people.
Sir this bike is not registered in the state of California... Excuse me Officer, I'm Jay Leno .
"Ok sir you're free to go" 😅
Legitimately how it probably goes
THE VELOCETTE THRUXTON IS NOT an overhead cam bike , those were the KTT's !!
Yes, it's a high-cam design with short pushrods
So, what doya think that vertical shaft between the case & head drives? Eeeeh, maybe a CAMSHAFT?
My brother has a RGM Rickman Triumph Trident, newly rebuilt by original team. Thats whats called RARE.
What does “original team” mean…?
Best part of his collection is the man himself
Funny, the Opel looks like a bike someone would build nowadays as a personal project
A bike to show up on racer tv.
The problem is that the guy can't pronounce Opel! Great bike though.
Click bait with Jay Leno as bait. No thank you.
Except that Leno actually owns these bikes....
@@jamesonpace726 I'm going to call BS on that.
Yet here you are
Thermosiphoning was nothing unusual back in the early days of the automobile. The Ford Model T cooling system had no water pump. It used thermosiphoning. There were something like 15 million built.
Yeah, and?
The 3 cylinder 2 stroke DKW car did too along with their early 2 cylinder.
You need to check your facts on the Velocette Thruxton!!!
Elgi Vincent, beautiful
The Vincent!!!!🏍🏍🏍🏍🏍
We lived in Simi 25 years ago and we were coming back from the rock store me and my son on our victory motorcycle and we pulled up onto a guy that was broke down on with a Vincent Black Shadow and as soon as he pulled his helmet off it was on kanan dude road it was Jay Leno this guy is a very good man he befriended us he used our phone and called for his tow truck to come get him on his Vincent Black Shadow coming from the rock store on Mulholland highway it was a good day Jay Leno is a good man
Study English and try punctuation. You’ll be proud you did.
@@macmclemoreHaha. Harsh but fair.
Cool stuff
Break petal on the LEFT n gear change on the right to me it means a Real motorcycle especially the twins with their very Desting n Beautiful sound only British bikes ever had the bikes I love the bikes I grew up with, still love them the most today
Did you "brake" the "break"...? Can you translate this post to English?
The worse motorcycle in his garage: An Orange County chopper that fell apart two days after it was delivered!😅😂
In ANY garage.
The Suzuki RE5 is, in no way, a “Cafe Racer” style motorcycle…
Yeah, I caught that. This guy knows nothing about motorcycles.
It is quite obvious that Jay Leno had NOTHING to do with the production of this video.
Furthermore, these motorcycles are NOT in Leno's collection. I contacted him to offer him a Scott Flying Squirrel and was told he did NOT collect British bikes.
AI generates whatever nonsencem you ask it to. The prompt was likely "Jay Reno is a collector of old motocycles- find rare old motocycles and make a narrative". You can tell these junk créations immediately by the voices.
@@nicbordeaux Anyone can use a synthetic voice program to read a human made narrative, however I believe you're correct in this case due to the repetitive phraseology.
The Scott has the same bore and stroke as the GT750 Suzuki, it would be interesting to check the port timing.
I’m amazed you have not got Jay Leno’s perhaps most important bike the Brough superior?
Munch mammoth for me!
When did Velocette build a "six cylinder motorcycle" as you state during review here?
Does he have a Shinya Kimura ground-up custom? The most shockingly beautiful motorcycles in the world.
I know a man that buys just motorcycles for Jay Leno. I sold this guy one bike many years ago, I don't think it was for Jay.
You know the Münch Mammut with the 1200 ccm Engine from NSU. A German Motorcycle from 1960!
The gear lever on the right is the correct configuration.
I assume this guy is ripping off Jay. I mind the robot speech less than the bad writing and inaccuracies.
Anyone mistaking an RE5 for a cafe racer has never seen a cafe racer !
The RE5 does not look like a cafe racer.
The Velocette Thruxton does NOT have an overhead cam !!!! However the far older KTT DOES !!! (Looking at the cam , in front of me, as I write )
AI doesn't seem to be such a fast learner.
A 6 cylinder Velocette Thruxton? And what happened to the bike on the thumbnail? Anyone know what it is?
The Velocette Thruxton had a 'high camshaft', and NOT an overhead camshaft. Note the pushrod tube.
I have a 1971 Harley sportster right hand shift
foot shift, surely
Lots of harleys had hand shift, like my 69 electro glide@@pashakdescilly7517
No 1962 CR-110?
If ever I was lucky enough to win the lottery , I would buy a " brough superior " ...I hope that's how it's spelt , laurance of Arabia, killed himself riding one in cloud hill , Dorset, England, the tank museum near there had one on display there , it was in a glass case , .......untouchable......it was beautiful, 😊
He owns some but not all of these
But he knows about them, best bike slash car guy ever.
@@RT22-pb2pp Best? Hires others to restore and maintain them and you think he's the "best"???
@@UguysRnuts yes
no he owns all of them
@@UguysRnuts He is wealthy enough to pay others to work for him. So what? He is very knowledgeable about all of his cars and bikes and a true enthusiast. I can't fault the man on his credentials regarding bikes and cars.
Disappointed that no NSU supermax was exibited
11:10 ”6-cylinder engine”?????????
Cheap and reliable American motorcycles are rare.
The RE5 is NOT a café racer !! (It feels just as mid between two and four stroke ...)
How is it possible to mis-pronounce so many words and names? Great vid but spoiled by the language mangling.
AI
I'm sure that whoever put this clip together can afford a real narrator. Until then I will just delete these horrible videos.
Great video, but the voice over is terrible, it just drones on continually repeating fact, which are not always correct, (6 cylinder Velocette), it would be 100% better if it was a real motorcycle enthusiast that did the talking.
quite a few photos that don't match the narrative...
Computer Voice !.
Not sure but annoying
the model k was right hand shift. it was designed to compete with european bikes which were all right hand I believe. america forced all bikes to be left shift.
What? No Britten V1000?!
other than dropping his name repeatedly, this had nothing to do with Jay Leno, did it?
I wonder if he would like a Britten V1000
I thought Jay might get to talk
Get RID of the BOT! TheRadial-Engined bike had a "Hand OIL Pump" not Fuel Pump!
I wish I was J 😭
RE5 A cafe racer - what have you been smoking?
The thruxton is not OHC, who writes his script?.
I think the narrator must have got his pages mixed up here, I have never heard of a six cylinder OHC Velocette. must try harder!
Missing Nimbus Type C.
Not a real person. This may be an AI channel.
Old grandma jay.
suzuki 1975 RE5 is and was best motorcycle ever
bluddy BOT
Vid shows engines running, yet not Once did we HEAR them ??
bluddy BOT.....
Velocette motorcycles were built by Veloce Ltd.
And since Patrick Godet is French, I believe the ‘t’ at the end of his surname is silent.
Yep, pronounced 'go day'
The 1918 Pope: Chain drives and three-speed gear-boxes were already common by 1918 (Harley, Indian, others). The big deal with the Pope was the overhead valves... pretty much any real enthusiast would spot that immediately. And the Velocette Thruxton was a single-cylinder OHV, not a six-cylinder OHC. If you're going to put up content like this, why don't you find someone who actually knows something to write the narrative?
AI BS.
Velocette never made a six-cylinder motorcycle!
Jay, if you are listening, check out the Norman TS250 from 1956-1957. It's rare. Only three known to exist in the UK. One of them is mine. It's complete but in need of restoration.
Love and peace.
13:43 two very different gage/idiot light set ups.
RE5 Suzuki (1.5L displacement, 498cm³ for only one chamber out of the 3) almost led to the disappearance of Suzuki!
Not enough to make it a collector's item!
Not rotary housing, but rotary simple rotor, KKM engine Wankel type !
62hp for 1.5L, it is less than the GT750 of the same brand.
so no dkw ss 350 ladepumpe?
Interesting but unwatchable due to the A.I. voice.
So what are they worth?
If u have to ask, u can't afford it😊
Ok so wht do we do now..
Sue his robot ass off
I prefer his turbine powered bike
Click bait foreign YT account. Jay does NOT own all of these bikes AND has the largest collection of Brough Superiors, which are the world’s #1 motorcycle and were not mentioned in this silly video.
Freaking robot voice pissed me off !!
The AI voiceover of this video stands as a testament to its iconic design, underscoring the importance of the exchange of robust ideas in todays innovative markets :)
Please do some research before you babble...
The Velocette information is almost all wrong
The Thruxton velo was a simgle cylinder OHV not overhead cam! Also various other Versions of Velo venoms including an Indian Velo, were shown with no supporting text!
Pretty pathetic really
I know as I m a Velocette specialist restorer amd own a Thruxton and am Indian Velocette ( with a Venom, not Thruxton power unit
Goes to show that this dude got paid way more than he was worth.
pity you didn't some for other people leno, swallowed the best all for yourself.
So many mistakes.
😆😧
At least learn how to say Opel. This AI BS needs to stop.
The mammoth was never a good looking bike. A sidecar is not a good look for a motorbike.
However.... The side car compliments the mammoth, or maybe just hides the ugliness
Gerard Depardieu on Mammoth
One his 70s movies.
I agree that the mammut was not good looking. Strongly disagree about sidecars though. They can be both beautiful and great fun to drive. Not a car, not a motorcycle a vehicle in it's own class with it's own driving technique.
The mammut's engine was ideally suited to sidecar use as was it's somewhat over-engineered frame, so they were a good match albeit (in my opinion) not for the reasons you state.
Enjoy whatever you ride or drive and live and let live!
ai garbage
Unfortunately, Jay wears RED LEATHER shoes. He may not be as good as he seems...
The auto generation of this video is terrible. Couldn't get very far through it before giving up. Shots don't match the narration, the narration is soulless.