Riding Barry Sheene's RG500 at Cadwell Park!
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Fagan gets the golden ticket to Suzuki Live and couldn't say no to riding a few of Barry Sheene's RGs...
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You jammy, lucky,lucky,lucky bar steward !!!
Great to see those magnificent machines being used....who doesn't ❤ 2 strokes!!
Gawd, that took me back. How I lusted after an RG500 as a young biker in the '80s. When the 650 hit the powerband and the exhaust note changed, it reminded me of my stupidly tuned RD250LC, nothing 'til 8000 then pull your arms off all the way to 12000. I am a car man now, but if I were to go back to bikes it would have to be a two stroke! Brilliant stuff, great footage.
That was so cool. Anyone would be green with envy. Thanks for taking us along.
Nothing like the sound & smell of 2 stroke in the morning!!! Oh, the torque too.
Omg my childhood Barry Sheene was and is a total legend ❤️
His wife thought the same thing!!
@@alexnutcasio936 no need for that! He never said he was a saint!
Yes, Barry was a legend for the Continental Circus. A good race man 👍. Phil 🏍️ 🇨🇵 gsxr 1000 r. 2018 Originslimited n 14 France 🇫🇷.
How does Steve Parrish not age? He looks the same as when I saw him at Northwich Thundersprint about 15 years ago. Fair play to him 👍
Apparently, he looked 55 years old when he was born! 😂
Lol
Handlebars over the bed keep you fit.
I was at that Thundersprint 😂
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Honestly I think the fear of binning it would wipe out all of the enjoyment. Boothy at the end was hilarious 🤣🤣
These classic bikes are insane, and that right side shift must’ve been so strange to navigate 😅 What an opportunity to ride them though. Good luck for cadwell this weekend lads 😎✌🏼
What a day, one you’ll never forget. Riding on a damp track with old slicks, your balls are as big as Sheenes.
Lee gourlay would jump from r/h to l/h race to race at a meeting no problem.
Had the privilege to meet Barry on numerous occasions and spend time in his motorhome with him. Those were the good old days.
Thanks for bringing us along on this piece of history and glad to see Boothy in the commentary box
Nice, exciting, cool…nice sound. Amazing!!!
Could see in the intro how hard you were trying not to grin from ear to ear! Lucky devil!!! 😂
that was not an experience , it was a divine occourance ! very fortunate and blessed to such a day!
Seeing Barry back at Goodwood for the Revivals was always a highlight. He was a great hero.
Literally, made made hairs stand up. My favourite circuit, on the all time, dream bike. What an awesome sound, what a great experience for you. I grew up in the 70's and this brought so many memories back for me, Barry and Kenny, true Icons
Thank you for sacrificing yourself and creating this awesome content for those of us that love 2-stroke GP machinery!
I had the pleasure of meeting Barry in the pits at Spa in 1984. I just walked up to him whilst he was working on his bike .. we had a little chat and he signed my ticket. Different times!
Outstanding video 👍. Thank you for putting this together. Absolutely love the 2 strokes!! Greetings from the USA.
My first experience of watching bikes at Cadwell Park back in the 70s, was seeing Barry racing a big RG along with Ago and many others racing at an International meeting they used to ride along with their GP commitments.
I had a magazine centre pin up of his bike when the back wheel went pop on Daytona , it had a caption “ at 195mph all a rider could do is pray “ , that must of been some praying Barry done to survive
You lucky bugger…..that’s a proper once in lifetime moment ticked off…..👍😉🇮🇲👌
Sitting here dreaming about sniffing the fumes! Loving the routing of the rear spannies on the big bore bike...
😁
It's the hard work and the success of the channel that gets you opportunities like this. What a privilege. #statham #sueperkins #boothy
Legend!!! Both you and Sir Barry Sheene
Came from a time of great innovation.From about 74 the two strokes just went ballistic.
I met Barry at Keith Heuwens wedding at Binbrook Church .Lincolnshire .UK.
A TRUE GENTLEMAN !!!!!!!!! Nothing was too much trouble for him . He spoke to everyone and signed many auotgraphs !!
His wife Stephanie was there too . WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You lucky little bugger Barry . !!! A stunningly beautiful lady .
He was loved worldwide and in Australia where i now live there is still a motorcycle celebratory ride for him every year before the Philip Island GP . Well done Barry . You will never be forgotten . !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Work of art, that sounds beautiful, I can smell the Castrol R from here lol
All that with zero revs too lol. Power bands. Just love two strokes ✊
Great little film 👍
The lack of a functioning rev counter on the 500 is bizarre. But more so is Fagans referring to it as if it was. However with a working tacho for evidence, he appeared to ride the 652 rather well.
To quote "Monty Python" - "You lucky, lucky Bastard", I grew up inn the 70's and 80's with a poster of Barry on one of those black,red and yellow bikes, on my wall. Ahh the good old days✌🤟🤘👍🤛👏
Great stuff enjoyed this as much as watching his 1976 xr14 being restored
You Lucky Luck Luck boy,that is the pinnacle of anything Sheene Suzuki If your a Barry Fan… I’m so jealous as back in the day I saw the great man racing on it. Marvellous.
I remember Barry Sheene saying that 650 would wheelie on the throttle in sixth gear. It’s an absolute beast 😂
Front end got light…
Love power wheely's.
Tom Herron, Barry's team mate, was sadly killed at the NW200 in 1979 riding a 650 transatlantic bike identical to this.
I can't imagine having an opportunity like that...
Oh well, off to go play Ride 5 with my helmet and boots on.
I see a clean Aprilia RS250 on the way home this evening, thought to myself here's me stuck in a bloody car while he's on 2T marvel. So glad i've kept a hold of my Mito 125 since i was a teen 20 years ago
Looks like the old girl's running on 3 cylinders on start up ... These old 2 strokes are fairly tame to ride compared to the bikes of Doohan/ Schwantz's era... still great to see & here them do a lap again.
Fantastic video, anything sheene you cant go wrong! Love the ending haha👍
As soon as you started riding, I suddenly got a flashback to an old biker film I saw on TV once - Silver Dream Racer starring David Essex (1980)
I spoke to Barry sheene on the fone in 1995 he was living in Australia then I believe, the owner of York suzuki personally knew him, I thought it was a wind up at first as we were in the pub but it was true 👍
Top notch cinematic exit at the start there
For anyone wondering why the tail pipes on the exhaust look so narrow its because the general rule of thumb on a stroker is that the exhaust should be circa half the diameter than the exhaust port on the barrel.
If I remember right, it was the engine out of one of Mamola's 1983 XR-45 bikes in a Harris frame. So, it was a works engine.
This is the stuff that still excites me!
"You'll have to get some classic Suzuki leathers..."
Excellent idea. Go for the 1989 livery...
Somewhere there's a photo of me age 14 sat on Barry's bike at a school event! nearly 35yrs later I was cutting Steve's lawn and got to see his bike I'm nearly 60 now still riding 😊
Pretty cool. Sounded lean to me. I've been doing alot of laps on Ride 4 lately so that was fun to watch. 🙂
Lots of old bikes. I love it
Your offered Sheens bike around a circuit. Better be saying hell ya Brings back at lot of memories.
Kin Barry Sheen, Legend!
Would be nice to see some dyno charts of these two bikes
Those fluoro licorice all sort leathers just scream 1985 👍😂
1984 i had rode the rg500 and nsr 500 on pocono in the usa. one jealous guy wishing i could purchase one. true machines . not for sale in the usa but a hell of a ride. i could see the carbs were not synced at all 3 rich cylinders . when there right wow . scared to death riding brand new out of the crate . there both still sitting in his private collection. once a yr fire them up . he pays me to get them right . he had swantz sign the rg.
Brilliant content as always. Those 2 smokers sing when on the pipe!!
There are some noises that always evoke an emotional reaction. The sound of a 500cc 2 stroke is one of those noises.
Seen those great machines at silverstone museum a couple of years ago down to watch the moto gp,brilliant to see some on board footage and fair play taking on the right sided shift, am with boothy no way I could do that either😂👍🏻
Just shows Barry grew up on british bikes as they were gears right brake left. This was ok as I started riding in the 60's on british bikes then hondas appeared. Two of my friends had them complete pain when riding their bikes just like you but in reverse. Haha
NO TACK, WHATS UP, CANT BE A SECRET , BUT STILL A FUN WATCH.
TKS.
That Kevin Schwantz 34 bike at 5 seconds - oh my days😍
What a circuit: I'm not religious but Cadwell is as near a church I go to. What a bike, lucky lad
That was oddly casual for such a momentus occasion.
Legend! Barry was ok too.
What a lucky lad you are. Also did anyone else notice the guy in the vintage parts jacked looked like he was going to shove a Frankfurter in the exhaust 🤣
My dad grew up in central London and used tear round on the back of Barry's mopeds, he said he could ride even as a nipper!
I bet that smells awesome
Nothing better
My mechanic is selling one of these with the Harris frame now, it’s unreal!
My school books were covered in my hand drawn front on views of those bikes and that 7 😍
I was chasing you round on the Gsxr 600 in the first onboard was enjoying the smell 👍
Awesome bikes ❤
Smoke out of 3 cylinders means it's not firing on all 4. Well, guess it started firing once it got a bit of heat in it.. I had a Mustang that had the problem when it was cold out. It's amazing how that 2 stroke really doesn't sound like it's revving that much, despite firing twice as often as a modern 4 stroke.. It shows you just how far modern engines have come that they are able to rev to 12-14k rpm when that used to be only 2 stroke territory.
Right hand shift is the correct shift. Good enough for Hailwood and Surtees should be good enough for you!!!!
Awesome!
I had the pleasure of riding one of Peter Hickmans Old R1 a couple of weeks back! Owned by a local guy! Loved it
Boothies eyes 👀 at the end 😂
whats the reason behind the right hand shift was it due to his injuries?
How jealous are those of us at an age where we know exactly what bikes those were.
Barry was the original biker to follow
Could you have imagined just how fast it would have gone is it had been revved over 3K.
Amazing- great to see 👏🏻
Makes me giggle like a school girl every time I hear a two stroke 😂
Oh I miss my RGV
Magnificent bikes and video
i remember them well hope you appreciate what you were on there wow
Right-foot gear change? Was that because Sheeny was proper old-school, or because he couldn't change gear with his left, due to injuries?
That track always looks like a bicycle path to me : )
Graeme Crosby said they could never really get the jetting and tuning right, always issues and making the best of what they could get
Well that's me awake from my night shift watching that video..👌
Smellovision required.
Ask parish if he's still got the cherished number plate PEN 1 S?
Yes he has 😂
@@FortyFourTeeth I remember when I worked in the Eastern Docks in Dover during the 80's seeing him on the car park with that plate prior to boarding the ferry!
When did they stop the push starts?I can't remember.
You lucky bastard 😂👍 superb!
That 650 was on its knees in the paddock
~ Flown over, completely gone through..
AN...d the tach doesn't work?😂
Why is there no smoke coming from the top left exhaust?
How lucky you are a bike i have always wanted to ride since 1984 .
Speaking of old Suzuki's, I recently cracked a GK73A engine from a GSXR400R. Any idea how I can obtain a replacement one? :p
What did they wire the gauge on the left to? Sketchiness?
That DAF bike, thrashing it & still under 3000 rpm......😝
I was about to say it looked like cracking weather....bummer about the showers (rain and coolant) but what an experience!
I love a 2 stroke ! The only bike I regret selling. 😞
Pretty sure the water temp was simultaneously 50 and 80 degrees.
Was the tacho not working??
castrol tts was my favorite,followed closely by silkolene pro2!😂
I could smell that through the screen.
Get in there Betty!