I was there. Watched the beginning of the race on TV in Corsica and then jumped on a ship to Marseille and we were at the race by 8 AM. That was the year the Suzuki GSXR 750 won and they started producing it in 85 for the general public. Good times!
No, that was the GSX750-powered bike. The GSX-R750 came out (in production) a year later. It was first shown at the Cologne Show in September 1984 but that was NOT the engine used in the 1984 Bol d'Or winner.
@@travisazzopardi8024 : Check the dates. The GSX-R750 was not in series production at that time. They had pre-production bikes on show at the 1984 International Bicycle and Motorcycle Exhibition, in Koln in September. The 1984 Bol d'Or was run that weekend. The 1984 race was won by the French-Belgian pairing of Jean-Pierre Oudin and Patrick de Radigues. They raced a Suzuki GSX750-powered racer (the year before the GSX-R750 came out). The GSX-R750 was not homologated for the World Endurance Championship until 1985, and for AMA Superbike in 1986. In 1985, the Bol d'Or 24-hour race was won by Alex Vieira, Gerard Coudray and Patrick Igoa - on a Honda RVF750 - first of the single-side swing-arm ones. In 1980 Suzuki first won the Bol-d'Orfor the first time with a GS1000R ridden by Frenchmen Pierre-Étienne Samin and Frank Gross. That ended Honda's four-year domination of the event with the purpose-built RCB1000.
i was there , brill i was 24 on a brand new kawasaki 750 turbo hiery around the track on open day , thankfully got around with out falling off like alot germans did on their cr1100r s lol
1985, definitely. I have the DVD. 😅
I was there. Watched the beginning of the race on TV in Corsica and then jumped on a ship to Marseille and we were at the race by 8 AM. That was the year the Suzuki GSXR 750 won and they started producing it in 85 for the general public. Good times!
No, that was the GSX750-powered bike. The GSX-R750 came out (in production) a year later. It was first shown at the Cologne Show in September 1984 but that was NOT the engine used in the 1984 Bol d'Or winner.
@@michaelesdaile9649guess we'll have to agree to disagree
@@travisazzopardi8024 : Check the dates. The GSX-R750 was not in series production at that time. They had pre-production bikes on show at the 1984 International Bicycle and Motorcycle Exhibition, in Koln in September. The 1984 Bol d'Or was run that weekend. The 1984 race was won by the French-Belgian pairing of Jean-Pierre Oudin and Patrick de Radigues. They raced a Suzuki GSX750-powered racer (the year before the GSX-R750 came out).
The GSX-R750 was not homologated for the World Endurance Championship until 1985, and for AMA Superbike in 1986.
In 1985, the Bol d'Or 24-hour race was won by Alex Vieira, Gerard Coudray and Patrick Igoa - on a Honda RVF750 - first of the single-side swing-arm ones.
In 1980 Suzuki first won the Bol-d'Orfor the first time with a GS1000R ridden by Frenchmen Pierre-Étienne Samin and Frank Gross. That ended Honda's four-year domination of the event with the purpose-built RCB1000.
i was there , brill i was 24 on a brand new kawasaki 750 turbo hiery around the track on open day , thankfully got around with out falling off like alot germans did on their cr1100r s lol
love to go back cant remeber where exactly it was
I reckon this is 1985. IN 1984 the factory Hondas had twin-arm swing-arms and were painted red.
1985?
1985 non 1984
1985
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