Love this era of Super bikes. Still looked like a big cruiser bike yet with the modified engines were 100~120hp and just obnoxious to ride at full power. Skinny tires upright riding position and no brakes. Back in the day my old Z1000 would need counter steer at WOT due to the frame twisting up. Good Times
Totally agree. Perfect way to learn your apprenticeship. Saw him race in the UK on a flat barred Moriwaki Kawasaki in 1981 taking on all the works Honda's and Sheene on his 500 t-stroke Yamaha GP bike and beating them all as he was learning all the new tracks. He went on to join Honda GB the following season and then GP's in 1983. Fantastic to watch!
Thank you for posting this! It is so great to see the best road racing era with these exceptionally talented riders on these massive thorough breeds. Pure talent riding these on the limit. Also, so nice to hear Will Hagon and John Smailes commentating.
USA here! I was age nine at this time and obviously never watched it but I loved bikes and would see old Kaw triples around and Z1's, a Z1R's. As I got older my older by ten years friend had/still has an 80 GS1000E. Another older dude we knew as "BOBO" had a first year Eddie Lawson Replica KZ1000R. As a young adult I bought an 86 GSXR750 in 88 and crashed it 3 months later resulting in my becoming a T4 paraplegic. My down the road neighbor has his bought new 73 Z1 900 Kaw with over 250,000 miles on it and counting.
Geez - sorry to hear about your accident, I hope your doing Ok! I happen to own a '85 GSX-r750 & '86 GSX-r1100 Great bikes but prolly not the greatest handling compared more modern machines! Awesome Power : Weight for Mid '80s Machines - iconic bikes! The 1st of the "Modern" era Production Superbikes available off the showroom floor! Cheers 🇦🇺👍
I wish there were more videos like these available. TOP 3 Favorite riders. Dennis Neal, Wes Cooley, Eddie Lawson! Loved watching these guys as a young tike.
Glory days of Australian road racing! A few these fellas are no longer with us ! I was very lucky to have seen most of these guys race! Thanks for the memories!
Old man was a fire marshal during the 70s here. Super track, I remember eating about 10 snow cones a day. Spent all day in the Pits unsupervised sitting in race cars. Until a driver or machanic found me & booted me out. They got use to it eventually, called me the Pitrat.
Boy, I miss these motorcycles. The way they ride and the sound they make is awesome. A total different riding technic than today's machines. You actually could ride these bikes on the street with the necessary lighting. I had my Kawasaki muffled but a lot did not.. Thanks for bringing back the memories.
Real racing, real racers, no tantrums or race tactics objections, for bikes ridden at 11/10ths they seemed to handle pretty well. Now all under suburbia. Great days to have had the enjoyment of watching.
Naked race bikes. Suspension was absolutely crap then, not only by comparison to today, as at the time we all said it was crap. EFI, suspension, and tyres make today’s bikes incomparable to 40 years ago. These guys could really ride! Doohan a decade later is my all time favourite.
Loved this track in its day. I may have been there this day...I had a Z1R....see one on front row. . Great days...and the voices of racing....Smailes and Hagon...awesome
I used to photograph the V8 Utes and Supercars racing here not long before it was closed. There were a few more gravel traps towards the end of its days than we see here. Those walls have a bit of a habit of not being very soft.
These guys could ride! Look at these bikes squirming so much...what a handful! 100% credit to the riders. Now, todays racing...as a biker, watching the Isle of Man TT leaves me in awe every time I watch those guys! Nuts!
ECH Thanks for posting these old races, it brings back a few memories. I watched it live and kept thinking that Gardner had webbed feet. Makes me realise what gonads they had.
I remember the 750 two strokes here. Hansford got killed in a car. Mum's friend told her her son's were OK when they rode bikes but didn't have cars. Video clarity is absolute garbage.
No traction control wheely sensors or programable ignition.....just pure skill, everyone of them on that track. Total respect.
....
👍
Real racing..
No bitch switches just a right hand✊️
Excellent 💪 drivers
Love this era of Super bikes. Still looked like a big cruiser bike yet with the modified engines were 100~120hp and just obnoxious to ride at full power. Skinny tires upright riding position and no brakes. Back in the day my old Z1000 would need counter steer at WOT due to the frame twisting up. Good Times
thats the absolute truth, great comment.
And that folks is why Wayne Gardner ended up a World Champion in GP
brilliant in the wet
The rider who came from way under to the absolute TOP just by himself
Totally agree. Perfect way to learn your apprenticeship. Saw him race in the UK on a flat barred Moriwaki Kawasaki in 1981 taking on all the works Honda's and Sheene on his 500 t-stroke Yamaha GP bike and beating them all as he was learning all the new tracks. He went on to join Honda GB the following season and then GP's in 1983. Fantastic to watch!
Started in the dirt.
I am lucky enough to have the WG replica SHOEI helmet.
Thank you for posting this! It is so great to see the best road racing era with these exceptionally talented riders on these massive thorough breeds. Pure talent riding these on the limit. Also, so nice to hear Will Hagon and John Smailes commentating.
USA here! I was age nine at this time and obviously never watched it but I loved bikes and would see old Kaw triples around and Z1's, a Z1R's. As I got older my older by ten years friend had/still has an 80 GS1000E. Another older dude we knew as "BOBO" had a first year Eddie Lawson Replica KZ1000R.
As a young adult I bought an 86 GSXR750 in 88 and crashed it 3 months later resulting in my becoming a T4 paraplegic.
My down the road neighbor has his bought new 73 Z1 900 Kaw with over 250,000 miles on it and counting.
Geez - sorry to hear about your accident, I hope your doing Ok!
I happen to own a '85 GSX-r750 & '86 GSX-r1100 Great bikes but prolly not the greatest handling compared more modern machines! Awesome Power : Weight for Mid '80s Machines - iconic bikes! The 1st of the "Modern" era Production Superbikes available off the showroom floor! Cheers 🇦🇺👍
I wish there were more videos like these available. TOP 3 Favorite riders. Dennis Neal, Wes Cooley, Eddie Lawson! Loved watching these guys as a young tike.
Glory days of Australian road racing! A few these fellas are no longer with us ! I was very lucky to have seen most of these guys race! Thanks for the memories!
@old man strength I have no idea mate
I love these old bikes you have to ride one to know what it’s really like.
I’d like to see the Moro gp guys ride these things, I had a Z1000 with the famous rubber frame that was fun I can tell you!!
Great bikes and great racing from an era when you could walk into a showroom and buy a bike which looked exactly like the ones racing on the track.
Old man was a fire marshal during the 70s here. Super track, I remember eating about 10 snow cones a day.
Spent all day in the Pits unsupervised sitting in race cars. Until a driver or machanic found me & booted me out.
They got use to it eventually, called me the Pitrat.
best memory for you Sir👌👌
I have one of these big bikes - NOT very forgiving once pushed hard, not easy to ride fast. Man, these were good to ride these bikes like this.
肘まで擦る様な今のレースよりこの頃のレースの方がよっぽど面白いし迫力もある、そう思わないかい？
私はあなたの兄弟に同意します、これらはレースの古き良き時代でした。オズからのG-Day。
It seams it is a Honda Cup..
Boy, I miss these motorcycles. The way they ride and the sound they make is awesome. A total different riding technic than today's machines. You actually could ride these bikes on the street with the necessary lighting. I had my Kawasaki muffled but a lot did not.. Thanks for bringing back the memories.
Not an easy feat to ride these bikes like this. I should know I own a 75’ Z1b.
strong sponsors...amazing era..these bikes are timeless,,they try replicate this style even today
Real racing, real racers, no tantrums or race tactics objections, for bikes ridden at 11/10ths they seemed to handle pretty well. Now all under suburbia. Great days to have had the enjoyment of watching.
They were the days . Great fellows .
From watching this, it’s no mystery why there were so many super fast Auzzie racers on the world scene.
Naked race bikes.
Suspension was absolutely crap then, not only by comparison to today, as at the time we all said it was crap.
EFI, suspension, and tyres make today’s bikes incomparable to 40 years ago.
These guys could really ride! Doohan a decade later is my all time favourite.
The bikes then were death on two wheels with a
bit of luck it wouldn't explode when crashed
“Bicycle control”. Silly tit
I was wondering if he meant something specific with that comment. I thought about it for a second and concluded, “no. He’s just a silly twit”.
Loved this track in its day. I may have been there this day...I had a Z1R....see one on front row. .
Great days...and the voices of racing....Smailes and Hagon...awesome
Macho stuff. Very entertaining.
It looks how we used to ride on the road in the 80s!.
Fantastic! Thank you so much for uploading!
Dudes road racing these huge moto lumps? Yes please!!
実況がワイン ガードナーだって オーストラリアのレースなんだ
Will Hagon the very best commentator and so knowledgeable not to mention future WC Wayne 🤙
Nice track and real race! Videos like this are a treasure.
I used to photograph the V8 Utes and Supercars racing here not long before it was closed. There were a few more gravel traps towards the end of its days than we see here. Those walls have a bit of a habit of not being very soft.
Mate of mine hit the wall coming onto the straight. He was lucky, just bike damage and pain
Never liked Wayne "Whiner". Ever.
A great race. Gardner & Cole in the wet was interesting!.
👍
Pure racing!
These guys could ride!
Look at these bikes squirming so much...what a handful!
100% credit to the riders.
Now, todays racing...as a biker, watching the Isle of Man TT leaves me in awe every time I watch those guys! Nuts!
Proper noise.....wonderful
This is the real thing ,better than the robotto bike,s 💪👌
Estas motos era genial su sonido de motor nada inigualable
Awesome... just raw machines, raw racing, raw skill.
真っ赤なボルドール仕様のCB-F。
翌年にはCB1100Rノンカウルの1型(オーストラリア仕様)がデビューするんだろうな...
And to think Gardner was crowned 500cc world champion 7 year later
I could a won on my xj700 maxim 85. Shaft drive comfortable rider postion. No kangaroos
Madooo che tempi! Altro che Motogp!
Èd i mitici piloti Australiani degli anni 80 e 90 arrivano quasi tutti da qui...
I vari Gardner, Dohoan, ecc... 😎
when i die and get to the pearly gates, if old St Chris asks where i'd like to stay in the period of my choosing, then this has to be IT!!
These bikes sound wicked"......heavy yet these riders handle them with ease.
Fabulous...thanks !!!
Proper racing with those big ol monsters...lol
thanks a lot says Bengt in Sweden.
Well said Bengt
The Bengt ?
@@alanbrown5593 My name is Bengt. Like the Stig...
@@bengtjohansson5221 I knew a Bengt who partnered with Jock Taylor, wondered if you are he.
@@alanbrown5593 Oh no. Sorry. I am not That Benga Johansson.
War ein gutes Rennen!
ECH
Thanks for posting these old races, it brings back a few memories.
I watched it live and kept thinking that Gardner had webbed feet.
Makes me realise what gonads they had.
Was that Neville Bartos in the tan suit on the start line?
Top riders👌😍😍🇦🇺❤️❤️❤️
200 kilograms bikes minimum
WTF? Go Wayne!
Bloody brilliant.
Бел Рей рулит.лайк.
Hayes*
凄い！貴重な動画だ！
Beaut, thanks!!!
Crosby???
By 1980 Crosby was racing for Suzuki GB out of the UK
100 horse power was “enormous power” my Vrod has more than that at the rear wheel!
Vrods are gay.
@@redtobertshateshandles Says the expert on being gay!
I remember the 750 two strokes here.
Hansford got killed in a car.
Mum's friend told her her son's were OK when they rode bikes but didn't have cars.
Video clarity is absolute garbage.
Win it Wayne...…..
Change down to fourth gear? It’s called down shifting
Same shit, different smell😛
乗ってるのは 外人だけど、車体は全て日本車です。日本の工業製品の優秀さを 世界の人達、 よ〜く見るがい〜!!!!
My step father had a 76(?) CBX1000 6cyl in 2008... Dumb ass sold it.
79 CBX you mean?