At no point was this a race, it was the festival of 1000 bikes at Mallory Park. An opportunity to see these amazing bikes (open paddock) and riders Agostini, Roberts Ballington. It was an amazing day and the opportunity to see, hear ans smell these bikes was great
Pity Barry Sheene wasn't still with us to give him a run for his money on his RG500, still his son was there. Good to see Kenny Roberts has till got it though. Great video, brought back a lot of good memories..
Yes it was great to see King Kenny ride again but just to put things in perspective if you look at the time for the full lap in this video it is 61-62 seconds. Mike Powell on a 125cc 3 gear BSA Bantam was lapping in 60 seconds in the Sunday sessions with just as many people on the track. Can a good club racer on a Ducati 1198 keep up with a BSA Bantam ?
Dear maclad11 My disrespect is for the man from MCN not Kenny Roberts. Kenny was having to hang around for the MCN guy and would have lapped much quicker. Why they feel they have to compare themselves to the greatest riders we have known I will never know. The description for the video is " Can a good club racer keep up with a 59 year old legend on a 30 year old Yamaha " to which the answer was clearly no and hence my comment about Mike Powell on the Bantam. There was NO disrespect for Kenny.
Now make a video with kenny riding the 1198 and you video him from behind. I be he loved riding that day. I wish I could follow a gp rider round a track to learn from him.
@MrGlennKTM obviously the Ducati is going half maybe a little more than its potential in order to make it look like a decent race and to film Kenny on his Yamaha OW60
didnt show the bit where mick grant and stevie baker blew past you aswell did ya? :) great weekend, but you could tell deep down kenny didint really wanna be there, but thats kenny i suppose.
At no point was this a race, it was the festival of 1000 bikes at Mallory Park.
An opportunity to see these amazing bikes (open paddock) and riders Agostini, Roberts Ballington.
It was an amazing day and the opportunity to see, hear ans smell these bikes was great
Pity Barry Sheene wasn't still with us to give him a run for his money on his RG500, still his son was there. Good to see Kenny Roberts has till got it though.
Great video, brought back a lot of good memories..
2-Stroke vs a V-twin??????? crazy!!!!! this is pure skill we are witnessing!!!!
Yes it was great to see King Kenny ride again but just to put things in perspective if you look at the time for the full lap in this video it is 61-62 seconds. Mike Powell on a 125cc 3 gear BSA Bantam was lapping in 60 seconds in the Sunday sessions with just as many people on the track. Can a good club racer on a Ducati 1198 keep up with a BSA Bantam ?
?? wtf? kenny was delighted to be there! which meeting were you at?
Dear maclad11 My disrespect is for the man from MCN not Kenny Roberts. Kenny was having to hang around for the MCN guy and would have lapped much quicker. Why they feel they have to compare themselves to the greatest riders we have known I will never know. The description for the video is " Can a good club racer keep up with a 59 year old legend on a 30 year old Yamaha " to which the answer was clearly no and hence my comment about Mike Powell on the Bantam. There was NO disrespect for Kenny.
Now make a video with kenny riding the 1198 and you video him from behind. I be he loved riding that day. I wish I could follow a gp rider round a track to learn from him.
nossa!! essas motos tem pineu de bicicleta. mas os caras são bons gostei..
@MrGlennKTM obviously the Ducati is going half maybe a little more than its potential in order to make it look like a decent race and to film Kenny on his Yamaha OW60
didnt show the bit where mick grant and stevie baker blew past you aswell did ya? :) great weekend, but you could tell deep down kenny didint really wanna be there, but thats kenny i suppose.
nice !
that Hairpins catches a few and Kenny is no exception, plenty of oil from the old timers on the track..
mmmmm Blue smoke.
Best kind IMO.
haha 2 strokes sounds sweeeet
@6iPWNi9 that explains
Love the vid, true bike porn, thanks for sharing :-D
*takes deep breath* The sweet smell of petrol @.@
doesnt even sound like the 1198 is trying cause it sounds like hes short shifting and backing off when he gets close
sorry to have made the mistake i take the coment back and mean no disrespect sorry
What a load of old tosh Kenny was initially hanging around so knee down man could keep up ! Then zoomed away to avoid a potential torpedo situation.
you still got a chance chase the king.
can't be true right?
Lightweight 2 stroke>Chode four stroke. At least it's a v twin though and not an inline four.
@Atheistprimate its not stupid my 7 year old son really did think kenny was racing
What an honor to be able to get smoked by the king.
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🏁🏁🏁best race ever🏎️🏎️🏎️
0:48 🔥🔥
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Whoever is on the Duc isnt even close to pushing if he let loose those old bikes would be Gone'erea
Don't get your ass in a knot. When the King races, he races to win. So they got Clubbed, what did you expect?